Ten Years of Yearning. My Love, Let Me Protect You.

In his thoughts, he shifted his body and took the towel with his bare hand but he applied so much force that her upper body fell on his firm chest.

Both of them were seated on the edge of the bed while her head was on his crook of the neck. Her body was in a strange poster like if she moved, she would either fall from the bed or on him. 

After registering what happened, she immediately lifted her two bare hands in mid-air so that she wouldn't touch any dangerous place in mistake. Also, she was wearing a dress which was very soft and was made of high-quality silk. If her upper body touched him, she would die of shame. 

But when her head crushed on his chest, her two cherries like lips touched his bare skin. Right away a tinge of fire lit up in his heart. He had the urge to crush her under his body.

"Lixi, I want to kiss you, can I?" He asked in a sincere manner but it didn't help anything as she felt even more ashamed and bewildered.

'How could I say yes! So embarrassing! This jerk!'

When he didn't hear any sound, he lifted her head with his two hands and cupped her cheeks. 

As he went beside her sensitive ears, he whispered, "Why aren't you saying anything, can I?" 

This time, he became displeased when she didn't speak.

'We have kissed so many times. Why isn't she speaking anything? Doesn't she like me touching her?' His thoughts drifted to a dangerous route. 

He remembered the things she told him back then 'I think I shouldn't be a burden to you and go away tomorrow.'

Back then the woman wanted to go away again from him. Just like that time in the past. 

Now that he remembered, she never kissed him voluntarily. All the time, it was he who kissed her first and many times, he would face her struggling against him.. 

At this thought, he felt a little uncomfortable and bore the pain in his heart. At first, he just wanted her to stay beside him. But now, his heart was becoming greedy. He wanted her to love him just like he does.

But the woman had other thoughts in her mind. As she was waiting for him to say something more, she was feeling itchy in her nose. She wanted to turn away her head but the man didn't let her. His thoughts were messy, her actions provoked him more.

Even after trying to force back her cough, she wasn't able to curve down the itchiness and thus...

"Accho!...Cough! Cough!" When he was thinking to say something, Luo Lixi violently coughed in his front and some saliva fell right before his face. 

Some sticky fluids also flew away from her nose and dropped on his face. It stopped his outrageous thoughts instantly as he closed his eyes.

In the darkroom, he loosened her face from his grip as he didn't know what to do. Luo Lixi was relieved that he didn't throw her away.

"Ah! Sorry, sorry! I couldn't control it…" She took the towel back and rubbed it on his face in the attempt to wipe away the substance but it made even worse. 

She was rubbing so vigorously that he felt like she wanted to scrap away his skin. 

Sheng Ruming held her hand firmly to stop her.

"It's okay. Stop now."

"It wasn't my fault. You didn't let me turn my head." She murmured but he heard it clearly.

"So, is it my fault now?"

"Nope, nobody's. You will catch a cold. Those have bacteria…" When she spoke she had another urge of an uncontrollable cough. She turned her head sideways this time to avoid him.

"Acho! Acchho! A...acchhooo!" 

"Hey, are you okay?!" Sheng Ruming regretted to cause unnecessary things to her. 

In a comforting way, he embraced her body and patted her back. Luo Lixi didn't wear any innerwear in her upper body so when he embraced her, he clearly felt the curves of her.

"..."

As he felt her stilling, he  placed her in a comfortable position and took the towel; this time he did it tightly so that it wouldn't slip away. While he stood up, he wrapped it around his hip, not minding that there could be some slippery things on that. He didn't want to be labelled as a sick pervert.

"Where are you going?" She patted her chest to calm down. He didn't answer her as he walked towards the area where his  phone was.

After he bent down to take it in his hand, he saw it was charged 60%. He unplugged it while switching it on. His first thought was to turn on the flashlight to search for the light controller but after the phone was turned on, in a second, several notifications bombarded it with ting ting noise.

As the sounds broke the quiet atmosphere, Luo Lixi curved her lips a little. 'He must be an important person in his company. So many notifications...well, he is a CEO though. It is natural.'

Sheng Ruming lifted an eye when he heard her laughter. He checked the notifications one by one. Twenty of them were from Mu Jiang while five from Yan Lunan and others from Ji Yanli, Wang Haixiao while some from others. 

When his finger touched the screen to clear the notifications, suddenly a call came in. He saw it was from Mu Jiang. 

Without a second thought, he declined it and clicked the silent mode. But the Mu guy called him again. After declining the call again, he turned the flashlight on and started to search for the controller on the floor.

After searching for a minute, he found the controller from under the working desk and turned on all lights in the room.  The earlier black room turned bright in a split second. He turned towards the woman sitting on his bed.