Chapter 458: I thought you were smarter than this
"Huh?" Xiaoshi probed, not understanding what he meant.
Instead of answering her, he pulled her to his side to close the distance between them, then pressed his lips against her soft cheek and it immediately flushed.
His thumb rubbed against the part he had just kissed as his other hand stroked her face before cupping it. He rubbed his finger against her lips which parted as her eyes slowly shut, her tongue itching to lick her lips.
With each passing second, she felt his face inch closer and closer to hers, then it stopped. The kiss she was anticipating did not arrive and when she opened her eyes, a grin surfaced on his face and he pulled away from her.
"You could have stopped me." He raised an eyebrow.
"What?" She was still disoriented from the mixture of incomprehensible feelings in her body, that had surfaced from his proximity. When she finally understood what he meant, her eyes narrowed in a frown. "That’s so childish of you."
He chuckled. Was she angry because he had tried to prove a point or because she had not gotten the kiss he had made her want? He didn’t need to think to know that it was the latter. "It’s so childish of you to keep pining for an engaged man, one that you don’t even like anymore."
"You..." She was shocked and annoyed at the same time. It was so unlike him to say anything mean to her, and what did he mean she was childish?
"Why don’t you try kissing a random man? Do you want me to get a stranger here and ask him to get that close to you? See if you don’t slap the hell out of him in repulsion." His tone was serious. He knew that he was being selfish by doing this to her, but it was unbearable to hear the girl he liked go on and on about another man when they had mutual feelings between them. Besides, the longer it took for Xiaoshi to snap out of it, the harder it would be for her to completely move on.
"Go on," He urged.
"I need to leave." She made to stand, before a whisper befell her ears.