Bride Swap Backfire: My Cousin's Rebirth Made Us a Power Couple Chapter 234 - 101: Are You Avoiding Me?

At this realization, Chen Wanqing’s hand began to tremble uncontrollably.

She remained silent for a long while, until soone took her hand in their palm and gave it a gentle shake.

"So, will you promise ?"

Chen Wanqing struggled to calm her chaotic thoughts. "Of course, I promise," she said. "This was my fault to begin with. I shouldn’t have made wild assumptions and spoken so recklessly about soone when I didn’t know their character. I can also promise you that I won’t gossip about other people anymore."

Zhao Jing asked cautiously, "Are you angry?"

"Why would I be angry? I was the one in the wrong. To know your mistake and correct it is a great virtue. I just hope that in the future, Jing won’t bring this up again to make fun of ."

"Then smile for ."

Chen Wanqing couldn’t help but laugh. "You’re so exasperating."

When Zhao Jing saw that she truly wasn’t upset, he couldn’t help but break into a smile.

But in truth, he still felt a little uneasy.

It was because she had ntioned Li Cun, and Li Cun still coveted her, not having given up his designs on her to this day.

This feeling of soone else coveting her while he could do absolutely nothing about it was agonizing.

Zhao Jing was sullen, but he refused to let it show.

But his actions betrayed him. He was gripping Chen Wanqing’s hand, his hold even tighter than before.

Chen Wanqing gently tried to pull her hand away. "Jing, let go. I need to prepare the vegetables. If a hot al isn’t ready by lunchti, Mother is going to be furious."

"If she’s going to be mad, let her be mad at ."

As he spoke, not only did he refuse to let go, but he grew even bolder, pressing his handso face against her.

Then, she wasn’t sure if it was her imagination, but she felt Jing kissing her hand.

The hot, moist sensation made Chen Wanqing’s heart skip a beat, sending a tingling numbness through her.

But she didn’t dare expose him, just as she had never dared to break the unspoken understanding between her and Zhao Jing.

She wasn’t yet ntally prepared to accept him.

’He’s still a younger brother to .’

"Alright, stop bothering and go play with De’an. You just took first place in the examinations today. Mother is too thrilled with you to scold you, so how could she? She’ll just end up scolding . I already upset her earlier. If I don’t act properly now, she’ll be furious."

The moist sensation on her hand grew more pronounced.

At the sa ti, his hot breath washed over the back of her hand, so scalding that Chen Wanqing’s own breathing hitched.

She couldn’t help but peek out of the corner of her eye. With just one look, it was as if her eyes had been scalded, and she quickly looked away.

Jing was like a pious devotee. He clutched her hand, raised it to his lips, and pressed it firmly against them.

’This is broad daylight! We’re in the kitchen, where soone could walk in at any mont!’

’He’s too reckless!’

’And far too forward!’

Flustered and anxious, Chen Wanqing tried to wrench her hand away, but to no avail. Annoyed, she lightly kicked Zhao Jing in the shin. "Jing, don’t go too far!"

"How am I going too far? You are my lawfully wedded wife. No one could say a thing even if I were more intimate with you."

"But... but it’s the middle of the day!"

As if spotting a loophole in her words, Zhao Jing imdiately looked up at her. "Does that an nightti is acceptable?"

Before she could answer, Zhao Jing pressed on. "You are an educated woman, so you must understand the aning of ’a cart cannot move without its linchpin, and a person cannot stand without integrity.’ I will let you go, but tonight, you must allow to be intimate."

Chen Wanqing’s face was burning, and even swallowing felt difficult.

’How could anyone say such things so openly?’

’And he calls himself a scholar!’

’Where is his sense of decorum?’

’His elegance?’

’What happened to the self-restraint and adherence to etiquette he prided himself on?’

’Has it all gone to hell?!’

Before Chen Wanqing could dwell on it, Zhao Jing unhurriedly released her hand.

He stood up and moved even closer to Chen Wanqing.

Though he was three years her junior, he was already more than half a head taller.

At that mont, his eyes, usually so gentle and smiling, were as dark as a bottomless abyss.

His throat bobbed, and he lowered his voice even more, as if suppressing a blazing fire of desire.

"You must keep your word, or else I’ll be disappointed. So, will you promise ?"

His hot breath fanned across Chen Wanqing’s cheek, so close it seed it might brush against her lips.

Chen Wanqing felt as if an invisible hand had seized her heart.

She wanted to flee, but there was nowhere to run.