Chapter 150 - Keep Coaxing You

Feng Qingbai lowered his head and stared at the girl. Under the moonlit night, the girl was thin and simmering with fury with her eyes shining brightly.

She was still angry with him.

She should be angry. He committed so many things.

"I couldn't get into your bedroom, so I asked Wei Hong to bring you here. I just didn't think she would use that …" method to carry her here.

Liu Yusheng snorted coldly, there was no sound, only a puff of air from her nose.

Liu Yusheng: "…"

Feng Qingbai: "…"

He reached out to release her acupoint and just wanted to apologize to her, but was instead sprayed in the face.

"What do you mean? You kidnapped me over and still won't let me speak for fear of alarming others? You're guilty as charged!"

She was so angry, so embarrassed!

His eyes dimmed. "Shengsheng … I'm sorry."

She was so angry so anything he said would be taken as him being sophistry and shirking his responsibilities.

Liu Yusheng turned her head and ignored him.

She wanted to lift her feet to leave but couldn't do it.

She finally saw him after so many years of separation. It was enough to kick up a fuss once, but it would be capricious if she'd continue behaving willfully.

She didn't want to do it. She wanted to hear his explanation.

She was reluctant to leave.

She… missed him so much.

Her nose started to get sore again, but Liu Yusheng stubbornly pursed the corners of her lips to keep the tears from falling.

Feng Qingbai reached out to touch the girl's shoulder, trying to turn her around, but she turned around and shoved his hand away.

With a deep sigh, Feng Qingbai said softly, "Shengsheng, you have to look at me to know if I'm lying."

That made sense.

Liu Yusheng immediately turned her head and said toughly, "What do you want to say, I'll listen …"

"I missed you."

Those words cut her anger short.

He looked at her intensely and seriously.

His long, slender eyes under the moonlight were deep and dark, swirling with emotions that made her heart panic and her legs weak.

Liu Yusheng only felt tight from head to toe. Something was thumping in her heart, wanting to jump out from there.

She almost lost the strength to stand, and stumbled backward a bit.

Feng Qingbai's eyelashes flickered, and the radiance in his eyes dimmed more.

"Shengsheng, I miss you so much. I miss the Liu family. I miss Xinghua Village. There isn't a day that I don't think about everyone."

Liu Yusheng's tense shoulders immediately loosened. She was relieved, but an imperceptible loss seemed to cross her heart.

"Since you missed the Liu Family and Xinghua Village, why didn't you come back to see us once for nine years?

Don't say you were too busy to even do this. I don't believe it!

Don't think I can easily forgive you with just a few sweet words.

What I want is an explanation.

Feng Qingbai, I just want an explanation."

He must explain so that she could believe that she wasn't alone in her foolishness after all these years of missing him.

She wasn't always so understanding and thoughtful of others in every way. She might also be cunning, but she was afraid too.

Afraid that what she lavished was a joke in someone's eyes.

Just like in her previous life. She was too stupid and ended up dying.

She didn't want to think of Feng Qingbai as those people, and she didn't want to believe that he was like them either.

He wasn't a white-eyed wolf.

Dwelling in this matter didn't mean she wanted something in return. She didn't want anything from him.

However, if he didn't say anything, he would make feel like she was merely a passerby, whom he could forget upon turning around.

She, the Liu family, and even the entire Xinghua Village, had no significance to him.

He never spoke.

In the long silence, Liu Yusheng's heart gradually sank.

She looked down and turned around. "If you have nothing to say, then so be it."

"I can't go back!"

The person behind her finally spoke up.

"Shengsheng, I can't go back. If I do, I'm bringing danger to Xinghua Village where you live."

If something happens to Xinghua Village, you will be sad, miserable, and might even hate me.

How can I? How can I dare?

Liu Yusheng stopped in her tracks, but she didn't turn around, nor continued forward.

She waited for him for him to continue his explanation.

"You've personally seen the danger today. Power struggle is cruel beyond your imagination, and I can't let Xinghua Village become a victim of the struggle."

"I see. Can't you even send a message? Can't Auntie Hong deliver a message? Isn't she one of yours?"

She believed his explanation. She just still cared.

No matter how many reasons there were, he was gone for nine years after all.

If she hadn't met him now, would he have never come back to the village and never appeared before her eyes again?

"When I let Wei Hong go to Xinghua Village, the capital cut off all contact with her.

I couldn't leave behind potential dangers that might expose the Xinghua Village."

After a pause, Feng Qingbai closed his eyes and added, "Even in Xuzhou, there are countless people around me who are secretly watching me. I'm not abandoning you. I'm afraid that you will be implicated."

He didn't want her to know too much, lest she be frightened.

But Shengsheng was actually very stubborn in her bones. If he didn't make it clear and was dishonest, she might really ignore him.

In that case, he chose to be frank.

"Then why are you recognizing me now? Aren't you afraid I'll be implicated?"

"I asked Wei Zi and Wei Bai to lead people to clear the area several times, so the small courtyard is safe for now."

Liu Yusheng fell silent for a moment, and her tone began to soften, "…Is it really that dangerous?"

"The crisis is like walking on thin ice," Feng Qingbai whispered, "Shengsheng, I will never lie to you."

This sentence gave Liu Yusheng the last shred of relief deep inside.

However, she'd been tangled and uncomfortable for so long, and for some reason didn't want to let him off the hook so easily.

"Why did you lie? You lied to me when we first met here. I asked you what your name was and you said your name was Feng Qingbai! What about Axiu?"

Feng Qingbai replied helplessly, "I didn't lie to you. I just concealed it at most. My family name is Feng, and my name is Qingbai, and my nickname is Xiuyuan. It's just my nickname name, and only my mother and father knew it."

"…"

"Now, can you stop being angry?"

Liu Yusheng turned to the man and wanted to continue to take a firm stance to prove that she wasn't that easy to coax.

But the way he was seriously explaining with a touch of nervousness stunned her to the point where she couldn't say anything.

The girl under the moonlight, who obviously let go of her reservations but still stubbornly wanted to bicker, smacked of a cat.

Feng Qingbai took it all in and his heart melted.

He lowered his voice and gazed deeply at her. ""I won't make you angry ever again, so forgive me this time. All right?"

"What if I don't forgive you?" Liu Yusheng whined awkwardly.

"I'll keep coaxing you." He curled the corner of his lips, and the light in his narrow eyes got softer and softer. "I'll coax until you're free of anger."

His coaxing struck a subtle change in her mood.

She lifted her chin and turned her back to him again. Liu Yusheng spat at herself for lacking a firm stance while unable to restrain the corners of her lips from gradually rising.

"How are you going to coax me? Tell me about it, and I'll consider it."

"Want to know?"

The man's voice deepened with a touch of smile.

In the moonlight night, it echoed a seductive charm, making someone's heart go pitter-patter.

Liu Yusheng suddenly felt her ears hot.