Chapter 659: Trip to Las Vegas (End)(5)_1

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Gu Zichen fell silent for a second before suddenly saying, "Qiao Xiguan, would you believe me if I said that my actions tonight were a reflex?"

Qiao Xiguan looked at him.

"When someone gets this close to my body, posing what seems like a deadly threat to a part of my body, that kind of reflex kicks in," he explained, as if clarifying but also simply stating a fact.

And such a fact, it seemed, didn't require anyone's approval.

"Why is that?" Qiao Xiguan asked.

Normal people wouldn't react like this.

At least when someone got close to her, she wouldn't feel so extreme as to think that someone was trying to kill her.

"It's due to the environment I grew up in."

"Didn't you grow up in the United States? Didn't you attend the most aristocratic school in the world with tuition so high it would scare ordinary people to death?" Was life in that place really so perilous?!

"I didn't grow up there," Gu Zichen said word by word.