Si Mobai carried Feng Tianlan out of jail. The warm sunshine washed away the jail’s awful stench from their bodies.
“Lan’er.” Si Mobai put Feng Tianlan down and lowered his eyes to look at her.
Feng Tianlan took two steps back and lightly dusted off her clothes. “Don’t touch me.”
“Do you believe what she said?” As Si Mobai considered her actions his almond eyes started to grow cold. He thought that she trusted him, trusted in his character.
“Whether what she is saying is true or not, it doesn’t matter.” Feng Tianlan narrowed her eyes, and her voice was as light as the clouds in the sky. “It has nothing to do with me. I just don’t like you touching me.”
She trusted him, and that made him all the more dangerous. She should stop having anything to do with him. The pain that Jiang Ying had dealt her was enough to make her avoid men as if they were poisonous snakes.
“Lan’er.” Si Mobai took a deep breath and suppressed his anger, which was about to explode. “I didn’t look at her at all. Other than you, no other women will ever catch my attention…”
“That has nothing to do with me.” Feng Tianlan turned and walked away.
Si Mobai ran ahead of her and blocked her way. “Other than you, I can’t touch any other women. If I do, I’ll feel uncomfortable all over.”
Feng Tianlan calmly cut him off, “So because you have this illness, I have to be your cure?”
“No, that’s not what I meant. Before you came along, I felt like the walking dead. But after I saw you, I started having that feeling where your heart pounds really quickly. Do you get that?” Si Mobai was trying to explain himself, but his explanation was a mess because he was very anxious.
He didn’t actually know the feeling of a heart pounding quickly, not even in the face of death. His usual heart rate was so slow it was like he didn’t have a heart, desires, or emotions. He lived like he was alive on the outside but dead on the inside.
But the moment he’d set eyes on her, he’d felt his heart beating and started to think that he was actually living.
“You’ve been rejecting me all this while, so you won’t believe anything I say.” Si Mobai clenched his fists in frustration. He wanted to go closer to her, but he was afraid that he couldn’t control his temper, so he just stood anxiously where he was.
Feng Tianlan narrowed her eyes and told him seriously, “Si Mobai, don’t harass me anymore. I don’t like you, and I won’t like you.”
Si Mobai’s lips moved, but he didn’t say anything as he looked at her. He clenched his fists, then relaxed. Then, he unleashed a massive amount of Spiritual force before she could hide inside the Pill Scroll Realm. She was immobilized as if frozen to the spot.
“Si Mobai, can you be a little more reasonable?” Feng Tianlan couldn’t move, so she glared at Si Mobai.
Si Mobai took a deep breath and moved close to Feng Tianlan. He reached out a hand to lift up her chin and turn her face to him. He looked into her angry phoenix eyes and said, “If I have to reason with you, then I’ll never get to marry you.”
He had to be domineering and overpowering to ensure that she didn’t have any place to run to.
His cold minty fragrance with its strong manly smell blew toward her, and Feng Tianlan’s face reddened. She cursed herself. Whenever she came face to face with him, no matter how determined she was, her heart would still be swayed.
Si Mobai looked at her pretty red lips and bent down to kiss them. He barged into her mouth domineeringly and powerfully, catching the tip of her tongue and taking her breath away. He wanted to possess all of her.
She didn’t mean what she had said. She obviously had feelings for him but kept rejecting his advances. Although she believed in him, she had said all those things to reject him.
He gently licked her lips and plastered his handsome face on hers. His almond eyes looked straight into her phoenix ones as he said, “Maybe it’s because Si Rong hurt you. Or, maybe there’s some other reason. But Lan’er, can’t you put away the past and love once more without holding back?”
