Afterward, he whispered sweet nothings that only the two of them could hear.
But that was all he did, just holding her tightly,
until Xiao Qingcang forcefully closed his eyes and slowly let her go.
She saw him struggling to compose himself, and after a while, he calmed down gradually.
He then considerately straightened her messy hair and let her leave!
Even as she walked through the night, Shen Hanqian's cheeks remained hot, her mind uncontrollably filled with various images of Xiao Qingcang—
the cold and noble him, the haughty him, the ruthless in action him, the stern and unsmiling him, the cunning and sly him, and the just now so unrestrained him.
However, she also suddenly realized, he was definitely the kind of person who, no matter what he did, would do it to the extreme!
The groggy Shen Hanqian walked into the pitch-dark home, flipped the switch, and as the house lit up, so too was the stark loneliness revealed.
