Chapter 18
An Inch For A Mile*
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Ye Xin Mo blinked her eyes, staring at the tail lamp of the motorcycle which just passed them, she patted someone’s arm. “You are so heavy.”
“Heh…” Lu Shui Han grimaced in pain, and then he stepped back two steps, his left hand touched his right hand, bit damped, took a torch to take a look, as seen his hand bleeding fresh blood.
“Can you still drive?” Asked the cold voice and yet sounded so composed.
Lu Shui Han secretly rolled his eyes, this woman really couldn’t act like normal women such as screaming, and then shaking a bit his body and asked him, ‘you can’t die, you can’t die’.
Ahem—, it seemed that he has thought too far. Immediately Lu Shui Han gained himself, slightly moving, he blew his wound, then waved his hand: “It’s okay.”
Ye Xin Mo raised her brows, she saw his mouth said nothing but his expression betrayed him because it showed as if he pained badly, she felt as if she should have said something, pondering for half day. Then she said: “If you are okay… then after we get to back earlier and you should take rest!”
This woman! He got injured, she not even comforting him but chasing him away to go home soon!! Lu Shui Han was starting to complaint in his heart, is he really so hateful? Huh, you wanted to chase me away, that not going to be easy. After he gave his thought, he narrowed his eyes, then he slightly nodded his head: “Alright.”
After he spoke, then he heading to his seat, but after he stepped two steps, he pretending to holding back his pain by blown few more times.
She was not even coming to help him! His eyes took a glance, quickly someone has already gotten into the car, she not even saw him who growled due to the pain. Lu Shui Han felt so frustrated! Got into car, he moved his hand slowly: “I can’t start engine the car.” His arm hurt, couldn’t move.
“Oh!” She replied him, then she asked: “What to do now?”
“Your hand gave me.”
Stretching out slender hand, a touch of smooth and silky skin has already made his heart feeling ecstasy. “Grab my hand and then help me to turn the key to the right way.”
Ye Xin Mo frowning, how couldn’t turn the key ah? Why should he used her hand to grab his hand? Furthermore would his hand not feel hurt anymore if she done as what he said? Didn’t it just same hand still move? Well then, patient is the boss, she endured. Due to his will, small hand wrapped big hand, flicked.
And then, Lu Shui Han said: “Shift the handbrake!”
Okay! Handbrake. Ye Xin Mo didn’t say anything just did whatever he asked for, after she done the car is started to move. Steady forward, then she started to stare the sky blankly, as if she didn’t find that certain person’s hand has already been doing fine and free moving around. Soon the car has already entered to the community where she lived.
“Stop at here!” Ye Xin Mo said to certain person.
But as if he didn’t hear anything, he turned inside. “Which building?”
Once again Ye Xin Mo frowned her forehead, just at the moment when she wanted to say no need, he spoke again: “Sending Buddha should to West1]! You have helped me so much.”
Although she has thousands of unwillingness, but the car has already entered her community area, thus she couldn’t let him like crazy person kept around this community. After she thought for the pros and cons, she pointed in front: “ That building.”
Lu Shui Han’s eyes twinkling brightly, hurried he drove and then looked for the parking lot.
“Thank you, you should take early rest!”her hand already on the door, she was nodding her head and going to bid her goodbye, and then went out from the car, at the time when she turned her head, she stunned because certain person also followed her went down from the car. “You…”
“Aiyo! It hurt!” Hurried Lu Shui Han whining held his arm, then he cast his head down, while his eyes kept on peeking on that white pale face.
“Ugh…” after all it was because of her, he got injured, thus she really didn’t know what to say. “Then… let’s go to hospital!”
It is only Ghost that going to hospital! Lu Shui Han secretly condemned. “It’s so painful! It is so painful!”
Ye Xin Mo twitched her mouth, no matter how she looked at him, he just strange in her eyes.
“I can’t move anymore!! I can’t drive anymore!” Lu Shui Han sternly gave out his statement.
Ye Xin Mo felt as if getting in problem and grabbed her hair, her long strands of hair in her hand flying in the dim of night. What he wanted to do actually? “How about I piggy back you to hospital?”
“……..” what kind of logic this woman has!! Does she really can piggy back him and move? Lu Shui Han also twitching his mouth, but he still kept on whining with kind of mournfully face: “Just now when driving the car it has already taken all my strength, now it feel so painfully! I want to have rest for while.”
“Well… I will talk to you when you take a rest for while, okay?”
Only Ghost that going to have chat with you in this kind of dark2] place. “I want to go to your house and take a rest for while!”
“Oh…” suddenly Ye Xin Mo understood, but, she really didn’t want to let him to come! “But, my house…”
“It’s so painful! So painful…” Lu Shui Han kept on growling. “Today I am really so unfortunate and super bad luck! Helped someone from misfortune, but that person not even offering me a glass of water…”
Ye Xin Mo kept on grabbing and seemed wanted to pull her hair, suddenly she felt he has changed to be someone different? He is looked so similar with, en, weasel? Didn’t he intend to come to her house and take an advantage from her? Cannot, she absolutely couldn’t let him to come in… but, what he said wasn’t wrong, it was obviously because of saving her thus he got that wound…
“I just want to have a drink, taking a rest for while, then I will immediately get to my car…” Someone was begging while showing his miserable expression as well intentionally raised his wounded arm.
Silent.
“I promise that I won’t do anything, I won’t touch you, okay?” someone kept on pretending and showing his misery.
Then silent again.
“Huh…” pouted mouth, someone has been starting to cry. “My mobile phone! Where is my mobile phone… I want to call my mother…”
“…..” Ye Xin Mo suddenly felt her temples aching so much. “Really won’t do anything?”
“I promised you.” He raised his left hand promised her, aiya! While his right hand vent down, he really didn’t want her to see the loopholes. Hurried someone put down his hand.
“You are not allowing to touch me.”
“I will definitely not touch you, if I touch you, you can call and report it to my mother!” someone looked so serious, ridiculous, on contrary his mother really wishes he could eat her until no bones left okay.
“After you have rest then you will leave.”
“En, en!!” Garlic head3]
After Ye Xin Mo got his guarantee with heavy speaking tone she said: “Well then! Do you need me to support you?”
“Need!” he kept that attitude on.
Ye Xin Mo has already given up with everything thus she stretching out her hand—where to put? Where to put ah! Kao, it not like his leg cripple, why all his entire body leaning on her? Ye Xin Mo biting hard her teeth, anyway she didn’t let out the sound, good thing, he would leave later! She endured it!
Just the moment when that certain person got inside her room, he has been touring around while ignoring the murderous eyesight that came from the owner, he has been touring until her bed, and then—- looked so casually leaning on the bed head and then took one of the novel and seriously read it.
Ye Xin Mo kept on enduring, she poured him a cup of tea, seeing him looked so serious, then she turned on her computer, and login into game. Someone was looking so serious ‘reading book’, when Ye Xin Mo online she checked on her wrap-box, after she tidied it, and then she kept on digging on her backyard. In the end, she turned her head, someone has already on her bed, titled head he has already fallen asleep.
She looked so helplessly wiped her face, she looked at the clock, it has already 10.30, this is the time for him to leave! Thus, she climbed to her bed, patting his shoulder: “Hey!”
“Uh…” someone has already flipped his body, ignored her.
She anxiously biting her teeth, put a bit of strength, she patted him again. “Wake up.”
“Don’t… make a noise…” drowsily he waved her hand away—- plak, this time his hand looked so lively!
Ye Xin Mo’s right eyes twitching for few times, she could something not good would be happened. Damn it, she was tricked by someone!! “Get up!” This time, she couldn’t endure it anymore, her hand hit on his arm which only left the dry blood stain, directly shocking him to jump and wake up.
As seen she was looking at him with her icy face, strangely he seized her up from top to down—– then he lying down, and slept.
“…..” she has seen shameless people, but she never seen this type of shameless person before! Ye Xin Mo frustrated throwing a dagger glance, then she continued reluctantly to hit his arm.
“You should go home.”
“Uh… what time is it?”
“11 o’clock.”
“It stills so early!”
“….” 11 o’clock still early? Did his head dizzy? “Lu Shui Han!”
“I am!” not bad ah, he still knows his name. Someone slightly opened half of his eyes, took a glance looking at her fuming expression due of anger, then he kept on sleeping.
“Will you go back or not?”
“I won’t.”
“….”
Ye Xin Mo is angered to the point she wanted to give a bolt, directly she pinched his arm. “Your words are not trustworthy.”
“I am injured!” in order to get what he wanted, he could use any trick— including his speaking tone.
She felt as if thundered by his coquettish voice, she biting her teeth while kept on waking him up. “Injured cannot go home?” hand hit on his injured shoulder, but caught by him.
“En! Pain!” asked you to chase me away, huh!
Pain, you still are able to catch my hand? Ye Xin Mo could feel that her head has been fuming a smoke, she has been growing up to this big she never seen this kind of shameless person before. “Then what do you want to do?”
“Let me to stay one night!” Kept on letting out his coquettish voice.
“You…” her hand shaking to the point she could say out any words, her teeth almost gritting to pieces, then she just realized that her hand still held by him, hurried she swayed him away. Forget it, let him to sleep, anyway she is not sleeping during the night.
Hence, Ye Xin Mo generously returned to have seat in front of her computer, opened her files. That tad who lying on the bed saw her has completely surrender, he looked super happy, and then after soundless he rolled few times on the bed, he became so ‘quiet’ sleeping. The touch feeling that he has experienced on last night still lingering, thus impossible for him to really sleep! This woman, why hasn’t she gone to sleep? Hurry go to sleep, hurry go to sleep!
That’s right, she said that she does not sleep at night! Suddenly Lu Shui Han remembered this most important problem, thus his eyes opened and rolled. “Hey, woman.”
“Heh?” Ye Xin Mo is editing her writing opening, while casually replying him.
“You should go to sleep.”
“Overnight.”
Overnight! Overnight, if she keeps on staying late night she would turn to be thousand hundred of iceberg! Lu Shui Han glared at her back, he really wanted to glare her until making few holes. He rolled and then raised, then took her mouse, without taking a look he just shut closed the document.
“What are you doing?” For while Ye Xin Mo hasn’t gotten to react.
He even continued by shut the game, and few titles bar. After that, he seemed hasn’t gotten enough and pull the cable, and finally he clapped his hand. “Go to sleep.”
“Not going to sleep.” Ye Xin Mo biting her teeth.
“If you are not going to sleep now, you will turn to be ugly.”
“….” What is your business if I turned to be ugly? Her body is dragged by someone to the bed side, she tried her utmost to grab onto the chair.
“I have said that I don’t want to sleep!!”
“You turn on the light I can’t sleep, be good, tomorrow I still need to go to work, sleep.”
“…” Then you go home and sleep!!
Actually his strength not powerful, soon Ye Xin Mo has been dragging to the bedside.
“Only sleeping, I swear that I won’t touch you.” Before he promised her that he would only take a rest for while at her house!
“If I really touch you, you can call 110, what do you think?” will police officer meddle with this matter? Ye Xin Mo stared him with doubt.
While the person hurried nodded as guarantee: “Really, I will only stay one night taking a rest at here….” En, staying one night as temporary, later, hehehehehehe….
At last, under unhappy and uncomfortable circumstances Ye Xin Mo who experienced skinships with Lu Shui Han, two people really sleeping and sharing the bed together without doing anything more for the second time. In the morning when Ye Xin Mo still so drowsy, she felt someone waking her up, it was kind of seducing husky voice asked: “Woman, where do you put your key?”
“You search by yourself…” uh, really annoying, asking key in the early of morning, rolled her body, she continued her sleep. It good, that annoying husky voice has disappeared, the she happily continuing playing chess with Zhou gong’s son. (She is continuing her sweet dream)
Just at the time when our Miss Ye Xin Mo didn’t know the time of this era, Lu Shui Han looked so happily entering to his office, his subordinate told him: “Editor Lu, Shan Shu Da Ren is looking for you.”
Note:
*得 de 寸 cun 进 Jin 尺 Chi: win an inch want a foot, satisfied with a small gain.
1] 送 Song 佛 Fo 送 Song 到 Dao 西Xi: Sending Buddha to West, metaphor for doing good and doing it in the end.
2] 乌 Wu 黑 Hei 嘛 Ma 漆 Qi : Extremely dark (thick-black)
3] 头 Tou 如 Ru 捣 Dao 蒜 Suan: Garlic head, slang words that described the fast movement even the host (other people) looked so unsatisfied.
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