I'll Still Love You Tomorrow Chapter 10: Mwah

This time, Sheng Xian was speechless at himself for thinking she was a klutz, “...”

She wasn’t a klutz at all, she was a shameless gangster.

Seeing that she was fully awake, Sheng Xian ignored what she said, “Go home early.”

With that, he turned to leave. Just then, he felt a soft tug on his shirt.

He turned, glanced down and saw her hand on his shirt.

Her skin was fair and her fingers were long and slender, the manicured round nails painted a milk white color. On her slender wrist was a gold bangle encrusted with a row of diamond fragments.

As his gaze slid up the bangle, she said, “You don’t have to take me to your house, you can send me home instead.”

Sheng Xian’s gaze landed on her face.

She was a head shorter than him, and was looking at him pitifully, “I didn’t drive today.”

Sheng Xian continued looking at her indifferently.

Lu Jingyan grabbed his shirt, shaking it gently.

They stood there for a while before Sheng Xian gave in, “Where do you stay.”

…

“Do you know my name?”

“My name is Lu Jingyan.”

“Mmh, is this your car?”

“You have a nice car plate number, let me take a photo.”

“……”

Lu Jingyan never knew she was a chatterbox.

Sheng Xian ignored her the entire time, but she didn’t feel awkward and continued rambling.

The talking didn’t tire her but it made her thirsty.

Lu Jingyan looked around his car but didn’t find any water so she kept quiet.

Her house was a distance away, she glanced around curiously, and landed her gaze on Sheng Xian’s face.

Some people were good looking at first glance but started to get old with time while others that didn’t awe at first glance could stand the test of time.

Sheng Xian was neither, he was the sort that awed at first glance and could stand the test of time.

Lu Jingyan had met many good looking men but she had never met anyone she wanted to possess.

Even though they had met several times, she was still smitten.

Pretty.

He was too pretty.

So pretty she wanted to touch him.

Lu Jingyan was simitten by his good looks and didn’t realize her arm had unconsciously reached out towards his face.

She moved closer and closer, and was about to reach his face when he suddenly called out, “What are you doing?”

“Touch…”

He tilted his head, avoiding her touch.

Missing his face, she blinked and snapped out of her daze.

When she realized what she had said, she hurriedly stopped from saying the word ‘you’, changing it to, “Touch, touch…mwah.”

Sheng Xian, “...”

Lu Jingyan, “...”

They stared at each other with widened eyes for a few seconds. Just then, she realized they had reached her home.

She cleared her throat and replied seriously, “Thank you for sending me home, mwah.”

“……”

“Mwah is a sign of affection, don’t think too much.”

“……”

Lu Jingyan leaned her face close to him, “Or perhaps, did you wish for a real mwah?”

Sheng Xian titled his head away, “Get off the car.”

“Stop acting serious.” Lu Jingyan mumbled softly as she unfastened her seatbelt. As she prepared to leave the car, she suddenly turned, “Brother, do you want to go in and have a seat?”

Sheng Xian released his seatbelt.

Before he could go over to her side to drag her out of the car, she smiled and added, “Next time, I'll bring you home next time.”

The night was chilly, and her breath quickly turned into fog when it touched the glass. She raised her hand and drew on the window quickly, bade her farewell and left.

Sheng Xian reversed the car to turn around, and through the mirror, he saw the heart she drew on the passenger seat window. It slowly disappeared as the heater continued to blow out warm air.

…

That night, Lu Jingyan had a nightmare. It was probably because she bumped into Bo Mu.

In her dream, she frantically called out for help but no one came for her regardless of how hard she shouted, despair and darkness suffocated her and just as she thought she was going to die, she woke up.

The room was so quiet she could hear her heavy breathing.

The hanging lights beside his bed cast a faint glow around the room, she laid there for a while and touched her ear.

She was completely awake after washing her face.

With her two slender legs bared, she walked towards the chair in front of the window and reached for a cigarette.

It has been a very long time since she had a nightmare like that.

These dreams weren’t a fragment of her imagination, they were real life incidents she had experienced in the past.

They were demons she desperately tried to forget but never could.

Deep into the night, Lu Jingyan smoked one cigarette after another until the entire box was empty. She buried her face in her knees.

Just as she thought this would be the same as before when she sat there till daybreak, her phone vibrated.

It was her WeChat.

She tapped in and saw the latest notification in red.

Sheng Xian accepted her request.

…

Sheng Xian went home to prepare for his class, it was around 2am when he was done.

Back in the bedroom, he unbuttoned the top two buttons of his collar with one hand, pulled the hem of his shirt up and took it off, casually threw it into the dirty clothes basket in the dressing room and went into the bathroom to turn on the shower.

Hot water poured down from the rain shower, quickly filling the toilet with mist. As he watched the droplets rolling on the wall, his thoughts flickered towards her in the cafe, when she leaned on the table beside the window.

When he came out from the bathroom, he reached for his phone.

There were a few more unread messages, she had sent them a few hours ago. There was also a WeChat friend request reminder she had sent.

Sheng Xian stared at the screen in silence for a while, tapped in and accepted her request.

Sheng Xian dimmed the lights in his room, and was about to turn in when the phone in his palm vibrated.

He glanced down, she had sent a text.

Lu Jingyan, “Brother, are we going through the motions or should we just get together already?”