Is it hard for you to admit that you like me?

  There is a fire burning in my chest cavity.

  Such humiliation is equivalent to tearing off my clothes in public.

  I clenched my fists, and my fingernails dug into my palms.

  Noticing my embarrassment, Mei Xin quickly gathered up my dishes and excused herself to prepare breakfast for Hua Jingyan.

  The world suddenly became quiet, with only the low murmur of rain telling the fragility of spring.

  I clenched my fists tightly.

  The hundred flowers in the courtyard were battered by the overnight rain, leaving only scars and withering.

  The withered leaves of the flower still held endless sorrowful tears, my emotions seemed to be dyed by the desolate beauty after the rain, sourness climbed up my nose tip, and tears rushed into my eyes.

  "Is it funny to tease me like this?"

  "Mier, this request, within your power, okay!" Huajing Yan's eyes fell on my face, his tone was very light, so light that it didn't seem like an order, but rather a request.

  I was at a loss for words. If it were about something else, I wouldn't mind saying it ten times, or even a hundred times.

  But... what he asked me to say was utterly humiliating.

  I gazed at Hua Jing's pale and indifferent face, and for a moment, I was bewildered and my mind was in a whirl.

  Warn me, he is the dangerous person.

  Beware of him, he is also someone you can't afford to offend.

  This time, it was him who indirectly encouraged me to like him!

  Is Hua Jingyan trying to embarrass me or does he have some other purpose?

  Such a moody person, I just can't figure him out.

  "In school, the girls who are infatuated with you and go crazy for you are as numerous as fish crossing a river. Losing one of them won't affect your charm, Young Master!" I said in a dull tone, with a hint of pain flashing across my heart.

  It turns out that I still have feelings for him. I thought I had folded up this emotion and properly put it away in the drawer of memories.

  But in the instant when she locked eyes with him, reason gradually receded into the distance.

  I clenched my fingers.

  The spring rain pattered against the transparent glass window, and also moistened my eyes.

  Hua Jingyan's mouth corners slightly raised, Du Ruolan's eyes stared at me unwaveringly.

  "Miyue'er, in front of you, my Chinese is forever not confident enough. You always manage to infer another meaning from my words. Am I asking you to be enchanted with me, to go crazy for me?... or have you already been enchanted with me, gone crazy for me?"

  "My... My face turned pale and then green."

  "Is this sentence so difficult?" Hua Jingyan stood up, his hands inserted in his pants pockets, he approached me.

  "Is it difficult?" He leaned in closer to me again, bending down, that handsome face gradually enlarging before my eyes, "Why can't you say it out loud? Is it because your heart secretly hides me?"

  My face was on fire and my chest heaved once.

  "Hua Jingyan, do you think that all the girls in the world should like you for it to be true?!" I met his gaze unyieldingly, my words spilling out faster and faster as tears welled up and overflowed, hanging at the corners of my eyes.

  Hua Jingyan's smile faded away, her eyebrows slightly furrowed.

  "Why are you crying again?" As he spoke, he gently wiped away the tears from my eyes with his fingertips, his movements as gentle as water. Then, he put his fingers into his mouth and tasted them.

  "Miyue'er, is it really that hard for you to admit that you like me?"

  Hua Jingyan suddenly let out a soft sigh.

  I couldn't believe my ears, his eyelashes trembled and lifted instantly, a cluster of what was called deep affection floated in the depths of his eyes, I felt my breath tighten, and one corner of my heart suddenly collapsed.

  So what if I acknowledge it?

  He is cloud, I am mud.

  He is heaven, I am earth.

  If it weren't for Su Na, we would be two people who wouldn't have any intersection at all.

  So what if I acknowledge it? The result is obvious anyway.

  Let's just bury this fondness deep in our hearts and keep it as a personal thought.

  "Hua Jingyan, I, can't afford to provoke you!" I straightened my back and forced the tears back into my eye sockets.