My Ex-husband Asked Me to Remarry Him Every Day
Chapter 421 - 415: You Can Be Shy too

Chapter 421: Chapter 415: You Can Be Shy too

"Mm."

Chen Jiayan went to light other fireworks.

Xie Baola took out her phone and started snapping photos of him, clicking away. She didn’t manage to record a video, but she did take many pictures of him.

She had specifically learned photography for a while, capturing Chen Jiayan’s most handsome angles.

Chen Jiayan said, "The fireworks are done; we can go back now."

Xie Baola curved her red lips, "They’re so pretty."

"The fireworks, although they blossom only for an instant, are indeed beautiful."

"No, I wasn’t talking about the fireworks."

"Mm?"

"I was saying you’re good-looking."

Xie Baola wasn’t stingy with her compliments and admiration, especially toward the man she fancied.

Chen Jiayan lowered his gaze, "Let’s go."

Xie Baola grabbed his arm.

"What about my New Year’s gift?"

"I didn’t prepare one," Chen Jiayan felt somewhat uneasy.

Xie Baola brought the fireworks to his face, meaning in a way, she was accompanying him for this New Year.

It had been a very, very long time since he had a New Year with someone else’s company.

Xie Baola narrowed her eyes, "Then, it wouldn’t be too much to ask you for a gift, would it?"

"It’s fine," Chen Jiayan agreed without a second thought, "What do you want? I’ll make up for it when we get back."

Even if they were just friends, preparing a gift was nothing big.

"I don’t want much—"

Before Chen Jiayan realized what she meant, Xie Baola suddenly lifted her head and pecked him on the lips.

The soft, sweet touch seemed to go straight to his heart,

stirring a whirlpool in it.

Chen Jiayan’s cool gaze was slightly stunned after the shock.

Xie Baola raised her eyebrows, smiling triumphantly like a fox, "That’s the gift I’m asking for from you."

Chen Jiayan was at a loss for words.

Xie Baola noticed his ears were red; as she reached out to touch his ear, her wrist was forcefully seized.

"What else do you want to do?"

His eyes, dark and deep, made it hard to discern his true emotions.

Xie Baola’s eyes brimmed with teasing laughter, and an air of brazenness, "Oh, nothing, I just wanted to mention that your ears are red."

Chen Jiayan turned his head away, "You saw wrong."

"I’m not blind. My eyes are big and my vision is excellent!"

Chen Jiayan got into the car.

The engine roared to life, and Xie Baola hurriedly opened the passenger door and sat down.

As soon as she settled in, she turned her body to face him, "Chen Jiayan, I didn’t expect you to be shy."

Xie Baola suddenly felt a playful urge.

Chen Jiayan truly was a man of innocence.

She had never seen a man whose ears would go red from shyness.

She was growing fonder of Chen Jiayan.

Chen Jiayan took a deep breath and said expressionlessly, "I’ll take you home."

Xie Baola clicked her tongue twice, "You plan to take me home and then go back to yours all alone? Not to mention that there are no taxis at this hour, and with the weather being so cold, you would freeze on the way."

"That makes sense," Chen Jiayan nodded, "So, drive to my place first, and then you can drive back yourself."

Xie Baola glanced at the time and came up with a compromise, "In a couple of hours it will be dawn. Why don’t we rest in the car and then have breakfast together?"

The plan that Xie Baola was hatching even reached Qiao Xi all the way at the Shen Family home.

Chen Jiayan didn’t listen to her and drove away from the riverside.

He was heading towards his home.

Xie Baola’s eyes frigidly flicked towards him, "I come to find you late at night, and you don’t even offer me breakfast, and now you want me to drive home alone at this hour? That’s not safe. You’re so heartless!"

"..." Chen Jiayan still wore no emotion, "That’s easy to fix, I’ll drive behind you later."

Xie Baola quickly responded, "Then I’d also be worried about you going back alone."

Chen Jiayan knew then; she was simply looking for trouble.

Some people, if you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile if you reason with them.

But his silence didn’t buy him a moment’s peace.

Xie Baola kept talking, her girlish voice incessant, "Chen Jiayan, I have another idea. Why don’t you let me stay for the night... to be serious, it’s not really for the night, as it will be morning in a few hours. You have a guest room, right? I don’t mind sleeping at your place, we’re quite familiar, aren’t we?"

"Say something, will you? Do you agree or not?"

"Chen Jiayan."

Xie Baola poked his arm with a finger, "If you don’t say anything, I’ll take it as a yes."

She really was challenging his limits over and over again.

Chen Jiayan grabbed her hand and tossed it back.

He fixed his gaze on her face for a few seconds before looking ahead, "I didn’t agree, Xie Baola, you should have some sense of self-preservation."

His voice was cool and indifferent.

"Self-preservation?" Xie Baola thought seriously for a moment, and then suddenly started to giggle, "Are you perhaps thinking of doing something to me? If that’s the case, I’d be more than willing!"

Chen Jiayan: "..."

How was he supposed to respond to that?

Xie Baola leaned lazily against the seatback, "I know you’re a gentleman and wouldn’t do anything to me."

He was different from any man she had been with.

After pursuing him for so long, Xie Baola understood that her interest wasn’t a mere whim.

She was serious.

But she encountered a man who was impervious to persuasion.

And she couldn’t force him.

What was she to do?

Chen Jiayan’s expression was cryptic, "Don’t test one’s nature."

Xie Baola’s red lips curved into a half-smile, "Other men may not interest me, but you... I just want to test you. I am the type who wants what I can’t have all the more."

Chen Jiayan chuckled lightly, and after a pause said, "Perhaps to you, I am like the toy that you liked at first sight but couldn’t have. Because you can’t have it, you can’t stop thinking about it. Once you have this toy and the novelty has worn off, you’ll find you don’t actually like it that much and will cast it aside. It’s quite simple, it’s purely a case of possessiveness at play."

He compared himself to a toy.

But Xie Baola had never thought that.

"Chen Jiayan, what you say is not entirely correct... The toys I like, I bring home, and I will cherish them. Even though I won’t look at it every day or take it out to play with after it becomes mine, as long as it’s in my house, it’s mine, and I won’t discard it."

"So if it’s like that, unless I can continue to like this toy forever, cherishing it from the beginning to the end, I won’t take it home, and that’s our difference."

Sometimes you don’t have to possess what you like.

It will stay there.

To be owned by someone who truly needs it.

Xie Baola laughed out of frustration, "So what you’re saying is you believe I’m only interested in you for a moment’s novelty? That it’s possessiveness at play? How do you know that my feelings for you aren’t genuine?"

Chen Jiayan turned his head to look at her, the street light just then gliding through the cabin and lighting up his refined and handsome features.

Xie Baola saw a hint of an intriguing smile on his face.

She frowned, only to hear him ask, "Are you?"