The Devil Doctor's Spicy Love
Chapter 379: The devil’s sincerity

Chapter 379: The devil’s sincerity

"What are you doing?" Mingshen’s head popped in her room, making Jia jolt.

"You scared me."

"Who can scare Spicy? You evoke fear in everybody’s hearts," he grinned and then immediately frowned. "Why are you dressed in your uniform?"

"I am going to the bureau."

He blinked twice. "Where?"

"Bureau."

"Where?"

"I know you heard me."

Mingshen narrowed his eyes. He walked in, holding his hands on his waist. "No, you are not."

She blinked. "Why not?"

"How can you think about going to work right now?"

Jia pressed her lips. "I cannot sit idle. I will keep thinking of-"

"How can your life be idle and still when I am here? You won’t even look at your work until I say so and give you the permission. This is a doctor’s order."

Her eyes widened. "How long will that be for?"

"As long as it takes for your mind to heal where you stop taking work as your escape mechanism."

Jia slightly cleared her throat and looked away. "I cannot take leave. I have the cult’s case to work upon..."

"Your ok ok friend can handle that in your absence."

She paused. "Ok ok friend? Huojin is not my boyfriend anymore?"

He snorted. "I realized he is way too ok ok for him to be your boyfriend. You need way more than an ok ok man to be your partner."

"And who would that be?"

He blushed. "I won’t get offended if you consider me, considering that we have kissed and slept together."

If it had been earlier then Jia would have rolled her eyes and threw a snarky comeback at him. Yet this time, her lips curled into a smile.

"You should give a more serious thought about your future partner, Mingshen."

He tilted his head. "I am?"

"No, you are not. You are just messing with me."

"What are you talking about? Wasn’t I clear on so many occasions that I would jump right on top of you if you just gave me the green signal?"

Her jaw dropped, dumbfounded. "Weren’t you kidding? You only kissed me to get on my nerves."

"Which part of my sincerity did you feel as fooling around? I am not a playboy."

She threw him a blank stare. She tried to process the situation before her and said, "Mingshen there...there are way more beautiful women than me out there. Why do you want to waste your time over a woman with so many problems?"

Mingshen stared at her. "Is that how you see yourself?"

"Well..."

She saw him taking slow steps towards her with a dead serious gaze fixed at her. She wasn’t sure if she was hallucinating but it partly looked provoked and partly furious.

"W-What?" Suddenly, she felt breathless under his scrutiny and height towering over her.

Mingshen’s sharp, unforgiving gaze landed at her. "Do you think you don’t deserve a good partner because you have baggage behind you?"

"I...I didn’t say that-"

"You said exactly that."

"...Okay I might have been a little harsh on myself-"

He walked further, pushing her from her place and all the way back to the wall.

"Little is a small world. You are deprecating your own worth. Do strangers’ words mean that much to you?"

Jia slightly lowered her dimmed gaze. "They might be strangers but what they said was the truth."

"Do I have to tell you what kind of people tear others down like that? Only superficial bastards who have built nothing of their own. They feel jealous of people like you who, despite the past, know how to look ahead and forge a path of their own. They cannot do that because they prefer to become leeches. So the only thing their brainless minds can do are hurl insults. And you are taking a no-name woman’s words seriously."

He held her chin and lifted it amidst her protests. "You are a chilly Spicy, not some delicate melting sweet to fall weak. Not over somebody who doesn’t even matter. So yes, your past is painful but in which dictionary does it mean that your future should be miserable too?"

A slight mistiness formed in her eyes. She wished she could grab onto those words and forget the bitterness of the reunion evening but they felt like a balloon, slipping past her hands to fly away from her. But she at least understood why Mingshen was angry.

"I won’t...I will try not to think like that again."

She couldn’t commit to her state of mind but did promise to work over her thoughts.

The dark glassiness in his eyes vanished to be replaced with a smile. "That’s what I am talking about."

She quickly wiped her teary eyelid and looked at him. "You...can let go of my chin now."

"Not so soon. I still have to demonstrate something very important, which you are refusing to believe."

"Huh?"

"That..."

He pressed his torso against her chest, pushing her back against the wall, giving no chance for her to escape. His fingers reached out to tug at the top button of her shirt, which he promptly unbuttoned, exposing her neck one level down. Unbuttoning another one, he could see the start of the sinful slit of her chest.

"That I really will have sex with you if you allow me and that I am not kidding around at all," he whispered in her ear, leaning his face near the nape of her neck.

She stood stiff like a tree, her mind unable to make sense of it. For somebody who always considered his words just as a means to egg her into frustration, why did he strangely look so damn serious?

"That for me..."

He pressed the tip of his index finger on her chest, slowly sliding it down till it reached the slit, his black irises darkening like an endless black hole.

"I don’t know about other women, nor do I want to know who is more beautiful than you but to me, you are the most damning existence that can make me go wild and senseless. But it seems that my sincerity doesn’t reach you so I am happy to give a demo."