Chapter 567 - 237: First Kiss
Chapter 567: Chapter 237: First Kiss
Shen Yuan lowered his head, glancing at the test paper slapped against his chest. He then looked up at the beautiful girl before him, at the fierce but utterly harmless bluff painted across her flushed cheeks.
The torrent of emotion he had been desperately suppressing in his chest, far from being extinguished by Li Zhi’s minor threat, was instead like a flame doused in oil, flaring up even more intensely.
Shen Yuan said nothing. He simply stared into Li Zhi’s bright eyes and suddenly broke into a smile of do-or-die determination.
Under Li Zhi’s slightly confused gaze, Shen Yuan slowly placed the science test paper—still fragrant with ink and carrying the lingering warmth of her fingertips—on the adjacent desk.
His movements were gentle, as if it weren’t an important exam, but a page from a calendar that could be temporarily set aside.
After doing so, he raised his head. Instead of backing away, he leaned forward slightly, his warm breath once again brushing against Li Zhi’s sensitive earlobe and temple.
The young man’s Adam’s apple bobbed. He lowered his voice, which was filled with an undisguised hope, and asked clearly:
"Li Bao..."
"Um..."
"The homework... can we do it later?"
Shen Yuan’s voice broke clearly into the beautiful girl’s ears.
That familiar, magnetic voice now seemed to carry hooks, entwined with a certain unspoken anticipation. Like a stone dropped into a deep pool, it sent ripples spreading through her heart.
The air in the room seemed to freeze for a moment.
The monotonous hum of the heater’s warm air seemed to suddenly amplify.
San Geng and Naonao, who had been feigning sleep in the room, looked at the two, tilted their heads as if they’d lost interest, and then lowered their heads again.
The boy’s tall, straight figure wavered slightly in the girl’s vision.
She felt as if her breath, along with her thoughts, had been abruptly bound by invisible threads, coming to a momentary halt.
At that moment, all boundaries blurred, melting into Shen Yuan’s scorching eyes, which now reflected only her own figure.
’If we do the homework later, then what... are we going to do?’
Li Zhi could guess the answer perfectly—the scene that had been lingering in her mind since last night.
He was so close, his breath so hot. The intention hidden in his words was clear and searing.
"You..."
The moment her lips parted, before the name "Selaan" could even escape, Shen Yuan moved.
He didn’t wait any longer, as if he had lost all patience.
His warm, broad palm didn’t tentatively touch her wrist this time. Instead, with a force that permitted no refusal, he shot his arm up and clamped it around her slender waist like an iron hoop!
"Oof!"
Caught completely off guard, Li Zhi lost her balance from the immense force, pulled forward by that irresistible power.
The next second, her entire body slammed solidly into that chest she knew so well!
THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
Their heartbeats, separated by clothes that weren’t particularly thick, hammered against each other’s chests like drumbeats. The dull, powerful resonance instantly drowned out the noise of the heater.
Shen Yuan’s arm suddenly tightened its grip!
The force was so great it was as if he wanted to crush her slender body into his very bones.
The arm wrapped around her waist tensed, the long-suppressed obsession finally unleashed, steadily pressing her deeper into his embrace.
Li Zhi’s face, buried in his embrace, was enveloped by the fabric of his sweater. Her nose was filled with his scent—crisp and heart-stopping.
Through the soft cashmere sweater, she could clearly feel the contours of the young man’s heaving chest.
The solid pressure against her made her whole body tense up. Beneath the fine fabric, the smooth curves of a young woman’s body were now pressed with undeniable reality between Shen Yuan’s powerful arm and scorching chest.
Her arms were still raised in the helpless panic of the collision, her fingertips hovering in the air for a brief moment.
After a few suffocating seconds of stalemate, a surge of shame and a delayed panic fiercely counterattacked.
"Shen... Shen Yuan! Let go!" Her voice was muffled against the fabric of his chest, indistinct and trembling, completely devoid of its usual authority.
"You..."
Li Zhi’s fingers, in a helpless struggle, subconsciously clenched the back of his sweater.
The soft fabric bunched into deep wrinkles between her slender fingers, her knuckles turning white from the force.
But the arm around her waist remained completely still.
Not only did Shen Yuan not let go, but he lowered his head and buried his face in Li Zhi’s hair, his hot, trembling breath spraying against the sensitive skin on the side of her neck.
Li Zhi felt as if that patch of skin had been scalded by a spark, instantly triggering a fine tremor through her. It was as if all the strength had been drained from her body by that iron arm.
The beautiful girl’s previously feigned anger and resistance popped like a bubble under his indisputable intimacy, leaving only a blankness that sent her heart into disarray.
Outside, the winter daylight slanted in through a gap in the curtains, casting a long band of light into the room.
Dust motes floated serenely in the light.
The low hum of the heater continued. The kittens in the blanket on the bed twitched their ears, lifting their round eyes to curiously gaze at the two figures by the bed, their silhouettes nearly merged into one.
The tense air in the room seemed to simultaneously relax and freeze in that moment. The young man’s scorching breath was finally no longer content to linger between the crown of her head and her neck.
His lips, like a bird seeking a place to land, moved slowly downward with a do-or-die longing.
Gentle, yet with an unmistakable purpose, they tentatively pressed against the slender neck of the girl, which rose and fell with her rapid breaths.