Chapter 383: Chapter 382 Renewal (12)
"No need." Dong Xin Yan flatly refused, her dark eyes staring intently at Gu Ningyi, her small face taut. "I don’t have that much time to waste with you. You threatened me to come here, what exactly do you want?"
"Threatened?"
Gu Ningyi repeated the word softly, as if finding it amusing. He sat up straight, his dark eyes looking at her, a faint smile on his handsome face, and his voice full of teasing. "Is this a threat? It’s clearly the truth; we... were indeed very intimate together."
The word "intimate" was spoken deliberately low, his voice deep and magnetic, resonating like a bass in her ears, making her heart uncontrollably tingle.
Dong Xin Yan’s fair cheeks suddenly flushed, not from shyness but from sheer anger.
Those three months were the most shameful, the time she least wanted to recall in her life. She had locked them deep in her memory, unwilling to touch them, yet Gu Ningyi had forcefully dug them out.
Dong Xin Yan’s delicate eyebrows knitted tightly, her face tinged with embarrassment, unable to suppress her rising anger. Her big eyes glared at him, "Gu Ningyi, our deal is over. Now you’re using past events to make me come here, isn’t that a threat?"
In the text message Gu Ningyi sent her, he didn’t say much, just mentioned a location and told her to come quickly, or face the consequences.
What panicked her was that he also sent a photo.
It was a picture of her sleeping in pajamas, leaning against a man’s chest. Even though the man’s face wasn’t in the photo, Dong Xin Yan knew who it was.
She never expected Gu Ningyi to take such a photo.
Gu Ningyi wasn’t angry at all. Listening to Dong Xin Yan, he even nodded slightly, "Since you think it’s a threat, then let it be a threat."
"...."
Dong Xin Yan was speechless for a moment, then her anger erupted. She almost gritted her teeth, "Gu Ningyi, what exactly do you want? Didn’t we make things clear yesterday?"
"It was quite clear." Gu Ningyi nodded in agreement.
This response from Gu Ningyi left Dong Xin Yan stunned for a moment. She thought he was stubbornly clinging on to their past, but it seemed that wasn’t the case.
Her tense nerves couldn’t help but relax a bit. She swallowed, lowering her voice as well, "Then why did you ask me to come today?"
As long as he wasn’t trying to entangle her, anything else could be discussed, and she didn’t want to offend him further.
"Sit down first." Gu Ningyi gestured to the recliner beside him, his tone consistently mild.
Although anxious inside, Dong Xin Yan had no choice but to suppress it. She took a couple of steps forward, slowly sitting on the recliner, but her body remained upright, her back rigid.
Gu Ningyi glanced at her unobtrusively, unable to tell what he felt inside. He raised his hand and poured another glass of juice, handing it to her, "Have some juice. It’s your favorite blueberry."
Dong Xin Yan furrowed her brows slightly but said nothing, reaching out to take it. She only held it in her hand without drinking.
After a few seconds, Gu Ningyi still hadn’t spoken. She hesitated, unable to hold back, her red lips slightly parted, "Well... what exactly...?"
"Xinyan, I want you to stay by my side."