Cheng Xi didn’t hesitate at all before going up to Lu Chenzhou and taking his pulse.

Thankfully, even though it had been a while since their kiss, Lu Chenzhou’s heart rate was clearly elevated, and his body wasn’t as cold as it usually was.

Yes, he had clearly experienced emotions just then.

Lu Chenzhou easily understood what she was doing, and he started smiling, his eyes curving into beautiful crescents. “How stupid,” he said in a belittling tone as he used his long arm to pull her back into bed and underneath him. “Do you really believe everything I say? Did you really think that I would read such trashy books, whose titles alone sound idiotic?”

“That’s true. But if your earlier actions were just something born from skill and technique, then wouldn’t that make me too easy of a target?”

Actually, what she really wanted to say instead of ‘just something born from skill and technique’ was ‘just a script that you followed’⁠—this fellow’s...