Chapter 278: Chain reaction

After sending Lu Zhixin back to the riverside residence, Xu Tingsheng boiled some water and brewed some tea. After plugging in the water heater, Xu Tingsheng returned to the living room and got his bag before telling Lu Zhixin who was sitting stiffly on the sofa, “Rest well.”

As he was about to head out, Lu Zhixin suddenly got up, came over and blocked the door.

Then, she just stood there, woodenly blocking his way as she grabbed onto his clothes with one hand. She just looked at him, not letting go and also not saying anything at all. The current Lu Zhixin was like a child who had been caught doing a misdeed as she looked guilty, wronged, lost, with varying emotions of all kinds being present.

Meeting her clearly hesitant gaze, Xu Tingsheng had to prompt her ‘What is it?’ thrice before she finally showed a reaction.

Only then did Lu Zhixin say in a small voice, “It's too late. You can't go back into your dorm. You, you stay here for tonight.”

Xu Tingsheng was taken aback, “I'd still better go stay the night in a motel. Mainly because…it might be awkward for us both.”

Xu Tingsheng was actually speaking in a very awkward manner. The things he had actually muddledly done before, how he as an Uncle had behaved toward a young lady like her…thinking back on it, he really could not but feel distressed.

Lu Zhixin understood what Xu Tingsheng was referring to, believing it to be intentional on his part.

While her face was flushed rather red, she still shook her head and blocked the door, “You stay here. Like…”

Xu Tingsheng could not hear the latter part of her words clearly as her voice was very soft, as indistinct as the buzzing of a mosquito. She seemed to have said something like ‘like…,..., is also fine.”

Perhaps feeling guilty over having caused Xu Tingsheng to suffer an injustice that night, Lu Zhixin wanted to recompense him for it, such as by allowing him to have his way with her one more time. This was despite the fact that she felt flustered and panicked...