There’re Always Paranoid Thoughts to Monopolize Me - Extra 14.1

Masters were the most unreliable existence in this world.

Qin Ke thought with deep regret.

Earlier, he had appeared to have the demeanor of a noble person with righteous energy, but after seeing Huo Jun’s chilling smile, when Qin Ke came back to her senses, the master behind the table had long disappeared, along with the pointed tent and the seemingly cheap glass ball on the low table, all of which had been taken away by that master at some unknown time.

He didn’t even stay to hear a word of “thanks”, leaving her alone to bear the “fire” of the situation.

Qin Ke looked cautiously at Huo Jun.

“Um… I think… I can probably explain…”

“Explain? I don’t think that’s necessary.”

Huo Jun smiled coldly.

The two of them had originally woken up kneeling on the grass. At this moment, Qin Ke, feeling guilty and afraid, unconsciously leaned back. Huo Jun, not being polite, took advantage of this geographical condition and propped himself up with his arm, looming over the girl’s body – with an absolute gaze of intimidation from above. The young man’s thin lips twitched slightly, with a half-smile, his eyes dangerously glinting like those of a wolf.

“What is there to explain, big sister?”

Qin Ke: “……”

Qin Ke, feeling guilty, spoke softly with a gentle smile, “I don’t deserve such a title.”

Huo Jun let out a light, cold laugh.

“You dared to kiss someone else in front of me, lock me up and marry someone else, what don’t you dare to do?”

As he spoke, the wolf-like glint in his eyes grew fiercer, and by the end, perhaps remembering something, it showed signs of becoming uncontrollable.

Receiving the dangerous signal in his eyes, and considering that they were now in some rarely visited corner of an amusement park, Qin Ke’s survival instinct became stronger than ever before.

“I think there was something wrong with that crystal ball,” the girl analyzed seriously, only her eyes betraying her panic as they darted around uncontrollably, “Did you have a dream? I also had a strange dream, in the dream…”

“I don’t want to know what you dreamed about.”

The young man’s voice deepened by several degrees, and his eyes also darkened profoundly. His pupils were tightly focused on the girl, his gaze slowly scanning her features, finally landing on her lips.

“I only remember – in that dream, someone lectured me saying I was a child, saying I shouldn’t talk like an adult, that it would be strange and funny.”

With these words, Huo Jun finally lowered his chin and kissed the girl’s soft lips. With a hint of venting his anger, he frowned and lightly bit her lip before straightening up again.

The young man’s sharp and handsome face wore a cold smile, “Do you still find it funny now, big sister?”

Qin Ke: “……”

Qin Ke: “You’re older than me, it’s not appropriate to call me that, really.”

“What’s inappropriate about it? In that dream, didn’t you say I was a child?”

He moved close to her ear, his breath slightly scorching, his voice hoarse, tinged with a hint of gloomy laughter.

“A child can be forgiven for anything, right, big sister?”

Qin Ke: “…Actually, I don’t mind, but, what if, someone else hears it, then it would be inappropriate…”

Huo Jun let out a light snort, his eyes dark and heavy like a rain-laden cloud. At the edges of the cloud, a faint light was hidden, like a smile, yet much gloomier than a smile.

“It’s just playful banter, what business is it of theirs?”

“.”

“Big sister?”

Qin Ke: “……”

Heaven help me.

****

In the end, it was Huo Shengfeng’s phone call summoning them back that saved Qin Ke’s life.

“Teacher Huo, do I… have to go back too?” Qin Ke uncertainly asked Huo Jingyan, the Huo family’s butler who had come specially to pick them up.

Huo Jingyan nodded with a smile. “That’s what the elder Mr. Huo has arranged.”

Qin Ke had no choice but to obediently sit in the back of the limousine.

Huo Jun, who had already gotten in from the other side, glanced at Huo Jingyan standing outside the car and lowered his voice, with a hint of light mockery. “Why aren’t you calling him Butler Huo anymore?”

Qin Ke kept a straight face and also lowered her voice to a whisper. “…Huo Jun, holding grudges isn’t a good habit, really.”

As they spoke, Huo Jingyan had already sat in the front passenger seat, and this topic was dropped.

The car got on the road. After a few seconds of silence in the car, Qin Ke hesitantly asked, “Did Uncle Huo call us back for something?”

Huo Jingyan glanced at the two of them through the rearview mirror, “I’m not sure of the details. But Young Master Zhonglou went directly to the vicinity of A University after his plane landed, without returning home. Mr. Huo probably wants to call him back to check on him.”

“Check on him?” Huo Jun snorted lightly, “The mess that the bunch of old guys at the branch company dumped on me almost worked me to death. How could this not have been on his orders?”

Huo Jingyan smiled. “That was just to train you. After all, even if you were eager to see Ke Ke after not seeing her for months, you should have gone home first.”

“…”

Huo Jun let out a mocking laugh and turned his head to look out the window, not speaking anymore.

In the rearview mirror, Qin Ke and Huo Jingyan exchanged a helpless glance.

Huo Jingyan’s gaze swept over the distance of more than ten centimeters between the two, and after pausing for two seconds, he asked somewhat curiously. “Did you two have a fight?”

“.”

Huo Jun lazily turned his head back, expressionlessly glancing at him from the corner of his eye.

Huo Jingyan chuckled, “I can tell from your temper.”

The corner of Huo Jun’s mouth twitched, but it wasn’t quite a smile, only making one feel a chill down their spine.

“Yes, we had a fight.”

Huo Jingyan: “What happened?”

“…” Huo Jun’s cheekbones moved slightly, as if he was clenching his teeth, and he turned his gaze to stare at the girl beside him who was pretending nothing had happened, “She wanted to dump me and be with someone else.”

Huo Jingyan: “…?”

Driver: “–!!”

The limousine’s direction of travel noticeably swerved in an S-shape for a moment.

As the car shook, Huo Jun instinctively reached out to protect the girl beside him, pulling her into his arms. When the car stabilized again, he looked up with a fierce frown.

“Don’t you know how to drive!”

The driver, frightened, shrank his neck and repeatedly apologized.

Qin Ke, who had suddenly been pulled into his arms a few seconds ago, was also jolted back to her senses by this exclamation. She froze for a few seconds, then looked up at Huo Jun.

That handsome face with its sharp features was right in front of her — even though he had been jealous and angry just seconds ago, when faced with a hint of real danger, his instinctive reaction was still to protect her first.

Qin Ke felt a soft ache in her heart.

Huo Jingyan had also come back to his senses by now and said helplessly. “Don’t blame him. It was you who spoke recklessly, always trying to shock people with your words.”

“I was stating a fact,” Huo Jun retorted.

“A fact? If she’s going to dump you, why are you holding Ke Ke so tightly?”

“……”

Huo Jun, hit at a sore spot, let out a light snort. He lowered his head, giving the girl in his arms a dangerous and fierce look, scanning her up and down to make sure nothing had happened, before finally loosening his arms.

“I hugged the wrong person,” he said.

As he said this, Huo Jun was about to move back.

But at that moment, the girl who was still half-encircled in his arms due to his previous action suddenly lifted her chin and very lightly kissed his thin lips.

Huo Jun’s figure suddenly froze.

By the time he came back to his senses, the girl had already retreated first.

Huo Jun narrowed his eyes slightly, reaching out to stop her and even pinching her cheek, “You think a casual kiss will make me forgive you?”

“……”

Having taken the initiative to make such an intimate gesture in front of others, Qin Ke was already very embarrassed. Now hearing Huo Jun speak so directly, her cheeks burned an even deeper shade of red.

She gave him a slightly annoyed look and muttered softly. “If you don’t forgive me, then forget it.”

“……”

Huo Jun was furious.

He used force on his wrist, directly pulling her in front of him, and then pressed her against the leather seat. He gritted his teeth slightly, his handsome face showing a slightly fierce expression.

“You even thought about cheating on me, and you still dare to be so righteous?”

Feeling the curious gaze from the front seats almost piercing through the rearview mirror,

Qin Ke: “……”

Qin Ke’s cheeks were red with anger, “Huo Jun, can you stop talking nonsense?”

Already in a position of pressing the girl down beneath him at close quarters, now feeling the girl’s soft, warm breath brushing against him, Huo Jun’s pitch-black eyes darkened two more shades.

He let out a light “tsk” and lowered his head to bite the girl’s lip.

“Am I not stating facts?”

Qin Ke was embarrassed to the extreme, her cheeks red as if they were about to drip blood. She simply closed her eyes, playing dead, letting him do as he pleased.

Huo Jun loved it most when she was helpless against him yet indulgent. He stared for a few seconds, his eyes deep and dark, as if ink could be wrung out of them like rain.

Even his breathing gradually lengthened and deepened, inch by inch getting closer to the girl’s fair neck.

Until that string called reason was stretched to its tightest, silently vibrating with a “twang” in the depths of his mind. Huo Jun’s hand propped above the girl’s head suddenly clenched tight.

After a moment, he let out a low sigh from his throat.

“…I’ll settle accounts with you when we get back.”

Huo Jun straightened up.

However, this time, he refused to let go, staying intimately close to the girl’s side the whole way.

****

They arrived at the Huo family’s old residence.

Huo Jun was “dragged” by Old Master Huo to the study to talk, all about company-related matters. Qin Ke had never been interested in such things, so after paying her respects, she made an excuse to slip out – eager to get as far away as possible.

However, just a few steps out of the study, Qin Ke was stopped by Huo Jingyan.

“Teacher Huo?” Qin Ke was a bit surprised, “Did something happen?”

Huo Jingyan shook his head, “No, I just wanted to ask about you and Zhonglou’s recent situation.”

Qin Ke understood, her gaze shifting awkwardly.

“Uh, Huo Jun was just joking in the car… Teacher Huo, please don’t believe him.”

Huo Jingyan smiled, “I know what kind of person you are, of course I wouldn’t believe that nonsense of his.”

“……”

“However, Huo Jun isn’t one to speak casually, especially when it comes to matters concerning you…” Huo Jingyan’s tone was casual as his gaze fell on Qin Ke, “So, there must have been some small issue between you two?”

Qin Ke had a bit of a headache, really not knowing how to explain to Huo Jingyan.

After thinking and thinking, she could only vaguely say, “I guess it’s a small misunderstanding… Huo Jun is just sulking with me.”

“Not a big problem?”

Qin Ke: “Hmm… it shouldn’t be.”

“That’s good then.”

“?” Qin Ke looked up in confusion, “What do you mean by ‘that’s good’?”

But Huo Jingyan just smiled, with a bit of mystery, “You’ll know tonight.”

“…?”