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"Sister, can't you speak with a conscience?"
Xuan Hao retorted speechlessly, "When did I start flirting with everyone I met?
Think about it carefully, apart from Zhu Zhuqing, whom I've only known for a short time, who among the others doesn't have a 'childhood sweetheart' relationship?"
"Na'er, Xiaowu, Rongrong, Yanyan, Lingling, and even you and Hu Liena!
Haven't we all known each other for years, or even grown up together?
This is called natural development, love grows over time, you know?
Who goes around flirting with people on the street for no reason!"
Qian Renxue was completely speechless.
This is where she felt most powerless and had the least to refute!
If Xuan Hao really is the kind of playboy who falls for women he meets on the street, then she naturally has plenty of ways and reasons to force him to cut off all those unwanted romantic advances.
The problem is that all the girls around this bastard were slowly seduced by him, from friends he'd known for years to childhood sweethearts he'd grown up with, like "boiling frogs in lukewarm water"!
How can this deeply entrenched emotional foundation be severed?
There's absolutely no way to break it!
Qian Renxue stared intently at Xuan Hao's self-righteous face, her chest heaving violently a few times.
Finally, as if deflated, she gritted her teeth and said, "Since that's how it is... then I'm too lazy to impose any more rigid restrictions.
However, Xuan Hao, you'd better leave yourself some room for maneuver and know your limits!"
"If you ever become reckless and push me too far, I'll fight to the death, and nobody will get away with it!"
Upon hearing these words, Xuan Hao stood there, completely stunned.
He stared wide-eyed at Qian Renxue: "Seriously?"
He initially thought that the woman's aggressive stance today was simply a pretext to have a big argument and vent her emotions.
How come she actually backed down and compromised during the argument?
Is this still the same arrogant and haughty Qian Renxue?
Qian Renxue was annoyed by his gaze, which was as if he were looking at a rare animal.
She turned her head away, snorted coldly, and ignored him.
However, just as she turned her head, Xuan Hao suddenly stepped forward, stretched out his long arm, and picked her up by the waist!
"What are you doing?!"
Before Qian Renxue could react, Xuan Hao's soul power erupted from his feet, and his figure vanished from the pavilion like a ghost.
In just a few breaths, he passed through the many corridors and teleported directly back to the Crown Prince's bedroom.
"Bang."
Xuan Hao unceremoniously threw the person in his arms onto the large, soft bed.
Qian Renxue was so dizzy from the fall that she was completely stunned.
Her usually calm mind panicked instinctively at this moment.
She braced herself on the bed with both hands and looked at Xuan Hao, who was pressing down on her, with disbelief on her face.
What does this mean?!
In broad daylight, what's wrong with this bastard?!
Xuan Hao braced himself on his hands beside her, leaned down, and stared intently at her handsome face that belonged to "Xue Qinghe."
"What? We're already in bed, and you're still trying to talk to me like a man?"
Upon hearing these extremely aggressive words, Qian Renxue's heart skipped a beat, and then began to race wildly like a drumbeat.
But she was no longer the naive little girl she once was.
After a brief moment of panic, a resolute mix of shame, anger, and defiance flashed in her eyes.
"Buzz—"
As a dazzling, holy golden light flashed, the disguise that had accompanied her for many years instantly vanished.
Her long, golden hair cascaded down the brocade couch like a waterfall, revealing her stunningly beautiful and flawless face to Xuan Hao without reservation.
Instead of dodging, she took the initiative to stretch out her fair and slender arms and wrap them around the back of Xuan Hao's neck.
Qian Renxue tilted her head slightly, her beautiful eyes staring intently at Xuan Hao, who was standing close to her, her gaze burning with undisguised passion and provocation.
This time... it was Xuan Hao's turn to be completely dumbfounded.
Are you serious?!
His sudden action was purely a test, to see if the woman's so-called "compromise" was just a prank or a trap.
Who knew this woman would actually do it for real?! And so proactively at that?!
Faced with Qian Renxue's burning gaze, which seemed to want to devour him alive, Xuan Hao suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, and his previous arrogance instantly subsided by more than half.
He coughed dryly, somewhat guiltyly trying to straighten up and make a strategic retreat.
"Um... I suddenly remembered..."
But how could Qian Renxue possibly give him another chance to escape?
Sensing Xuan Hao's retreat, Qian Renxue tightened her arms around the back of his neck and simultaneously used her waist to exert force.
"Bang!"
In a dizzying moment, the balance of power shifted instantly.
Qian Renxue swiftly flipped over, taking the initiative and pinning the two-meter-tall Xuan Hao firmly onto the soft bed.
Long, golden hair cascaded down Xuan Hao's cheeks.
Qian Renxue looked down at the bewildered boy pinned beneath her, a dangerous yet alluring smile playing on her lips.
"how?"
"Where did your arrogance go? Scared now?"
With Qian Renxue pressing him down so forcefully, and feeling her delicate fragrance so close to his face and her breathtakingly beautiful appearance, Xuan Hao was truly embarrassed and awkward.
He swallowed hard, his eyes darting around as he coughed twice. "Ahem... Xue'er, calm down, calm down.
I'm still a child.
This kind of thing... how about we wait until we're older to talk about it?"
"You're a child, but I'm not a child anymore!"
Qian Renxue showed no sign of backing down.
Instead, she lowered her body even further, her beautiful eyes fixed on him, her voice trembling slightly:
"Or... after saying all that, you actually don't want to at all?"
By the end, Qian Renxue's eyes were visibly red.
They churned with anger at being rejected, but even more so with an indescribable sense of grievance.
Xuan Hao was now completely panicked.
"Hey, hey, don't cry!
That's not what I meant!"
Xuan Hao frantically tried to explain, "I just think this is too hasty!
I'm a rogue, I'm a womanizer, that's true, but I usually just put on airs, how could I be so hasty?"
"If we have to put it in perspective, we only just opened up to each other today and officially confirmed our relationship.
There wasn't even a chance for us to adjust before jumping straight to that point?"
"If I really did that, what kind of person would I be?
And would that have any respect for you whatsoever?"
Seeing Xuan Hao's flustered appearance, as if he was afraid she would misunderstand and was sweating profusely, Qian Renxue's aggrieved expression suddenly froze.
The next second, she slowly released her hands from Xuan Hao's shoulders, turned over without a word, and lay down on the other side of the bed, leaving Xuan Hao with only a cold back view.
It looked like he was angry and frustrated because he had been rejected, and he was sulking in a huff.
But in reality, in a blind spot where Xuan Hao couldn't see her, a bright and sly smile flickered in Qian Renxue's beautiful eyes, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but turn up.
At this moment, her heart was filled with unprecedented joy and peace.
Because, through that almost extreme test just now, she finally confirmed one thing completely: Xuan Hao truly cared about her.
Moreover, this seemingly unrestrained and frivolous scoundrel who talks nonsense is not a frivolous person at all.
He had previously launched into a long, rambling monologue in the alley, spouting all sorts of nonsensical, villainous nonsense about "living in the moment" and "responsibility isn't important for love, it's just pressure."
But what was the reality?
This guy values this responsibility and respects her deeply precisely because he absolutely refuses to cross that line before their feelings have fully settled.
In that tense and arousing atmosphere, if Xuan Hao had simply ignored everything and taken advantage of her, she would have truly misjudged this bastard.
It would have shown that all he cared about were his base desires.
But he panicked, he hesitated, and he even brought up the word "respect" to try his best to pull back from the brink.
This only shows that in Xuan Hao's heart, her feelings and dignity are far more important than his own surging desires.
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