Are You Allergic To Romance? - Chapter 14

Chapter 14: The Princess Carry

Because of tension, hunger, and a strange sense of irritation…

In short, a mix of emotions defined as “negative” caused the hidden markings in Jing Yuan’s eyes to become visible again, rapidly spreading down to her neck due to her emotional state.

Jing Yuan’s pupils instantly became vertical slits.

“Your face…”

“!” Jing Yuan thought the other party had noticed her transformation and immediately turned her head, rapidly blinking her eyes in an attempt to return to normal.

Indeed, as Mother said, she inherited too many of the other party’s characteristics, which is why she is so unstable.

Suddenly, the dome light in the car came on.

Jing Yuan was about to pull the inner handle, but her sleeve was suddenly grabbed by the other party.

“Are you okay? Why is your face so red?” Xie Mianzhi used the car light to carefully examine Jing Yuan, who was flushed up to her earlobes. What was wrong with her? She was blushing so much.

Jing Yuan sighed in relief. It turned out Xie Mianzhi hadn’t noticed her other changes, but—

“You’re too close to me,” Jing Yuan slightly frowned, striving to control her irritation, and coldly signaled that the other party should maintain the proper distance from her.

Such a cold tone?

Xie Mianzhi felt wronged by being “snapped” at like this. “I just wanted to help you adjust the seat. Isn’t it uncomfortable to maintain that posture for so long?”

She, the dignified Miss Xie, personally invited someone into her car for the first time and manually adjusted the seat for them, only to be completely unappreciated?

Jing Yuan knew the other party was well-meaning, but she was still in a very delicate state. She hadn’t realized that Xie Mianzhi’s proximity would trigger such a sudden transformation.

“Thank you, but I don’t need to enjoy these things,” Jing Yuan stated that she didn’t care about these amenities. She just needed to focus on giving Xie Mianzhi directions properly.

“…” Xie Mianzhi was forced into silence by such distant politeness.

She felt like she was going crazy, simply wanting the other party to experience the comfort of her good car.

For the first time in her life, she genuinely wanted to do something for someone as a form of gratitude, but this person was completely unappreciative.

Or perhaps—

“Are you saying you think I’m showing off the car?” Xie Mianzhi countered in a raised voice.

“No,” Jing Yuan immediately denied it. She had never harbored such narrow-minded thoughts.

Xie Mianzhi saw that the other party didn’t seem to be lying. Then why was this person so constrained, so tense? If it weren’t raining outside, would Jing Yuan immediately open the car door and run away?

Her luxury sports car was a limited edition.

An unprovoked sense of frustration washed over Xie Mianzhi. She pursed her lips and stopped speaking.

The car fell into an uncomfortable silence.

“Is this how you adjust it?”

Suddenly, Jing Yuan’s low voice came from her side.

Xie Mianzhi looked up and saw Jing Yuan, who had previously been “disdaining” her car, now lying stiffly back in the seat, asking her proactively.

Xie Mianzhi looked and then nodded, indicating that there was another hidden button near Jing Yuan’s hand, which she could try.

Sure enough, when Jing Yuan pressed it, the seat intelligently and gently conformed to her back like a marshmallow, automatically adjusting to the optimal ergonomic curve.

“How is it? You’re the first person to enjoy this treatment. I only bought this car recently and rarely drive it,” Xie Mianzhi slightly tilted her head, looking at Jing Yuan’s slightly humorous appearance lying submissively in the seat, and deliberately raised an eyebrow to ask about the experience.

“It’s quite comfortable.”

After saying that, Jing Yuan met Xie Mianzhi’s bright eyes, which were noticeably softer than before.

Miss Xie seemed displeased when she asked if I thought she was showing off just now. Jing Yuan had sensed this, which was why she proactively lay down and accepted the other party’s goodwill.

“How comfortable is it?” Xie Mianzhi crossed her arms and continued to press, still feeling a little annoyed.

“Hmm… it makes me want to sleep. It would be better if I had a blanket,” Jing Yuan said, a little puzzled by her own clumsy expression.

Xie Mianzhi finally couldn’t help but laugh at the answer.

“Forget it, I forgive your rudeness just now,” Xie Mianzhi decided not to dwell on it.

“Thank you.”

Jing Yuan pursed her lips. Looking at Miss Xie’s returning smile, her mood also brightened.

Moreover, unexpectedly, the previously suppressed sense of craving and hunger gradually faded away.

I feel much better.

Perhaps Miss Xie’s smile has a healing function.

Jing Yuan thought this, looked up, and met the other party’s smiling eyes.

The next second, she lowered her eyelids, pretending to examine the seat and looking around.

“Also, you blushed just now because…”

“Cough, cough…” Jing Yuan couldn’t help but cough twice.

Xie Mianzhi looked suspiciously at the woman named Jing, who was curled up in the seat. She felt like the other party was hiding something.

“The temperature inside the car is high; I’m hot,” Jing Yuan could only explain awkwardly.

Xie Mianzhi looked at her internal circulation system. This was the most suitable temperature. Was Jing Yuan that afraid of heat?

She simply turned the temperature down a bit.

“Are you sure you’re okay?” Xie Mianzhi still asked with concern, just in case this person was uncomfortable in her car.

Jing Yuan shook her head and even pulled her collar all the way up.

Xie Mianzhi didn’t quite understand the other party’s behavior. It was so hot, yet she was wrapped up so tightly. Was she going to break out in a heat rash with that little red face!

Although she wanted to reach out and pull the collar down for the other party, she considered that her time spent with Jing Yuan was not long. They weren’t close… right?

Not close.

Jing Yuan definitely wouldn’t want her to touch her.

Xie Mianzhi debated internally, then dismissed her internal struggle and turned her head to look at the falling rain outside the window.

“The rain outside is quite heavy,” she rolled the window down halfway, looking at the ethereal nighttime scene by the sea. Having lived in the city for so long, she had almost never seen a slow-motion night scene like this. “Oh, by the way, do you smoke?”

Xie Mianzhi thought of the box of cigarettes she had just bought today.

Jing Yuan hadn’t expected the other party to ask her this question. She hadn’t smoked, but that didn’t mean she couldn’t.

Xie Mianzhi laughed and made fun of herself, “I’m asking a pointless question. You definitely don’t smoke.”

“Why?” Jing Yuan was confused by Miss Xie’s conclusion about her. They didn’t know each other well.

Xie Mianzhi turned her head and looked sagely at the little savior. “Because ‘I’m a good kid; smoking is bad for your health’ is written all over your face. So, you don’t mind if I smoke a cigarette, right?”

Jing Yuan looked back at Xie Mianzhi. She certainly wouldn’t mind inside Miss Xie’s car, but—

“Smoking really isn’t good for your health,” Jing Yuan said.

“I know,” Xie Mianzhi chuckled. She picked up the box of cigarettes from her handbag, a newly launched imported, sealed box, readily available at little Jing Yuan’s store. “I bought it at your store.”

After saying that, she peeled off the plastic wrap. Perhaps due to the lack of visibility at night, she wasn’t careful when removing the metal packaging and her left index finger was cut by a protruding part.

“Hiss—” Xie Mianzhi sucked in a sharp breath.

She was about to lift her hand to look at it.

The person beside her, who had been stiffly curled up in the corner, suddenly sat upright and quickly moved close to her.

“What’s wrong?” Jing Yuan asked.

“Uh, I think I cut myself,” Xie Mianzhi was startled by Jing Yuan’s sudden closeness. She lifted her hand and saw, in the light, that her finger had a small cut, not deep, but a bead of bl00d was forming.

It hurt a little.

Jing Yuan frowned as she looked at Xie Mianzhi’s cut index finger.

“I’ll just wipe it,” Xie Mianzhi reached for a tissue to wipe it.

But Jing Yuan stopped her. “I have hydrogen peroxide and a band-aid at home. You need to disinfect it first.”

“I’m fine. It’s just a small cut. This box is new, so it shouldn’t cause tetanus… Jing Yuan, what are you doing?” Xie Mianzhi was about to say something else, but she saw the other party had already opened the car door, quickly opened the umbrella in the back, and ran to her side of the car.

“Get out.” Jing Yuan had already surveyed the terrain. Xie Mianzhi had parked at the west entrance of the house, where the road was very narrow and the car couldn’t pass. Going around to the main entrance would waste time.

So, she simply opened Xie Mianzhi’s car door, held the umbrella over them, and signaled Xie Mianzhi to quickly get out of the car to treat the wound at home.

Xie Mianzhi looked at Jing Yuan blankly. Who would have thought that the person who was just sitting beside her so formally would be standing outside her car door the next second?

“It’s really nothing…” Xie Mianzhi mumbled, but Jing Yuan stood stubbornly in front of her.

Hmm… fine.

She had to comply and was about to lean over to get out, but her car wasn’t parked well, and the ground was a puddle right where she needed to step out. She had just had her assistant bring her these new shoes today.

Should I jump over it?

That might not be very ladylike.

Xie Mianzhi lifted the hem of her skirt, hesitating to take a big step.

Damn it, she could even feel the other person’s intense gaze on her.

Being watched by Jing Yuan made her feel nervous and awkward.

Xie Mianzhi took a deep breath, preparing to step across, but the moment her delicate nude-colored heel touched the water, her waist was suddenly tightly pulled back by a cold hand, and then she was directly lifted up.

“Ah—!?” Xie Mianzhi grabbed Jing Yuan’s shoulders in panic, her eyes wide.

“There’s a puddle under your feet.”

“I was just about to…”

“Never mind. I’ll carry you back. This area where you parked is all puddles,” Jing Yuan frowned, anxious about Xie Mianzhi’s finger.

“Excuse me, that’s because the area where you live isn’t well-maintained. You—you’re going to carry me?” Xie Mianzhi didn’t allow anyone to question her driving skills, but her heart inexplicably skipped a beat at the latter sentence. Jing Yuan was going to carry her? But if she was carried, it would make her, Xie Mianzhi, seem delicate. She was the older one!

Moreover, could Jing Yuan even lift her? She was about to politely decline the other party’s goodwill.

Jing Yuan merely frowned, didn’t wait for Xie Mianzhi to react, handed her the umbrella handle, and then heaved Xie Mianzhi onto her shoulder. Just as the Miss Xie, who had an injured finger, loudly complained that Jing Yuan’s shoulder was hurting her abdomen—

Miss Xie, with her injured finger and aching abdomen, was thus carried away on Jing Yuan’s shoulder, like a sack of potatoes, back to the house.

In the wind and rain, Jing Yuan was running.

Her speed was definitely faster than Xie Mianzhi’s driving speed.

“Jing Yuan, can you slow down, the rain is hitting my face! Jing Yuan—!!!!!!!!”