If You Are a Dodder Flower

Part 40

"Also, about yesterday..."

Thinking that no one else could bring this matter up to Xia Rou, Cao Yang felt his scalp go numb, but all he could do was power through it.

"It's a very normal thing between adults... Don't let yourself be scarred just because of this, but don't learn from this, either." Cao Yang squeezed his brain in an effort to better express himself, "We're men, and you're different..."

Wait, don't tell her that big brother... was trying to give her the sex talk?

N-No way... Translated by The Novelst

Xia Rou palmed her face, saying, "Stop! Stop!"

"I understand..." she said, her face stiff.

"...Really understand?"

"Really understand."

Cao Yang let out a huge, deep breath of relief. He felt that a stone was lifted off his shoulders.

Only big brother would do this, huh...

He asked her if it was her first time experiencing a period...

He worried if she would be traumatized regarding adult matters...

Not only did he care if she had enough food, clothing, or a roof over her head – he really, really cared for her and worried about her.

He took her as a real little sister. He acted as a brother, a father, and even... took the responsibility of mothering her.

Xia Rou felt a sour feeling creep into her heart.

She lowered her head to conceal it.

After a while, she softly... spoke out the secret she hadn't ever revealed, hiding it deeply within her heart for several years: "I... I just... I don't like having other people touch my body..."

As she spoke, she felt Cao Yang's gaze sharpen.

"Who touched you?" His tone was cold. "Hu Xuan?"

Xia Rou was shocked. "No! Of course not!"

"I just... I just... don't like boys to get too close to me..." she said in a low voice. "I don't like bodily contact. Skin on skin... I just can't stand it. My heart rejects it..."

Cao Yang finally relaxed a little, frowning. "What's it called?"

Xia Rou lowered her head and replied, "I don't know..."

That day, she had heard Liang Ziheng embracing another woman and laughing through the door.

"Such a big thing has happened, you're not nervous at all?" the woman had asked.

"No worries, don't I still have Xia Rou?" Liang Ziheng's response was laughter.

It was probably that she was also a woman that she complained for Xia Rou. "That reminds me. Your fiancée is so pretty, and she could help you. But you treat her so badly, are you able to bear the weight on your conscience?"

Liang Ziheng tsked. "That woman's such a blockhead! You just don't know it. We've been engaged for so long, but we still haven't slept together! Damn! She definitely has issues."

The Liang Family used her connection with the Cao Family to obtain a municipal project. When issues arose, she shamelessly went to beg Cao Yang for help.

Because of this, Cao Yang had flown into a rage.

She had known that he wasn't angry because of the problems in the project. He was most angry that in this kind of situation, the Liang Family had pushed her out to defend themselves.