Cupid's Assistant

Chapter 40

Li Chyou's eyes widened in shock, feeling the soft and moist lips. She quickly scrambled her hands together and tried to get up as her heart was beating out of her chest.

"I-I'm sorry," she said, sitting up and touching her lips, but before she could feel embarrassed and run away. "You're bleeding," Li Chyou said as she couldn't help but notice blood going down his arm.

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With the light on, Xiandan realized she had kissed Wu Mingze's neck. Before she could apologize, she heard Li Chyou's remark about Feng Yichen bleeding and quickly got up. She saw Li Chyou grabbing Feng Yichen's hand and looking at the wound under his upper arm.

"I'm sorry, guys. I guess the beer finally got to me. I didn't mean to get any of you guys hurt," Xiaodan said as they all didn't blame her except Wu Mingze, who stared at her before tapping her forehead.

"Careful next time. Someone could have got seriously hurt," he scolded her after seeing that Feng Yichen's wound wasn't anything too serious.

"I know..., sorry," Xiaodan said, feeling bad and lowering her head.

"Are you okay," Li Chyou said, standing up and leading Feng Yichen to the couch in the living room.

"I'm fine. It's nothing serious. I just scraped my arm against the corner of that small lamp table when we fell," Feng Yichen said, looking at his scratch.

"But... it's bleeding," Li Chyou said, grabbing a tissue on the coffee table and wiping the blood away. Li Chyou then looked up and met his eyes. With her cheeks turning pink and her ears becoming red, both of them couldn't look away from each other and stared deeply into each other's eyes.

"I'll get the first aid kit," Xiaodan said, popping her head up. "Wu Mingze, can you show me where you guys put it?" she added, grabbing his wrist.

"Now is a good time to give them some space with each other," she thought.

"Yeah, I'll show you," Wu Mingze said, going along with Xiaodan.

"Zhu Haoran, come help us. Three pairs of eyes are better than two," Xiaodan said.

"Ah.. but," Zhu Haoran tried to say, but Wu Mingze just dragged him along.

"Come on," Wu Mingze said, knowing that Zhu Haoran could not read the room or see how both Li Chyou and Feng Yichen were looking at each other.

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Once they arrived in the bathroom, all three of them squeezed into the small room. Xiaodan closed the door, giving them some peace to talk to each other.

"Mingze, where's the first aid kit?" Zhu Haoran said with his hand on the handles of the cupboards.

"I think it's in there." Wu Mingze said. Zhu Haoran opened the cupboard and saw nothing.

"I don't see anything," Zhu Haoran said, moving his head up and down.

"It should be there," Wu Mingze said, moving Zhu Haoran aside.

Xiaodan pretended to look around until she found it in the small closet behind the door. She then pushed it further back on the shelf to hide it. She wanted to give them more time with each other.

"I don't see it either," she lied.

"Maybe it's in the other bathroom. I'll go check," Zhu Haoran said.

"Wait, found it," Xiaodan hurriedly said, knowing she couldn't hide it anymore. She grabbed the first aid kit but secretly unlocked the latch. Once she pulled it out, she 'accidentally' dropped it and spilled all the things in it.

"Oh no, my bad. My hand slipped," she said, crouching down as Zhu Haoran and Wu Mingze helped.

She thought, "Hopefully, this is enough time for them."

While she was slowly cleaning up, Wu Mingze moved closer to her and whispered to her, "Quick thinking."

Xiaodan smiled and picked up a tube of ointment, "You really have good eyes." The corners of Wu Mingze's lips curled up while Zhu Haoran was too busy cleaning to notice them.

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"Are you sure it doesn't hurt?" Li Chyou said once again, looking closely at his wound and touching his arm.

"Like I said before, 'I'm fine'. It's nothing serious. It's just a small scratch," he said, aloof, but still didn't move his arm and had his attention on her.

She then bit her lips with concerned eyes as she was reluctant to stop asking.

"I'm fine. So stop biting your lips," Feng Yichen said, looking at her lips. Li Chyou looked up and immediately stopped biting her lips. Once she met his eyes, her cheeks reddened as she remembered the soft touch her lips felt.

She looked at his lips and then touched her lips before lowering her head even more and felt her ears burning.

"I...I," she tried to say and pinched her lips, feeling more embarrassed.

"Don't tell me you're embarrassed, little fool," Feng Yichen said with a hint of teasing.

"Well...," Li Chyou looked up to meet his gaze and immediately looked back down with her face burning red. A smile appeared on Feng Yichen's face as he watched her.

"I-I'm sorry...," she mumbled.

"Why are you apologizing? It's not like you purposely tried to kiss me, right?" he smirked and continued to tease her.

"Hmm?" he leaned his face closer to hers.

"Of c-course not... Stop teasing me," Li Chyou said, looking up again as she bumped her nose with his.

"Ah," she said, startled and quickly pulled away with her hands clenched tightly together.

"You know your face is bright red," he playfully said. Li Chyou quickly covered her face with both of her hands and tried to scoot away from him.

Feng Yichen chuckled and said, "Don't try to hide your face." He grabbed a hold of her wrists and uncovered her face.

"D-don't...stop making fun of me," she stuttered with her cheeks feeling hot and tried to avoid his gaze.

"Look at me," his voice said softly as it tickled her heart. She stopped squirming and looked at him. They both stared at each other, and soon Feng Yichen lowered his face closer to hers.