THE HEIR'S BLOOD | Cai Xukun x Li Y/N • NINE PERCENT

Know Your Place

Y/N POV

"You know him?", Xukun asks, feeling his gaze on me. I carefully assist myself down the stairs.

"He's my.. Teacher on my fighting.. lessons... Jackson Wang."

"Y/N? I didn't expect you to be here. What ARE you doing here?" Jackson crosses his arms in confusion as he stares at me.

"I'm--" I paused and for a slight moment, I remembered the small meeting we had. The engagement. The marriage. How will we explain this to him?

My gaze secretly shifts to Xukun just to catch his eyes fixed on me. I gulped as his eyes suddenly widened in realization. Our eyes locked on each other's, as if we were both talking in our mind.

What are we going to tell him?

'I don't know!' ←(Xukun)

Do we just tell him?

"Why are you both exchanging gazes?..." Hearing his voice, we both averted our eyes away from each other.

"Maybe it's because they didn't want you to know they were getting married.", Fan Chengcheng accidentally OR purposely blurted out. Both mine and Xukun's eyes darted towards Chengcheng in anger and shock, but Jackson's reaction was more to focus on right now.

"They WHAT?!!" I gulped once more, wandering my eyes around and using it as an excuse to ignore meeting gazes with Xukun and Jackson. For some reason, I felt embarrassed about it.

Building up all my courage, I opened my mouth to speak, but before I could even blur out a word, "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!" All eyes landed at Jackson in a sudden surprise.

Even I thought he was going to be... Shock too. Although, seeing his reaction right now was far from my expectations. Far from everyone's expectations. He was laughing... Almost crying at least.

"W-what's so f-funny?", I asked, turning red from what I felt like being embarrassed.

After a while, Jackson calms himself down, wiping a tear of laughter which almost slid down his cheek. He sighed and walked towards Xukun as he places his hands over his shoulder.

"Our baby face is finally growing up. Time passes so quickly."

"Baby face?" I bucked one of my eyebrows up. "Yeah, baby face." Jackson places his palm under Xukun's chin, causing him to earn a punch on his arm. He hissed in pain, covering his arm and slowly backing away. He suddenly grabs my arms and pouted,

"Y/N, help me! You're husband's bullying me!!" That sentence suddenly took me by surprise, causing me to throw his arms over me to flip him over. His whole body immediately meets the ground as I gasped in realization. I cover my mouth with my eyes wide open.

"I-I--... Uhm.. It's just that- Xukun is still.. I'm... WE'RE NOT MARRIED YET!!!", I manage to yell out. All the hotness stored in me, finally decided to make its way to be visible. My cheeks turned red as I played nervously with my fingers.

"Y/N-- Ow.. You grew up really-- Y/N, are you.. blushing??" That was it, I couldn't take it anymore. Instead, I quickly ran upstairs and headed towards Cheng Xiao's room. There, I locked the door as she looks at me completely confused.

"I hate him."

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A/N POV

"So you're telling me that our fighting teacher is downstairs?...", Cheng Xiao asked.

Y/N nods with a pouty mood. She was suddenly feeling low, nervous, lazy and most of all.. Embarrassed.

She remembered her last words. How she shouted it. How each of them saw her face. All red from blushing.