Chu Lingwei wanted to pull her hand away, but it wouldn't come free.
"If you can't, then let go of me."
"Chu Lingwei!" Leng Xingzhi was truly exasperated by the young woman in front of him. To show such concern for another man right in front of him, he felt like killing someone.
Chu Lingwei rarely heard her senior brother call her by her full name. If he was doing it now, he must be angry.
"Hmph."
Seeing her senior brother angry, a surge of pique rose from somewhere within Chu Lingwei, and she turned her head away.
She was angry too, wasn't she? Her senior brother was standing right outside the barrier, watching her painstakingly break it down from the inside. He was just watching the show from outside, and now he was blaming her. It was truly infuriating.
"Let go of me," Chu Lingwei tried to shake off Leng Xingzhi's hand and leave.
Leng Xingzhi's expression darkened further. Shouldn't he be the one who was angry?
Just then, the aura of several powerful beings approached them. Leng Xingzhi's eyes flashed, and he took Chu Lingwei onto his flying artifact.
Chu Lingwei withdrew her hand and sat on the edge of the artifact, unwilling to sit opposite Leng Xingzhi.
Leng Xingzhi: "..." He was clearly the one who should be angry.
Chu Lingwei lowered her head. Time ticked by, and the anger from earlier gradually subsided.
Thinking about how her senior brother had brought her out of Linglong Stream, and she had thrown a tantrum at him, she felt she might have been a little excessive.
But she was still angry, and she had to show it.
Leng Xingzhi observed Chu Lingwei's every subtle movement, feeling both exasperated and helpless.
"Weiwei."
Leng Xingzhi called out softly.
Chu Lingwei immediately turned her head away. She knew she was very angry right now, even if she didn't know why.
"Weiwei, you've suffered," Leng Xingzhi spoke again, having moved to Chu Lingwei's side.
"So, you knew I was in Linglong Stream all along?" Chu Lingwei immediately seized on the key point in Leng Xingzhi's words. It made sense. He had appeared precisely when the barrier was being broken, so perhaps he had been standing outside the barrier, watching everything inside clearly.
"Yes."
Leng Xingzhi let out a soft hum. He had known Chu Lingwei was in Linglong Stream as soon as she fell in, but he hadn't rescued her immediately.
"Why did you let me stay in that place?" Chu Lingwei was even more incensed now. He had made her stay in that dreadful place, and now he was blaming her.
Chu Lingwei felt a strong urge to hit someone.
"What happened to you there?" Leng Xingzhi looked at Chu Lingwei with a smile, especially at her puffed-up cheeks. He reached out and couldn't resist pinching them.
"Slap."
Chu Lingwei slapped Leng Xingzhi's hand away unceremoniously, changing the subject. No way.
"Nothing happened," Chu Lingwei crossed her arms and glared at Leng Xingzhi.
"If nothing happened, then nothing happened," Leng Xingzhi knew his junior sister was angry and explained helplessly, "I never expected you to fall into that place. Your being in Linglong Stream has nothing to do with me."
"You mean, it was my bad luck?" Chu Lingwei blinked. It seemed that was what her senior brother meant.
Leng Xingzhi was amused by Chu Lingwei's words. This wasn't bad luck; this was heaven-defying fortune.
He reached out and pulled Chu Lingwei into his arms, his voice incredibly gentle and doting, "Weiwei, were you scared just now?"
Leng Xingzhi admitted that when he saw Weiwei about to save Rufeng, his heart felt as if it were being squeezed by countless hands, making him unable to control his emotions.
"Of course, I was scared." Chu Lingwei leaned into Leng Xingzhi's embrace. Thinking about her senior brother's behavior earlier, she admitted she was a little frightened and didn't know how to handle it, so she resorted to the most foolish method.
"I'm sorry, it's my fault," Leng Xingzhi apologized in a low voice. "When I saw the look in your eyes when you looked at Rufeng, I felt very uncomfortable."
Chu Lingwei: "..." What look did she have when she looked at Rufeng?
Thinking of the smile Rufeng had given her at the end, a smile tinged with tears, reluctance, and lingering affection, his resolute leap into Linglong Stream had truly made Chu Lingwei's heart skip a beat.
"You are not allowed to think about it anymore."
Leng Xingzhi felt the woman in his arms go still and his voice became muffled.
"I didn't..."
Chu Lingwei felt guilty. If her senior brother hadn't brought it up, she wouldn't have thought of it. Just as she raised her head to explain, her voice was sealed by a cool, thin pair of lips.
Chu Lingwei was completely stunned, her eyes wide open, unsure how to react.
"Weiwei..." Leng Xingzhi held Chu Lingwei tightly in his arms, kissing the woman in his embrace with all his might, wanting to obtain her heart from her lips.
Listening to her senior brother's voice, Chu Lingwei found it to be the most enchanting charm in the world, pulling her into a daze where she lost all sense of time and space.
After a long while, Chu Lingwei finally regained her senses.
"Weiwei, don't want any man other than me," Leng Xingzhi's forehead rested against Chu Lingwei's, his deep voice rising slightly, making Chu Lingwei's heart tremble again and again.
"I wasn't thinking about other men." Chu Lingwei's face flushed, her eyes darted about nervously, afraid to meet Leng Xingzhi's gaze. They had rarely been this intimate before.
"You weren't?" Leng Xingzhi's voice rose slightly, tinged with a hint of grievance. "You even gave him a name, Rufeng, and you felt sad when you saw him jump into the river..."
Leng Xingzhi began to enumerate Chu Lingwei's heartless actions one by one.
Chu Lingwei's face stiffened. She didn't know how to respond. While what he said was true, she felt wronged.
"No," Chu Lingwei's voice was weak.
"No?" Leng Xingzhi really wanted to pat Chu Lingwei's head. She was lying with her eyes open. "Do you dare say all this has nothing to do with you?"
"It has something to do with it," Chu Lingwei replied affirmatively.
Leng Xingzhi felt a knot in his stomach. He was deliberately asking himself these questions to make himself unhappy.
"However," Chu Lingwei felt this matter could still be debated. "You watched me in there, having to stay in Linglong Stream with Rufeng. You did nothing. Who do you think is to blame for this?"
Leng Xingzhi: "..."
Seeing that Leng Xingzhi had fallen silent, Chu Lingwei's lips curved into a smile. "I think, perhaps, you don't care about me that much, otherwise you wouldn't have left me waiting for so long in Linglong Stream with that man..."
Leng Xingzhi looked up, observing the sparkle in Chu Lingwei's eyes, like the light on the glaciers of Linglong Stream.
"Yes, Weiwei, you're right. It's all my fault." Leng Xingzhi said, and then lowered his head again, pulling Chu Lingwei into his arms possessively. "If I make such a mistake again in the future, I will..."
"Ow..." Before Leng Xingzhi could finish, he felt a sharp pain on his lips. A hint of sweet blood rushed into his mouth.
Weiwei was biting him.