If there was ever any doubt left at all of what he felt for Bai Ruyi, this and what happened last night should erase every last trace of it. Yet if he was being honest, he too was surprised over how deep and intense all his feelings had become, now that their object was so near to him again.
He was in a real bind.
To the older man, it seemed Qing Xue was nothing more than a child who was still reluctant to grow up and separate from another parent figure in his life.
But that was farthest from how Qing Xue saw him. He didn’t want to continue being treated like a child. He wanted Bai Ruyi to see him as a man. He wanted to be cherished by him as he was now, not as who he used to be in his eyes.
Back then, it was true, the only things Qing Xue craved were all of Bai Ruyi’s attention and l
