Chapter 1399 - 532: Ambiguity Intensifies!

Seeing how much he liked her cooking, she finally let out a breath of relief, and at the same time, a faint sense of accomplishment quietly rose in her heart.

When they were almost done eating, Zhang Jingdong said casually, "Oh right, just now I saw a black sports bra on your bed, and it suddenly reminded me of how weird it felt when I carried you up and down the mountain before. Were you not wearing it then?"

Tong Xin clearly hadn’t expected Zhang Jingdong to suddenly bring this up. She was instantly both shy and annoyed. "You... how is that polite? How can you even ask me that?"

Zhang Jingdong shrugged. "I’m just curious, that’s all. If you don’t want to answer, forget it. Just pretend I never brought it up."

Tong Xin shot him a murderous sideways glare, but then suddenly thought of something, and said, "...You... you’re not allowed to let your mind run wild!"

"I... I don’t really exercise much, so I don’t have many sports outfits or sports bras. Especially sports bras—I only have one in total."

"Then today when I was going to put it on, I realized the strap was broken. And right then you texted me to open the door, so... so I had no choice but to put on a tight short-sleeved top instead."

Zhang Jingdong suddenly understood. "So that’s how it is. I thought you’d already secretly fallen for me and were deliberately making things easy for me."

"I... I am so not that kind of person! You..."

"I was just joking. Of course I know you’re not that kind of person."

As he spoke, Zhang Jingdong took another bite of the scallion pancake. "Calm down... just calm down a bit."

Tong Xin didn’t want to bother with him, so she went back to drinking her porridge.

But not long after he finished eating, Zhang Jingdong added, "But from now on, when we go climb the mountain every day, you’d better still dress like this, because... this way I can move faster and save time."

Tong Xin was slightly stunned, then couldn’t help but roll her eyes at Zhang Jingdong, snapping, "In your dreams... you pervert!"

Zhang Jingdong burst out laughing. "Alright, alright... I was wrong, I was wrong. Just pretend I never said it. Don’t get mad, being too angry is bad for your health!"

"Most importantly, the angrier you get, the faster the yin energy in your body forms. I spent so long today using my Cultivation Technique to neutralize some of the yin energy in your body. If you stay mad for over an hour—no, you only need to stay mad for half an hour—then all our effort today will be completely wasted."

"So for the sake of your fortune, from today on, no matter what happens, you’d better not get angry."

Seeing that Zhang Jingdong didn’t look like he was joking, Tong Xin forcibly calmed herself down. "I... I’m actually not really angry."

"But you sometimes are just too... too much, aren’t you? You’re the boss of Dongsheng Group, you know. How can you be so frivolous?"

Zhang Jingdong smiled and shook his head. "Classmate Tong Xin, that’s where you don’t get it. I’m only the boss when I’m at the company. The moment I walk out of that building, I’m just an ordinary guy."

"Besides, and I’m not lying here, in front of women I don’t like I’m more proper than a proper gentleman. But right now I’m in front of a woman I like, so of course I have to be completely relaxed. That way our interactions can be that much more pure."

"Classmate Tong Xin, you have to understand, friends are easy to find, but a soulmate is rare. In this society, to find someone who knows you inside out, in front of whom you don’t have to pretend at all, with whom you can be completely sincere and care for each other—that’s incredibly hard to come by!"

"And right now we just happen to have become that kind of relationship, so I hope we can throw away all those pointless formalities and so-called boundaries between men and women. From now on, we’ll be real, genuine friends. In front of you, I can say whatever I want, and in front of me, you can also say whatever you want."

"Don’t you like that feeling?"

By the time she’d heard the first two lines, Tong Xin was already somewhat convinced by what Zhang Jingdong said. And when she heard the third line, especially combined with that extra serious look on his face when he said it just now, she was thoroughly moved.

But she still vaguely felt that something wasn’t quite right.

She hesitated for a moment, then said, "But we... we only met for the first time the day before yesterday. Isn’t this way too fast? I... I’m still not quite used to it."

Zhang Jingdong immediately replied, "Actually, it’s like this: some people can know each other for a lifetime and still never become close friends, while some people only know each other for three days and can already tell the other person is someone they can trust and rely on."

"Let me ask you, do you already completely trust me now? After all, you’ve pretty much told me all the important things about you. And today I carried you up the mountain like that, used the yang energy in my body to neutralize the yin energy in yours, and in the end I carried you back down like that."

"And right this moment, I’m in your home, having just finished eating the meal you cooked yourself. So tell me, have you ever treated any other man like this before?"

Tong Xin quickly thought it over, then slowly said, "This... fine, I do trust you a lot now. You... you’re also the first man to come here, and... I even cooked for you."

A surge of delight rose in Zhang Jingdong’s heart. "See? And second, for a long time from now I’ll be coming to pick you up at four in the morning every day and take you to Meihua Mountain. So doesn’t that make me the person you rely on the most right now?"

This time, Tong Xin couldn’t help but nod. "...Mm, that’s true."

Noticing that hint of resolve and relief in Tong Xin’s eyes at this moment, Zhang Jingdong said, "I still won’t ask you to admit that you like me, but I hope from now on we can trust each other completely, and that nothing is off-limits when we talk. Is that okay?"

By now, Tong Xin had been completely convinced by Zhang Jingdong’s logic and sincerity. She paused for a few seconds, then, blushing furiously, gave a tiny nod. "...Mm."