207: Chapter 207 Mutual Feelings

"What do you mean... Qian Mo... Didn't you always call me Young Miss Xing Yan before... Why are you calling me 'Xiao Yan' now... Speak! Are you trying to take advantage of me..."

Xing Yaoyan responded stutteringly, still clinging to an unrealistic sense of wishful thinking.

"It's not 'Xiao Yan', it's 'Xiao Yan'..."

The young man was not led astray by her words this time, his tone carrying an unexpected certainty.

"Xiao Yan... I missed you so much..."

Looking at the tears glistening in his eyes, Xing Yaoyan knew that this guy must have used some method or found some conclusive evidence.

Her disguise had completely crumbled in his eyes...

Her vermilion lips parted slightly, but no sound escaped them.

Although she knew that after these past few days, given Qian Mo's intelligence, he should have long been suspicious of her, but when this day truly arrived, she was still caught off guard.

The unique feeling in her heart that she had intentionally suppressed for so long had now, at some unknown moment, broken through its shackles and was charging wildly within her.

Qian Mo's gaze, filled with complex emotions, made her cheeks burn like a furnace; she subconsciously turned her head away, her body facing away from him, not daring to meet his eyes.

And this action implicitly confirmed what the young man had said.

Seeing this, Qian Mo secretly swallowed, quickly stepped forward a few paces, and tentatively touched her exposed shoulder with his fingertips.

The white-haired girl's body only trembled slightly, and then she did not make any unnecessary movements of resistance.

Seeing this, Qian Mo immediately seized the opportunity and placed both hands gently on the girl's shoulders.

Xing Yaoyan didn't know what was wrong with herself; she only felt her mind go blank. The comforting warmth radiating from the young man's palms on her shoulders made her Soul seem to sink into this warmth along with it.

Before long, she felt the young man's warm breath against her ear.

"When did this guy get so bold... Touching my shoulders wasn't enough... He actually dares to tease me like this..."

"What do I do, what do I do... Should I take advantage of the fact that he hasn't used his Star Body and punch him... Just like before, to assert my dominance... But... but... I don't want to do that..."

Her ears were now filled with the "thump-thump" sound of heartbeats, unable to distinguish whether it was his or hers.

Just as Xing Yaoyan's thoughts were in chaos, the young man's voice, laced with a choked sob, gently reached her ears.

"I'm such a fool... really..."

Qian Mo seemed to have forgotten their intimate position at this moment; he simply closed his eyes and softly poured out his longing for her. He pressed close to the girl's ear, hoping his words would clearly reach her ears and clearly convey his feelings into her heart...

"From our first meeting in the mine, to when we met on the arena, my heartbeat recognized you before I did..."

"But... I didn't dare to be sure, I was so anxious... I felt like I had harmed you, I had already lost you once, I shouldn't have selfishly hoped for you to return to my side..."

"But today, I think... I was wrong..."

Qian Mo paused for a moment, as if gathering his emotions.

"After learning that Star Beasts could take human form, my sixth sense told me that you were definitely Xiao Yan... I knew I couldn't wait any longer... Even if you kept deliberately hiding from me, kept hoping I wouldn't find you, today I absolutely must tell you my, Qian Mo's, feelings for you!"

Suddenly, his words came to an abrupt halt.

"Xing Yaoyan, I like you, will you be my girlfriend! I know your goals are big, but I can use everything I have to help you, without a single complaint, I swear!"

He spoke very quickly, his voice trembling with excitement.

After finishing, Qian Mo nervously and expectantly stared at the girl's side profile hidden behind her long white hair, waiting for that uncertain response.

"...About what happened back then, why did you say in front of Leng You 'I am just a tool for you to relieve your loneliness'... That sentence, after I was captured by him, I heard it very clearly in the dark room..."

Xing Yaoyan didn't turn her head, nor did she directly respond to his request; she just said this in a calm tone.

Although she already knew there was something fishy about what happened back then, she still wanted to hear him explain it personally.

Leng You... So that was it, she had been captured by you in advance, and you even took the opportunity to stage such a scheme to sow discord...

Qian Mo felt like he was about to grind his teeth to dust.

As soon as the girl's words left her lips, he felt a sharp pain in his heart.

In an instant, he understood everything.

Why the System told him that her heart had died towards him and she was no longer his family, so it turned out... everything really was the good work of this sissy...

Regarding Leng You, the killing intent in his heart had never faded, and had only intensified.

The attack in the mine back then was something he had orchestrated single-handedly.

This was intelligence he had bought from the "Dark Pavilion" at the time: Leng You had once been a member of the Starry Sky Exploration Project in his early years, and after the project ended without result, he went to register the "Poison Fang" exploration team and spent several years mining in the Land of Destruction.

Eventually, for unknown reasons, he became the mayor of Youfeng City.

And the one trading with Yu Linger at the time was the "Poison Fang" exploration team!

So this matter absolutely had everything to do with this guy Leng You...

Combining this with Captain Li Qiaoyan's account of Xing Yaoyan being captured and guarded, to her later escape, all this vaguely revealed that: this Leng You absolutely wanted to use the Star Beast to carry out some unknown plan...

And now, at this critical juncture, this guy had suddenly popped up again to disturb his good moment, damn him!

"Xiao Yan... listen to my explanation, actually what happened back then was all a misunderstanding. At the time, I was thinking of stabilizing him first, and quickly coming back to contact Senior Hu Wang to have him contact the Yao Race people to come and take you away, or to run to another place to hide, it absolutely wasn't..."

Qian Mo explained hurriedly, his hands gripping the girl's shoulders tightening slightly, as if hoping she wouldn't hold a grudge against him because of that misunderstanding.

"Idiot..."

The girl's words, spoken with a smile, left Qian Mo stunned.

And as his brain raced, analyzing the deeper meaning she wanted to express with this "idiot"...

He was terrified of saying the wrong thing, terrified that this confession, which he had been sure of, would fall through.

A soft, warm sensation came from his lips, blocking all the words he wanted to say next.

"Xiao Yan... I understand..."

Qian Mo looked at the girl, who had her head tilted back, eyes tightly closed, and cheeks flushed red; his expression changed from initial astonishment to surprise, and finally, slowly, into immense tenderness.

He also closed his eyes, beginning to respond to the girl's feelings.

This could even be considered their first active kiss...

And what they didn't notice was that the stars in the night sky seemed to have unknowingly increased in number; their images were reflected in the calm stream under Wenqing Bridge, the two shimmering in mutual radiance, making it impossible to tell which side was the real night sky.

On the stone bridge surrounded by stars, the beautiful girl wearing a gold-threaded white dress sat on the bridge railing, one hand supporting herself on the railing, the other hand gently cradling the jaw of the young man in front of her; her long white hair fluttered slowly in the breeze, like a white flag.

The young man held the girl's shoulders gently with both hands, his whole body pressed tightly against her back, his black trench coat rising in the wind behind him, forming a sharp contrast with the girl's white hair.

The two were seen one above the other, their lips tightly pressed together, silently telling each other their feelings for one another.