Chapter 329: Leng Ruoli's Secret

"Ugly," Leng Ruoli whimpered pitifully.

"Huh?" Jiang Muye had expected many things, but he never imagined Leng Ruoli would say something like that in the end.

In Jiang Muye's impression, Leng Ruoli had always been very beautiful.

How could she possibly smell?

Jiang Muye said to Leng Ruoli very seriously, "Impossible. If you don't come down, I'm really coming up."

"Then I'll come down, don't come up."

Leng Ruoli's coquettishness put Jiang Muye slightly at ease.

Apart from a few doubts that still hadn't been resolved, Jiang Muye was still looking forward to meeting Leng Ruoli.

He just didn't know, with this little interlude, what kind of scene their meeting would be later.

So Jiang Muye waited downstairs for a while, and before long he saw a slender figure appear.

Except that on that fair, clean face, a pair of sunglasses was worn.

Jiang Muye looked at Leng Ruoli in confusion.

It was the middle of the night right now. Could she even see people with sunglasses on?

"Ruoli, why are you wearing sunglasses?" Jiang Muye asked.

He instinctively reached to take off her sunglasses, but she stopped him.

"Don't." Leng Ruoli grabbed the sunglasses, refusing to let Jiang Muye take them off.

Jiang Muye didn't understand at all, and looked at Leng Ruoli in confusion. "What's wrong?"

Leng Ruoli looked at Jiang Muye pitifully. "Can I keep wearing the sunglasses the whole time?"

After hearing Leng Ruoli's words, Jiang Muye's face was full of black question marks.

"I…"

Jiang Muye grabbed Leng Ruoli's hand and asked, "Is there something you're hiding from me?"

His heart felt somewhat stifled. "Could it be that because I proposed to you too quickly, you want to call off the engagement?"

After hearing Jiang Muye's words, Leng Ruoli couldn't believe it.

Her eyes reddened, and she instinctively hugged Jiang Muye.

Jiang Muye felt the soft jade in his arms and let out a breath of relief.

"That's not it…" Leng Ruoli made a cute, milky sound of grievance in Jiang Muye's embrace.

Jiang Muye gently stroked Leng Ruoli's brown hair and comforted her. "If there's a problem, just say it directly. If you don't say it, it'll just stay bottled up inside. I'd have no way of knowing your true thoughts either. If there's a problem, wouldn't it be best for us to solve it right away?"

Faced with Jiang Muye's comfort, Leng Ruoli's eyes grew slightly wet.

She rested her head on Jiang Muye's shoulder, greedily breathing in the scent that belonged to Jiang Muye, and said, "I have a stye."

"A stye?" Jiang Muye was surprised.

That was it?

He wanted to look at Leng Ruoli through the sunglasses.

Faced with his scrutiny, Leng Ruoli instinctively tried to dodge, muttering with grievance, "My eyes look really ugly right now."

Her pitiful, milky voice stirred Jiang Muye's heart to tenderness.

Jiang Muye tightened his grip on Leng Ruoli's waist and said to her, "How could you be ugly? My baby is the prettiest."

"Really?"

"I'm not a looks-obsessed person. If I were going to abandon you just because a stye made you less pretty, wouldn't that make me a scumbag!" Jiang Muye raised an eyebrow, half-laughing, half-crying. "Could it be that because of the stye on your eye, you wanted to meet me a few days later?"

Leng Ruoli said innocently, "Yeah, but I didn't know why you wanted to reconsider our relationship…"

Now Jiang Muye was completely at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

He finally understood. He and Leng Ruoli really had had a massive misunderstanding.

He had nearly thought Leng Ruoli was afraid of marriage and needed time to calm down and think.

So Jiang Muye told Leng Ruoli everything he had been thinking today, point by point.

After hearing it, Leng Ruoli was very surprised. "God, how could you think that!"

"Girls' thoughts are hard to guess to begin with. Like, when a girl says no she actually means yes, and when she says whatever she means she wants someone to seriously help her order." Jiang Muye sounded somewhat helpless as he said it.

There were so many tragic examples in real life, all proving that guys think too little and girls think too much.

That's how today's misunderstanding had come about.

Leng Ruoli instinctively pinched Jiang Muye's cheek and said very seriously, "I'm not the same as those girls. You don't need to guess my thoughts. I mean exactly what I say."

After hearing Leng Ruoli's words, Jiang Muye's mood improved greatly.

"Alright. From now on, if we have something, we'll be completely honest with each other. No more beating around the bush and going in circles, and no more making this kind of blunder."

Jiang Muye instinctively coaxed Leng Ruoli. "Alright, let me see your eyes. Could they possibly be uglier than my ghostly look when I wake up?"

Leng Ruoli burst out laughing and said to Jiang Muye, "Do you really have to put yourself down that much?"

Jiang Muye nodded straight away. "That's just how it is."

The smile on Leng Ruoli's face lingered.

Jiang Muye gently helped Leng Ruoli take off the sunglasses.

Leng Ruoli's eyes were revealed before Jiang Muye.

There were indeed signs of red swelling.

But the way she looked at him was so pitiful and endearing.

When Jiang Muye saw it, his heart melted. He asked Leng Ruoli directly, "Why is it so swollen? It wasn't like this when I brought you back. Did you use eye drops?"

"It suddenly became a stye after I got back. I haven't used eye drops yet tonight." Leng Ruoli said to Jiang Muye seriously.

Jiang Muye began to scold Leng Ruoli. "You have to take good care of yourself. Where are the eye drops? Hand them over and I'll put them in for you."

After hearing Jiang Muye's words, Leng Ruoli's lips immediately curved into an arc.

She directly handed the eye drops she had in her pocket to Jiang Muye. "Here."

Jiang Muye pulled Leng Ruoli over to sit on the edge of the flowerbed and put the eye drops in for her.

Leng Ruoli squinted, looking at Jiang Muye with some difficulty.

Her eyes were badly swollen. Jiang Muye looked at them, carefully applied the drops, and then instructed, "Play with your phone less these days, don't touch your eyes casually, and don't look at bright lights too much. I won't message you these next few days. Just lie in bed and rest properly."

"How can I not look at your messages!"

Seeing how anxious Leng Ruoli's voice was, Jiang Muye said sourly, "You even told me not to come see you these next few days."

Leng Ruoli felt very wronged. "I came to tell you not to come see me. I didn't say not to message me. Wasn't I just afraid you'd see my eyes and think they're ugly?"

Jiang Muye hugged Leng Ruoli and gave her a fierce squeeze. "How are they ugly? Even with puffy eyes you're beautiful as a Heavenly Immortal!"

After hearing Jiang Muye's words, Leng Ruoli's face was filled with smiles.

She instinctively leaned into Jiang Muye's embrace.

Jiang Muye's hand gently patted her back and he said to her, "Next time something like this happens, just say it directly. I'm with you not because you're pretty, I just plain like you. I'll grow old and ugly someday too. If I got a stye someday and it affected my looks, would you stop liking me too?"