HIS GENIUS WIFE IS A SUPERSTAR

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Chapter 861 - I Like You More

Lu Zihao once again dropped off Long Jinjing at Orchidia Beauty. They were silent for almost the entire ride because both were preoccupied by their own thoughts. When the car stopped in front of the office building, Long Jinjing didn't get off immediately.

"Nikolai," she called in a soft voice.

"Hm?"

"Uhm..." She bit her lip and looked at him warily. "When you were talking to my mom at home earlier, you...uhm, you were acting so w-weird."

He sighed and cursed the remnant, even though he was the one who allowed it to temporarily take over the body in order to deal with Long Jinjing's mother in a mindful way that he couldn't. The only problem was that he didn't expect that the remnant would be so good at it to the point of charming Sun Jingfei into accepting him as her daughter's boyfriend right away. However, it also made his woman uncomfortable.

The remnant didn't react to his internal cursing. It had become silent since he finished showering at the condo. Perhaps it ran out of energy and had to recharge for now in order to have a conversation with him again later. He wasn't looking forward to being pestered again but he couldn't do anything about it for now.

"Don't think too much about it anymore," he replied to Long Jinjing. "I was just acting mindful to your mother as per your request."

"I requested you to be mindful, not act like a completely different person! You called me b-babe!" Her face turned red. "It was so...c-creepy!"

"Creepy?" His expression turned black. Once again, he had the urge to beat up the remnant. But then he turned curious. "You don't like it when I call you 'babe'?"

"I..." Her face turned even redder before she looked away to avoid his eyes. "I...don't mind it. I just...uhm, it doesn't sound right coming from you."

"Heh~"

She peeked at him out of the corner of her eye. "And didn't you say that you don't like saying sweet, mushy things?"

He didn't reply but continued to observe her expression.

Long Jinjing squirmed on her seat as she felt the weight of his gaze.

Finally, he said, "You don't like it when I act sweet to you like that?"

"I like it...but it's too creepy coming from you," she whispered and turned her eyes outside the window, feeling too shy to look at him. She didn't see his expression turning blacker because of what she said.

"Jinjing, look at me," he said in a commanding voice.

She looked at him by instinct.

"Who do you like more? Me, Nikolai? Or that rogue who charmed your mother and called you 'babe'?"

She frowned, feeling confused at his question. However, the intensity of his gaze prompted her to answer him. "I...I like you more, Nikolai."

The devilish smile he flashed made her IQ plummet to amoeba level as usual. No surprise there. Yet it also comforted her. This was the smile that she knew, not the charming, carefree smile he used in front of her mother earlier that creeped her out.

"Good," he said. Then his smile was gone and he turned serious. "When I start acting like that again in the future, don't let me kiss you. Do you understand, Jinjing?"

"H-huh?" Her amoeba-level brain hadn't returned to normal yet.

He repeated what he said, causing her to become even more confused but she still agreed because she could sense that this was important to him. She didn't know what was going on with him. Perhaps this was another one of his fetishes—pretending that he had a dual personality or something. What a weird man.