Ultimate Goddess System

1.3.70: Beginning or Ending?

"What are you doing here?" Zhou Ming mused, his eyes taking in her face after not seeing her for so long. Yes he had seen her from afar, but to be this close to her...he hated to admit it, but he missed her.

"I-I..." Xiao Yunhua gulped nervously. What should she say? She didn't expect to be caught, especially by him. "I'm going on my way." Her wrist by gripped by his strong hold, preventing her escape.

"Who let you in?"

"I snuck in." She lied without thinking. She couldn't implicate Qiang Yue, so it was better to uphold all the responsibility herself.

"Did you really sneak in despite all the security here?" He easily caught her bluff and her face reddened in embarrassment. She remained silent and he began to question her again. "If you won't tell me how you got in, you might as well tell me why."

"I-I wanted to congratulate you." Lying again.

From his humored eyes, he knew she was bullshitting every word that came out of her mouth. In realty, she wanted to cup his face and bring it closer to hers because she missed him. She wanted to tell him that he shouldn't do this. She wanted to selfishly chain him with her by making him feel guilty about her impending death. Xiao Yunhua wasn't a saint, but she also couldn't find it in herself to swallow down her pride and continued to distort the truth.

"Did you really? Well, you should've just told me that in the first place so I could've sent you a proper invitation. Come on, I'll take you inside after sending you for a quick makeover. There, you can congratulate my fiancée and me."

Xiao Yunhua was stuck. If she denied it, it meant that she was admitting to lying. If she did go, that meant she was willing to trample over her heart and congratulate that woman. In the end, she bit down any words and followed him. Thirty minutes later, she came out and he was stunned.

The ladies—that were instructed to make her as beautiful as they can—had dressed her in a strapless, nude dress that was covered with a long, lavender flowery lace coverup. The dress also exposed her long legs, which appeared even longer with the nude pumps she wore. Her hair was styled to be wavy with a waterfall braid, simple yet stunning along with her nude lips and light makeup that accented her honey-colored eyes.

"Is it too late to go home?" She mumbled, thinking he didn't hear her but he did.

"Why? Don't you want to congratulate my fiancée the way you congratulated me?" Zhou Ming teased her, dismissing the ladies and leaving them alone.

Xiao Yunhua frowned and shook her head. "I regret sneaking in here, I want to leave. Please allow me to go."

Zhou Ming quietly looked at her. He then asked, "Aren't you bothered that I will be marrying someone else?"

His question shocked her. Why did he ask that out of the blue? What was she supposed to say? Was this a test? He told her that they shouldn't have anything to do with each other, then she told him; it was an endless cycle and now he wanted to break it by asking her this? "No."

"Liar."

"I'm...not...lying." Each of her words were unknowingly dragged along, like she was forcing herself to say then.

"Liar."

She was quiet and softly admitted, "I know."

"Then what are you going to do?" He was testing her limits and teasing her. Without thinking, she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. He was clearly shocked but quickly took the lead and slipped his tongue in her mouth. Xiao Yunhua didn't know how long they were kissing but she pulled away and breathed hard.