Chapter 108: The Superpower of Being Loved

“Stop it, I can’t take it anymore…”

Chen Lu felt like he was about to spit out a mouthful of blood. He quickly covered his chest and took two deep breaths.

She was just a silly, innocent girl… Why did she have to keep hitting him with these emotional bombs?

Liang Zhirou was also embarrassed after saying that. She turned her head away, refusing to look at him.

“Actually, even if you had ulterior motives towards me, I would still like you.”

After a while, Chen Lu said in a deliberately low voice, as if trying to regain his composure.

Perhaps to maintain the dignity of a chef who only knew how to cook one dish, he always liked to compete in this aspect.

“I know you probably don’t believe me. Do you want to test me?” Chen Lu asked.

“Then you’ll know if I’m telling the truth.”

“I don’t want to!” Liang Zhirou was so embarrassed that her voice even got a little louder than usual.

“If you don’t want to, I will.”

Before the innocent girl could react, Chen Lu pressed a kiss on her cheek. There were still tears on it, making it salty.

Liang Zhirou was a little scared. She didn’t know if Chen Lu was joking or serious, so she could only close her eyes and let him do as he pleased.

Fortunately, Chen Lu knew his limits. Soon, the girl wasn’t so nervous anymore. She hugged Chen Lu tightly, allowing him to kiss her cheeks and neck.

It was really cool to have more permissions unlocked. Although he couldn’t kiss her yet, at least he could now kiss her neck and cheeks.

At this rate, kissing wouldn’t be far off?

At this moment, Chen Lu only wished he had added more firewood to the stove in the past.

People are always greedy. Before, Chen Lu thought kissing her cheek was already great, but now he couldn’t help but want to go further.

After all, he still didn’t know what it felt like to kiss.

After a long time, Chen Lu, satisfied with teasing Liang Zhirou, felt like he was charged with electricity. He started the car happily.

“You’re thinking naughty things.”

Liang Zhirou sat in the passenger seat, hugging her knees and burying her face in them. She spoke in a very small voice.

“Why do you say that?” Chen Lu found it strange.

“You… you were pressing against me.”

As someone living in the 21st century, there were some things she couldn’t help but understand.

Especially with Lin Miaomiao, an experienced driver, nearby.

Although Lin Miaomiao had never had a boyfriend, her driving wasn’t called driving anymore, it was called flying close to the ground.

Chen Lu cleared his throat awkwardly, “I wasn’t, I didn’t, don’t talk nonsense.”

“You were.”

The ostrich sitting beside him spoke stubbornly. She had felt something like an air conditioner remote control pressing against her the whole time. Could it be that Chen Lu was carrying a remote control with him?

Chen Lu couldn’t think of a good defense, so he simply snorted coldly, “If you keep talking nonsense, I’ll kiss your mouth.”

Liang Zhirou was intimidated. She looked like a virtuous girl who had been bullied, unable to appeal for justice.

Seeing the girl’s shy and annoyed expression, Chen Lu smiled smugly.

As long as you have a thick skin, you have no weaknesses.

The car quickly fell silent. The rapid breathing from earlier and the sound of their casual conversation were gone.

Chen Lu drove along the deserted road. The headlights only illuminated the lush trees on either side of the road, making him feel anything but lonely.

“You’re too easy to bully.” Chen Lu suddenly said with a smile.

Seeing that Liang Zhirou didn’t respond, he turned his head curiously. He saw the girl closing her eyes, leaning quietly against the window, her chest rising and falling rhythmically. Her small outstretched hand hung close to him, slightly open.

Even when she was asleep, this innocent girl was so beautiful, so obedient and well-behaved.

At this moment, Chen Lu felt the whole world had completely quieted down, making him want to just watch her sleep peacefully.

Seeing the girl’s relaxed expression and the upturned corner of her lips, Chen Lu smiled helplessly, raised the air conditioning temperature slightly, and reached out his right hand to tuck the hair on her cheek behind her ear.

“Silly, you’re smiling in your sleep.”

After a while, he regretted that he had been busy driving and hadn’t noticed the girl’s outstretched hand. He gently held it and muttered softly:

“You have no guard at all, I’ll trick you into being my wife sooner or later.”

Chen Lu didn’t make any more sounds along the way, afraid of waking Liang Zhirou.

The long drive was still a bit tough, but he didn’t know why, he felt happy like this.

Actually, what touched him most was not some grand love, but the occasional sense of peaceful happiness in this quiet and stable life.

Like seeing Liang Zhirou wearing an apron and cooking for him, like now, the girl sleeping peacefully beside him…

Time is gentle, tranquil and beautiful,

This is the life he wants.

……

Liang Zhirou was still in her dreams, getting close to Chen Lu, when she was suddenly poked awake by him.

“Silly, don’t sleep anymore, get up.”

“If you don’t wake up, I’ll take you to a hotel!”

Hearing Chen Lu’s voice and seeing his gentle smile, she realized she had been dreaming.

But it felt like she was still dreaming.

“Where are we?” The girl rubbed her sleepy eyes and yawned.

She couldn’t remember when she fell asleep, it felt like she had only slept for a short while, and she was still sleepy.

Chen Lu smiled and sighed, pointing to the small alley outside the window, “We’re home!”

“Ah?”

Liang Zhirou still didn’t quite understand, she turned her head to look outside in a daze, and it took a few seconds before she accepted reality.

It was like she had time-traveled.

Chen Lu looked at the girl’s surprised and silly expression, and felt all his fatigue disappear.

“Do you feel like you’ve time-traveled?” he said with a smile, “This is the superpower only those who are loved have.”

He had this experience when he was a child, vaguely remembering many times when he fell asleep exhausted in the car, and when he woke up the next day, he was already lying on a soft bed, covered with a blanket.

He didn’t pay attention to this when he was a child, and when he grew up, he no longer had the chance to enjoy this superpower.

“I’m sorry…”

This was the first thing Liang Zhirou said after she realized.

Chen Lu was stunned, “Sorry for what?”

Liang Zhirou’s grip tightened, her face full of guilt and heartache, “I shouldn’t have slept, I really didn’t mean to…”

She couldn’t drive, but she could still imagine how boring and tiring it was for Chen Lu to drive alone for so long.

It was already dawn outside.

The girl became more and more anxious, “I don’t know why I suddenly fell asleep.”

Chen Lu listened, dumbfounded, finding the girl even more silly, gentle, and adorable.

Before the girl could cry with regret, he touched her head, “Actually, I quite like the feeling of you sleeping next to me, and I’ve been looking at you for so long on the road, we’re even.”

Then he leaned towards the girl, looking at her eyes that were covered with a layer of mist, “If you still feel bad about it, you can give me some compensation.”