291 I STILL WANT YOU edited

"You think so?" Xiao Tianyao asked.

Senja nodded pouting her lips, "I will keep thinking that way until you clear everything with her."

"Everything will be clear eventually." Xiao Tianyao said in a deep voice.

"What do you mean eventually? You will just let it past?"

Xiao Tianyao lips curved into a wicked smile, "Of course not! She needs to pay for what she did!"

Senja furrowed her eyebrows and yet before a question could leave her lips, Xiao Tianyao had bent his head.

However, the girl on his lap was very clear about his intention, so she covered her mouth and spoke sternly even if in a muffled voice, "No kiss until you clear the misunderstanding!"

Xiao Tianyao stopped midway and chuckled, softly kissing the back of her hand that was covering her lips instead.

"Alright."

With that reply, Senja lowered her hand and snuggled in the curves of Xiao Tianyao's neck, "I want to ask you something."

"You can ask me anything."

He played with her purple hair and felt the soft strands between his fingers.

As Senja chuckled she said in delight, "You are so talkative now, you know that?"

The image of the Xiao Tianyao from the past who was always threatening and caustic to her was still etched in her memory. But looking at how he treated her now and the way he played with her hair, who would believe that he could do something so affectionate too?

"I only talk if necessary or with someone I like." His husky voice fell on Senja's ear like melting honey.

"So, which one am I?"

"You speak a lot, and I feel the necessity to answer you, even when you curse me!"

At the mention of 'curse', Senja cleared her throat as she remembered all the uncouth words she had lashed out at him only a few months ago. There was that one moment in the past when she had rained on him all the curses she had compiled in her entire life.

"So, this is the necessary side?"

"I liked it even when you cursed me."

"Are you flirting or starting a fight with me?" Senja raised her head and looked at him grimly.

**Can you stop reminding me of that please?! I know that was rude, alright! **

"You are the one who asked me." Xiao Tianyao reminded her while stroking her cheek to ease her tautness.

"Well, that wasn't what I wanted to ask actually." Senja snuggled in his neck again and purred like a contented kitten at his touch, "I want to ask if my ability would bring trouble in the future?"

"Yes, it will." Xiao Tianyao nodded.

"Why is it a problem?"

In the end, Xiao Tianyao ended up telling her a brief story about how the mind controllers had succeeded to take down two kingdoms 62 years ago, with their manipulation and how his grandfather, the then Emperor, had killed all of them to prevent something worse from happening.

The origin of the mind controllers was still a mystery to this day. Hence, his grandfather had taken precautions through an enacted law for mind controllers that was valid until today.

Senja raised her head and looked at him flabbergasted.

"In that case, don't you feel that I will bring you trouble one day?"

"You have troubled me since the day I met you."

**That's right… I think**

"But things will be getting complicated, especially if you stay with me."

Xiao Tianyao didn't answer her immediately but brought her hand to his lips and kissed the back of Senja's hand with veneration, "I don't care how complicated this gets; I still want you."

Senja looked at the man who kissed her hand while cherishing and honoring her with his plain words. For the first time in a way that she didn't know existed, it had touched her heart deeply.

She had heard many nectarous words before from all her boyfriends, but no one had ever spoken to her the way Xiao Tianyao had. His words didn't echo in her ears but made their way to her soul instead as it stiffened her heart, her breath rhythmically matched his.