Starlight Has No Past Chapter 32 part1

Starlight Has No Past
Chapter 32 Part 1

When Ye Qiao finally recovered her ability to speak, she looked up confrontationally: “Does it look like it?”
Zhou Tingsheng was still a head taller than her even when he was kneeling down. He could see her bare neck without the necklace, the dreadful hickey on her pale skin, and the unfinished tattoo of intertwined vines. He turned his eyes away, lips tightly pressed together, without saying a word.

Ye Qiao, with cigarette still between her fingers, used both of her hands and held his face to look at her: “Why are you being so shy? You've seen it before.”
Though he'd been forced to face her, his eyes didn't move downward. His eyes were fixed on her eyes of unclear emotions.
Ye Qiao felt uneasy under his gaze. She slightly raised up her neck and let him have a full view of her collar bone, then deliberately laughed to cover her own discomfort: “Doesn't this feel rather familiar? You really aren't the only one who likes bones.”

He had originally found her recklessness as part of her charm, but now it seemed to be delivering him retribution. Zhou Tingsheng couldn't control his annoyance at her frivolous attitude and asked in a low voice: “Ye Qiao, to you, am I just like all the others?”
Ye Qiao's laugh froze. All she could think about was the sudden question. She was so engrossed that she was startled when her hands were dragged off from his face.

Is he just like the others?
She didn't know. But when she was with Wen Shaoqian earlier, a thought crossed her mind for a second. She was asking herself if there was a difference. Perhaps she could just go along with Wen Shaoqian. However, her disgust of Wen Shaoqian won out. She pretended to go along with him to trick him. Originally, she was planning to tease him for much longer, but when he was about to kiss her, she subconsciously pushed him away.
She couldn't stand having intimate contact with Wen Shaoqian.

But right now, her eyes were fixed on that pair of angular lips of his and felt the longing to move across the short distance between them and lock lips. She missed his tenderness and aggressiveness. She wanted to see his normally grave and cold lips curve up ever so slightly and perversely, gently smiling at her like he had done many times before.
Ye Qiao felt disconcerted all of a sudden. She turned her face away and took a puff of the cigarette, then said: “......I don't know.”

Zhou Tingsheng stood up. It was hard to tell from his eyes whether he was despondent or not. Ye Qiao was afraid to look at his eyes in fear of seeing silent despair in them. The next second, Ye Qiao hard a mechanical device clank from above her head, then she fell back with the door she had been leaning on when it suddenly swung inwards. Zhou Tingsheng subconsciously bent down to catch her. He sneered: “Did you know? All the doors on a ship have latches, all you need to do is to pull on it. Are you really so easily fooled or are you just pretending?”

Taken aback, she looked up in disbelief from what she just heard. She asked in a pathetic tone: “You think I pretend to be naive and deliberately threw myself at someone?”
The cigarette butt dropped on the floor. Zhou Tingsheng didn't know what to think about it and moved his eyes to look at the glow at the end of the cigarette. It was as if all the oxygen in the air had been sucked up by the still burning cigarette, Ye Qiao felt like something had been stuffed into her heart and was having a hard time breathing. She forced herself to stand up with the help of the door frame then looked at him: “Since you already think this way, what's the point of staying here?”

Zhou Tingsheng had mixed emotions. He wanted to apologize but was also irritated by her attitude which made him want to turn and leave. While he was hesitating, he heard the familiar hissing sound from between her teeth.
Her timing on having cramps was always perfect.

Ye Qiao hadn't had much to eat that night. When she abruptly stood up, she was already suffering from low blood sugar and now the pain from the cramp made her feel even more dizzy.
Zhou Tingsheng held her without a second thought, but his softened heart disappeared quickly when Ye Qiao stubbornly pushed him away and jumped into her room on one foot. Deep down, he was a male chauvinist to some degree and liked having her rely on him. But Ye Qiao's headstrongness made it difficult for him to be gentle.

Ye Qiao had jumped behind the door. Her heel touched the ground with every jump, sending a shiver up her leg, but she refused to outwardly show a sign of weakness. She looked up at him and found him indifferently stand there as an onlooker. A sudden surge of resentment welled up in her mind all of a sudden. She tried her best to shut the door right in his face with as much force as she could muster. The door he had opened flung back into his face.

Chapter end