Me After Meeting You

Amber didn’t hesitate at all before going up to Ian and taking his pulse.

Thankfully, even though it had been a while since their kiss, Ian’s heart rate was clearly elevated, and his body wasn’t as cold as it usually was.

Yes, he had clearly experienced emotions just then.Original from NôvelDrama.Org.

Ian easily understood what she was doing, and he started smiling, his eyes curving into beautiful crescents. “How stupid,” he said in a belittling tone he used his long arm to pull her back into bed and underneath him. “Do you really believe everything I say? Did you really think that I would read such trashy books, whose titles alone sound idiotic?”

“That’s true. But if your earlier actions were just something born from skill and technique, then wouldn’t that make me too easy of a target?”

Actually, what she really wanted to say instead of ‘just something born from skill and technique’ was ‘just a script that you followed’-this fellow’s brain was just like a calculator. After identifying a goal, he would work solely to achieve that goal, putting any notions of emotions or morals aside.

After Amber expressed interest in having him woo her, he similarly became interested and decided to do it. To this end, he had come up with all sorts of tricks and ruses, but they were all in pursuit of this final goal, and nothing else.

As for actual, genuine emotions, Amber couldn’t find the space to consider them at this moment.

But Amber was already quite satisfied with his progress-at the very least, his feelings seemed to now have some slight physiological effects. However, she didn’t know if Ian understood the deeper meaning behind her words.

His lips were cold, and he wasn’t speaking. Instead, he was rudely trying to unbutton her blouse again, but from a combination of Amber’s resisting and his using too much strength, he even broke off two of her buttons by accident.

Amber’s face fell flat.

Ian stilled for a moment before he comically tried to put the buttons back onto her clothes. But when he found that they no longer stuck to the fabric, he started pondering the situation silently.

Amber just lay there underneath him. When she saw the struggle on his face about what to do, she felt unable to watch any further. But just as she was about to tell him to forget it, that it didn’t matter if her blouse was missing some buttons, he said, “Take it off and have someone sew them back on. That’ll be just enough time for us to take a bath.”

After coming up with a suitable excuse, he promptly started trying to strip her clothes off. He moved so quickly that Amber was stuck halfway between anger and amusement at the absurdity of it; she dodged around as she said, “Wait, wait, wait. I can do it myself. This is a dining area-where would we even bathe?”

Ian paused briefly, and in that moment, he must have touched something hidden somewhere because Amber then saw the left wall, which was displaying a landscape painting, slowly roll up to reveal a washroom hidden behind it.

It also had a natural design, with a heated pool that encompassed a rather significant area.

Amber was struck dumb… ‘Just how much did this all even cost?’

“Are we really at the bottom of the river?” She asked this question again. It was a natural one because Axton Hotel was close to the river, but then she remembered the reason behind the Axton Hotel’s fame. According to the ads she’d seen, it was the country’s first aquatic sci-fi hotel.

Ian shook his head before he pulled out a remote control from the side. Once he pressed a button, the entire scene of the washroom changed. This time, the theme was terrestrial: there was a forest all around them, and it even had extremely realistic bird chirps and animal howls! If she had been distracted for even a moment, she might really have thought that they were in a bed in some large forest!

When Ian noticed her interest in the adjustable environment settings, he started flipping through the landscapes one by one; after the forest came a burning desert, then a long river amidst the setting sun, an endless grasslands, and the most fantastical one was set in outer space.

Amber didn’t know how such special effects were made, but when the landscape changed to outer space, it felt like even the bed was rocking and shifting beneath her.

Amber suddenly realized that she was still underneath him, and when the bed shook, the two of them also started rocking around! How shameful!

Ian was entranced by her blushing red face, and couldn’t help himself from caressing it with his hands. As they rocked back and forth, he explained, “Actually, it’s all just made from 3D effects, and it’s targeted towards those who want to pretend to be wild soldiers but are afraid of actual danger.”

Amber had no response.

In order to make it clear that she wasn’t someone who enjoyed or would participate in such ‘battlefield operations’, Amber firmly pushed Ian off of her. The latter removed himself quite unwillingly, and even futilely said, “We can continue after we wash up!” But Amber said that she was hungry, and after they ate, she then had to go back.

Amber had to go back because after her parents had finished dinner and sent their relatives away, they made Ruby drive them into the city to search for her.

However, Amber didn’t let Ian drop her off. Instead, she called for a taxi herself. Mr. Axton had a remarkable intellect but a remarkably low emotional quotient; when Amber said to not send her off, he didn’t insist on doing so as he probably thought that this wasn’t a big deal.