“Hmmph!”
The man turned around and showed her his cold and distant back. Elena felt dismayed and helpless. Was he offended because she called him ‘old rascal’? It looked like he was still angry! He had been in that mood for about one and a half-hour. He had ignored her when she tried to talk to her, and when she did not speak with him, he would sulk and snort at her!
Elena wondered if the Young Master Mu she saw that night was a clone. How had he suddenly become so… childish? She tried to ignore his presence, but…
“Hmmph!” Michael snorted coldly. The girl in his bed panicked.
He had managed to display his fury with his attitude alone. It was as if he was so angry that he could not sleep. Elena was afraid that if his anger persisted all night long, then they would not be able to sleep a wink.
“Eldest Young Master Williams…”
“Hmmph!” All she saw was his cold, sad back, and she almost gave up in despair.
It would have been great if they would sleep in peace like that on their respective sides of the bed, but… when another ten minutes passed…
“Hmmph!”
Elena, who was almost asleep, was startled into consciousness again.
His aura had always been cold and unapproachable, let alone that icy snort. Anyone who could sleep next to him would have been an extraordinary person.
“Eldest Young Master Williams, can we talk?”
“Hmmph!”
“Eldest Young Master Williams, I was wrong. I really didn’t mean that.”
Elena rubbed her eyes. For the sake of a good night’s sleep that night and many more in the future, she would have to bite the bullet and persuade that guy. It was the first time that she encountered such a situation and also her first time to deal with that version of Eldest Young Master Williams. Since she had minimal experience with that, it was an uphill task indeed.
“Eldest Young Master Williams, you are only twenty-seven years old. It’s a prime time for men. Why would you think that you are old?”
“Hmmph!”
“I mean, Eldest Young Master Williams, you are young and highly capable. I was the blind one, and I was wrong not to have noticed your strengths.”
Oh, dear, she was terrible at groveling. Elena rubbed her temples again, and she yawned as she was terribly sleepy.
“Eldest Young Master Williams, I am actually… quite sleepy…”
“Hmmph!”
“I know that I’m wrong!”
Her sleepy bug vanished at once. Elena knelt on the bed and stared at his back desperately.
“Eldest Young Master Williams, you forgive me, right? I was just so angry when you criticized my scripts like they were worthless, and so I lashed out at you.”
“Eldest Young Master Williams, your environment and experience will make you feel as if the things I wrote were unreasonably naive.”
“However, the story was meant for youngsters around 18 to 19 years of age, and most of them are still quite innocent.”
“So, I am not innocent?” The man finally turned to look at her, but his gaze was cold and dreadful.
Elena shivered. She was supposed to panic, but why did she feel like breaking into laughter instead? Did Eldest Young Master Williams really think that he was innocent? Was he not embarrassed when he said that?
Elena chuckled awkwardly, and she immediately explained. “I meant, sometimes, these kids can be pretty naive.”
“Eldest Young Master Williams, you can’t look at these young boys and girls from your perspective. You are mature and charming, so it is only natural that you think the others are not comparable to you.”
“They are still young, after all…”
“So, I am old?”
“No, no, that’s definitely not what I meant! I was just saying that they are really young, so they have no charm and can sometimes be feeble-minded.”
She was surprised that the man was willing to communicate with her. Even though there seemed to be difficulties in their communication, it was still better than when he had ignored or snorted at her.
Elena’s face broke into a flattering smile. “The most attractive age of a man is, of course, at your current age, right?”
He did not reply to her. How could he be so shameless to agree that he was charming and attractive?
It seemed like the boys in her scripts were, indeed, based on dumb and non-charming kids, like her friend Luacs.
“And the age setting of the male lead is in his early twenties, which is a very naive age.”
“And the male lead is in his early twenties; still a very naive age.”
“Well, since you know that he’d be naive, why don’t you increase his age to at least 27 years old?”
Why did she have to create a male lead who seemed to be the same age as Luacs?
“Err…” Elena was speechless. She wanted to roll her eyes at him, but she dared not.
Instead, she tried to explain patiently. “This comic’s storyline takes place on the campus. How can the student be 27 years old?”
“He can be a doctorate student.”
“What! I have very little life experience. I can’t write a story based on the thoughts and behavior of a doctorate student. I can only write simple storylines.”
“It’s good that you’d admit that.”
“…” She really wanted to slap him.
However, she needed a good night’s sleep more.
As she put her best smile on her face, Elena said, “Yes, it seems like I am only capable of those. Anyway, our target readers are mostly teenagers.”
“I didn’t mean anything by what I said, Eldest Young Master Williams. May we go back to sleep now?”
Sleep? Of course. There was nothing he wished more than to grab her and hold her in his arms.
After all, he was tired after 30 hours without any rest. However, would she call him an old rascal if he were to pull her into an embrace?
“Did I say that you can’t go to sleep?” Did she think he was that evil?
“No.” Of course, he did not need to say that out loud. All he needed to do was to snort, and she would be awakened immediately from her sleep. Did he even need to say such merciless words out loud?
“So… we sleep now?”
He said nothing, but Elena finally laid back down on the bed. The man was still awfully silent. However, Elena drifted off to sleep again. In less than 10 seconds, her heavy eyelids even had to fight to stay open. A few moments later, they were completely shut.
She was still a little uneasy. She was afraid that the Eldest Young Master Williams would snort again, but then, she was also very really sleepy. Suddenly, she felt someone’s palm held her hand in theirs. Elena had instinctively wanted to break free, but he did not let go.
It took a lot of effort to open a slit in her eyelids. “Eldest Young Master Williams…”
“Sleep.”
“But…” Why did he hold her hand?
She saw that he had closed his eyes and ignored her. His big palm had grasped onto her small hand, and it did not seem like he would let her hand go. His grip even tightened when she struggled. When she stopped struggling, he relaxed his grasp a little so that she would not feel so uncomfortable. What was he thinking? She was too sleepy to think about it.
A few moments later, Elena’s head lolled to the side as she slumbered.
It was not until her breathing had evened that Michael opened his eyes to peek at her. Their bodies were not that close to each other, and there was no ambiguous chemistry between them. However, their hands were in a tight hold.
He remembered the passage from her script. [The leads weaved their fingers together and talked about some casual topics. The two brightest stars in the night sky seemed to have snuggled together, and even the wind that blew from the beach was sweet…]
Weaved their fingers together…
Michael carefully unfolded Elena’s fingers and interlaced her elegant fingers with his.
Was that the kind of love that girls liked? Well, he thought that it was overly-sweet for his taste…