Chapter 26.1 - I Hate This! (1/2)

Translator: Superbulat

Sometimes actions were really easier to understand than words.

His niece said that he also had her in his heart… Song Mo could interpret this as he was her uncle, so of course he placed his only niece in his heart.

His niece said that she had liked him for a very long time… Song Mo could also interpret that her liking him was the type of affection towards family.

However, when her lips landed on his face, so light and soft, it caught him off guard.

His niece kissed him!

She was no longer the three-year-old girl who anyone could tease and ask for her kiss back then. She was sixteen, and he was twenty-eight; she was a woman, and he was a man!

“Jinzhi.”

He called her name in a low voice. Unable to bear her increasingly torturous closeness, he pushed her away abruptly and got up to get off the bed stove. “Jinzhi, d-don’t do this. I’m your uncle. I treat you well and take care of you because of our relationship as uncle and niece, and because you are the little niece I have seen grow up. There is really no other meaning, so you must not misunderstand. Brother passed away, and that beast had failed you. Un-uncle knows you’re upset, and you only have Uncle by your side right now, so you will think that Uncle is good. However, your feelings for Uncle are only your reliance on your elders, not the feeling of love between a man and woman. Stop thinking nonsense like this, do you understand?”

There was no reply.

Song Mo halted in his movements. Even though he was feeling guilty, he looked back at the bed stove.

His niece was lying on the blanket in the same position she had been after being pushed away by him. Her face was hidden under the blanket, so he couldn’t see her expression, but her shoulders were slightly shaking. She was crying again.

Song Mo instantly blamed himself. He shouldn’t have pushed her away so roughly.

“Don’t be like this, Jinzhi. Uncle didn’t do it on purpose-”

“Uncle, you really don’t like me at all?”

Tang Huan sat up slowly and turned her back to Song Mo because her current posture was too awkward. “Uncle, when I said that I wanted to marry him last night, didn’t you feel suffocated and couldn’t sleep at night? Uncle, when I said I liked you just now, didn’t you feel happy? And when I kissed you, didn’t you feel good and want to kiss me back?”

Song Mo lowered his gaze and said decisively, “No, I didn’t.”

As expected, men and their penchant for lying.

Tang Huan sneered, knelt at the edge of the bed stove, and looked up at him. “Uncle, I remember when I was eight years old, your shoes tore, but grandma didn’t get you new ones, so I stole ten copper coins from grandma’s room and gave them to you. When you asked me where the money came from, I said I picked it up. You immediately saw through my lies, said that you didn’t like Jinzhi the liar, and taught me not to lie any more in the future.”

Song Mo closed his eyes. “Jinzhi-”

“Uncle,” Tang Huan interrupted him and held his hand. He wanted to break free, but she had already moved his hand to his chest. “Uncle, because you didn’t like Jinzhi lying, Jinzhi will not lie. I like you, so I told you that. What about you, Uncle? Do you dare to place your hand on your own heart and tell me one more time that you don’t like me?”

She still remembered that incident!

Distressed, Song Mo helplessly opened his eyes to look at her. “Jinzhi, I’m your uncle-”

Tang Huan boldly met his eyes. “Song Mo, you were picked up by my grandfather from the roadside. You’re not my real uncle! I’ll never like you if you are my blood-related uncle!”

Song Mo frowned and reprimanded her, saying, “Don’t call me by my name! Even if I was picked up by the roadside, I’m still your uncle. Father and Big Brother had treated me like family, so in my eyes, you are my niece. Jinzhi, don’t overthink it any more. Uncle really hasn’t had any other thoughts about you. Today, Uncle will simply assume that you are too sad, and your mind is a little unclear. Tomorrow, we will forget about what happened tonight and live a good life. Three years later, Uncle will find you a good in-law. Okay, you should lie down and rest for a while more. Uncle is going to cook dinner.”

“I’m not eating!”

Tang Huan swung her hands in exasperation. “Uncle doesn’t even dare to tell the truth! I’m not eating!”

Her childish tantrum tickled Song Mo’s funny bone, and his originally heavy and complicated mood instantly vanished into thin air. He persuaded her with a smile, “How can you not eat? You hadn’t eaten anything all day. If you don’t eat now, you’ll be starving later in the middle of the night. When that time comes, Uncle will still have to serve you. Come on, don’t be angry anymore. Wait for Uncle to make dinner for you.” His niece had become increasingly childish these days.

Hearing the laughter in his voice, Tang Huan looked incredulously at the man in front of her. Laoniang ’s lungs were on the verge of bursting from anger, but he could still laugh?

She widened her eyes, and the brimming anger in her eyes made her eyes more and more enchanting and mischievous.

Song Mo couldn’t help but get lost in her eyes.

It was these pairs of eyes that made his niece seem different from before. When she was a child, his niece’s eyes were clear and pure. When she grew up and learned the difference between men and women, and began to spend more time with Dong Minghua, she rarely looked into her uncle’s eyes. Occasionally when they made eye contact, all he saw in her eyes was the love and closeness she felt for her elders. But these few days, there was more lingering affection, shyness, and passion of a young woman in her eyes that he dared not look directly. He couldn’t tell the difference, thinking he might have misread it. Now that she confessed to him, he knew that he had been right. She really liked him.

Why did his niece suddenly like him?

And why did he, too, fall in love with his niece?