Just Give Him a Kiss and He’ll Be Fine

Three years ago, Xu Shuang ended things with Ming Qi without warning.

After telling him they were through, she blocked and deleted him, then vanished from his world for good.

Three years later, they ran into each other at work, and she pretended not to know him.

Ming Qi held back. Admitting that he’d spent three years looking for her and hadn’t forgotten her at all would be pretty embarrassing.

But then he saw her walking happily past him with her arm around another man’s, acting as though she couldn’t even see him.

That indifference, and the sweet smile she used to save only for him, really got under his skin.

From that day on, he became a man with no manners, treating her with nothing but hostility.

Xu Shuang was truly fed up with being picked on every day.

A friend suggested, “Could he still like you?”

She thought, How could that be? And besides, would someone really treat the person they like like an enemy?

Her friend said, “Why don’t you try coaxing him?”

How?

“Give him a hug or kiss him.”

“Ahhhhh!”

Then one day, she really did make a serious mistake. He scolded her mercilessly and showed no sign of stopping.

Feeling wronged, she worked up the nerve to kiss him.

And just like that, the sound around her fell away. He’d gone mute.

After that, whenever his face darkened, she kissed him. It worked pretty well: he immediately calmed down, like someone smoothing a ruffled cat.

Later, he asked, “Xu Shuangshuang, why do you keep kissing me? Do you still like me?”

Xu Shuang lowered her head, eyes darting about. “Uh... How am I supposed to explain? Do I tell him it’s a way to make him shut up?”