If she rubbed too hard, the little drunkard pursed his lips, “I knew it, you don’t like me. You take every chance to bully me.”

Yan Jin couldn’t help muttering under her breath, “Little drunkard, you really are hard to please.” But Yu Shu and his sharp ears heard it.

Now he had something to latch onto, and Yu Shu immediately made an issue of it, “See! You’re calling me names again!”

“I’m sorry.” Yan Jin, knowing one shouldn’t argue with a drunkard, immediately apologized, hoping the petty drunkard could let it go.

Although Yan Jin had coaxed little boys before, those were all her ex-boyfriends, and none of them had been as hard to coax as Yu Shu.

In the past when Yan Jin coaxed someone, she would coax them with words for a bit, then when they weren’t paying attention, she’d kiss them and turn off the lights. The next day when they woke up, the person would be coaxed.

She had never spent so much effort coaxing someone verbally and still not succeeded.

Yan Jin had apologized swiftly, but the petty drunkard wouldn’t let it go. “I knew it, you don’t like me!”

[I really didn’t expect drunk Yu Shu to have Yan Jin completely under his thumb. Barefoot people really aren’t afraid of those wearing shoes. Someone with a sense of shame can’t win against someone shameless.]

[Although I laughed so hard the neighbors called the police, that doesn’t stop me from lighting a candle for Yu Shu in advance. When he sobers up tomorrow, this will be a massive moment of social death.]

“Of course I like you.” Yan Jin: “You’re the person I like most in this world.”

Yan Jin knew the “like” Yu Shu spoke of wasn’t romantic like between a man and woman, but a friendly like. So in order to coax him, she said this “like” without any mental burden.

And Yan Jin wasn’t wrong in saying this. In this world, the person she liked really was Yu Shu.

Because in this world, she only knew three people – Yu Shu, Zhou Nong Yun, and the county magistrate. If she didn’t like Yu Shu and liked one of the other two of the same gender instead, Yan Jin felt that would be strange.

“If you like me, why won’t you hug me!” Yu Shu poked Yan Jin’s face unhappily, “If you won’t hug me, that means you don’t like me!”

“You want me to hug you?” Caught off guard hearing this from Yu Shu, Yan Jin’s eyes went wide. “Do you know what you’re saying?”

“Of course I know!” Yu Shu raised his head high. “I’m not an idiot, how could I forget what I said so quickly.”

Yan Jin sighed softly.

Indeed, how could an idiot admit to being an idiot.

Yan Jin wasn’t the type to blush from interacting with the opposite sex. But Yu Shu was different.

With Yu Shu being a virgin, if Yan Jin really hugged him, when he sobered up the next day, he would definitely hide in his room out of embarrassment for three days and nights without coming out.

In order to avoid Yu Shu’s massive social death, Yan Jin would have to put in effort to coax him later on. She gently advised, “Liking someone doesn’t have to be expressed through physical actions. You can feel it through everyday interactions too.”

Yan Jin patiently guided him, “We’ve spent so many days together, have you never felt my fondness for you?”

“No!” Yu Shu put his hands on his hips and shouted loudly, “You’re always teasing me, how is that showing you like me?”

[Lord, I’m about to die laughing. Yan Jin thought she could coax Yu Shu back, but who knew she had bullied Yu Shu too many times and he didn’t trust her anymore. Yan Jin really lifted a rock only to drop it on her own feet.]

[Yan Jin can drop a rock on her own feet to hug Yu Shu, while I bang my head against the wall and Wall Yu Shu smiles sweetly at me. Sigh, fanfiction fates differ.]

[Who would’ve thought, our precious Yu Shu would clamor to be hugged when drunk. Boo hoo, if I had known earlier, I would’ve secretly gotten him drunk before he transmigrated.]

Yan Jin rubbed her forehead and sighed, “I’m afraid you’ll regret it.”

Yu Shu huffed, “If you’re going to hug then hug, stop hemming and hawing with so much nonsense!”

“…” Yan Jin: “Just don’t regret it when you wake up tomorrow.”

“Then I’ll pinky swear with you.” Yu Shu hooked his pinky with Yan Jin’s. “If I regret it, I’ll be a little dog.”

Yan Jin: “And you have to bark like one too.”

Under Yu Shu’s “how can you be so mean” gaze, Yan Jin calmly said, “If you hide in your room out of shyness tomorrow, how will I know if you regret it or not?”

If it was the normal, sober Yu Shu, he definitely wouldn’t fall for Yan Jin’s provocation.

But right now, Yu Shu was drunk and couldn’t stand being challenged. “I definitely won’t regret it! And I won’t hide in my room out of embarrassment either!”

Yan Jin didn’t quite trust Yu Shu’s thick skin. “You must remember this when you wake up tomorrow. I didn’t actively demand to hug you. You’re the one who kept requesting me to hug you.”

This time Yu Shu was quite clever. “I didn’t actively ask you to hug me. I only said if you really like me, then hug me.”