"Uh? No."
Hai had expected a long and painful pause, but her answer was fairly direct and natural. As if she never second-guessed her response. Which made him genuinely blink in surprise and then widen his eyes too. It was as if the tense atmosphere suddenly fell apart like a thread cleanly snapping into two.
"Ah," Hai couldn't fathom his own response at this point as Chunhua had completely shaken him out of his zone.
But he quickly regained his lost momentum and laughed. "Of course, of course. I was just kidding~"
Chunhua blinked twice. "I don't think you were joking."
"Aish, it's fine. I was just teasing you. It's fun to tease you," he chirped.
It was evident that she wasn't satisfied with his reason. She glanced left and right, contemplating in her mind and looked back at him.
"Is that why you weren't coming to visit me?"
"Ah? Of course not!"
But trust didn't come to Chunhua too readily because he gave his answer too eagerly.
