Li Zhi's almond-shaped eyes shot wide, and she shrank back like a startled fawn.
Her right hand shot out, snatching a gel pen from the desk. She held it between them like a small dagger, its metal tip a clear warning for Shen Yuan not to cross the line.
"Hey! Selaan, where are your eyes wandering!" Li Zhi snapped, her voice tinged with annoyance.
Startled by her sudden outburst, Shen Yuan flinched backward, his hands shooting up beside his head as if in surrender.
"I swear, I was just appreciating beauty. Don't look at me with such a biased view," Shen Yuan tried to argue.
As he spoke, he even made a show of pushing up a pair of non-existent glasses.
"You should be praising me for having an eye for beauty."
But the beautiful girl wasn't having any of it.
Li Zhi thrust the pen forward another half-inch, its tip aimed right at Shen Yuan's eyes. "Pah! As if my beauty needs *you* to discover it."
Shen Yuan frantically waved his hands. "That's not what I meant."
