Nian could feel himself gawking and his cheeks warming up in response to those words. He was certain that Jin Jiuchi meant nothing by it, but with their current position and the way Jin Jiuchi worded his sentence, he couldn't keep his thoughts from straying to a wild path.
'For God's sake, snap out of it, Nian! Whatever you are thinking of will not happen because you are a child now! And obviously this man is not a human. Don't let yourself get seduced!' Nian chided himself severely and tried hard to focus on the matter at hand.
He had thought that Jin Jiuchi was going to kill him at first from the single-minded way the man had tried to grab him. But now that Nian was truly caught, he was forced to change his mind because he could not sense any malicious intention coming from the other.
If not, the man looked almost… curious as though there was something about Nian he could not wrap his head around. Nian weighed his choices before he decided to ask the most important question,
