He didn't know what this feeling was. It couldn't be called liking. He felt that it certainly wasn't the "heart-pounding feeling" between a man and a woman that Mo Siyu talked about. At most, at the very most, it was because she was the only woman he had been in closest contact with in his twenty-eight years. And just happening, he didn't dislike her body. So, this should be the normal male hormone response to the opposite sex, that most primal instinctive urge!
Maybe it had nothing to do with emotions, nor did it have to do with a more intense, more stable relationship that had expectations for the future and the present—like dating or marriage. But, he just knew that he could easily be provoked by her into feeling hot all over, and several times he wished he could press her beneath him and bully her mercilessly!