Chapter 115: This Is Going to Be Hard to Explain
After getting dressed, a strange sense of caution appeared in her heart. She began to inspect the room, wanting to find out who could be living together with her good buddy. She didn’t know why, but she felt like this really mattered to her. She really wanted to know who the owner of this room was.
After looking around for a while, she noticed that nothing in the room looked like it had been used. Everything was perfectly arranged and untouched. Acting like a detective, Lin Muqing searched the entire room. She even lay on the floor to look under the bed.
“So strange~”
After finishing her inspection, she stood by the bed and mumbled softly to herself.
Detective Muqing’s conclusion was: either no one had ever lived in this room, or it had recently been renovated. That led to a new question, why would her good buddy go through the trouble to renovate this room?
Was it meant for someone to move in? And who could that be? Surely not her, right?
While Lin Muqing was still deep in wild thoughts, Ye Ziming was sitting on the sofa in the living room, thinking about what had just happened. Just now, he had seen Lin Muqing completely unclothed, and also found out that she was, umm… a white tiger.
That image wouldn’t leave his mind, and it made Ye Ziming feel like he wasn’t being very decent. His heart had even started racing just thinking about it. Still, he thought, since he had seen her like that, maybe he needed to take some kind of responsibility now.
“Hey, boss.”
After a while, the door to the room finally opened. Lin Muqing slowly stepped out, wearing Ye Ziming’s clothes. Her voice was soft, but it immediately caught Ye Ziming’s attention. He turned his head right away to look at her.
“Do you have anything smaller to wear?”
Lin Muqing walked over while holding up the too-big pants with both hands and asked awkwardly. Their body sizes were completely different. Ye Ziming was tall, strong, and around 180 cm, while Lin Muqing was slim and barely exercised.
Now that she was wearing Ye Ziming’s clothes, they looked super loose on her. The pants looked like they’d fall off at any moment, so she had to hold them up just to walk.
As for the shirt, Lin Muqing felt like if she dropped her arms and shook hard enough, the whole thing would just slip off her shoulders. This is way too big, she thought.
“Nope, that’s already my smallest size.”
Seeing her dressed like this, Ye Ziming couldn’t help but take a small breath in. His heart gave a little jolt. He suddenly realized that the way she was wearing his clothes made her look especially cute.
The shirt was long and oversized, showing her soft, pink shoulders, but also covering her bottom like a little dress. At that moment, he thought to himself: Well, if the pants are too loose, maybe she shouldn’t wear them at all, the shirt’s long enough anyway.
“Uhh, okay then.”
Saying that, she held up her pants again and sat down on the sofa.
Outside, the thunder and rain were still going strong, and no one knew when it would stop. Lin Muqing figured she probably wouldn’t be able to go home tonight. If that was the case, she’d just have to deal with the situation, even if it was a bit troublesome.
But after thinking about that, she still had another problem to deal with—how to explain to her good buddy that she didn’t have that thing.
“Uhh… boss, about what’s going on with me… it’s kind of hard to explain.”
Her small hands twisted together nervously. While thinking about how to explain, she secretly glanced at her good buddy beside her—
And that glance made her even more nervous, because Ye Ziming was staring straight at her, with a serious look on his face that made it hard to tell what he was feeling.
She suddenly felt like her good buddy was carefully studying her. It made her so nervous that her small hands nearly twisted into a butterfly knot.
“It’s okay, I don’t think it’s a bother.”
Ye Ziming quickly looked away when he heard Lin Muqing’s voice. He smiled faintly and said that with a calm tone. But the truth was, he absolutely wouldn’t admit that just now, he had been staring at her in a daze.
Then, the two of them went quiet again for a while. Ye Ziming knew Lin Muqing was trying to find the right words, so he didn’t rush her.
“Well, this whole thing started about two months ago—haah… haah… achoo!”
After taking so long to gather her thoughts, she didn’t even get through her first sentence before her nose felt itchy and she let out a big sneeze. Right after that, she had a faint feeling—she was probably catching a cold.
She sniffed hard, and that feeling got even stronger.
“Wait a second.”
Ye Ziming frowned slightly at the sound of her sneeze, and there was a look of worry in his eyes. Without saying anything else, he stood up. Under Lin Muqing’s puzzled gaze, he calmly walked out of the room.
“Eh?”
She blinked in confusion, but after a moment, she saw her good buddy return, with a bowl in his hands.
He locked the front door and turned off the entryway light. Then, carrying the bowl of ginger syrup, Ye Ziming came back and sat beside her again.
“Ginger syrup. It helps warm you up and push away the cold.”
He tested the heat of the bowl with his hand. Once he was sure it wasn’t too hot, he passed it to Lin Muqing and gently said,
“Umm, but I heard someone say eating ginger at night is as bad as taking poison.”
She leaned back a little. The strong smell of ginger instantly made her want to say no. She hated ginger, except for certain special times in the summer, she usually never touched the stuff.
“You’re catching a cold. This is different.”
“But still…”
“Just listen.”
She kept scooting backward, but Ye Ziming kept moving forward. Soon, Lin Muqing had backed all the way to the edge of the sofa. That meant there was nowhere else to go. When she saw the serious look in his eyes, she knew he was doing this for her own good. He wanted her to drink the ginger syrup to feel better.
“Alright then…”
She hesitated a little but finally reached out and took the bowl from him. She brought it close to her mouth, thinking, I’ll just shut my eyes and drink it all in one go, like I did with bitter herbal tea.
But she had underestimated Uncle Liu. You have to know, older folks tend to be stronger when it comes to ginger. And Uncle Liu: Nobody told me this was for a young girl. (innocently shrugs)
“Ahh! This is way too spicy!”
She had barely taken a sip before she couldn’t take it anymore. She almost couldn’t swallow it.
“If you finish it, I’ll forgive you for lying to me.”
Just as Lin Muqing was about to give up, Ye Ziming frowned slightly. An idea suddenly came to him. After he said that, he just quietly looked at her with a calm smile, which showed he wasn’t joking.
And he knew Lin Muqing would understand exactly what he meant.
“You said it!”
Just as he expected, after hearing those words, Lin Muqing stared at him seriously for a moment.
Then she grabbed the bowl and gulp gulp gulp, forced it all down while frowning hard, not wasting a single drop.
Ye Ziming smiled with satisfaction. He wanted to say, Good job, Muqing.