Chapter 89: Call Me Hubby?
After putting away her daily necessities, Yu Xiaoxiao was ready to go back to the classroom. Before leaving, she looked doubtfully at Lin Muxi, who was still lying on the desk scrolling on her phone.
“Sister Lin, aren’t you going to evening study class?”
“Hm?” Hearing her name, Lin Muxi glanced at Yu Xiaoxiao.
Then she slumped lazily onto the desk, looking just like a child.
“I don’t want to go… You can’t even use your phone there, and the homework is so boring.”
“But won’t the teacher check the attendance?”
Seeing that Lin Muxi didn’t want to go, Yu Xiaoxiao tried to persuade her, a little worried.
Lin Muxi hesitated after hearing that. On one hand, she really didn’t want to attend class. On the other, she was also thinking of using the time to hang out with her good bro.
Then, an idea popped into her mind.
“It’s fine. Just say Mo Ziyang took me away.”
“Sister Lin!”
Yu Xiaoxiao was speechless. To Lin Muxi it didn’t really matter if she attended class or not, but what mattered was her attitude toward learning.
“Mmhh, I already know all that stuff anyway…” Standing up, Lin Muxi stretched lazily.
Then she put both hands on Yu Xiaoxiao’s shoulders and pushed her out of the dorm.
“Go on, go on, don’t worry about me.”
Seeing Lin Muxi really had no intention of going to evening class, Yu Xiaoxiao had no choice but to remind her helplessly.
“Then Sister Lin, just be careful… I’m leaving.”
“Mm, mm.” Lin Muxi smiled and waved at her, signaling that she didn’t need to worry.
After sending Yu Xiaoxiao off—
Shoes off, socks tossed aside.
Relaxing barefoot, Lin Muxi jumped onto her bed and buried herself into the cozy blanket.
While rubbing against the quilt, she muttered softly, “Class, class… no way I’m going. The dorm is way more comfortable…”
Anyway, she already knew everything. The homework was full of easy questions, just a waste of time. She might as well rest in the dorm.
And once she was done resting, she could still go hang out with her buddy later.
So, lying in bed, after a long day at school, Lin Muxi soon drifted off to sleep in her warm blanket.
When evening study class started,
Mo Ziyang, who was still outside wandering around, got a call from Yu Xiaoxiao’s homeroom teacher.
“Hello? What’s the matter?” Mo Ziyang frowned slightly.
“Mr. Mo, Lin Muyu told Yu Xiaoxiao that you picked her up. When I was checking attendance just now, I noticed it, so I’m calling to confirm with you.”
Hearing that, Mo Ziyang froze. When did he ever pick up that silly girl? Wasn’t she heading back to the dorm with Yu Xiaoxiao?
But he quickly realized the truth. He didn’t even need to think about it, clearly that silly girl made up an excuse to skip evening class.
Sighing helplessly, Mo Ziyang could only cover for Lin Muxi.
“Yeah, that’s right. From now on, you don’t need to worry about her evening study.”
“Oh… okay, okay. I just wanted to ask. I’ll let you get back to your work, Mr. Mo.”
After hanging up, Mo Ziyang turned to look at Xiao Luyu beside him.
“What happened, Brother Mo?” Xiao Luyu asked.
“I’m going back to school. You go on and look around.”
“Alright. Take care, Brother Mo.”
After parting ways with Xiao Luyu, Mo Ziyang drove straight back to school. On the way, he kept sending messages and calling Lin Muxi, but that fool ignored everything.
This made him annoyed. He really wanted to see what this silly girl had been doing while he was away. It was one thing that her homeroom teacher had called, but she even refused to answer the phone.
So, Mo Ziyang went to the academic office to get a pass, and then openly walked into the girls’ dormitory. With a dark face, he headed straight to Lin Muxi’s room, ready to catch the little fool in the act.
He had expected many possible situations. But he never thought that this fool would actually be sleeping under the air conditioner.
When he pushed open the door, Mo Ziyang saw Lin Muxi still fast asleep on the bed. For a moment, he didn’t know whether to laugh or sigh. Sure enough, giving this silly girl even a little too much credit was an insult to his own intelligence.
But since he was already here, there was no need to leave so soon. Looking at Lin Muxi sleeping soundly, Mo Ziyang showed a mischievous smile.
While she was still asleep, he quietly moved to the foot of the bed and gently lifted the blanket. At once, two small, white, cute feet pressed together were revealed.
“Mm~”
Feeling a sudden chill, Lin Muxi mumbled softly in her sleep, her small body shrinking slightly inward from the loss of warmth and safety.
But to Mo Ziyang, that didn’t matter at all. After all, the little feet were already exposed.
So…
He gently traced his fingers across the soles of her feet.
“Ahhh—!”
In the next second, a sharp cry came from the bed. The sudden ticklish touch on her soles startled Lin Muxi awake, and she jumped up from the bed.
“What touched my feet…?”
Frightened, she quickly searched the bed. She thought it might be some kind of bug, but after looking for a while, she found nothing.
She didn’t notice Mo Ziyang, who was hiding at the blind spot below the bed with a sly smile.
Rubbing her messy hair, the puzzled Lin Muxi carefully wrapped her feet back inside the blanket. After checking around the room to make sure everything seemed safe, she lay down again with relief.
Still… even though she didn’t know what it was, she had a vague uneasy feeling in her heart.
Of course, Mo Ziyang also knew that he couldn’t “attack” again too soon, or else the silly girl might notice. So, he patiently waited as the minutes ticked by, deciding it was time to play a bigger prank to really scare her.
A few minutes later…
When Lin Muxi was drifting back into half-sleep, she didn’t notice something sneaking into her blanket.
A light touch—
“Mm~”
Another soft mumble escaped her lips. Her feet flinched slightly from the touch, but she didn’t fully wake up.
Seeing this, Mo Ziyang raised an eyebrow, a little surprised. How was she sleeping even more deeply?
So, he tried again like before. But since her feet were wrapped too tightly this time, he could only lightly brush his fingers against her small leg instead.
“Wha—! What the heck…”
No scream, no mumble.
Instead, Lin Muxi sat up on the bed in shock, cold sweat breaking out from the scare.
But… before she could fully sit up, Mo Ziyang suddenly grabbed her ankle and pulled her back.
“Waaahhh—ghost!!”
She had just been scared a moment ago, and this pull almost scared Lin Muxi’s soul out of her body. Even the frightened look on her face turned into pure terror in her eyes.
She flipped over, tightly clutching her bedsheet with one hand, while her other little foot kicked wildly at anything nearby, trying to break free.
Her panicked struggle looked exactly like those anime scenes where a pretty girl gets grabbed by a tentacle and dragged away. She was terrified that if she was dragged off, she would never come back.
But as Lin Muxi slowly calmed down, she started to notice something was wrong. Why did the thing holding her ankle feel so much like… a person’s hand?
The very next second, one thought popped into her head, her good bro.
After all, besides her good bro, no one else liked to mess with her this way. Thinking of that, Lin Muxi stopped guessing. Yu Xiaoxiao definitely didn’t have this much strength. So there was only one truth!
With that, Lin Muxi let go of the sheet, lifted her blanket, and her small eyes instantly met Mo Ziyang’s gaze as he peeked from the foot of her bed.
“Mo Ziyang—!!” Lin Muxi angrily slapped the bedboard, puffed up her cheeks, and started throwing a tantrum.
Ghosts? Bugs? So it was her good bro making trouble all along!
How outrageous—too mean!
He had scared her badly just now.
“Are you mad?” Mo Ziyang asked with a little laugh after being found out.
“Hmph!” Hearing him ask that only made Lin Muxi even more upset.
She crossed her arms, turned her small head away, and ignored him.
“If you don’t talk, I might just climb up there, you know?”
Looking at the stubborn little fool above him, Mo Ziyang only found her cuter. At moments like this, he always had the urge to scoop Lin Muxi up and “spoil” her a little.
“You know you disturbed my sleep.” Lin Muxi grumbled angrily.
“I only know that someone made the teacher call me, then didn’t reply to my messages or answer my calls, so I had to rush back to school.”
The moment Lin Muxi dared to bring this up, the faint smile on Mo Ziyang’s face instantly turned cold. Meanwhile, Lin Muxi was completely confused.
Calls? Messages?
She quickly grabbed her phone, and sure enough, she found a bunch of unread messages from Mo Ziyang and several missed calls.
!!! How deeply had she slept, to not hear a single one…
At this moment, the situation completely flipped. Lin Muxi grew nervous, breaking into a cold sweat. Her little hands had nowhere to go, so they just clutched her blanket tightly, clearly showing her panic inside.
She never expected that just taking a nap would cause such a big problem…
And even make her good bro so worried that he rushed all the way to the girls’ dorm.
“Lin Muxi, tell me… what should we do now?”
As her good bro pressed her harder, Lin Muxi lowered her head and quietly scooted over on the bed to make space.
The next moment, Mo Ziyang’s lips curved into a satisfied smile. He sat down on the bed and pulled Lin Muxi straight into his arms.
“S-sorry…”
Feeling the warmth of her good bro’s broad chest, the nervous Lin Muxi could only whisper an apology in his embrace.
“Oh? So your way of apologizing is to invite your good bro onto your bed?”
Looking at the little fool in his arms who kept her head down, too embarrassed to meet his eyes, Mo Ziyang suddenly had the urge to tease her.
“Th-then… what else do you want to do…”
“Hm… let me think.” Mo Ziyang hugged Lin Muxi and gently touched her chin with one hand.
“Uhh…”
Being teased like that, Lin Muxi’s face instantly turned red, and she curled up even more in his arms.
After thinking for a moment, a strange idea suddenly popped into Mo Ziyang’s mind, and he smiled.
“Come on, call me ‘husband,’ let me hear it.”
Hearing this, Lin Muxi’s body stiffened in his arms.
“N-no way.”
Sure she hadn’t misheard, she quickly shook her head with her eyes closed. That was way too embarrassing… how could she possibly say it!
“What’s the problem? Sooner or later you’ll have to call me that anyway, right?”
“I… I just can’t say it…”
No matter what Mo Ziyang said, Lin Muxi kept shaking her head, refusing to do it.
It wasn’t about pride, it was just way too embarrassing. Besides, they had only just become boyfriend and girlfriend not long ago. So calling her close friend “husband” right now… she really couldn’t do it.
Can’t do it? Then I’ll make you do it! (lol)
“Really not gonna call me~?” Mo Ziyang leaned closer and whispered in her ear.
“N-no…”
“If you don’t, what if someone else calls me that and steals me away?”
His words carried a kind of magic that left Lin Muxi flustered, her brain almost unable to think straight.
“Ugh… why are you like this.” Feeling wronged, she gripped his clothes with her little hands, clearly scared by what he said. “You clearly promised me before…”
“Oh? What did I say? I don’t quite remember. Maybe my little fool can remind me?”
As he spoke, Mo Ziyang deliberately teased her chin again.
Too cute… he just couldn’t get enough.
“You clearly said… you said you’d marry me…”
Her voice grew softer and softer, until even she could barely hear herself. Her little hands clutched his shirt as she nestled against him, blushing like a steaming little kettle.
“Oh, I see. Then what should you call me from now on?” Mo Ziyang pretended to understand, nodding before asking again.
“Uuuh… h-h… husband…”
“Yes~ Your husband is right here.”
Hearing her say it, Mo Ziyang’s mood instantly lifted. Meanwhile, Lin Muxi had completely curled up in his arms, face buried, eyes tightly shut, her small face so red it looked like it might drip blood, the blush spreading all the way to her ears.
“You’re always bullying me…”
After a moment, feeling a little better, Lin Muxi weakly tapped his chest with her tiny fists.
“Silly girl. If I don’t bully you, who else would I bully?”
Mo Ziyang affectionately pinched her chubby cheeks, showing his love without hiding it.
“Then from now on, you can only… bully me.”
“Alright, got it.”
With that, Mo Ziyang lay down on Lin Muxi’s bed, hugged her tightly, and pulled the blanket over them.
“If you’re tired, just rest more.”
“Mm…”