Chapter 183: Pledging Herself to Her Bro
“Uhh…”
When she saw the look in her good buddy’s eyes, Lin Muqing already had a feeling about what was going on.
He wasn’t saying the price out loud, probably because he didn’t want to make her feel bad or embarrassed. So she reworded her question with a teasing tone, trying to lighten the mood.
“Okay then, let me put it this way. If I pledge everything I own, can I at least afford a bathroom?”
Even though she had the thought, Lin Muqing knew what reality was like, so she was just joking around. But what she didn’t expect was for Ye Ziming to smile, gently reach out his hand, and pat her on the head as he said.
“If you pledge yourself, you can get a whole villa. Not just a bathroom, way more than that.”
With a soft, doting look in his eyes, Ye Ziming looked into Lin Muqing’s eyes and silently added three more words in his heart, ‘With me included.’
“Pledge myself?” Lin Muqing paused and looked at the manmade lake in front of them. Then she turned her head to her good buddy and raised an eyebrow. “Pledge myself to who?”
“To me,” Ye Ziming said seriously, with a faint smile on his face.
The two of them suddenly fell silent. They just looked at each other without saying a word.
Lin Muqing’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Seriously? Aren’t you scared I’ll cling to you and never let go?”
“Not scared.”
“And what if someday you get a girlfriend? Are you gonna kick me out then?”
“No.”
He wasn’t planning to fall in love, or rather not with anyone else.
When he first found out Lin Muqing was a girl, he thought she was cute and wanted to get to know her more. But after spending all this time together, thinking things through, and even having a long talk with his dad, he finally made up his mind.
A lifetime is long. He doesn’t know what the future holds. But what he does know is, if it’s not Lin Muqing, then it’s no one.
They kept chatting as they wandered around, taking a walk around the lake, strolling through other places, and eventually making their way back home. To Lin Muqing, all that talk about “pledging herself” was just a joke, something to laugh about while chatting with Ye Ziming.
Little did she know… every word she said was digging a deeper hole for herself.
“Alright then, I’m pledging myself to you now.”
Back at home, standing in Ye Ziming’s room, Lin Muqing joked again as she packed up her clothes for the night.
“Okay,” Ye Ziming replied with a smile.
He glanced at Lin Muqing, then looked away and took out a pair of scissors to open a newly arrived package.
Just as Lin Muqing grabbed a pair of white cotton underwear and a comfy home outfit, ready to head to the bathroom, Ye Ziming suddenly stopped her.
“Before you shower, try this on first, see if it fits.”
He stood in front of her holding a cute little white dress, blocking her path and gently speaking. The package he had just picked up was a custom-made dress, made just for Lin Muqing.
Even though it was tailored to her size, he still wanted her to try it on and… maybe let him enjoy the view a little.
“What are you up to!?”
Seeing the dress, Lin Muqing’s eyes flew wide open, and she gasped in shock, stepping back like she was facing a dangerous enemy. There was no way Lin Muqing was ever going to wear a dress!
“Do you remember what you promised me?”
“What promise?”
Lin Muqing had a bad feeling. She noticed her good friend was smiling in a suspicious way, and she took a few steps back.
"You said, on my birthday, you’d wear your prettiest dress and go on a date with me.”
Seeing her back away, Ye Ziming followed closely, holding a small dress in both hands, slowly moving closer.
“I…”
“You want to say that you didn’t say that?”
“That’s not it, actually—”
“So it’s all just a misunderstanding, right?”
As her good friend came closer, Lin Muqing kept backing away until her back hit the wall. She couldn’t move any further.
Honestly, when she looked at the small dress in his hands, Lin Muqing felt so awkward she almost wanted to cry. Her whole face turned red. Her good friend really knew her too well. All those cute little tricks she used to avoid things didn’t work on him at all.
“Boss, I think… maybe we can talk about this?”
“How do you want to talk about it?”
Before she could finish her sentence, Ye Ziming gave a calm smile and softly asked her.
At that moment, he was holding the dress in his left hand, while his right hand rested on the wall beside her, leaning in slightly to look down at Lin Muqing. This pose was exactly what people call a kabedon (wall slam).
They were standing very close, so close that Ye Ziming could smell a light fragrance, maybe the natural scent coming from her.
“Uuuhhh…”
After a few more rounds of trying to resist, Lin Muqing finally lost. Under the pressure, she had no choice but to put on the little dress.
Her cheeks were flushed red, her lips pressed into a line from nervousness. Standing in front of Ye Ziming, she wore the cute little dress for inspection. The white, pure-style dress made her look extra adorable. She looked so soft and huggable that Ye Ziming really wanted to reach out and hold her.
“Mhm, very pretty. It would look even cuter with white stockings.”
Sitting on the bed, Ye Ziming nodded in approval and gave his opinion.
“Absolutely not!”
Already blushing, Lin Muqing shouted in embarrassment when she heard he wanted her to wear white stockings too. She threw that line, didn’t even bother to take the dress with her, and stormed into the bathroom pretending to be angry, locking the door behind her.
Wearing stockings? No way, unless it’s for work!
But when she stood in the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror above the sink, she suddenly thought… the dress really did look nice.
Thinking about it, she lightly pinched the skirt and twirled a little to see how it looked from the side and back. Then she actually thought… wearing white stockings might really make it look even better.
“Ahhh! Lin Muqing, what are you thinking! Stop it!”
Snapping back to reality, Lin Muqing shouted in her heart and slapped her cheeks with both hands, trying to wake herself up.
The blush that had just started to fade came rushing back again, and she was starting to look like a steaming teapot. She couldn’t keep thinking about this.
That little dress… was dangerously cute.
She didn’t know why, but every time she wore a dress, or even just imagined herself wearing one. One sentence would pop into her head, ‘Damn, I’m really cute.’
Ahhh~ Lin Muqing felt like she was about to break. And it was all her good buddy’s fault. If not for him, how could she end up like this!?
With a mix of emotions and a brain full of “Damn, I’m really cute,” Lin Muqing quickly took off the dress.
Then she turned on the shower, adjusted the water temperature, and started washing up.
At the same time, outside the bathroom, Ye Ziming was about to put down his phone and leave the room to take care of something.
Just as he stood up, he suddenly noticed something on the bed.
A pair of white silk panties… and Lin Muqing’s light blue home clothes.