Chapter 184: How Many Smacks Are Enough?
Ye Ziming squinted slightly as he looked at the cute, slightly see-through white panties on the bed, feeling a bit hesitant.
For some reason, instead of bringing the clothes to Lin Muqing, he stood up and walked out of the room. About twenty minutes later, after finishing his business, and even stopping by Ye Mengze’s room to get a pair of white stockings, he finally came back.
Because he had been out for a while, he didn’t hear Lin Muqing calling from the bathroom.
“Boss, are you there?”
She called out several times, but no one answered outside. Lin Muqing started feeling a bit awkward.
When she finally finished her shower, she realized something shocking. She had forgotten to bring her clean clothes into the bathroom.
Theoretically, since the room outside was probably empty, she could run out naked and no one would see.
But Lin Muqing was too shy for that, even in front of her best friend. Her eyes fell on the little white dress nearby.
“Ugh… looks like there’s no better choice…” she muttered softly.
She slowly reached out, picked up the dress, and put it on.
The moment it was on, she felt her face burning. Her lower body felt a little chilly and insecure. By the way, the dress had just come back from dry cleaning, so it didn’t need to be washed.
With her heart pounding, Lin Muqing carefully opened the bathroom door and tiptoed into the bedroom to grab her clothes.
“Hm? Done with your shower?”
She was facing the bed, picking up her clothes, when Ye Ziming suddenly returned to the room. The moment he saw her, he smiled and raised an eyebrow, asking as if he didn’t already know.
“Uh… yeah, I’m just getting my clothes…”
Lin Muqing turned around with her clothes in hand, stammering in embarrassment.
The thing she feared most, being seen wearing the dress, had happened.
Seeing the smile on his face made her want to explode from embarrassment. She didn’t dare meet his eyes. Hugging her clothes to her chest, she ran toward the bathroom in a panic.
But Ye Ziming had no intention of letting her off that easily. As she ran past him toward the bathroom, he leaned close to her ear and whispered:
“Today’s ‘macho man’ is also really cute.”
“Eek!”
Hearing his voice, Lin Muqing’s eyes went wide. She tripped over her own feet—a classic flat-ground fall.
“Careful!”
Ye Ziming reacted quickly, catching her right before she hit the bathroom threshold.
Being caught made Lin Muqing freeze. Her eyes were squeezed shut, fists held tightly at her chest.
The pain she expected never came. Instead, she felt herself supported by someone. Slowly, she opened her eyes.
“Phew… that scared me to death…”
Seeing that her best friend had saved her, Lin Muqing sighed in relief and patted her little chest.
“Ahem… get up first.”
Unlike her, Ye Ziming looked a bit awkward now.
When he caught her, something unexpected had happened—the skirt she was wearing had completely flipped up, and he caught a glimpse of her soft, white, slightly pink underwear.
Thankfully, by the time he helped her up, the skirt naturally fell back down, and Lin Muqing hadn’t screamed.
After standing up, she didn’t say thank you. Instead, her face bright red, she glared at him once, then turned and ran into the bathroom to change clothes.
Being seen wearing the dress, being called cute by her best friend, and accidentally flashing her underwear—these three things together were enough to turn Lin Muqing into a steaming kettle.
“…I’ll help you dry your hair later.”
“Hmph! No way!”
After changing clothes and returning to the room, Ye Ziming tried to calm the angry little kitten down, but he failed at first. Still, his failure didn’t last long. With his constant coaxing, Lin Muqing eventually let herself be soothed and got onto the bed.
In the middle of it, Lin Muqing said, “From now on, don’t say things like that again.”
Ye Ziming asked on purpose, “Like what?”
She hesitated for a moment, then shyly said, “Like… you’re really cute, stuff like that.”
Raising an eyebrow slightly, Ye Ziming’s face showed that he understood, “Oh… you mean, you’re really cute?”
“…Mm, yes.”
Hearing him say that, Lin Muqing instinctively nodded.
The room suddenly fell silent. After she finished speaking, she looked up slightly and noticed that the smile on her best friend’s face was a little strange. A few seconds later, she suddenly realized, she had fallen into his trap.
“You’re really cute?”
“Mm, yes.”
And that wasn’t even the most embarrassing part. What was worse was that Ye Ziming had secretly recorded her voice on her own phone while tricking her.
“You scoundrel!”
Blushing with shame and anger, Lin Muqing raised her hands and launched a set of “cat punches” at him. Her attack speed was fast, combo score SSS.
But her punches didn’t cause any physical damage. Instead, they dealt special magical damage, also known as “too cute to handle.”
After a round of playful fighting, Lin Muqing let out all her negative feelings. Then she realized he used her phone to record that voice clip. That meant she could delete it anytime she wanted.
Once that thought crossed her mind, she wasn’t so angry anymore.
Later, Ye Ziming made her a late-night snack, which completely melted away her remaining anger and turned her back into the cute, obedient little kitten. In the end, he even held her small hand as they got into bed, ready to sleep.
Before turning off the lights, Ye Ziming suddenly thought of something and made a suggestion.
“Let’s sleep under the same blanket tonight.”
“No! I want to sleep on my own.”
Hearing that, Lin Muqing immediately rejected him with a serious tone. She insisted on sleeping in her own blanket. The events of the past two mornings were still fresh in her mind, and she wanted to try to break that “pattern.”
“If tomorrow morning I end up in your blanket again, you can spank me as much as you want!”
To give herself some pressure, Lin Muqing shut her eyes and said the “harshest” words she could think of, then wrapped herself tightly in her blanket.
Ye Ziming could only feel a little speechless. But when he saw the determined look in her eyes, he decided not to say anything. He just quietly looked at her, then turned off the light and went to sleep.
One night passed.
When Ye Ziming opened his eyes the next morning, he found that Lin Muqing hadn’t crawled into his blanket… But somehow, her shorts were lying on his face.
Then he noticed something that didn’t surprise him at all, one of his hands was firmly being held by the little kitten.
Ye Ziming thought to himself, ‘How many times should I spank her later?’