Chapter 216: A Fair Trade
In the room, one person was trying hard to reason, while the other kept coming up with new tricks, leaving a certain cute girl completely confused and overwhelmed.
"Wait a second! I think something’s really unfair!"
Late at night, as the two of them lay down and slipped under the same blanket, Lin Muqing suddenly thought of something. She quickly turned her head and looked at her close friend with determination, wanting to speak up and argue a little.
"What is it?"
Ye Ziming had just put down his phone. He raised his eyebrows slightly and turned to look at the adorable girl beside him, asking with curiosity. He had been answering her endless questions all evening, but instead of getting annoyed, he found it kind of fun.
If this "tough guy" would just admit she was a girl, he would’ve already deleted those pictures. But sadly, she didn’t want to. And not only that, she even wanted to challenge him head-on, which made things more interesting.
"You... you saw everything last time! If you want things to be fair, then I should get to see everything too!"
Lin Muqing sat up stubbornly, nervously clutching the edge of the blanket with both hands. She looked him in the eye and spoke seriously. After she said it, the room fell into a strange silence. Ye Ziming stared at her in surprise and didn’t say anything for a few seconds.
"Are you sure?"
At first, he was surprised. But after noticing the faint blush on her face, he smiled with a deeper meaning in his eyes and asked in a quiet voice.
"I'm sure!"
She had already said it, there was no turning back now. Lin Muqing nodded firmly, even though her heart was pounding. What she didn’t realize was that Ye Ziming’s expression had clearly changed. He also sat up and... started to take off his shirt. Then his pants. Until he was only in his underwear.
"Why’s your face red?"
Ye Ziming was now only in his boxers.
Seeing this, Lin Muqing gripped the blanket even tighter, her face turning bright red, and her eyes full of panic.
"I-I’m not blushing!" she protested, clearly flustered.
Even if she pretended to be confident, the panic in her eyes couldn’t lie. Ye Ziming could see clearly, she was totally nervous now.
In his mind, he was thinking, if this could help her understand the difference between boys and girls, then it’s worth it. So, as he spoke, he moved his hand to the edge of his underwear—
“Ahhh!”
Lin Muqing reacted quickly. In just two seconds, she gasped and yanked the blanket over her eyes. But out of a strange curiosity, just before covering her eyes, she peeked for a split second.
That peek was enough to make her bury her face under the blanket again, even faster, with both hands tightly holding it down.
She wasn’t sure why, but even though she used to have the same kind of body part, seeing her buddy’s just made her feel extremely embarrassed. Even though she had seen lots of images online, seeing it in real life was completely different. It made her feel... small.
“Still think I’m weak and small now?”
After putting his pajamas back on and returning to bed, Ye Ziming leaned closer to her ear with a teasing smile and asked quietly.
As the small lump under the blanket froze, Ye Ziming continued with a playful tone, reminding her of what she said earlier during the day, about him being “small and fast.”
No real guy would let that kind of comment slide without payback.
“Wait, Big bro, I think I can explain.”
Lin Muqing quickly waved her hands and scrambled out of the blanket, then nervously scooted toward the edge of the bed, trying to make an excuse. But before she could even start, Ye Ziming had already picked her up and gently turned her over.
Then, a series of clattering sounds came from the room.
Standing outside the door, Meng Yue felt a bit awkward.
Originally, she had seen through the door crack that the light in the room was still on and had planned to knock and say, “Young people shouldn't stay up too late. Go to bed earlier.”
But after hearing those repeated clattering sounds and some faint noises that could be easily misunderstood, she quickly backed away from the door. She shook her head and returned to her room as if nothing had happened.
P.S.: The soundproofing in the room wasn’t bad, but if you use a little tool to listen through the door, that’s a different story altogether.
The night passed, and morning came again.
Early that morning, as soon as Ye Ziming opened his eyes, before he even had a chance to look around, he heard a sleepy mumble.
“Mm… I'm not a girl… I'm a boy…”
That voice was clearly Lin Muqing’s, and from the way it sounded, it was obvious she was talking in her sleep.
Her words were very unclear, and Ye Ziming had to mentally fill in a few parts to make sense of the sentence. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have made any sense at all.
About two minutes later, perhaps because of Ye Ziming moving slightly, Lin Muqing stopped talking in her sleep and slowly woke up.
“Ah~”
She yawned and stretched, casually tugging her rumpled clothes back down to keep her stomach from being exposed to the morning air.
“Morning, Big bro,” she greeted, turning her head and seeing that her good buddy was already awake. She rubbed her eyes and smiled.
“Morning,” Ye Ziming replied. “Did you know you talk in your sleep?”
Sitting up and getting ready to brush his teeth and wash his face, he asked her curiously before getting out of bed.
“Huh? Sleep talk? What did I say?”
Lin Muqing was a bit surprised, she clearly had no idea she did that.
“You said… you're a girl, not a boy.”
With a serious tone and straight face, Ye Ziming made it sound like it was the most important truth in the world.
Originally, he was just joking.
But what he didn’t expect was that after hearing it, Lin Muqing didn’t deny it. Instead, a light blush appeared on her cheeks.
The reason? Just before waking up, she vaguely remembered dreaming that Ye Ziming was tapping her lightly and making her say that line. Pressured by his “dominance” in the dream, she had shouted that sentence loudly in her sleep.
“Really?”
Her cheeks faintly red, Lin Muqing asked with a hint of suspicion.
“Yep, really. You even asked me to go easy.”
Of course, that last part was completely made up, Lin Muqing had never said that.
But Ye Ziming continued staring into her eyes seriously as he said it.
What surprised him even more was that the slight blush on Lin Muqing’s face began to deepen and became very noticeable.