Volume 1 Chapter 79: Studying Somehow Turned Into Lying on the Bed
Shen Jingyi had a dream.
In the dream, Bai Muxue suddenly pulled her into a luxurious and expensive hotel room filled with rose petals everywhere.
The usually hard-to-read and bad-tempered Miss Bai was holding a pink pillow with the word “yes” embroidered on both sides. Her delicate little face was already bright red.
The girl’s eyes moved around nervously. She almost buried her whole face into the pillow as she carefully asked in a voice as soft as a mosquito.
“Um... Teacher Shen? Can... can you?”
“Can I what?”
Bai Muxue hesitated for a long time after hearing that.
Then she took a deep breath and, as if making up her mind, loudly said,
“C-can you help me with my homework?”
Yes, she said homework help.
Homework help in this pink and romantic hotel room, where anyone would easily think in another direction.
Shen Jingyi heard it clearly.
As expected of a dream, Shen Jingyi did not feel anything strange after hearing it. She only nodded and said yes.
Well, dreams are just that illogical.
If Bai Muxue really took her to a hotel in real life, Shen Jingyi would definitely think Miss Bai had finally decided to take that step, not that she wanted tutoring because of bad grades.
Besides...
In Shen Jingyi’s mind, Miss Bai was not the kind of person who would feel shy saying such things.
It would suit her image more if she lay on the bed, pointed at Shen Jingyi, and said, ‘I’ll leave the homework to you. If you don’t finish it, prepare to be punished!’
Not to mention...
This hotel room looked very familiar.
It seemed to be the luxury suite from a trip abroad long ago, when Shen Jingyi was still a child and had not yet left the Shen family.
It was not easy for the dream to dig up such an old memory and use it as background material.
But since this was a dream with no logic, Shen Jingyi naturally accepted it and seriously began helping someone study.
However, as they continued, Shen Jingyi slowly noticed something strange.
For example, Bai Muxue had clearly been wearing a black dress before. But now it had somehow turned into a white shirt.
Even stranger, the buttons on the shirt had quietly disappeared.
Through the slightly open gap, some soft and fair skin could faintly be seen.
And Bai Muxue seemed completely unaware that anything was wrong.
While lowering her head to solve problems, she also kept moving closer to Shen Jingyi on purpose or by accident.
The sweet scent from the girl’s body, mixed with something light and milky, kept drifting into Shen Jingyi’s nose.
Yet Bai Muxue seemed not to notice at all.
She only frowned and looked toward Shen Jingyi, her bright eyes showing silent complaint that Shen Jingyi was not paying attention.
Seeing this, Shen Jingyi quickly bit her lip and deliberately looked away, turning her eyes to the workbook on the table.
“Which part do you not understand?”
Only then did Bai Muxue’s brows relax. She pointed at several questions in the workbook.
“This one, this one, and...”
Shen Jingyi tried hard to calm her wandering thoughts and began seriously explaining the problems to Bai Muxue.
But some things do not disappear just because you pretend nothing happened.
A sudden soft laugh from a girl came from somewhere unknown.
Shen Jingyi then found the scene before her rapidly changing.
And then...
The two of them were suddenly lying together on the bed, holding each other.
The workbook and test papers had been thrown aside.
W-what is going on?
How did studying somehow... turn into lying on the bed?
Bai Muxue seemed to have no objection at all.
Her soft and delicate body was pressed tightly against Shen Jingyi.
The distance between them was very, very close. Close enough that Shen Jingyi could clearly hear the girl’s breathing.
Her vision was covered by a soft pink haze.
Through the blur, Bai Muxue’s fine and delicate collarbone could be seen faintly.
She let out a low sound full of meaning, and even her voice carried a slightly spoiled tone.
“I suddenly feel so thirsty...”
Before Shen Jingyi could reply, a glass of orange juice appeared in Bai Muxue’s hand. She quickly drank it all in one go.
Cough! Cough! Cough!
Maybe because she drank too fast, the girl began coughing hard.
Several drops of orange juice slid down from the corner of her lips, tracing graceful lines across her smooth skin.
For some reason, when Shen Jingyi saw this, even her breathing became faster.
She could only awkwardly move her eyes away.
She tried hard to forget what she had just seen.
But somehow, that scene kept replaying in her mind again and again.
Damn it... have I become strange too...?
Shen Jingyi closed her eyes and did not dare look at the girl beside her.
But when her fingers moved under the blanket and touched someone’s warm, soft skin, an indescribable heat rose in her heart, as if even her reason was being swallowed.
“S-sorry... I didn’t mean to...”
Bai Muxue’s skin was as delicate as ever.
It felt like it would turn red from even the lightest touch.
But what Shen Jingyi did not expect was that Bai Muxue, instead of being strong-willed and unreadable as usual, moved even closer to her.
Then she directly wrapped Shen Jingyi in a tight embrace.
That slim and soft waist seemed to lock Shen Jingyi in place so she could not move.
“Hehe, yes, yes... I know that already.”
In the hazy blur, the girl’s pink lips moved gently.
Her soft whisper was like a jar full of candy. If one was not careful, that sweetness would stick to them.
“But I did it on purpose...”
Bai Muxue lightly pulled at Shen Jingyi’s stiff collar. Her fingertips gently rubbed Shen Jingyi’s palm. Her pale skin shone with a faint rosy color.
“Don’t you want to try, Teacher Shen?”
Try? Try what?
Shen Jingyi had completely lost the ability to think.
She could only watch as the girl slowly unbuttoned her own shirt one button at a time.
Until her round shoulder was revealed...
Until she—
“N-no, I can’t!”
Shen Jingyi suddenly opened her eyes. She stared blankly at the dirty ceiling above her.
Only after a long time did she come back to her senses.
There was no lovely girl lying beside her pillow.
This was not some luxury hotel room either. It was still the small apartment in the old neighborhood.
Everything just now had only been an illusion in a dream.
“It was... it was only a dream...”
Shen Jingyi unconsciously touched her cheek.
The warmth still left there was proof of the dream she had just experienced.
“I knew it... that girl would never do something like that...”
For some reason, this was the first thought that came to her now that her mind was becoming clear.
A strange feeling rose in her heart.
Was it relief?
Or disappointment?
Even she herself could not tell.
“First I need to clean the house... and later I still have to go to work...”
The girl rubbed the corner of her forehead as she walked unsteadily into the bathroom.
“My, my...”
And in one corner of the bathroom mirror, hidden where Shen Jingyi did not notice, a silver-haired girl in a dress closed the thick book in her hands.
A thoughtful look flashed across her pretty face.
“I clearly arranged the dream according to the romance novels human girls like...”
“So it still didn’t work after all?”
With the girl’s sigh, ripples spread across her body. Then she disappeared into the air just like that.