Volume 1 Chapter 97: Weren’t You Going to Touch Me?
“I will... I will work hard and do things properly. I won’t get kicked out by Young Lady...” Heidi looked at herself in the mirror through the bangs covering her eyes. Her small hands tightly grabbed the edge of her clothes as she quietly talked to herself.
“Hm? Won’t what?”
A slightly confused voice suddenly sounded beside her. Heidi quickly looked up, only to see that a cute figure had somehow appeared in the mirror and was now looking at her curiously.
“M-M-M-Miss?! When did you get here?!”
Heidi was startled by Bai Muxue suddenly speaking to her. She quickly stepped back several times and asked in a stuttering voice.
“Hm? I just came in. Your door wasn’t closed,” Bai Muxue tilted her head. “So what were you talking about just now?”
“Ah? N-Nothing! I was just talking with Sasha...!”
Feeling Bai Muxue’s curious gaze, Heidi quickly turned away and waved her hands in panic.
“Oh? Sasha?”
Bai Muxue hooked a strand of hair around her finger, and a strange smile appeared at the corner of her lips.
“So what did she say just now? Hehe, she wasn’t secretly talking bad about me, right?”
“N-No way! Sasha really likes Young Lady...”
Heidi shook her head hard like a rattle drum. Seeing that Bai Muxue was only joking, she carefully looked at the girl again.
“So... did Miss come to see me for something?”
“Mhm, there is something. But...”
Bai Muxue narrowed her eyes slightly and did not answer immediately. Instead, she rested a hand under her chin and openly looked Heidi up and down before nodding with satisfaction.
“This outfit suits you very well.”
“Eh! Really? Miss thinks so too?”
It seemed Heidi never expected Bai Muxue to praise her first. Even though she had always been a little afraid and respectful toward Bai Muxue, she could not help feeling happy because of this small compliment.
Young Lady’s praise felt much better than Sasha’s!
A cheerful smile appeared on Heidi’s face, the kind of proud smile someone shows after being praised.
For a moment, Heidi suddenly felt a strange sense of satisfaction in her heart... It was similar to how she used to feel during combat training, when she worked hard to learn more and later received praise from the elders of her family.
But the Young Lady’s praise felt different from the praise of those elders before... A special kind of happiness rose from deep inside her heart, making the nervous feelings in the girl’s chest slowly relax.
“Of course. I kept this outfit for someone who would look good wearing it, and Heidi fits it perfectly.”
Bai Muxue blinked at Heidi.
Honestly, Heidi really did look good in those clothes. She looked a bit like the main heroine from the romance manga Xingwan liked to read.
Since Bai Muxue had already decided to keep Heidi by her side, of course she wanted her to look as pleasing as possible. It felt like playing with a real-life dress-up doll. Hehe.
Alright, the girl’s clothes were ready, so now it should be time to begin...
Bai Muxue took out her phone and checked the message someone had sent her. Then she glanced at the bright red countdown timer at the corner of her vision before raising her fair hand and waving at Heidi.
“In that case, now we can—”
But before she could finish speaking, the girl in front of her hesitated for a moment, nervously biting her lower lip. A light blush appeared on her pretty face as she gently nodded and obediently walked up to Bai Muxue, slightly bending forward.
Then...
Under Bai Muxue’s confused gaze, Heidi quietly pressed her soft cheek against Bai Muxue’s hand and gently rubbed against it.
“......”
After a long silence, Bai Muxue felt the warmth of the girl’s cheek and the corner of her mouth twitched slightly. She finally broke the silence first.
“Um...”
“What are you doing?”
What is this supposed to be...? Is this some strange ritual from their empire? Is she trying to leave some kind of mark on me or something?
“Eh?”
Bai Muxue looked confused, but the Heidi in front of her looked even more confused. She blinked her red eyes in a daze and asked softly,
“Y-You... weren’t you going to touch me?”
“????”
Wait, why would I touch you?
The moment Bai Muxue heard those words, her mind went completely blank. In the end, she let out a long sigh and quietly pulled her hand back.
“Is there a chance... I mean, just a chance...”
“I was only waving for you to come over...”
“Eh?”
Heidi’s eyes widened slightly.
“S-So that wasn’t it?”
Seeing Bai Muxue stay silent, Heidi nervously moved her cheek away from the girl’s hand and awkwardly looked to the side.
“S-So it wasn’t... I thought...”
What exactly did you think... More importantly, how did your mind even go there...?
Bai Muxue sighed deeply in her heart. She decided not to keep talking about this strange topic and instead lightly coughed.
“Anyway, if you have nothing else to say, let’s go. There’s work to do.”
Blinking her bright eyes, Heidi asked without thinking:
“Where are we going?”
“Hehe, anywhere is better than standing in front of a mirror talking to yourself.”
Bai Muxue ignored Heidi’s confusion. A meaningful smile appeared in her clear eyes, but she did not explain further. She simply turned around and started walking away.
Heidi frowned slightly and seriously thought about it for a moment. In the end, she felt her Young Lady actually made some sense...
She had just arrived here, so she should at least do some work to prove her value. Otherwise, what if Young Lady really threw her out later?
“W-Wait for me, Miss—”
Seeing Bai Muxue walking farther away, Heidi stopped thinking and quickly ran after her.
After leaving the Bai family villa, Bai Muxue brought Heidi toward the streets.
She did not choose to take a car, and it did not seem like she had any special destination in mind either. Instead, she simply walked around the streets with Heidi without any clear goal.
“Anyway, it’s not far, so let’s just treat it as exercise... Besides, one of my friends also told me not to stay at home all the time and to exercise more.”
This should count as keeping my promise, right?
Bai Muxue pressed her lips together with an amused smile.
“Oh...”
Heidi quietly followed beside Bai Muxue. She listened, but did not really understand, so she could only nod silently.
She did not know how to respond to Bai Muxue’s topic either... But it seemed Bai Muxue did not need a response. She was only casually saying a few things to herself.
After noticing that, Heidi relaxed and stopped worrying about how to answer. Instead, she curiously looked at the different buildings along the street and the people walking back and forth.
This was the first time...
The first time she had openly walked on a human street like this.
“Eh...”
Although Sasha in her mind did not say much, the slightly raised tone of her voice still revealed her feelings.
Heidi had never truly experienced the human world before, but curiosity was not something that could easily disappear.
And even though Sasha never said it out loud, Heidi knew very well that she also wanted to touch these unfamiliar things with her own hands and experience what human life actually felt like.
In the past, they had neither the time nor the right to do such things. They could only stand in hidden dark corners and watch from far away.
But now, things seemed a little different.
She could openly walk through the streets of the human world without being blamed by anyone.
And at this moment, Bai Muxue was also by her side.
According to the human books Heidi had read before, only friends would invite you to casually walk around the streets together.
Together with... Miss?
Then... does that mean Miss is also my friend?
The moment Heidi realized this, her heart moved slightly, and many different emotions suddenly rushed into her mind all at once.