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Chapter 105 Ailing said

Chapter 105: 105 Ailing said

After making rounds, the two still ended up lying back in bed.

But after the fuss, the atmosphere didn’t seem so tense anymore.

Jiang Chen truly couldn’t sleep, not because of any naughty thoughts, but because sleeping in clothes, and on top of the blanket, was indeed uncomfortable.

"You should take off your clothes."

Li Shuru hadn’t fallen asleep yet, "There’s a bathrobe in the closet."

Jiang Chen didn’t speak and remained silent for a while before he finally got out of bed in the glow of the TV and, like Li Shuru, went to the bathroom to take off his outer clothes and wrapped himself in the bathrobe.

The side of the bed dipped.

Li Shuru, whose expression was hard to discern, shifted the blanket toward him.

"Be careful not to catch a cold."

Jiang Chen didn’t make a sound, knowing that if he slept like this all night, he was very likely to catch a cold.

So he didn’t refuse anymore and took the blanket to cover himself.

This was truly sharing a bed.

Even if he had nothing to feel guilty about, to say he wasn’t at all nervous would definitely be a lie. Even though he tried his best not to touch the other person’s body, the unavoidable warmth inside the blanket, as well as the alluring scent, continuously assaulted Jiang Chen’s will.

However, this wasn’t a form of enjoyment; it was a cruel torment.

"My first love was in eleventh grade. He was a year older than me and, like you, an excellent student, renowned as a top achiever in our school, and you could say a study guru. But, you know, in high school, the school was strict and forbid romance, so we could only behave like a normal senior and junior. My mom, however, had met him, of course, she didn’t know the nature of our relationship."

Li Shuru gazed at the ceiling, speaking in a soft voice.

"I remember in the year of the college entrance exam, he ranked in the top hundred in the province, and his family wanted to send him abroad for further studies. He told me to wait for him, and I believed him, but less than a year later, I saw a photo of him with another girl in his social circle, a foreign girl."

"Prettier than you?"

"People of that caliber don’t think so superficially. What use is beauty? They want a green card, the life of Western freedom and democracy."

"I’ve read a saying, ’The aim of higher education is not to escape from our poor hometown, but to help our hometown escape from poverty.’ A person who doesn’t understand even this, how high can their so-called realm be?"

Li Shuru turned her head.

"Jealous?"

"What do I have to be jealous about?"

Jiang Chen gave a wry smile, "Did he ever share a moment like this with you?"

"Jiang Chen, you’re really an asshole."

This time, Li Shuru didn’t get angry.

"And then?"

Jiang Chen asked.

"What do you think? Of course, there was no ’then.’ We tacitly stopped contacting each other."

Li Shuru turned back around and gazed at the ceiling once more.

"Pretty sad, right? Not only was our time together secretive, but in the end, we didn’t even have a proper breakup notice."

"If a girl like you can be broken up with, that makes me feel a bit more balanced mentally."

Jiang Chen chuckled lightly.

Not everyone is invulnerable from the start.

Everyone has their confused and immature times—nothing surprising there.

That night, Li Shuru seemed to have cast aside all her masks and disguises, unprecedentedly sharing a blanket and a bed with a man, talking about things that perhaps even her parents didn’t know, until she felt that there was no more movement beside her. Turning her head, she saw that he had already closed his eyes.

"Pfft."

She couldn’t help but smile.

This guy, he actually fell asleep.

Looking at that peaceful and serene face, Li Shuru felt a mixture of complicated emotions that were hard to describe.

Embarrassment, relief, a sense of release... the feelings were numerous and varied.

Gradually, she began to space out a little.

This was the first time she had ever examined a man so closely, at such a distance, and in such a position.

Without a doubt, this guy wasn’t particularly handsome, not compared to those flamboyantly dressed young masters she had seen, but for some reason, he gave her a strange sense of peace.

Without thinking, Li Shuru slowly reached out her hand, her finger-like onion stalks gently tracing the contours of his eyebrows and eyes, then, like a child who stole some candy, a juvenile excitement surfaced on her unguarded face. Seeing the other person’s eyelids twitch, she quickly retracted her hand.

Fortunately, Jiang Chen did not wake up.

If this guy discovered what she did, she would die of embarrassment.

Li Shuru quietly exhaled, and a stronger wave of drowsiness hit her, her eyelids slowly closed.

About a few minutes later, when the breathing beside her became steady, Jiang Chen quietly opened his eyes, glanced sideways at the beautiful face of the girl sleeping next to him, turned his head back, and closed his eyes again.

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The moon set and the sun rose.

The light of dawn pierced through the darkness.

The glitzy metropolis, like a complex machine, was bustling with activity once more.

In a city convenience hotel on Huaidong Road, Jiang Chen suddenly felt a soreness in his arm, opened his eyes, and was immediately stunned.

The girl who had been lying next to him was now in his arms. Her head rested in the crook of his arm, sleeping soundly.

What was even more fatal was that their temperatures seemed to have been pretty high, and the bathrobe that was wrapped around her body had completely fallen off, leaving her almost naked except for her violet underwear!

This was truly "sticking together like glue."

Jiang Chen’s mind froze, and his gaze almost instinctively swept down from her long, fair neck to her delicate and sexy collarbone, until it was blocked by the lofty and proud peaks.

Jiang Chen’s heartbeat skipped a beat, not with excitement, but with a tingling sensation on his scalp.

He always slept very quietly, never moving around, and would usually be in the same place upon waking up as where he had fallen asleep—something Ai Qian had personally verified—so the bathrobe on his body was still properly wrapped around him.

Which meant that the current situation was definitely not caused by him.

But even though that was the case, it didn’t mean he could feel completely at ease. If Li Shuru woke up and saw this, he probably wouldn’t be able to explain himself, even if he was innocent.

Jiang Chen held his breath and moved carefully, trying to sneak out of bed by moving his arm slowly. But just as he was about to succeed, lifting Li Shuru’s arm to slip away at the last moment, Li Shuru seemed to be startled awake by his movement and suddenly opened her eyes.

Their eyes met, and Jiang Chen’s heart sank, as if a spell had been cast, freezing him in place.

"This... I can explain..."

He hurriedly said.

In such a situation, it was easy to assume he was groping her while she slept, but Li Shuru didn’t seem to misunderstand. After a brief moment of initial confusion upon waking, she actually smiled at Jiang Chen.

"Good morning."

She was the epitome of gentle like water.

Jiang Chen’s face stiffened.

[Li Shuru’s favorability towards you +10]

A certain famous person once said that the quickest way to conquer a man is through his stomach, and the most effective way to conquer a woman is through her xx.

A point well made.