Chapter 44 (1)
Tong Yao’s face was the color of persimmons dangling in the autumn wind, turning white, then blue, then red. She was silent for a while, then ask in horrific confusion: “What do you mean? Are you proposing to me?”
Lu Sicheng: “……”
Tong Yao: “……”
Lu Sicheng: “Is there something wrong with your head? I’m asking whether you’re trying to swindle……Nevermind, I’m mocking you.”
“……” Tong Yao slowing widened her eyes: “What’s that about swindling betrothal gifts? You better talk nicely. I’m a person with an 800,000 annual salary! Who cares about the meager betrothal gifts!”
Lu Sicheng sneered and lifted the blanket to check the bed without paying any more attention to her.
Tong Yao stopped talking and asked: “What are you looking at?”
“I’m checking to see if you dirtied my– –”
Before Lu Sicheng finished his sentence, Tong Yao suddenly jumped up and spread her body over his bed. The man was caught off guard and fell onto his back. He raised his head in irritation to see Tong Yao nervously staring at him with her body on top of the blanket: “Don’t look! If it’s dirty, I’ll wash it for you! Don’t look!”
Lu Sicheng wasn’t originally serious about checking the bed. But seeing her so nervous about it amused him. He curled the edges of his lips: “Then, where do I sleep tonight?”
“……” Tong Yao pointed to Little Fatty’s bed.
Lu Sicheng took a glance: “His bed is too soft, it’ll hurt my back.”
Tong Yao’s lips twitched and she almost jumped up to strangle this difficult person. She slowly got up from the bed and went under the blanket to feel around to see if there were any signs of a wet spot. As she was busy, she heard Lu Sicheng lazily speak over the blanket: “Why can’t you be more prudent when you do things? Tell me, how many times have I taken the blame for you……”
“Yes, yes, yes, long live Captain the great. I’ll be working my tail off for you in the next life……move your leg, let me see that side.”
As she was talking, she lifted one of Lu Sicheng’s leg from under the blanket.
Right at this moment, the door was pushed open from the outside. Little Fatty’s voice came into the room– —
“Cheng Ge, Xiao Rui asked me to come up and ask you two whether you want to eat some of the har how[1] that we brought back……”
Little Fatty’s voice vanished when he saw Lu Sicheng with one leg raised high up and someone was under the blanket, seemingly knelt between his two legs. He was silent for a moment– —
Then the door slammed shut.
Inside the room, Lu Sicheng calmingly raised his eyebrows.
Under the blanket, Tong Yao dropped Lu Sicheng’s leg and lifted the blanket off of her head: “The bed isn’t dirty……Who was that? Little Fatty? Why did he go back out? har gow? I want to eat har gow!”
Lu Sicheng bent his legs and smiled while taking his time to say: “Let’s go.”
Tong Yao jumped down from the bed and used her hand to tidy up her hair. She turned to see Lu Sicheng slowly getting up and asked him hesitantly: “Do you want to change? You were probably sweating a lot earlier? Be careful not to catch a cold.”
Lu Sicheng glanced at her but didn’t say anything.
[1]: 虾饺, shrimp dumpling, a dim sum dish
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