The warm winter sunlight streamed through the enormous floor-to-ceiling panoramic window in the Private Club's second-floor bedroom, casting patches of golden light across the carpet. The smart fresh-air system ran silently, keeping the room at a perfect twenty-four degrees Celsius.
On the broad, soft custom-made bed, amid the rumpled silk bedding, lingered the intimate afterglow of last night's "scientific experiment," not yet fully dispersed.
Su Bai leaned against the headboard, his nearly perfect muscle definition displaying breathtaking tension in the morning light.
Curled up in the crook of his arm like a lazy cat was Chen Yusheng.
Her long, silky black hair spilled over Su Bai's chest, while a few faint red marks still lingered on her fair skin.
Without the rigorous, aloof academic aura she usually carried in the laboratory, she now had her beautiful, crystal-clear eyes gently closed, her long lashes resting quietly against her eyelids like butterfly wings. She exuded an utterly unguarded softness and sweetness.
Instead, she seemed more like she had when Su Bai had first met her.
"Awake?"
Feeling the faintest tremor from the person in his arms, Su Bai lowered his head and pressed a gentle good-morning kiss to her forehead.
"Mm..."
Chen Yusheng let out a soft hum thick with sleepiness and slowly opened her clear, beautiful eyes.
Rather than getting up right away, she shifted into a more comfortable position in Su Bai's warm embrace and rubbed against him like a little girl reluctant to leave her blankets.
Whenever Su Bai had fully satisfied her, she became especially docile, like a little kitten.
"Was Professor Chen satisfied with last night's practical session?" Su Bai asked with a wicked grin, deliberately teasing her.
At those words, even Chen Yusheng, who was known for her absolute rationality, could not stop a flush from