Secretly Buying a Nightgown

Early in the morning, Zhou Jialu gradually woke from her exhaustion.

Calling it exhaustion wasn't quite right—it was more like the comfortable feeling of sleeping deeply after an intense workout.

Out of habit, she rolled around in bed, only to roll onto a warm, solid body.

That alluring masculine scent instantly woke Zhou Jialu up, and she opened her eyes.

Ah...

She remembered. She had slept with her junior last night.

Hehe.

Looking at Su Bai's face so close at hand, Zhou Jialu's expression softened with affection.

She was overwhelmed with emotion.

Just one short week ago, Zhou Jialu had still been worrying about whether she could secure a permanent position after graduation, what job she should look for if she got laid off, and whether she should take postgraduate entrance exams or civil service exams...

In short, they had all been matters of survival.

Jiangcheng University was indeed a Project 985 university, but the job prospects for a liberal arts marketing major were actually quite bleak. Especially given the state of things these past two years, positions suited to liberal arts graduates were basically undergoing massive layoffs, let alone hiring newcomers.

Yet only a week had passed, and she was now lying in a hotel bed that cost nearly two thousand a night.

Beside her, sleeping soundly, was a man she had known for only a few days who had already spent over a million on her.

Before even graduating, Zhou Jialu already owned a limited-edition handbag worth over a hundred thousand, a high-end fashionable Chanel outfit, and an exquisite Mercedes-Benz C260L...

Oh my God, I'm not dreaming, am I?

Zhou Jialu suddenly felt inexplicably nervous and reached out to pinch Su Bai's face.

"Phew..."

"Junior, does your face hurt?"

"It's fine. What's going on?"

"I suddenly feel so happy that I'm afraid all of this is just a dream."

Su Bai had only just woken up, and his mind was still sluggish. He froze for a few seconds before bursting into laughter.

"What are you laughing at? Is it that funny?"

"Senior, why are you so cute? Hahaha..."

Zhou Jialu was both embarrassed and indignant. She hid beneath the covers, only for Su Bai to lift them and tease her again.

As they playfully tussled, things naturally shifted into their morning exercise routine.

Before, Zhou Jialu had heard some of her female friends talk about demanding that their husbands pay their marital dues after getting married. Some women even cheated because they were sexually dissatisfied.

Back then, Zhou Jialu had found it unbelievable. Was that sort of thing really so enticing?

Only now, after experiencing its pleasures herself, did Zhou Jialu finally understand.

Being intimate with someone you liked really was addictive.

After quite a while.

Su Bai patted the senior school sister resting atop him on her round bottom and teased, "Senior, this nightgown is amazing, but I have a question. Don't you feel embarrassed wearing something like this in your dorm, where your roommates can see it?"

After all, Zhou Jialu was quite innocent at heart.

It was hard to imagine such a shy girl wearing something so close to erotic lingerie in the dormitory.

At that, Zhou Jialu smiled. "Of course not. Hehe, I'll tell you a secret—I secretly bought it yesterday while we were shopping, when you weren't paying attention."

"Huh?" Su Bai stared blankly. "That happened? When? How did I not notice?"

"You went to buy ice cream. I was at the Chanel store, and the shop selling this nightgown was nearby."

"Wow." Su Bai clicked his tongue in amazement. "What a scheming senior."

Thinking about it carefully, the arrangement actually seemed perfectly reasonable.

There was a shop selling that kind of lingerie near luxury boutiques.

Rich guys bought luxury goods for girls, then conveniently picked up a consumable for the evening.

Nothing wrong with that!

"As long as you like it."

Zhou Jialu rubbed her face against Su Bai, looking utterly infatuated.

As she kept nuzzling him, their stomachs began to growl almost at the same time.

It was time to order food!

They had not eaten much for dinner yesterday, focusing on keeping things healthy.

After several rounds of exercise, they had gone straight to sleep while drowsy and had not eaten a late-night snack either.

After thinking it over, Su Bai simply ordered breakfast delivery from that Cantonese restaurant.

It was a combination of various Cantonese dim sum dishes.

Breakfast and dinner were taken care of in one go.

As it happened, the restaurant had pork liver soup with goji leaves. Su Bai ordered two servings; both he and his senior school sister needed to replenish themselves properly.

Although the system would eliminate the negative effects of indulgence, psychologically, it still felt like there was a deficit.

Besides, choosing nutritious food would be good for the body anyway.

That afternoon, Zhou Jialu was the first to drive away from the hotel.

Su Bai had to go back for a class meeting, so naturally, he needed to prepare himself. At the very least, he had to take a shower and wash away her scent from his body, right?

After all, he was going to see Chen Yusheng.

So Zhou Jialu thoughtfully left Su Bai some time alone.

As soon as she reached the underground garage and got into her Mercedes-Benz C260L, Zhou Jialu's phone rang. It was a call from her roommate, Liu Yuanyuan.

"Hello, Senior Jialu, where are you right now?"

"I'm still out. I should be back at school before long. What happened?"

Zhou Jialu could hear the urgency in Liu Yuanyuan's voice.

There was probably some sudden situation.

"Senior, do you remember Zhang Kang from the Finance Department? The one from the student union who used to pester you?"

"I remember. What about him?"

"Last night, he somehow got wind that you didn't return to the dorm, and he went nuts. He insisted on seeing you. I'm talking to him on WeChat right now and keeping him under control. He originally wanted to come downstairs to our dorm building, but I told him we should meet somewhere else..."

"Mm, we should change the location. It wouldn't look good downstairs from the dorm." Zhou Jialu took a deep breath. She was hardly flustered as she arranged things efficiently. "Yuanyuan, thank you for helping me. You've been a huge help. Tell him to come to the parking lot in the south section of campus. I'll meet him there and clear things up."

"Okay, Senior. I'll head over right away too."

After hanging up, Zhou Jialu shook her head helplessly.

Zhang Kang from the Finance Department had worked with her in the student union. They could barely be considered colleagues.

His family had a little money, and he was quite full of himself. The first time he saw Zhou Jialu, the lecherous look in his eyes had exposed the filth in his heart.

He kept saying he wanted Zhou Jialu to be his girlfriend.

He tried to brainwash her, telling her that girls should cash in on their looks while they were young. What he meant was that Zhang Kang himself was the perfect person for her to cash in on.

However, Zhou Jialu felt nothing for him. She had firmly rejected him many times, yet Zhang Kang still refused to give up.

This time, he had probably asked around among the girls in the neighboring dorm room.

After finding out she was dating someone and had spent the night out, he was probably furious enough to explode.

Sure enough, just as Zhou Jialu had guessed.

When she drove into the parking lot in the south section of campus, she saw Zhang Kang standing by the roadside, looking impotently enraged as he said something to Liu Yuanyuan beside him.

Liu Yuanyuan didn't look pleased either. After all, she wasn't someone to be pushed around.

"How many times have I told you? Zhou Jialu won't find anyone better than me! I told you to keep an eye on her for me, and now look what happened—she got taken by some trashy little blond punk who came out of nowhere... Ahhh! What a waste!"

Zhang Kang rubbed his head as he raged.

Liu Yuanyuan was so angry she laughed. "No, dude, are you brain-dead? What do you mean she can't find anyone better than you? You seriously underestimate our Senior Jialu."

"Isn't that the truth? She came from some rural backwater outside the city, she didn't even study a major that makes money, and she even failed courses and nearly couldn't graduate. These days, an ordinary Project 985 graduate is nothing in River City."

Zhang Kang made no effort to hide his contempt. "With my qualifications, among the men willing to seriously date her, I'm already top-tier, you know? Sure, maybe some very rich men wouldn't mind taking her as a short-term mistress, but that's an entirely different matter. Sigh, I genuinely want to be with her!"