A Close Call

"Sure, I'll go with your arrangement."

Hearing Li Yang's words, Lin Shiyu's face lit up with a brilliant smile. Then she couldn't help adding, "You'd better pay my rent for a long time, or you'll be getting the short end of the stick. I still have six months left unpaid."

"Let's pay for a year first. Once I've taken care of things back home, I'll come over and get you a place. You can live there directly, and you won't have to rent again."

Li Yang thought it over and nodded. Then, seeing Lin Shiyu's alluring appearance, he couldn't help turning over and indulging himself once more with the full, slender body he had long coveted. Lin Shiyu giggled and protested, but still ended up being teased by Li Yang in bed for a full half hour before finally stopping with her face flushed bright red.

"I really never imagined that one day, I'd end up with you."

After playing around for a while, Lin Shiyu looked at Li Yang, who was still moving his mouth against her chest. She reached out and stroked his hair, speaking with some emotion. Then she sighed and said seriously, "Li Yang, I have only one request. When you're with me, don't bring other women to the place where I live. Is that okay?"

Li Yang paused and looked up at Lin Shiyu in surprise. He hadn't expected her to be so direct.

She clearly understood what kind of relationship existed between them and had put it right out in the open...

But after thinking about it, he realized that mature women and young girls were different after all, and their levels of acceptance would naturally differ. He quickly let it go.

Still, this condition...

"Then, can I take you to other women's places?"

Li Yang licked his lips and looked at Lin Shiyu heatedly. "Sister Lin, you know how it is. Your figure is so good, and your skin is so fair. I can't help myself."

"Ah, you bastard."

Lin Shiyu froze for a moment before realizing what he meant. She stared at him in utter shock and began struggling wildly. Li Yang hurriedly held her tight and tried to soothe her. After more than ten minutes, Lin Shiyu finally stopped in exasperation, turned her head away, and snorted. "Count yourself lucky. You can take me with you, but you have to come pick me up, and you have to bring me back afterward. You also have to give me living expenses every month!"

"Sure, sure, anything you say. Sister Lin, meeting you really is my good fortune."

Li Yang's eyes shone as he hugged and kissed her with a beaming smile. Lin Shiyu rolled her eyes and gave a soft snort, but she didn't dodge him. After a while, however, she suddenly rolled over and pinned Li Yang beneath her.

"You little punk. You want two? I'll show you just how formidable a woman can be."

Lin Shiyu gritted her teeth and pressed down on Li Yang's waist, swearing to make him pay.

Half an hour later...

"How about this place?"

At three in the afternoon, after taking another shower, Li Yang searched for nearby housing with his former workplace as the starting point. He found a decent place close by and showed it to Lin Shiyu, asking for her opinion.

"Anything is fine. You decide."

Lin Shiyu said she was too exhausted to think. Seeing this, Li Yang smiled and contacted an agent on his own. He let Lin Shiyu rest there while he went to take a look. In the end, he returned highly satisfied.

Unexpectedly, when he entered the room, Lin Shiyu was still lying on the bed resting. He immediately laughed, hurriedly woke her up, and considerately changed her into a fresh set of clothes.

"I went to see the place. It's pretty good, and the furniture is fully equipped. Just bring your personal belongings and you can move right in. We can leave everything else behind."

Li Yang pointed out the window. "I called a moving company. They're downstairs. Let's pack up the daily necessities, and let them handle the rest."

Mentioning the moving company made him smile wryly. Although he had money now, his way of thinking hadn't caught up yet. Take today's move, for example: he could have called a moving company that morning, but he had instinctively started doing everything himself. Otherwise, spending a few hundred yuan would have saved him a great deal of effort.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

After sleeping for an hour, Lin Shiyu's complexion had recovered somewhat. Thanks to having worked with Li Yang for a year and rented with him for so long, she understood him well enough to be completely at ease. Clearly, she still trusted him.

Li Yang shook his head helplessly. Seeing how exhausted she was, he took on the heavy lifting himself and had her direct him from the side. He packed up her daily necessities, then called the movers upstairs to clear out the rest, while he took Lin Shiyu straight to the new home.

When they arrived, it was a three-bedroom apartment with a living room and luxurious furnishings. Lin Shiyu was very satisfied as well. The landlord and agent were both waiting there. Li Yang directly paid a year's rent for Lin Shiyu, then helped her arrange everything. Before long, the place had taken on the look of a home.

"This is so much more spacious than the old place."

Once everything had been put in order, Lin Shiyu spread her arms and spun around the quiet living room, speaking with immense satisfaction.

"How is it? You'll be happy living here alone from now on, won't you?"

Li Yang smiled and wrapped an arm around Lin Shiyu's waist. Tilting his head, he looked into her eyes and asked.

"Happy. Are you sleeping here with me tonight, or going somewhere else? And do you want to try my cooking later?"

Lin Shiyu turned around and put her arms around Li Yang's shoulders. She gently held his arm and asked with an exceptionally tender gaze.

At her words, Li Yang's expression shifted. He scooped Lin Shiyu up in his arms, carrying her curvaceous, slender body against his chest. He kissed her tempting collarbone and strode toward the bedroom.

"No need for dinner. I'll eat you first, my good supervisor."

"Damn you~"

"..."

At five-thirty in the afternoon, after another hour of playing out their little scenario, Lin Shiyu no longer had the courage to let Li Yang sleep there. Before they had even finished dinner, she begged Li Yang to let her rest properly by herself.

As the team leader, she had been utterly overwhelmed by her disobedient subordinate, Little Li.

"If you don't let me stay here tonight, I might have to return to my hometown tomorrow."

Li Yang looked at Lin Shiyu with a beaming smile. Upon hearing this, Lin Shiyu hurriedly nodded. "That's fine, that's fine. Going home is good. You should visit often. I'll be fine by myself."

"Fine, then. Behave yourself and wait here. If anything happens, call me."

Only then was Li Yang satisfied. He gave her long, black-stockinged legs a fond stroke, then drove his own car away from the residential compound under Lin Shiyu's watchful gaze, with her accompanying him to the gate.

"Phew~"

Watching Li Yang leave, Lin Shiyu finally breathed a sigh of relief. She moved toward home with difficulty, looking as though she might cry. Halfway there, she called her supervisor again and asked for sick leave, only then letting out another relieved breath.

"If I'd let him stay here all night, what kind of state would he have left me in?"

When Lin Shiyu returned to her apartment, she looked at the messy living room, bedroom, and bathroom—especially the study—with lingering fear written all over her face. She ordered takeout, hurriedly tidied up a little, ate, and then collapsed onto the bed and fell asleep.

"Phew. That was close."

Meanwhile, after driving away from the residential compound, Li Yang rubbed his waist and breathed a sigh of relief as well.

He had nearly been thoroughly beaten today.

He had gone too hard these past two days, and he had gone completely wild, allowing him to display his might to the fullest.

But something was a little strange. Although he was very strong... he shouldn't have been this ferocious.

"Could it be that my body underwent some silent changes while traveling between worlds?"

Li Yang suddenly thought of the World Gate in his mind, and his eyes brightened slightly.