Chapter 268: Sulking (cont.)

For this mission, Zhao Bai selected the Vodka Girls and selected Seele...

What about her?

What about Bronya?

Zhao Bai had forgotten Bronya!

Bronya still maintained that barely perceptible reserve. She would never proactively approach him like a dog. Zhao Bai was so attentive toward other women, yet so oblivious when it came to Bronya alone. Had the warranty expired? Or had he simply become too close to her?

She did not understand.

In any case, with faint unease in her heart, Bronya lay awake all night beneath the slowly drifting starlight.

When the first ray of morning light rose, Bronya got up.

Zhao Bai got up as well.

Yawning, he could not help asking, "Bronya, did you not sleep at all last night?"

"Hm?"

Bronya asked warily, "How did you know?"

"Your breathing barely changed all night. If you had fallen asleep, there should have been a process where it gradually became steadier... So you did not sleep all night, right?"

Zhao Bai answered smugly. Bronya turned her head away speechlessly.

This man had listened to Bronya breathing for the entire night. Did that not mean he had not slept all night either?

Where was his shame?

"I thought of a joke."

Bronya told the joke in a calm, deathly tone: "Two people were squatting by the roadside. Someone nearby watched them and laughed. When others asked why he was laughing, he answered that those two had spent the entire morning playing with an anthill by the road, making them the two most boring people in the world."

"Then the others asked him—'How did you know they had spent the whole morning playing with an anthill here?'"

"[Because I watched them from the side for the entire morning]."

The joke was over.

Bronya stared intensely at Zhao Bai. He