Practice

"Mmm~"

Su Yumei gave a slight nod. As soon as she finished speaking, her cheeks flushed hot. She pressed both hands to her chest, her pounding heartbeat roaring in her ears!

"But... I'm your student!"

"That doesn't matter. My family doesn't know you're my student." Su Yumei lowered her head and spoke guiltily. "As long as we don't let anyone at school find out, it'll be fine. Besides, I'm only twenty-five. It's not like our age gap is easy to notice..."

Su Yumei knew perfectly well how shameless it was to do this with one of her students.

But if she had to find a fake boyfriend, Lin Che really was the best choice.

Because of the hypnosis, Su Yumei had already shared her unusual preferences with Lin Che.

So even when she wasn't hypnotized, Su Yumei still felt a certain closeness to him.

Faced with the choice between a blind date and Lin Che, Su Yumei chose him without hesitation.

"But Teacher, have you thought about how we're not actually a couple? Even if I go home with you, your family will see through us right away!"

Lin Che didn't agree immediately. He kept his head.

"Why?"

"Think about it, Teacher. Couples hug and kiss... Even if they're a little restrained in front of their parents, they'll at least hold hands."

"But we're teacher and student. We can't exactly do those things!"

Lin Che figured that Su Yumei wouldn't agree to anything intimate with her teacher.

He brought it up hoping to bring Teacher Su back to her senses, but he had clearly underestimated her determination!

"But... it's not like we couldn't..."

Su Yumei lowered her head, her flushed cheeks nearly buried in her ample cleavage.

She understood what Lin Che meant. If they were going to pretend to be a couple, they would inevitably have to do things that only couples did.

But... the thought of doing those things with Lin Che filled Su Yumei with a sense of anticipation, along with her embarrassment!

She had never been in a relationship. If Lin Che were her first, she could accept that.

As for the forbidden feeling of being involved with a student...

She still had hypnosis as her trump card, so Su Yumei wasn't really worried about any of that!

"Huh? Teacher, what did you say?!"

Lin Che was stunned. His mouth hung open so wide that he could have fit a whole apple inside.

He wondered if there was something wrong with his ears.

What was Teacher saying?!

Did she mean... he could do things with her that only couples did?!

Lin Che was overwhelmed by his good fortune. Teacher Su was the gentle goddess in the hearts of countless people at school. Surely she had no shortage of admirers...

And yet he couldn't believe his luck had fallen on him!

"I-I mean... if I want my parents to believe we're a couple, then some physical affection is unavoidable. Don't worry, Lin Che. I won't blame you!"

"Really?"

The expression on Lin Che's face gradually shifted from disbelief to delighted surprise.

Su Yumei's heart was racing, but seeing how excited Lin Che was made a sweet feeling spread through her chest.

Lin Che was excited too. Was it because he could be a couple with me?

Or was he simply lusting after my body?

Su Yumei lifted her head and dared to meet Lin Che's gaze. Her eyes were full of tenderness, and their gentle, delicate warmth made him want to lose himself in them.

Lin Che met his teacher's eyes, too.

Their gazes met, as if igniting a spark of passion. The air in the little apartment grew thick with a warm, suggestive tension.

A beautiful, gentle teacher and a restless teenage student, alone together.

The situation was practically straight out of a porn movie.

Su Yumei had never been in a relationship, but she had watched porn movies, so she knew exactly what came next.

Her imagination began to run wild.

Her emotions were like water poured into a pot of hot oil. With a sizzle, they bubbled over all at once!

Su Yumei had a classic case of sexual repression. All it took was the slightest hint of flirtation for her to start imagining all sorts of things.

"Then... Lin Che, do you want to practice first?"

"Practice what?!"

"Just..." Su Yumei's voice was faint as a mosquito's buzz. "Just practice pretending to be a couple."

"!"

Su Yumei's words sounded like a heavenly melody to Lin Che.

Was this real?

Was the poised and elegant Teacher Su Yumei, who was so dignified at school, really asking her student to...

He widened his eyes and looked at Teacher Su's curvaceous figure beneath her silk nightgown. Lin Che's throat tightened, and he could barely get the words out.

"Teacher, do you mean you want me to...?"

"W-What are you thinking?!" Su Yumei's face was red enough to drip blood. She seemed to see what was going through Lin Che's mind, and her voice grew hurried and flustered. "I just mean holding hands, to practice acting like a couple!"

"Come~ Sit next to me."

Su Yumei sat on the sofa and patted the spot beside her. Lin Che immediately went over and sat down.

The delicate fragrance coming from the mature woman made Lin Che's thoughts slow.

"Lin Che, this is my first time holding hands with a guy, so please be gentle with me!"

Su Yumei turned formal and offered him her little hand.

"Teacher, that's not how couples hold hands."

Lin Che gently scratched the center of Su Yumei's palm. Her hand softened, and her clenched fist relaxed. Lin Che took the opportunity to lace their fingers together.

It was Su Yumei's first time holding hands with a guy. Her mind went completely blank, and she felt dizzy.

Then...

Su Yumei sat on the sofa with her head lowered, as docile as a schoolgirl who had done something wrong.

She even deliberately kept a certain distance from Lin Che.

The awkwardness on Su Yumei's face instantly cooled the flirtatious atmosphere.

Lin Che knew this was bad.

Teacher Su looked like she had never been in a relationship.

Just holding hands had made her so tense that her whole body had stiffened.

If she went to meet her parents like this, Father Su and Mother Su would probably see how stiff their daughter was and expose their fake-boyfriend act right away!

If he had decided to help Teacher, then he had to see it through!

At the very least, he had to help Teacher Su get used to acting like a couple!

"Teacher, your parents won't believe us if you act like this!"

"But... I don't know what to do." Su Yumei could hear her pounding heart roaring in her ears. Her nervousness made her feel as if she might cry.

"Lin Che, just do whatever you want. I'll listen to you."

In the end, Su Yumei chose to hand the initiative over to Lin Che.

She trusted an eighteen-year-old boy to take the lead...

Chapter 31: Practice

Su Yumei could feel it.

The moment she finished speaking, Lin Che's gaze clearly grew more intense.

His burning stare seemed to scorch her, and Su Yumei closed her eyes in embarrassment.

She looked like a pitiful little lamb at someone's mercy!

Lin Che swallowed, wetting his dry throat.

Then he moved closer and wrapped one arm around Su Yumei's soft, shapely shoulders.

Through the smooth silk of her nightgown, Lin Che could feel her delicate body tremble when his hand came to rest on her shoulder.

Her mature, alluring face grew clearer before his eyes. He could see Teacher's long eyelashes trembling.

Teacher couldn't be this nervous when they went to meet her parents!

Lin Che knew that even though Teacher had asked him to pretend to be her boyfriend, their teacher-student relationship made it hard for her to set aside her dignity as a teacher!

In that case...

He would just have to make Teacher Su forget who she was for a little while!

"Yu Bao, don't be so nervous. Open your eyes and look at me, okay?"

Lin Che spoke into Su Yumei's ear in the gentlest voice he could manage.

"Lin Che, w-what did you call Teacher? You can't be so... disrespectful..."

A shy warmth swept over Su Yumei. Hearing him call her "Yu Bao" made her feel weak in the knees. It was terribly embarrassing to be called that by her own student.

"Yu Bao, did you forget? We're not teacher and student right now. If I keep calling you Teacher Su, we'll give ourselves away!"

"Mmm..."

Su Yumei obediently nodded.

It was embarrassing, but Lin Che was absolutely right.

Now that they had decided to pretend to be a couple, continuing to use their usual forms of address would obviously make no sense.

"Then... you can only call me that when we're pretending to be a couple..."

Su Yumei nodded, accepting the nickname Lin Che had given her.

Her tone sounded a little put out, but she still felt a bit sweet inside.

It was the first time anyone had called her by such an affectionate nickname. Su Yumei felt like she was eighteen again, pink bubbles floating up inside her.

"Yu Bao, you can't call me Lin Che, either."

"Then... what should I call you? Lin Bao? Or Che Bao?"

Su Yumei caught on quickly. Since Lin Che called her "Yu Bao," then his nickname should be something plus "Bao," too.

"Call me Husband!"

"Ah! W-W-W-W-Why?!"

Su Yumei's mind hadn't even caught up.

Why?

Why was he so bold when it came to her?!

She forgot to feel embarrassed for a moment. With wide, beautiful eyes, she looked at Lin Che in confusion.

Lin Che scratched his head.

"Because I like it~"

There was a very simple reason.

It was just Lin Che's personal preference. The thought of the gentle goddess at school using her lovely, poetry-reciting lips to call him Husband made him incredibly excited!

"If you can't accept it, Teacher, then forget it."

"It's okay..."

Su Yumei shook her head and then parted her moist red lips.