"So..."
Seeing that Alice had finished bandaging him, Cui Ciyou decided to bring the conversation back on track.
He leaned lazily against the headboard and teased her with a hint of amusement:
"Miss Alice, what exactly brought you sneaking into my room so late?"
"Don't tell me... you're here to inflict 'Divine Punishment' on me again!"
When Cui Ciyou asked about her real reason for coming, Alice, who had been so poised and gracious while dressing his wound, practically radiating a healer's compassion, instantly grew bashful again.
A suspicious blush spread across Alice's cheeks in the hazy moonlight.
Alice suddenly stood up from beside Cui Ciyou's bed.
Like a startled little rabbit, she backed away several steps.
One, two, three... until she had retreated about five steps.
It was just the right distance for Cui Ciyou to take in her entire petite figure.
Cui Ciyou watched Alice in puzzlement, raising an eyebrow, unsure what she was up to.
Already bashful, Alice grew even more... yes!... even more bashful and uncomfortable under Cui Ciyou's searching gaze!
First, Alice took a deep breath, then slowly let it out.
Her little chest rose and fell, as though she were about to bravely march to her death, throwing caution to the wind.
Then, under Cui Ciyou's increasingly bewildered gaze, Alice did something astonishing!
She reached out with her two soft, fair little hands and grabbed her beautiful, fiery-red hair.
Lifting the long red locks high on either side, she did her best to shape them into a strange pair of... "twin-tail animal ears" on top of her head!
Then, facing the utterly baffled Cui Ciyou on the bed, Alice tried hard, very, very hard, to give him a wink.
It was that playful closing of the right eye that bright, energetic idol girls with