Alice was utterly dumbfounded by Cui Ciyou's smooth, brisk "good night, now leave."
Her small body froze in place, with only one thought left in her head, looping madly like a broken record:
That bastard... he looks down on me...
"..."
She stared at Cui Ciyou, who had already lain back down and even adjusted his pillow, looking for all the world as though he were saying, "I'm about to fall asleep. Do not disturb."
Alice felt that her feminine dignity had been trampled beyond all recognition.
Even though she was still a child.
It was something on a higher level: the calm indifference of an adult dealing with a child's antics, a crushing mismatch that rendered her utterly powerless.
That infuriated Alice more than any mockery or argument could have!
Blazing fury instantly seized her mind.
It drove Alice to make a decision that would leave even her mortified whenever she thought back on it afterward.
That bastard. I'll fight him.
A trace of resolve flashed in Alice's eyes. She stamped her foot, then marched fiercely around to the other side of the bed.
She took another deep breath. Her cute little face flushed even redder than when she had attempted that wink, like a ripe red apple.
Then...
Under Cui Ciyou's now astonished gaze...
Alice actually landed with a thump...
Like a warrior launching a suicidal charge, she jumped straight onto Cui Ciyou's bed, then promptly lay down beside him.
And that was not all!
What happened next made Cui Ciyou's brain crash.
With her slightly trembling little hands, Alice actually grabbed the hem of her cotton nightgown and lifted it.
In an instant, her small abdomen, flat and firm from years of rigorous sword training...
Her ivory-pale, youthful belly, with faint vertical lines of muscle just visible