Clearly, she had never imagined that this man before her, who looked so much like her, would do this to her.
And she truly never, ever imagined...
That her first kiss would be taken in these circumstances by that man who looked so much like her...
The moment the door was pushed open, the lifted blanket fell back down, hiding their bodies beneath it.
"Xiao Ying! What happened?!"
Their mother burst through the doorway, panting and wielding a cleaver. Gripping the door with one hand, she looked fiercely around the room.
Beneath the blanket.
Lin Ying's pupils trembled violently. Lynn's lips pressed hard against hers, nearly suffocating her, while their bodies were pressed almost unavoidably tight together.
Lynn was trembling inside too, every hair on his body standing on end.
No!
I absolutely cannot let my mother find out!
Do I really have to use my Mechanical Body?
But if I do...
If I do...
Yet at that desperate moment, Lin Ying, pinned beneath him, finally pulled her lips free. She abruptly turned her head in startled anger, suppressing her breathlessness as she struggled to whisper:
"N-nothing's wrong, Mom. Go back to sleep. The noise must have come from outside. Something probably happened somewhere again."
Lynn jolted, staring at the girl before him in breathless astonishment. His hand, which had been about to summon his Mechanical Body, stopped. He had never expected her to help him out of this predicament.
Lin Ying bit her lip hard, turning her face firmly aside to avoid looking at him. At such close range, she could distinctly feel his breath against her neck.
At the doorway, Mother Lin panted, holding her flashlight and knife, and said:
"But that gunshot just now really sounded like..."
"It was outside."
Lin Ying trembled, trying hard to turn