The Hot Spring Bathhouse, changing room.
Li Qiuzhi carried Acting Grand Master Jean here and set her down, helped remove her cape, and gently stroked the snowy-white back it revealed.
His fingers traced back and forth along the graceful lines of her shoulder blades.
Jean had raised her hands to undo her hair tie. Feeling the tingling itch on her back, she pressed her lips together and spoke with difficulty, as though enduring something:
"All right, stop dawdling here."
Li Qiuzhi slid his hands outward from her shoulder blades, his fingertips brushing her unguarded underarms like crawling ants.
"Mmph..."
Having just undone her black hair tie, Jean instinctively lowered her arms, tightly trapping Li Qiuzhi's hands against her underarms.
Her face slightly flushed, she squeezed her arms inward, trying to force his hands out.
But clearly, that would not work.
Feeling the warmth against both sides of his hands, Li Qiuzhi gently turned them over and grasped Jean's soft, snowy-white arms.
Then he slid his hands down, pulling off her white sleeves.
Next, he pinched the hem of Acting Grand Master Jean's top and lifted it, removing the entire sleeveless garment. The skin of her abdomen was fair and supple, and her slender little navel added another captivating touch.
Covering her chest with one hand, Acting Grand Master Jean took the top, put it on a hanger, and parted her lips to say:
"Let me sit down first."
She wore white fitted trousers and knee-high, high-heeled boots on her lower half. She could not take them off while remaining standing.
"Mm."
Li Qiuzhi nodded.
Naturally, the changing room had chairs so everyone could sit and slowly remove their shoes and socks.
He brought a wooden chair with a backrest over from the corner and placed it behind Acting Grand Master