Tap, tap, tap!
Hearing the footsteps, Jiang Ruoxue's heart began to race. "Jiang Cheng, is that you?"
What a stupid question! If it wasn't me, was it a ghost?!
Jiang Cheng silently grumbled. Too lazy to respond to Jiang Ruoxue, he placed the bath towel outside the bathroom door and tossed out a sentence.
"I left it at the door."
Just as he was about to turn around, the bathroom door was suddenly flung open.
In an instant, a perfect, blood-stirring body flickered into view through the steam, like a carefully sculpted work of art.
Jiang Cheng and Jiang Ruoxue stared wide-eyed at each other. Then, a shriek echoed throughout the Jiang Family estate.
"Jiang Cheng, you... why are you still here?!"
Jiang Ruoxue covered her delicate body, glaring at Jiang Cheng with a face full of shame and anger.
Jiang Cheng: "??"
I'd like to know why I'm still here too. Who knew you'd suddenly open the door? Did you think going downstairs took no time at all?
"Turn around already!"
Jiang Ruoxue shot Jiang Cheng an annoyed look, the corner of her lips curling into a barely noticeable smile.
Only then did Jiang Cheng realize what was happening. He hurriedly turned around, intending to head downstairs, but an angry cry came from behind him.
"Stop! Who told you to leave?"
No, miss, what exactly do you want me to do?!
Jiang Cheng felt guilty. Right or wrong, he had indeed seen something he shouldn't have—but he hadn't done it on purpose.
Should he let Jiang Ruoxue look at him in return? That would make them even, wouldn't it?
Jiang Ruoxue said furiously, "You saw my entire body, and you're just planning to leave like that?"
What else was he supposed to do? It wasn't like he could turn around and take another look.
"S-Sorry?" Jiang Cheng didn't dare turn back as he answered tentatively.
Sorry?
Jiang Ruoxue was so angry she laughed. She wanted nothing more than to pry open Jiang Cheng's head and see what exactly was inside.
A gorgeous beauty like her was standing naked right in front of him. How could he possibly remain unmoved?
And he was apologizing to her? Apologize my ass!
Couldn't he do something practical? Do what he was supposed to do? Man up already!
"Don't worry, I didn't see anything. Really!" Jiang Cheng kept swallowing, rubbing his nose.
Good. It hadn't gotten longer.
To be fair, Jiang Ruoxue's figure was absolutely incredible—curves in all the right places, and the places that were supposed to be big were especially big!!
Her future children and their father definitely wouldn't suffer.
The more Jiang Cheng thought about it, the warmer his nose felt. He reached up and touched it.
Damn it, he had a nosebleed!
This was utterly humiliating. Thankfully, Jiang Ruoxue hadn't seen it, or he would have wanted to crawl into a crack in the floor.
Jiang Ruoxue gritted her teeth and lowered her voice. "What did you say? You didn't see anything?"
Jiang Cheng felt a chill down his back and quickly raised his hand in promise. "Really. There was too much steam in there, so I didn't see..."
The moment he said it, Jiang Cheng wanted to slap himself twice. Even he didn't believe that.
They had been mere inches apart. Wasn't he practically treating Jiang Ruoxue like an idiot?
Sure enough, Jiang Ruoxue's expression became exceedingly colorful as she said "good" several times in a row.
"Turn around!"
Jiang Ruoxue walked straight out of the bathroom. You said you didn't see anything, right? Then today, she would let him see his fill!
Sooner or later, she would be his anyway. He could look for as long as he wanted.
Hearing Jiang Ruoxue's words, Jiang Cheng froze briefly before shaking his head nonstop like a rattle drum.
In the end, unable to bear it any longer, he fled downstairs as though escaping for his life.
Jiang Ruoxue smiled smugly at the sight, then quietly took a voice recorder from the bathroom.
"Jiang Cheng, now you really can't escape, even with wings~"
She had never believed this plan would work in the first place. She only wanted to have some leverage over Jiang Cheng.
It would make it easier for her to harass... no! To find Jiang Cheng later.
Given enough time, she refused to believe she couldn't win Jiang Cheng over!
Of course, if things had naturally progressed just now, that would have been an unexpected delight.
Meanwhile, once Jiang Cheng calmed down, the more he thought about it, the more something felt off. Could Jiang Ruoxue have done it on purpose?
But Jiang Ruoxue's expression earlier hadn't seemed like an act!
In the original novel, although Jiang Ruoxue acted boldly, she was actually quite conservative at heart. She shouldn't have been capable of doing something like that.
After successfully ruling out the correct answer, Jiang Cheng fell into confusion again. Was his luck really this bad?
Something this coincidental had happened to him. If Ye Bufan found out, wouldn't he be furious to death? Jiang Cheng could already imagine the Protagonist's impotent rage.
Then again, this Villain had seen the Heroine naked. That probably... didn't count as cuckolding the Protagonist, right?
Tap, tap, tap~
Footsteps sounded behind him, interrupting Jiang Cheng's thoughts.
Jiang Ruoxue was wearing a loose T-shirt. Her jade-like legs were round and straight, with a hint of laziness between her brows. She had somehow turned an ordinary outfit into something fashionable.
Sure enough, beautiful people looked good in anything!
But Jiang Cheng had no mood to admire her, because Jiang Ruoxue was currently staring at him with an "angry" gaze.
Ahem, ahem~
Jiang Cheng guiltily turned his head away and casually picked up a glass of eighty-two-year-old plain water from the table to calm himself down.
Hmph~ Men!
With light steps, Jiang Ruoxue walked over to Jiang Cheng's side. "Is it good?"
"Beautiful." Jiang Cheng blurted it out instinctively. "No, I mean... it's good!"
Damn it, how had he let his true thoughts slip out? What a sin!
Jiang Ruoxue tried her best to appear calm, though inwardly she was already bursting with joy. She unhurriedly sat on the sofa and gave a soft snort.
"What are you going to do about it?"
"What do you mean, what am I going to do?" Jiang Cheng frowned, then suddenly understood. "Oh, I'm planning to eat three extra bowls of rice later."
That was right—Jiang Cheng planned to deny everything. Jiang Ruoxue had no evidence anyway, and he was past caring.
Hehe~
So he was pretending to be dumb with her? Good thing she had prepared in advance.
Jiang Ruoxue smiled faintly and slowly played a recording, turning the volume all the way up.
After hearing its contents, Jiang Cheng was dumbfounded, his head buzzing.
What normal person recorded audio while taking a bath?!
"What are you doing?" Jiang Cheng gave an awkward laugh, but his eyes never left her phone.
"Jiang Cheng, you have to take responsibility!"
Jiang Ruoxue's words were shocking. Jiang Cheng's eyes widened, and he nearly choked on his water.
Was that something the Heroine could say?
Making the Villain take responsibility? Was she worried the Male Lead's head wasn't green enough already?!
"What did you say?!"
Jiang Cheng dug at his ear, convinced he had to be dreaming.
Someone! Whoever has yellow pee, spray me awake!
"You saw my entire body. Shouldn't you take responsibility?"
Jiang Ruoxue puffed out her chest and spoke with righteous conviction.
Uh, that actually seemed to make sense.
For a moment, Jiang Cheng couldn't find a reason to refute her. Seeing an opening, Jiang Ruoxue's eyes lit up as she activated PUA mode.
She started with how Jiang Cheng and Jiang Ruoxue had been Childhood Sweethearts since they were young, innocent childhood companions.
Then she moved on to how, when they were children playing house, Jiang Cheng had said he would marry Jiang Ruoxue—that the two of them were truly in love...
Finally, she talked about how Jiang Ruoxue would bear Jiang Cheng a whole soccer team's worth of children.
The more Jiang Cheng listened, the more outrageous it became.
Absurd. It was complete nonsense!
When had he ever said those things? And have a whole soccer team? Was she planning to compete in the World Cup?!
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