In the room.
Wen Zhixia and Li Wanyin, who had finished bathing first, were sitting cross-legged on Chen Shi'an's bed, playing cards.
With a creak, the door opened.
Her face slightly flushed and her body still damp, Lin Meng Qiu returned to the room after her bath.
When she looked up and caught the two looking at her, her eyes darted away a little guiltily...
Wen Zhixia: "...?"
That Ice Block Spirit!
She must have been sneaking around doing something again. Taking forever just to bathe-definitely nothing good!
Li Wanyin paused too, but asked no questions. She simply smiled and invited her over. "Meng Qiu, come play cards with us. How about twenty-one again?"
"...Okay. Sister Wanyin, you two play first. I'll dry my hair."
"Why did your bath take so long?"
"...Nothing. I was tending the fire."
"Lin Meng Qiu, hurry up! I'm dealing!"
"..."
Li Wanyin and Wen Zhixia shifted over to make a little room for her. Lin Meng Qiu sat cross-legged on Chen Shi'an's bed with them, drying her hair as she waited for the cards.
"How are we playing?"
"Same as last night. Twenty-one. One point for each round you win. Whoever gets five points first gets to spank the others!"
"..."
Hah.
Very good.
I didn't get to spank you last night, and now you dare deliver yourself right to me tonight?
Hearing that stinking cicada say this, Lin Meng Qiu refused to back down either. She had to give that stinking cicada a good, hard spanking!
As she sat cross-legged, Lin Meng Qiu kept lifting her little hands to look at them.
Her hands were exceptionally pretty, with long, slender, even fingers and rounded, neatly trimmed nails that had a faint pinkish-white tint. Her fingers were like tender scallion shoots, her wrist bones