Chapter 15: Plans for a branch store
Exciting things were generally dreams of romance on rainy days, snowy nights-and now, even this secluded Government Compound behind its imposing gates was not entirely silent. The occasional fireworks shattered a night so quiet that even the cats could not be bothered to meow.
In this bedroom, filled with a faint fragrance reminiscent of childhood and even adolescence, his slightly chubby younger cousin Zeng Yuan stuck his bottom out and pulled open the drawer beside the bed, revealing a drawerful of little things belonging exclusively to girls.
There were bras of rose-patterned lace, little cotton panties whose triangular shape had never looked so pleasing as a geometric form, pink-and-white shapewear, and even thick cotton bra padding with bean-shaped indentations that positively invited the imagination to wander.
Su Can felt a little unnerved. He wanted to put on a stern face and lecture Zeng Yuan, only to discover that if he acted so righteous, he would look down on himself for it too.
Zeng Yuan stared blankly at this heap of things that seemed to him like gold and jewels, gave a foolish chuckle, and reached down. He rummaged in the drawer and pulled out several pairs of almost transparent panties. The gentle fragrance of a special laundry detergent wafted toward them. Su Can immediately felt the blood pumped out by his heart surge through every tiny vessel in his limbs and body. The sensation left his lower abdomen feeling slightly swollen.
"Hey, just look. Don't rummage around." Su Can's Adam's apple bobbed before he managed those words, which carried very little conviction under the circumstances.
"None of this stuff was folded properly anyway. Relax. My sister probably won't even know we touched it."
"You touched it! What the hell does it have to