Peninsula: I'm the Top Streamer

Chapter 559 A Beauty in My Arms
The surface of the hot spring suddenly became quiet, with only the rising steam swirling around their noses.

Quan Xuanhe's hand was still tightly clasped around the hollow of Minatozaki Sana's lower back, and water droplets were sliding down her shoulder blades and into the gaps between his fingers.

"Be careful not to slip." His voice was somewhat deep, and his eyes were fixed intently on Minatozaki Sana, who was standing close by.

The girl's wet eyelashes almost brushed against his chin, and her breath, carrying the scent of sulfur from the hot springs, was spreading over his Adam's apple, causing a small flush to appear on his collarbone.

Sana Minatozaki's fingers, which were resting on his shoulder, curled unconsciously, her nails drawing fleeting crescent-shaped marks on his glistening skin.

Beneath the surface, her knee was pressed against the other person's taut thigh muscles.

The contact was too intimate; the rapidly escalating physical contact caught Minatozaki Sana off guard, leaving her visibly flustered and unsure of what to do, struggling to stand up again.

Quan Xuanhe's Adam's apple bobbed as she breathed, and he suddenly pulled her closer to his chest by half an inch with his fingertips.

The ripples that suddenly spread across the water crashed against Sana Minatozaki's chest, and through the soaked fabric, she could feel the same rapid heartbeat emanating from her.

This action startled Sana Minatozaki, who thought he was going to do something, but her body involuntarily tightened its grip even more, as if afraid of drowning again.

Just as she was about to shout, the next action calmed her heart and made her settle down.

"Stand still."

As Kwon Hyun-hyuk's palm withdrew from her lower back, a string of water droplets followed, reflecting on the water's surface Sana Minato's flushed face as she hurriedly and clumsily followed suit.

She hurriedly grabbed the volcanic rock on the pool wall, her fingertips aching from the rough texture, but she dared not let go.

In the rising steam, the soaked yukata clung to the skin, and the residual body heat from when it was pressed against the skin was now more scorching than the hot spring water.

"Stand firm?" The vibration of his Adam's apple as he chuckled seemed to still be pressed against her earlobe.

Sana Minato lowered her head and counted the ripples on the water's surface. A drop of water from her hair just happened to shatter the reflection of Kwon Hyun-hyuk in the water.

She suddenly realized that her knee was still stuck between his legs, and the splash of water as she hurriedly backed away made the blush on her face even more vibrant.

"What were you doing coming over here so suddenly? You almost made me collapse."

Caught off guard, Minatozaki Sana blinked and spoke hastily.

"I didn't expect you to float up like that, I'm sorry."

Quan Xuanhe remained noncommittal, his tone crisp and decisive, showing no trace of shame on his face, instead looking at her with a smile.

After he finished speaking, he took a step back to create a safe distance, causing a slight ripple on the water's surface. The crisp sound of bamboo tubes striking rocks in the distance broke the stillness in the air.

The water mist is thick.

"I was so relaxed just now, but I almost drowned." Sana Minatozaki relaxed a little and leaned against the edge of the pool.

"With a pool this big, it's actually quite difficult to drown," Quan Xuanhe remarked casually after glancing around.

"Hey you!"

With a sharp cry, Minatozaki Sana submerged herself slightly before completely sinking into the pool.

Underwater, she gently rubbed her body with her palms, as if her body was recalling that heart-pounding moment.

It completely threw my mind into chaos, as if the turbulent waters had turned into spring water, and the steam made my brain increasingly muddled, making even thinking difficult.

"Want to take a picture? I brought my camera over too."

Actually, the scene of them soaking in the hot springs and looking at the snow-covered mountains outside the glass was quite meaningful, and it would be a pity not to take pictures.

Sana Minatozaki turned her head and looked outside.

The snow curtain outside the glass was rippled by the mountain wind, and clumps of snowflakes fluttered against the French windows. In the distance, the branches of several red pines were arched by the accumulated snow, and occasionally a broken piece of snow fell to the ground, splashing into a few snowflakes.

Such a beautiful view would be a real shame not to take some photos to record it.

"How about it?"

When Sana Minatozaki turned back to look at Kwon Hyun-hyuk, she found that he was already holding a camera and looked at him with a somewhat surprised expression.

Photographer Quan?

"Don't you want to film? Then I'll put it aside."

Kwon Hyun-hyuk lowered his head to adjust the parameters, then looked up at Minatozaki Sana, who was staring blankly, and asked with a smile.

"Of course we'll take pictures."

The idea of ​​taking photos quickly overcame her romantic feelings, and Sana Minato raised her eyebrows, her sweet voice brimming with excitement.

When Kwon Hyun-hyuk raised his camera to point at her, Minatozaki Sana was leaning against the pebbles by the pool. Her soaked yukata clung tightly to her body as the water flowed down, and water droplets slid down her body. A section of her smooth waistline was visible through the collar of her yukata, and water droplets meandered down her concave spine groove before finally merging into the water.

"Lean your shoulders back a bit." His voice came through the viewfinder, carrying a professional tone. At this moment, he was very professional.

Sana Minatozaki subconsciously tensed her calves, and her shoulders and neck straightened up a bit, which made her chest appear even more pert and her curves astonishing.

The arches of her feet traced shimmering golden waves beneath the surface of the hot spring water, unaware that this movement allowed the soaked silk fabric to completely outline the full curves of her thighs.

As the distant, muffled sound of snow breaking pine branches overlapped with the click of a camera shutter, she reached up to tuck her damp hair behind her ear. The hot spring water in her collarbone shimmered with the movement, creating a semi-circular silver light as it slid down her body, leaving streaks of water droplets.

The viewfinder suddenly shook violently.

Quan Xuanhe looked at Minatozaki Sana in the viewfinder—the alluring curves of her body were half-hidden in the rising steam beneath the open collar of the girl's neckline as she leaned back, like a flower bud suddenly blooming in the snow.

His thumb unconsciously rubbed the leather of the camera; it has to be said, the scene was also a great temptation for him.

"The angle is a bit low. Should we move it up a bit? That would make your figure look better in the photo."

Hearing this, Sana Minatozaki looked at her with a slight wavering in her gaze, then pursed her lips, "Let me see the photos." Sana Minatozaki kicked a handful of water at him, trying to dispel the increasingly strange atmosphere.

Kwon Hyun-hyuk put down the camera he was holding and gradually approached her.

As they got closer, Sana Minatozaki couldn't help but pull her legs together to maintain some privacy.

"look."

Kwon Hyun-hyuk handed her the camera, then leaned against the side, lazily soaking in the pool. Of course, what was hard to ignore in his sight was Minatozaki Sana's body underwater.

She took the camera and looked at it. Of course, her disturbed mind didn't allow her to pay much attention to the composition of the photos or anything like that. Her mind was already in turmoil, so she didn't have much time to think. She was just using these actions to calm herself down and make herself look less strange.

"Here, take a few more quick photos. I feel like we've taken enough photos today."

Sana Minato handed him the camera. From her higher vantage point, she looked down at Kwon Seonhyuk, giving her a sense of superiority.

"it is good."

Actually, it was Sana Minatozaki who felt the atmosphere was getting out of her control and wanted to stop it to take control of the pace.

Quan Xuanhe's knuckles tapped softly on the metal edge of the camera, and the rising water vapor condensed into fine beads on his eyelashes. In the viewfinder, the waistline of the girl submerged in the water was faintly visible with the shimmering light.

He bent his knees and sank into the hot spring, the water instantly covering his collarbone, and the camera was aimed at Minatozaki Sana from a low angle.

The water rippled, pushing the silk against her chest, the soaked fabric shimmering like translucent amber in the light. Sana Minatozaki bit her cherry-blossom-colored lower lip, adjusting her posture, her face growing increasingly flushed.

The gesture of raising her hand to tidy her sideburns accentuated the full, rounded curves of her wet clothes, with water droplets rolling down that breathtaking line.

The shutter clicked.

Her face was turned to the side, with delicate curves, alabaster forearm lines, and a graceful waist-to-hip ratio. A satin-like sheen flowed subtly over her body, and every inch of her contours, softened by the mist, exuded a breathtaking, unspoken allure.

This is a perfect scene.

A beautiful woman in the snow.

Not only were the people taking the photos a bit flustered, but even the people being photographed seemed flustered, completely unlike the professional qualities a professional idol should have.

"very nice."

Kwon Hyun-hyuk stood up straight, the water level dropping within his line of sight, and then handed the camera to Minatozaki Sana, who was sitting by the pool. His forearm casually brushed against her rounded thigh, the touch delicate and soft.

Sana Minatozaki pointed her toes, glanced at him silently, and continued to focus on the photos she had taken.

"Very good, well shot."

Photos taken by people with genuine feelings show their care and effort. At least Sana Minatozaki was very satisfied with the photos; they were indeed well taken. Not a single photo taken today was unusable.

That alone is a huge advantage.

Sana Minatosaki sat down in the pool again. Her upper body had been exposed while taking the photo, which made her feel a bit cold. So she quickly sank into the pool to warm up.

She needed to be more reserved and subtle; the scene just now seemed a bit too ambiguous.

The alcohol gradually took effect in the warm environment, making Sana Minatozaki, who had just impulsively drunk several glasses, feel a little dizzy.

"Such an opportunity is actually very rare."

Quan Xuanhe had somehow appeared beside her, his arm resting on the edge, and he uttered a sigh.

"That's really rare."

"Such precious time has passed by so slowly."

Quan Xuanhe simply uttered this sigh, but it made Minatozaki Sana overthink things.

Is this an implication for her?
Sana Minatozaki slightly raised her head and looked at him sideways, the pink blush on her cheeks making her eyes watery. "What are you planning to do next?"

"How to do it?"

"Breaking up is not an easy decision. I can't bear to break up with Miyeon, but this up-and-down cycle isn't what I want either."

"I'm a bit conflicted."

Quan Xuanhe leaned against the side, his tone inevitably tinged with frustration, and slowly let out a sigh.

"You can't bear it, so you don't actually not want to break up because you like her, but just because you don't want to see Miyeon hurt?"

Sana Minatozaki pierced through the fog and discovered his true thoughts.

"No diodes, only black and white."

Kwon Hyun-hyuk shook his head in denial.

"So you're just going to keep dragging this out?"

She wanted to know Quan Xuanhe's true thoughts so that she could be more certain.

"Sometimes I still think that time can solve problems. After such a long time, things don't need to have so many ups and downs. Everything needs to be done slowly."

"So you just want to stall, right?"

Seeing that Minatozaki Sana still held this idea, Kwon Hyun-hyuk felt a little helpless and coughed lightly, "Do you think you can accept what I'm about to say?"

Upon hearing this, Minatozaki Sana frowned slightly, straightening her eyes and ears to listen carefully to what earth-shattering words he was about to say.

"Of course I don't want to break up, otherwise why would I cheat?"

As soon as Kwon Hyun-hyuk uttered those words, the next second, Sana Minato's slap, accompanied by a splash of water, was about to land in front of him.

The moment the water splashed, Quan Xuanhe precisely grabbed her reddened wrist, and the two looked at each other through the rising steam.

"Can't you speak properly? This isn't what I really think." Kwon Hyun-hyuk's gaze was fixed on Minatozaki Sana, his fingertips tracing the pulse throbbing on the inside of her wrist.

Sana Minatozaki tried to pull her wrist away, struggling to back away, her hair brushing against the water's surface, leaving messy golden lines.

"Don't treat relationships with such trashy attitude!" Sana Minato's somewhat indignant voice was swallowed up by the chest that suddenly pressed against hers, and Kwon Hyun-hyuk's body temperature seeped into her skin through the soaked silk.

"I advise you to speak properly."

As he lowered his head, the tip of his nose brushed against her forehead, and his breath touched her skin, causing her body to tremble slightly.

"You've been the one interrogating me, so why are you trying to hit me now?"

Sana Minato's angry rebuke was stuck in her throat—Kwon Hyun-hyuk's thumb was grinding against her lower lip, and hot spring water slid down his knuckles into her lips.

Kwon Hyun-hyuk has a good temper, but at a time when people are already prone to getting angry, his temper isn't so good.

She vaguely saw the crescent-shaped red mark remaining on his collarbone, a mark she had unconsciously made earlier.

"Let go first."

Sana Minato frowned, her thumb pressed against her lips, and she couldn't help but open her mouth as if to bite him hard and teach him a lesson, but she dodged it as she had anticipated.

Under the man's force, she suppressed her temper, stubbornly turned her chin away, avoided eye contact with him, and said something rather stiffly.

"So we can communicate properly once we let go?"

Sana Minatozaki seems to be that stubborn and headstrong girl, silently resisting Kwon Hyun-hyuk's somewhat rude behavior.

"Ok?"

His knee suddenly forced her legs apart, shattering the reflection in the water. The forceful movement made Sana Minatozaki lose her balance for a moment, and she staggered and almost fell over.

At this moment, Quan Xuanhe's calloused palm touched the back of her neck, startling the girl so much that she instantly shrank her neck, her toes curled up and traced his calf, and her body became steady.

This is futile resistance and silent submission.

In the distance came the muffled sound of snow breaking pine branches. The sash of Minatozaki Sana's yukata came loose as the water rippled, and a thin shoulder strap slipped down her shoulder, revealing a small patch of pearly skin in front of her.

"Let go first, and we can talk this out, okay?"

Kwon Hyun-hyuk was too close to her, and his aggressive behavior left Sana Minatozaki with no strength to resist. She felt as if he was controlling her entire body, and her words even sounded pleading.

"Let's clarify these things first."

How could the rational but not clear-headed Sana Minato not understand the ambiguity between the two of them today? Just now, she was just trying to find out what Kwon Hyun-hyuk really thought.

A spark ignites in the smallest moments; the woman, who admires strength and intelligence, has been captivated by him over time.

"late."

Quan Xuanhe's breathing had become increasingly heavy without him noticing. The moment she closed her eyes, he turned his head away to create some distance, burying his hot breath in the crook of her neck.

In the misty steam of the hot spring, their overlapping heartbeats were the clearest sound between them.

When his lips finally landed on her trembling eyelids, Minatozaki Sana heard the soft, whistling sound of melting snow winding along the glass, much like the sound of her sanity crumbling, causing her clarity to gradually succumb.

As Kwon Hyun-hyuk's nose brushed against her earlobe, the muffled sound of snow falling to the ground jolted Minatozaki Sana out of her last shred of reason. She gripped his arm tightly and hastily uttered her final words.

"Not here."

In the last moment before her rationality faded, Sana Minatozaki made her final request.

The four words, mixed with moisture, evaporated into mist between their lips and teeth.

Amidst the rising steam of the hot spring, Kwon Hyun-hyuk swept the soaking wet Minatozaki Sana out of the water, water droplets dripping down his taut forearms in discontinuous silver lines.

As the girl nestled in his arms, the loose straps of her yukata brushed against his chest, and the water droplets from her hair meandered across their pressed chests.

The howling of the wind and snow gradually subsided, replaced by the soft creaking of the bedroom door closing.

Scattered watermarks on the floor stretched from the edge of the hot spring pool, eventually disappearing at the edge of the carpet.

The snowflakes outside the glass window were still pattering against the window frame. At this moment, the snow and wind all over the mountain became a backdrop in the bedroom, casting two overlapping shadows on the frost-covered window.

(End of this chapter)