Going home for Chinese New Year, I squeezed onto a bus with three energetic young women.

Inside the master bedroom.

Bai Li dried her hair and walked to the bedside.

He had just finished showering and was all cleaned up, even scrubbing off the egg yolk.

Xie Lingmo made so many preparations in advance for tonight.

He certainly couldn't be perfunctory.

Bai Li took out a diffuser from the bedside table, lit it, and placed it aside before sitting down on the bed to wait for someone.

Five minutes later.

Knock knock knock.

The door was ajar.

Xie Lingmo first poked half her face in.

"Are they not here?"

Bai Li suppressed a laugh: "Not here."

Xie Lingmo glanced to the left and right in the corridor before pushing open the door and walking in.

The moment Bai Li saw her full appearance, the towel in her hand fell to the ground.

Xie Lingmo changed into a black and white maid's skirt.

The skirt only reached above her thighs, and she wore white stockings and soft-soled slippers.

Her long pink hair cascaded down her shoulders, and she wore a thin black choker with a silver bell hanging from the center.

With each step she took, the bell rang once.

Bai Li looked from her face to her legs, and then from her legs back to her face.

These aren't pajamas.

This is clearly a battle robe.

[Legs to admire for years.]

Xie Lingmo felt extremely uncomfortable under his gaze.

She tugged at her excessively short skirt and stomped her foot.

"Have you seen enough?!"

Bai Li stood up, walked up to her, and took her hand.

"Such a beautiful young lady, I could never get enough of looking at her in my whole life."

"Glib-tongued."

Xie Lingmo expressed her disdain verbally, but she didn't pull her hand back.

Bai Li led her to the bedside, his fingers touching the bell around her neck:

"These are the pajamas you prepared?"

jingle.

Xie Lingmo covered the bell: "What's wrong?"

"It's perfect for sleeping." Bai Li sat down on the edge of the bed and looked up at her. "You've prepared everything perfectly."

Xie Lingmo's face grew increasingly red.

She originally intended to pretend it was a spur-of-the-moment decision.

Now they even have something hanging around their necks; no amount of explanation will help.

"So annoying!"

Xie Lingmo shook off his hand and fell to her side on the bed.

The maid's skirt fell to her legs, and she quickly pressed it down with her hand, turning her face to the other side as well.

As they got closer, the succubus aura emanating from Bai Li entered their noses.

Xie Lingmo closed her eyes, her chest heaving a few times.

If she dragged it out any longer, she was afraid she would back down first.

"If you're going to do it, do it quickly." She closed her eyes, her eyelashes trembling incessantly: "Show me the same skills you used on Zhang Qian and the others, and take what you can't wait to take, like a hungry beast."

But Bai Li wasn't in a hurry; he looked down at her nervous expression.

He moved to the side, stretched out his left hand, and grasped Xie Lingmo's soft right hand.

Their fingers were intertwined.

"Lingmo".

"what?"

"Are you still taking your medication during this period?"

Xie Lingmo opened her eyes.

She turned her head to the side, meeting Bai Li's peach blossom eyes.

Bai Li didn't tease her; his expression was serious as he gently stroked the back of her hand with his thumb.

This instantly dispelled Xie Lingmo's earlier panic and despair, and her expression softened.

"I haven't eaten it." She paused. "I stopped a month and a half ago."

Bai Li paused for a moment: "Did the doctor tell you to stop?"

"I had a follow-up check-up, and the doctor said I could reduce the dosage and observe." Xie Lingmo turned over and lay on her back. "Later, I was so busy with things that I didn't have time to be emo."

"Besides, you'll keep me company when I have free time."

She turned her head, her pink hair spreading across the pillow: "I'm too happy to even think about it."

Bai Li didn't reply.

Xie Lingmo's family is wealthy; they own Rolls-Royces and Maybachs, and their license plates are always in rotation, with five 8s and five 9s.

But what she wanted from me was never money.

Xie Lingmo asked for very little...

Bai Li asked her this a few days ago when they were chatting.

I haven't seen him for a week. Do I miss him?

Xie Lingmo only replied with one sentence at the time.

"Of course I want to. But if you can spare a moment to think of me, even if you don't tell me, that would be enough."

Now, those words resurfaced in Bai Li's mind.

He looked down at their clasped hands and remained silent for a long while.

Xie Lingmo looked at him for a few seconds, then raised her other hand and squeezed his wrist:

Why aren't you saying anything?

I feel a little guilty.

"Feel guilty about what?"

"You asked for so little, so I won't give you much either."

Xie Lingmo laughed after hearing this.

"Whether it's less or not, it should be up to me to decide, right?"

She gently kicked Bai Li's shin with her foot:

"Are you planning to give me a slam farewell meeting tonight?"

No, not at all.

"If you don't have one, lie down."

Xie Lingmo moved further into the bed to make room for him.

Bai Li lay down next to her.

Xie Lingmo didn't immediately come closer, but stared at the ceiling and asked:

"You and Tingting, Zhang Qian, and Ruyue, your relationship started as friends and gradually developed, right?"

"yes."

Bai Li put his arm behind his head:

"I first met Tingting, Jiaxin, and Xiaoshuang, and then I met Zhang Qian at the billiards hall."

"Back then, we were still friends."

"After a while, they all moved into my house."

Xie Lingmo exclaimed "Wow!" in an exaggerated way.

"Making so many friends at once?"

She turned her head, her tone laced with sarcasm: "Then you must have suffered quite a few setbacks along the way, right?"

Bai Li reached out and flicked her nose.

"Sorry, I haven't eaten a single one."

Xie Lingmo chuckled and patted Bai Li on the shoulder.

"Pretty smart..."

Bai Li remained silent. He didn't want to mention that this keen sense of language was a gift from a certain Jiang girl.

Xie Lingmo laughed for a while, and the last bit of restraint she had disappeared.

She grabbed Bai Li's arm and placed it under her neck.

"Hold me."

Bai Li turned to the side and pulled her into his arms.

Xie Lingmo rested her head on his chest and placed her hand on his waist.

The bell rang softly against Bai Li's skin, occasionally making a soft sound.

She was quiet for a while.

"very nice."

Bai Li lowered her head: "What's so good?"

"It feels so good to lie here."

Xie Lingmo tapped his chest twice with her finger: "I never dreamed that someone would accompany me out of this dual-phase world."

"It can still make me like it this much."

"I like it so much..."

She stopped talking.

Bai Li gently stroked her soft pink hair.

"So much that you'd be willing to wear a maid outfit?"

"That doesn't count!"

Xie Lingmo raised her head and reached out to cover his mouth: "You've ruined the atmosphere."

Bai Li pulled her hand down.

Will you regret it?

"Regret what?"

"Give your most precious thing to a scumbag like me."

Xie Lingmo looked at him.

The two were very close; she could smell Bai Li's scent and hear his heartbeat.

"I will never regret it."

She moved up a little and wrapped her arms around Bai Li's neck.

"When you were blocking my way at Lao Zhao's noodle shop..."

Xie Lingmo lowered her eyes, her nose touching his.

"I knew then that I couldn't escape."

After saying that, she took the initiative to kiss Bai Li.

Bai Li supported her back and didn't say anything more.

Xie Lingmo initially kept her eyes closed and pretended to be calm, but her hands kept gripping his shoulders.

After a while, she opened her eyes and reached out to turn off the headlights.

Only a dim bedside lamp remained in the room.

The rustling sound of fabric rubbing together rang out one after another.

The bell around Xie Lingmo's neck jingled a few times.

jingle.

The two figures gradually overlapped.

A moment later, Xie Lingmo raised her hand to cover Bai Li's eyes, so embarrassed that she could barely speak.

"Don't look..."

Bai Li pulled her hand away.

"It's too late."

Before Xie Lingmo could retort, she heard Bai Li lower his voice and whisper something in her ear.

"Lingmo, you're not just a hair powder seller."