Peninsula: Starting with the nation's first love, the white moonlight

Hearing Lee Ji-eun's steady breathing on the phone, Lee Lu-ran assumed she was asleep and was about to quietly hang up.

Suddenly, "knock knock knock!"

There was a gentle knock on the door.

"Li Luran, I warmed up some milk for you. You're probably still awake, right? I'm coming in."

Then, the door was gently pushed open, and Bae Suzy walked in carrying a cup of hot milk.

As soon as she stepped inside, she saw Li Luran holding his phone to his ear. Xiuzhi paused for half a second, blinked her big eyes, and immediately guessed who was on the other end of the line.

A sly smile appeared on Soo-ji's lips. Instead of leaving, she carried the milk and continued walking towards the bedside.

Startled, Li Luran quickly covered his phone with his hand and desperately gestured for her to leave with his eyes. But Xiuzhi seemed completely oblivious to his hints, walking straight to the bedside table and gently placing the glass of hot milk down.

After putting down the cup, she suddenly bent down and moved closer to Li Luran. The faint scent of shower gel wafted over again, and in an instant, the two were very close.

"Li Luran," Suzy said in a low voice, a hint of shyness in her tone, "Just now... in the bathroom, you didn't see anything you shouldn't have, did you?"

Bathroom? Li Luran immediately recalled the black undergarment in the corner of the bathroom.

"No, no!" Li Luran hurriedly denied, but his blushing and guilty appearance had already given him away completely!

Soo-ji's cheeks flushed slightly. She had still held onto a sliver of hope, but seeing his awkward expression, she silently cursed, "He really saw it! How embarrassing!"

The thought that he had seen her most private clothes, and even, and possibly... made Suzy's cheeks burn even hotter.

She bit her red lips and warned in a low voice, "Li Luran, if you dare to go around saying anything like that outside, I'll take you down with me!"

"Ahem, hehe..." Li Luran knew he had been caught, and was so embarrassed that he almost dug his toes out of his toe box.

"Sooji, I really didn't see anything." At this point, he had no choice but to stick to his stubbornness.

At that moment, Ji-eun's sister's shocked voice suddenly came from the phone:

"Bae Suzy?"

"Li Luran! Why is Bae Suzy's voice next to you?"

Oh no! The call hasn't ended yet!

Lee Ji-eun's questioning voice instantly brought him back to his senses, while the culprit in front of him, Soo-ji, was blinking her big eyes and looking at him innocently.

Seeing Li Luran's bewildered expression, Xiuzhi's lips curled up slightly, and she snatched his phone away, placing it directly to her ear.

"Unnie...you're still up so late?" Bae Suzy's voice was still clear and sweet.

On the other end, Lee Ji-eun heard that sweet "unnie" coming from the phone and felt like her lungs were about to explode; sleepiness had long since vanished.

Countless possibilities flashed through her mind: What were Li Luran and Bae Suzy doing in a room in the middle of the night? Could they be sleeping in the same bed?

Lee Ji-eun tried her best to calm down, but she just couldn't suppress the anger in her chest:

"Bae Suzy! Why is Lee Lu-ran with you?"

Lee Ji-eun gritted her teeth and shouted, her voice so loud that even Lee Lu-ran next to her could hear her clearly: "Where...where are you?"

Suzy smiled gently: "Unnie, don't be nervous. Lu Ran is at my house right now."

"What! Why is he in your house? Didn't you say you were going back to your dorm? How did you end up going back to your own home?!"

Suzy seemed to have anticipated Lee Ji-eun's question. She smiled slightly, calmly sat down next to Lee Lu-ran, and explained, "Unnie, it's like this. The snow was really heavy, and the dorm was too far away. I was afraid of the danger on the way, so I decided to go home on the spot."

Suzy paused deliberately, then said considerately, "Unnie, you don't know, I saw him downstairs just now, he was almost frozen. He couldn't get a taxi right away, and I couldn't just stand by and watch him get hurt, so I kindly let him stay at my house for the night."

"By the way, unnie, my mom is home too, don't worry."

Suzy's explanation sounded impeccable, but to Lee Ji-eun, it was nothing short of a blatant provocation!

What kind of kindness in taking her in, what kind of excuse that her mother was also at home—this is clearly Bae Suzy using this opportunity to assert her dominance over her, and even deliberately telling her that she brought a man to meet her parents!

"Let Lee Luran answer the phone!" Ji-eun's younger sister was so angry she wanted to grind her teeth, but she was helpless against Bae Soo-ji.

She's right. We can't just leave Li Luran to freeze in the snow, can we?

However, this woman is too cunning! Ji-eun feels like she was set up from the very beginning.

From the very beginning, when Bae Suzy suggested that Lee Luran escort her back to her dorm alone, she was extremely unwilling.

However, she convinced herself that she should be fine spending only half an hour alone in the car at most.

But now, Li Luran is living in her house. Given Xiuzhi's way of doing things, the consequences are unimaginable.

Xiuzhi smiled slightly and did not refuse, directly putting the phone back into Li Luran's hand.

Li Luran cautiously brought the phone back to his ear and weakly called out, "Ji-eun..."

"Li Luran, you big liar!" Zhi'en's younger sister roared from the other end of the phone. "You're back at the company tomorrow morning! If you're even a minute late, you're dead!"

"Beep beep beep!"

Without giving Li Luran any chance to explain, Li Zhi'en hung up the phone immediately.

Hearing the busy tone from his phone, Li Luran sighed helplessly, threw the phone on the bed, and covered his face in anguish.

"Sooji, is there anything else? Go back and rest early." Lee Luran's voice was filled with deep fatigue.

Bae Suzy nodded gently, then pointed to the milk on the bedside table and instructed, "Drink the milk while it's hot, I'll wake you up tomorrow morning."

Goodnight, Li Luran.

"Good night."

……

Soo-ji returned to her room satisfied, changed into her pajamas, and prepared to go to sleep.

Just as she was about to turn off the desk lamp, there was a sudden knock on the door.

Suzy hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Could it be Li Luran?"

Her heart was racing. Just as she finished putting on her coat and was about to open the door, she saw her mother push the door open and walk in.

Suzy pouted slightly, secretly letting out a sigh of relief, and said coquettishly, "Mom, why aren't you asleep yet? It's so late!"

Mrs. Pei pulled Xiuzhi to sit down on the edge of the bed, saying irritably, "Isn't it all because I was waiting for you, you brat!"

"Huh? What are you waiting for me to do? Does Mom have something to tell me?"

"What do you think? How can you have no sense of propriety at all?"

"Tell Mom honestly, what were you doing in the guest room just now?"

"Also, what exactly is going on between you and that Li Luran?"