Chapter 196 : Chapter 196
196
Under Yi Ning’s various tyrannies and oppressions, Lu Zheng ultimately still got into bed.
But after getting into bed—what then?
Lu Zheng lay on the bed stiff as a board, his head tilted toward the ceiling, motionless.
It wasn’t because Yi Ning had once again used his purity and reputation to make any difficult requests of him.
In fact, ever since Lu Zheng lay down, Yi Ning had had her back to him the whole time, lying on her side while playing with her phone, saying not a word.
Not only that, she hadn’t, as Lu Zheng had imagined, rolled up the entire blanket around herself and left him outside the covers shivering.
She had simply curled up in the blanket, leaving the other half for Lu Zheng.
That other half of the blanket was still pressed beneath Lu Zheng even now.
Lu Zheng still obediently maintained his face-up position toward the ceiling, but his eyeballs had long shifted to the corners, using a sliver of peripheral vision to size up the calm Yi Ning lying beside him.
This was the first time in his life that he had been invited by a cute girl to share a bed. How could Lu Zheng not be nervous?
Even though he knew that inside Yi Ning was a male, and she might simply be too embarrassed to let someone who had been taking care of her all this time sleep on the floor—without any other intentions—Lu Zheng’s brain simply couldn’t stop imagining romantic scenarios.
Take, for example, this half of the blanket beneath him.
Rationality told Lu Zheng that this was only because Yi Ning had originally been a male, and thus didn’t care too much about sharing a blanket with him.
But the evil villain formed of desire kept tempting Lu Zheng, telling him that maybe Yi Ning had feelings for him and that’s why she was willing to share a blanket.
Otherwise, how could one explain why Yi Ning didn’t let him take the spare blanket out of the wardrobe?
Surely it couldn’t be that Yi Ning had forgotten about the blanket she herself had stuffed into the wardrobe and mistakenly thought there was only one, so she had deliberately left half to him to avoid him shivering outside the covers, right?
No way. No way?
Yi Ning was a super, super, super genius-level evil scientist. How could she possibly forget something so trivial?
It had to be because Yi Ning wanted to share the same blanket with him.
The logic was just too perfect—so perfect that even Lu Zheng’s rationality was nearly convinced, falling into the wondrous delusion that Yi Ning had a crush on him.
In order to escape from this quagmire of “Yi Ning might like me,” rationality—embodied as a hero—started clinging tightly to the two possibilities of “Yi Ning doesn’t care about sharing a blanket” and “Yi Ning forgot there was another blanket in the wardrobe,” and even demanded that Lu Zheng confirm it with Yi Ning.
Lu Zheng moved his head slightly, stretching out his hand, intending to follow rationality’s request and ask Yi Ning for another blanket.
But before he could touch Yi Ning, the villain of desire leapt out to stop him.
If he followed rationality’s request, then he wouldn’t be able to sleep under the same blanket with Yi Ning anymore~
Besides, what’s so wrong about sharing a blanket with Yi Ning? It’s not like he’d actually dare do anything to her, right? Was it really necessary to go through all that trouble just to seem polite?
Lu Zheng retracted the gaze that had been slowly licking along Yi Ning’s smooth neck and also withdrew the hand that had tried to touch her. His eyes returned to the ceiling, beginning an internal battle of wits and courage against the pervert inside his mind.
Honestly, it was a little funny.
The pervert in Lu Zheng’s heart seemed to be gaining the upper hand.
On the other side—As a super, super, super genius-level evil scientist, Miss Yi Ning had indeed forgotten that there was a blanket she herself had put into the wardrobe in this room.
But she had her reasons.
As a TS girl, she was very clear on what it meant, to the male mind, when a girl invited a man to bed.
Although she’d only let Lu Zheng sleep on the bed because he had been taking care of her all this time on an alien planet, the sounds of breathing by her ear and the warmth from behind her made her etch the fact that “I personally invited a man to lie in bed with me” deeply into her mind.
Those yellow fantasies simply wouldn’t stop, okay?
Even though she kept telling herself that she let Lu Zheng onto the bed because she trusted him and knew he wouldn’t do anything inappropriate without her consent—
But.
What if?
It’s like buying a lottery ticket.
Everyone knows they won’t win the jackpot, but deep down there’s always that sliver of hope—what if you do win?
It was the same for Yi Ning now.
Her rational mind was absolutely sure Lu Zheng wouldn’t do anything out of line, but her emotional side kept imagining all sorts of unhealthy scenarios.
For instance—
When she showered earlier, she had used one of those really fragrant body washes. Now that she and Lu Zheng were sharing a bed, would Lu Zheng smell the scent and become distracted, then want to immediately execute a full combo of “Unyielding Grasp, Phase Rush, Lethal Tempo, Energy Surge” kind of play?
Should she, as a TS girl, kindly pretend she didn’t know anything was going on?
What if Lu Zheng got seduced by her perfect, flawless body and hugged her from behind, claiming he was just cuddling and wouldn’t go further—what then?
Should she agree?
But if she did, and Lu Zheng said that she caused him to get a “salute,” demanding she take responsibility, should she agree again?
Though she was currently curled up obediently under the blanket, eyes glued to her phone screen, Yi Ning’s attention was nowhere near the phone. Her eyes had already turned into dizzy spirals, and her brain was filled with colorful films she had watched before—with the male and female leads suddenly swapped into herself and Lu Zheng.
This... this position... this can’t be okay, right...
A flood of chaotic thoughts assaulted Yi Ning’s rationality, to the point that she couldn’t control her wild imagination at all.
Her CPU was about to explode!
And now she was lying with her back to Lu Zheng. If he had those thoughts, wouldn’t he be able to just reach around from behind and then... hands move, hips thrust...
Yi Ning’s phone slipped from her trembling hand.
She spread her fingers and weakly covered her eyes.
She didn’t dare imagine how tragically things might unfold next.
She quickly shifted her body, turning her cheek toward Lu Zheng, quietly edging herself toward the wall to hide her little butt.
But that didn’t help much either.
Even if it was a double bed, the space wasn’t enough for Yi Ning to roll around freely, nor enough for her to hide from Lu Zheng’s line of sight.
At this distance, Lu Zheng’s side profile was completely in Yi Ning’s view.
Not only did it fail to calm the turmoil in her heart, but it also caused those tragic mental scenarios involving herself and Lu Zheng to grow even more vivid.
She quickly turned over again, showing the back of her head to Lu Zheng.
As for her butt...
Anyway, Lu Zheng wasn’t going to do anything crazy to her—if it leaked out, it leaked out...
Yi Ning hesitated for a moment, and her mind finally escaped from those steamy thoughts, with rationality returning to the peak.
The whole reason she didn’t want to face Lu Zheng was because seeing him made her think all kinds of strange thoughts. So why didn’t she just cover her eyes directly?
Yi Ning’s eyes lit up. Then, in Lu Zheng’s peripheral vision, she turned over to face him and pulled her changed clothes over her head.
Lu Zheng: “?”
In the end, he couldn’t suppress his curiosity and asked Yi Ning,
“Aren’t you hot like that?”
Lu Zheng’s sudden question gave Yi Ning a fright, and her emotions immediately seized this rare opportunity to launch a coup d’état, kicking her rational side out of the top seat again.
Now ruled by emotion, Yi Ning’s brain was full of yellow thoughts, and naturally her way of thinking galloped straight toward lewd territory.
“Don’t even dream of seeing my perky ass!”
Lu Zheng: “?”
Though he didn’t quite understand, Yi Ning’s concern for her chastity was perfectly conveyed to Lu Zheng.
This little concern gave Lu Zheng’s rationality a much-needed opening. It seized the chance to land several heavy punches on desire and defeated the pervert in his heart.
He decided to be considerate and offered, “I’ll just sleep on the floor.”
At the same time, he thoughtfully gave Yi Ning a reason to agree: “I usually sleep on hard beds. This one’s too soft—I’m actually not used to it.”
Unfortunately, Yi Ning didn’t follow the ladder that Lu Zheng had laid out for her.
She only made a sound.
“Not Okay！”