Chapter 214 : Chapter 214
Chapter 214
After dinner, Lu Zheng did rein himself in quite a bit.
At the very least, he didn’t do what Yi Ning had imagined—demand a couple’s bath together.
Just like the night before, the two of them washed up one after the other.
But that didn’t mean Yi Ning was now safe and sound.
She had, after all, dug her own grave yesterday—ignoring Lu Zheng’s repeated refusals and insisting he sleep in the same bed with her.
I’m such a f○cking idiot!
Yi Ning sat cross-legged on the bed, hugging her head with both hands, her face full of regret.
Why had she gone soft-hearted back then and let this beast Lu Zheng onto the bed?
If this guy couldn’t control his desires and forcibly did something to her later, what then?
Yi Ning’s worry wasn’t entirely baseless.
She glanced toward her white coat hanging nearby—there were still those clearly bedroom-use-only underwear pieces Lu Zheng had bought her tucked inside its pocket.
Maybe he’d bought them precisely with tonight in mind.
Yi Ning collapsed back onto the bed, still hugging her head, rolling back and forth until she accidentally bumped into the wall. She sat up while holding the sore spot.
“Ugh...”
She gently rubbed the spot she’d hit, and her gaze casually landed on the wardrobe next to her.
Come to think of it...
Wasn’t there still an extra set of bedding inside that closet?
Yi Ning’s eyes lit up. She immediately jumped off the bed and pulled out the blanket she herself had sealed away yesterday, spreading it back out on the floor.
“Mm!”
Yi Ning looked at the makeshift bed she’d set up for Lu Zheng tonight, nodded with satisfaction, then climbed back onto the bed and wrapped herself tightly in her blanket like a caterpillar.
To prevent Lu Zheng from sneaking into her blanket!
Not long after, Lu Zheng came in, bare-chested.
Yi Ning stared at his abs with a slightly disgusted expression.
What was he trying to show off without a shirt?
As if she didn’t have any herself.
Thinking this, Yi Ning resentfully reached out and touched her now-smooth belly.
She used to have abs too, but now they were all gone.
Replaced with soft, tender flesh.
Though... it did feel pretty nice to touch.
Yi Ning hesitated for a moment, then continued burrowing into her blanket, wrapping herself tightly to ensure Lu Zheng couldn’t touch even the edge.
Lu Zheng glanced at the bedding laid out on the floor, then at the caterpillar-like Yi Ning on the bed, and couldn’t help but chuckle.
“What the hell are you laughing at?!”
Yi Ning rolled her eyes at Lu Zheng.
“From today on, you’re sleeping on the floor!”
She wiggled around, barely managing to stick out one hand and point toward the blanket she’d spread out.
“That little quilt is your forever home!”
Lu Zheng glanced at the bedding she’d arranged, bowed his head in silence for a few seconds, then looked at the still-wriggling Yi Ning on the bed, shook his head slightly, and stepped right over the floor bed to approach the bedside.
Seeing the half-smiling expression on Lu Zheng’s face, Yi Ning shrank her head a little and scooted further away from him.
“You... what do you want?”
“If you’re asking whether I want to—of course I really do...”
Yi Ning: “?”
She didn’t react immediately, but the next second, she instantly understood Lu Zheng’s indecent words. She made a face at him and wriggled all the way to the corner of the bed.
“Don’t even think about it!”
“I’ll f○cking bite it off in one go!”
Yi Ning bared her teeth at Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng gave an awkward laugh and didn’t say anything more. He just turned and walked back to the bedding Yi Ning had set up for him, lifted the blanket, and lay down.
He seemed to have come over just to scare her.
Yi Ning’s eyes widened in surprise.
He actually went to sleep on the floor without saying a word?
That obedient?
Could it be that Lu Zheng had returned to his original, proper self?
She scooted back to the edge of the bed, watching Lu Zheng’s back. That unwilling-to-admit-defeat temperament in her heart began to stir again.
Today, she’d been completely played by Lu Zheng from head to toe. If she didn’t at least get a few words in, Yi Ning felt a vague discomfort in her chest.
She opened her mouth, wanting to provoke Lu Zheng again and score a verbal win.
But what if Lu Zheng used that as an excuse to sneak back into her bed?
That terrifying thought suddenly popped into Yi Ning’s mind.
Just this morning, she’d somehow rolled into Lu Zheng’s arms in her sleep.
If she let him back onto the bed, and rolled into his arms again in her sleep, given Lu Zheng’s current state, the two of them might end up connected before she even knew it!
She closed her mouth again, and inch by inch scooted back to the center of the bed.
And so, the two of them each lay in their respective beds.
“Turn off the lights!”
After a few seconds of mutual silence, Yi Ning called out to Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng raised a hand and threw a die at the light switch.
“Pa!”
The room was plunged into darkness.
Silence returned between the two.
Where the hell did this guy pull a die from with no clothes on?
Wrapped in her blanket, Yi Ning peeked in Lu Zheng’s direction and kept tossing and turning in bed.
She was agitated.
That kind of feeling—like something good was right in front of her, but she couldn’t reach out and grab it.
Just... very stifling.
Yi Ning wriggled to the edge of the bed and looked at Lu Zheng lying quietly on the floor. Her inner desires began to stir.
This guy was being so well-behaved—teasing him a bit with words shouldn’t be a problem, right?
It was just some verbal teasing. Lu Zheng probably wouldn’t do anything.
Thoughts urging her to provoke him kept flooding her mind, and even the self-restraint she had built up from worry started to waver.
Even if Lu Zheng did come up, it probably wouldn’t be anything too serious, right?
That thought also began to appear in Yi Ning’s head.
There’s a saying:
The person who understands you best isn’t your friend—it’s your enemy.
As both Lu Zheng’s friend and enemy, Yi Ning believed she understood him quite well.
Though this guy could be a bit pervy at times, he was surprisingly conservative in certain areas.
For instance, when it came to lovers connecting during passionate moments—he surprisingly belonged to the “after marriage only” camp.
So even if he did climb into bed, at most he’d take some minor liberties.
Like groping boobs or grabbing her butt or something.
It was unlikely it would escalate to something straight out of a hentai doujin.
Yi Ning was really getting tempted.
Sure, she was aware she was a cute girl now, but it had only been a month since her TS. Her long history as a guy meant her sense of self-protection wasn’t all that strict yet.
A lot of things that might seem out of line to a normal girl didn’t bother her much. At most she’d complain a bit, let people cop a feel.
She was a guy, after all~
It was perfectly normal for men to have some... censorable thoughts about cute girls.
It’s not like she’d lose or gain a chunk of meat. If someone wanted a taste, she’d let them.
And more importantly, the guy trying to cop a feel was someone she got along pretty well with.
Like a long-time bro who suddenly turned into a girl.
Even though she did know some actions were pretty ambiguous between a man and a woman…
So what? With their relationship, what’s a little teasing?
For the sake of our father-child bond.
Call me Dad.
Forget peeking at panties—even groping boobs was fine.
As a good father unrelated by blood, as long as he didn’t cross the line too far, she could show her great maternal love and forgive her little rascal.
As for what did count as crossing the line...
Well, in Yi Ning’s mind, as long as both parties weren’t naked, and it wasn’t something that could be drawn into a doujin, she didn’t really mind that much.
She just didn’t really care.
And as a villain character, Yi Ning had a rare flicker of conscience.
Being stranded on an alien planet together, that conscience had been worn down a little.
Even though Lu Zheng never said a word about it, Yi Ning knew very well—he was stuck here mainly because he had helped her, even breaking rules and taking risks on her behalf.
Yi Ning felt a bit of guilt about that.
So along the way, she’d been giving Lu Zheng little perks, sometimes on purpose, sometimes not. And when he tried to take advantage, she only scolded him lightly—trying to ease her slightly aching conscience in the process.
“Hey! Lu Zheng.”
Yi Ning looked at Lu Zheng and finally chose to speak.
She already couldn’t stop now.