Chapter 426 - 416: You Can Move Now!
"Ahhh!"
Looking at Qin Fan sitting by the desk, Jiang Yino’s first thought was that she was hallucinating. After rubbing her eyes and taking another look, however, her shriek echoed throughout the entire dorm room.
Qin Fan? How could it possibly be Qin Fan? How did he get in? How could a man possibly enter the girls’ dormitory? And where had Ruanqin and Mingsi gone? How could they let Qin Fan into their bedroom?
Countless questions sprang to mind. In the next moment, Jiang Yino instinctively covered her chest.
"Shh! Quiet, do you want to draw everyone here?" Looking at Jiang Yino’s face, which had drained of all color, Qin Fan smiled and placed his index finger on his lips.
"Qin... Qin Fan? Why is it you? Where are they? How did you get in?" an overwhelmed Jiang Yino asked in a rapid-fire burst.
"They said they wanted to create a private world for the two of us, so they left! As for how I got here, I certainly didn’t sneak in. It’s broad daylight, after all! Besides, the dorm auntie didn’t think I looked like a bad person, so she was kind enough to let me through for once!" Facing Jiang Yino’s panicked expression, Qin Fan continued with a roguish grin. "Yinuo, relax! Don’t be scared. No matter how you look at it, I don’t seem like a bad guy, do I?"
"Just... wait a second!" Startled by his words, Jiang Yino’s voice trembled. Clutching her chest, she fled back into the bathroom.
Seeing this, Qin Fan just shook his head and chuckled softly. Once the bathroom door closed, he relied on his sensitivity to auras and scents to pinpoint which wardrobe was Jiang Yino’s. He gently pulled the door open and scanned the contents, his gaze finally locking onto a white, floral-patterned bra. Without hesitating, he lifted the hanger with the bra from the rod and walked toward the bathroom.
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
"What... what are you doing!" Jiang Yino, who still hadn’t found her bra, cried out in shock from inside the bathroom.
"Is your bra not in the bathroom? Here, I found one for you in the wardrobe. Open the door and take it so you can change! Don’t worry, I held it by the hanger the whole time and didn’t touch the fabric at all!" Qin Fan said cheerfully from outside the door.
SNAP!
Even Jiang Yino herself didn’t know how she had just opened the door in response to his words. She snatched the bra Qin Fan held out and swiftly slammed the door shut again.
Her face was a tidal wave of crimson. After ensuring the door was locked, she took off her pajamas. Staring at the white, floral garment, Jiang Yino froze. It was only then that she realized just how wildly inappropriate this whole situation was! And how did Qin Fan even know this one was hers? The wardrobes weren’t labeled!
While she was stunned, Qin Fan had already walked back to the desk, sat down, and resumed flipping through a magazine. To him, none of this was a big deal. After all, not a single inch of Jiang Yino’s body held any secrets from him. So what if he grabbed a piece of her underwear for her? What was the fuss?
A full ten minutes later, Jiang Yino finally emerged from the bathroom. Looking at Qin Fan, she was on the verge of tears. Her voice trembled unnaturally as she spoke, "Qin Fan, could you please go outside first? I’ll come find you after I’ve changed."
"It’s fine! You can change, I won’t look!" Qin Fan replied, leaning into his roguish persona.
"Qin Fan, this isn’t right! There should be a respectful distance between men and women! You... you can’t do this!" Jiang Yino pleaded, her voice now thick with tears.
"But if I go out there, won’t all those girls swarm me? How about this: if it’s inconvenient for you to change in here, I can just wait in the bathroom. You can call out when you’re done. How does that sound?" As he spoke, Qin Fan stood up and made a show of heading for the bathroom.
But Jiang Yino panicked and hurriedly blocked his path. "No, absolutely not!"
Yes, absolutely not! The bathroom was filled with their personal laundry. The image of a man seeing all of that... Jiang Yino shuddered at the mere thought. It was mortifying!
"So, what’s the plan?" Qin Fan asked with a helpless, wry smile as she blocked his path.
Faced with his question, Jiang Yino nervously shifted her weight. Let Qin Fan be surrounded by all those girls outside? She didn’t want that. Let him go into the bathroom and see all their intimate laundry? She couldn’t bear it. Suddenly, she bit her lip, appearing to have made a difficult decision.
"Swear you won’t peek!" she ground out, glaring at him.
"Okay, I swear I won’t peek. If I do, I’ll be—"
Before he could finish naming his punishment, Jiang Yino instinctively clapped a hand over his mouth. "You swore, that’s enough! I believe you. You don’t need to say the rest."
With that, she pointed to the chair by the desk. "Sit down!"
"Okay, I’ll sit!" Qin Fan sat down with a smile.
"Turn around!"
"Okay, I’m turning!"
"Don’t move!"
"Okay, I won’t move!"
"You can only move when I tell you to!"
"Got it. I’ll only move when you say so!"
Allowing himself to be ordered around, Qin Fan smilingly agreed to her every demand.
Seeing that Qin Fan had truly become as still as a statue, Jiang Yino shakily scurried over to her wardrobe, opened it, and randomly pulled out an outfit. She rushed back to her bed, climbed up, and yanked the privacy curtain shut! Her hands trembled as she quickly stripped off her pajamas and pulled on the clothes.
Crazy! This was utterly insane! At this moment, the only word echoing in her mind was ’crazy’! She couldn’t believe she was capable of doing something so reckless. A single man and a single woman, alone in a room. Wearing the underwear that very man had handed her. Changing clothes behind nothing but a flimsy curtain in a dorm room they shared alone. This... She must have lost her mind! If word of this got out, her reputation would be ruined beyond repair, even if she jumped into the Yellow River! Forget word getting out; she wouldn’t even be able to explain this to Du Ruanqing and Ou Mingsi!
In a flurry of panicked movements, Jiang Yino finished dressing and pulled back the curtain. She looked down, checking her clothes to make sure nothing was out of place, before finally speaking to Qin Fan’s back. "You... you can move now."
A man and a woman, alone. Dry tinder and... well, the tinder was definitely dry, but was the fire raging? In a situation like this, hearing the words "you can move now" was loaded with meaning. Never mind what Qin Fan might be thinking; even Jiang Yino herself felt a jolt of unease after she said it.
Blushing, she watched the back of the figure sitting casually in the chair. But, as luck would have it, while Qin Fan’s thoughts were perfectly innocent, his response made Jiang Yino wish she could dig a hole and crawl into it.
"Alright then, I’m making my move!" Qin Fan said with a chuckle.
He stood up from the chair and, with a relaxed air, leisurely turned around.
PS: That’s all for today. My throat is scratchy—it feels like a cold is coming on. Feeling awful