Chapter 12 : Lin Muyao's Suspicions
12: Lin Muyao's Suspicions
[Ding, detecting host entering nervous state, heart activity intense, heartbeat index exceeding 160% reaching 48 beats/min, overloaded operation, please host calm down]
[Ding, detecting host entering nervous state, heart activity intense, heartbeat index exceeding 170% reaching 52 beats/min, overloaded operation, please host calm down]
[Ding, detecting host entering nervous state, heart activity intense, heartbeat index exceeding 200% reaching 61 beats/min, overloaded operation, please host calm down]
In Weiyang Apartments, under little matchmaker An Xiaoqian's mediation, as Su Mo and Lin Muyao clasped fingers tightly, they suddenly began a couple's challenge.
Feeling the soft, tender smoothness different from boys transmitted from Lin Muyao's palm, Su Mo, who had been single for 18 years, hadn't even had time to carefully experience the soft touch of holding hands with a girl for the first time in her life.
Her heart started racing wildly from this unfamiliar experience first.
Immediately after, three consecutive system warning sounds rang in her mind.
The heart palpitation from heartbeat jumping too fast, exceeding twice the normal rate, made Su Mo's body weak.
She instinctively collapsed on the kotatsu, covering her heart with her other hand, taking three or four deep breaths before feeling her palpitating heartbeat gradually return to normal.
"Junior Su Mo, Junior Su Mo, are you okay? Hey... are you alright..."
As a young girl and performance major student, Lin Muyao had watched many romantic love dramas, among which her favorite was campus romance.
In such campus romance dramas, the male and female leads were mostly innocent and pure, blushing just from holding hands, and being sweet just from passing notes in class, so pure it made people want to smile like an aunt.
Lin Muyao's dream romance since childhood was just like campus dramas, full of innocence, bashfulness, and naivety.
But due to her outstanding appearance, Lin Muyao had always found that those who dared pursue her were mostly 'smooth operators' who looked sophisticated at first glance. Her romantic fantasies had therefore never been realized.
Now, looking at Su Mo collapsed on the table, showing excessive shyness, naivety, and even more innocence than herself after holding her hand, even his gaze becoming somewhat dazed, with his white earlobes under neat short hair dyed with a faint cherry pink.
Lin Muyao's almond eyes couldn't help but sparkle with brightness. Su Mo's reaction was exactly the 'boyfriend' she had dreamed of!
Just as Lin Muyao's almond eyes flickered slightly while gently shaking Su Mo's shoulders, she didn't notice An Xiaoqian sitting beside her. At this moment, the other's pure, innocent loli face actually flickered with a little devil's smile.
A nimble little snake emerged from her mouth, excitedly licking those jelly-like cherry lips as if tasting candy.
Slurp~
An Xiaoqian had thought Su Mo's crossdressing was already a shocking secret, but she hadn't expected that just holding hands could make someone so pure they had breathing difficulties!
This appearance was becoming more and more mysterious and more and more interesting!
She... she really wanted to personally bully her...
Su Mo felt a light, airy pushing sensation on her shoulders. After coming to her senses, she didn't know that in the few seconds when she had breathing difficulties, the mindsets of the two girls across from her had already changed somewhat due to her reaction.
At this moment, Su Mo only felt very embarrassed.
As someone who had been a boy just one day ago, although Su Mo currently had no romantic plans and wholeheartedly wanted to do missions to stay alive.
But with a boy's character in her bones, she had also fantasized about love.
In her fantasies, Su Mo defaulted to herself having a tough guy image, lightly teasing her pure girlfriend and seeing her face red and ears burning with shy expressions.
But what had just happened—it was just holding hands.
The 'tall and mighty' self had directly collapsed on the table in front of her girlfriend because her heart was beating too fast?
Wuu~ this was embarrassing to grandma's house...
Logically speaking, how could this happen? Could this also be a side effect of becoming a girl?
Just as Su Mo internally chanted, wanting to righteously blame everything on feminization.
[Ding, sensing host's inner chanting, challenge system warmly reminds that host's excessive heartbeat is unrelated to feminization. Reasons for excessive heartbeat include: ① Before handshaking, host was already in a nervous and shy state. ② Host has over 60 favorability toward 'Lin Muyao,' this beautiful female. ③ Host's current thoughts are still male, and when making first physical contact with non-direct female relatives, normal males' heartbeat defaults to rising 20%, but since host has had no contact with females for 19 years, this value increases to over 50%.]
Listening to her system list out the detailed ①②③ reasons in her mind, Su Mo felt somewhat helpless at this moment. She had just wanted to find a reason to ease embarrassment—why was there someone dismantling her excuse?
This was like removing her fig leaf, wasn't it? Bad review, bad review!
Just as Su Mo internally complained to the system, wanting to ease her embarrassed emotions, a fragrant wind carrying orchid scent suddenly filled her nostrils.
Instinctively looking toward the source of the scent, she saw that her girlfriend Lin Muyao, who had been at some distance just moments ago, had unknowingly sat beside her.
Under the kotatsu's design, Lin Muyao's long legs were currently in a Japanese-style obedient kneeling posture, closed together without any gaps. Just looking at them made one want to lie on them—the perfect lap pillow target.
"Are you really okay, Junior Su Mo?"
Hearing Lin Muyao's call, whether it was Su Mo's imagination or not, she felt like something had changed somewhat.
She instinctively nodded, feeling two examining gazes and the lingering heat on her face.
At this moment, Su Mo was extremely embarrassed.
After all, as a big man... uh... someone with a big man's heart, Emmmmmm just holding hands, but her reaction just now was too exaggerated...
Lin Muyao looked at Su Mo beside her, whose white face still carried a blush that hadn't faded, currently like a little hedgehog, only lowering her head to drink orange juice to ease embarrassment.
She couldn't help but focus her gaze on Su Mo's cherry-red lips that were drinking orange juice.
People are naturally greedy creatures. When interest is aroused, after completing one goal, they're quickly attracted to another.
Just holding hands could make Su Mo this cute—then if... if it was biting those cherry lips, hugging, kissing, or even that kind of... honest meeting, what would it be like?
Thinking of those various scenes, the usually cool Campus Belle Lin Muyao's face became even more peach-colored. After internally cursing herself for being shameless, she finally remembered the main business of bringing Su Mo to the set later, suggesting again. However, unlike the earlier shyness, this time Lin Muyao was more excited.
"Junior Su Mo, should we continue rehearsing? This time I'll be 'gentle' and take it 'slowly,' don't be afraid..."
Hearing Lin Muyao's words, Su Mo felt something was off.
Because this line should normally be said by herself as the male, right!
How had the positions reversed now?
However, strange as it was, Su Mo ultimately didn't refuse Lin Muyao's suggestion.
After all, as a man, having already agreed to be the other's fake boyfriend, she should fulfill her responsibilities and obligations—this was consistent with Su Mo's life principles.
And aside from masculine dignity, Su Mo actually had some selfish motives.
Just when holding hands with Lin Muyao, although she only remembered her heart beating chaotically afterward, initially she vaguely remembered that soft, tender feeling girls had. Honestly, Su Mo wanted to experience it again.
Trembling, she moved the left hand holding the cup toward Lin Muyao's direction.
Drip~
As she lightly touched Lin Muyao's pinky finger, Su Mo reactively withdrew a little distance.
But unexpectedly, the next second, her dodging little hand was caught by a pair of warm, soft hands. Then her pinky, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and palm were gradually occupied by tender sensations.
Feeling Su Mo's trembling little hand's warmth again, Lin Muyao felt satisfied while also having another doubt arise in her mind:
Wasn't her little boyfriend's skin too good?