Chapter 29 - 26: Precautionary Measures
The water could only wash away Fu Jichen’s scent lingering on her, but couldn’t erase the marks on her body. Shen Jianian was wrestling with herself, scrubbing her arms, neck, and collarbone repeatedly, wishing she could peel off this layer of skin.
Half an hour passed, with hot water flowing incessantly in the bathroom, stagnant air, and high temperatures causing a suffocating sensation. Shen Jianian felt a bit breathless and finally decided to stop.
She turned off the shower and grabbed a towel from the rack.
Her fair skin looked as if it had been scalded, turning a frightening red. The towel brushed against it painfully, like countless needle pricks.
The towel swept over her flat stomach, without the slightest extra flesh, and Shen Jianian’s emptied mind suddenly tightened. She had neglected something terrifying.
Did Fu Jichen use protection last night?
Did he, or didn’t he? She wasn’t sure.
Her mind was too full of things then, too chaotic, and she even deliberately avoided focusing on this matter itself.
Just the thought of the catastrophic consequences this uncertainty might bring caused Shen Jianian’s blood to freeze rapidly, turning the steamy bathroom into a frigid ice cave.
She didn’t even feel how the clothes went on her body as she pulled the door open, only to find the culprit lounging in her room, leisurely crossing his long legs, reclining in the sofa, flipping through a magazine she’d recently read with one hand, and habitually fiddling with a piece of white jade hanging from his wrist with the other.
Fu Jichen raised his eyebrows and looked at her, his gaze lingering for a few seconds. She wore a full set of off-white loungewear, adorned with some irregular black geometric patterns, calm yet not dull.
"How’s your body feeling?" he asked without any evasion, "Anywhere uncomfortable?"