Chapter 607: Breaking in
Twenty years later.
Linhou glanced at the text message on his phone and huffed. "It will have to wait." He turned his phone off in case it gave him away later and took out Xiaomu’s face powder which he had stolen from her room and rubbed it on his palms, then he stuffed it back in his bag and got ready to climb.
He was about to scale the wall to Han Xichen’s house. He definitely had a death wish. Han Xichen was protective of his beloved daughter Yue and wouldn’t let guys get near her unless he approved of them—and he definitely didn’t approve of the boy who tried to kiss Yue when she was only fourteen. He was only fifteen himself and was acting under the influence of raging teenage hormones but he knew that he would never live it down in the eyes of Han Xichen.
Although Han Xichen was his father’s close friend and he had been to this house more times than he could count, he didn’t have the courage to show his face at 10pm and ask Yue out for a movie.
He got on the other side safely. Having done this a gazillion times before, he easily snuck into Yue’s room, nearly scaring the living daylights out of her when her curtain suddenly moved.
"Jiang Linhou!" She raged when he finally showed his face. No matter how many times she told him to stop sneaking in through her window, he would come back.
He pressed his palm against her mouth to cover it. "Hush. Do you want your parents to know I’m here?"
"Not that I care! Do you want me to call my father to have a word with you?" She threatened. Luckily, he had come when she was done changing into her night gown or he would have caught her in her birthday suit. "What are you doing here?"
Although she claimed not to care, she hurriedly locked her door as soon as she heard her mother’s voice outside and looked out through her window to make sure no one was nearby before quickly closing it. She then lowered her voice.
"Talk. They might come to check on me." She rushed him, knowing Xiaoshi often brought her a glass of milk to help her sleep.
"I came to..." He stopped speaking when he caught sight of a red bra on the bed. His face reddened and he wanted to ignore it but was caught by her.