Flirting Under Favor (GL) - Chapter 14
Since everyone was completely exhausted and didn’t want to hike down the mountain, they chose to take the cable car down, enjoying the natural scenery along the way.
Fan Bei Bei was generous, taking Wang Lin and the others, including the two bodyguards, to a famous restaurant, determined to treat themselves well and replenish the energy they had burned climbing the mountain today. After eating and drinking to their fill, Fan Bei Bei suggested going to a massage parlor for some pampering. She had already paid for lunch, and the others didn’t want her to spend more money at the massage parlor, which was quite expensive. But they were all students with limited pocket money, so no one was willing to go. Since the others declined, Fan Bei Bei had to go with the majority, calling out that she wanted to go back to the dorm to sleep. The others agreed.
On the way back, after dropping Fan Bei Bei and the other two back at school, Wang Lin naturally drove Mu Fan back, which Mu Fan tacitly allowed.
The car stopped downstairs. The atmosphere inside the car was briefly silent. Mu Fan said: “Do you want to come up?”
Wang Lin couldn’t have been more eager: “Yes, please!”
The two got out of the car. Wang Lin’s legs were still sore and weak. Mu Fan helped her push open the rusty iron gate and entered the stairwell. Mu Fan paused and asked: “Do you want Si Qing (the bodyguard) to carry you?”
Wang Lin said: “No need.” She had an idea in mind but didn’t dare suggest it.
Helping Wang Lin climb two floors was really strenuous.
Mu Fan had no choice but to say: “I’ll carry you.”
“Yes, please!”
Mu Fan put her on her back. She wasn’t heavy at all.
Mu Fan exposed Wang Lin without mercy: “You just wanted me to carry you, didn’t you?”
Wang Lin giggled twice on her back, neither denying nor admitting it, just asking her: “Am I heavy?”
“Not bad.”
“Are you tired?”
“Not bad.”
Wang Lin asked in her ear: “I feel like even if I don’t say it, you know what I’m thinking? Am I really that bad at hiding things?”
Mu Fan didn’t say anything, carrying her up the stairs step by step.
“This feeling is so wonderful.”
“What feeling?”
“Warm inside,” Wang Lin thought for a moment, then continued, “The feeling of having what I want, without having to say it, being fulfilled.”
Mu Fan was speechless. Wang Lin didn’t know what Mu Fan might be thinking inside. She added: “I don’t usually make requests to outsiders.”
“Mhm.” Mu Fan just replied with a sound. She was a solitary person, and being needed so directly by Wang Lin made her feel warm inside. An impulse sprouted within her, an impulse directed at Wang Lin. She thought of a word: to pamper. She was startled by this word. It clearly crossed certain boundaries, yet… it seemed she couldn’t refuse Wang Lin. She thought about it. Not only could she not refuse, but Wang Lin didn’t even have to say it out loud. This was too… too—she didn’t know how to describe it. She didn’t know what was at play in her heart.
Wang Lin pulled at her sleeve, using it to wipe the fine sweat at Mu Fan’s temples. Mu Fan didn’t say anything.
“We’re here.” Finally reaching the sixth floor, Mu Fan put Wang Lin down, slightly panting.
“Thank you for your hard work,” Wang Lin said shamelessly. “When my legs don’t hurt anymore, I’ll carry you back.”
Mu Fan didn’t take her seriously. She opened the door and walked inside.
As soon as Wang Lin entered the room, she couldn’t wait to collapse onto the sofa.
Mu Fan ignored her and went straight into the bathroom. Wang Lin heard the sound of running water inside. Soon after, she saw Mu Fan come out carrying a basin of water.
She placed the water at Wang Lin’s feet and said: “Soak your feet.”
Wang Lin immediately took off her socks. Her feet were red, but thankfully, they didn’t have blisters. She felt the dense heat radiating from the basin even before putting her feet in. She carefully tested the water temperature with her toes. It was a bearable temperature, so she soaked both feet in the water, letting out a satisfied sound.
She asked Mu Fan: “Aren’t you going to soak yours?” She splashed the water with her feet. “Soak them together.”
“Mhm.” Mu Fan nodded, pulled a chair from another spot, and sat opposite Wang Lin. She rolled up her trousers and put her own feet into the water as well.
Wang Lin used her feet to rub against Mu Fan’s and used her toes to pry Mu Fan’s toes. Mu Fan didn’t show weakness and pried back.
The two wrestled with their toes, and the half-basin of hot water made a “whooshing” sound.
“Childish,” Mu Fan said.
“You’re playing too.”
Mu Fan put on a straight face: “You started it.”
Wang Lin argued: “You really are something. You clearly want to play too, but you insist I started it.”
Seeing Mu Fan not respond, she mumbled again: “You’re only one year older than me anyway.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Mu Fan’s toes actively came looking for a fight again.
They soaked until the water turned lukewarm before taking their feet out, drying them, and putting their slippers back on.
Wang Lin lay on the sofa, repeatedly saying, “So comfortable.”
Mu Fan came back after pouring water. Wang Lin said: “I want to sleep.”
“Go ahead and sleep.”
“Aren’t you sleeping? Aren’t you tired?”
Wanting to soak her feet together and wanting to sleep together, Mu Fan’s body was also fatigued, and she satisfied Wang Lin’s request once again.
Wang Lin didn’t say much once she hit the bed and soon fell asleep, nestled beside Mu Fan.
The nap was very long. She woke up close to six o’clock.
Mu Fan rubbed her sleepy eyes, a little worried she wouldn’t be able to sleep at night.
Wang Lin lay on the bed, stretching her body without restraint, making comfortable sounds.
It was time to eat. Mu Fan shuffled in her slippers, tying her hair up casually.
She asked Wang Lin: “Do you still want to sleep?”
Wang Lin shook her head and said: “But I don’t want to get up.”
“Then you keep lying down for a bit. Get up to eat later.”
Seeing Wang Lin nod, Mu Fan turned on her computer: “If you’re bored, play the game.” Then she left. Opening the refrigerator, there were still some vegetables left from the past few days, just enough for two people for one meal.
While she was busy in the kitchen, Wang Lin climbed out of bed in the bedroom. She looked at the unlocked computer on the desk. Computers, like phones, contain a lot of privacy, and she knew Mu Fan’s computer was also her work computer, yet Mu Fan had turned it on without any defenses, allowing her to use it.
Wang Lin was delighted to be trusted by Mu Fan like this. She opened the game but didn’t log into her own account.
She logged onto Mu Fan’s account. Mu Fan had given her the account password before.
Strictly speaking, Mu Fan was actually an Achievement Hunter, with a decent number of achievement points, but Wang Lin found that she had many gathering achievements that she hadn’t done. So, Wang Lin enjoyed helping Mu Fan gather herbs and mine all over the place. Once, without Mu Fan’s knowledge, she used up all the Vigor (a resource in the game). When Mu Fan discovered it, she quoted a famous funny line—”I feel like my body has been emptied”—which made Wang Lin laugh uncontrollably.
Wang Lin began to skillfully gather herbs again, thinking that Mu Fan was cooking for her, and she was doing achievements for Mu Fan, so she wasn’t just eating for free.
Mu Fan spent over half an hour in the kitchen, making scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stir-fried meat with long beans, garlic spinach, and seaweed soup.
She went to the bedroom to call Wang Lin and saw that she had used up all of Mu Fan’s Vigor again.
“Time to eat!”
Wang Lin acted slightly cute: “Okay-dokey!”
Sitting down at the dining table to eat, Mu Fan noticed that Wang Lin hadn’t picked up any of the tomatoes.
“Don’t you like tomatoes?” Mu Fan asked.
“Mhm,” Wang Lin answered honestly.
“You said before that you weren’t a picky eater.”
Wang Lin played dumb: “Did I?”
“Yes.”
“I forgot.”
Playing tricks again.
“Fine, then you eat the eggs, and I’ll eat the tomatoes. It works out.”
“I like the eggs, I purposely let you have the tomatoes.”
Mu Fan: “…”
Mu Fan didn’t argue with her, saying: “It’s normal for everyone to have things they don’t like to eat. What other things do you not eat? I won’t make them next time.”
Wang Lin didn’t pay much attention to the rest of the sentence, only hearing the word “next time,” which she repeated: “Next time?”
Mu Fan lowered her head and ate a piece of tomato: “Mhm, next time.”
“Then the time after next?”
“If you want to come over to my place in the future, you always can,” Mu Fan said.
“Okay. Besides tomatoes, I also don’t eat celery, bitter melon, wood ear mushrooms, cilantro…” Wang Lin listed seven or eight things, then asked Mu Fan, “What about you? Is there anything you don’t like to eat?”
Mu Fan heard her list a bunch of things she didn’t eat, which was in no way “not picky.”
“I don’t like green onions.”
“Oh, I actually quite like those,” Wang Lin mumbled with a mouthful of rice.
After finishing the meal, Wang Lin volunteered to wash the dishes.
Mu Fan knew she was unused to doing chores (her fingers never touched spring water) and was surprised she offered to wash the dishes, so she let her.
She was an adult after all; washing dishes wouldn’t cause any major issues or leave them unclean. Mu Fan was satisfied after inspecting them and didn’t hesitate to praise her. Wang Lin was overjoyed by the compliment and made a grand promise to handle all the dishes from then on.
Mu Fan didn’t take her grand promise to heart.
After tidying up, Wang Lin showed no intention of leaving, and Mu Fan naturally wouldn’t chase her away. She let Wang Lin play the game on the computer while she read a book on the side.
Regarding the game, Wang Lin only wanted to play with Mu Fan. After playing alone for a while, she felt bored. But she had to find something to do, so she asked Mu Fan to watch a movie with her.
Mu Fan didn’t refuse, pulled a chair over, and sat next to her. The two watched Minions on the laptop on the desk.
One movie later, it was time to go to sleep.
“Go take a shower and sleep.”
Having taken a long nap during the day, Wang Lin wasn’t very sleepy, but she couldn’t drag Mu Fan into staying up either, so she obediently went to shower.
When she came back from her shower, Mu Fan dried her hair before going to shower. When Mu Fan returned, Wang Lin dried hers. Everything seemed to have become natural.
As soon as they lay down, Wang Lin boldly snuggled up to her, acting more and more demanding, completely without the earlier caution.
Wang Lin hugged her, rubbing against her and making soft “woo woo woo” sounds, like a small child.
Mu Fan couldn’t take this kind of intimacy: “Stop fooling around.”
Wang Lin immediately stopped, being obedient.
The quiet night was silent.
Wang Lin wasn’t sleepy. After a while, she called Mu Fan again.
“Mu Fan.”
“Mhm.”
“You’re like an older sister.”
“Older sister?”
“Mmm~~” Wang Lin seemed to be thinking. “I don’t have siblings. An older sister should be just like you.”
Older sister.
Older sister.
It was as if a voice echoed in Mu Fan’s ear, mocking her: Ha, she just thinks of you as an older sister, that’s all. Haha…
In the darkness, Wang Lin couldn’t see the sadness in Mu Fan’s eyes. She just felt her body stiffen momentarily, then move, as if searching for a comfortable position.
“Mhm. Little sister, go to sleep now.”
“I can’t sleep.”
“I need to sleep.”
After a soft reply, there was no more sound.
Wang Lin didn’t dare to bother Mu Fan anymore. She found a more comfortable position, hugged Mu Fan, and forced herself to sleep.
Mu Fan sighed softly in her heart. In any case—
There is a difference between gay and straight. I couldn’t possibly fall for a straight person, could I?