Forced Cohabitation After a Hit Romance Variety Show with My Rival Actress - Chapter 22

Waaah, I had such a clear mental image of their ship before, but now it’s all messed up! I don’t even know how they’re going to develop it.

I always thought Li Tianyin and Lu Wenrui were a couple. I never imagined Li Tianyin would actually go camping with the CEO and not even come visit us on our floor mats!

Hahaha, I just checked out Li Tianyin and CEO Lin Yihan’s group. Holy crap, are they about to make a direct move?!

Seriously, I never realized how shippable two tops could be together until now.

They’re already giving us a live broadcast vibe over a pink sleeping bag! Hahahaha!

Li Tianyin crossed her arms, a white towel still draped around her neck from drying her hair.

“Why don’t you take the pink sleeping bag?”

Lin Yihan raised an eyebrow. “Why would I take the pink one?”

Inside the tent, two inflatable mattresses lay side by side.

Under the overhead light, a blue and a pink sleeping bag were placed.

The blue one happened to be on Lin Yihan’s side, and he immediately sat down beside it, his slender fingers gently stroking the fabric, making a soft rustling sound.

Lin Yihan raised his narrow eyes. “You don’t like pink?”

Li Tianyin couldn’t explain the strange feeling she always had around Lin Yihan.

In her eyes, Lin Yihan was undeniably handsome. He wore a light gray silk shirt with a strong drape, paired with dark gray skinny jeans and comfortable British-style heeled shoes that revealed a glimpse of his elegant ankles and insteps.

Li Tianyin narrowed her eyes and met Lin Yihan’s gaze. “That’s right.”

Lin Yihan smiled. “What a coincidence. I don’t like it either.”

Her hand remained pressed against the blue sleeping bag. She tilted her chin. “Then why don’t we sleep in the blue one together?”

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Holy sh1t, that’s bold!

I never expected the CEO to be such a direct flirt!

How are they going to fit in such a small sleeping bag? Are we talking about that kind of “stacking”? eyes wide

Is this even allowed on air? It can’t be real, right?

Sisters, hurry to the other stream! Gu Yuan’s about to take a shower!

Holy sh1t, this is even wilder! I’m going to watch the goddess shower (not)!

Tonight’s been too intense! I’m tired of switching streams!

Chi Yu entered the bathroom, the misty environment quickly enveloping her in a layer of condensation.

The tips of her long lashes seemed to grow heavier.

Standing in the fragrant air, she could faintly detect the delicate scent of jasmine lingering in her nostrils.

She narrowed her eyes, the bath towel clutched in her hand suddenly feeling heavier.

“Your towel,” Chi Yu said, her voice sounding muffled even to her own ears.

“Bring it in.”

Chi Yu chuckled. “Are you sure?”

A lattice-patterned glass screen stood between the bathtub and the doorway, obscuring Chi Yu’s view.

She could only make out the vague outline of Gu Yuan’s shoulder and the updo of her hair. Beyond that, only a section of the pristine white bathtub extended beyond the screen.

Gu Yuan’s voice drifted from behind the lattice: “You wouldn’t dare?”

The air, thick with mist and fragrance, made Chi Yu’s bl00d stir slightly.

Hearing the challenge, “You wouldn’t dare?” Chi Yu reacted as if she’d heard something utterly absurd. Gripping the towel, she strode forward, stood before the bathtub, and extended the towel.

“I’m just afraid you wouldn’t dare.”

Ruan Feiyu raced up the stairs to the second floor, panting heavily, her breath coming in ragged gasps.

She rarely exercised, and even a short sprint left her winded.

When she had first told Lu Wenrui she was going to sneak in for a shower, she had started off at a brisk pace. But by the time she reached the corner where the stairs turned from the first floor to the second, she was clinging to the handrail, gritting her teeth, and dragging her heavy legs upward.

In her haste, she rounded the corner and collided with someone.

“Ouch!” Ruan Feiyu cried out softly, clutching her shoulder.

Looking up, she saw Li Tianyin, equally surprised.

The impact had knocked Li Tianyin back a step, but Lin Yihan caught her by the shoulder.

Lin Yihan released his grip immediately. “Careful.”

A faint blush tinged the tip of Li Tianyin’s ear, hidden beneath a strand of hair. She pushed Lin Yihan’s hand away and stepped aside. “I’m fine.”

Ruan Feiyu glanced at the master bedroom door in the distance, then turned to the two of them. “What are you doing here?”

Lin Yihan countered, “What are you doing here?”

Before either of them could answer, Lu Wenrui came rushing up the stairs, panting heavily. She gripped the handrail, dragging her mud-like legs upward. “Why are you running so fast? I wanted to sneak in a bath too! Wait for me!”

Lin Yihan looked up at Ruan Feiyu. “We’re here to sneak in a bath too.”

“…Oh.”

Lu Wenrui dragged her wobbly legs over to them. “You two are acting pretty suspicious…”

“Never mind,” she said, waving her hand dismissively. Clearly exhausted and too tired to gossip, she added, “Let’s stop dawdling and go scrub those two!”

In the misty bathroom, Gu Yuan sat in a bathtub filled with rose petals. A few crimson petals clung to her jade-like shoulders, accentuating her snow-white skin and ethereal beauty.

Even submerged in the steaming water, Gu Yuan’s cheeks remained pale and flawless. Without makeup, she resembled a lotus flower emerging from the water, untouched by worldly impurities, breathtakingly beautiful.

Her slightly elongated eyes flickered open, eyelids lifting to reveal pupils shimmering with moisture as she turned to look at Chi Yu.

“What should I be afraid of?”

Chi Yu, holding a pristine white bath towel, found the air in the room intoxicatingly sweet.

Before, she and Gu Yuan…

“Never mind,” she told herself, shrugging. “I brought the towel in for you. Here.”

The white towel had been neatly folded into a square, but Chi Yu, for reasons she couldn’t explain, had crumpled it into a messy ball as she entered. Now, as she extended it, it looked disheveled and slightly chaotic.

Gu Yuan’s long lashes flickered as her gaze slid over the towel, then slowly traveled upward to meet Chi Yu’s doe-like eyes.

“You’re holding it so far away. How am I supposed to reach it?”

Gu Yuan’s beauty was truly exceptional. In this moment, in this setting, she sat in the smooth, pristine bathtub, one leg gently raised, disturbing the flower petals floating on the surface and revealing her slender knee and a small stretch of her lower leg.

The air was intoxicatingly fragrant and oppressively hot.

Chi Yu swallowed hard and took another step forward.

Her knees pressed against the edge of the bathtub as she extended the towel again.

“Hurry up, your towel.”

Yet even then, Gu Yuan remained seated in the water, making no move to reach for it.

This room truly lived up to its reputation as a deluxe suite. The spaciousness extended to the bathroom, which was far larger than typical, featuring an oversized bathtub easily accommodating two people.

Standing before this expansive tub, even with Chi Yu leaning as close as possible, Gu Yuan couldn’t reach the towel unless she made the effort to get up herself.

At that moment, long-dormant memories flashed through Chi Yu’s mind: she and Gu Yuan, their clothes disheveled, on the verge of going all the way.

That pristine shoulder, identical to the one in her memories, seemed eerily reminiscent of that past scene—a shoulder glistening with a thin sheen of sweat.

The rich, heady fragrance of jasmine filled the air, leaving her mouth dry and her throat parched, just as it had that day.

Gu Yuan raised her head to look at Chi Yu, her slender, jade-white arm lifting into the air.

A few rose petals clung to her porcelain skin, and glistening water droplets, like shattered glass beads, cascaded down the curve of her arm, creating countless ripples on the water’s surface.

“Give it to me,” Gu Yuan said, her voice as clear and melodious as ever, yet in the mist-filled bathroom, it seemed veiled with an alluring aura.

Chi Yu felt only the briefest touch of Gu Yuan’s water-slicked fingertips against her own, sending a tingling current through her scalp.

Gu Yuan’s fingers were so hot.

As this thought flashed through her mind, Chi Yu’s gaze instinctively drifted back to the bathtub.

The surface, strewn with rose petals, parted to reveal skin as luminous and white as jade, glistening with water droplets. Chi Yu felt as if the skin where their bodies touched had been scalded, and she recoiled sharply.

But she had forgotten that the towel was still draped over her arm, and Gu Yuan had already grasped the other end.

Chi Yu tugged, Gu Yuan pulled, and with her leg already pressed against the tub’s edge, Chi Yu lost her balance and tumbled into the water.

A splash erupted, sending rose petals swirling across the surface.

Chi Yu felt herself fall into a scorching hot body. Her mind went numb, and the next moment, she surfaced, her face inches from Gu Yuan’s.

Their noses nearly touched.

She could clearly see the water droplets clinging to Gu Yuan’s long, striking eyelashes.

Gu Yuan’s expression remained subtle, her gaze lowered as she watched Chi Yu scramble out of the water. A strand of dark hair drifted across her shoulder, swaying with the current like a black lotus blooming against her jade-white skin.

For a moment, Chi Yu was too stunned to react.

Gu Yuan continued to observe her silently before asking, “Where is your hand?”

Chi Yu froze, her mind blank.

It was only then that she realized her hand was pressed against a rather delicate spot. The skin beneath her palm felt like smooth silk, but its location was… questionable.

The two women stared at each other in silence, Chi Yu feeling as if her brain had crashed for an eternity.

Then, a loud knocking echoed from the door.

Lu Wenrui’s voice boomed through the room, “Yuanyuan-jie, Hao Hao, are you in there?”

“Open up!”

“We’re here to take a bath!”