The Domineering CEO, but a Crybaby! - Chapter 28
Chapter 28: Taking Off Clothes to Sleep
He Shu’s neck went stiff, and her expression instantly froze!
The only things still moving were the water droplets at the ends of her hair, which trickled down one by one, sliding down her body and passing over her heart, making her feel surprisingly cold.
He Shu shuddered violently. She was going to die! She was so young, and she was hallucinating!
Cen Qianyi looked at the person standing still at the bathroom door, lifted the blanket a little, and patted it.
This pat scattered He Shu’s soul!
Could it be that she was so young that even her eyesight was starting to fail?!
This action, if done by anyone else, would be easy to understand.
But when it came to Cen Qianyi, He Shu didn’t understand!
What did it mean? What was wrong with the bed? Why was she patting it? Was there something wrong with the bed?
Cen Qianyi looked at the person who was as still as a statue and raised an eyebrow slightly.
“What’s wrong? You don’t want to sleep with me?”
He Shu’s lips twitched, and her ears trembled! Wait, what did Cen Qianyi just say?!
Seeing her serious expression, which didn’t look like she was joking, He Shu’s eyes widened.
“System, is my time to die here?”
“No murderous intent detected. The host can rest assured.”
She couldn’t rest assured!
When He Shu saw the thing in Cen Qianyi’s palm, her wide eyes trembled violently, like an earthquake.
And she, too, unconsciously took a step back with her trembling vision!
Cen Qianyi seemed to not notice her panic. She held a “bunny tail” in one hand and gently stroked the fluffy bunny fur with the other. A faint smile hung on her lips.
“Or, do you want to play for a while before sleeping?”
She seemed to be in a good mood. The end of her sentence rose, carrying a curl that entered He Shu’s ears.
“Ah—”
A scream rang out in the bathroom, followed by a “plop” of a splash!
In her pale purple eyes, the figure flickered, and her eyelashes fluttered slightly. Cen Qianyi saw that most of the person in her line of sight had disappeared…
Water splashed everywhere, and the water in the bathtub overflowed. The person in the bathtub frantically looked for something to hold on to. She tried to get up several times, but her hands slipped, and she fell back in.
More water overflowed, creating a mess on the floor. He Shu was also a complete mess.
She really wanted to cry. How could she have forgotten that the bathtub was behind her!
It was all Cen Qianyi’s fault!
If she hadn’t scared her, she wouldn’t have stepped back. If she hadn’t stepped back, she wouldn’t have bumped into the bathtub and fallen in.
After calming down a little, He Shu finally managed to climb out by holding on to the edge of the bathtub.
Looking at the water on the floor, she didn’t know if she should be glad that she had forgotten to drain the water after her bath. If she had fallen into an empty bathtub, how much would that have hurt!
In her line of sight, her bathrobe was dripping water, and her slippers soon looked like they had been pulled out of the water.
The wet shoes were uncomfortable against her feet. He Shu struggled out of them, and her wet feet stepped directly onto the wet floor.
Before she could wipe her eyes, a pair of pure white suede slippers came into her blurred vision, followed by another.
The two shoes were almost touching her feet.
He Shu looked up abruptly, and the water droplets she flung splattered on the other person’s face.
She watched as Cen Qianyi used the thing in her hand to wipe away the water on her face.
A tuft of the fluffy bunny fur immediately became limp.
“W-what do you want to do?” He Shu looked at the thing in her hand, panicking.
Cen Qianyi seemed to not notice her panic. Her gaze fell on the water droplets at the corners of her eyes. She took another step forward, and the soft surface of the slippers directly touched He Shu’s toes.
He Shu’s ten toes instantly curled up together and took a step back, trying to create some distance.
Cen Qianyi blew a puff of air at her wet eyes: “What’s wrong? You seem to be very afraid of me?”
She asked tentatively, with a perfectly balanced tone of confusion.
He Shu’s heart skipped a beat. She had a bad feeling and immediately straightened her neck to retort: “What are you talking about? How could I be afraid of you?”
Cen Qianyi seemed very confused: “Yeah, how could you be afraid of me?”
They were too close. He Shu felt that the other person’s voice didn’t even need to travel through the air. It just shot straight into her ears.
She reached out, wanting to push her away and make her stand farther away, but she didn’t dare to touch the other person at this moment.
In the end, she just crossed her arms and hugged herself: “I, I’m not afraid of you.”
After saying that, she wanted to punch herself. Why was she stuttering at a time like this?! Could she be a little more assertive?!
Cen Qianyi snorted softly: “Then why don’t you dare to look at me?”
Did she think she was stupid? He Shu lowered her gaze, trying her best not to look into Cen Qianyi’s eyes. She couldn’t give Cen Qianyi a chance to hypnotize her.
This situation was too strange. If she was hypnotized, who knew what the other person would do!
Especially since she was holding that thing in her hand! He Shu looked at the bunny fur, which was too close to her and was completely wet, and she felt a chill run down her spine.
Cen Qianyi actually brought this thing with her… What did she want to do?!
Help me, Su Ming! Help me, Tu Xuan! He Shu screamed in her heart. Someone, anyone, please come! She had screamed so loudly just now, did those two not hear anything?
They really didn’t.
Outside the room, Su Ming had already fallen into a deep sleep amidst a soothing symphony.
Tu Xuan was rocking her head to the rock music. When He Shu screamed and fell into the water, the music just happened to reach its climax, perfectly covering the sound.
Now that a song had ended, Tu Xuan took off her headphones, glanced at the person sleeping soundly on the other side of the aisle, and gently got up to cover Su Ming with the blanket on her body.
She turned around and looked at the back of the cabin. She felt that the person inside also seemed to be asleep. It was very quiet.
She put her headphones back on, perfectly blocking out the loud words He Shu had just said.
“Why should I look at you? Are you that good-looking?”
Cen Qianyi’s eyes curved slightly. Was she not good-looking? Didn’t this person bring her home because of her looks?
She looked at the person who was speaking, at the anger she was putting on to hide her nervousness, and at the rapidly pulsing veins in her neck.
The water droplets on it were quickly dripping down.
Cen Qianyi’s gaze followed the water. The light gray bathrobe, soaked in water, had become much darker. It was clinging tightly to her skin, completely exposing the woman’s figure.
In contrast, her secret… was very well hidden.
A strange look flashed in Cen Qianyi’s eyes. She reached out, and her slender fingers wrapped around the equally soaked bathrobe sash.
He Shu reacted in time and pressed her hand down: “What do you want to do?”
The other person’s actions were sudden. In her nervousness, He Shu forgot her previous fear of touching her and her warning to herself not to look at her.
Meeting those pale purple eyes, she held her hand tightly. It was over. Was she about to be hypnotized?
She quickly shifted her gaze, dropping it to her earlobe. This glance made her notice something was wrong.
There was a small red dot on her ear that looked very familiar.
He Shu remembered that she had seen it. When they first met at the hospital, she had seen it when she was “working,” but later, there was only an empty ear piercing in this spot on Cen Qianyi… She had thought she had misremembered it at the time.
What was this thing? Why was it there sometimes and not there at other times?
Cen Qianyi didn’t know that after the abnormality in her hair was discovered, He Shu had found another one of her disguises. She looked at the eyes that were clearly avoiding hers, and her confusion grew even more.
Wanting to confirm some of her suspicions, Cen Qianyi held the hand that He Shu was pressing down on hers.
And He Shu, because of this action, once again forgot the rule of not making eye contact and looked at her.
Cen Qianyi looked at the person and said with a concerned expression: “Isn’t it uncomfortable to wear wet clothes?”
Of course it was uncomfortable. He Shu felt a sense of bewilderment. But what did this have to do with Cen Qianyi? What was this person trying to do?!
“I’ll help you take them off.”
Cen Qianyi said this and made a move as if she was going to do it.
He Shu refused and pushed her away forcefully: “No need.”
Cen Qianyi blinked: “Don’t you want to give me a chance to perform well?”
“Huh?” He Shu really didn’t understand this person. What chance to perform well?
Cen Qianyi pursed her lips: “Didn’t you say that if I performed well, I would be rewarded by being able to sleep with you…”
He Shu was in a daze. She seemed to have said that… when she was “working”…
She looked at Cen Qianyi, her eyes trembling. No, what was this person doing?
She looked at Cen Qianyi, and Cen Qianyi also looked at her with a serious expression: “I want to perform well.”
“Huh?”
“I want to sleep with you.”
He Shu was stunned. Good heavens. The words she had heard at the beginning weren’t a hallucination. They were real. She looked at Cen Qianyi. What was she trying to do?!
She couldn’t handle this plotline!
“System, what’s going on? What is this? Is Cen Qianyi also bound to some system that’s forcing her to ‘work’?”
[No other intelligent entity detected.]
This broken system had the nerve to classify itself as an intelligent entity. He Shu was embarrassed for it.
“What do I do now? What is this situation?”
[An extension outside the plotline. The host can improvise freely.]
Improvise?
She wanted to vaporize!
Vaporize like fertilizer vaporizes!
If she vaporized, she wouldn’t have to be scared anymore!
Wait, where was that hand going?!
He Shu looked at the hand on her waist and twisted her waist violently: “What are you doing?”
Cen Qianyi seemed to have decided to act like a proactive “plaything.” She said it with a very natural expression: “Taking off clothes to sleep.”
“Then take off your own. Why are you taking off mine?!”
Cen Qianyi looked at her, remained silent for two seconds, and then said, “Oh.”
He Shu was relieved to see her hand retract, but when she saw her next action, she gasped back the air she had just exhaled!
Cen Qianyi reached behind her back and unbuttoned a button on the collar of her dress with one hand. With the sound of a zipper opening and closing, He Shu saw that her dress had loosened a bit.
He Shu: !
“What are you doing?”
Cen Qianyi: “Taking off my clothes.”
“Why are you taking off your clothes?”
“To sleep.”
They were back to the same topic. Cen Qianyi looked innocent: “Didn’t you tell me to take off my own?”
He Shu was speechless. Did she say that? Was that what she meant just now?
He Shu wanted to die. Had she already been hypnotized? Was this plotline even logical? Was it a hallucination?
“System, have I been hypnotized?”
[Don’t worry, Host. You are conscious.]
She couldn’t rest assured! He Shu looked at Cen Qianyi, her eyes wide with a thought popping into her head. Maybe she should just be hypnotized… This was too scary, too terrifying!
If she had to choose between the two, He Shu tensed her butt and looked at the thing in Cen Qianyi’s hand. She chose the long tail.
It was better for her body to suffer a little than for her heart to be tormented!
Cen Qianyi saw the fear in He Shu’s eyes and confirmed her suspicion. She was afraid.
She was afraid of her…
But how could that be? There was some confusion in Cen Qianyi’s eyes. How could she be afraid of her?
Unless she knew her identity…
But if she knew, how would she have dared to bring her home and do those things to her?
And… why would she try to save her when she was in danger?
Cen Qianyi thought about today, about the way this person had run with her on her back… It was obvious that she was worried about her safety. She even worried that her feet would get hurt and gave her her own shoes.
In her eyes, she was so fragile. If she knew her identity, she would never have had this thought.
What on earth was going on? Cen Qianyi’s pale purple eyes deepened, and He Shu immediately noticed the change. Her eyes trembled even more violently.
“You put your clothes on first, and we can talk things through!”
Cen Qianyi raised an eyebrow. Looking at the person’s reaction, she confirmed her other suspicion.
She was not only afraid… she also had no “interest” in her…
It was as if she only liked to “play” those games with her, but she didn’t have that kind of “interest” in her in reality.
For so many days, she had only had physical contact with her when she was “playing” with her.
To confirm this suspicion, Cen Qianyi turned around, exposing her back to the other person.
“You help me.”
Under the open zipper, a patch of fair skin was exposed, and half of her bra strap was faintly visible.
He Shu had only glanced at it in surprise at the beginning. When she heard what she said, she quickly pulled the zipper up for her without looking at it for a second longer.
Cen Qianyi’s lowered long eyelashes hid the understanding in her eyes.
She slowly turned around and looked at He Shu. Her gaze had become much heavier, which made He Shu feel dazed… What was wrong? Didn’t she want her to help her pull up the zipper?
“I’ll help you too.”
Cen Qianyi said this and reached out to button He Shu’s collar.
Thank you so much, but no thanks. He Shu pushed her away forcefully and hugged her chest once again.
She was about to say that there was no need and that she could do it herself, but for some reason, when she met the other person’s gaze, her eyeballs began to tremble uncontrollably.
An inexplicable spiral of a mosquito coil appeared in her eyes and kept spinning.
Before she lost consciousness, she suddenly realized it was hypnosis!
Wait, why would Cen Qianyi hypnotize her at a time like this?!
To take off her clothes?
Ah, no way. Isn’t she an assassin? Did she change careers to become a hooligan?!