After a long silence, Lin Leyao's eyes were wide open, still unable to process what Xin Ying had just said.
Xin Ying bent down and reached out her hand.
Feeling Xin Ying's hand getting closer and closer to her face, Lin Leyao suddenly leaned back, but her back collided with the headboard, making a loud noise.
Seemingly not expecting Lin Leyao's sudden strong reaction, Xin Ying paused for a moment.
The collision with the headboard brought Lin Leyao back to her senses. As if realizing that she had overreacted, Lin Leyao froze for a moment, unsure of how to react.
Xin Ying reached out her hand, her cool palm touching Lin Leyao's forehead.
After a while, Xin Ying withdrew her palm and asked with a stern face, "You didn't even know you had a fever?"
"You have a fever?" Lin Leyao touched her forehead in surprise.
However, the coolness of Xin Ying's palm touching her forehead still lingered in her mind and on her forehead. Lin Leyao couldn't tell whether she had a fever or not.
She quickly withdrew her hand as if giving up.
What had just happened seemed like a minor incident, and neither of them mentioned it again.
Xin Ying remained calm and composed as usual. She lowered her head, took out her phone, and started editing something before quickly putting it back in her pocket.
After doing all this, Xin Ying went to the living room outside the suite and soon brought over a bowl of hot porridge.
"Drink this first to fill your stomach, then take the fever reducer later."
Lin Leyao took the porridge and drank it silently.
She's even cooked porridge. How long has she been here?
Lin Leyao checked the time on her phone; it was a little after four in the morning, not quite five.
At this time, did she rush here overnight?
Lin Leyao finished the bowl of porridge and remained silent.
Xin Ying sat on the sofa to the side without saying a word.
Lin Leyao couldn't help but lift the blanket off herself. Just as she made a sound, Xin Ying's voice rang out: "There's no fever reducer right now. Just stay in bed and keep warm for a while, and don't move around."
All the actions that had just begun stopped abruptly because of this one sentence.
Lin Leyao obediently lay on the bed, curled up under the covers.
From her current angle, she couldn't see Xin Ying at all; she could only hear the rustling sound of her clothes rubbing together.
Lin Leyao lay awake, lost in thought, and drifted off to sleep again.
I woke up again to the sound of the doorbell. My mind had just cleared up a bit when I heard someone get up and go out to open the door.
Soon someone came in, and Lin Leyao sat up and saw Kong Anqing.
Seeing Kong Anqing's strange state, Lin Leyao remained silent for a long time.
After driving for more than two hours to reach the film and television city, Kong Anqing found that all the rooms in the hotel had been booked by several film crews, so he went to Xiaomi's room to rest for a while.
She was still wearing her pink bunny pajamas, her hair was messy, and she had dark circles under her eyes, looking nothing like her usual elite white-collar worker self.
Lin Leyao's gaze finally fell on her feet. Perhaps sensing that she was being watched, the five toes slowly curled up under Lin Leyao's eerie gaze.
"..."
Kong Anqing, radiating resentment, put down her things and said to the two people in the room, "Mr. Xin, Madam, I'll be leaving now."
"good."
Kong Anqing arrived quickly and left quickly.
Lin Leyao looked worried: "Your assistant seems to be having some problems."
"Hmm." Xin Ying responded, then explained seriously, "It's probably my period."
Lin Leyao raised her head slightly, her face showing sudden realization: "Oh—"
Just as Lin Leyao withdrew her gaze from watching Kong Anqing leave, she saw Xin Ying taking out several items from a pile of things that Kong Anqing had brought.
Toothbrush, toothpaste, towel...
Upon seeing these toiletries, Lin Leyao's eyes widened instantly.
Xin Ying neatly arranged the toiletries on the coffee table.
Lin Leyao watched her hand movements, her throat bobbing, her voice tight: "I heard that menstruation is contagious."
Xin Ying paused in her actions and turned to look at Lin Leyao, who was sitting on the bed.
Lin Leyao's cheeks were flushed from the fever. She was pursing her lips and staring at her round eyes, looking incredibly sincere.
Xin Ying looked at her and saw Lin Leyao chuckle and whisper, "Actually, I've also gotten my period."
Xin Ying stared at her for a few seconds.
Lin Leyao's smile became increasingly guilty.
Xin Ying looked away without saying anything. She took a plastic box out of the bag Kong Anqing had brought and then put all the toiletries she had just taken out of the coffee table back into the bag.
Watching Xin Ying tie the bag, Lin Leyao swallowed hard and couldn't help but ask, "When are you going back to S City?"
"tonight."
Lin Leyao was somewhat surprised, as if she felt it was different from what she had expected. She then asked, "Then why did you buy toiletries?"
Xin Ying suddenly stopped what she was doing and straightened up.
From Lin Leyao's unusual behavior just now, Xin Ying instantly knew what Lin Leyao was thinking. She smiled helplessly and said, "These are your assistant's things. She asked An Qing to buy them, and I guess An Qing forgot to take them back."
"ah--?"
Lin Leyao opened her mouth wide, her face full of surprise, as if she hadn't expected this outcome.
The next second, there was a knock on the door.
Kong Anqing, who had just left, returned to the room. Xin Ying handed her the toiletries she had prepared, and then Kong Anqing left the room in a flash.
An eerie silence fell over the room. Lin Leyao felt embarrassed by her previous assumptions. Xin Ying didn't say much; she opened the medicine box that Kong Anqing had bought and took out fever reducers.
Lin Leyao's feverish face only began to subside slightly after the prepared fever-reducing medicine was handed to her.
She took the cup, looked up at Xin Ying, and grinned.
Xin Ying stood by the bed, watching Lin Leyao slowly drink the fever-reducing medicine, and her heart finally settled down. She even had the mood to joke: "What? Worried I'd spend the night here?"
Xin Ying's words startled Lin Leyao so much that she coughed violently. She quickly patted her chest, suppressed the cough, and swallowed the rest of the medicine.
Xin Ying lowered her eyes and looked at Lin Leyao, who was feeling guilty as she drank the medicine.
At this moment, a pink hue spread from Lin Leyao's thin earlobes to her fair and delicate neck. The red color was very eye-catching on her fair and tender skin. Following the gaze, the focus finally fell on the collar of her clothes, which concealed all the spring colors.
After drinking the fever reducer, Xin Ying silently took the cup. Their fingertips touched, and Lin Leyao felt as if she had been electrocuted, quickly withdrawing her hand.
Xin Ying placed the cup on the bedside table and did not leave, remaining standing by the bed.
A dark figure stood nearby, making it hard not to notice.
Lin Leyao couldn't help but raise her eyes and glance over, but was quickly caught by Xin Ying's gaze.
Xin Ying repeated herself slowly and deliberately: "Don't you want me to spend the night here?"
Lin Leyao coughed lightly, placed her palm on the pillow, and felt a hard, protruding object, which calmed her down considerably.
Lin Leyao replied with a smile, "How could that be? We're husband and wife. Whether or not you stay the night is your right."
"Rights?" Xin Ying repeated the word, her eyes half-closed, and asked in a low voice, "So, it's also my right to let you have sex with me?"
As soon as Xin Ying finished speaking, Lin Leyao's body tensed up instantly.
Seeing Xin Ying step forward and bend down, a darkness enveloped her, and Lin Leyao gripped the bed sheet tightly in her palm.
The expected thing didn't happen; Xin Ying grabbed the blanket and pulled it over Lin Leyao's head.
Xin Ying's cool voice reached Lin Leyao's ears through the thick blanket: "Do you really think I'm a pervert?"
Lin Leyao lifted the blanket covering her head and looked at Xin Ying, her eyes still filled with confusion.
Xin Ying tapped Lin Leyao's forehead with her finger and said, "You still have a fever, so you should rest well!"
After speaking, Xin Ying took a step back, leaving a small distance between herself and the bedside.
Suddenly, Xin Ying's voice rang out in the room again: "But, it's not too much for me to ask for a reward, is it?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Xin Ying, who had just left, leaned closer again, and Lin Leyao abruptly closed her eyes.
The expected thing didn't happen; instead, the bedside table next to me made a sound.
Lin Leyao slowly opened her eyes and saw Xin Ying take a pair of slippers out of the bedside table.
Seeing Lin Leyao's surprised look, Xin Ying asked teasingly, "What? You won't even let me wear your slippers?"
Lin Leyao slowly exhaled, rubbed her burning ears, and shook her head in rebuttal: "No."
Xin Ying gave Lin Leyao a deep look, a strange feeling slowly rising in her heart. She changed into slippers and sat back down on the sofa without saying anything more, and the room was quiet.
After taking her medicine, Lin Leyao felt drowsy. She reached under her pillow and touched the cold ring box. She thought about random things for a long time before finally closing her eyes.
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Author's Note:
Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 00:00:00 and 23:56:00 on February 24, 2022!
Thank you to the little angel who threw the grenade: 55157345 (1 grenade);
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
Chapter 37
When Lin Leyao woke up again, the room was no longer dark.
The dazzling sunlight streamed into the room through the gaps in the curtains, making all the objects in the room clearly visible.
This also includes Xin Ying, who sat quietly on the sofa without making a sound.
As soon as Lin Leyao made a sound on the bed, Xin Ying's gaze swept over instantly. Their eyes met, and seeing that Lin Leyao had woken up, Xin Ying put down the magazine in her hand.