Fang Bai asked the sales assistant to take them down, and after picking out a few more items, Fang Bai said to Ji Yuning, "Go to the fitting room and try them on, and choose a few you like."
Ji Yuning followed the sales assistant to the fitting room.
After exchanging a few words with Ji Yuning, the sales assistant turned around and saw Fang Bai standing not far away with his arms crossed. She walked over and said with a smile, "Ms. Fang, you are so kind to Ms. Ji."
The original owner of this shop was a frequent visitor, and the staff had all heard some rumors about it and knew them.
Fang Bai smiled slightly and didn't say anything more.
Is buying a few pieces of clothing enough? If Ji Yuning thought that way, then she wouldn't need to do anything; she could just buy Ji Yuning a factory.
While Ji Yuning was changing clothes, Fang Bai glanced around the store a few times, and a black fitted dress caught his eye. Seeing this, the sales assistant quickly said, "Miss Fang, that dress suits you very well. Let me get it for you."
Fang Bai nodded, "Thank you for your help."
Just as the sales assistant handed the clothes to Fang Bai, Ji Yuning came out of the fitting room.
Fang Bai said to Ji Yuning, "I'm going to try on some clothes, wait for me a moment."
Ji Yuning hummed in agreement.
After handing the selected clothes to the sales assistant for packing, Ji Yuning waited for Fang Bai two steps away from the fitting room.
A minute and a half passed, and there was no sign that the fitting room door would open.
Ji Yuning frowned, walked to the fitting room door, and whispered, "Auntie."
As Fang Bai changed his clothes and was about to zip up his jacket, his hair, which he had gently tied up with a hairband, came loose, and coincidentally, a strand of hair got caught inside.
Fang Bai heard Ji Yuning's voice from inside the door. He bent his elbow and tried to reach the zipper on the back again, but to no avail. His hair was still stuck inside.
Fang Bai didn't dare to pull too hard, afraid of hurting his scalp.
She had no choice but to give up and said to the door, "Xiao Ning, can you come in and help me?"
Outside the door, Ji Yuning hesitated whether to go in or not, when Fang Bai's voice came through the door again, "Or help me call the shop assistant from earlier and ask her to come in."
“…”
After Fang Bai finished speaking, he unlatched the door. As soon as the door opened a crack, a figure darted in.
The fitting room suddenly became crowded.
Fang Bai blinked.
Ji Yuning closed the door and said calmly, "Other guests have arrived."
The shop assistants were all unavailable.
"Oh." Fang Bai didn't care much; anyone could come in, as long as they could help her. She turned around, her back to Ji Yuning, "Auntie's hair is stuck in the zipper, can you help me pull it out?"
After saying that, Fang Bai added, "Clothes can be damaged, but hair can't be broken. It would be best if it were done gently, because I'm afraid of pain."
She can still buy clothes, but her hair is gone forever.
Ji Yuning pursed her lips and said in a hoarse voice, "I know."
Fang Bai swept the hair that was covering his back to the front, leaving only a strand of hair caught in the zipper.
Fang Bai had already pulled the zipper all the way up, so she had been trying for almost a minute without being able to pull it down easily.
Ji Yuning pinched the zipper with two fingers, and with her other hand she gently tugged at Fang Bai's hair, slowly untangling the two objects that were intertwined.
As Ji Yuning pulled, the zipper slid down little by little, and her back, which had been covered by the clothes, was slowly revealed section by section.
Like a work of art, and Ji Yuning was a specially invited viewer to experience the art, so she was careful with every movement, afraid of disturbing her.
During this time, Ji Yuning's fingers would inevitably touch Fang Bai unintentionally.
In the cramped room, the senses of smell, touch, and hearing are amplified infinitely.
The hair oil Fang Bai applied had a very faint scent, so faint that if Ji Yuning hadn't been stroking her hair, she probably wouldn't have been able to smell it at all. It was sweet but not cloying.
Ji Yuning heard a throbbing sound coming from her chest. The sound was so loud that it disrupted her breathing and caused her to lose a beat in her hand movements. But it was precisely because of this unplanned mistake that the two tangled objects were successfully untangled.
Some things cannot always be done according to the rules.
Ji Yuning released her hand from the zipper and used the hand that was holding her hair to brush that strand of hair aside.
Her clothes were flared out in a V-shape, exposing her bare skin. Ji Yuning glanced at it once and then looked away. She lowered her eyes and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "Fang Bai."
Ji Yuning's movements were very gentle, and Fang Bai didn't feel a thing. She didn't realize she was done and thought Ji Yuning had called her to say something. "Hmm?"
A lingering, upturned tone.
Her lowered eyelashes concealed the darkness in Ji Yuning's eyes, and she whispered, "It's untied."
Fang Bai breathed a sigh of relief and asked Ji Yuning to help her zip up the zipper.
After Ji Yuning said "Okay," Fang Bai turned around and asked, "Does this dress look good?"
The dress is very form-fitting, highlighting the curves of her hips below her slender waist, and the same goes for the upper body.
"..." Ji Yuning pursed her lips, letting out a soft "Mmm" through her nose.
Perfunctory.
Fang Bai could only use these two words to describe Ji Yuning's attitude.
Fang Bai stared at Ji Yuning for two seconds. The lighting in the changing room wasn't very bright, and Ji Yuning's expression was unclear in the shadows. Fang Bai moved his feet, taking a step forward while putting his arms behind his back.
She wanted to see what Ji Yuning's perfunctory expression would look like.
Ji Yuning was caught off guard by Fang Bai's approach. By the time she looked up, Fang Bai was already right in front of her, less than twenty centimeters away.
Her heartbeat hadn't slowed down yet, and fearing that Fang Bai would hear her unusual behavior, Ji Yuning subconsciously wanted to back away. But in the small fitting room, where could she go? Nevertheless, she moved her feet back a little, trying to increase the distance between herself and Fang Bai.
Fang Bai noticed Ji Yuning's little actions. He raised an eyebrow, leaned closer to Ji Yuning, and said slowly, "Then you should compliment Auntie on her looks."
Chapter 49
Ten centimeters.
As Fang Bai moved closer again, the distance between her and Ji Yuning was only ten centimeters.
Even if the fitting room lights are dim, from this angle you can still see the emotions on each other's faces, even relaxed eyebrows, curled eyelashes, the texture of red lips, and... the fragrance of orchids when they speak and the shallow breaths coming from their noses.
Too close.
They've already crossed the safe distance between friends, and what they're getting close to now is being defined as intimate distance.
close?
Ji Yuning was very familiar with this word; it had appeared in her mind repeatedly not long ago.
That was what she saw after her last search. There was a passage that she shouldn't have seen at her age. Ji Yuning was indifferent to the description that would make others blush.
To her, it was just someone else's work, a pile of desires in cold words, not a literary work worth studying, and had nothing to do with her.
But Ji Yuning had to admit that the description she had found uninteresting had left a deep impression on her.
The human brain always leaves room for new things encountered for the first time. We don't think about them normally, but we have new experiences when we encounter triggers in life.
The word "intimacy" is what touches Ji Yuning.
Ji Yuning closed her eyes, trying to block out the information that was intruding into her mind.
But Fang Bai's unhurried voice rang in her ears: "Why aren't you saying anything?"
Ji Yuning's thoughts were interrupted. She opened her eyes, her eyelashes trembling, and asked, "What did you say?"
Ji Yuning's tone was very flat, but if you listened carefully, you could hear the tremor in her forced composure.
"Ha." Fang Bai chuckled softly.
Laughter, like a hook, teased Ji Yuning's heartstrings.
Ji Yuning looked up at the person in front of her.
"Why are you still daydreaming?" Meeting Ji Yuning's cool gaze, Fang Bai stretched out his index finger and poked Ji Yuning's cheek, saying, "I told you to praise Auntie for being pretty."
Ji Yuning was suddenly poked in the face, and she was unusually stunned. Then... her cheeks instantly became hot.
Fang Bai knew she was on the verge of self-destruction. She wanted to see how far Ji Yuning would endure. Would she push her away in disgust when she got close? Or would she coldly tell her to get lost? Or would she remain silent and quietly watch her performance?
Fang Bai could accept either outcome, and then speculated on Ji Yuning's current attitude towards her.
To Fang Bai's utter surprise, what she saw was Ji Yuning's red earlobes.
Fang Bai: "?"
When Ji Yuning saw Fang Bai staring at her ear, she straightened her face and said in what she thought was a calm tone, "Auntie looks good."
After saying that, Ji Yuning stepped aside, bypassed Fang Bai, unlatched the door, and strode out of the fitting room.
Fang Bai was left standing alone in the fitting room.
A few seconds later, Fang Bai recalled Ji Yuning's forced expression and the words she spoke with reluctance, and Fang Bai became suspicious: She didn't hold a knife to Ji Yuning's neck, did she?
wrong.
Even if a knife is held to the neck, it's the neck that turns red, why are Ji Yuning's ears red?
Two minutes later.
When Fang Bai changed his clothes and went out, he saw Ji Yuning standing at the door with a cold face.
Fang Bai took the clothes and walked over, asking the shop assistant to wrap them up. During this time, Fang Bai glanced at Ji Yuning's ear intentionally or unintentionally.
She wanted to see if she had misread it.
The answer is no, it's just not as red anymore, it has a faint pinkish tinge.
Ji Yuning caught Fang Bai looking at her out of the corner of her eye, then turned her head away expressionlessly, the angle of her head so that Fang Bai couldn't see anything.
Fang Bai's eyelashes fluttered, but she didn't dwell on it any longer.
She assumed the fitting room was too small and the air was too thin, and Ji Yuning's ears turned red from the stuffiness.