Shen Wanci knew she had a poor tolerance for alcohol, so she very consciously didn't drink much. After sending everyone off, she rubbed her aching neck and went back to her room to take a bath. She then applied a face mask and waited until her hair was dry before changing her clothes, which took another hour.

Bao Jingzhou had already taken a shower and was now leaning against the headboard, replying to messages.

Shen Wanci pulled the covers back and lay down, reaching for her phone on the bedside table to send a message to Qin Yuezhi. She should have been home by now. She opened WeChat and saw that the other person had sent her a game invitation half an hour ago, along with a thirty-second voice message.

Upon seeing the invitation, she suddenly understood what Qin Yuezhi meant. She had also been dragged to play a few games recently and knew there was a profession called game accompaniment.

After figuring it out, Shen Wanci didn't dare to open the voice message, fearing that Qin Yuezhi would say something shocking. Bo Jingzhou was by her side, so unless she turned the volume down to the minimum and listened right next to his ear, he would definitely hear it.

She put her phone on silent and, while asking Qin Yue if she was home, secretly transcribed the voice message into text.

Behind her, Bo Jingzhou suddenly came up to her, startling Shen Wanci who was doing something sneaky. She shuddered and shoved her phone under the pillow, "What's wrong?"

From behind, a man hugged her, his chin resting on her shoulder blade. In a hushed voice, he asked: “What did Qin Yue get you to do?”

After he finished showering, he only wore pants and went shirtless. At this moment, he was pressing tightly against her back through a layer of fabric. Shen Wanci didn't know if he had seen Qin Yuezhi's message. She was nervous now, there was no thought of romantic feelings, she just wanted to get past it quickly and delete the chat history.

Shen Wanci didn't expect him to still remember this. After a moment of contemplation, she said, "…Playing games."

This isn't exactly lying, it's more like not being very specific.

"So you're picky about skills, but you also want someone who is good-looking and has a great figure?"

Shen Wanci smiled dryly: "2D game characters, choose the good-looking ones. It's comforting to look at them, isn't it? If you change the character after it's chosen, you'll have to spend money."

Bo Jingzhou kissed the back of her neck, Shen Wanci shrunk her neck, the numb and slightly itchy feeling spread from the places he kissed to her limbs, "Aren't you going to send a message to Qin Yue to ask if she's home yet? Why didn't you?"

" ...I just asked, she didn't reply, but since Mr. Howell sent her back, she should be fine. No reply is okay, go to sleep..."

"Ding dong."

Your phone notifies you that there's a new WeChat message.

Shen Wanci:：“……”

Bo Jingzhou waited for half a minute, seeing that she hadn't moved, he reminded her, "There's new news, don't you want to look? Maybe Qin Yuezhi sent it to you."

Every word he said seemed to be about Yue Zhi. Shen Wanci suspected that he had seen the messages Qin Yuezhi sent her and was deliberately being sarcastic.

Shen Wanci fished her phone out from under the pillow, facing Bo Jingzhou's scorching gaze and unlocked it. The moment she unlocked it, the chat box with Qin Yuezhi appeared, along with the newly transformed text she had just sent.

Qin Yuezhi is a native of Kyoto. She speaks Mandarin very well, and the content she translates doesn't have a single error. It's clear and concise: "Come on, come on, let's get started. I ordered the guy you said you liked last time. He said that if he can keep it busy for two hours tonight, he'll show his abs, the ultimate package, eight-pack."

New message: "She's asleep."

Shen Wanci: "..."

Bo Jingzhou: "..."

The air was eerily quiet.

Shen Wanci turned back: "How could Yuezhi's phone be with Huo Tingdong?"

The most important thing is that it was actually unlocked.

Bo Jingzhou didn't care about Huo Tingdong and Qin Yuezhi's affairs. What he cared about was the content in the text, "What does it mean to be full for two hours?"

“……It's just about playing games together. At our age, we're all busy working as office workers. Who has time to play games? It's hard to get enough people for a team, so some companies have launched this project to accompany you online while you play games. Don't listen to Yuezhi talk nonsense, they won't even let you add them on WeChat privately. What kind of abs are there? Any borderline stuff will get you banned.”

Bo Jingzhou didn't speak, just stared at her. Shen Wanci spoke quieter and quieter, "We played two rounds together last time, I think his technique is pretty good, I just casually praised him, who knew Yuezhi took it to heart."

She didn't know about this kind of thing before she played. Hearing the other person call her "baby" and "young lady," she joked that they must have spent money to get such sweet words, and it turned out to be a paid feature.

Bo Jingzhou rolled over and lay flat, staring at the ceiling with a mournful expression: "Is it technology or abs? You said you liked eight-pack before, but I only have six. This period of time I was injured, went through the gates of hell several times, didn't exercise, can't satisfy your fantasies about muscle men, and you finding me repulsive is understandable."

Shen Wanci: "..."

She felt that Bo Jingzhou was deliberately playing the victim to achieve some unknown purpose in his heart. But seeing him look so pitiful, and hearing him say he had been through several near-death experiences, she remembered him lying in the ICU, uncertain of life and death. Shen Wanci couldn't bear it, so she didn't care about pretending anymore: "Six pieces are fine too."

“You’re lying,” Bo Jingzhou continued to accuse, “Ever since I got out of the hospital and could bathe myself, your gaze has never fallen below my collarbone, let alone touched me. Even if I hugged you, you would want to push me off the bed, you just find me repulsive.”

Shen Wanci:

This point, Bo Jingzhou really wronged her. She was so rule-abiding, it was all because he was too sensitive, certain places popping up without a reason.

The doctor said that his bones aren't fully healed yet and he can't do strenuous exercise. He should walk no more than half an hour each day, and shouldn't walk too fast. Under these circumstances, how dare she have any out-of-line actions or looks? What if he doesn't recover properly and ends up limping? If someone asks why, wouldn't that be embarrassing?

"I don't."

"Although we sleep together now, there's at least room to lie down two more people between us. You wouldn't even want to snuggle up next to me."

"No, the doctor said you can't do strenuous exercise right now."

She leaned sideways to look at Bo Jingzhou, in order to let each other see each other's expressions clearly and avoid misunderstandings, she propped herself up with her elbow on the bed, half-raising her body, looking down at him.

Bo Jingzhou's fingers threaded through her hair, gripping the plump nape of her neck and pressing her closer to his face. "En, how about a kiss? It's been so many days since you kissed me."

Before Shen Wanci agreed, he only lightly rubbed his lips against hers, without making any further moves.

Shen Wanci's heart softened, and she responded with a "Yes."

Before the last note faded, his lips already claimed hers. His tongue teased open her teeth, gently nibbling at them.