Chapter 44 — The Campus God Who Spat Blood (18) | The Male Lead’s Househusband Era
#Help, I accidentally slept with my buddy#
#Buddy says “lying down is more comfortable,” how should I wittily respond#
#Which building is the tallest, I want to jump once to calm down#
Xing Ge was falling apart inside. If she told Chen Xi that she did not remember a thing from last night, would he blow his top and KO her on the spot?
He would, right? She would die a miserable death.
“What's wrong? Your expression looks like you want to eat someone?” He rested his head on her shoulder, the tickle of his hair making her skin itch. Something seemed to occur to him. That porcelain face flushed the color of roses as he scolded, half sulking, “Not now. I am sore.”
His eyes gleamed and he reached over to give her arm a fierce twist. He lowered his voice. “You little rascal with no self control.”
Xing Ge: …
Sir, your character settings are collapsing. Is this really okay?
System, I need to report a crime. This man is not a cold, aloof honor student at all.
“But if you want it that badly…” He hesitated, then his gaze turned liquid, shining with mischief. The hand that had been looped around Xing Ge’s neck slowly slid downward, a sleek little snake teasing all the sensitive places.
Xing Ge: !!!
Hands off, you beast!
The system said calmly: you two have fun. I am going back to the little black room for a nap.
Xing Ge shot out a desperate hand: do not leave me alone, system!
Face burning, she shoved the wandering hands away.
Seeing the pure, flustered look on that boyish face, so different from last night’s bold, domineering conqueror, Chen Xi’s eyes flashed. Excellent. Time to counterattack.
Huh? Why was he suddenly trying harder?
Xing Ge, though, believed early-morning passion was bad for one’s health. After thinking it over, she righteously flipped him onto the mattress and pinned him with ease.
A look of frustration crossed his face. The little punk was too strong, before he could react he had been flattened.
“Lie properly. Go back to sleep. No moving,” Xing Ge said sternly, deliberately trying to scare him.
“Otherwise I will make sure you cannot get out of bed for half a month.”
Of course, she meant beating him until he could not get out of bed.
Chen Beauty very naturally misunderstood.
The thin shells of his ears turned the ripe pink of a peach. Half angry, half shy, he shot her a glare and muttered in a voice that had gone soft, “You animal. Do you really want to do me in?” His bare chest rose and fell with his ragged breathing, white as polished jade and far too tempting.
Xing Ge: …
Why did none of his words make sense to her?
Also, sir, could you at least act serious when you insult people? That push-pull act is against the rules.
Just then, the little sister who had fled earlier came back.
She muttered to herself as she walked.
“What I saw just now must have been a hallucination. Yes, I must have been seeing things.”
“How could my brother possibly…”
She yanked open the guest room door, still not convinced.
Three pairs of eyes blinked in the air and met.
Dead silence.
Expressionless, she shut the door.
Held her breath for three seconds, then opened it again.
Three pairs of eyes blinked in the air and met.
“S—sorry, I am sorry, sorry to bother you!”
With her HP bar emptied by a critical hit, little Chen Yu scrambled away in tears from the place that had shattered her heart.
Her big brother… was actually the one on the bottom!
She had never, ever brought such shame upon the ancestors of the Chen family.
She covered her face and sobbed even harder.
After so many sudden shocks, Xing Ge’s courage in the face of emergencies had been thoroughly tempered. Ordinary accidents no longer fazed her.
She only paused for a beat, then flopped down and went back to sleep.
Nothing is more important than sleep.
She had already slept with him. What more could he do to her? Worst case, she would sleep him back.
System: how did I never notice you were this shameless?
Xing Ge: scram.
She rolled her eyes in secret and turned over to catch up on rest.
Chen Xi, watching this, felt a wave of joy rise in his chest. The line of that back looked immeasurably great to him. If the other did not even care about outsiders’ eyes anymore, did that not mean he already had the resolve to bear this love?
Compared with those couples who could only sneak around, Chen Xi’s lover was more responsible and had more guts.
He smiled at the corners of his mouth, then nudged the boy curled on his side.
“What is it?” Xing Ge yawned, eyes damp at the corners, barely open. Warmth brushed her skin. Someone wormed in like a silkworm and tucked himself into her arms, hugging her waist and rubbing his cheek against hers.
What was this supposed to be?
He rubbed and rubbed until she had no temper left. She wanted to sleep but could not, wanted to bark but did not dare. So she soothed him like a kitten, ruffling his hair with one hand and pressing a long kiss to his forehead. “Be good. Let me sleep a little, okay?”
That lowered, velvety voice could have melted half a body.
“Okay…”
The naughty little cat’s face flushed. Nestled beside Xing Ge, he slowly fell asleep. Sunlight spilled over the foot of the bed. Vines swayed. The patterned shade of flowers crisscrossed the white wall.
They slept wonderfully. When Xing Ge woke she stretched lazily, feeling loose and light.
A neatly folded outfit waited at the bedside.
The toothpaste was already squeezed onto the brush.
Had the male lead’s househusband attributes awakened?
She washed, dressed, and came downstairs. At the sound of footsteps, Chen Xi poked his head out of the kitchen, his handsome face radiant with a happiness so bright it almost blinded her.
“Watch some TV in the living room,” he said gently. “I will have dinner ready in a moment.” The man radiated “virtuous spouse” from head to toe.
System: return my icy-cool male lead, you scoundrel!
Xing Ge: …
She, however, circled into the kitchen and reached out to grab his wet hands.
“What is it?” He looked puzzled.
“Well… tonight, let us eat out,” she said, gaze skittering. “Anything except cooking, you can ask me to help.”
He blinked, then looked straight into those clear, earnest eyes.
He smiled low, like a spring breeze across pear blossoms. “Okay. Whatever you say.”
Soon, the car rolled down the mountain road from the villa.
The two, wrapped in their strange new atmosphere, had no idea someone had already set a tail on them.
“Sis, look. Did I not say there was something fishy going on with the two of them?” The handsome man in the back seat spoke through clenched teeth. “For that little boyfriend of his, Chen Xiao Xi shamelessly used some moldy old incident to threaten his own uncle. He did not even put me in his eyes. It is infuriating. You have to stand up for me.”
The woman in the passenger seat pushed up her gold-rimmed glasses. She gave a chilly little laugh, eyes razor sharp, voice rising. “Little boyfriend? You are telling me that in this relationship my son is the one at a disadvantage. Is that so?”
Cold sweat broke across Old Demon King’s brow. He shot a desperate look at his brother-in-law for rescue. Unfortunately, the man just happened to let out a long yawn, ignored the raging fire, smacked his lips, and adopted a meditative slouch.
He was the very picture of “my wife is always right.”
You have got to be kidding me. Traitor.
Big Uncle Chen was screaming inside. This old fox was shameless, running to tattletale to his sister at every turn, and now he would not even throw him a rope. He had worked so hard back then to give the two alone time, and now the man acted like he did not know him.
Scum. Scum. Scum.
He did not realize he had just cursed himself too.
With no help from the adults, the pitiful old demon could only turn to the car’s sole young girl and try to win her sympathy with his looks, a move that usually never failed.
Too bad the girl sat dazed, as if she had suffered a mortal blow. Her seven souls and six spirits had yet to return. Her small mouth kept murmuring, “It is over. My brother is basically getting married off. Forget a trousseau from him. Half my dowry will probably go to him. This baby’s life is so bitter…”
Face card declined, the old demon king: …
This baby’s life is even more bitter.
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