188: Chapter 188 It's not hard to remember what you like to eat; you like anything that's pungent or spicy.

The two had nothing to say.

The atmosphere was a bit awkward.

Qin Xun stared at the ceiling, while Xia Ning scrolled through Douyin.

Suddenly!

An excited voice-over rang out from Xia Ning's phone.

"Listen up, besties!"

"A vicious case occurred in Chengdu yesterday. Colleagues on a business trip shared a standard hotel room, and one was actually forcibly molested..."

Qin Xun turned his head sharply to look at Xia Ning.

Xia Ning huddled inside the quilt, staring at Qin Xun vigilantly.

The atmosphere was subtle.

Qin Xun and Xia Ning lay in the quilt, locking eyes.

Qin Xun was a bit displeased.

"Are you trying to make a point about me?"

Xia Ning replied in a low voice.

"I scrolled onto it by accident."

At this moment, her phone was still broadcasting the details of the news.

"Last night, Ms. Wang and her colleague Xiao Zhang checked into a hotel late at night, but the hotel only had one standard room left."

"Because it was too late and the other hotel was too far away, Xiao Zhang suggested sharing the standard room."

"Ms. Wang, trusting Xiao Zhang's character, reluctantly agreed to share the room, but she never expected that after she fell asleep, she would be pinned down by someone."

"Regarding this, Xiao Zhang also has something to say."

"Xiao Zhang said, 'A woman agreeing to share a room with a man, isn't that tacitly consenting to what happens next?'"

"He felt that the reason Ms. Wang called the police was probably because his condition wasn't good last night, and the time was a bit rushed, so he couldn't satisfy Ms. Wang's vigorous demands."

"What do the netizens think about this?"

The atmosphere became even more awkward!

Xia Ning was so embarrassed that she shrank her head further into the quilt, leaving only her eyes exposed, staring at Qin Xun without blinking.

How could this be tacit consent?

Do all men think this way?

She looked at Qin Xun, her voice muffled by the quilt.

"Qin Xun, why don't you... go to an internet cafe?"

"I'll reimburse your internet fees?"

Qin Xun snorted coldly.

"I'm living in the same villa as you, if I really wanted to do something to you?"

"You are already a mother of three children now!"

"I just treat you as a buddy!"

"We have a pure friendship!"

Xia Ning: "..."

It seemed to make sense?

She picked up her phone and swiped casually.

Another woman's voice rang out from the phone.

"Besties! Is there such a thing as pure friendship between men and women?"

"Girls need to be especially wary of harmless-looking boys. The so-called pure friendship they tout, the so-called 'good brothers' or 'buddies,' is just a disguise to get laid."

"And the success rate is very high; it's extremely insidious."

Xia Ning hid in the quilt and looked at Qin Xun, finding him looking shocked with his eyes wide open.

"If I say I scrolled onto this by accident again, do you believe me?"

Qin Xun laughed in anger.

"Fine! Fine! Fine!"

"Is that how you want to play!"

He picked up his phone, opened Douyin, and searched for a moment.

A familiar male voice-over from Douyin rang out.

"Boys must protect themselves well when they are out!"

"Those cold, aloof imperial sisters you imagine might be female perverts in private."

"You must know that high-end hunters often appear in the form of prey."

"If a girl goes to a hotel room with you, and her underwear isn't a matching set, then congratulations, you slept with her."

"But if her underwear is a matching set, don't be stupid, she slept with you!"

"This is reporter Yu Wenbo reporting for you!"

Xia Ning heard this, and thinking about how the underwear she was wearing was indeed a matching set, she felt burning hot with embarrassment.

What could a set of clothes possibly prove?

Aren't underwear always a matching set?

It's not just clothes and pants; even socks, shoes, and even earrings and hairpins need to be matched in style!

She stared blankly at Qin Xun, her gaze gradually turning cold.

Qin Xun stared back at her, unwilling to show weakness.

Xia Ning's phone was still playing "Besties! Is there such a thing as pure friendship between men and women?"

Qin Xun's phone was looping "Boys must protect themselves well when they are out!"

The sounds echoed throughout the room.

It was like a magical duel.

Qin Xun pressed the volume button on his phone, and the sound immediately became much louder, drowning out the sound from Xia Ning's phone.

Xia Ning: "..."

She felt that Qin Xun was truly boring.

Listening to "Boys must protect themselves well when they are out," she only felt the demonic sound circling her ears, feeling irritable. She wanted to curse a couple of times but felt it was beneath her.

She picked up her phone and also pressed the volume button.

"Besties! Is there such a thing as pure friendship between men and women?"

The sound became even louder!

Qin Xun directly turned the volume to the maximum, drowning out Xia Ning again.

Xia Ning was unconvinced and also turned hers to the maximum.

Qin Xun directly tossed his phone lightly toward Xia Ning's pillow, wanting to toss it next to her ear so she could properly experience the baptism of "Reporter Yu Wenbo."

As a result... the phone made a "bang" sound and hit Xia Ning on the forehead.

"You've gone too far!"

Xia Ning threw off the quilt, raised her fist, and walked toward Qin Xun.

Qin Xun lay on the bed, watching the aggressive Xia Ning, feeling a bit panicked, and extended a foot from the quilt to kick Xia Ning's leg.

"Ah!"

Xia Ning slipped, fell onto the bed, and pounced onto Qin Xun.

Her forehead hit Qin Xun's forehead heavily.

In an instant.

She saw stars.

All the sounds around them seemed to disappear.

Gradually, she regained consciousness.

She saw that Qin Xun's face was only half a palm's distance from her own.

Their warm breath intertwined.

Perhaps because there was no ventilation, the breath couldn't dissipate, or perhaps it was because of the pain from hitting their foreheads.

Xia Ning felt her face was very hot.

Qin Xun lay on the bed; although separated by a quilt, he could clearly feel that the flesh of Xia Ning on top of him was soft.

He looked into Xia Ning's eyes and said softly.

"Does your head hurt?"

Xia Ning was a bit nervous.

"A little."

Qin Xun: "Mine hurts too."

Xia Ning hesitated for a moment.

"Then we're even?"

"Truce?"

Qin Xun: "Okay!"

Xia Ning braced her hands on the bed, reflexively pulling back her right leg and bending her knee, wanting to use her knee for leverage to lift herself up to stand.

But she saw Qin Xun's expression change drastically, frantically wriggling his body under the quilt, as if he wanted to escape.

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

"Xia Ning, you don't play fair!"

"We agreed on a truce, but you're going to use your knee to crush my nuts?"

Xia Ning was stunned, looked down, and discovered that her knee was indeed about to hit Qin Xun's vital area. Instantly, her face was hot enough to fry a pancake.

"I didn't mean to!"

She quickly straightened her right leg, lay on top of Qin Xun, and rolled hard to the left, falling onto the floor.

Xia Ning got up, patted off the dust, and quickly crawled into the quilt, pulling it over her head.

She hid inside.

Inside the quilt, it was pitch black without a ray of light.

Thinking about how she had just been pressing on top of Qin Xun, even though separated by the quilt, she still felt Qin Xun's broad chest, as well as her own compressed and deformed chest.

Xia Ning was both ashamed and angry, biting her lip tightly.

This hateful... rainstorm!

Seeing Xia Ning crawl into the quilt, Qin Xun looked up at the ceiling with a face full of lingering fear.

If Xia Ning had really used that for leverage just now, with a hundred-plus pounds of body weight pressing down on her knee, wouldn't I have been finished?

Qin Xun's heart was beating fast.

He didn't know if it was from fear or something else?

...

He didn't know how long it had been before he fell asleep.

Qin Xun had many dreams, feeling muddled, and was suddenly awakened by the fragrance of food.

He opened his eyes and saw Xia Ning dressed neatly, sitting at the computer desk eating.

Xia Ning sat upright and ate elegantly, not making much noise, and she wasn't even playing on her phone.

Qin Xun sat up, saw an unopened bag of food on the table, and smiled.

"Xia Ning, you are actually a super gentle person, why do you have to keep a cold face every day?"

Xia Ning turned her head, looked at Qin Xun, and said coldly.

"I'm used to it!"

Qin Xun walked over and sat on a stool to the side, opened the thermal bag, and took out some stir-fried rice noodles, a handful of lamb skewers, and a bowl of lamb offal soup.

"Little Xia, you're really great!"

"You actually still remember what I like to eat."

Xia Ning snorted coldly.

"It's not hard to remember; as long as it's pungent, you like it."

Qin Xun: "..."

She had really mastered the art of the double entendre!

...

The two finished eating.

Qin Xun put on a mask and a hat and walked out of the hotel.

The sky was already dark.

They walked all the way to The Little Tavern to prepare to help, only to find it boisterous inside, with some people waiting in line outside for a number.

Some impatient customers simply took snacks and drinks, set up a small table at the door, and started drinking.

Through the window, Qin Xun saw that The Little Tavern was in perfect order inside.

Mi Xier was controlling the whole scene very skillfully.

An Ke was sitting on the small stage, singing.

The singing came through faintly.

"How much longer must the rest of the road be walked"

"You hold my hand tightly"

"What makes me feel difficult"

"Is the struggling freedom"

"Parting is always in September"

"Memories are the sorrow of longing"

...

The Little Tavern was orderly, and it seemed they didn't need their help anymore.

Qin Xun and Xia Ning exchanged a look, and with tacit understanding, turned and walked toward another road.

They wanted to walk aimlessly on the streets of Chengdu, not stopping until all the lights were extinguished.

Suddenly!

A commercial vehicle stopped abruptly beside the two of them.

The door opened.

Two burly men in suits and sunglasses got out, didn't say a word, and with lightning speed, grabbed Qin Xun from the left and right and shoved him into the car.

The car sped away with a step on the gas.

Xia Ning: ???!!!