76: Chapter 76: Confirmed Husband's Favoritism!

"Lie down."

Lin Chen reached out his arm, gently parting Tong Liya's tender, white arms, and gave the instruction.

"Alright!"

Tong Liya's mood instantly shifted from cloudy to sunny, and she leaned in close to Lin Chen, giggling coquettishly.

She deftly kicked off her cotton slippers, swung her plump, snow-white legs onto the large shared bed, and laid flat on the bedding very obediently.

Lin Chen took the opportunity to sit beside her, his palm exerting just the right amount of pressure as he slowly massaged and kneaded her flat, smooth belly.

His warm palms rubbed against her delicate skin, making Tong Liya let out a soft hum of comfort as her beautiful eyes narrowed in contentment.

Liu Shishi and Guli Nazha had also stopped their trivial tasks by now, sitting around the large bed on either side, watching Lin Chen's movements.

"Hubby, how come your massage technique feels just like a professional doctor's?"

After watching for a while, Liu Shishi stepped over the quilt to get closer, kneeling beside Lin Chen with her beautiful eyes shining brightly.

Lin Chen smiled faintly and nodded slightly.

Liu Shishi tilted her little head to ponder for a moment, then covered her fair nape with her jade-like hand, her little face scrunching up slightly.

"My neck has been incredibly stiff these past two days, and it feels uncomfortably sore. Could you help me knead it a bit later too, Hubby? I feel like I've had issues with my cervical spine for a long time."

Lin Chen glanced at her sideways, signaling her to turn around, and then used his free hand to grasp her slender, swan-like fair neck.

"Is it sore here?"

Lin Chen's fingers probed up and down a few times before suddenly pressing firmly—neither too lightly nor too heavily—on her Jianjing acupoint.

"Ah... it's killing me! Hubby, let go quickly!"

Liu Shishi's delicate body trembled from the sudden, aching numbness, and she slumped softly to the side.

Lin Chen moved his fingers away from the acupoint, his large palm sliding up along the smooth skin of her spine, precisely locking onto her Dazhui acupoint: "Don't squirm."

This time, Liu Shishi no longer felt that unbearable soreness, replaced instead by a fine, tingling electric sensation.

It traveled rapidly from Lin Chen's scorching palm throughout half of her body.

This strange, tingling sensation wasn't uncomfortable at all; on the contrary, it felt so good that her eyelids grew heavy.

"Hubby, is the problem with my cervical spine actually serious or not?"

Liu Shishi turned her pretty face away, feeling a bit guilty. She didn't want to develop a bunch of occupational diseases while still so young, especially before she'd even had a chance to have a baby.

"It's not a big issue."

Lin Chen's hand movements remained steady. As he kneaded that soft flesh, he replied casually: "It's purely because of spending too much time looking down at your phone; the cervical muscles are a bit strained. Mimi and Reba have this problem too."

Liu Shishi had initially been enjoying the warm touch, but upon hearing the last two names that popped out of Lin Chen's mouth, she couldn't help but purse her red lips slightly.

Mimi, Reba.

She keenly caught these two overly intimate forms of address.

It wasn't just Liu Shishi who was grumbling inwardly; Tong Liya and Guli Nazha, lying on the other side of the large bed, had their ears pricked up as well, their thoughts surprisingly identical.

When this guy calls those two women, it's actually "Mimi" and "Reba"?

This way of addressing them sounded incredibly sticky and lovey-dovey no matter how you listened to it.

But when it came to the three of them, Lin Chen usually called them by their full names; he had never called them "Yaya," "Shishi," or "Nazar."

Comparing the two, the gap was simply too obvious.

How annoying.

The once warm and romantic atmosphere instantly took on a different tone.

The three beauties felt sourness bubbling up inside, and were suddenly struck by a sense of frustration at being neglected by Lin Chen.

This wasn't to say that the sisters had some deep, irreconcilable grudges in private.

The truth was quite the opposite; precisely because the five of them were close girlfriends who talked about everything, this disparity in treatment was even more maddening.

It was just like a pair of brothers at home; the younger brother would often be jealous if his parents bought his older brother an extra new set of clothes, but he would never be jealous if his cousin also wore a new outfit.

Because no matter how great the cousin was, he was still an outsider. The only ones who could truly split the family inheritance and compete for favor were the brothers right in front of him.

If it were Lin Chen here in the middle of the night calling Song Dandan "Dandan" over and over, these three beauties wouldn't even bat an eyelid, because the other party couldn't pose any threat to them at all.

"Click!"

Just as the three women were biting their collars and letting their imaginations run wild, Lin Chen's fingers, which were exploring her cervical spine, suddenly exerted force.

A crisp sound of bones rubbing together suddenly rang out in the quiet Mongolia yurt, followed immediately by a piercing, shrill cry.

"Ah—!"

Liu Shishi was struck as if by lightning, her proud figure arching forward suddenly; the sound was almost like she had been shot in the heart.

This sudden scream made Tong Liya and Guli Nazha, who were beside her, shudder all over. The two women's pretty faces turned pale, and they felt a wave of trepidation.

What was going on?

Could it be that this kid Lin Chen had learned mind-reading and knew that everyone was secretly bad-mouthing him as a heartless ingrate just now, and was now settling personal scores?

However, before they could go up to pull anyone away, the continuous, tiny snapping sounds from Liu Shishi's neck had already subsided, and the screaming stopped abruptly.

Liu Shishi discovered with great astonishment that the despairing, sharp pain had only lasted for a split second, and what followed, sweeping through her entire body, was a sense of clarity and comfort that words could not describe.

She slowly closed her eyes, her soft, delicate body completely letting down its guard, and most of her full figure unconsciously leaned backward, pressing into Lin Chen's embrace.

It was too comfortable; this feeling was even more addictive than soaking in a hot spring at a top-tier club.

She couldn't even help but let out a few soft whimpers, making the temperature in the surrounding area seem to rise.

Guli Nazha really couldn't hold back anymore; she stepped onto the smooth mat and crawled over from the other side in a flash, stretching her long neck to peek and see what was going on.

Looking from that angle just now, Liu Shishi's movements—first arching her body and then suddenly going limp—looked exactly like she had breathed her last right then and there, which was perfectly consistent with the laws of physics.

But when she moved to the front to take a look, good heavens, this wasn't suffering at all; this was clearly her acting all seductive in Lin Chen's arms right in front of her sisters.

It's just a shoulder massage, is it necessary to moan so soul-stirringly?

"All done."

After a good while longer, Lin Chen estimated that the time was about right, and he retracted his palms decisively from Liu Shishi's sweat-drenched neck and Tong Liya's cool lower abdomen at the same time.

"Hubby... it seems like I still have a faint ache here; could you massage it a couple more times?"

Tong Liya tugged at her collar with some reluctance, humming with a flushed face, her eyes watery.

Lin Chen flicked his hand and lay down on the bedding beside them: "Massage is all about balance; pressing for too long will actually injure the tendons and bones, and it does the body no good."

"Oh..."

Tong Liya smacked her lips, and still unsatisfied, pulled down her slipped nightwear to cover that dazzling expanse of snow-white skin.

Liu Shishi, on the other hand, sat up straight on the shared bed happily, stretching her two plump, rounded jade-like arms, and tentatively rotated her neck, her beautiful eyes full of the joy of success.

"It's truly magical! My whole shoulder feels so light it's like it's about to fly; Hubby, you are just too amazing."

Guli Nazha, sitting nearby, looked at the glowing Liu Shishi and then at Tong Liya, who had tasted the sweetness of it. Without wasting a single second, she tilted her body and coiled around Lin Chen like a beautiful snake.

Her two round, long legs, encased in silk stockings, were separated in a somewhat shameful manner as she knelt on the mat in a "duck sit" position, her little head thrust right under Lin Chen's nose, her large eyes blinking and fluttering.

Looking at her funny appearance, like a pug begging for food, Lin Chen couldn't help but chuckle: "What kind of mischief are you stirring up in the middle of the night?"