89: Chapter 89 Liu Shishi is extremely aggrieved

Lin Chen looked at her with a playful expression: "Do I really have to give you a beating for you to believe I'm paying attention to you?"

Liu Shishi tilted her delicate little face upward, not only failing to dodge but actively leaning in closer: "Go ahead and beat me, why don't you? Can you really bring yourself to do it?"

The two stared at each other for a moment, eyes wide. Lin Chen chuckled and nudged her slender waist: "Alright, go take a shower."

Liu Shishi revealed a sweet, gentle smile, deliberately tilting her little head and letting her jet-black hair cascade down: "And what about after the shower?"

"What else would we do? Sleep obediently. If you're not happy with that, I'll send you to Russia overnight."

Liu Shishi straightened her body, pursing her red lips, a shy blush unknowingly staining her fair, pretty face.

"You scoundrel!"

She wrinkled her delicate little nose in a coquettish manner, rubbed her head affectionately against Lin Chen's chest a few times, and then ran into the bathroom, her smooth, fair legs moving gracefully.

The LCD TV opposite the bed was still on, and the movie channel was playing a domestic horror film from last year in the middle of the night.

In this world, not only were various spirits allowed to cultivate into sentient beings after the founding of the nation, but ghosts were also officially recognized, so TV stations naturally dared to openly broadcast horror films as a mainstream genre.

However, the quality of this film was truly insulting to the audience; the plot was full of holes, and the actors' performances were severely over-the-top.

It relied entirely on the background music to set the mood with sudden jumps and scares, abruptly using ear-piercing sound effects to forcibly frighten the audience in front of the screen.

Lin Chen was yawning from the boring plot and preparing to use the remote to change the channel, when a piercing scream suddenly erupted from the bathroom.

The fierce ghosts in the TV hadn't made him blink once, but Liu Shishi's high-pitched screech certainly gave him a real fright.

He nimbly flipped off the bed and reached the closed wooden bathroom door in the blink of an eye. Frowning, he knocked on the door panel: "What happened?"

There was dead silence inside for a long while. Just as Lin Chen couldn't help but reach for the lock to force the door open, Liu Shishi's weak voice, laced with a crying tone, came through the door panel: "It's nothing major... my period just arrived early."

Lin Chen's heart, which had been in his throat, immediately dropped back down. He shouted inside, unable to decide whether to laugh or cry: "It's not like it's your first time dealing with this, why are you screaming like you saw a real ghost?"

Liu Shishi inside was clearly bottling up a belly full of grievances, and immediately retorted loudly through the door: "How can that be the same? Today was the top pick I finally managed to draw!"

Lin Chen pursed his lips and chuckled. He didn't continue bickering with the tigress in the bathroom, turned around, and flopped back onto the big bed to continue watching TV.

About twenty minutes later.

The sound of water in the bathroom stopped completely, and Liu Shishi shuffled over slowly in her slippers.

She was wrapped only in a white bath towel that barely covered the tops of her thighs, her two pretty, fair legs dazzling to the eyes. She pouted her red lips, peering at the man lying on the bed.

Lin Chen deliberately didn't look at her.

Seeing that this man actually ignored her, Liu Shishi stomped her little feet on the wool carpet in annoyance, then twisted her body and sat directly astride Lin Chen's belly.

It was fortunate that this young woman kept her figure in excellent shape, weighing only about ninety-something catties. If she had been even slightly plumper, Lin Chen's stomach would surely have been sat into internal injury.

"Beauty Liu, what play are you performing now?"

Lin Chen felt the startling heat pressing against his thighs and looked at her with a half-smile.

"How can you be like this? I've suffered such a great grievance, and you didn't even ask once." Liu Shishi wore a dejected look on her pretty face, her voice sticky and coquettish, as if she were acting spoiled.

"Then what do you want me to do? Where am I supposed to find a magic spell in the middle of the night to make your period disappear?"

"But I just don't feel comfortable right now!"

"If heaven wants to rain, what can a mere mortal like me do?" Lin Chen spread his hands helplessly.

Liu Shishi pouted her red lips and didn't say anything more. After a while, she slumped onto Lin Chen's chest, her two fair, tender arms hooking tightly around his neck.

Lin Chen could only keep his two arms half-raised in the air, tilting his head to the side: "I'm telling you, your hair is still soaking wet from the shower, all the water is getting on my clothes. Get up quickly."

"No! I'm staying right here tonight!"

Lin Chen smacked his lips and feigned seriousness as he took a breath: "I'm counting to three. Don't force me to use force; hurry up and go back to bed."

"One, two, three! I'm not getting up tonight, no, no, just to annoy you to death!" Liu Shishi hugged him even tighter instead.

Lin Chen completely lost his temper.

He resigned himself to his fate and lowered his raised hands, letting the charming scent of shower gel linger around his nose.

The room fell silent instantly, with only the faint background sound from the TV remaining. Lin Chen's palm rubbed against the smooth silk material on her thigh a couple of times.

After nearly a minute, Lin Chen's palm gently patted Liu Shishi's smooth, bare shoulder, his tone becoming somewhat heavy.

"I'm a red-blooded man, after all. You rubbing against me like this—are you trying to make a fool of me?"

Liu Shishi slowly raised her flushed, delicate little face, peering at him with a pitiful look: "I didn't post a notice on the headboard saying I wouldn't let you, Young Master, do bad things tonight."

Lin Chen laughed at himself and nudged her full thighs, which were tightly wrapped around his waist, with his chin: "You've already turned on the red light and blocked the path; what kind of tricks do you think I can still pull?"

Liu Shishi bit her red lips and went silent, but her pair of watery, beautiful eyes gleamed with an unusual luster in the dark, locked tightly onto Lin Chen's thin lips.

After a long while, she buried her head back into his collarbone, unable to contain her shyness, and with her ear-tips flushed red, she squeezed a soft murmur out from between her teeth:

"Actually... we don't necessarily have to take the conventional path."