191: secret rendezvous at night

Wang Chen felt a bit embarrassed by her praise. "I'm not that perfect."

"Yes, you are!" Bai Li propped herself up, gazing into his eyes in the darkness. "In my heart, you are the most perfect."

Her breath fanned gently against Wang Chen's face, carrying a faint, delicate fragrance.

Wang Chen felt his throat go dry.

"A Li..."

"Hmm?"

"Don't look at me like that..." Wang Chen looked away. "I'm afraid I won't be able to control myself..."

"Control what?" Bai Li intentionally leaned closer, her lips almost touching his.

Wang Chen: "..."

This girl was determined to tease him tonight.

He flipped over, pinning Bai Li beneath him once more, his hands braced on either side of her head. "Comrade Bai Li, I'm warning you, if you play with fire, you'll get burned."

"Then burn me and let me see." Bai Li wasn't afraid at all; instead, she looked at him provocatively.

Wang Chen stared at her for a few seconds and suddenly laughed.

"You said it."

He lowered his head and kissed her lips.

Bai Li's response was clumsy at first, but she was soon swept into the rhythm by Wang Chen.

Her hands unconsciously wrapped around Wang Chen's neck, her body trembling slightly.

After a long while, their lips parted.

Bai Li pressed her face against Wang Chen's chest, listening to his powerful heartbeat, feeling as if she were about to melt.

Once her breathing steadied, she propped herself up with one hand while the other gently traced Wang Chen's face, her eyes filled with obsession and love.

"Brother Chen," she said softly but firmly, "Take me."

Wang Chen felt the tingling sensation on his face, coupled with the fragrant body in his arms.

He could feel the fire that Bai Li had been stoking all night beginning to stir.

He asked her one more time!

"A Li, have you thought this through?"

"I have," Bai Li nodded vigorously. "From the first moment I saw you, I've known."

"And Mom said she agrees to us being together. Grandpa agreed too. Now... I'm only missing you."

Wang Chen looked at her.

Under the moonlight, her eyes were like spring pools, and her cheeks were tinged with a faint blush.

She was breathtakingly beautiful.

He no longer hesitated.

He pulled Bai Li into a firm embrace, flipped over to pin her beneath him again, and kissed her once more.

Bai Li closed her eyes, responding passionately to every one of Wang Chen's kisses... An unknown amount of time passed.

Bai Li held Wang Chen tightly, tears sliding from the corners of her eyes.

It wasn't sadness; it was joy.

She finally, completely belonged to him.

Wang Chen gently kissed away her tears, his voice so tender it could melt. "Does it hurt?"

"A little..." Bai Li's voice had a sob in it, but she was smiling. "But it's okay, I'm happy."

Wang Chen held her tight and whispered in her ear, "I will treat you well for the rest of my life."

"Mm," Bai Li snuggled into his arms. "I believe you."

The two of them lay in each other's arms, neither of them speaking.

After a while, Bai Li suddenly remembered something and looked up. "By the way, Brother Chen, was I... a bit loud just now?"

Wang Chen was taken aback, then laughed. "You're only thinking of that now?"

"I... I couldn't help it!" Bai Li blushed. "I wonder how the soundproofing is in this room? Will my mom hear?"

"It should be..." Wang Chen thought for a moment. "Okay?"

Actually, he didn't know either.

The villa's soundproofing should be good, but Bai Li's cry just now had indeed not been quiet.

Bai Li panicked instantly. "Oh no, oh no! If Mom heard, how can I face her tomorrow!"

"If she heard, she heard," Wang Chen said calmly. "Didn't your mom already agree to us being together? She's an adult, she understands."

"That's still not okay!" Bai Li buried her face in his chest. "It's too embarrassing..."

Wang Chen smiled and ruffled her hair. "Alright, don't think about it. Go to sleep. We have to get up early tomorrow."

"Mm," Bai Li responded, but her eyes were wide open, and she wasn't sleepy at all.

Her current state was exactly the same as Xue Wanrong's just now.

She was too energetic... Next door, the moment Bai Li's door closed, Xue Wanrong, who should have been asleep on the bed, opened her eyes.

She hadn't actually fallen asleep at all.

After experiencing that "metamorphosis" tonight, instantly returning from her forties to a state like her early twenties, she was extremely excited.

Not just mentally, but physically as well. Her whole body felt light and airy, an indescribable comfort.

And her daughter's little thoughts—how could she, as a mother, not see through them?

When the two of them were lying in bed chatting, Bai Li had been absent-minded, her eyes glancing toward the door from time to time.

She had even used the excuse of being sleepy, but she had actually been faking sleep the whole time, even keeping her breathing deliberately light.

Xue Wanrong's heart was like a clear mirror; she didn't expose her daughter's little scheme and simply cooperated by faking sleep.

"A daughter grown is a daughter lost..." She sighed in the darkness, turned over, and stared at the ceiling in a daze.

She didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

She was happy that her daughter had found someone she truly loved, but sad that... her daughter had really grown up.

She closed her eyes, trying to force herself to sleep, but every cell in her body felt like it was cheering; no matter how hard she tried, it didn't work.

She tossed and turned in bed for a long while without a hint of sleepiness. Feeling a bit thirsty, she simply sat up, put on her slippers, and gently opened the door to head out.

The villa's stairs were on the side where Wang Chen's guest room was; she had to pass that room to go downstairs.

As she approached Wang Chen's door, she instinctively lightened her footsteps.

But just as she reached the door, she heard the sounds coming from inside.

Xue Wanrong's footsteps faltered, and she froze on the spot.

As someone who had been through it, she instantly understood what was happening between the two in the room.

She stood there, not moving an inch.

From the room came the faint sounds of her daughter's tearful coquetry and Wang Chen's gentle comforting.

Xue Wanrong's expression was complex.

She couldn't say if it was happiness or sadness, or perhaps both.

She was happy that her daughter was finally with the one she loved.

And seeing Wang Chen's nervous manner, he would likely cherish A Li very much.

The sadness was... the precious daughter she had raised for over twenty years had now become someone else's.

She stood at the door for about five minutes, finally sighed, gave up on her plan to go downstairs for water, and turned back to her room.

Lying in bed and staring at the ceiling, she found it even harder to sleep... At 6:30 the next morning.

Bai Li dizzily nuzzled Wang Chen's chest, then suddenly remembered something and snapped her eyes open.

"Oh no, oh no! I have to get back quickly, or it'll be terrible if Mom finds out I'm not in my room..."

She tried to prop herself up to sit, but as soon as she moved, she felt weak and sore all over.

"Hiss..." She sucked in a breath of cold air and fell back onto the bed.