31: Chapter 31 Can You Be My Model?

Su Bai noticed Lin Qiaoyou's strange gaze, turned his head, and couldn't help but ask:

"What's wrong?"

He touched the corner of his mouth,

"Is there something on my face?"

Lin Qiaoyou opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but swallowed the words back.

Her face was getting redder and redder.

"Um…" she finally spoke, her voice as soft as a mosquito's hum,

"Su Bai."

"Hm?" Su Bai looked at her with some curiosity.

"Can you… could you…"

Lin Qiaoyou took a deep breath, closed her eyes, as if she had made up her mind.

"Can you be my model?"

Su Bai was stunned for a moment.

"A model?"

"Just, just a model for drawing."

Lin Qiaoyou spoke very quickly, not daring to look at him at all,

"That feeling I can't seem to find… you seem to fit the character's setting a bit…"

"If you're willing, I can pay you, or exchange it for something else. If you don't want to, forget it, just pretend I never said anything—"

"Sister Qiaoyou."

Lin Qiaoyou's words came to an abrupt halt.

She opened her eyes and looked at Su Bai.

Su Bai was looking at her with a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth.

Lin Qiaoyou immediately lowered her head, her fingers twisting together, her ear tips as red as if they were dripping blood.

What did she just say?

Ask Su Bai to be her model?!

How shameful!!!

She must be crazy!

But the words were already out, and she couldn't take them back.

She secretly raised her head and glanced at Su Bai across from her.

He was leaning against the back of the chair, holding a teacup, looking at her with a half-smile.

That look made her even more flustered.

"Um…" she said softly,

"If you find it troublesome, forget it. I, I was just asking casually…"

"It's not troublesome."

Su Bai put down the teacup,

"What do I do?"

Lin Qiaoyou was stunned: "What?"

"A model," Su Bai said. "What should I do?"

Lin Qiaoyou blinked, and it took a while for her to realize what he was asking.

"It's, it's just…"

Her heart leaped with joy, and she tried hard to organize her words,

"I've never used a model before, but it's probably just posing, right? And I draw based on that…"

Her voice got quieter and quieter, and the last few words were almost inaudible.

Su Bai looked at her cute appearance and narrowed his eyes.

Her eyelashes were long, casting a small shadow on her eyelids when they drooped.

Her face was very red, from her cheeks all the way to the base of her neck, and even her ears were pink.

Hm… looks very easy to bully.

The corners of Su Bai's mouth curled up slightly.

"You said just now, there's payment?" he asked.

Lin Qiaoyou raised her head, her eyes brightening:

"Yes, yes! I can pay you at market rate! Double! No, triple is fine too!"

After she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered something, and her voice quieted down:

"However… my manuscript fee hasn't arrived yet, so I might have to pay you a few days late…"

Su Bai looked at her serious expression, and his smile deepened.

"I don't want money."

Lin Qiaoyou was stunned.

"Then… then what do you want?" she asked, somewhat distressed.

That's true, Su Bai doesn't look like the type who lacks money.

Su Bai leaned back in his chair, his fingers tapping lightly on the table, as if thinking.

The neon lights outside the window cast flickering light and shadows on his face, making his expression look somewhat unfathomable.

Lin Qiaoyou's heart hung in the air.

She suddenly regretted it a little.

Su Bai wasn't as easy to understand as an ordinary student; instead, he was like… like…

She couldn't quite say what he was like.

Oh, right!

Like the villainous CEO she had conceived in her writing!

"How about this."

Su Bai finally spoke,

"You promise to accompany me to do three things."

Lin Qiaoyou's eyebrows furrowed: "What things?"

"Hm… haven't thought of them yet," Su Bai smiled,

"Let's keep it as an IOU, and I'll tell you when I think of them."

Lin Qiaoyou's brows furrowed even tighter.

Three things.

Haven't thought of what things.

It sounds very suspicious!

"You… you won't make me do any strange things, right?"

She asked softly, looking at him with some vigilance.

This guy, why is he getting more and more like that character?

Su Bai raised an eyebrow: "What do you call strange things?"

"It's, it's just…" Lin Qiaoyou's face turned red again,

"It's that kind of…"

She couldn't continue.

Su Bai looked at her and couldn't help but laugh.

"Don't worry," he said seriously,

"I won't do anything illegal, I won't do anything immoral, and I won't do anything that puts you in a difficult position."

"How about it?"

Lin Qiaoyou looked at him, seemingly trying to judge if he was lying.

"Then…" she bit her lip and held up two fair, delicate fingers,

"Can we do two things instead?"

She thought to herself, one always has to bargain, right?

Her eyes were bright, filled with a hint of anticipation and pleading.

Her eyelashes were still trembling slightly, like a frightened little deer.

Su Bai actually never intended to really make her do anything.

He just saw how easy she was to bully and couldn't help but want to tease her.

Seeing her so obedient, he wanted to bully her even more.

"Fine," he agreed readily,

"Two things it is."

Lin Qiaoyou's eyes lit up instantly.

"Really?"

"Really!"

"That's great!"

She blurted it out almost instantly, then realized she was too excited, quickly composed her expression, and added softly,

"Th-thank you…"

Su Bai smiled and picked up his teacup to take a sip.

Lin Qiaoyou looked at him, feeling an indescribable sensation in her heart.

After her worry had a solution, she began to lower her head and eat her dessert again, her mood much more relaxed.

"Um…" she asked softly while eating,

"When are you free? I want to start drawing as soon as possible, the editor is pushing me…"

"Wait until after the exam tomorrow," Su Bai said after thinking for a moment,

"After the exam, winter break starts, so there will be plenty of time."

Lin Qiaoyou nodded:

"Then… where should we draw? My room is a bit messy, it might not be very convenient…"

Mainly… there were many things in her room that were inconvenient for others to see.

"Then how about my room?" Su Bai said, "Or the living room."

"Not the living room!" Lin Qiaoyou shook her head quickly, "They will see us."

She really didn't want Luo Ying and the others to know she was drawing manga.

And she especially didn't want them to know she had asked Su Bai to be her model.

Just thinking about it was mortifying!

"Then my room it is," Su Bai said indifferently.

"Oh."

Lin Qiaoyou nodded and lowered her head to continue eating her dessert.

She didn't notice that when Su Bai looked at her, there was always a faint, almost imperceptible smile at the corner of his mouth.

After finishing the dessert, Su Bai called the waiter over to pay the bill.

The same waiter from before came over again and bowed, saying,

"Sir, your Supreme Card has the privilege of being free of charge, you don't need to…"

Su Bai waved his hand to interrupt him and said indifferently,

"No need, I don't like owing others."

The waiter was stunned for a moment and could only print the bill.

And Lin Qiaoyou, who heard this from the side, immediately let her little face fall.

She thought to herself, doesn't like owing others?

Is this a hint to me?