Chapter 576 - 238: Go Lie on the Bed for a While

Chapter 576: Chapter 238: Go Lie on the Bed for a While

"Ahem, what can I do? My butt’s too big—takes up a lot of room! It’s not like I have a choice! You really can’t blame me! This is a hardware issue!"

"Hmph! A pack of lies! A man’s mouth, a deceiving ghost!"

Li Zhi laughed in exasperation at his ridiculous "hardware" excuse for hogging all the space.

The young beauty, curled up on the inside of the bed, bent her legs, planted her feet against the outside of Shen Yuan’s thigh, and shoved him away with all her might.

"I don’t care about your software or hardware! You’re squishing me! Get off! You’re taking up my space!"

But Shen Yuan didn’t budge an inch. Instead, he took advantage of the situation and grabbed Li Zhi’s smooth ankle.

His five fingers instantly closed around it, holding it firmly in his palm. He even mischievously caressed her sensitive ankle bone with the pads of his fingers.

"Hey, hey, hey! What do you mean ’your space’? This is my bed!"

Far from getting up, Shen Yuan used the force of her pushing to deliberately lie down, his body following her momentum toward her.

"Oh no, my legs don’t seem to be working either. Now I’m completely stuck~"

"Agh! Shen Yuan! You rogue! Let go!"

Li Zhi’s other free foot immediately joined the "battle," kicking wildly at Shen Yuan’s side and thigh, while her other hand reached over, trying to pry his fingers from her ankle.

"You idiot Selaan! Get your claws off me! Don’t think I won’t bite you!"

"Bite me? And who was it that started kicking?"

While resisting the push from her other foot, Shen Yuan deliberately leaned closer, as if he were quite enjoying her playful kicks.

He skillfully deflected the force of each of Li Zhi’s kicks, turning the struggle into something more like flirtatious banter that he was leading. This only made her shriek in frustration.

"Your legs are working just fine, aren’t they, Li Bao? Weren’t you just saying you couldn’t even stand steadily? You little liar!"

"I am not! You’re the liar! You promised you wouldn’t sit over here!"

Li Zhi was flustered with anger. She used both hands to claw at his fingers, her body twisting as she struggled to wrench her foot free.

As the young woman struggled with her hands and feet, the hem of her cashmere sweater rode up, revealing a sliver of her pale waist.

But she was completely oblivious, focused only on her fight with him.

"Get your claws off! I swear I’ll bite you to death!"

She growled in humiliation and anger, her other foot kicking wildly at Shen Yuan’s thigh.

"Bite me to death?"

Shen Yuan’s gaze swept over Li Zhi’s puffed-up cheeks, and a wicked smirk suddenly lifted the corner of his mouth. His voice was laced with thick provocation.

"Want to bite me?"

The young man’s Adam’s apple bobbed, as if he’d just tossed a handful of kindling onto their battlefield, instantly setting it ablaze.

He tilted his chin up slightly, his well-defined jawline tightening. His gaze landed with tangible weight on Li Zhi’s soft, pink lips, which were slightly parted as she panted.

"Fine, Li Bao, but biting my hand is so boring..."

He stared into her eyes, his tongue seeming to unconsciously dart out to lick the corner of his lips.

"Why don’t you try biting me on the lips instead?"

"Huh?!!"

"SHEN YUAN!!!!"

The young woman was like a cat whose tail had just been stepped on—she instantly bristled!

Her bright eyes, which had just been full of fight, instantly went wide, her pupils trembling as if from an earthquake.

"You—you idiot Selaan, you shameless, perverted freak!! In your dreams!!!"

Along with that furious, exasperated cry, the young beauty whose ankle he still held erupted with astonishing strength!

She violently yanked her foot from Shen Yuan’s palm and, as if spring-loaded, tried to scramble backward.

But in that instant, Shen Yuan lunged forward like a hunting leopard!

The mattress sank violently. Before Li Zhi’s gasp of surprise could escape, she was pinned solidly beneath him.

He planted his left hand beside her ear, his searing chest pressing down on her struggling body.

"Li Bao," Shen Yuan panted, his gaze falling to meet hers. "Still want to bite me?"

Li Zhi was trapped in a cage formed by his body and the plush blanket. The small of her back sank into its soft folds, and her messy ponytail splayed across the pillow.

"Selaan! You..."

Li Zhi struggled, but he only pressed her wrist more firmly into the pillow.

His searing chest was pressed tightly against her. The unfamiliar weight and scorching body heat made Li Zhi instantly forget their playful fight, and her heart clenched tight.

Shen Yuan looked down at the beautiful young woman beneath him, at her eyes, which were wide with shock and mortification.

His own reflection was clearly mirrored in them—the reflection of a man whose own eyes were burning bright with impulse.

Her lips, slightly parted and exhaling warm, sweet breaths, were so close that all he had to do was lower his head an inch...

The young man’s breathing suddenly grew ragged, each breath faster than the one before. His scorching exhales felt like a miniature storm, beating down on Li Zhi’s already flushed cheeks.

Li Zhi looked up at Shen Yuan. When she saw the emotion in his eyes, her own—usually so full of sly cunning—were now filled with clear panic.

A watery sheen shimmered in her eyes, and the delicate wings of her small nose flared with her suddenly ragged breaths.

Shen Yuan’s presence loomed over her, and his familiar scent now seemed overwhelmingly aggressive.

The muscles in the arm he’d planted by her ear were taut, and the dip in the mattress brought their faces even closer together.

’Too close...’

’But more importantly, this position is... too intimate...’

The realization shot down her spine like a jolt of ice-cold electricity. The blush that had colored Li Zhi’s cheeks from their roughhousing faded, leaving her skin a fragile, pale white.

The wrist he had pinned down went stiff beneath his palm. Her fingertips curled helplessly, trying to grasp the soft fabric of the sheets for purchase.

The afterglow of their first kiss was still burning on her lips, but the feeling of being completely overpowered brought with it a different kind of panic—the terror of being consumed by a dangerous intimacy.

From the way he held her down, Li Zhi even felt a faint, inescapable sense of suffocation.

She subconsciously turned her head to the side, trying to create the slightest bit of distance between them.

Her jaw tightened into a subtle curve, and with her short, shallow breaths, the crimson mark he had left on her neck seemed to become even more conspicuous.

She looked at the face so close to hers, and her body began to tremble uncontrollably. The blustered threats she’d been making just moments before were crushed in her throat, dissolving into a quavering whimper.

"Shen... Shen Yuan... y-you... don’t do this..."