#50: Si Tingyan Had Been Coveting Her for a Long Time

The surroundings were silent. The darkness climbed over the five senses, pulling one’s mind into a state of sobriety.

A few meters away, the door to his room was not closed. Two seconds later, the desk lamp inside was turned on, casting a faint yellow light on the floor outside the door.

At the boundary between light and darkness, Cheng Mi was in the shadows, looking at the light from Si Tingyan’s room.

Si Tingyan walked to his desk to get something. After a moment’s pause, his profile moved through the faint light.

Her eyes and ears fell into a silence again. After a while, Cheng Mi walked toward his room.

She stopped at his door and leaned against the door frame.

Si Tingyan was sitting at the foot of his bed, and he happened to look over.

Cheng Mi and he looked at each other in silence. After a while, she said: “So soon? I haven’t even taken a shower yet.”

Si Tingyan also stared at her, the emotions in his eyes unreadable.

There was a moment of silence in the air.

Just when Cheng Mi thought Si Tingyan was about to get up and come over, he reached out with a somewhat heartless tone.

“What are you thinking about? Give me my phone.”

He was messing with her.

Cheng Mi looked into his eyes, not getting flustered by his words. She smiled at him and replied: “Okay.”

She left the door frame, walked into the room, and went toward Si Tingyan, then really only handed him the phone.

She said: “Remember to set a password.”

Si Tingyan’s gaze moved from the phone in her hand back to her face.

This sentence was clear enough. She had seen something on Si Tingyan’s phone.

They both understood what those things were without her having to say it explicitly.

Si Tingyan was sitting, and she was standing. Si Tingyan looked up, his deep black eyes staring at her.

Then he raised his hand and took the phone from her.

Cheng Mi’s hand was empty. She didn’t say anything. After smiling at him, she turned around and walked out of the room.

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Cheng Mi came out of Si Tingyan’s room and pushed the door open to her own room.

She was going to take a shower. She casually threw her phone on the bed, walked to the wardrobe, and took out a shirt.

Her underwear was next to it. Cheng Mi glanced over and only took one piece. She closed the wardrobe door, turned around, walked back to the bed, took her phone, and left the room for the bathroom.

Although it was autumn, it was already approaching winter. The weather was much cooler than when she had first arrived in Fengxun.

A few minutes later, the bathroom was already steamy, and the tiled walls were covered with water droplets.

Halfway through her shower, Cheng Mi stepped out from under the water and walked to the sink. She took her phone with a slightly wet hand.

She was soaking wet. A few drops of water fell from the small tile area where she was standing. Cheng Mi called Si Tingyan.

When she came out of her room, Si Tingyan was on his phone playing a game. Si Tingyan occasionally played some games. Cheng Mi had seen him playing sometimes when she was with him.

He answered quickly. Si Tingyan asked: “What do you want?”

Cheng Mi said: “I forgot to get something. Can you help me get it from my room?”

Cheng Mi didn’t usually have the habit of taking her phone into the bathroom. She knew that Si Tingyan knew this perfectly well. Her phone had often rung loudly in her room while she was in the shower.

Si Tingyan must also know what she was calling for at this moment.

Just as she expected, he didn’t expose her. He pretended not to know and deliberately asked: “What is it?”

Cheng Mi said: “A bra.”

Once when she first came to this house, Cheng Mi had left her underwear in the bathroom after a late-night shower. Si Tingyan went in to take a shower.

At that time, they weren’t familiar with each other. Cheng Mi only knew Si Tingyan’s name, and Si Tingyan was also very cold to her. They hadn’t even said a word to each other.

Si Tingyan’s reaction to her at the time had made Cheng Mi believe that he was completely unfamiliar with her.

But that was not the truth.

That time, she left her bra in the bathroom. It was the first time she went to the bathroom to flirt with him. It was the first time Si Tingyan had looked her in the eye since she came to this house.

She thought that was the first time Si Tingyan had looked at her properly.

But in fact, Si Tingyan had known her long before that.

At that time, Cheng Mi’s bra was hanging on the hook on the wall. She was leaning against the bathroom door, telling him that she had forgotten something.

In her memory, Si Tingyan’s expression was flat, almost indifferent. He didn’t say anything to her. He had seen it, but he didn’t seem to care at all.

Now, Cheng Mi was betting that not only did he see it at the time, but he also remembered what kind of bra it was.

The color, the fabric, the size—he remembered everything.

She said to Si Tingyan on the phone: “The underwear is all in the left side of the wardrobe.”

Anyone else would have pretended to be an idiot, but Si Tingyan didn’t. He didn’t pretend at all.

Soon, the sound of him getting up came from the other side.

Si Tingyan didn’t hang up the phone. The sounds from his side were crystal clear.

Cheng Mi took the phone away from her ear, didn’t hang up, and turned on the speaker. She put her phone back on the sink, turned around, and went back under the water.

The sound of the shower was pattering, falling from her body to her feet.

Every drop of water that flowed from her body could be heard by the person on the other end of the phone.

The sound of water was loud in Cheng Mi’s ears. She could faintly hear the sound of her wardrobe door opening from her phone’s speaker. A few seconds later, it closed.

Not long after, Si Tingyan’s calm and composed voice came from the phone on the sink, overlapping with the sound from outside the bathroom door.

“Open the door.”

He didn’t knock. Cheng Mi turned off the water and walked to the door.

The figure outside the frosted glass door was very close, as if she could see him at a glance.

Cheng Mi was naked on the cold tiles. She didn’t pause for long, pressed the door handle, and opened the door a little. Through the ten-centimeter gap, she reached her hand out from behind the door.

Cheng Mi’s arm was startlingly white, without a single ounce of excess flesh. It was not yet dry, and a strand of wet hair was hooked over her fair shoulder.

The water from the tip of her hair flowed down, sliding over the wet skin of her arm, and finally dripping from her fingertips.

The water drops splattered on the ground, leaving a wet mark at Si Tingyan’s feet.

Something was put into her hand, from his knuckles.

Cheng Mi felt a slightly rough fabric. Her fingertips were slightly wet. As she took it, she inevitably touched Si Tingyan’s long knuckles.

The warm, wet, and seductive touch on his well-defined knuckles would be irresistible for any man.

With Si Tingyan’s personality, Cheng Mi had originally thought that with her acting so provocatively, this door would undoubtedly be opened, and Si Tingyan would just come in.

But he didn’t. Si Tingyan outside the door acted as if he was just there to bring her clothes. He let go of her clothes.

Cheng Mi could almost see his indifferent and calculating face outside the door.

Her bait didn’t hook him. Si Tingyan didn’t say a word to her, and he just left.

He did it on purpose.

Cheng Mi was clearly trying to seduce Si Tingyan, and of course Si Tingyan knew. He just refused to take the bait.

This, in turn, made Cheng Mi a little intrigued.

She smiled and wasn’t annoyed. It was hard to say who would break first.

Cheng Mi closed the bathroom door. The steam in the bathroom had dissipated a little. The clothing in her hand was black with a lace pattern.

It was the same one they had seen together in the bathroom before.

Cheng Mi’s gamble had paid off, or rather, Si Tingyan had let her win the bet.

If Si Tingyan had pretended and just grabbed any random piece of clothing, Cheng Mi wouldn’t have been able to confirm that he had harbored a dark desire for her and had been coveting her since then.

But now, Si Tingyan had told her himself that he had.

Si Tingyan was not a gentleman at all. In the past, he would have restrained himself, but now he wasn’t even pretending in front of her.

His willpower was strong. He had been provoked by her and was still able to mess with her.

Cheng Mi smiled inexplicably, went back under the water, and finished her shower.

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When she came out of the bathroom, the lights in Si Tingyan’s room were still on. He wasn’t asleep. The door was open.

Cheng Mi’s feet were slightly wet as she walked in that direction.

She walked to the hallway between their rooms. She didn’t go into Si Tingyan’s room. Instead, she went into her own room.

Si Tingyan was playing a mobile game. He seemed to have looked up at her.

Cheng Mi went back to her room with a towel wrapped around her head. For some reason, it was late at night, but she wasn’t sleepy at all.

No matter how much her attention was diverted by Si Tingyan, there was still a part of her heart that was heavy.

She walked to her desk, pulled out a cigarette, and grabbed the ashtray with the same hand.

Cheng Mi went to Si Tingyan’s room.

Si Tingyan was sitting at the foot of his bed, his legs spread. His elbows were resting on them. He hadn’t finished the game yet.

Cheng Mi had her two fair, long legs bare. She walked to the desk, put the ashtray on the desk, and sat down on the chair opposite him.

Si Tingyan’s eyes moved away from his phone screen.

This person looked chaste even while playing a game.

“I don’t want to sleep alone.”

Cheng Mi smiled at him: “I’ll squeeze in with you tonight.”