After Miss Vera finished showering,

the sound of the television could be heard from Su Yehao's room.

Her heart had been pounding for a while, her mind racing with possibilities. Now that she realized nothing else was actually going to happen, Vera’s mood was complex, like a sigh of relief mixed with a strange disappointment.

She returned to her room wearing her bathrobe.

She was habitually about to apply some moisturizer when she realized she’d rushed out so quickly tonight that she’d only brought a few personal items in her handbag, nothing else.

Subconsciously, she moved quietly, eavesdropping for any sounds from outside, constantly feeling like a knock would sound any second.

If she didn’t open it, maybe her life would take a turn, and she’d completely miss the chance to be with the man she liked.

But if she did open it… there would be plenty of other troubles.

How to get along afterward, how to maintain her friendship with Jiang Yu, and so on, all belonged to the realistic problems that needed to be considered.

Miss Vera, who was always so chill, felt her heart thumping wildly at this moment. Looking in the mirror, she forced herself to take deep breaths to calm down, but she couldn't help but think about Su Yehao saying he wouldn't lock the door, waiting for her.

Compared to Vera, Su Yehao was very calm.

He found a science fiction movie DVD that he had wanted to watch for a while and was watching it with great interest. Just like the Bird's Nest stadium that had been blown away, the works in the film and television entertainment industry were now very different from what he remembered.

This was a good thing for him, providing more opportunities to pass the time and filling his life with the unknown.

After watching for a while, sleepiness suddenly struck. He picked up the watch on the bedside table and saw that it was already 11:30.

He simply turned off the TV, got out of bed, and couldn't find any mineral water, so he went out to the living room.

Under the dim light, he saw Miss Vera sitting cross-legged on the sofa, staring at the night view outside the window, not knowing what she was thinking.

Su Yehao yawned and went to the tea cabinet to get a bottle of water, opened it, took a few sips, and then asked, "Why aren't you sleeping so late at night? Are you practicing xiuxian (cultivation)?"

"...I'll rest in a bit. I heard people arguing downstairs just now, so I came out to see what happened."

That was just an excuse.

In fact, Vera herself didn't know why she had walked out of the room as if possessed. Maybe a voice in her subconscious told her that if she hid in the bedroom, there definitely wouldn't be a story.

Although she didn't want to admit that she was a bad woman interfering in other people's relationships, some emotions came fiercely, especially for a newbie like her, making it really difficult to control.

Su Yehao had long become an old dog, a seasoned veteran. Miss Vera wasn’t, her private life simple and clean, almost like a blank sheet of paper.

Because she had little experience, she was so at a loss.

Looking at Vera, Su Yehao felt that describing her as a Greenland harp seal was not wrong at all. She looked like a grown woman in age, but she had a kind of silly, innocent temperament.

He subconsciously joked, "Are you sure it's not because the long night is lonely and you want to talk to me about life?"

Vera immediately became nervous, put on her slippers, and prepared to go back to her room, saying,

"Of course not. I'm going to get a bottle of water too. Let's all rest early tonight. I'm going to the art gallery tomorrow. There's a lady from my class who said she'll visit my exhibition..."

As she came in front of him, Su Yehao reached out and stopped Vera. He could smell the faint fragrance of shower gel.

They already had a good feeling about each other, and the atmosphere was simply too flirtatious.

Seeing Vera's eyelashes fluttering, Su Yehao, without thinking too much, directly wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her again without saying a word.

She was wearing a bathrobe, which caused Su Yehao's hand to accidentally wander to the wrong place. When it came into contact with the skin of her abdomen, he could clearly feel Vera's reaction as if she had been electrocuted, her hairs almost standing on end.

He often heard his mischievous friend He Shaofan say that white girls' skin was not very good, but her skin was smooth and soft. Because she was relatively homely, although she was very thin, she didn't have the clear abdominal muscles that Qingying and Liuli had developed from exercise.

Her mind almost went blank. Vera rarely became so engaged, and now she hugged Su Yehao, and was slowly pressed against the wall.

This was undoubtedly a signal of response, and Su Yehao's courage grew. He pulled the bathrobe belt and it fell off.

When his nose touched Vera's neck, she couldn't help but hum.

Then, Su Yehao held her up and carried her into the room, closing the door...

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In the middle of the night, a strong wind blew, and it rained heavily.

The next day.

Su Yehao pulled open the curtains and could see fallen leaves all over the road. Many of the trees next to the hot spring were bare, and the sky was still covered with dark clouds.

On the bed.

A certain girl quietly pulled the quilt up, feeling too embarrassed to face anyone. Last night, with the emotions built up, she accidentally didn't put on the brakes.

Just like the decisions made before going to bed at night are mostly forgotten when waking up, she only now had the leisure to consider how to clean up the mess.

Vera hesitated to speak several times, but nothing she could say seemed right.

Su Yehao noticed her entanglement, returned to the bed, and burrowed into the quilt. He reached out and hugged the stiff and tense Vera, telling her, "We're all adults. It's normal to be impulsive occasionally. The people around me are very tight-lipped. You don't need to worry too much about rumors spreading."

This was indeed one of the reasons why Vera was overthinking. She didn't want to see that important night as a mistake, so she pretended to be strong and said:

"I understand. I'm not a seventeen or eighteen-year-old kid... Hey! Don't move your hand around. After waking up, I thought about it. It's better to keep our distance in the future. I don't want to be seen as a woman who ruins your life. The pressure would be too much for me to handle, and it would shatter my current life."

Su Yehao would be a fool to stubbornly disagree with her at this time, so he decisively nodded and said, "Okay, but you're not allowed to avoid me, not allowed to not reply to my emails, and be the same as usual at other times. Maybe it's better for both of us."

"Indeed..."

Miss Vera ultimately grew up in a European family, and her thinking was not influenced by too many rigid traditional concepts.

Now that their relationship had inadvertently reached this point,

her priority was to consider how to avoid subsequent troubles. Vera was more concerned about letting down her good friend Jiang Yu than the events of last night.

Under the influence of a huge sense of guilt, she was under a lot of pressure.

Just then, her stomach was the first to betray her, growling with hunger.

After hearing it, Su Yehao suggested going to the restaurant for breakfast, and the exhibition could wait for a couple of days.

Being told to turn her back was undoubtedly a bit self-deceptive. When Vera put on her bathrobe and left, supporting herself against the wall, the scene almost made Su Yehao laugh out loud.

But he also knew that laughing would probably cause him trouble, at least damaging two years of accumulated virtue, so he forcibly held back.

Vera needed to rest.

Su Yehao went to the restaurant alone, and also got breakfast for her.

After arriving at the restaurant, he immediately saw Linda Yun, who was sitting alone by the window, enjoying the buffet breakfast.

Su Yehao sat down opposite her and instructed:

"Don't let anything slip about what happened last night. If Nangong asks when you get back, just say I was accompanying clients, and a few businessmen came here for a vacation together, understand?"

"Of course I understand. My room is next to yours. I was woken up two or three times in the middle of the night and could only fall asleep by covering my ears with the quilt. How could I not understand?"

Linda Yun joked:

"I thought you had grown up, but it was just an illusion. You've almost exhausted the grass right next to the nest, you're simply ruthless..."