But her body still inevitably tilted to the side due to inertia. In order not to affect Bai Jiangxin, she hurriedly adjusted herself back to the middle, preventing the electric bike from losing balance.

The two little mounds swept across Bai Jiangxin’s back like this, then returned to their original position.

Bai Jiangxin’s hand bones tightened again: “……”

Damn.

The culprit was completely unaware, having no idea what an extremely teasing thing she had just done, and was still stupidly pondering how to make Bai Jiangxin feel her feminine charm.

After thinking for a long time, Xiang Di still couldn’t think of anything. For Bai Jiangxin, this high-and-mighty flower with no seven emotions and six desires, even if she stripped naked and stood in front of him, he would probably just expressionlessly call the police and tell them there was an exhibitionist here, and ask them to hurry up and take her away.

【Forget it. If he doesn’t have that kind of thought about you at all, wearing less is useless anyway.】

【Xiang Di, wake up. Even if you got up at seven this morning, took a shower, did a no-makeup makeup look, put hair oil on every strand, even asked Auntie last night to specially help you match this outfit, and thought you could amaze him—so what? Today the way he looks at you is still no different from how he looks at a roadside utility pole.】

Thinking that all her effort had not received even a shred of positive feedback, Xiang Di suddenly became angry again—angry that this high-and-mighty flower Bai Jiangxin was too cold and didn’t understand her beauty.

She cared so much about him. For him, she even wore a pair of daily disposable colored contacts today—daily disposables! Very expensive! Just to see him!

【Bai Jiangxin, an unromantic stinky straight man.】

【Since you don’t know how to appreciate it, then from now on I won’t bother researching makeup and outfits for you ever again.】

“……” Bai Jiangxin spoke, “Xiang Di.”

Xiang Di spoke in an innocent, clueless tone, as if she knew nothing. “Ah?”

“…That dress you’re wearing, where did you buy it?”

“Ah? The dress?” Xiang Di lowered her head to look at it. “I bought it online.”

Bai Jiangxin said, “It’s pretty.”

This way, she should be able to feel that, in his eyes, she wasn’t a utility pole—after all, what utility pole wears a dress?

But Bai Jiangxin still underestimated Xiang Di’s extraordinarily abnormal train of thought.

【Why is he suddenly asking about my dress?】

【Oh my god, he’s not some cross-dressing femboy, is he?!! Did he think my dress looks good, so he wants to ask me for the link and buy it to wear himself?!】

【What do I do, even though my husband’s face would look amazing whether he’s male or female, and he’d definitely look good in a dress, I really can’t accept this ahhh】

Bai Jiangxin: “……”

He shouldn’t have complimented her.

He will never compliment her again. Never.

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Coming to the bookstore to buy a book was originally just an excuse Xiang Di casually came up with so she could spend a little more time with Bai Jiangxin. When they arrived at the bookstore and Bai Jiangxin asked her what book she wanted to buy, she quite naturally started stammering.

“Um… what was that book called again? I suddenly forgot, let me think carefully…”

In order to create an image in front of Bai Jiangxin of herself as someone who loves reading, and only reads serious books, in the end Xiang Di randomly bought a mythology novel that she would absolutely never read and even bought it at full price.

The paper of this book was very thick, and it was a deluxe hardcover anniversary edition. The binding and page design were extremely luxurious, and of course, the price was also extremely luxurious.

When paying, Xiang Di’s heart was bleeding.

Since she had already bought it, Xiang Di could only swallow her broken teeth and pretend that she had bought a book she really liked.

On the way back home, while leaning against Bai Jiangxin’s back, she was still thinking about the book.

With that money, she might as well have just bought it online—directly sixty percent off. Or if not, she could have just randomly bought a novel, at least one she could actually read. If she were lucky, she might even snag a copy with the author’s autograph.

A book that cost over a hundred yuan was enough for her to eat in the cafeteria for an entire week. She really had too much free time, just to put on this act in front of Bai Jiangxin.

【What’s even more infuriating is that I put on this act and still failed. He didn’t look at me any differently at all just because I bought such a high-class book, tsk. I even thought I could start some kind of intellectual debate with him because of this book……】

Her tone carried a bit of complaint and a bit of grievance—on one hand feeling heartache over the money she wasted, on the other hand blaming him for not understanding her good intentions.

Bai Jiangxin didn’t know whether she had ever learned the idiom “even a clever housewife cannot cook without rice.” She had bought a book she herself had never read, how was he supposed to talk about it with her?

Bai Jiangxin had completely figured out what kind of creature this little groundhog was.

Really very lustful, but only with lustful thoughts and no courage. Really full of little schemes too, but all of them were foolish little schemes.

Seeing that the complaints in her belly were piling up more and more, Bai Jiangxin could only speak up. “Have you read Cthulhu before?”

“Hm?” Xiang Di’s tone instantly became energetic. “Of course I have. I’ve always been very interested in that kind of stuff.”

【…What is Cthulhu?】

Bai Jiangxin: “You really like Cthulhu?”

“Yeah, Cthulhu’s writing is pretty good, very deep.”

【Hehe, this answer is really too clever.】

“……”

This silly girl actually thought Cthulhu was a person.

Bai Jiangxin continued to ask without revealing anything. “Then which of Cthulhu’s books have you read?”

Xiang Di: “A lot. Maybe because I’ve read too many of his novels, so when you suddenly ask me, I really don’t know which one to name.”

【Everyone stand up! Applaud me!】

If they kept chatting like this, she was really going to be exposed. Bai Jiangxin could only change the topic. “……Then besides Cthulhu, what other books do you usually like to read?”

“A lot.”

Xiang Di then mentioned some other highbrow books she had read, basically all of them were extracurricular readings assigned by Chinese teachers. Of course, she herself had no interest in those books at all.

Bai Jiangxin’s tone was calm. “So you usually like reading these types of books?”

Xiang Di: “Yeah, I usually like to read some books that are relatively deep.”

Then she silently added in her heart: 【That’s right, that kind where the male lead pushes it in really deep when he’s doing it with the female lead. Simply put, books with deep do～】

Xiang Di took the initiative to add, “I also like reading some art-related books.”

Bai Jiangxin: “……”

The art of making love, right.

Sure enough, the next second, she thought: 【For example, the art of making love.】

Bai Jiangxin: “……”

So people becoming habituated really is a terrifying thing. Now he could already predict her inner thoughts.

After finally delivering this yellow “intellectual” home, Bai Jiangxin said, “You’re home.”

“Oh oh.”

Xiang Di felt that she had set up her intellectual persona pretty well. After getting off the bike, she even took the initiative to say, “Um, if you have any books you like to read, you can also recommend them to me.”

Looking at her serious expression while asking for book recommendations, Bai Jiangxin suddenly curled his lips.

Sometimes he was really curious—exactly when would she finally have the courage to say out loud what she was thinking inside.

“What kind of books do you want me to recommend?”

Before Xiang Di could answer, he added, “Books with depth?”

Xiang Di had just nodded when he asked again, “How deep?”

With one arm casually resting on the front of the bike, Bai Jiangxin propped his chin, his cool, indifferent dark eyes fixed on her, and lightly asked, “Deep enough to reach the stomach—deep enough?”

“……Ah?”

Xiang Di blinked.

Bai Jiangxin looked at her and didn’t continue speaking, seeming to wait for her to pick up the conversation. Xiang Di’s heartbeat sped up. Why did she feel like he was teasing her?

Being teased by someone you like, and being teased by someone you don’t like, were completely different things. Right now she was very moved by him, but also afraid that she was just getting ahead of herself.

Could it be that she’d read too many yellow novels and finally ruined her brain?

Impossible, absolutely impossible. Even if the universe exploded and humanity went extinct, the only pure white jasmine flower in her heart, Bai Jiangxin, would never go yellow.

Mm, definitely not! She had to believe in Bai Jiangxin’s uprightness!

So she looked at him with a pair of innocent eyes and said in an extremely upright manner, “If it’s something you recommend, then of course the deeper the better. Even deep to the stomach is fine.”

Bai Jiangxin’s expression stiffened, then he coughed heavily.

And once he started coughing, he couldn’t stop, coughing until the tips of his ears turned red.

Xiang Di looked concerned, asking if he had caught another cold, while at the same time thinking that this sickly beauty husband really couldn’t even withstand a bit of wind—whether he’d actually be able to perform in bed in the future.