Chapter 68: Nice Body, Huh
“So I’ll go put on my helmet now?”
Seeing the suddenly docile Yi Ning before him, Lu Zheng felt a bit confused.
From the way she was acting earlier, if she didn’t bite a chunk out of him, she wouldn’t let the matter go so easily.
Was something even more ridiculous waiting for him next?
Lu Zheng glanced cautiously at Yi Ning, tentatively pointed toward the room behind him, and took a step back.
When she didn’t react negatively to his retreat, he finally felt at ease and began walking toward the room.
Still, wary of Yi Ning, he kept glancing back at her every few steps.
Yi Ning, meanwhile, sat primly on the robot’s head, legs together, chin in her hands, smiling as she watched the cautious Lu Zheng.
Just as he neared the door, she suddenly called out.
“Hey!”
“Ah?!”
Already on edge, Lu Zheng jolted like a startled cat, twitching on the spot.
“Hahahaha!”
Unable to hold it in, Yi Ning burst out laughing at the ridiculous sight.
She clutched her stomach and wiped away the tears that welled up from the corners of her eyes.
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Thankfully, that over-the-top twitching was just a stress reflex and only lasted a moment.
Lu Zheng heard her laughter behind him, took a deep breath, and tried to calm himself.
But her laughter, like tiny needles, kept pricking at his ears.
In the end, he could only walk stiffly to the door, grab the handle, and prepare to flee this place of emotional damage.
Even though he’d have to come back again anyway.
That thought alone deflated whatever courage he had just managed to summon.
Click.
Lu Zheng opened the door.
“Wait a sec.”
Yi Ning called out again.
Lu Zheng turned around, puzzled.
“What is it?”
“Nothing…”
Seeing Lu Zheng’s worn-out face, Yi Ning, who had intended to keep teasing him, finally felt a bit of guilt. She waved her hand and swallowed her words.
“Just reminding you not to forget to change. This is a hot spring, after all. Isn’t it a waste not to soak in it?”
Perhaps it was because she’d almost never seen Lu Zheng look this exhausted that Yi Ning, unusually, spoke like a normal human being.
Lu Zheng flashed her an OK sign and slowly shuffled into the changing room.
A few minutes later, he emerged.
Whistle—Just like a group of punks spotting a scantily dressed girl on the street, Yi Ning gave a catcall the moment Lu Zheng stepped out.
“This feels kind of weird…”
Lu Zheng’s pixel-screen helmet displayed a face of resignation.
At Yi Ning’s request, he was now wearing the bathrobe she had given him. From the gaps in the robe, one could faintly see his well-defined, yet not overly bulky, pectoral muscles. The contours of his muscular thighs were also clearly visible.
Normally, it wasn’t so obvious under his clothes, but with them off, Lu Zheng actually had a pretty pleasing physique.
Yi Ning puffed up her cheeks a bit.
Jealousy began to stir in her.
As an evil scientist who often had to build wicked inventions, Yi Ning’s original male body had also been quite muscular.
But after all, she wasn’t a professional athlete and didn’t train regularly, so her muscle definition wasn’t that great.
Compared to Lu Zheng now—she totally lost.
Yi Ning patted the robot beneath her and had it circle around Lu Zheng.
“Didn’t expect it, huh? You’ve actually got a solid build!”
Driven by envy, she used the robot’s mobility to poke and prod Lu Zheng all over. Finally, after giving his butt a slap, she stopped in front of him.
“Hmph~”
Yi Ning curled her lips, taking on the look of a mischievous flower thief, grinning slyly.
“Let me check whether you put everything on like I asked~”
Before Lu Zheng could react, she whipped up the hem of his bathrobe with lightning speed.
“Not bad. You actually wore everything like I told you.”
Seeing the swim trunks under the robe, Yi Ning looked satisfied.
Lu Zheng, however, was not nearly so composed.
“What the heck are you doing?!”
Realizing his robe had been flipped, he quickly smacked her hand away and tidied up his clothes.
“Ohoho~ Embarrassed, are we?”
Yi Ning sat back on the robot and covered her mouth with a smug look.
“You’re going to take it off later anyway—what’s there to be shy about?”
“?!”
Lu Zheng’s brain nearly shut down at those words.
What do you mean take it off later?
You didn’t say anything about a seduction plotline!
He wrapped his arms protectively around his body.
“I’m telling you, I don’t accept hidden rules!”
Watching Lu Zheng act like some chaste househusband about to be forced into compromising situations, Yi Ning scoffed.
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
She hopped off the robot and gestured at herself.
“With looks like this, if anyone’s getting a deal here, it’s you!”
To vent her frustration, Yi Ning bombarded him with a flurry of “friendly” hand gestures.
Even though she was hit with a barrage of crude taunts, Lu Zheng couldn’t deny that she had a point.
Yi Ning was definitely stunning.
Maybe it was from staying in the humid hot spring center too long—her side-ponytail pink hair looked slightly damp, and beads of sweat glistened on her exposed forehead through the gaps in her bangs.
Beneath the messy fringe, her ocean-blue eyes gleamed with mischief. Her small nose was cocked proudly upward, and her glossy pink lips formed a perfectly smug curve.
Her fitted lab coat, tailored for a feminine figure, outlined her enticing curves—making it hard to look away.
Too bad her long, shapely legs were hidden under pants, denying one the sight of those elegant lines.
If there was anything that could be called a flaw.
It was probably the flatness of her chest.
Lu Zheng’s gaze instinctively dropped to her chest, a faint look of mockery in his eyes.
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