Bella maintained her posture with her back turned—not daring to move.
[Turn around? Turn around to see what! To look at your unfair eight-pack abs or your naked body!]
Is this something I can look at without paying a subscription fee!
What do I do, what do I do, what do I do? When I turn around later, should I close my eyes or not?
If I close my eyes, who knows what Ye Jinzhi will do when he sees this sudden "blinking action."
You simply cannot use a normal person's logic to guess what this kind of guy is thinking!
What if he thinks a "blinking doll" is more interesting and just grabs a scalpel to study my eyeball structure?
What if he thinks his favorite doll has come "alive" and decides to play some even more twisted confinement games?
But if I don't close my eyes...
[My eyes will no longer be innocent ahhh!!!]
But before she could build up her psychological defenses, a wet and slippery palm had already grabbed the edge of the shelf and turned it with a slight force.
The wooden board let out a faint, piercing screech.
"If you don't speak... I'll take it as your silent consent."
Bella desperately controlled her eye muscles, forcing herself into a state of absolute indifference.
She was turned around.
Amidst the swirling steam, Ye Jinzhi was half-leaning against the edge of the bathtub.
Resting his chin on one hand, he was staring straight at Bella with a gaze that held a hint of a smile.
Because the distance was so close, she could clearly see the water droplets on his face.
A few restless droplets slid down his superior jawline, tracing all the way past his deeply sculpted collarbones, collarbones that rose and fell slightly with his breathing, and then...
[Stop. No! See no evil!]
She welded her gaze firmly above his collarbones, not daring to shift it downward by even a single millimeter.
[Phew—thank goodness.]
Her field of vision was restricted, so she couldn't see anything anyway unless she moved.
Hmm?
Are these... two rings?
With the slight rise and fall of Ye Jinzhi's breathing, the rings swayed restlessly against the faintly flushed skin.
Bella looked closely and realized that these two rings were not the typical rigid circles found in jewelry stores. One was large and the other small, and she couldn't tell what material they were made of.
Their edges actually formed a double helix structure.
[It looks like these two rings can interlock and bite into each other?]
Before Bella could figure it out, Ye Jinzhi seemed to notice the focus of her gaze.
A soft chuckle escaped his throat, and his long, slender fingers hooked the cold, wet pendant.
His fingertips twirled it absentmindedly, the sound of the two pieces of metal clinking together crisp and pleasant.
"Bella, do you like it?"
He lifted the interlocking rings right before her eyes. The gaps of the helix still held undried water droplets, sparkling with fragmented light under the lamp.
Then, right in front of Bella, he lightly twisted his fingertips. The gaps of the two rings aligned perfectly, and with a forceful twist in the same direction...
Click—
Accompanied by a subtle mechanical closing sound, the two originally separate rings clamped together seamlessly as they turned.
The gap between the two was completely sealed off, as if they were born to be fiercely entangled like this until death do they part.
"So nice. Just like us."
Looking past the newly merged ring, Ye Jinzhi intently observed Bella's reaction, his pitch-black eyes full of probing.
One second, two seconds, three seconds, four seconds, five seconds...
At that moment, the air seemed to stop flowing.
However, Bella remained like the most perfect stone sculpture. Her eyeballs didn't move at all, and even her pupils didn't show the slightest tremor as the rings drew near.
Ye Jinzhi's originally tense shoulders slumped slightly.
Seeing no reaction from her, it was as if this was truly just the most ordinary object.
A water droplet fell from the tip of his hair, landing precisely on his long, curled eyelashes, hanging there heavily, on the verge of dropping.
As he lowered his eyes in disappointment, the water droplet slid silently down his pale cheek.
"If you like it, I'll give it to you."
[Hmm? Is it an illusion?]
Within the swirling mist, this boy who had been full of aggression just a second ago now emanated a feeling of being abandoned by the whole world.
He slowly and methodically twisted the rings apart again.
Hooking his fingertip, he slowly slipped the slightly larger ring onto the ring finger of his right hand.
Bella's heart suddenly skipped a beat:
[Wait, the ring finger?! Bro, you are only sixteen or seventeen years old. Are you throwing yourself some sort of one-sided engagement ceremony!]
Ye Jinzhi looked at the ring sitting on his ring finger, paused, slid it off, and put it on his middle finger instead.
Neither too big nor too small, the size fit perfectly on his well-defined hand.
As for the other, slightly smaller ring, he casually threaded it back onto the silver chain.
He leaned down, his warm breath brushing past Bella's nose again.
He wrapped the necklace holding the ring around Bella's slender neck loop by loop, and finally clasped it securely.
[Ding.]
The tiny sound of the clasp sounded like a thunderclap in Bella's ears.
Then, Ye Jinzhi stretched out his wet and burning hot arms, pulling her little doll body tightly into his embrace, almost as if he wanted to meld her into his bones and blood.
Bella didn't care where she was being held right now; she was utterly bewildered.
[Ah, no, my guy, why did you give this thing to me?]
Obviously, these two rings held extraordinary significance for Ye Jinzhi. Was it really okay to just put it on her?
Compared to when he was a child, Ye Jinzhi's morbid obsession with dolls had leaped from a quantitative change to a qualitative change.
If in the past he only treated the doll as a person, his sole comfort; then now, he was practically developing the doll in the direction of a lover.
[No way, does he really, really, really love this doll that much???]
If he evolved any further, would he take the doll to crash the Civil Affairs Bureau to get married!
Bella didn't understand and was greatly shocked. A sense of horror shot through her soul like an electric current.
[Wait a minute... Even though he is unreasonably crazy, it seems that maybe, just maybe, this physical contact mission could somehow be inexplicably completed?]
Holding her in his arms, taking a bath, and putting a necklace right against her skin.
This level of intimacy, in Bella's eyes, was absolutely a solid +++++.
But where was the system's notification sound?
There was no sound, and the mission screen did not appear.
Did it fail?
[Something is wrong... This is very wrong!]
Bella's previous mindset of lying flat and letting him do whatever instantly collapsed. Her face full of confusion gradually transformed into the anger of being deceived by life.
[System? Hello? Hello, hello, hello??? Lord God???]
Bella shouted in her heart for a long time, but there was no response.
Remembering the garbled code that flashed on the screen at the end, Bella got a headache.
An absurd and extremely ominous thought popped up.
[Could it be... Ye Jinzhi taking the initiative doesn't count? Does it only count if I make the first move?!]
