**642 Nothing at All**
If women who act spoiled have the best fate, then men probably have the advantage of being shameless.
Jiang Huai realized this early on. At the moment he was playing chess with Ning Yuzhu, he proposed a bet where the loser would have to remove a piece of clothing. The most amusing thing was that Ning Yuzhu wouldn’t refuse this outrageous proposal; Jiang Huai carefully observed her as she accepted. At best, she looked somewhat shamefully reluctant, but certainly not angry.
If he had a favorability module, he might guess that his favorability with Ning Yuzhu was about seventy. Jiang Huai couldn’t quite figure it out, but soon he started to frown.
Ning Yuzhu had only lost her shoes and socks, while Jiang Huai was already bare-chested, with nothing but his pants left.
At this moment, Ning Yuzhu had raised her calf under the table, resting her ankle on his leg. Jiang Huai looked down and caught sight of her white and tender little foot, as if he could just reach out and hold it.
The dice on the table were still spinning, but Jiang Huai had already lost his enthusiasm. “I don’t want to play anymore.”
Ning Yuzhu lifted her gaze slightly. “This is the last round.”
“If I lose again, I won’t have any pants left.” Jiang Huai said indignantly, taking the dice and rolling them again. Fortune appeared to favor him at this moment; after several rounds, Jiang Huai’s piece reached the end — he had won.
He looked up at Ning Yuzhu and suddenly felt uneasy.
Ning Yuzhu had already taken off her shoes and socks, now dressed only in her maid dress. If she lifted her skirt, she would be left with only her underwear. A month ago, when Jiang Huai first arrived in the God Realm, he had seen the cold and aloof Ning Yuzhu. Now, barely a month later, he was about to closely admire her body… It was absurd, truly absurd.
“How about… we just forget this?” Jiang Huai cautiously suggested.
His offer seemed to be well-timed, as Ning Yuzhu bit her lip slightly, appearing hesitant. If she nodded in agreement, it would be just right, but for some reason, she was not as bashful as he expected.
This was the advantage of being shameless; when one was shameless enough, they could easily drag the other down with them.
After a moment’s thought, Ning Yuzhu shifted her gaze to Jiang Huai. “Do you want to see?”
The dilemma was thrown directly at Jiang Huai. To say yes would make him a beast, while to say no would make him a hypocrite.
“Isn’t this a bit too much for Senior Sister…?”
But Ning Yuzhu completely ignored Jiang Huai’s probing. She slightly raised her chin, and even though her cheeks were flushed, she maintained her composure. “I will abide by the bet; it only depends on whether you want to or not.”
She thought she would feel embarrassed enough to want to hide in a hole, but watching Jiang Huai’s uncertain expression, she found it increasingly amusing, as if he was more worried about her actually shedding her clothes and exposing herself in front of him.
“Since Senior Sister has said so…”
Seeing the expression on his face, Ning Yuzhu instinctively closed her legs together, feeling a bit shy and annoyed.
Had she been tricked by his earlier indecision? Was she now digging a pit for herself to fall into?
But in the next moment, Jiang Huai suddenly changed his mind. “How about we change the request?”
“What do you want?”
“Senior Sister, please take off your underwear and give it to me.”
Jiang Huai said this without a trace of guilt. At this moment, he had a thick skin as a city wall, and for a moment, it was Ning Yuzhu who instinctively narrowed her eyes, almost reflexively turning her head away, her voice slightly gritting her teeth. “Shameless.”
“I’ll close my eyes.”
Jiang Huai said that then promptly closed his eyes, seemingly making a choice for Ning Yuzhu. Almost instinctively, she chose to accept his offer. She tried waving her hand in front of Jiang Huai, who remained motionless. Even when she poked him with her fingertip, he still didn’t react. Biting her lip slightly, she stood up from her chair, lifted her skirt, and touched her waist where her underwear was. Gradually, she pulled it down to her thigh, then sat back down, lifting her snow-white calf and finally holding it in her hand.
The moment Jiang Huai opened his eyes, he saw Ning Yuzhu biting her lip, looking at him with a face full of shyness and annoyance. It was as if her eyelashes were covered in a hint of sparkle, her eyes misty, and her cheeks burning like the evening glow.
Jiang Huai reached out.
With reluctance, Ning Yuzhu handed him her white lace-trimmed underwear. Jiang Huai took it, inspecting the edges in front of her, and softly remarked, “Senior Sister’s underwear is so cute.”
In the next moment, before Ning Yuzhu could snatch it back, he stowed it away in his storage. Ning Yuzhu instinctively straightened her posture, drawing her legs together, her eyes a mix of shyness and urgency as she looked at him.
At this moment, Jiang Huai wore an expression devoid of guilt and simply winked at her. “Senior Sister’s cheeks are so red.”
The moment he said that, Ning Yuzhu’s cheeks became even more flushed, giving off an impression of being on the verge of crying; gone was her previous calm and aloof demeanor. For a millennium, she had never been bullied by a man like this, and which man would dare to bully her? It just so happened that she couldn’t refuse his proposal and could only do her best to satisfy it…
Jiang Huai said nothing, merely resting his chin on his hand, seemingly admiring his spoils. He didn’t even realize how wicked he had become, but teasing the usually cold and aloof Senior Sister until her cheeks turned red was unexpectedly fulfilling.
Unfortunately, just a few seconds later, Jiang Huai couldn’t keep the smile on his face.
Suddenly, Ning Yuzhu pushed the table aside, and they faced each other. Without warning, she lifted her slender calf, her toes pressing against his throat. Jiang Huai thought she might be angry enough to kill him, but her toes merely rested there. Her gaze gradually shifted from annoyance to cold indifference. “Lick.”
“Huh?”
“You owe me.”
“Didn’t Senior Sister just say she found it disgusting and wouldn’t do it?”
“It’s you… who forced me to do this…”
“How could I dare to force Senior Sister? You clearly said you would abide by the bet. I even said I didn’t want to play this last round…” Jiang Huai was acting quite shameless, turning the blame onto Ning Yuzhu, but as he spoke, he gently grabbed Ning Yuzhu’s ankle. Looking at her white and tender little foot, he bent down and placed a light kiss on her soft foot.
“Just a kiss, Senior Sister won’t be mad.”
In an instant, his expression shifted to one of pleading, his peach blossom eyes now exceedingly gentle, almost as if he had become a different person. This quickly dispelled most of Ning Yuzhu’s grievances. Almost instinctively, she crossed her other white and tender little foot over his chin, and Jiang Huai tilted his head slightly to gently kiss the back of her foot as well.
“Alright, let’s kiss this one too. No hard feelings, no hard feelings.”
Ning Yuzhu gradually lowered her calf. In the end, her white and tender little foot rested on his leg, but she turned her face away, as if calming her little emotions.
She had clearly been indifferent for a millennium, yet Jiang Huai had only been in the courtyard for less than a month, and she had already experienced her emotions fluctuate several times.
Just as she was distracted, Jiang Huai’s fingers unexpectedly found their way to her white and tender little foot, gently pressing on her sole. Ning Yuzhu immediately snapped back to attention, instinctively pressing her legs tightly together, her toes curling slightly. Jiang Huai continued to chatter on, “Being angry is bad for the liver. Stagnation of liver qi leads to insomnia and vivid dreams; you can’t get mad, can’t get mad… Let me massage Senior Sister’s little feet to apologize.”
His shameless self-righteousness genuinely made Ning Yuzhu want to laugh out of anger.
She suddenly had the urge to step on this rogue and make him beg her to kiss her white and tender little foot, or… Ning Yuzhu recalled a scene she had seen in Jiang Huai’s memories, where she gave him a severe foot punishment, looking at him with disdain, making him lose all dignity… Wait!
In that moment, Ning Yuzhu suddenly realized.
She had fallen into his trap.
The moment she came up with this idea, she unknowingly slipped into his scheme. She began to feel competitive and desirous of conquest in front of him. But as Ning Yuzhu started to think back, she realized… that Jiang Huai had already prepared this trap long ago.
He appeared to be a gentleman, yet in reality, he was anything but.
Having lived for a thousand years, she found herself played around by a mere young man who hadn’t even reached his prime. This only made Ning Yuzhu angrier, but oddly, the more angry she became, the more she sought to regain dominance in front of him, only tightening his trap around her.
Thinking of this made Ning Yuzhu increasingly frustrated. Just as she was about to say something, the sensation of Jiang Huai’s fingers on her white and tender little foot caused strange feelings to arise within her, making her voice tremble slightly. “You… did this on purpose, didn’t you?”
“What do you mean ‘on purpose’?”
“You deliberately… let me fall for it…”
“There’s no such thing as on purpose.” Jiang Huai gently teased her pearl-like pink toes, speaking softly. “When Senior Sister sees a flower, doesn’t she want to get closer to smell it, touch its petals, to appreciate its fragrance? If she’s greedy, she might want to pick it and keep it for herself. If not so greedy, she just wants to appreciate it.”
“Senior Sister is so beautiful with this gentle demeanor. How could anyone resist teasing her? Leaving the facts aside, could it be that Senior Sister’s appearance has no fault at all?”
At this moment, her toes were being toyed with as if grasping her lifeline, while Ning Yuzhu instinctively didn’t want to withdraw. The constant back-and-forth thoughts muddled her mind, and she slowly asked, “Do you want to pick me?”
“Who am I to confidently claim that I could earn Senior Sister’s favor?”
“If you keep being glib, I’ll pull out your tongue.”
“Alright, I’ll admit I’m shameless; I just want to tease Senior Sister. I wouldn’t dare think of picking a flower.”
“Is it because your garden can’t hold any more?” Ning Yuzhu sneered, finally seeing through everything. Her white and tender little foot slipped from his grasp, and in an instant, she lifted her leg, pinning Jiang Huai down, leaving him unable to move.
“Senior Sister, wait—”
“So you play with me, but when I step on you, you become unwilling?” Ning Yuzhu’s eyes were filled with arrogance and indifference, as if she had completely regained her composure.
Yet Jiang Huai innocently pointed at her skirt.
“What I mean is… in this position… the skirt is slipping down… Senior Sister…”
In an instant, a faint cool breeze brushed by, and Ning Yuzhu suddenly realized.
Under her skirt, there was nothing at all.
