NOVPUBThe two of them took turns, and after finishing a bowl of fruit slices while sitting on the sofa, Xu Qingfan asked, "Didn’t you tell Yiyi I was coming?"
"Wasn’t Brother Qing Fan supposed to talk to me alone after school on Friday?" Lin Wanning nodded, counter-questioning.
"I did, just about the matter earlier."
"Ah~" The girl looked quite disappointed, "I thought Brother Qing Fan had a little secret to tell me, but it was just this duck."
"What just this? From now on, you are not allowed to crawl into my covers, you know?" Xu Qingfan playfully knocked on her head.
"Hmph~ next time I’ll let Little White crawl into Brother Qing Fan’s covers!" Lin Wanning still felt a little wronged as she said this.
"Not even Little White, Little White is a female dog, Little Brother would be more like it." Xu Qingfan picked up a cup and a glass bowl he had just used for drinking water, ready to clean them in the kitchen.
This Brother Qing Fan is such a hypocrite!
"Little Brother still crawls into my covers!" Lin Wanning shouted at his retreating back.
"Little Brother is fine since he’s been neutered, he’s a tomcat without any balls," Xu Qingfan’s voice came from the kitchen, along with the "whoosh" sound of the water rushing into the cup.
Lin Wanning’s eyes twinkled, as if she had thought of a brilliant idea, she got up and ran to the kitchen door: "So, Brother Qing Fan, if you get neutered, can you crawl into the covers too?"
"Pfft~ cough cough... cough cough cough..." Xu Qingfan nearly choked to death on the girl’s outrageous statement, coughing hard for a while as he held onto the workbench.
"Are you okay, Brother Qing Fan?" Lin Wanning ran up concerned and gently patted his back.
"You’ll be the death of me one day; next time you talk such nonsense, I’ll spank your butt until it swells!" Xu Qingfan grabbed the girl’s right cheek with his wet hand, reprimanding her.
"Brother Qing Fan, your hand is wet." Lin Wanning said, her voice muffled because her mouth was distorted.
"Hmm?" He put on a stern face and glared at the girl.
"Woo hmm~"
"You come up with such ideas; you’re almost fifteen but still act like a grade-schooler." Xu Qingfan released the grip on her cheek and lifted his shirt to wipe the water marks off her face.
Lin Wanning’s gaze, which was initially fixed on Brother Qing Fan’s face, immediately shifted downward as she instinctively poked her finger at his bulging abs, "Brother Qing Fan, this is so hard."
Xu Qingfan: ...
He nearly blurted out I have more... not...
What kind of outrageous statements were these!
Thank goodness no one was home; otherwise, if Lin Qiaoshan or Wen Wanqing heard, even jumping into the Yellow River wouldn’t clear his name.
"Why aren’t you talking, Brother Qing Fan? You’re looking silly." Lin Wanning poked him in the stomach again.
"Let’s go, let’s find Yiyi." He put the washed dishes back in their place and pushed the girl out of the kitchen.
"Yiyi is still napping. Are you sleepy, Brother Qing Fan? Let’s nap too." 𝑛𝘰𝑣𝘱𝑢𝑏.𝘤𝑜𝘮
Xu Qingfan had the habit of napping since he was little and naturally felt a bit sleepy around this time after one o’clock.
[This was also a good chance to test if Lin Wanning had really adhered to the agreement.]
"Sure, I’ll sleep on the couch in the living room, and Wanning, you go sleep in your room." He then walked to the couch and lay down.
"No, no, the air conditioner in the living room wastes a lot of electricity; protecting the environment is everyone’s responsibility. Brother Qing Fan, you should go sleep in the room too!" Lin Wanning first turned off the air conditioner in the living room and then pushed Xu Qingfan’s body to get him up.
"Shall I go sleep in the guest room?" Xu Qingfan yawned and asked.
"Not a good idea... because... because the guest bedroom hasn’t been cleaned in a while, and the bed is full of mites!" The girl quickly came up with an excuse, continuing, "Brother Qingfan, you can sleep in my room."
"If I sleep in your room, where will you sleep? Don’t forget what you just promised me," he said, getting up from the sofa and squinting at the girl.
"I’ll make a bed on the floor. Brother Qingfan can sleep in my bed. I’ll sleep on the floor!" Lin Wanning obviously had her reasoning ready and did not hesitate to answer.
"Alright, alright, I’ll sleep in your room, I’ll make a bed on the floor, and you can sleep in the bed. Happy now?" Xu Qingfan, unable to resist her continuous pleading, finally agreed.
"Mmm.... okay then!" After thinking it over, Lin Wanning happily took his hand and led him upstairs.
"And you talk about protecting the environment, yet you didn’t even turn off the air conditioning in your own room."
"Ah~ I forgot to turn it off after brushing my teeth this morning." The girl scratched her head, but none of that mattered anymore. She threw her quilt and pillow onto the floor, "Brother Qingfan, you sleep in mine, I’ll go get mom’s!"
There was a carpet on the floor, so it wouldn’t get dirty. It wasn’t long before Lin Wanning scampered back from the next room, arms filled with a duvet and a pillow.
Once Lin Wanning lay down in the bed, Xu Qingfan also got ready to settle in for the night.
"Good afternoon, Brother Qingfan!" The girl took one last look at him and said.
"Good afternoon to you too, Wanning," Xu Qingfan smiled and helped her put on her sleep mask.
Although she couldn’t cuddle with Xu Qingfan while sleeping, it was nice enough that he was using her blanket and pillow.
[Tonight I can fall asleep smelling Brother Qingfan’s scent...] Lin Wanning sweetly thought.
The girl quickly fell asleep, whereas Xu Qingfan, thinking about whether Lin Wanning might sneak up on him, couldn’t fall asleep at all.
More than half an hour later, Lin Wanning took off her sleep mask and got up.
She wasn’t planning a sneak attack; she had just eaten too much watermelon before bed and needed to use the restroom.
Lin Wanning quietly got out of bed and passed by Brother Qingfan, who was pretending to be asleep; a smile involuntarily appeared on her face as she looked at him sleeping.
She opened the door just a crack and left without making a sound.
Soon, the sound of flushing came from the bathroom, and Lin Wanning carefully returned to the room.
Looking at the young man still sound asleep, she really wanted to crawl under the blanket, but since she had promised Brother Qingfan...she restrained herself.
[Maybe it doesn’t count as crawling under the blanket if I don’t use the blanket...] Lin Wanning convinced herself in her mind.
"Ah!" The next second, she screamed as if she had been caught doing something wrong.
"I... I was just using the restroom, I just came back, I didn’t crawl into the bed!" Lin Wanning, fearing that Xu Qingfan might misunderstand, waved her hands frantically to explain.
"Go back to bed and keep sleeping." He hadn’t been asleep at all, so he naturally knew she had gone to use the restroom.
"Hmph... Brother Qingfan, you could have said you weren’t asleep. You scared me to death."
"Sleep."
"Oh..." Lin Wanning pouted, then lay back down in bed and put the sleep mask back on.
[I never thought Brother Qingfan could be so cunning, pretending to be asleep like that!]
The girl reminisced about the scene from six months ago when Xu Qingfan had held her in his arms as they slept, and soon she drifted back into dreamland...
