After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 42

The sparks in Fang Shu’s eyes had clearly faded a lot. Now, when she looked at Ye Wanyin, replacing them was another kind of light gradually spreading from within her pupils.

Ye Wanyin had already agreed, so naturally she would not go back on her word. Her expression was only slightly embarrassed. “A-anything is fine.”

After receiving Ye Wanyin’s permission, Fang Shu slowly began moving closer to her.

As the distance between the two of them shortened, both of their heartbeats clearly sped up to different degrees.

Especially Fang Shu. Looking at the face so close before her, she felt as if her heart were about to leap out of her chest.

It was hard to describe that feeling. It was as if not only had their movements slowed down, but time itself had slowed as well. So when she leaned toward the other girl, even though she met no resistance at all, it felt as if she had crossed mountains and seas before finally arriving in front of her.

Ye Wanyin’s lips were very soft.

That was Fang Shu’s first thought.

Then, in that brief moment, Fang Shu’s mind inappropriately thought: so the other girl’s lips really weren’t made of wood.

The scene froze for a while.

Fang Shu actually had plenty of theoretical kissing techniques stored in her mind, but now that it was time for practical application, she felt even more wooden than the person in front of her.

She knew all the theory, but her brain and body seemed to have split apart.

As for Ye Wanyin, who stood opposite her, she was also a little stunned when she was kissed. Her whole person seemed as if someone had pressed the pause button. She only stared blankly at the person in front of her.

Her heart was also beating rather hard.

Ye Wanyin thought dazedly that it should be because this was her first time being kissed, so she was not very skilled at it yet. Once she got more used to it in the future, her heartbeat should slow back down.

Ye Wanyin, whose first novel had been the pirated version of Fang Shu’s life, had limited understanding of specific kissing knowledge. Thinking it was only simple pressing together, she felt that several minutes had passed. Her elbow, which was braced against the fridge door, also began to ache. She slightly parted her lips. “Is it done?”

After so long, Fang Shu had gradually regained control of her body.

She looked at the person before her and did not answer the question. Instead, following the feeling in her heart, she pressed closer to Ye Wanyin.

Although the current Fang Shu very much disliked her previous self, the one who kept planning everything, there was one point on which she remained consistent with that former self—she did not ask for the first kiss to be especially deep or thorough, but it absolutely could not be a touch-and-go.

This was the one thing she had insisted on ever since her romantic awakening.

When they separated, both of their bodies were a little unsteady.

Ye Wanyin’s back was against the fridge, so she was slightly better off. The only thing that might not be too good was her mental state. Her world had been refreshed.

Because later on, Fang Shu had found Ye Wanyin’s glasses in the way and taken them off, Ye Wanyin’s vision was now very blurry. When her unfocused pupils stared dazedly at the surroundings, whether it was from being kissed or simply from the insecurity of losing her glasses, her whole body had a light-headed feeling.

She felt she needed to recover for a bit.

Fang Shu also pulled some distance away from her. She was still holding Ye Wanyin’s glasses. The glasses’ temple was held between her slender fingers, trembling slightly.

The aftereffect was a little strong.

After each of them calmed down for a while, neither of them spoke first.

It was not as if they could give post-event reflections.

In the end, it was the sudden strong wind outside that pulled them out of the subtle atmosphere. Both of their gazes turned at the same time toward the glass door not far away, which was rattling from the wind. The clothes hanging on the balcony were being blown by the wind outside, occasionally knocking against the glass door.

Ye Wanyin hurriedly crouched down and slipped out from beneath Fang Shu’s encircling arm. As she walked toward the balcony, she said, “I almost forgot. The weather forecast said there would be a storm tonight. Fang Shu, did you close the window in your room?”

As Ye Wanyin asked, she walked out through the glass door and closed and locked all the balcony windows. Then she glanced down at the greenery below, the trees nearly bent in half by the wind, and took back all the clothes hanging on the balcony. At the same time, she locked the glass door properly.

When she returned to the living room, Fang Shu had just come out of Ye Wanyin’s room. She had closed the windows in both of their rooms.

Ye Wanyin handed the clothes belonging to Fang Shu to her, then put her own clothes away in her room too.

“What are we eating tonight?” After coming out, Ye Wanyin remembered that they had not eaten dinner yet.

Fang Shu was especially easy to talk to at this moment. “Anything is fine.”

So Ye Wanyin casually made something simple. Although her mind knew that she had only been fulfilling her obligations in a relationship, her heart was still a little startled.

She was afraid that if she made dishes that were too complicated, she would mess them up because her thoughts were unsettled.

After dinner, Ye Wanyin went to check Fang Shu’s homework.

Before she could see Fang Shu’s test paper, Fang Shu suddenly pulled the paper back and hid it behind her.

Ye Wanyin furrowed her brows lightly, vaguely guessing something. “Don’t tell me you didn’t finish it?”

Before leaving in the afternoon, she had already recharged Fang Shu. Four hours should have been enough.

Fang Shu lied through her teeth with her eyes open. “I finished.”

Ye Wanyin did not fall for it. “Then you should have finished everything you know how to do, right?”

Fang Shu held the test paper tightly hidden in her hands.

Ye Wanyin said cruelly, “During an exam, they won’t extend your time. Let me see how much you still haven’t done.”

Fang Shu did not really want to hand it over, so Ye Wanyin deliberately put on a stern face and stared directly into Fang Shu’s eyes, launching an eye-contact attack.

As the staring continued, Fang Shu’s head lowered more and more. In the end, she simply avoided Ye Wanyin’s gaze.

It was practically an admission.

Ye Wanyin directly snatched the test paper from behind her. On the paper, the first page was filled in. Starting from the second page, it was completely blank, and there was no need to even mention the pages after that.

Ye Wanyin did not need to guess to know the reason.

Because she herself was in the wrong regarding this matter, this time she only reminded Fang Shu, “This time, it was my fault for not replying to your messages and making you worry. But next time, as long as you confirm I’m safe, you should focus on doing questions first. You can settle accounts with me after I come back.”

Fang Shu gave a slightly guilty hum.

Ye Wanyin returned the test paper to her. “Then continue doing this paper tonight.”

Fang Shu accepted the paper. Although she had already gotten a satisfying kiss earlier, she still did not forget to occupy the high ground of love and reminded Ye Wanyin, “My battery is already drained.”

Ye Wanyin had just been about to sit down on the chair. Hearing Fang Shu’s words, she nearly twisted her ankle. She looked at Fang Shu in shock, pointing at her lips with a finger, almost incoherent. “Didn’t we just…”

Fang Shu separated public and private matters clearly. “Wasn’t that compensation for you making me angry?”

Ye Wanyin stood in place, mentally in chaos for a while. In the end, she walked over and quickly kissed Fang Shu on the cheek, then returned to her own chair as if chased by a ghost.

Fang Shu, meanwhile, satisfied, began doing the test paper.

She felt she had made a huge profit.

Because there were only three pages left, Fang Shu finished half an hour earlier than usual. Ye Wanyin corrected the paper for her. She looked through the questions quickly. A few questions Fang Shu had gotten wrong because of carelessness were explained briefly, while the ones Fang Shu did not really know how to do were explained in detail.

At ten o’clock, Ye Wanyin looked at Fang Shu. “Let’s stop here for today.”

When Ye Wanyin saw Fang Shu appear at the door to her room for the third time, she was no longer surprised. She only seriously discussed the matter of sleeping with Fang Shu. “Do you get grumpy when you wake up in the morning?”

Fang Shu shook her head. At the same time, she instantly guessed with her toes that this was because of what had happened that morning. After harshly spitting on herself inwardly for being so perceptive, Fang Shu wore a face that was inwardly embarrassed but did not show much embarrassment outwardly and said to Ye Wanyin, “Next time, if you see me pressing down on you again, don’t be polite. Just push me away. Even if I wake up for a bit, I can automatically fall asleep again.”

Hearing this, Ye Wanyin felt relieved and let Fang Shu into the room.

The two of them slept under their respective blankets. Fang Shu glanced at the distance between them, then rolled herself and her blanket a little closer toward Ye Wanyin. In a very small voice, she asked, “Ye Wanyin, are you asleep?”

Ye Wanyin had just closed her eyes. Being called by Fang Shu, she opened them again. “What is it?”

Fang Shu freed one arm from under the blanket, then turned sideways and licked her lips. Her gaze was a little burning as she looked at Ye Wanyin, but her voice grew even softer, as if afraid of disturbing something. “I still want to try…”

Ye Wanyin did not react at first and only asked woodenly, “Try what?”

Fang Shu suddenly leaned over and kissed the edge of Ye Wanyin’s lips, then obediently withdrew and lay back down. She even said, “I still want to try this.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Although Fang Shu’s night vision was not especially good, it definitely was not especially bad. Seeing that Ye Wanyin said nothing for a long time after being kissed and closed her eyes as if planning to sleep, Fang Shu reached out and pushed her arm. “You still haven’t answered me.”

Ye Wanyin opened her eyes in confusion and turned her head to look at Fang Shu. “Didn’t you already kiss me?”

She had not even waited for Ye Wanyin’s answer.

Fang Shu argued confidently, “That was me answering your ‘what.’”

“You still haven’t answered whether I can or not.”

Ye Wanyin said weakly, “But that still counts as having kissed already, doesn’t it?”

Fang Shu turned over and directly pressed herself on top of Ye Wanyin this time. Looking into Ye Wanyin’s eyes, she said seriously, “You may have misunderstood what I meant. What I’m asking about isn’t touching once. I mean like this afternoon.”

Ye Wanyin was forced to recall the afternoon scene that had made her face and ears burn. Her face, which had been exposed to the air-conditioned room and was originally rather cool, immediately rose in temperature until it reached the point of nearly burning.

At that time, both of them had been a little embarrassed afterward, so the moment they heard the wind, they had let the matter pass. Ye Wanyin had never expected Fang Shu to bring it up now.

Fang Shu’s face was actually a little red too, but relying on the fact that the other girl could not see clearly in the darkness, she became unrestrained. “So can I or not?”

Every sentence the other girl said made Ye Wanyin’s face redden another degree. Even now, she felt her body heating up too, and she had the impulse to kick off the blanket.

After a long while, Ye Wanyin finally said with difficulty, “Wasn’t the way just now pretty good too?”

If Fang Shu felt it was not enough, she could allow her to press against her for a little longer.

But Fang Shu’s expression turned solemn. “Then what’s the difference between that and kissing the forehead or the cheek? A kiss should be like this afternoon.”