After Entering a Romance Reality Show Disguised as a Man to Win Over All the Female Leads - Chapter 22.1

That fish tail locked tightly around her ankle and kept tightening. The tail fin lightly slapped the floor and the surface of her shoe. The sound of wet liquid splashing against the ground, together with the damp, chilling sensation around her ankle, made Rong Yu unable to speak.

He Jiao was still asking, “Are you scared?”

This time, Rong Yu immediately shook her head.

In the darkness, there seemed to come a soft, low laugh.

He Jiao’s voice was gentler than Mu Shuiqing’s and softer than He Huaiting’s. Heard beside the ear, it was like clouds and mist stirred up by the morning breeze, carrying a damp, tingling numbness.

The livestream viewers could not see the image at all, but they could hear Rong Yu’s nervous, restrained light panting and He Jiao’s soft sigh.

[?! Holy crap, sorry, sorry, but I’m heavily imagining myself in this.]

[?!?!?!?!?! Let me off! This isn’t the car to kindergarten!]

[What are you two doing? Let me see. pokes head out]

[Suddenly I understand why the lights had to be turned off, hehehe.]

Rong Yu took a deep breath and wanted to pull her hand back. But in the next moment, He Jiao took the initiative to let her go.

Suddenly losing that restraint made Rong Yu rather unused to it. She had just wanted to reach up and undo the thin gauze over her eyes when she heard He Jiao speak softly.

“Help me measure my body data.”

She said it too casually, so casually that Rong Yu almost did not react.

“What?”

He Jiao laughed lightly in the darkness. In the next second, the dampness of sea wind and her unique clear fragrance approached Rong Yu. She repeated herself in a low voice, her breath like orchids brushing against the tip of Rong Yu’s ear, stimulating Rong Yu into instinctively shrinking her neck.

“Help me measure my body data.”

Thinking of all the bottles and jars she had seen earlier, Rong Yu was a little dazed. “Aren’t there other researchers here…”

“Do they dare?” He Jiao asked back.

“……”

Rong Yu thought about Huang Li and the others’ reaction when they heard she wanted to come to Room 103… That did seem true.

While she was thinking, He Jiao had already released her ankle and rubbed her way over to the experiment table beside them.

Everything around them was pitch-black, and Rong Yu’s eyes were still covered. She could not imagine how He Jiao used her fish tail to stand on the ground and then let herself lie on the table beside them.

She could only hear the wet, soft body dragging across the floor, followed by the friction sound of a person sitting on the experiment table.

After waking up on the inn bed today, Rong Yu had changed back into men’s clothes. Because the temperature was higher today, she had deliberately changed into a thin T-shirt and long pants. After being coiled and dragged by the fish tail earlier, the bottom of her pants had already become damp, sticking wetly to the tops of her shoes.

Rong Yu uncomfortably wanted to move her ankle, but that fish tail had already wrapped around her again, curling around her waist and bringing her to the table.

When Rong Yu was young, she had learned in biology class that under the skin and flesh of overly large deep-sea animals, there might be nothing but fat. But the smaller number of swift, sharp ocean predators had fish bodies covered in compact muscle.

He Jiao clearly belonged to this type.

When she wrapped around Rong Yu’s waist, the tense muscles beneath the scales unintentionally made one feel a vigorous life force and a sense of dominance.

She did not use any strength, yet Rong Yu was still pushed forward by the fish tail until she was pressed against the edge of the table.

He Jiao stuffed a round measuring tape into her hand. “Begin.”

Rong Yu was still hesitating. “I can’t see…”

The surroundings were utterly dark. She could not even see her own fingers, let alone the numbers on the measuring tape.

Rong Yu thought that after she said this, the other party would turn on the lights. Unexpectedly, He Jiao followed her words and responded, “Hold down the position of the measurement. I’ll look for you.”

“……”

Her words were simply watertight. Rong Yu fell silent and could only ask, “Where should I measure?”

He Jiao pondered for two seconds and did not speak.

Although Rong Yu could not see the surroundings, He Jiao’s almost tangible gaze was fixed on her face. Even though Rong Yu could not see where she was, she could still feel that strong stare.

She felt as if she had been targeted by some kind of beast. Her every movement had nowhere to hide.

Only after a while did He Jiao finally speak.

“Measure the length of the tail first.”

Rong Yu abruptly let out a breath of relief. “…Okay.”

The viewers in the livestream clicked their tongues as they watched the show.

[Tempting bottom, tempting bottom! She’s so good at this. Damn it.]

[Tempting top, my friend. Female A, male O, Sister!!]

Rong Yu reached out toward the approximate position, but what she touched was cool, soft skin. The overly delicate, elastic touch gradually pressed against her fingertips with the rhythm of breathing, rubbing out warm sparks.

Rong Yu’s eyelid jumped, and her breathing abruptly stopped. She immediately withdrew her hand.

But her wrist was quickly grabbed. The other party guided her hand downward, leading her to touch the fish tail with its staggered scales and sharp edges.

The fish tail’s scales rose and fell with breathing, scraping against her fingers. It was not very painful. It was like the edge of a fan scratching her fingertips.

Rong Yu instinctively curled her fingers, but she tightened her grip on the measuring tape in her palm.

She took a deep breath, pulled out the measuring tape, and pressed it to the place where the fish tail met the waist and abdomen.

The connection between the fish tail and the waist was very magical. She did not know how this part had grown, but it actually fused the fish-shaped tail and human flesh perfectly.

Rong Yu could feel gradually finer scales and also sense cold, soft skin.

The scales in this part were not as hard as those on the tail. They even felt somewhat soft.

Rong Yu’s hand trembled as she turned her grip and held the hand still clasping her wrist, placing one end of the measuring tape into the other party’s hand and setting it at the place where He Jiao’s fish tail connected to her waist.

Then she carefully pulled the measuring tape downward.

She could not see, so she could only measure with her fingers, feeling along the fish scales from top to bottom to determine the position.

The scales were largest around the hips, then gradually became smaller near the tip of the tail, finally turning into a tail fin that spread open to more than half a meter wide.

When Rong Yu held the measuring tape and reached the tail fin, in order to ensure the data was as accurate as possible, she could only follow the translucent membrane of the tail fin and carefully smooth it straight. Then she pulled the tape and aligned it with the center of the fin.

She did not know whether it was an auditory hallucination, but she seemed to faintly hear He Jiao inhale.

Immediately afterward, both sides of the flower-like tail fin softly wrapped around her hand, like a blue morpho butterfly folding its wings.

When Rong Yu pulled her hand away, the luminous blue tail fin left a trail of damp water marks on her wrist.

Rong Yu took a deep breath and carefully pinched the corresponding part of the measuring tape with her thumb and index finger. She stood and brought the measured data for He Jiao to see.

The girl, who could still see at night in the darkness, should have seen the number at the position she held. She turned and recorded it in the notebook beside her.

The rustling sound of the pen tip rubbing against paper was especially obvious in the room. Rong Yu actually had the strange feeling of having her homework assessed by a teacher.

This thought made Rong Yu want to laugh, but before she could laugh aloud, He Jiao spoke again, her voice suddenly a little hoarse.

“Measure arm length.”

Rong Yu nodded and pulled the other end of the measuring tape back from He Jiao’s hand. She placed one end of the tape on He Jiao’s shoulder, then extended it down along her arm.

When the tape aligned with He Jiao’s wrist, Rong Yu again pressed down on the corresponding position and handed it to He Jiao to see.

After another rustling sound of recording ended, He Jiao spoke in a low voice, her meaning somewhat difficult.

“Waist.”

Rong Yu took a deep breath and slowly bent down. With her left hand, she pulled the measuring tape from behind He Jiao’s waist, and with her right hand, she held the other end of the tape. Her hands enclosed He Jiao in her arms in a posture like an embrace. Then she slowly pulled both hands apart and wrapped the tape around her.

He Jiao cooperatively lifted her lower back slightly, but because of this, she pressed even closer to Rong Yu. Her delicate skin was icy cold.

Rong Yu felt as if she were embracing a wave that had rushed onto shore.

Cool, soft. And when it left, it brought a sense of loss.

This posture brought the two of them very close. Rong Yu could more clearly smell the clear fragrance on her body and the coldness like sea wind.

Even though the person in her arms was faintly cool, Rong Yu’s heart was burning hot. She instinctively swallowed.

Carefully grasping the scale, she finished measuring the waist and handed the data on the measuring tape to He Jiao.

After that came body length, shoulder width, chest circumference…

When Rong Yu carefully supported He Jiao’s back, pulled the soft tape from beneath her shoulder, and measured toward her chest with trembling hands, the soft touch her knuckles occasionally brushed made her heart speed up uncontrollably.

This work task was truly too much of a test of one’s heart.

Rong Yu sighed inwardly.

When all the data had finally been measured, Rong Yu at last managed to catch her breath. But then she discovered that she was not the only one breathing rapidly in this space.

She wanted to look at He Jiao, but the surroundings were still pitch-black, so dark she could not see her own fingers.

Until He Jiao, who was on the experiment table, suddenly got up. Her soft, cool fingertips brushed across the back of Rong Yu’s hand.

Rong Yu instinctively reached out to grab her, but her hand caught only empty air.

He Jiao before her seemed to gradually move away. The damp atmosphere in the air abruptly dispersed.

Rong Yu did not know what the current situation was. She was groping around, about to lift her hand and remove the thin gauze covering her eyes, when the lights above her head suddenly turned on.

The glaring, scorching light was so bright that even though Rong Yu’s eyes were closed, she could clearly feel it.

Rong Yu instinctively stopped moving and raised her hand to shield herself from the light overhead. Beneath the thin gauze covering her eyes, her lashes trembled slightly.

From beneath the gauze over her eyes, she carefully opened her eyes a sliver. Only then did she discover that inside the empty, pure-white laboratory, she was the only one standing in the center, blindfolded.

The livestream viewers had only just become able to see the screen again when they saw Rong Yu standing in the center of the laboratory, breathing rapidly.

Her brown curls framed her exquisite features. On her fair, powder-dusted face, those luminous blue eyes were bound by a deep-black lace gauze.

The extreme black restrained the whiteness of flesh, making one’s heart race.

Her vivid rose-red lips were slightly parted, still panting faintly. One could vaguely glimpse her pearly white teeth and pink tongue, like a small beast blindfolded and confined in a secret room.

Clearly, her clothes were neat and there was nothing improper about her appearance, yet with only the addition of a black gauze veil, it inexplicably made people’s hearts tremble.

The comment section, quiet for a long time, froze for a full ten seconds before it was rapidly blown up.

[Ahhhhhhh, Rongrong smells so good, ahhhhh, I can’t take it anymore. Looks like He Jiao can’t do it either. How did she hold back?]

[I… I want to know who put this on him. Too, too good at this… oxygen.jpg]

[It must be He Jiao, Sister!! No, I can’t take it anymore. I need to wash my face and calm down.]

[Wuwuwu, sorry, I just… I just kind of want to be his master.]

[Sister above!! Is this something you can say?]

[+1, I want to too.]

When Rong Yu removed the gauze, countless people in the comments even sent messages of regret.

Until one viewer said:

[I recorded the screen, I’ll say it.]

In an instant, over a hundred comments exploded out, frantically tagging her to repost the video.

[??? I advise you to hand it over quickly. Don’t make me kneel on the ground and beg you.]

[I have a feeling this video will absolutely go viral once it’s posted.]

[Posted, posted. Everyone, don’t rush. It’s uploading, ahhhhh. Remember to save and favorite it. Tag me after you finish editing it.]

In the livestream control room, Lin Mengxing, wearing fitted high-waisted denim pants, sat on a wooden chair with her arms crossed. Her legs were propped on the edge of the table in front of her.

She curled her lips into a slight smile as she watched the livestream camera, but the smile did not reach her eyes.

Mu Shuiqing beside her stared fixedly at the camera, her cheeks slightly red. She opened her mouth as if wanting to say something, then lightly coughed and closed it again.

Only He Huaiting at the far side was the most silent. She sat quietly by the table, so calm it was as if she had seen nothing, her eyes lowered toward her own legs.

Just yesterday at noon, a beautiful girl with a slightly sharp edge had been sitting on her lap.

He Huaiting lowered the high-pitched alarm in her mind and could not help rubbing her fingers twice, remembering the warmth against her fingertips yesterday…

·

Inside the laboratory, He Jiao had disappeared, leaving Rong Yu alone in the empty, silent space.

Around her were containers filled with fish bodies, reagent bottles and instruments of all sizes. Ahead of her was the dark, deep, ink-blue aquarium.

She hesitated for a long while, then softly called He Jiao’s name.

No one answered.

Could it be… the script had already ended?

Rong Yu discovered that she actually felt somewhat disappointed.

She lowered her head and looked at the thin gauze in her hand, then looked around. The silent, soundless space was so quiet it made her heart panic.

Rong Yu asked once more. After confirming that no one was there, she moved her feet and prepared to turn around and leave.

Just as she turned, there suddenly came the sound of something falling into water behind her.

That sound seemed both far away at the edge of the sky and right beside her. Rong Yu could even feel a spreading chill, like the misty song from the top of a lighthouse in the deep night at sea.

Hearing it, she turned back and abruptly looked toward that enormous glass wall.

But on the other side of the wall, there were still only seaweed and coral swaying back and forth with the current, as well as schools of fish swimming around.

Yet Rong Yu had a premonition that something was about to appear.

She stared at the glass for a while and slowly walked toward it.

When she was far away, she had not felt it. Only when she walked in front of the glass did she truly feel its broad, towering height.

At 173 centimeters tall, Rong Yu standing beneath the glass was simply a drop in the ocean.

The deep-blue aquarium before her seemed truly connected to the sea. Just standing beneath the glass, Rong Yu could hear the sound of blue waves rippling, and even the sound of water striking against glass.

Suddenly, the glass above her head was knocked.

It was like someone tapping a blow onto her heart.

Rong Yu immediately raised her head, just in time to see a blue figure diving down.

Golden wool curls were half-tied and scattered behind her. Luminous blue, starry eyes reflected the light inside the room. The enormous blue fish tail refracted mottled gold foil in the water.

Gorgeous and graceful, soft and drifting in the water, she was like a beam of moonlight poured into the deep sea. Even the schools of fish instantly quieted down.

Rong Yu once again felt that beauty capable of shaking the heart. It had even transcended species, like a god.

He Jiao parted the water currents and pressed herself against the glass, looking at Rong Yu through the colorless barrier.

Her more-than-two-meter-long blue fish tail carried golden-blue fins. Like a rose blooming in the water, it refracted tiny fragments of golden light.

Her golden hair was like silk, floating up and down behind her with the water. Her magnificent face and delicate contours were covered by the hazy clear glow, like white mist cast down by the beam overhead.

Rong Yu felt as if she had drawn close to the bright moon in a mountain stream. Even her breathing could not help slowing.

He Jiao was the consciousness body whose appearance was most similar to Lian Langsheng. Even the way those eyes looked at her was exactly the same.

Rong Yu instinctively stepped forward and raised her hand, pressing it close to He Jiao’s hand on the glass.

When their palms faced each other, He Jiao suddenly leaned down and kissed toward her through the glass.

This was not the first time He Jiao had kissed her, but it was the first time it made one’s heart move so much.

Amid the rippling waves, the girl’s trembling long lashes were dotted with tiny bubbles. Her eyes were tightly closed as she leaned toward Rong Yu, devout as a mermaid worshiping the moon.

A thick glass separated Rong Yu from her, yet it also felt as if they were at the closest distance.

The glass was damp with moisture. Clearly, it was icy cold to the touch, yet Rong Yu felt her heart burning hot.

The livestream viewers were already stunned.

[This, this, this…?]

[Can a prop fish tail really be this realistic? I can’t even see the joints?!]

[It’s magic, right? It is, right??]

Rong Yu did not know whether it was magic, but she truly felt as if she had been struck by He Jiao.

This face, far too similar to Lian Langsheng’s, was already completely within her aesthetic preferences. Adding these special scenes on top of that…

She could not resist at all.

For a moment, she did not even know what to say. She only traced the other girl’s side profile through the glass.

When Lian Langsheng was young, during a family trip, she had almost been pushed into the sea by relatives and drowned. After that, she had gone to learn swimming and diving.

If Lian Langsheng woke up, and they went on a trip to the seaside, would she look like this in the water?

The thought had only just risen in Rong Yu’s heart when He Jiao before her suddenly pulled back and left.

The beautiful figure that had originally been pressed against the glass stirred up clusters of bubbles, like countless pearls rising from the seafloor.

That slender, fair hand gradually left the glass. Rong Yu instinctively stepped forward, wanting to grasp her fingertips, but all she touched was icy coldness.

Rong Yu raised her head to look at her, only to see He Jiao silently speak two words through the glass:

“Wait for me.”