TFS | Chapter 11

Chapter 11: My Butt Hurts Here. Help Me Rub It.

How could this be blamed on him?

Qi Yue held his expression in and tried to cover it up. He wanted to look like nothing had happened, but his body was too reliable. Before Xu Linruan could even crawl back up, the fabric over his crotch had already started to puff up like a little tent.

That was extremely awkward.

Qi Yue had nowhere to hide even if he wanted to. They were standing so close, and her hands were still pressed against him. Through the fabric, the soft, delicate touch was impossible to ignore.

Feeling her gaze slowly drop…

Qi Xiaoyue shut his eyes, wanting to perform a dramatic death on the spot. He had not even planned to do anything. He had only wanted to bring her back, scare her a little, then coax her a bit and take her down in one fell swoop. Who knew something like this would happen? If he had known, he would never have brought her back, even if it killed him.

Now that Xu Linruan was looking at him like he was some kind of beast, Qi Xiaoyue felt miserable. He thought he had to explain himself, or else if Xu Linruan took him for a pervert, he was finished. “Actually… this is a normal physiological reaction. I heard it mentioned in biology class. Your grades are better than mine, so you should know this too. When it’s stimulated by something, it gets… more excited.”

Once it got excited, something this embarrassing happened very easily.

The more Qi Xiaoyue talked, the more wronged he sounded. He had looked so arrogant before, but now he seemed as clingy as could be. When he finished, he looked up at her pitifully. “…So, really, you can’t blame me. It’s not under my control. My heart is still very pure.”

Even he did not believe that.

What did he mean, not under his control? That was just an excuse. Who could he blame for not being able to control his little brother?

“Then that really is unfair to you,” Xu Linruan said with a raised brow, following his lead. She figured if he kept being this awkward, he might die of embarrassment right there, so she stood up with a somewhat understanding air.

Qi Yue let out a breath of relief and adjusted his expression, trying his best to look less tense.

Xu Linruan noticed the way he hunched his body and reached out to pat his shoulder. “And thank you for catching me. Otherwise, it would have been me who fell.”

Just as she was about to leave, someone grabbed her wrist.

Qi Yue caught her wrist with one hand, tight and without any gap at all. His expression also looked a little off. “I… I think I might not be able to stand up?”

Xu Linruan looked up at him. “What’s wrong?”

Qi Yue felt like something was wrong with him. Maybe he had broken a bone. His butt hurt like crazy, and it hurt every time he moved.

That spot was a little too awkward to say out loud, so he could only hold onto her hand for support. After struggling for a long while, he finally said in a small voice, “…I think I twisted my waist. Can you give me a hand?”

Xu Linruan looked at his face, twisted from pain, and it did not seem fake at all. So she reached out, touched his waist, then helped him up and slowly walked him over to the sofa.

“Where does it hurt? Do you want me to rub it for you?” What bad intentions could she possibly have? It was just that he looked so pitiful, and that made him rather lovable.

As a result, the other person fell into suspicious silence for a moment, then blushed.

The kind of blush that spread from his neck all the way to the roots of his ears.

Xu Linruan narrowed her eyes. She did not even need to think with her toes to know what kind of indecent thing this guy was imagining. She pinched the young master’s firm butt hard, and this time it was over. The young master let out a wail, practically bounced up, then clutched his backside and collapsed facedown on the sofa.

The sight was miserable beyond words, like he had been ravaged by someone.

Xu Linruan gave him a meaningful glance, and her eyes brushed over a certain place. Now she understood. This guy had probably landed right on his butt.

“…I was wrong, all right? Can you stop with that bad habit of pinching people’s asses?”

The young man was on the verge of tears, gritting his teeth in pain. His image was now completely ruined.

“My butt hurts…” Qi Yue gave up entirely. He buried his face in the cushion while clutching his backside. Since it was already like this, he did not care about saving face anymore.

Xu Linruan tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear. She wanted to laugh, but still held it back. “Then do you want to go to the hospital?”

“No! I’m not going to the hospital…” The young man refused through clenched teeth. He still knew how to save face. If this got out, how was he supposed to show his face again in the future?

The injured spot was so awkward, and it happened while he was with his girlfriend. If he dragged this to the hospital, those people would definitely laugh themselves to death. It was enough to lose face once. He did not want to lose face a second time.

Xu Linruan felt that this guy was truly bringing the phrase dying for the sake of pride to life. Even like this, he still refused to go to the hospital. A dead duck with a hard beak.

The girl brushed his damp hair back from his face and crouched down, looking at him with a gentle smile. “If you’re not going to the hospital, then what do you want to do?”

Qi Yue seemed to be in so much pain that he could not take it anymore. He grabbed her palm and pressed it against his waist. His voice was low and a little weak. “That… can you ice it for me? I won’t take my clothes off. You can just rub it through my clothes.”

After he said that, Xu Linruan had not even reacted yet, but he himself was already blushing badly, his ears hot enough to burn. He probably had never felt this embarrassed in his entire life.

Since the atmosphere on site was simply too awkward, he could not help looking for excuses to cover it up. “Think about it. If it weren’t for helping you up, would I have had to suffer like this? And now you won’t even help me ice it…”

His voice grew more and more aggrieved as he spoke, and by the end his eyes were even red. If Xu Linruan refused, he probably could cry on the spot.

This was the first time she had seen a male lead who could act up this much.

Still, thinking about it, if Qi Yue had not helped her up, the one who would have fallen would probably have been her.

Xu Linruan lowered her head and laughed softly, then pressed her fingers to the young master’s waist and kneaded once. “I’m not saying no. Why are you so wronged?” At the very least, this was a chance to improve his impression of her. Missing it would be a pity.

Xu Linruan went to get an ice pack and the medicine box, then helped him lie down on the bed. At first, she had intended to rub it for him and then apply a pain-relief patch, but this guy started overthinking again.

He looked like a little wife who had been bullied. Every time Xu Linruan touched him, his body would tremble. Then, with teary eyes, he clutched his butt and kept backing away. “Do you even know how to do it? Lower, a little lower…”

“It’s not like that.”

“Be gentler with your movements…”

Xu Linruan felt that this conversation sounded rather strange, but the way he kept gasping while blushing and resisting was actually quite pleasing to look at.

He lay on the pillow and complained to Xu Linruan, his little expression ridiculously aggrieved. One hand was still gripping her hem and would not let go. He said that since he got hurt because of her, she had to take care of him until he recovered, or else he would cling to her for the rest of his life.

Xu Linruan played dirty. With a little more force under her hand, the other person started howling again, and his arrogant school bully persona collapsed completely.

She looked down at him. For someone this little, he had still dared to make a bet with others and even said he wanted to cling to her for the rest of his life. Was he kidding?