301 Embarrassing Matter (1/2)

He waited quietly in the living room, sitting on the sofa, somewhat apprehensively. It was a while before Ji Siying got dressed and came out, slinking with her head hung low, blushing up to her ears.

”Err, about this... I'm, err, sorry.”

Xiao Luo just didn't know what to say, but he thought he should just apologize first.

”Mmm,” Ji Siying attempted a barely audible reply, then explained, ”the showerhead in my room's broken, Mr. Xiao Luo. Err, so I went to the bathroom in your room instead...”

”So that's what happened!”

Xiao Luo nodded in realization. ”I'll go to town for a new one and get it fixed by tomorrow. It's getting late, and you should get some rest.”

He rose and walked into his room rather awkwardly.

Ji Siying nodded, and stood silently with her shoulders hunched, looking like a hurt little lamb. Suddenly, she stiffened and instantly cupped her hand over her mouth as she let out a yelp. She had just realized something--her undergarments were still drying on the rack in the Xiao Luo's bathroom! She was frantic when Xiao Luo saw her in the shower, and with her head in a whirl, she forgot all about it. Things just couldn't get any worse than this.

”Oh no, what am I supposed to do now?”

She couldn't go through another embarrassing episode and felt like she was going mad. Flustered, she stood where she was and repeatedly stamped her foot on the ground in frustration.

Meanwhile, Xiao Luo had just walked into his bathroom to take a bath and was stunned by what he saw. Ji Siying's white panty and black bra were hanging on the rack, and the image of her showering in the nude earlier instantly flashed in his mind again. In this respect, he was like any other ordinary man, and strong-willed as he was, at that moment, he was close to getting a nosebleed, and his heart was racing.

Outside Xiao Luo's room, after racking her brains on what to do, Ji Siying finally made up her mind to wait until the moment Xiao Luo left the next day before she would sneak in quietly to collect her undergarments. She felt quite sure that Xiao Luo would pretend not to see them as well, and they would both conveniently forget the whole affair after that.

Suddenly, the room door swung open, and Xiao Luo walked out, looked at her, and gestured at the bathroom inside the room with his thumb. ”Ji Siying, you seem to have left some things in there.”

”Ahh…?”

Ji Siying's cheeks immediately turned a bright red, and her eyes bulged from sheer embarrassment.

”Err, I... I'll go take it now!”

She almost cried but forced an awkward smile and ran into the bathroom desperately. She quickly stuffed her drying undergarments in her blouse, and hugging them tightly, ran back to her room like a frightened rabbit.

”Hmm, I seem to have done the wrong thing here.”

Just then, his phone rang, and the call was from Zhang Dashan.

”Old Xiao, happy new year in advance! So, do you miss your brother already? Meaning 'me,' haha.” Zhang Dashan's gruff voice came over the line.

Xiao Luo wasn't really in the mood and was abrupt in reply. He simply said, ”Get lost!”

”F*ck, what did you swallow, some explosives? Why are you in such an irritable mood, what happened?” Zhang Dashan asked.

Xiao Luo thought about it for a moment and then told Zhang Dashan everything about what happened that night.

”D*mn, brother, you are the king of posers, no matter where you go,” Zhang Dashan commented.

”Can you speak in proper human speech?” Xiao Luo responded, a sense of exasperation creeping upon him.

”You did a great job of teaching them a lesson. I think you should have beaten them up even more, like maybe breaking their arms and legs.”

Xiao Luo said, ”We're from the same clan, I can't bear to treat them so harshly.”