Chapter 54: Wash Cleanly (1/2)

This was the first time that Lin Fan had ever done something as bold as this, so he was understandably nervous. In his nervousness, he quickly let go of her and ran into his car after the single kiss.

He was so fast that Cheng Xi couldn’t even react before the car had already left, far away.

“……” She was speechless.

She hadn’t seen Lin Fan that embarrassed for many years.

Cheng Xi couldn’t help but laugh at the situation before putting both of her hands in her pockets and preparing to walk back inside. As she was turning around, she found herself looking at a car parked by the side of the building. It was black and hidden in the dark, just like a monstrous shadow.

When she looked at it a bit more closely, the headlights of the car suddenly turned on, and the strong, bright light shining directly into her face almost blinded her.

Even without seeing who was driving the car, she could feel the driver’s malicious intent. She quickly covered up her eyes, frowned, and prepared to leave.

At this time, there weren’t many cars and pedestrians on the road, and Cheng Xi didn’t want an accident to occur either.

But just as she started to step away, a piercing honking sound shattered the quiet night air right next to her ear—paa, paa, paa, paa, paa, paa—a conspicuous disturbance in the dark and silent night.

When she turned and looked back more closely, she saw the car’s interior light up and then blink. Cheng Xi found that a familiar face was actually sitting in the driver’s seat.

Lu Chenzhou.

Why was he here this late?

After mulling over it for a moment, Cheng Xi slowly walked up to him. The car window slowly rolled down. Lu Chenzhou was alone in the car, sitting in the driver’s seat, with both hands clasped on the steering wheel. As his fingers tapped on it rhythmically, his gaze noncommittally looked at her.

“Eh, why are you here? Did something come up?”

“Get on.”

“Where to?”

He tilted his head, his gaze still on her face. He said nothing and merely pressed the middle of the steering wheel again, causing the deafening noise to blare out again.

It sounded as impatient as his mood.

Cheng Xi quickly got into the car.

She wasn’t worried that Lu Chenzhou would do something to her. Even though his personality was cold, she felt inexplicably like she could trust him with her safety.

Lu Chenzhou ended up bringing her to Donglai, immediately throwing her inside a beauty parlor. The female proprietor had already closed up shop for the day, but he called someone to get her over, pointed at Cheng Xi, and then said, “Clean her face.”

Both Cheng Xi and the salon owner, who had rushed over hurriedly, were somewhat speechless, looking at each other out of shared confusion. Cheng Xi was the first to say, “Sorry to bother you.”

The salon owner coughed and replied, “It’s not a problem.”

Then she took out some appliances and creams and indeed began washing her face as Lu Chenzhou waited in the lobby. Cheng Xi lay on the bed, feeling the owner’s soft fingers comfortably pinching and kneading her face. Not long later, the salon owner took out a large set of tools. “Are the two of you having a big event tomorrow, to clean your face this late?”

Cheng Xi’s face was dripping as she pondered Lu Chenzhou’s intentions. When she heard the salon owner’s question, she casually asked back, “What big event?”

The lady owner smiled. “Getting married, of course.” She put a facial mask on Cheng Xi, and her voice now sounded somewhat indistinct. “When I went out just now, Mr. Lu even told me specifically to do the deepest cleansing possible… I said that our deepest cleaning is generally for new brides right before they put their bridal makeup on, and he said to do that one…the two of you are getting married, aren’t you?”

“……”

She immediately remembered Lin Fan kissing her.

Lu Chenzhou….. couldn’t possibly be doing this because of that, could he?

She very much wanted to rub her forehead, a sense of terror overwhelming her. But she controlled herself, smiled vaguely, and said, “Don’t joke around. How could that be possible?”

The lady owner likely also thought that the probability of them getting married was very low, and when she saw that Cheng Xi didn’t want to keep talking about it any further, she immediately dropped the topic and concentrated on washing Cheng Xi’s face.

The facial wash was very intricate but unexpectedly comfortable. Cheng Xi didn’t feel particularly tired before the wash, but afterwards, she couldn’t help but yawn complacently.