Chapter 13: The Tamed Boy

Cheng Minghao was stunned and blurted out instinctively, “Sure! Ah?! Is this okay? No, this isn’t okay!”

Lin Qingya was also taken aback, suddenly realizing the problem.

If they bathed together, she might as well skip class today.

She might not even make it to the bathroom.

She’d just lie on the floor or against the wall, silently enduring it all.

There would be no point in thinking about anything else.

Truly, love gets in the way—it’s a hindrance to studying!

No!

It’s the act itself that’s the problem—doing it hinders learning!

Lin Qingya’s cheeks flushed bright red, and she dashed straight into the bedroom, ignoring everything.

“Hey, that’s the bedroom, not the bathroom!” Cheng Minghao reminded her.

“I know. It’s not like I can walk out naked after a bath, can I?”

Lin Qingya replied, not feeling especially embarrassed.

However, Lin Qingya’s straightforward words made Cheng Minghao feel awkward, even sending his mind wandering again.

“Then you go shower, and I’ll make you something to eat,” Cheng Minghao said, heading to the kitchen.

“Mm. I’ll bathe first, then you can figure things out.

If there’s no time, you can just go to school smelling like me. No!”

Lin Qingya suddenly changed her mind, her face reddening as she spoke.

“We’re in the same class. If you smell like me, won’t it be awkward for me too? Wouldn’t it still be about me? No way! You have to wash too! Come here! We take a lovers’ bath together!”

Lin Qingya declared, face burning.

But she forced herself to keep a straight face, naked, grabbing her clothes.

She barged into the kitchen, dragging Cheng Minghao with her.

She grabbed his arm firmly, shouting, “We’ve already done everything, like an old married couple! Get over here… Come! Bathe! Hmph!”

Lin Qingya grumbled.

Even mentioning being like an old married couple made her blush.

It was as if she’d just accepted her identity and inherited Lin Qingya’s gender.

It annoyed her a bit.

And the fact that her partner was Cheng Minghao only made her more frustrated.

Inside the bathroom.

“Sit still! Don’t move! I’ll wash you first and make sure you’re clean!”

Lin Qingya was worried that Cheng Minghao might still carry her scent, which would be embarrassing.

So she gave orders like training a dog.

She forced Chen Minghao to obediently take off his clothes and let her scrub him.

“Where are you scrubbing?! Stop it!”

Cheng Minghao shouted from inside the bedroom.

“Everywhere needs to be scrubbed! Let go of your hands! Don’t cover yourself, or the scent will remain!”

Lin Qingya explained stubbornly, prying Cheng Minghao’s hands away with force.

“Don’t mess around! Or else I’ll lose control. I’m already about to lose it!”

Cheng Minghao said boldly and directly.

“If you want to lose control, then do it! If you have the guts, go another three hundred—ah!”

“You’re really losing control! Uuu~ Ah!”

Lin Qingya cried out, tears welling up in her eyes.

Half the school day was wasted just like that.

If the teacher asked why she was late, how would she explain it?!

Ying ying ying!

Crying with her legs raised high; Lin Qingya had no excuse left.

—

School.

The last class of the morning.

Lin Qingya and Cheng Minghao climbed over the wall to get into the school.

At the back door of the classroom, the geography teacher was at the podium, drawing diagrams of ocean currents on the blackboard.

Lin Qingya led the way, checking that the teacher wasn’t paying attention, and waved quickly for Cheng Minghao to follow.

“Come with me, keep your head down, and be quiet.”

Lin Qingya moved skillfully, nothing like a model student.

As for her hair and bra—who tied them, who put them on?

Of course, it was the jerk behind her who helped.

Lin Qingya and Cheng Minghao sneaked in, bent over, then split up.

Suddenly…

“Stop!”

The male teacher at the podium noticed them and asked, “You two, why are you late?”

“We…”

Lin Qingya glanced at Cheng Minghao, quickly distancing herself.

“We have no connection! We’re not together.”

The surrounding classmates immediately started whispering.

“Eh, isn’t Lin Qingya openly in love with Cheng Minghao? How come they’re not together now?”

“Cheng Minghao doesn’t like Lin Qingya. That bad girl keeps stringing him along. He just doesn’t want to push a girl away.”

Hearing the murmurs, the male teacher frowned and shouted, “Quiet! Since you two are late…”

The teacher was about forty or fifty, a middle-aged man.

He just said, “Then sit down quickly. Don’t interrupt the other students.”

“Oh, okay, teacher, we’re sitting. Sitting, sitting!”

Lin Qingya signaled to Cheng Minghao behind her, then ran to her seat.

“Hey, why are you sitting here?”

A chubby boy asked Lin Qingya.

It was Chen Qing’s deskmate.

“Of course I’m sitting…”

Lin Qingya froze, noticing the strange looks from the other classmates.

“Silence! Pay attention to the lesson.”

The teacher on the podium stepped in, saving Lin Qingya.

As the lesson continued, the chubby boy on the right secretly bumped Lin Qingya with his left elbow.

“Are you secretly in love with me?”

“In your dreams! Do you even know who I like? I like Lin…”

Before Lin Qingya finished, the chubby boy cut in.

“Cheng Minghao, who doesn’t know? But I think you’re strange…”

Ouch! Who hit me?”

Suddenly, a piece of chalk landed on the chubby boy’s desk, right in front of Lin Qingya.

“You, stand up and listen to the lesson.”

The teacher commanded.

“Oh~ Got it, teacher.”

The chubby boy stood up awkwardly.

He saw Lin Qingya grinning and glaring at him, and he glared back.

The chubby boy thought to himself, This isn’t right!

Why is Lin Qingya not teasing Cheng Minghao, but sitting next to me, laughing and arguing?

He couldn’t make sense of it at all.

Just like Chen Qing!

—

After class, school was over.

Inside the classroom.

Lin Qingya decisively hopped over to Cheng Minghao, stood by his side, and declared, “My room wasn’t opened yesterday. I have to move back in today. Wherever you called the locksmith, help me open it again.”

Lin Qingya wanted to ‘move back’ in.

Living across the hall was better than being bullied by Cheng Minghao every day.

Twice a day was just too much.

“You don’t know where the locksmith is?”

Cheng Minghao asked.

“Mm, I forgot. Girls never remember these things.”

Lin Qingya explained, thinking there was no way a straight guy like Cheng Minghao could understand a girl’s mind.

“Really?”

Cheng Minghao was doubtful.

At that moment, a girl chimed in,

“You’re lying. Girls are people too. What girl doesn’t remember where she lives? I’m a girl. I have the right to speak. Hee hee! Cheng Minghao, how will you thank me?”

It was an obvious attempt to steal her man.

Lin Qingya suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

These girls—she had never noticed before.

She just thought they were easygoing.

But now…

Lin Qingya frowned, stepped forward, and grabbed Cheng Minghao’s arm, declaring her claim.

“I’m flirting with my boyfriend. Do I need you to interrupt?”

“We?”

The girl was stunned, looking around at her classmates.

She was the only one here—where did ‘we’ come from?

She muttered, “Are you stupid?”

The girl shook her head, took a small step back from Lin Qingya, hugged her books, and whispered to Cheng Minghao,

“You’d better stay away from her. Bye-bye.”

“Uh~ Bye…”

As soon as Cheng Minghao started to say ‘bye,’ he caught the sharp, knife-like glare from Lin Qingya.

Lin Qingya was pouting, glaring at him in anger.

The rest of the ‘bye’ was swallowed back instantly, turning into ‘not bye-bye.’

‘Not bye-bye’ completed.

Cheng Minghao looked at Lin Qingya, who smiled at him.

He gave her an awkward grin, then reached out his hand.

“Let’s go! Let’s go home.”

Cheng Minghao smiled playfully at Lin Qingya, looking completely tamed.

As for how he was tamed~ that’s a secret outsiders will never know.