Su Xiaoxiao stood in place, letting the soft, weeping creature cling to her waist while her brain whirred at high speed.
‘Ruanruan said… she wants to take a bath too? With me?’
Su Xiaoxiao’s eyes, hidden beneath her bangs, instantly narrowed. A flicker of danger and suspicion flashed in the depths of her dark red pupils.
‘Did she actually find out that I installed a pinhole camera in Sister’s bedroom and have been peeking every night? Is she testing me on purpose right now?’
However…
Su Xiaoxiao suppressed the surge of ecstasy and palpitation that nearly burst through her chest.
She took a deep breath, turned around, and looked down at the still-sobbing Su Ruanruan with a scrutinizing gaze.
“You…”
“That… well…”
Having realized what she had just said, Su Ruanruan’s voice stammered, and her eyes darted around frantically. “Xiaoxiao… I-I thought about it carefully… and I think… I should just forget about it.”
“I… I won’t wash…” As Su Ruanruan came to her senses, her voice grew smaller and smaller, like the buzzing of a mosquito. “Actually, I’m not that afraid of ghosts anymore… I-I’ll just wait for you to finish outside…”
After saying that, Su Ruanruan turned around, wanting to twist the doorknob, wishing she could find a crack in the floor to crawl into immediately.
However, before she could even touch the lock.
A slender, powerful hand suddenly reached over from the side. With a *thud*, it pressed against the door panel, directly blocking her path.
Su Xiaoxiao had turned around at some point. Her height of 5 feet 9 inches carried an immense sense of pressure in the cramped bathroom. She lowered her head slightly, looking at Su Ruanruan, who was like a frightened quail.
In truth, Su Xiaoxiao was also panicking internally.
‘Ahhh! She’s running away! Sister is going to back out!’
‘This is absolutely not okay! If I let this opportunity that I wouldn’t even dare to dream of slip away, I’ll never forgive myself for the rest of my life!’
Even though her mind was a mess, Su Xiaoxiao still forcibly controlled the corners of her mouth that were twitching upward.
She stared intently at the mirror above the sink, not daring to look directly at Su Ruanruan’s face.
Her voice fluttered slightly due to nervousness, but her tone carried a stubbornness that brooked no refusal.
“No. You were the one who wanted to bathe together just now, and now you want to leave? It’s too late.”
Su Xiaoxiao swallowed hard, her eyes shifting away as a strange shade of pink quietly crept onto the tips of her ears. “Get in.”
“But… but…”
“No buts! Take off your clothes!” Su Xiaoxiao feared that if she said one more word, she would expose herself. She simply turned around and began unzipping her tracksuit with extremely stiff movements. “We’ll… stay back to back! You don’t look at me, and I won’t look at you!”
Watching her younger sister’s stiff movements, Su Ruanruan was stunned.
‘Is… is Xiaoxiao even more nervous than I am?’
Su Ruanruan blinked her damp Red Pupils. In this tiny space, she could even hear Su Xiaoxiao’s breathing, which had become extremely heavy due to tension, and see the back of her neck, which was so red it looked like it was about to bleed.
Su Ruanruan’s heart had been pounding like a drum, but the sense of shame in her heart miraculously dissipated by more than half.
“Oh… okay then.”
Feeling like she had no choice, Su Ruanruan pouted aggrievedly and obediently turned around to face the wall.
The rustling sound of fabric rubbing against skin was exceptionally clear in the quiet space.
Su Ruanruan closed her eyes and stripped off all her clothes at the fastest speed of her life.
When the cool air touched her skin, she trembled with shame. Her hands were pressed tightly against her chest, and her entire body turned as red as a boiled shrimp.
“I… I’m done undressing…” Su Ruanruan’s soft, sweet voice echoed in the bathroom, carrying a hint of a tremor. “I-I’m going in first…”
“Mm…” A similarly tense grunt came from Su Xiaoxiao behind her.
There was a splash of water.
Su Ruanruan stepped into the bathtub and curled up in the front corner like a frightened little turtle.
The water temperature was just right, instantly enveloping her shivering body.
Hearing the sound of her sister entering the bathtub behind her, Su Xiaoxiao took a deep breath. Then, like a martyr about to go to the execution ground, she turned around stiffly and stepped toward the tub.
Throughout the process, her eyes were tightly shut. She didn’t dare open them at all, fearing that the moment she did, she would have a nosebleed on the spot from overstimulation.
“Xia-Xiaoxiao? Aren’t… aren’t you going to open your eyes?” Su Ruanruan huddled at the front of the bathtub. Seeing her sister’s nervous appearance as she fumbled around with her eyes closed, she couldn’t help but ask.
“N-No need! I… I remember the way!”
Su Xiaoxiao spoke against her heart as she felt her way into the bathtub.
The result —
“Whoa!”
Because she couldn’t see and the tiles were slippery, her foot slipped. Her tall frame lost its balance, and she fell toward the bathtub like a collapsing mountain.
“Be careful!”
Su Ruanruan instinctively reached out to catch her. As a result, the two of them collided directly in the small bathtub, causing water to splash everywhere.
“Oof!”
“Ah!”
After a moment of chaos, the two of them finally stabilized themselves in the tub.
Su Xiaoxiao opened her eyes in horror, only to find herself pressed against Su Ruanruan in an extremely awkward position.
Their faces were inches apart, and they could even feel each other’s hot breath laden with water vapor. Most fatally, separated only by the warm bathwater, their two soft, unobstructed bodies were pressed tightly together without a single gap.
Their eyes met.
The air instantly froze.
“S-Sorry!”
Su Xiaoxiao’s face turned so red it looked like it was going to explode. She tried to get up in a panic, but she slipped again and fell back down.
“Ugh!” Su Ruanruan let out a muffled groan of pain, and tears immediately welled up in the corners of her eyes.
“Sorry, sorry, sorry!”
Finally, after a period of chaos comparable to a disaster, the two of them finally found a relatively “safe” position in the small bathtub.
Su Xiaoxiao sat in the back, while Su Ruanruan sat in the front, loosely circled by her sister’s two long, powerful legs.
However, the atmosphere now was completely different from before.
Both of them were so nervous that their entire bodies were stiff.
Sitting in the front, Su Ruanruan was so tense she could hardly breathe.
She hugged her knees tightly, not daring to let even an inch of her skin touch Su Xiaoxiao’s chest. She could clearly feel the scalding temperature coming from the tall body behind her, as well as Su Xiaoxiao’s extremely rapid breathing.
‘What should I do, what should I do… this position… is so strange…’
As for Su Xiaoxiao sitting behind her, the situation wasn’t much better.
She didn’t even dare to breathe too hard, fearing that if she took a breath, she would smell the fatal body fragrance that rose with the steam, the moisture, and the heat.
However, even if she held her breath, that nearby, defenseless, fair back and the faint, petite silhouette beneath the water were still wildly challenging her sanity.