Chapter 67: I Really Wasn’t Trying to Seduce You

Heh, it looked like her chance at playing Su Daji was gone.

But it had never been part of her original plans anyway. If she got the role, great. If not, so be it. She just needed to keep a level head.

Ling Xiaoli stood there silently, calming herself down. That was what she told herself, but she was still inevitably a little disappointed.

Just then, a video call came in.

Huh? The male lead himself??

Ling Xiaoli’s hand moved faster than her brain, and she answered the call.

The image shook as a figure appeared on the screen.

It was Lin Cheng.

There were also half of two other heads on either side of the screen.

Before she could see them clearly, however, the image suddenly started shaking again. The audio continued the whole time, and she could hear many people talking.

It was just too chaotic to make out what they were saying.

Ling Xiaoli was wondering what was going on when a low-battery warning suddenly popped up on her phone. She hurriedly found her charger and plugged it in.

The voices from the video gradually disappeared, and the image stabilized.

Lin Cheng appeared on the screen again, this time alone.

The background looked like… a bathroom?

Ling Xiaoli put on a smile.

“Ah, hello, Mr. Lin. Is there something you need?”

Lin Cheng pressed his lips together, his eyes looking somewhere outside the screen.

“Hello, Miss Ling. I just lost a game with some friends and was required to make a video call to the tenth person in my message list. I’m very sorry for disturbing you.”

“It’s fine, it’s fine.” Ling Xiaoli smiled. “I just didn’t expect that Mr. Lin would play games like that too.”

She thought to herself:

Isn’t a domineering CEO supposed to be so intimidating that no one would dare mess around in front of him? And someone actually dared to force him to do something like this?

Lin Cheng was actually surprisingly down-to-earth.

“A bet is a bet.”

Lin Cheng only said four words.

Excellent.

Keeping one’s word was an admirable quality in a high-level businessman. Ling Xiaoli silently gave him a thumbs-up in her heart.

She then smiled and asked,

“So, Mr. Lin, do you need me to do anything else?”

Lin Cheng shook his head.

“No. As long as the video call lasts for one minute, I’ll have fulfilled the requirement. I—I won’t disturb you any longer. When you return to C City another day, Miss Ling, let’s get together again.”

“Sure, sure. Goodbye, then.”

“Mm. Goodbye.”

Ling Xiaoli ended the video call and thought to herself:

This male lead seems much better than the one described in the original novel. Not bad, not bad. I can feel at ease leaving A-Yin in his hands.

She put down her phone and prepared to continue taking her shower.

She stood up and walked three steps.

Then she suddenly stopped.

She looked down sharply at herself.

All she saw was a bath towel and a large expanse of dazzling white skin, with a very obvious cleavage.

!!!

So that was how she had been video-calling the male lead just now???

!!!

No wonder Lin Cheng had kept looking away from the screen while talking to her!

Ahhhh! It was all because the male lead was too handsome. She had been staring at that face the whole time and completely overlooked the little video window in the corner!

She wasn’t even a face-obsessed person!

Wait.

In this situation, shouldn’t Lin Cheng have reminded her?

No, that wasn’t right either. How would Lin Cheng know that she had completely forgotten about it?

I……

Ahhhhhhh!

Male Lead, I really wasn’t trying to seduce you!

You have to believe me!

………

Lin Cheng ended the video call and reached up to rub his temples.

Ling Xiaoli had answered the video call instantly. Obviously, she had been looking at her phone before answering.

So had she been taking a shower and suddenly come running out because something had happened?

No.

The real question was, why had he brought his phone with him and escaped to the bathroom?

He clearly should have reminded her.

Or simply ended the video call.

A trace of annoyance suddenly welled up inside him.

That had been extremely ungentlemanly of him.

……Mm, it must have been the alcohol.

Lin Cheng’s mind wandered through all sorts of random thoughts, trying to distract himself.

But at that moment, his mind was filled with the image of someone with damp hair draped over her shoulders, wrapped in a bathrobe.

He couldn’t shake it.

It was as vivid as if she were standing right in front of him.

His heart continued beating at an abnormal rate, and for a long time, he couldn’t calm down.

Soon, someone shouted from outside the door.

“Lin Shi Jiu, what are you doing in there? Don’t tell me you’re doing something indescribable?”

“Come out!”

【Bang bang bang】

The door was pounded loudly.