30: Chapter 30 Sir, You Can’t!
[Please Favorite, Please Recomnd] 30: Chapter 30 Sir, You Can’t!
[Please Favorite, Please Recomnd] Lady Moo was fond of ancient styles, and she often claid herself as a Heroine, therefore her boudoir was also filled with antique charm.
The room was simply furnished, with a rosewood round table and two chairs coming into view.
On the table, there was a set of bluish-white porcelain tea apparatus, rustic yet elegant.
Through the carved, openwork window fra, speckled sunlight poured in, casting gleaming reflections on the dressing bronze mirror.
Opposite the bronze mirror hung a green beaded curtain; when a breeze blew through, the beads collided with each other, emitting a crisp and pleasant sound like “large and small beads dropping onto a jade plate.”
No need to guess, behind the bead curtain definitely stood a bed for sleeping!
On the wall to the left of the bed hung a Red Tassel Long Sword, and on the right stood an elegant plain zither.
“Lady Moo, your room decor is pretty good!”
Li Chen casually complinted and then stepped forward, intending to part the bead curtain.
Suddenly, Moo Xi seed to rember sothing and imdiately grabbed Li Chen’s arm, exclaiming, “Don’t!”
Li Chen, looking baffled, raised his eyebrows and asked, “Don’t what?”
With her face flushing, Moo Xi lowered her head and said, “This is my boudoir, and inside is my bed for sleeping.
It can’t just be shown to anyone!”
Li Chen responded with a curl of his lip, “I’m not even interested in you, let alone your bed for sleeping!”
Saying this, Li Chen ignored Moo Xi’s protest and strode inside.
“Huh?”
The scene that t his eyes left Li Chen stunned.
The bedcover was placed horizontally with two half-size Winnie the Pooh bears positioned inside; it looked sowhat ssy, but this full pink girlish touch had a charm of its own.
Moo Xi covered her face with both hands, looking utterly dismayed.
Last night, she had left in a hurry and hadn’t managed to tidy up the bed.
She didn’t expect that Li Chen would see everything so clearly this early morning.
Li Chen pulled at the bedcover she had placed crosswise and jokingly said, “Lady Moo, you do have a unique style when you sleep!”
“After waking up in the morning, do you ever feel like you’ve grown taller, and when you dance in joy you suddenly find out it’s not you who has grown, but instead your bedcover is simply on backward?”
Grinding her teeth, Moo Xi rolled her eyes at Li Chen and coquettishly retorted, “None of your business!”
Li Chen pursed his lips, gently placed Moo Xi on the bed, and without considering himself an outsider, simply sat down beside her.
Seeing this scene, Moo Xi’s mind recalled two lines from the ‘Mulan Ci.’
Open my eastern chamber door, sit on my western chamber bed.
Shed my warti robe, wear my old clothes.
Open Gate, sit on a bed, Li Chen had already done these; could it be he’s going to undress next?
Thinking of this, Moo Xi shuddered and, wrapping her arms around herself, cried out, “You can’t!”
Huh?
You can’t?
Now it was Li Chen’s turn to be dumbfounded; he hadn’t done anything, so why can’t he?
Seeing she had caused a misunderstanding, Moo Xi’s face flushed with embarrassnt and she awkwardly said, “It’s nothing, you can go now!”
“Let’s check your leg injury before I leave!”
Then, he gently caught hold of Moo Xi’s ankle and sternly lectured, “How many tis have I told you not to curl up your legs like that?
It can easily lead to blood pooling which isn’t good for the wound!”
Moo Xi haughtily humd, still deliberately curling up her legs, clearly not taking Li Chen’s words to heart.
“Stretch out your leg!”
Seeing Moo Xi disobeying, Li Chen slightly exerted more strength on his wrist, forcefully straightening her curled leg.
Moo Xi didn’t expect Li Chen to be forceful, and she yelped.
“Ah, be gentle, it hurts!”
Li Chen shrugged his shoulders and said, “Who told you not to be good?”
“Humph, you know nothing about cherishing beauty!” Moo Xi grumbled resentfully, grabbing a Winnie the Pooh bear from beside the bed and ruthlessly kneading it, as if it were that jerk, Li Chen.
Seeing Moo Xi’s sowhat childish behavior, Li Chen couldn’t help but laugh.
“I’ll warm it with hot water, no need to bandage!”
“By the way, where’s the hot water in your house?”
Moo Xi pointed with her hand in annoyance and said, “Are you blind?
Can’t you see that big kettle?”
Li Chen pursed his lips, fetched a basin to hold the hot water.
He carefully tested the water temperature to make sure it wasn’t too hot, then gently began cleaning Moo Xi’s wound.
Watching Li Chen’s serious expression, a faint smile danced in Moo Xi’s clear eyes.
At this mont, her feelings were complicated.
There was joy, shyness, and excitent.
It was a sensation she had never experienced before.
Just as she was about to finish up, Li Chen suddenly burst into laughter.
Moo Xi, puzzled by his laughter, asked, “What are you laughing about?”
Li Chen shook his head and said, “Nothing much, just sothing you said earlier reminded of a song!”
Moo Xi, with her eyes already wide, widened them even more in surprise and asked, “What song?”
Li Chen replied, “Dear guest, it’s not allowed!” [Note 1]
This made Moo Xi’s already large eyes grow even wider.
“Dear guest, it’s not allowed?
What kind of song is that?”
Li Chen didn’t pay her any heed but instead started humming softly.
You’re getting closer
Your eyes, where are they looking?
Still pretending to be so calm
…
Hearing Li Chen hum these lyrics, Moo Xi felt a bit unsettled.
What?
Where am I getting closer?
My eyes were always looking at my own legs, okay?
Where was I pretending to be calm?
Li Chen looked up and saw the confused expression on Moo Xi’s face, but he offered no explanation and continued humming.
Waiter, have you got it wrong?
I don’t think I ordered this pot
Short, fat, and can’t even find the waist
…
After hearing these lyrics, Moo Xi’s eyebrows knit together, her eyes widened, her teeth clenched, and her fists tightened, feeling like punching Li Chen.
What?
Short, fat, and can’t find the waist?
Who are you insulting?
I’m 165cm tall, not a model height but not short, right?
And as for being fat, that’s even more absurd.
I weigh only 45 kilograms, which is very slim, isn’t it?
Can’t find the waist?
How blind are your eyes?
Do I really need to go looking for my slender waist?
Li Chen smiled indifferently, finishing the last few lines of the song.
Where are you now
I reminisce every day
Recalling the comical eting
Recalling the sorrowful ending
As the song ended, Moo Xi blinked her eyes and sank into deep thought.
Though the lyrics were not that great, the tune was light and cheerful, filled with the naive sweetness of first love.
At the end of the song, it depicted the feelings of two lovers reminiscing after parting, tinged with a touch of sadness.
She looked up at Li Chen with her big, watery eyes and asked, “Did you write this song?”
Li Chen instinctively shook his head, but then he thought for a mont.
It’s 2008 now, and Xu Liang released this song “Dear guest, it’s not allowed” in 2010.
Then, he nodded blankly.
Seeing Li Chen shaking his head and then nodding, Moo Xi was utterly baffled.
“So, did you write these lyrics or not?”
Li Chen raised his eyebrows and said, “Let’s just say I did!”
Clearly, Moo Xi was not quite satisfied with Li Chen’s sowhat perfunctory answer.
“Either you did or you didn’t, what do you an by ‘let’s just say’?”
Li Chen, not wanting to explain further, chuckled and said, “Alright, I’m sleepy, I’m going to sleep.
You should rest too.
Oh, and rember to apply a warm compress to your wound every two hours, it helps with blood circulation and dissipating blood stasis!”
With that, Li Chen turned to leave.
But just then, the door suddenly creaked open.
A mischievous little boy poked half his head in, his eyes wide and round, looking inside.
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