Chapter 474: What Color Stockings Do You Like?
Yu Li’s voice trembled.
’A cockroach?’
Jiang Xinghai put a hand to his forehead and gave a wry smile.
’Does every woman have this innate, indescribable fear of cockroaches?’
"I’m coming!"
Jiang Xinghai got up and walked over. He could just imagine the look of terror that must be on Yu Li’s beautiful face.
He rushed into the bedroom and saw Yu Li huddled in a corner, her stunningly beautiful back completely bare.
Her fair skin, the elegant curve of her spine, her slender waist, the gentle swell of her hips...
"Over there! I can still see half of it!" Yu Li’s eyes were filled with terror as she pointed at the wardrobe.
Jiang Xinghai followed her gaze.
Sure enough, in the corner by the wardrobe, a cockroach’s antennae were twitching incessantly. It was, admittedly, a little nauseating.
"Don’t be afraid. I’m here." With a flick of his finger, Jiang Xinghai sent a silver needle flying.
SWISH!
The cockroach was pinned to the wooden floor, instantly going still.
Seeing this, Yu Li let out a sigh of relief.
Jiang Xinghai grabbed a few tissues and wrapped the dead cockroach in them. "You can finish getting changed. I’ll go throw this out."
"Don’t go."
Yu Li’s body was still trembling. "I’m scared another one will show up. Can you stay with me?"
"But you’re changing. It isn’t right for me to be in here."
Jiang Xinghai held up the tissue-wrapped bundle. "Besides, I’m still holding this. You probably don’t want it around. Don’t worry, I’ll be right back. I’ll wait just outside the door, okay?"
"Miss, what’s wrong?"
Just then, Nanny Wu, the housekeeper, hurried upstairs.
"Nanny Wu, there was a cockroach! Please take this from Mr. Jiang and get rid of it," Yu Li said quickly.
"I clean the room every day. It’s my fault for not being thorough enough. Please forgive me, Miss." Nanny Wu looked embarrassed as she took the bundle from Jiang Xinghai’s hand.
With that, she took the bundle and turned to leave. "Don’t you worry, Miss. I’ll come back and clean the room again thoroughly in a bit."
It felt awkward for Jiang Xinghai to just stand there, so he prepared to leave.
"Mr. Jiang, please stay with me? I’m really worried another one will show up," Yu Li said, her expression pained.
Jiang Xinghai hesitated for a moment. "Alright. I’m going to wash my hands in your bathroom first, is that okay?"
"Of course," Yu Li nodded quickly.
Jiang Xinghai went into the bathroom and washed his hands.
’A sliver of doubt lingered in his mind. Could a single cockroach really frighten Yu Li, a cultivator at the Master Realm, this badly?’
’Something about this didn’t seem so simple.’
Before he could even dry his hands, he heard another shriek from Yu Li outside the door.
"There really is another one!" Yu Li’s voice was filled with desperation.
Jiang Xinghai rushed back in. "Don’t be afraid, I’m here."
Yu Li leaped up and threw herself into Jiang Xinghai’s arms, pointing at a pair of nude-colored stockings on the floor. "It’s under my... my stockings..."
"Miss Yu, maybe you should get down first?" Jiang Xinghai said, at a loss for words as he patted her shoulder.
"No! You have to get rid of the cockroach first," Yu Li whined, wriggling her slender body against his.
This was pure torture.
After all, Yu Li had been in the middle of changing.
And on top of that, she was only wearing a small, black pair of panties.
And nothing else.
Pressing herself against Jiang Xinghai like this put the man in an incredibly awkward position.
"Miss Yu, you have to at least consider how this feels for me, don’t you?"
The awkward thing for Jiang Xinghai was that, because he cultivated the Dragon Locking Secret Technique, he had absolutely no resistance to women.
And now, he was already having a physical reaction.
Perhaps Yu Li felt a certain... unfamiliar object, because her pretty face instantly flushed crimson. Yet she showed no intention of getting down. "Am I too heavy? Are you getting tired?"
"I wouldn’t say tired," Jiang Xinghai sighed to himself.
’Was Yu Li genuinely oblivious to the boundaries between men and women, or was she just playing dumb?’
"Then just hold me a little longer while you get the cockroach," Yu Li whispered, her breath warm against his ear.
Jiang Xinghai was on the verge of tossing the woman onto the bed and exercising his manly rights.
But in the end, he steeled his resolve, his gaze falling on the stockings scattered on the floor.
"There’s nothing under the stockings. You must have been mistaken." With his left hand supporting Yu Li’s rear, Jiang Xinghai stepped forward.
He waved his right hand, and a small gust of air lifted the stockings off the floor and into his grasp.
"Maybe it scurried into another corner," Yu Li guessed.
"Why don’t you finish getting dressed? I’ll have another look for you," Jiang Xinghai said reassuringly.
Only then did Yu Li slowly slide down from Jiang Xinghai’s arms and walk toward the wardrobe.
Her stunning figure was soon clad in a white, off-the-shoulder top.
Jiang Xinghai held out the stockings. "Your stockings."
"A cockroach crawled on these. I’d better get a different pair."
Yu Li glanced back with a smile. "What color stockings do you like?"
"I like..."
Jiang Xinghai froze for a second. "The black ones, then."
’Few men could resist the temptation of black stockings.’
’And he was no exception.’