Chapter 022
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Chapter 022 Checking the Room
Due to Lin Fuzhang having already spoken to Wei Shuling beforehand, the latter wasn’t particularly surprised and simply said: “We’ll have to trouble young Su to thoroughly check our Aoxue’s room, not just the room itself, but also the wardrobes, drawers, and such. Oh, and don’t forget the dressing room, those little corners…”
This was openly giving Su Rui an excuse to rummage through everything! This mother-in-law was truly being helpful!
Lin Aoxue looked helplessly resigned. Her mother was being too careless. Checking drawers and cabinets? Those contained personal items that shouldn’t be seen by others, especially not by this rogue!
“No problem, I won’t miss a single corner,” Su Rui said with a smile, giving Lin Aoxue a meaningful look. His eyes gleamed with a conspiratorial light!
As soon as Lin Aoxue’s bedroom door opened, a faint fragrance gently entered Su Rui’s nostrils. He took a deep breath, wondering about this scent that was also present in Lin Aoxue’s office. It definitely wasn’t any perfume. Could it be—Lin Aoxue’s natural body fragrance?
Su Rui took another breath, and indeed, the delicate fragrance wafting from Lin Aoxue’s body was clearly captured by his nose!
This was truly amazing. He had never before met a woman with such a natural fragrance!
The room was very tidy and spotless, much as Su Rui had imagined. It seemed Lin Aoxue was also meticulous in her personal life.
But—wasn’t that exhausting?
“How about this: you wait downstairs, and I’ll handle the inspection myself,” Su Rui blocked Lin Aoxue at the doorway.
“No way. This is my room, and I must keep an eye on you,” Lin Aoxue refused to leave. What if Su Rui peeked at her underwear?
“Fine, but I must state in advance that all my actions are for inspection purposes, and you can’t interfere,” Su Rui said. “And as per your mother’s request, I must thoroughly check places like the dressing room.”
Lin Aoxue was seething with anger. This guy was purely making excuses for himself.
“What, not happy?”
Su Rui smiled and moved closer to Lin Aoxue: “It’s just the two of us here. Why don’t we settle our bet now?”
At the mention of the bet, Lin Aoxue’s face instantly turned red, making her look extremely beautiful and charming.
She wouldn’t give Su Rui such an opportunity. After calling him a “pervert,” she turned and left the bedroom, closing the door behind her!
Su Rui chuckled and immediately locked the door!
Lin Aoxue realized something was wrong only after leaving. She quickly tried to turn the doorknob, but it wouldn’t budge! This gave him the perfect opportunity to “rummage through everything”!
“Damn it, I fell for it!” Lin Aoxue stomped her foot in frustration outside the door.
However, Lin Aoxue seemed to think of something and turned toward the adjacent study.
In the study was a laptop. After opening it and pressing a few keys, she brought up a surveillance interface!
The surveillance screen displayed images from her bedroom!
This extremely discreet camera had been installed at Lin Fuzhang’s insistence last year for safety reasons. Every room in the villa had one. The camera was disguised as a screw on the lampshade, making it nearly impossible to detect even upon close inspection!
Lin Fuzhang’s security awareness was truly impressive!
Lin Aoxue had strongly objected to her father’s request—who installs cameras in their daughter’s room? But she couldn’t win the argument, and Lin Fuzhang had the final say, though only Lin Aoxue could access the surveillance footage.
All this time, Lin Aoxue had hardly remembered the camera’s existence, but today she had a flash of inspiration and wanted to see exactly what Su Rui was doing.
Although Su Rui had an electronic device detector, the instrument wasn’t entirely reliable. If anti-detection equipment had been installed on listening devices, the detector wouldn’t find them.
Therefore, searching thoroughly was necessary. Only what one saw with their own eyes and touched with their own hands could be trusted. Of course, any inappropriate things seen during the search process would just be considered payment for the trouble.
Su Rui opened the first drawer by the bed, which contained simple bedtime skincare products. Nothing special there.
The second drawer contained women’s intimate apparel and monthly necessities. Su Rui looked at these undergarments, imagining Lin Aoxue wearing them, and chuckled, his eyes seeming to brighten.
If anyone could have seen him, they would have been surprised to find that Su Rui’s somewhat lecherous smile contained no trace of desire—it was just a simple smile!
If it had been any other man looking at these colorful, lace-trimmed, faintly fragrant garments, they would surely have been excited to the point of nosebleed!
“This bastard!”
When Lin Aoxue saw Su Rui opening the drawer with her clothes through the surveillance screen, she trembled with anger, her fists clenched so tightly that her nails seemed to dig into her flesh!
Lin Aoxue was certain that Su Rui’s next move would be to pick up those garments and lewdly sniff them!
She knew this guy was no good!
However, things developed differently than Lin Aoxue had anticipated. Su Rui simply searched briefly and then closed the drawer, showing no lingering interest in those fragrant garments, not even giving them a second glance.
This was quite unexpected for Lin Aoxue. She unclenched her fists, which had turned white from the pressure. What was going on? Shouldn’t Su Rui be the type of person who would act differently? Wasn’t he supposed to be a vulgar, shameless, unprincipled pervert?
Lin Aoxue puzzledly watched Su Rui on the surveillance screen, quite confused.
Su Rui inspected very thoroughly, checking every drawer and corner meticulously, even crawling under Lin Aoxue’s bed to look for anything unusual.
After a full half hour, Su Rui finally finished the inspection, covered in sweat.
If he had to check every room this way, it would exhaust him completely.
Seeing the sweat on Su Rui’s forehead, Lin Aoxue remained silent, her flickering eyes revealing a trace of complex emotions.
Seeing that Su Rui was about to come out, Lin Aoxue quickly turned off the computer and waited outside the bedroom door.
“How was the inspection?”
As the door opened, Lin Aoxue surprisingly took the initiative to ask.
Su Rui wiped his sweat and said with surprise: “Is the sun rising from the west? Shouldn’t you be questioning whether I peeked at your underwear or something?”
Lin Aoxue’s expression froze. Indeed, logically, she certainly shouldn’t be showing such a “friendly” expression toward Su Rui!
“You definitely peeked, I don’t even need to guess,” Lin Aoxue said coldly, trying to appear composed. What she didn’t realize was that two patches of red had already climbed onto her cheeks, making her incredibly attractive.
Su Rui stared for a moment, then chuckled without pursuing the matter further.
By the time Su Rui had finished checking all the rooms, it was already 10:30 PM.
Seeing him covered in sweat, Lin Fuzhang and Wei Shuling thanked him profusely, feeling quite apologetic, and both insisted that Su Rui stay overnight.
“Brother Su, we have plenty of guest rooms. Why not stay tonight? It’s too late now, and it’s not safe.”
“Yes, look how much help Su has given us tonight. We must have him stay over,” Wei Shuling added. She now found everything about Su Rui appealing. Hardworking, accomplished young people like him were rare these days.
“Well, if Aoxue agrees, I have no objection,” Su Rui said, giving Lin Aoxue another challenging look.
“I don’t agree,” Lin Aoxue said coldly. “I don’t want a pervert staying in my home.”
After being at a disadvantage in front of Su Rui earlier, Lin Aoxue was eager to regain the upper hand.
“Aoxue, what’s wrong with you?” Lin Fuzhang was getting a headache seeing his daughter being impolite to Su Rui again. Were his daughter and Su Rui born enemies? Why were they still at odds from the moment they met?
After witnessing Su Rui’s extraordinary skills, Lin Fuzhang was thoroughly impressed and wanted him to provide full-time protection for his daughter. With him around, Lin Fuzhang would feel secure about the villa’s safety. Even top international assassins would probably be no match for him.
But Lin Aoxue’s attitude was most important. If she disagreed, not even nine oxen could make her change her mind. This girl, how did she develop such a personality? It was truly headache-inducing.
Lin Aoxue remained firm: “I just don’t want him staying overnight.”
“Well…” Lin Fuzhang looked troubled.
Su Rui didn’t mind: “Brother Lin, Sister Wei, you should rest early. I’ll just take a taxi back.”
“That won’t do! I’ll arrange for a driver to take you. Aoxue, go see Brother Su off,” Lin Fuzhang said, patting Su Rui’s shoulder.
Lin Aoxue wanted to object, but she saw her parents already closing the door to the living room. She clearly saw that before her father closed the door, he seemed to wink at Su Rui.
What was going on? Her father actually made such a gesture! Lin Aoxue rubbed her eyes, thinking she must have seen wrong.
“Let’s go, see me out,” Su Rui chuckled. He wasn’t afraid of Lin Aoxue refusing, after all, he still had leverage over this girl. There would be plenty of fun in the days ahead!
Lin Aoxue remained silent, walking quietly beside Su Rui.
“I must remind you, Sister Aoxue, don’t forget our bet,” Su Rui annoyingly reminded her.
Lin Aoxue’s steps faltered as she gritted her teeth and said, “I won’t let you succeed.”
“But you said you’d honor the bet. Why are you going back on your word now? Can’t you accept losing?” Su Rui said with a smile.
Lin Aoxue truly wasn’t good at arguing with Su Rui, and in this matter, she was clearly in the wrong. She steeled herself, deciding to simply refuse outright, and coldly said, “No, no matter what, you’re not allowed to do that.”
“I won’t do it now, but that doesn’t mean I won’t in the future. Let’s put it on hold,” Su Rui chuckled. “Sister Aoxue, I should remind you, when we made the bet, we said ‘spank once,’ but we didn’t specify how many times that ‘once’ included!”
