Chapter 458

Chapter 458 Come On, React Already!

Whether it’s a luxury hotel or an ordinary room, these spaces always carry a thick, ambiguous atmosphere.

Especially in a standalone villa like this one, designed with such rich tropical flair — close the door, and it becomes a completely different world from outside.

Even if you turned the place upside down in here, no one outside would ever know. This was a world that belonged to just two people.

The moment Qin Yueran closed the courtyard gate and locked it from the inside, Su Rui suddenly felt his heart pounding wildly.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the swimming pool that covered five or six hundred square meters. Against the backdrop of those shimmering blue waves, the great Master Su suddenly felt even more parched.

“I knew you were dying of thirst.” Seeing this, Qin Yueran thoughtfully produced a bottle of mineral water and handed it to Su Rui.

“I really am.”

Su Rui kept making small talk, then twisted off the cap and gulped down the entire bottle in one go.

Qin Yueran glanced at the empty bottle, then casually tossed it into the nearby trash can.

Only, at this moment, the smile on her face seemed just a little unnatural.

Alone in a room with Su Rui, she seemed nervous, yet also expectant.

This villa was the largest one available, with an especially impressive pool, and every corner exuded a deep tropical charm — only the truly wealthy could afford to stay here. Of course, someone of Qin Yueran’s status could stay as long as she pleased.

Although he had just downed a large bottle of mineral water, looking at the stunning woman beside him, Su Rui’s parched throat not only failed to improve — it actually got worse.

Qin Yueran draped one arm around Su Rui’s neck, her warm breath already landing on his face: “Go change into your swim trunks. They’re in the bedroom on the first floor.”

Su Rui swallowed hard and gave a stiff nod. “Okay.”

With temptation right before his eyes, Su Rui finally chose to go along with it, half-willingly.

Still, he consoled himself inwardly — it was just swimming with a beautiful woman, right? That wasn’t such a big deal. Compared to certain famous Hollywood actors who regularly threw wild parties surrounded by crowds of bikini-clad beauties, he was already doing far better.

Su Rui looked at the neatly arranged bedroom and the large round bed that radiated a playful, sensual vibe, and couldn’t help but feel his mind wandering.

“This is way too tempting. How is anyone supposed to handle this.”

It wasn’t as if Su Rui had never faced the temptation of a beautiful woman before, but for some reason he couldn’t quite explain, the fire in his chest today was unusually intense and hard to control.

God only knew what might happen in that pool later.

If he lost control for even a moment, then things would…

“No, stay calm, stay calm, stay calm.” Su Rui scratched his head and kept reminding himself.

The truth was, if he had truly intended to stay calm from the very beginning, he could have simply turned Qin Yueran down at the start. The fact that he was only telling himself this now was, without a doubt, a classic case of protesting too much.

Spotting another bottle of water on the nightstand, Su Rui didn’t hesitate — he twisted it open and downed it as well, hoping to douse the fire inside him.

Tangled between anxiety and anticipation, he changed into his swim trunks and walked out of the bedroom, only to come face to face with Qin Yueran in a Hawaiian-style bikini.

This was almost the first time he had ever gotten a full, unobstructed look at the legendary Queen of Junlan’s world-class legs. They looked smooth and supple, perfectly straight and slender, without a single trace of excess flesh — clean, flowing lines from top to bottom that delivered a powerful visual impact.

The narrow strip of fabric at her waist barely covered what needed to be covered, and was absolutely drenched in seductive allure.

Moving his gaze upward, he could see a defined waistline on either side of her flat, flawless abdomen, and above that, Su Rui was met with a pair of full, high curves that complemented her slender figure perfectly. The classic combination of long legs and a beautiful figure brought Qin Yueran’s body close to absolute perfection.

The tiny top was also tied with strings — one pull from behind and… Su Rui felt he could no longer think straight. He swallowed hard, and the fire in his lower abdomen was already blazing fiercely. Within just a few seconds, it had the momentum to set the whole prairie alight.

He awkwardly used his hand to cover a certain proudly standing region, his face flushed red, breathing heavily.

Strange — what was wrong with him? He had spent all of last night cuddled up with Lin Aoxue and hadn’t made a fool of himself like this. Could it really be that this standalone villa with its tropical vacation atmosphere had sent his mind wandering so completely?

“Let’s — let’s go to the pool.”

Su Rui forced the words out with great difficulty, then without so much as glancing at Qin Yueran, he strode quickly out of the living room, and when he was still four or five meters from the pool, he launched himself into the air and dove headfirst into the water.

Qin Yueran watched with quiet amusement, a sly glint flashing in her eyes, the corners of her mouth curling up slightly. Then she set those world-class legs in motion and sauntered gracefully toward the pool.

The Queen of Junlan, coveted by countless people, had laid her beautiful legs completely bare before one man’s eyes — yet this clueless fellow didn’t dare look, and instead jumped into the pool, trying to use the water to cool himself down.

“I don’t want you to cool down. Do you really think you can?” Qin Yueran murmured to herself, one foot already stepping into the water.

And at this moment, Su Rui still hadn’t surfaced.

He had been under for a full minute already, and he was still holding on.

He had no choice — Su Rui couldn’t help but stay under even if he wanted to. It seemed Qin Yueran’s allure had grown to a point where he simply couldn’t control himself. Even surrounded by cold water, it barely made a dent in the heat.

Qin Yueran walked over to where Su Rui was and nudged him with her toe.

Su Rui crouched at the bottom of the pool and refused to stand up… because the moment he did, the tent below his waist would leave him utterly mortified.

“Go down already, go down already.” Su Rui clenched his legs together and kept slapping at his “buddy,” but the latter paid absolutely no attention to his inner pleas and remained standing tall, eager to prove itself.

Seeing that Su Rui still wouldn’t get up, Qin Yueran simply extended one foot and began lightly stroking it across his back.

“Let’s see you escape my grasp today.” Qin Yueran laughed coldly to herself. She refused to believe she couldn’t measure up to Lin Aoxue.

A woman’s jealousy is always a terrifying thing. To get what they want and extinguish the jealous fire in their hearts, they can truly be more ruthless than men, more willing to use any means necessary.

Su Rui’s lung capacity was apparently frighteningly impressive — he had been crouching underwater for nearly four minutes now, and since the fire refused to die down for even a second, he simply wouldn’t come up.

But the moment Qin Yueran’s sole pressed against Su Rui’s back, he nearly fell apart.

That small, soft foot was smooth and silky, gliding slowly across his back, each movement carrying endless teasing and temptation.

“Come on, can you not play like this? I’m a man of principle, alright? I have dignity too, you know? Can’t you give a man a little initiative?”

That was what Su Rui thought, and that was what he did.

Enough was enough. There was no need to endure any further.

And so, with a surge of defiant energy, he shot to his feet, sending a spray of water into the air.

But the moment he stood up, Qin Yueran lost her balance. Her foot was still resting on his back.

With a startled cry, Qin Yueran’s body toppled toward the water.

Su Rui snapped to his senses and spun around immediately, one hand catching Qin Yueran at the waist, the other wrapping around her back, pulling her up just as she was about to go under.

Qin Yueran went with the momentum, both arms wrapping around Su Rui’s neck, her world-class legs coiling around his waist. Her entire body was now draped over him.

“Oh god.”

Feeling body pressed against body, that skin-on-skin sensation made Su Rui’s face flush scarlet.

“That was so scary. Why did you suddenly stand up?”

Clinging tightly to Su Rui’s neck and resting against his shoulder, Qin Yueran looked every bit like someone who had been genuinely frightened.

Su Rui didn’t stop to think about why the normally commanding and socially adept Queen of Junlan would be this timid right now — so shaken by a simple stumble. If Qin Yueran’s courage really were this limited, she never would have had the nerve to refuse the arranged marriage her family had set up for her, let alone run away from home for a full two years.

But at this moment, Su Rui had no time to think any of that through. This close, tight contact was genuinely about to make him explode.

Qin Yueran leaned close to Su Rui’s ear, her warm breath acting like a catalyst, continuously stoking the fire in his heart.

“I want to learn how to swim. Can you teach me?” Qin Yueran said softly, showing absolutely no intention of getting off him.

Still, she was a normal woman, and even if she had come in with certain intentions, there was no way this kind of contact with Su Rui left her completely unaffected.

Hearing Qin Yueran’s question, Su Rui said with some difficulty, “Didn’t you… didn’t you say earlier that you already know how to swim?”

Qin Yueran’s expression stiffened. “Did I say that?”

“You did. I’m sure of it.” Su Rui looked pained. Qin Yueran was holding him so incredibly tight that he almost felt like he was suffocating.

In fact, Su Rui had gotten it wrong. The one who had said she could swim was Xia Qing — Qin Yueran had never said any such thing, though… she could swim too, and was actually quite good at it. Once those long legs of hers got up to speed, most people would have a hard time keeping up.

“Then just pretend I can’t!” Qin Yueran was both embarrassed and annoyed. She opened her mouth and bit down on Su Rui’s shoulder.

Su Rui had already been at the absolute peak of parched, feverish distraction, nearly completely lost in the moment — but that bite from Qin Yueran actually snapped him back to his senses just a little.

“Come on, I’ll teach you to swim.”

Su Rui called upon his formidable willpower to overcome his desires, and actually began genuinely teaching Qin Yueran the most basic swimming movements, step by step.

Qin Yueran was internally fuming. She knew all these moves perfectly well — she could even do them better than Su Rui — but since she had pretended not to know how to swim, she had to keep up the act to the end.

“Very good, excellent — you’re so smart, you remembered it after just one try!” Su Rui covered the tent at his lower abdomen and, parched as he was, offered his sincere admiration.

In his eyes, Qin Yueran was truly a swimming prodigy.

Qin Yueran, however, felt not the slightest joy at being praised. She was internally at her wit’s end. It seemed that even a tough girl trying to play the delicate damsel had to pay a price.

“Wasn’t it supposed to be really potent? Wasn’t it supposed to make a full-grown elephant go into heat after just half a bottle?” Qin Yueran snuck a glance at Su Rui while going through the motions of learning to swim, and thought to herself: “Is this stuff fake? He’s already downed two full bottles — shouldn’t there be some kind of reaction by now?”