Chapter 47 – Danger Lurks in Every Corner

Xiao Qin’s living room was very large, almost three times as large as ours. The afternoon sun shone through the french windows, making the room appear more spacious and bright.

The wooden floor was very similar to the tiled patterns on sidewalks, which at first glance seemed to be made of stone. (TN: many places in China has stone tiled sidewalks unlike sectioned cement in NA)

As expected of the home of Xiao Qin who’s great at lying, the outer appearance and inner reality differs.

But since the floors were expensive, I changed into a pair of slippers.

“Are there any slippers I can wear?”

Just as I finished speaking, Xiao Qin suddenly kneeled in front of me and started untying my shoelaces.

“What are you doing! I asked if you have slippers, I didn’t tell you to take off my shoes!”

A girl leaning on you to help you change your shoes, what a strange feeling!

Xiao Qin felt that her behavior was natural, just as natural as a puppy retrieving slippers after their owner came home.

Long bangs blocked the expression on Xiao Qin’s face. As she moved, her sideburns and the hair behind her head shook along with it.

I was ashamed and anxious and almost reflexively tried to kick Xiao Qin.

Fortunately, I endured it, since I am a guest.

“Don’t do anything, just help me find a pair of slippers, I’ll change into it myself…”

In the blink of an eye, the lace of one foot was untied by Xiao Qin.

She reached for the other foot but accidentally hit her head against my knee.

“Sorry, Sorry!”

Xiao Qin said while moving backward with a terrified expression. It seemed like she was not scared because of the pain, but she was afraid of me getting angry because she hit my knee.

As a result, she lost her balance and fell back onto the floor.

The posture of falling was clumsy with the back of her head hitting the floor, acting nothing like the child of a martial arts family.

The position also revealed her panties.

You did that on purpose! It was definitely on purpose! Which shoujo manga taught you such a vulgar trick! Who said that when male and female MC’s meet, the girl has to fall and reveal her panties?

“It hurts…”

Xiao Qin held her head with one hand and sat up with the other hand. The posture of her legs did not change, as if she did not realize she was giving me a full clear view of her panties.

Pink, cartoon-style panties with strawberries and Hello Kitty images.

I don’t want to look at it at all. If anything is to blame, it is her unguarded posture.

She showed her last line of defense to the enemy for a long time and only then did she suddenly remember to curl up her legs. She leaned forward and covered her panties with both her hands.

She had an innocent appearance as if she did not realize her panties were completely exposed and now she is blushing and too embarrassed to talk.

However, her T-shirt’s collar gap was not small. Her posture of leaning forward slightly revealed her chest to me.

Even if she is Princess Taiping, there is not much exposed. It’s probably not even considered as inappropriate, but even this is a foul for me.

Besides, I didn’t see the strap of her bra.

If Xiao Qin was not wearing a strapless style, then there is only one possibility.

That is, she is not wearing one!

Is there really nothing under her T-shirt?

The sun was intense in the room as if it could almost penetrate Xiao Qin’s striped T-shirt.

There were no indications that she was wearing a bra.

I can’t ask about it, I feel like I will lose if I ask.

You poisonous snake that uses your body to seduce me. I really want to just send you flying!

I didn’t let her get any closer. I took off my other shoe and then glared at her, signaling that she should go get the slippers.

“Ye, Ye Lin classmate, my family’s air conditioner is very hot and many places are carpeted, so we generally don’t wear slippers!”

I noticed that she was not wearing slippers and the short-cut cotton socks with a rabbit pattern looked warm and pretty cute.

If it is hot inside why are you wearing such thick socks? Do you not like being even a bit cold? Or are you saying if you can act cute, you don’t care even if you have to torture yourself?

The temperature was a bit high, so I loosened the collar of my top and walked to the center of the living room.

My socks are white sports socks. I just changed it this morning, so it should not be dirty or sweaty.

I feel like that I’m placing too much importance on how I look in Xiao Qin’s eyes.

Shouldn’t I play ten games of basketball, then wearing stinky and sweaty socks, come and disgust her?

Forget it, for humanitarian reasons, I will not use that kind of large-scale biological weapon.

I stood in the middle of the living room and looked around.

There were two oil paintings hung on the wall. One was of a galloping white horse and the other was of the tides of the Qiantang River. Both were extremely imposing and grandeur.

The other furniture were pretty ordinary.

A fabric sofa that seated five people and directly opposite of it hung an LCD TV. It was not as big as the one in our school’s multimedia classroom, but it was not small either.

In front of the sofa, there was a round coffee table with wheels, which can be moved as you like. There were a tea set and snacks such as pistachios on top of it.

An Indian-style carpet was laid on the floor between the sofa and the TV. It should not feel cold even if you walked barefoot across it in the winter.

I noticed that on the TV cabinet under the LCD TV, in addition to the DVDs and video recorders that most people have, there was also a milky white electronic device.

Taking a closer look, isn’t this a family game console developed by Microsoft, the Xbox 360?

There were also two milky-white wireless controllers next to it.

I’m itching to play.

When I was young, I had a Nintendo NES and a Sega Genesis. Later on, many console games were played on emulators.

Even now, I would occasionally play a round of The King of Fighters ’98 with my dad. (The old man is pretty good at King of Fighters 97′, but he can’t win against me in 98′)

It seems when Xiao Qin said that she refrained from violence in reality and only played fighting games to recall, may have had some sort of truth.

Xiao Qin noticed that I was paying attention to her Xbox and had a gleeful expression.

“(*^__^*) Hey, do you want to play “Tekken 6” or “Street Fighter 4″ with me? I’m really good with Cammy!”

The Cammy she speaks of is a character in the “Street Fighter” series, a cute 16-year-old girl with two long golden braids.

However, although she is cute, she belonged to the evil Shandaloo group in the “Street Fighter” series, a female assassin working under Vega, codename “Killer Bee”.

Xiao Qin, since you like to use this character, does it imply that you are the same as her?

“No! If you wanna play, then play by yourself! I’m gonna fix the laptop!”

“o(gt;_lt;)o Don’t, let’s play together? Just for a bit! I bet Ye Lin classmate likes playing the general!”

The general she spoke of was the wicked Vega, because Vega was always dressed as a soldier with a big cap, so Chinese players called him a big policeman and some called him a general.

“Nonsense! Why would I like to play such a negative role!”

Do I have to play bad characters just because I look like a bad person? Similar to the restoration system in India? Brahman can only play Brahmin, Kshatriya can only play Kshatriya, and the Dalit can only play the Dalit? (TN: Not really sure, an Indian reference)

Xiao Qin, you counter-revolutionary that dares to go against socialism! Are you not afraid that I, as a proletariat successor, will destroy you?

“Yes, but don’t you think that it’s cute how Cammy reveres and respects the general?”

Cute my ass! Cammy was only respectful because she was brainwashed by Vega! what do you mean? Substituting yourself as Cammy, and then substituting me as Vega, do you get pleasure every day watching Cammy saluting to Vega?

That’s some serious sickness! She looked at me with hopeful eyes, wishing that I would play a few games with her. Is she going to deliberately let Cammy be knocked down by Vega to gain psychological pleasure?

Stop dreaming! Even if I really wanted to fight against you, it would be in reality, a fight to the death with the Little Tyrant!

The person who wears short skirts and doesn’t wear a bra, has long lost the qualification to confront me!

I asked her to stop with the nonsense and quickly take out the infected notebook.

Xiao Qin disappointedly went to her mother’s room and brought out an orange laptop.

I took the laptop and wanted to put it on the coffee table, but it was not that big, and it was filled with snacks.

What is even more tragic is that the nearby extension board didn’t have enough three-pronged sockets.

I looked at Xiao Qin with contempt.

“You idiot! The rest are just two-pronged sockets, I can’t plug in the laptop!”

“Sorry! Let’s go to my room! There should be enough sockets there…”

Xiao Qin hurriedly opened the door of her bedroom and waved at me to enter.

I really don’t want to go in.