You're Beautiful When You Smile (Falling Into Your Smile)

Chapter 43

Tong Yao wasn't really sound asleep.

-- --To be exact, she didn't even know when and how she had fallen asleep. In the
beginning, she was just simply watching Lu Sicheng from the bedside until he had
fallen asleep. Seeing him sound in sleep, she started to feel sleepy herself. Finally,
she started to doze off. She thought she would just rest her head on the bed for a
little while since she still needed to get up later to change Lu Sicheng's wet towel......

Who knew that her improvised actions would create such a troublesome result.

Just as the plants would grow towards the light, Tong Yao, after she had fallen asleep,
automatically looked for a warmer place-- --and at the time, the heat source coming
from the person who had a fever under a warm blanket.

Well, all of this......was just her educated guess.

Soon after Lu Yue closed the door, Tong Yao woke up to the voices outside the door.
She yawned and opened her eyes in confusion. She was startled to see she was
surrounded by darkness. Thinking she had gone blind, she subconsciously stretched
out her hands to feel around in a panic. Then she touched a mass of warm and firm muscles.

Tong Yao: "?"

Tong Yao: ".........................................."

Tong Yao became even more panicked: What the hell is going on?

She was surrounded by an unfamiliar, masculine smell. She remained in the same
position as she had woken up, stunned and dazed-- --The man whose chest she had
just groped also woke up once again from the disturbance. Lu Sicheng opened his
eyes in frustration, then he felt something curled up between his arms.

It was a mass of something soft and fuzzy.

And his hand was right on her waistline at the moment.

Lu Sicheng paused for a moment, took his hand away, then calmly lifted the blanket.
He looked down and met another pair of black pupils which were raised up to look at
him-- --The pupils were as innocent as those of a deer that had ran right in front of the
headlights of a car on a highway at night, sparkling yet helpless. Though everyone
would agree that the deer couldn't blame anyone since it ran onto the highway in the
middle of the night in the first place.

Lu Sicheng: "......"

Tong Yao: "......"

If Tong Yao ever wanted to give herself an award for the most embarrassing moment
of her life, this would be that moment without a doubt.

Tong Yao: "I......"

Before she could say anything, Lu Sicheng put his index finger on his lips to hush her.
She stopped herself and felt his big hand patting her head for a few times. The blanket
was covering both of them again, her surrounding was in darkness again. She heard a
light noise on the doorknob and the door was carefully pushed open from outside.
Tong Yao's back stiffened.

"What?"

She heard Lu Sicheng ask in a low voice. His chest vibrated and the sound was right
next to her ear.

The man at the door kept quiet, not quite sure how to respond to Lu Sicheng's
straightforwardness. After a short pause, the man asked: "Cheng Ge, you're awake.
I thought you would still be asleep, haha."

It was Xiao Rui.

From the tone of his voice, it was obvious that he was asking another question: You
better get up and explain that mass on your bed! ! ! ! ! !

Faced with Xiao Rui, Lu Sicheng only answered with an "oh," then he lifted the blanket
again. He looked down to the pair of nervous eyes staring back at him, then quietly
pulled the blanket back over.

He reported to the man at the door: "Be quiet. She's still sleeping."Tong Yao used both of her hands to grab his collar, but Lu Sicheng didn't waver: "Her
bed got dirty and she came over to hunker down at my place. What's all the fuss about?"

Xiao Rui stood at the door, with disbelief written all over his face: "You do
know there are many empty beds in addition to yours and her own bed in
the base?"

Lu Sicheng: "She's afraid she'll soil other people's beds."

By this time, no one could conceal their curiosity anymore and they all swarmed
around the door. Lu Yue stretched his head inside the room: "Haven't you heard
of the saying that a man and a woman shouldn't have improper physical contact?[1]
Ge, it's really hard to believe that you're so quiet all the time but, without anyone
noticing, you got an underaged girl onto your bed......"

Lu Sicheng: "She's 19."

Little Fatty: "Is that the issue?"

Ming god: "It's not the issue."

Lu Yue: "Oh, so it's not against the law if she's an adult?"

Xiao Rui: "Ahhhhhhhh, damn, Cheng Ge, you're an animal. How am I going to
explain to her family-- --It's not ok, not. Wake her up first!"

Lu Sicheng lightly snickered and asked a question in reply: "How?"

His frivolous snicker was not only provocative but also quite wicked.

Under the blanket, Tong Yao released her shaky hands from Lu Sicheng's collar-- --
Lu Sicheng still had a fever and it seemed that he had developed another personality
under the influence of said fever. Tong Yao's face turned red when her heard the question......

If she could see all the others at the doorway, she would've seen that no one fared
better than her-- --Even Xiao Rui, the team manager, was so stunned by his question
that he stepped back a step......

Little Fatty held his cell phone in his trembling hands, punched in 110, and put his
finger on the dial key: "......Talk nicely. Or I'll call the police."

"You all get out first." Lu Sicheng flatly said: "I'll wake her up in awhile."The ones standing around the door looked at each other. Though they all agreed that
"Yeah, let's go." "Otherwise it would be so embarrassing," "Let's go, let's go," none of
them moved an inch as if they had taken root......

Lu Sicheng called out again: "Little Fatty." Little Fatty quivered, pathetically glanced
the inside of the room and muttered: "Like this isn't my room too." Then he reluctantly
closed the door-- --

The door closed, Lu Sicheng lifted the blanket and briefly said to the one inside:
"Get up." Tong Yao immediately jumped up like a grasshopper and climbed down
from Lu Sicheng's bed with both hands and feet. Before she could steady herself:
"I, I, I, I'm so sorry, ahhhh, Cheng Ge. Damn, I fell asleep and felt cold and started
to climb up in the confusion......"

Lu Sicheng yawned, also got out of the blanket, coughed a couple times, then slowly
said: "In ancient times, wouldn't your actions warrant being drowned in a pig cage?"[2]

Tong Yao's voice abruptly stopped.

The reddened face suddenly turned pale. Her lips quivered and said in a low voice:
"Very likely." Then she bit her lips and dejectedly lowered her head, ready to apologize
again.

Lu Sicheng glanced at her.

"Or should I get ready to marry you the 801st time."

"?"

"You can really stir up some trouble. You aren't here to swindle betrothal gifts, are you?"

"....................................."[1]: A line attributed to Mengzi (孟子), also known as Mencius, - 男女授受不亲
(nan nu shou shou bu qin).[2]: 浸猪笼，an illegal punishment popular in Ming and Qing times for adultery.