Chapter 26

Should We Sleep on Call?

As the clock struck midnight, Lin Senmu and Jiang Yuan stopped playing games. One was in a hotel, the other at home, and they both mentioned they were going to take a shower.

After returning, neither of them felt sleepy, so they lay in bed chatting on their phones.

“Lin Senmu, don’t tell me you’re not washing your socks and boxer briefs again!”

Jiang Yuan strongly condemned his habit of letting his socks and underwear pile up for days before washing them.

“Do you want to wash them for me? Sure! Send me your address, and I’ll mail them to you!”

Lin Senmu enthusiastically answered his own question.

“??? Lin Senmu, I’m going to kill you!”

Jiang Yuan was utterly defeated by his response. He actually wanted to mail them to her for washing?

By the time they arrived, they’d be moldy! How could she wash them then?

Ugh, I’m not going to wash them for him!

“If you don’t want to wash them for me, why are you so obsessed with my socks and underpants?”

Lin Senmu was smug, knowing she couldn’t hit him from afar.

“I’m reminding you to pay attention to hygiene! Letting them pile up for days breeds bacteria, and you’ll be the one wearing them!”

Jiang Yuan sent three little fist emojis, feeling like she had already scolded Lin Senmu.

“Alright, alright, I washed them!”

Lin Senmu stopped joking. He had already washed his personal items today.

During their trip to the western regions, he had been driving long distances and walking a lot every day, leaving him too exhausted to do laundry daily, so he decided to wash them every two days.

“Mhm.”

Jiang Yuan suddenly remembered something. “Lin Senmu, how much did we spend during those days we traveled to the western regions?”

Lin Senmu asked, “Why?”

Jiang Yuan replied, “The refund for the tour fee you helped me with just came through. I’ll transfer you the expenses for those days we traveled together.”

“No need!”

Lin Senmu’s father was an entrepreneur, and that alone made his personal savings quite substantial. His mother’s job also had excellent benefits. Plus, he had received red envelope money since he was a child.

“Don’t say no! Let’s split it. You paid for the car rental, and you bought all the attraction tickets back then.”

Jiang Yuan didn’t want to spend Lin Senmu’s money. She didn’t know about his family’s financial situation and worried that he might not have enough money for himself.

After all, most people their age didn’t have much money.

Moreover, her parents had instilled in her the value of not spending boys’ money, which had become a deeply ingrained principle.

“Really, it’s fine!”

Lin Senmu wasn’t short on money and didn’t want to discuss this with the girl he liked!

Jiang Yuan insisted, “Come on, tell me how much I should transfer you, or I won’t play with you anymore.”

This silly girl, even resorting to threats!

Lin Senmu roughly guessed her thoughts and decided not to dwell on it. After thinking for a moment, he said, “Then transfer me 520!”

“What? How much is it really?”

Jiang Yuan was both embarrassed and annoyed. How could it be such an ambiguous number?

“1314!”

Lin Senmu felt that Jiang Yuan on the other end of the phone must look especially cute at this moment.

“It’s the middle of the night, stop flirting!”

Jiang Yuan warned fiercely, “Tell me the exact amount, and we’ll split it half and half!”

“600, that’s about it.”

Lin Senmu only calculated the attraction tickets for those days and didn’t split the car rental and fuel costs with her.

“Isn’t that too little?”

Jiang Yuan was skeptical. They had visited so many places and eaten so much delicious food—how could it only be a few hundred yuan?

“Yuan Yuan, what’s our relationship? Why are you splitting it so meticulously?”

Lin Senmu was a bit unhappy.

 Upon seeing this sentence, Jiang Yuan’s mind conjured up the video scene, and she retorted with a mix of embarrassment and annoyance, “We have no relationship at all!!!”

“We have a very big relationship!”

This time, it was Lin Senmu’s turn to ignore her protests.

“Lin Senmu, I really want to bite you, you know?”

Jiang Yuan was furious.

“Come on, I’ll be waiting for you in Xiangchu Star City, rain or shine!”

Lin Senmu provocatively challenged, daring her to come so he could carry her back as his Chieftain’s wife.

“You’re a bad person, I won’t come!”

Jiang Yuan was somewhat tempted by the idea of going to Xiangchu. Recalling her journey to the Western Regions, the happiest thing was meeting this boy.

But now, her parents were keeping a close eye on her, and she couldn’t sneak out to travel alone again!

“Sigh, you won’t let me come to Jiangnan, and you won’t come to Xiangchu. I wonder if we’ll ever meet again!”

Lin Senmu was genuinely feeling a bit melancholy. He really wanted to see Jiang Yuan again.

“I…”

Jiang Yuan’s big eyes also showed confusion. At this age, she couldn’t decide her direction or her tomorrow.

For a moment, the two who had been chatting animatedly fell into silence.

Lin Senmu flipped through the photo album, reminiscing about the person in the pictures. He was afraid that with time, they would drift apart until they forgot each other’s faces.

Jiang Yuan hid under the covers, quietly reading their chat history.

After a while, seeing the recent content, Jiang Yuan entered 600 yuan into the transfer function.

She wanted to talk to Lin Senmu, so she used this to break the silence, “Lin Senmu, I’ll transfer the amount you mentioned earlier!”

“Thank you, Boss Jiang. Would you like an All-inclusive service?”

When Lin Senmu received the payment, he thought of Nie Hao’s mention of an All-inclusive service, which was roughly this price.

Although he hadn’t experienced it himself, he didn’t mind being Jiang Yuan’s Exclusive technician for once.

“What’s an All-inclusive service?”

Jiang Yuan asked in confusion. How would a young girl like her know about such things?

Lin Senmu scratched his head, “I’m not too sure either, probably something like Foot massage and the like!”

“Ah!”

Jiang Yuan exclaimed, both embarrassed and anxious, “Lin Senmu, how could he have such a hobby!”

She quietly hid her little feet under the covers. She had intended to scold him as usual, but thinking of the previous incident, she bit her lip and said, “Wait until winter break!”

Lin Senmu perked up immediately, “What do you mean? We’ll meet during winter break!”

“Mmm~”

Jiang Yuan replied, but in her heart, she thought, we’ll meet, but nothing else!

“You tricked me with a pair of Aces!”

Lin Senmu emphasized again.

“It’s not A!”

Jiang Yuan secretly glanced at herself, hmph, she clearly had something!

They chatted for a while longer, and it got very late.

Jiang Yuan yawned, “Lin Senmu, I’m getting sleepy!”

“Goodnight, Yuan Yuan!”

Lin Senmu was a bit reluctant; he still wanted to chat with Jiang Yuan.

“Goodnight, Lin Senmu!”

After saying goodnight, Jiang Yuan was about to sleep when she suddenly received a voice message from Lin Senmu. She asked curiously, “What’s up?”

“Yuan Yuan!”

Lin Senmu called her name.

“Speak up!”

Jiang Yuan urged, feeling a bit annoyed. Lin Senmu sent a voice message but didn’t say anything, and she was sleepy!

Lin Senmu coughed, “Yuan Yuan, do you want to sleep on call?”

“No!”

Jiang Yuan was actually tempted, but it was her first time doing something like this with a boy, so she had to be a bit reserved!

“Baby, baby!”

Lin Senmu started his usual routine.

Recently, he had been calling Jiang Yuan ‘baby,’ and she had gotten used to it, so she didn’t object anymore.

“Who, who is your baby, huh?” Jiang Yuan said shyly.

“What baby? I clearly called you ‘bao,’ with two tones of ‘bao’!” Lin Senmu had paused and spaced out the two ‘bao’ calls earlier, so now he was able to maneuver with ease.

He threw out a trick within a trick, “No way, could it be that you want to be my baby?”

“Alright, I agree, Yuan Yuan Baby!” Lin Senmu spoke incessantly, cutting off any chance for Jiang Yuan to say ‘no.’

This move of his was operating on a whole different level.