Chapter 99 – Love Is Restraint

“Miss Shanshan, what’s wrong?”

“Was it too spicy?”

Lin Xi noticed Yang Shanshan’s face was flushed and her expression looked a little dazed.

Yang Shanshan looked at Lin Xi and lightly licked her lips.

Then she quickly averted her gaze and cursed herself inwardly.

Miss Lin Xi sincerely saw her as a friend, and yet she was thinking about…

She was such an animal.

“I’m going to the bathroom.”

Yang Shanshan bolted toward the bathroom as if fleeing for her life.

She had to get her desires under control first.

So she splashed cold water on her face.

It calmed her down quite a bit.

“Just an indirect kiss was already this powerful…”

“If I really got Miss Lin Xi, I’d definitely lose myself in it…”

That dangerous thought, the kind only the Queen of Lust would have, was strangled in Yang Shanshan’s mind.

“I can’t make a crude move on Miss Lin Xi.”

“This friendship was so hard to build. I can’t destroy it with my own hands.”

Yang Shanshan gave herself a thorough scolding in the mirror.

When she returned to the living room, Lin Xi asked with concern if she was okay.

Yang Shanshan nodded and said she’d accidentally bitten into a chili pepper, but she was fine now.

Lin Xi really didn’t think the food was that spicy. Maybe Yang Shanshan just wasn’t the type who ate much spice.

She felt a little embarrassed, because she was the one who had asked Yang Shanshan to add more chili.

Both the Cuddle Witch and Lin Xi liked spicy food quite a lot.

“Next time, I’ll invite you over to my place for dinner. I’ll be careful and make sure it isn’t too spicy,” Lin Xi said.

Miss Lin Xi is so considerate… Yang Shanshan thought.

After they finished eating, Lin Xi helped clean up, even though Yang Shanshan said she could handle it by herself.

Once everything was cleaned and tidied, it was time for entertainment.

The two veteran Otaku first admired the collectible figures on the bookshelf.

Lin Xi truly hadn’t expected Yang Shanshan to be secretly loaded.

Among the people she knew, Zheng Mo was the richest, followed by Xia Xun, and Yang Shanshan had now risen to third place.

After that, the two of them read manga together, chatting as they read.

At school, aside from teaching Yang Shanshan how to solve problems, Lin Xi usually talked with her about manga, anime, and the like.

As she continued looking through the manga on the shelf, Lin Xi discovered the girls’ love manga hidden in the inner row.

Yang Shanshan inwardly cried, Oh no. She hadn’t put that kind of manga away in advance. What a huge mistake.

If Miss Lin Xi thought she was a pervert, it would all be over…

She wanted to stop Lin Xi from taking it, but Lin Xi had already reached out and picked it up.

“Miss Lin Xi, that kind of manga… belongs to my little sister!” Yang Shanshan pushed her sister out as a shield.

Far away at the villa, Yang Tongtong declared: I am not taking the blame for this!

To Yang Shanshan’s surprise, Lin Xi wasn’t embarrassed at all when she saw that kind of girls’ love manga.

How could Lin Xi possibly be embarrassed? She even took it out to appreciate it properly.

“Your sister has good taste. Whether it’s the paneling or the plot, this girls’ love manga is exactly my thing.”

“Huh?!” Yang Shanshan was shocked. “Miss Lin Xi reads this kind of manga too???”

“Of course,” Lin Xi said. “I read all kinds of manga.”

In front of Yang Shanshan, Lin Xi admitted it openly.

They were both Otaku. They could absolutely understand each other.

Reading manga didn’t mean she was interested in that sort of thing. She assumed Yang Shanshan would understand.

Yang Shanshan did indeed understand.

Miss Lin Xi actually had an interest in that sort of thing!

This was amazing!!!

Based on Lin Xi’s usual behavior, Yang Shanshan had judged her to be straight.

But in reality, Miss Lin Xi liked reading girls’ love manga. That meant Miss Lin Xi wasn’t all that straight!

“Let’s read it together!” Yang Shanshan said excitedly.

Reading cuddly yuri manga with another girl-yuri vibes everywhere, and the yuri forecast was looking bright!

“Didn’t you say these belonged to your little sister?” Lin Xi asked. “I thought you didn’t read this kind of manga.”

“No,” Yang Shanshan said. “Just like you, I read all kinds of manga. That’s what makes someone a proper otaku.”

Lin Xi didn’t think too much of it.

Honestly, just reading cuddly yuri manga on her own was embarrassing enough.

Reading it together with someone else made it even more embarrassing.

But after spending so much time around that pervert Shi Yu, Lin Xi’s threshold for shame had risen dramatically.

Of course, it depended on who she was with.

If it were Zhao Xinning, Lin Xi would never dare read cuddly yuri manga in front of her.

Yang Shanshan, however, was a kindred spirit. Reading it with her was totally fine.

The two of them sat together on the beanbag sofa, pressed close as they flipped through the manga.

Lin Xi was perfectly at ease, while Yang Shanshan, the Queen of Lust, kept blushing and feeling her heart race.

Especially when they reached those spicy panels with intimate contact.

This situation was just way too…

Before Yang Shanshan knew it, her whole body had started heating up again.

“Miss Lin Xi, I’m going to the bathroom!”

The moment Yang Shanshan said that, she ran off.

Lin Xi: “???”

“Are you okay?”

“I’m fine!” Yang Shanshan had only gone to cool herself down.

If she stayed with Lin Xi any longer, that was when something really would happen!

…

“Thanks for having me,” Lin Xi said, only deciding to head back after staying until very late. “See you Monday.”

“Mm. See you.” Yang Shanshan watched Lin Xi go downstairs.

Being alone with Lin Xi was seriously way too “dangerous.”

Yang Shanshan had run to the bathroom several times, washing her face with cold water to calm herself down.

Lin Xi was the complete opposite. She found it very relaxing.

Out of all her friends, Yang Shanshan was the only one she could face without feeling nervous at all.

Of course, that was only because she didn’t know Yang Shanshan’s true identity.

If she did, Lin Xi would absolutely be scared to death.

Yang Shanshan returned to her room. Lin Xi’s tempting scent still lingered in the air.

“I finally managed to hold back today…”

Just then, her little sister Yang Tongtong contacted her.

Yang Shanshan opened the video call, and Yang Tongtong immediately asked:

“Big Sis, why is your face so red? What happened?!”

“Huh? N-nothing happened…”

“Liar! Something definitely happened.”

Yang Shanshan had no choice but to admit that she’d invited Lin Xi over for dinner.

“Just dinner?” Yang Tongtong asked. “You didn’t make a move on her?”

“Forcing yourself on Miss Lin Xi would be wrong,” Yang Shanshan said.

Yang Tongtong looked heartbroken. “Big Sis, could you please have at least a little self-awareness as the Queen of Lust?!”

“A feast delivered right to your door, and you didn’t eat?”

“You’ve completely disgraced the name of the Monarch of Lust!”

Yang Shanshan: “…”

“Tongtong, you really don’t understand what love is.”

Yang Tongtong: “???”

“Since when did my sister become a master of romance???”

Although Yang Shanshan had never been in a relationship, she had watched so much anime and read so much manga that she had come to understand a few things. She lectured her little sister:

“Infatuation is indulgence. Love is restraint.”

Yang Tongtong: “…”

“Big Sis, are you sick or something?!”

“It’s over, it’s over…” Yang Tongtong said. “How did this Lin Xi manage to conquer you instead? Is she the real Queen of Lust?”

“Sigh-” Yang Shanshan could only lament that her little sister didn’t understand love.

“I have to properly experience the most wonderful emotion humanity has to offer.”

“I think… I must have fallen in love with Miss Lin Xi…”