Chapter 458

Early the next morning—

A roar erupted from Li Xiao's room early in the morning.

"Who told you to hold me while you slept last night!"

As soon as Cai Xiaotang opened her eyes and saw the man's face looming over her, she didn't hesitate for a second to kick him away and spring out of bed!

Li Xiao opened his eyes speechlessly, looked at the daylight outside, and was filled with helplessness.

"It's a good thing this house is soundproof, otherwise Jiang Baobao would have definitely heard that shout of yours just now..."

Li Xiao muttered hoarsely, not wanting to say another word, and turned to bury himself under the covers.

Cai Xiaotang looked at him with sudden curiosity and picked up her phone to check the time.

"Hey, do mob bosses sleep in too? Time to get up!"

Seeing that he seemed very sleepy, Cai Xiaotang was suddenly struck by a mischievous thought.

Li Xiao replied muffledly from under the covers: "Why can't I..."

Hearing this, Cai Xiaotang immediately leaned into his ear on purpose: "Aren't you supposed to get up early, put on a black suit, wear sunglasses, call all your henchmen together, give them a lecture, and then go out to collect protection money?"

Li Xiao: "..."

His tolerance for this woman was truly high.

He hadn't thrown her out yet.

Seeing that he wasn't speaking, Cai Xiaotang became even more spirited, deliberately pulling him out from under the covers and asking unhappily: "You still haven't told me why you held me while you slept yesterday! Didn't we draw a boundary line? Who told you to cross it!"

"Why don't you think about what you did last night?"

Li Xiao finally lifted his eyes helplessly, and while speaking, he rolled up his sleeve and pointed to his arm: "I was sleeping perfectly fine in the middle of the night when you kicked me off the bed and I hit the table. How do you plan to explain that? If I didn't hold onto you, I don't know how many times I would have been beaten by you throughout the night."

Seeing the obvious bruise on his arm, Cai Xiaotang froze for a moment, her expression gradually becoming awkward.

"This... I..."

She stammered, only then realizing belatedly that her sleeping habits didn't seem to be very good...

But surely they weren't so outrageous that she would kick someone right out of bed?

Cai Xiaotang grumbled to herself, not wanting to lose the upper hand, and retorted ungraciously: "Maybe it's because I changed beds and wasn't used to it, and besides, you were the one who asked me to stay here. It's not my fault I was dreaming all night... dreaming that an octopus was wrapped around me..."

"An octopus?"

Li Xiao looked at the person in front of him with amusement and couldn't help but counter: "I was going to say that someone was up to no good last night, but with all that tossing and turning, who was really taking advantage of whom?"

"Of course you were taking advantage of me! Stop acting like you're the victim when you're the one who benefited!"

Cai Xiaotang glared at him instantly, picked up the pillow beside her in annoyance, and threw it at Li Xiao!

Then, the next second—

"Clang!"

Her hand slammed against the bed frame, making a loud, dull thud!

"Hiss—"

The pillow in Cai Xiaotang's hand fell onto the bed.

She immediately clutched her hand and couldn't help but gasp in pain.

The accident happened too suddenly.

Even Li Xiao hadn't reacted in time.

When he came to his senses, he saw Cai Xiaotang biting her lip, looking like she was in a lot of pain.

"Where did you hit it? Let me see..."

Li Xiao immediately leaned over, torn between laughter and tears, wanting to take a look for her.

But Cai Xiaotang reacted quickly, turning to the side and saying haughtily: "I don't need your help. I hit my hand, so we're even for what happened last night!"

As she spoke, she carefully lifted her hand to examine the back of it.

Only then did she realize that she had accidentally hit the sharp edge of the carved woodwork, scraping off a layer of skin and causing it to turn red.

"Let me see."

Li Xiao wanted to pull her hand over, feeling uneasy.

Cai Xiaotang continued to resist, trying to push him away: "No! I said I'm fine, you..."

"Rip!"

Both of them froze in place again.

Li Xiao felt a chill on his chest, and then he saw that two buttons on his pajamas had actually been ripped right off!

And Cai Xiaotang's hand was caught right on the collar of his pajamas.

The atmosphere suddenly solidified for a moment.

Cai Xiaotang hadn't expected such an "accident" either, and she was momentarily dazed.

Did she... use that much force just now?

Or was the quality of this guy's pajamas just that poor, breaking with a simple tug!

Cai Xiaotang stood there blankly, with only a burning pain in her hand.

Then she heard the person in front of her suddenly say: "Does this count as making up for what you didn't see last night? So... in the end, you were the one who took advantage of me?"

As Li Xiao spoke, he curled his lips and leaned in closer, lowering his voice and asking ambiguously: "Are you... satisfied with what you saw?"

Cai Xiaotang suddenly felt a wave of panic, and her ears turned bright red.

"Who wants to see that! You pervert!"

She shoved him away, turned and jumped out of bed without looking back, pulled open the door, and ran out.

Her face was already flushed completely red.

Li Xiao watched her run away with amusement, then looked down at his torn pajamas, and suddenly couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in a good mood.

Why did he feel... that being woken up early today didn't seem to make him feel very annoyed?

Cai Xiaotang dashed all the way into one of the bathrooms on the second floor.

With a "bang," she shut the door, and only then did she take a sharp breath.

Immediately, she subconsciously looked at herself in the mirror and suddenly froze for a moment.

Why was her face so red?

Could it be because of what happened just now?

Cai Xiaotang was shocked, slapped her cheeks hard, and hurriedly turned on the cold water, attempting to "physically cool down."

And she kept comforting herself in her heart: What is there to blush about?

It's just seeing a bit of pectoral muscle!

She had seen male models more revealing than this!

In front of Li Xiao, she couldn't let her momentum be weaker than his in anything!

Otherwise, wouldn't his ego just soar to the heavens?

Cai Xiaotang tried hard to calm her emotions, tidied herself up a bit, and only then walked out of the bathroom and went straight downstairs.

She didn't expect that as soon as she went downstairs, she would see that Jiang Baobao had already prepared breakfast.

"Baobao, why are you making breakfast? There are chefs here, why not sleep in a little longer?"

Cai Xiaotang hurriedly walked over quickly.

Jiang Baobao smiled and explained, "I couldn't sleep anyway, and I felt like I was troubling you, so I didn't know what else I could do, and just borrowed the kitchen..."

Her voice had just trailed off when she saw someone walking down the stairs out of the corner of her eye.

Cai Xiaotang also subconsciously turned around, and her pupils suddenly dilated.

She saw Li Xiao still wearing the same pajamas from before, with the buttons left undone just like that, walking straight down!

Jiang Baobao also subconsciously looked over, and seeing that his pants were clearly torn, she hurriedly averted her gaze, as thoughts unsuitable for children instantly flashed through her mind.

This... Li Xiao's clothes...

She should just leave after eating breakfast!

Being a third wheel between a newlywed couple was just too inappropriate!