Chapter 450: Undressing Mahjong

For those who don't often play mahjong, the speed of drawing and playing tiles is relatively slow.

If no one wins a big hand, it basically takes about half an hour to complete one round, meaning one person runs out of fifty chips.

They started playing at seven p. m., and originally, according to Li Luo's plan, two hours would be enough for about four rounds.

That is, at most, four pieces of clothing would be removed.

By now it was evening, and they were all wearing outer coats, plus short-sleeved shirts and pants, plus two pairs of socks—there was no way things would get too extreme.

But when the first round ended, Xu Youyu ran out of chips, and her next move made Li Luo lose his composure.

She grinned at Li Luo, then stood up from her chair and silently slipped her hands into her skirt.

After waking up in the evening, she had changed into a new outfit, wearing a short skirt below.

As Xu Youyu's hands slipped inside, Li Luo watched helplessly as she bent forward and gently lifted her legs.

Soon after, a pure white undergarment was gently hung on the armrest of the chair.

"I'm done," Xu Youyu winked at Li Luo, a smile playing on her lips.

Li Luo helplessly covered his forehead.

Beside him, Yan Zhusheng looked thoughtful, while Ying Chanxi across from him blushed deeply, stunned by how far Xu Youyu was willing to go.

"Are you sure you locked the door?" Li Luo stared at the white item and asked Yan Zhusheng again.

"Locked," Yan Zhusheng nodded seriously. "Don't worry."

The second round of mahjong ended.

Both Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng had lost all their chips.

Li Luo silently took off his outer coat, and as he watched Yan Zhusheng stand up and mimic Xu Youyu by reaching for her waist, his face darkened.

"You're wearing pants!"

"Yeah," Yan Zhusheng nodded, pulling off her jeans and hanging them on the chair's armrest. "Let's start with this."

"You've got a coat on and you're choosing to take off your pants? Are you serious?" Li Luo said, dumbfounded. "Don't learn the bad habits."

"Senior isn't bad," Yan Zhusheng said seriously. "Li Luo only takes off his coat. Li Luo is bad."

Li Luo: "... If I don't take off my coat, what else can I take off?"

"You can take off your pants too," Yan Zhusheng said. "Or I can help you?"

"I lost once—I already took off my coat," Li Luo snapped. "If you've got guts, keep making me lose."

After saying that, Li Luo glanced at Yan Zhusheng's long legs.

After sitting back down, Yan Zhusheng immediately climbed onto the chair and squatted on it, turning her head toward Li Luo: "Pretty?"

"... I wasn't looking."

"Then look," Yan Zhusheng deliberately turned toward Li Luo, her long legs crossed, making him dizzy.

"Keep playing, stop posing," Li Luo quickly averted his gaze.

In the third round, Yan Zhusheng had great luck, winning several hands in a row and taking all the chips from the other three.

"Now all three of you have to take off clothes," Xu Youyu, having lost, laughed happily.

Ying Chanxi felt embarrassed, hesitated for a long time, and finally only took off one pair of socks, hanging her white socks on the armrest like Xu Youyu and Yan Zhusheng.

Li Luo glanced at the white socks and immediately pictured in his mind the delicate shape of Ying Chanxi's tiny feet.

Too bad the mahjong table blocked his view—he couldn't see anything.

In comparison, Xu Youyu was far more extreme.

After removing her light outer coat, she grabbed the hem of her short-sleeved shirt and made as if to keep undressing.

Seeing this, Li Luo widened his eyes and quickly stopped her: "Hey hey hey! You already took off your coat!"

"I didn't take off my coat," Xu Youyu chuckled, giving him a teasing glance. "No rule says you have to take things off from outside in. Why the rush?" She pulled off her short-sleeved shirt, then picked up the light outer coat and put it back on. "Now I've only removed one piece."

Li Luo: "..."

Staring at the massive black Shanfeng before him, Li Luo fell into deep thought, realizing he had been overly naive from the start.

Only Ying Chanxi was relatively modest.

Looking at Xu Youyu and Yan Zhusheng, Li Luo felt a headache—top and bottom.

Especially Xu Youyu—since their relationship had grown closer, even with Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng present, she had become increasingly unrestrained.

Yan Zhusheng was a curious child, eager to learn everything—not just from her good senior Xu Youyu, but also from Xu Youyu's books.

Though what she learned was applied too bluntly, lacking Xu Youyu's grace and softness, it carried its own unique charm.

It wasn't yet nine p. m., so the mahjong game continued.

But the game was growing increasingly strange.

Li Luo and Xu Youyu were seated directly across from each other.

This meant that every time Li Luo raised his eyes during play, he was hit by Xu Youyu's impact.

Every time he drew a tile, he'd be distracted—how could he play well?

Added to that, Yan Zhusheng occasionally urged him to play faster, causing Li Luo to accidentally play the wrong tiles a few times.

As a result, in the fourth round, Li Luo lost quickly, while Xu Youyu's tiles flowed smoothly—she won several hands in a row, defeating the other three.

So now it was Li Luo, Ying Chanxi, and Yan Zhusheng's turn to remove clothing.

Yan Zhusheng glanced at Xu Youyu, then looked down at herself, reluctant to copy Xu Youyu and take off her short-sleeved shirt.

Her gaze then shifted to her underwear.

But when Li Luo noticed the girl's stare, he quickly stopped her: "Hey hey hey! Just take off your coat or one pair of socks, okay? Don't go wild, I'm warning you."

"Hmm..." Yan Zhusheng hesitated for a long time; though she didn't mind, she finally obeyed and took off her coat.

But while Li Luo was stopping Yan Zhusheng, Ying Chanxi across from him had already taken off her coat, blushing, and copied Xu Youyu by removing her short-sleeved shirt, then draping the coat back over herself.

Though not as overwhelming as Xu Youyu's impact, this petite, adorable little package had its own unique allure.

And after Li Luo took off his shirt and bare-chested scanned the room, that glance nearly threw him off balance.

Every time he reached for a tile, no matter where he looked, there was a breathtaking sight pulling at his attention.

Xu Youyu and Ying Chanxi's graceful figures, along with Yan Zhusheng's long, beautiful legs, constantly lured his gaze, making it impossible for him to focus.

By the time they reached the fifth and sixth rounds, Li Luo had lost two rounds in a row and had to strip off his pants and socks, leaving only his last pair of briefs, trembling.

"Maybe… let's just stop?" Li Luo sighed helplessly, rubbing his arm and glancing at the time—eight forty at night.

If we played faster, we might finish one round before nine.

If I lose again, I'll really lose even my briefs.

"What are you afraid of?" Xu Youyu grinned at Li Luo, her eyes roaming over his muscular frame like a female lecher. "Keep going! Don't back down!"

Yan Zhusheng even reached out and patted Li Luo's body, then quietly extended her foot to rub against his, making it even harder for him to concentrate.

"Li Luo, draw your tile," Yan Zhusheng wiggled her foot, urging him.

Li Luo took a deep breath and had no choice but to continue.

The bad news was that by the time it neared nine, his chips in the seventh round were almost gone.

The good news was that before nine o'clock, someone knocked on the mahjong room door.

The doorknob turned a few times, and outside in the hallway, Lin Xiuhong banged on the door in confusion: "What are you doing in there? Why lock the door just to play mahjong?"

Hearing Lin Xiuhong's voice, the four inside scrambled to their feet and hurriedly pulled on their clothes.

"Coming, coming!" Li Luo shouted back, quickly yanking on his shirt and pants.

Ying Chanxi was the most flustered of the four, her face flushed bright red.

When she'd been with Li Luo and the others, she hadn't realized how shameful this looked.

Only when Lin Xiuhong stood at the door did the thought of her possibly seeing them like this overwhelm Ying Chanxi with crushing shame.

Xu Youyu was second-most panicked, frantically pulling on her underwear—then realized she'd put it on backward and hastily turned it around.

Only Yan Zhusheng remained calm, seemingly unbothered; only under Li Luo's quiet urging did she quickly slip on her pants.

Finally, the mahjong room door opened.

Li Luo stepped out first, shoving past Lin Xiuhong at the door and guiding his mother toward the hot spring.

Though Lin Xiuhong, in her yukata, looked skeptical, she followed Li Luo away from the mahjong room door, unable to resist asking: "You were playing mahjong in there?"

"What else would we be doing?" Li Luo replied, exasperated.

"Then why lock the door?"

"Yan Zhusheng always locks the door when entering—just reflex."

"Really?"

Hearing this, Lin Xiuhong let it go, letting Li Luo guide her all the way to the indoor hot spring entrance.

"Where are Aunt Cui and the others?"

"They're inside," Lin Xiuhong said, stepping into the hot spring room after the maid opened the door, spotting Cui Suling sitting by the pool's edge, and Li Guohong and Xu Rongsheng already submerged in the water.

"Then you guys soak first—I'll go upstairs with Chanxi and change into swimsuits."

"Got it. Hurry up."

Lin Xiuhong waved her hand and hurried over to her best friend.

The two shed their yukatas, revealing their swimsuits, tested the water temperature, then stepped into the hot spring.

Meanwhile, Li Luo turned back with the three girls to the third floor, each changed into swimsuits, then returned to the second-floor hot spring entrance wearing yukatas.

Since others besides Li Luo were present, the three girls all wore the more conservative swimsuits.

The four arrived at the hot spring, effortlessly shed their yukatas, hung them on the nearby rack, and stepped into the water.

The four parents sat on the edge steps of the pool, half-submerged, looking utterly relaxed.

They'd been swimming in the sea all day—diving was fun, but now, returning to their senses, they realized how exhausted they were.

Soaking in the hot spring now, their fatigue seemed slowly swallowed by the warm water; Li Guohong sighed contentedly, feeling on the verge of sleep.

But after the four youths entered the hot spring, Li Luo casually pressed a button beside the pool.

Bubbles surged up from the water, immediately drawing the attention of Xu Rongsheng and the others.

"What's going on?" Cui Suling exclaimed.

"It's a stone table," Li Luo said with a smile. "You can control it with this button—it rises from underwater, and four stone chairs appear in the water. We used it yesterday."

As he spoke, Li Luo called out to the maid at the door, asking her to bring the chess pieces from last night.

When Xu Rongsheng and Li Guohong saw the chess pieces placed on the stone table, their interest sparked.

"Now that's refined leisure," Xu Rongsheng chuckled. "Playing chess while soaking in a hot spring—I never even imagined that."

"You really know how to enjoy life," Li Guohong clicked his tongue, then waved his hand, sat on a stone chair, and beckoned Li Luo. "I used to play chess with you when you were little—let's have a game."

"Let Uncle Xu play with you," Li Luo said, his face strained as he felt two restless little feet beneath the water begin to sneak up on him.

"You two go first," Xu Rongsheng smiled. "I'll watch—after you finish one game, I'll join."

"Alright… I'm coming," Li Luo quickly slapped away the two feet beneath the water, hurriedly found a stone chair, and sat down.

Thus, a tense and thrilling game of chess began.