Chapter 446 - 319: Lin Ruoxi, You’re Too Cunning

"Mhm, okay," Lin Ruoxi agreed with a nod.

"We’ll roll for high or low. Whoever loses has to..." Gu Muxue trailed off, suddenly unable to think of a good penalty.

"Draw on the loser’s face," Lin Ruoxi suggested.

Gu Muxue was taken aback. Lin Ruoxi was surprisingly bold.

"I... Rui and I play this all the time," Lin Ruoxi said in a small voice. ’Doesn’t Gu Muxue like it?’

The thought made Gu Muxue chuckle. ’Xue Rui lets Lin Ruoxi draw on his face?’

"Do you have any pictures? I want to see..." Gu Muxue asked.

This was the kind of game only very close friends or couples would play. She and Xue Rui weren’t at that stage yet.

’It seems Lin Ruoxi and Xue Rui have already done everything.’

’You silly girl, have you already given him everything? No wonder he acts with such impunity.’

Lin Ruoxi took out her phone and showed Gu Muxue a picture of her own face with a small turtle drawn on it.

"What about his?" Gu Muxue asked. After getting Lin Ruoxi’s permission, she boldly started flipping through her photo album. At the same time, she unlocked her own phone and handed it to Lin Ruoxi.

"Your password is Rui’s birthday, too," Lin Ruoxi said quietly.

"Mhm," Gu Muxue murmured, nodding.

She actually wanted to see what Lin Ruoxi and Xue Rui’s life was like, almost as if she were a voyeur.

She was going to leave Chang’an, leave the place where Xue Rui lived. But she was afraid that after she left, she would still want to know how he was doing. Being able to secretly contact Lin Ruoxi would be a way to leave herself an out.

She knew the saying about how he who hesitates is lost, but she knew herself too well...

She would carefully keep everything Xue Rui had given her. She couldn’t bear to throw any of it away, not even their chat history.

’As long as Xue Rui doesn’t know, it’ll be fine.’

"How come there are no pictures of him with his face drawn on?" Gu Muxue asked curiously.

Lin Ruoxi shook her head. "Rui never loses. I don’t have any pictures like that of him."

"How could he never lose?" Gu Muxue said in surprise.

Lin Ruoxi said in a small voice, "He just... he just doesn’t lose."

"He cheats, and you still let him?"

"Mhm..."

"Well, you’re not allowed to let me win today," Gu Muxue said with a smile.

Lin Ruoxi nodded. "Did you bring a pen?"

"Let’s use lipstick. It’ll be easier to wash off," Gu Muxue said.

"Mhm, okay..."

As the dice kept rolling, more and more lipstick marks appeared on both their faces...

They lost track of how long they’d been playing, only stopping when another waiter knocked and entered the room.

"Hello, may I... Holy shit!" The waiter was startled by their appearance. The two girls’ faces were covered in messy lipstick smears.

"Get out!" Gu Muxue huffed. ’What are they peeking at all the time?’

"Right away," the waiter said sheepishly.

After leaving, he walked up to two of his colleagues and said coldly, "Oh, real funny. So that’s the game you’re playing, huh?"

His colleagues had called him over the walkie-talkie to check out some "beauties." But when he went in and the two women turned around, they nearly scared him to death. Beauties? More like a pair of fucking ghosts!

"Old Li, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. We let you go see some beauties and you’re not even happy?" one of them said, laughing.

"Go see for yourself what those two look like! Their faces looked like they were covered in blood. I nearly had a heart attack."

"Did they get into a fight? Should we go check?" someone whispered.

"They’re weirdos anyway. One of them, a really tall girl, was in the lobby inspecting our fire extinguishers. Scared the manager half to death..."

"The other one is super fierce. I barely said ’hello’ before she cursed me out of the room. It was like she saw right through you guys."

Xue Rui was standing in the hallway at that moment, getting some air. He found that since he wasn’t drinking, it was hard to fit into the bullshitting atmosphere. Combined with the lack of any sign of the two women, every minute felt like an eternity.

He was getting some air in the hallway, listening to the waiters chat and bullshit nearby.

’But the people they’re talking about... why do they sound more and more familiar?’

’A really tall girl? That definitely fits Lin Ruoxi.’

Add the part about inspecting fire extinguishers, and Xue Rui was almost certain it was her.

The other fierce one had to be Gu Muxue. That girl had seen right through these guys’ intentions from the start.

"Which room are they in? I think they’re my friends," Xue Rui said, stepping forward and offering them a few cigarettes.

"Room 888. The two of them booked the biggest room but aren’t drinking or singing," one of them said.

"Thanks," Xue Rui said, patting the waiter’s shoulder.

He was basically certain now. It was Lin Ruoxi and Gu Muxue.

’Hiding in plain sight?’

’That girl is really something else!’

’Broken bottles everywhere? Blood on their faces?’

’How long has it been? What on earth happened?’

’Muxue, you can’t do anything rash!’

Xue Rui hurried in the direction the waiter had pointed.