Qin Zhiwei really wanted to tell Xu Ye that the only reason Shen Xinyi had come to the hotel was that she'd washed her bedding and it wasn't dry yet. He and Shen Xinyi weren't anywhere near the point of sharing a bed.

It was a good thing Qin Zhiwei didn't say it out loud, or Xu Ye would definitely have called him a dumbass.

Duvet cover? In thirty-plus-degree sun, it couldn't dry?

As far as Xu Ye was concerned, Shen Xinyi was obviously trying to nudge things along between them.

Qin Zhiwei knocked, waited for the door to open and went in with two bottles of mineral water.

It was a standard room.

There were two single beds, and the bathroom was by the door. The room was on the small side, and the lighting was warm and yellowish rather than bright white, which put a "romantic" filter over the whole room. At least, that was how it looked to Qin Zhiwei.

He set the two bottles of water on the desk and scratched his head awkwardly. "Do you want to shower first?"

Shen Xinyi was pretty nervous too, but she put on a calm face. "I already showered before I left the dorm. You go ahead."

"Okay."

Qin Zhiwei quickly grabbed a change of clothes and went into the bathroom. He came out five or six minutes later and stuffed his dirty clothes into the plastic bag from the convenience store, planning to take them back to the dorm tomorrow to wash.

When Shen Xinyi saw he was out, she went into the bathroom too. When she came out, Qin Zhiwei was looking at something on his phone.

As Shen Xinyi walked past the cabinet, she accidentally knocked the plastic bag onto the floor.

They both looked down.

Shen Xinyi quickly crouched to pick it up, but the moment she lifted the bag, the Okamoto that Xu Ye had forced on Qin Zhiwei slipped out and fell to the floor.

For about a second, time stood still.

Qin Zhiwei lunged like a madman and snatched up the Okamoto.…