Bai Ling wasn't stupid enough to use the three days she owed to offset the payment Leticia needed to make this time.
For her, obeying Leticia for three days was completely acceptable. On the contrary, she was quite willing to accept such an arrangement.
"Whoa, we don't need to hurt each other like this, right? You using those three days you owe me to offset the payment I need to make this time isn't good." Leticia stamped her feet, asking with some confusion, "Why make it a lose-lose situation?"
It was like Leticia had previously borrowed a hundred yuan from Bai Ling, and now that she was short on cash, she borrowed another hundred yuan from Bai Ling. Normally, this would be equivalent to Bai Ling paying back the debt, right?
But Bai Ling's intention was clearly not like this. She planned to keep these two matters separate.
The money she owed Leticia was still owed, and the money Leticia was borrowing now was also counted separately.
It was equivalent to both of them currently owing each other a hundred yuan. In principle, they were even, but according to Bai Ling's current intention, she planned to make their current state one of mutual debt.
"I like it this way, can't I?" Bai Ling crossed her arms with a tsundere expression, "Let's go outside to talk, don't disturb Little Mo's rest."
Mo Zili blinked her eyes. She wasn't sleepy now, she wanted to watch the show!
But the two girls obviously wouldn't care about Mo Zili's little thoughts. They saw Bai Ling and Leticia pulling and tugging as they walked out of the room, even thoughtfully closing the door behind them.
"So, what kind of payment do you want?" After being pulled out of the room by Bai Ling and standing in the dim corridor, Leticia asked in a low voice.
But Bai Ling had no intention of answering, instead continuing to pull Leticia toward her own room.
"Hey, what are you trying to do? I'm telling you, don't get any funny ideas, I will resist!"
"Am I that kind of person?" Bai Ling asked somewhat aggrievedly.
"Do you think someone who ambushed me with a kiss has the right to say such things?" Leticia tilted her head, giving Bai Ling no face as she said, "That was my first kiss, do you understand the value of a first kiss?"
To this, Bai Ling indicated that it was also her first kiss: "It was my first time too, so you didn't lose out."
"What do you mean I didn't lose out when you forcibly kissed me?" Leticia's eyes widened. She'd seen shameless people, but never anyone this shameless.
She was such a pure and kind little girl, and her first kiss was stolen out of nowhere by Bai Ling, this perverted, simple-minded, muscle-brained woman. Wasn't this a huge loss for her?
How could she say 'you didn't lose out'!
"Mm, you didn't lose out. I'm a super beautiful girl, and I gave you my first kiss. How could you lose out?" Bai Ling nodded with certainty, "Alright, let's go into the room to talk first. It's not very appropriate in the corridor."
"What's inappropriate about it? This is my house, everywhere is quite appropriate." Though she said this, Leticia's resistance clearly weakened considerably, allowing Bai Ling to pull her into her room.
Bai Ling's room was right next to Mo Zili's. This was something Leticia had specially arranged, with the purpose of letting Bai Ling better protect Mo Zili.
The room had no lights on, and the curtains were drawn tightly shut. The only thing glowing in the entire room seemed to be Bai Ling's ruby-like eyes.
"Hiss, how about we turn on a light?" Leticia reached out her hand, wanting to feel for the switch on the wall.
But Bai Ling raised her hand to press down on Leticia's hand, "This is better."
"Don't you think it's dark?"
"I think this way allows us to communicate better. Didn't you not want to see my face? So now you should be able to calm down and talk to me, right?" Bai Ling's voice was somewhat ethereal, as if even she knew this reason wasn't very convincing.
However, whether it was convincing or not wasn't really that important. What was important was whether the person across from her wanted to be convinced.
And at this moment, Leticia obviously wanted to be convinced.
"Fine, what do you want to say?" Leticia withdrew her hand, looking directly into Bai Ling's eyes as she asked.
"Cough cough, as payment, how about sleeping with me for a few days?"
"You want to take advantage of me?!" Leticia immediately shook off Bai Ling's hand, making as if to open the door and run out.
Bai Ling quickly grabbed Leticia, "Just sleeping together, I won't do anything improper."
"How do I know whether you'll do anything improper?" Leticia struggled to pry at Bai Ling's hands, but her strength was obviously no match for Bai Ling's.
She was such a weak and helpless little girl, sleeping with Bai Ling, this big bad wolf—wouldn't that be delivering herself right into this perverted creature's mouth?
Although nothing unexpected had happened the previous times, who knew if something unexpected would happen this time?
Maybe Bai Ling would have a surge of wolf-like instincts and want to pin Leticia down on the bed for an unforgettable experience. Wouldn't Leticia be in danger then?
For the sake of her body's safety, Leticia felt she should be more careful.
Her first kiss was already gone; she couldn't really lose her first time too, right?
"No way, no way. Your trust rating with me is already negative. I absolutely won't sleep with you." Leticia steeled her heart, and a chilling cold aura actually emerged from within her body.
Bai Ling frowned but had no intention of letting go of Leticia.
Since Leticia was no longer willing to sleep with her, then she'd settle for the next best thing.
"Then, you have to rest here these few days, and let me hold you for a while each day. Is that okay?"
"How long is 'a while'?" Discovering that Bai Ling's tolerance was actually this strong, Leticia was somewhat unhappy as she withdrew her magic and instead asked about Bai Ling's conditions.
If it was just being held for a while, it didn't seem like an unacceptable condition.
Bai Ling's embrace was very soft, and she smelled very nice. At least Leticia felt that being held wouldn't make her lose out much.
"Two hours?" Bai Ling asked tentatively.
"Are you joking?" Leticia chuckled coldly.
Two hours—the time she and Bai Ling could spend together was just that period after dinner and before sleep, and asking her to spend two hours of that time being held by Bai Ling was too absurd.
"Then, an hour and a half?"
"One hour, no more."
"Good, then one hour it is!" Bai Ling immediately agreed. This amount of time was already enough to satisfy her.
And her quick agreement made Leticia feel like she'd lost out a little.
"No, half an hour!"
"Hmph, you can't go back on your word. So now, let's make up for yesterday's hour."
......
"So... Sister, you fell asleep being held by Sister Bai Ling on her bed?"
"It was an accident, really an accident. I didn't expect that woman to smell so good. I fell asleep while smelling it." Leticia covered her face, her voice carrying some despair.
Qila's expression also became somewhat vacant. She no longer knew what to say about her sister. She had spoken so nicely, saying she would avoid Bai Ling and absolutely not have any more involvement with her.
But why, less than half a day after saying this, did her sister cheerfully run into Sister Bai Ling's arms and fall asleep!
This was way too fickle!
"Um, I think I can explain." Leticia carefully raised her head, wanting to explain why she had slept in Bai Ling's arms for a whole night. "Yesterday, the magic on Mo Zili was triggered, so I rushed back from the Demon King's palace to check the situation."
"Mm, and after checking the situation?" Qila propped up her chin, looking at her sister with scrutinizing eyes.
They were currently in the study having a secret sister-to-sister conversation, so they didn't need to worry about other unplanned people suddenly jumping out to interrupt their talk.
"Bai Ling is very perceptive. After hearing the commotion on my side, she also came to Mo Zili's room. Then after I finished dealing with Mo Zili's situation, she pulled me into her room." Leticia completely threw the blame onto Bai Ling's head.
But Qila wasn't someone who could be easily brushed off. She only asked one question, and it made Leticia cover her face again: "Then why didn't Sister resist?"
She didn't believe her sister couldn't resist if she really tried.
Her sister wasn't that weak!
So, Sister being pulled into the room by Bai Ling, regardless of the reason, meant Leticia definitely didn't object and was even quite willing.
"This was a transaction, yes, a transaction." Leticia found her excuse again. "She came to help me, so I had to give her some payment, right?"
"The payment was Sister herself?"
"Wah, Qila, when did you become so sharp-tongued!" Leticia lay on the table, assuming a listless pose. "Anyway, she wanted me to let her hold me for an hour each day, and I felt it wasn't unacceptable, so I agreed."
But she never expected that last night she would actually fall asleep during that hour.
It was really quite embarrassing to say.
"Sigh, putting aside this weird transaction for now, I'll just consider it a special way of getting along between Sister and Sister Bai Ling. What I want to ask now is another question." Qila asked in a very serious voice, "Sister, you haven't fallen for her, have you?"
Hearing this question, Leticia immediately perked up. She might not be able to answer other questions, but this one she could guarantee with one hundred percent certainty.
"Of course not! I'd fall for anyone before I'd fall for that pervert!"
Looking at such a confident sister, Qila didn't know whether she should believe her sister or not.
Over the past six months, her sister's performance had actually been quite good, and she didn't look like someone who had fallen in love. But why did her sister immediately become like this whenever she saw Sister Bai Ling?
Could it be that Leticia's heart switched randomly between moved and unmoved?
She wasn't moved when Bai Ling wasn't around, but when Bai Ling was present, she seamlessly switched to being moved?
"Really?"
"Of course it's real! Between her and me, there's only a super pure transactional relationship, and emotionally there's only deep hatred." Leticia answered righteously, puffing out her chest as if trying to add some credibility to her words. "Qila, don't worry. Your sister would never fall into the hands of a human."
"I hope so." Qila had actually quite believed Leticia at first, but when she saw her sister walking out of Bai Ling's room with sleepy eyes this morning, she became somewhat doubtful.
They had slept together several times now. Her sister seemed to have completely gotten used to occasionally sleeping while being held by Bai Ling.
This hugging and embracing—was that behavior normal friends would have? Sleeping while being held—was that something ordinary friends should do?
It wasn't, right?
"Sigh, although this is Sister's own romantic problem, and it's not that I dislike Sister Bai Ling, it's just that you two really aren't suitable to be together."
"I know, Qila, you don't need to keep emphasizing it." Leticia quickly stood up to interrupt Qila's chanting, pushing her sister toward the door. Leticia opened the door, planning to push her sister out.
Then they saw Bai Ya and Mo Zili crouching in a corner not far away, as well as Bai Ling, who wasn't even trying to hide and was standing openly in the corridor.
So this whole group was here eavesdropping?
Especially Bai Ling—this couldn't even be called eavesdropping anymore, this was blatant eavesdropping!
Um, what should blatant eavesdropping be called?
"They were curious about what you were discussing." Bai Ling indicated this had nothing to do with her; she was just very simply bringing her sister over while completing the task Leticia had given her.
And Little Ya was even more fearless—she just wanted to eavesdrop.
Wasn't gossip everyone's nature? When she saw Sister Qianqian coming out of her sister's room early in the morning, Little Ya's gossip heart began burning fiercely.
Although her sister had brushed it off with "this is just a transaction between her and me," clever Little Ya wouldn't just believe her sister like that.
What kind of transaction could end up being discussed in bed? Little Ya wasn't the kind of girl who knew nothing about certain perverted knowledge.
Her sister and Sister Qianqian were very proper and pure, so their so-called transaction must also be very pure.
Probably?
"Little Ya shouldn't worry about so much. I was just lecturing Sister about not breaking her word." Qila walked to Little Ya's side, reaching out to pat the little girl's head.
"Eh? Sister Qianqian broke her word? What kind of word did she break?" Little Ya asked with some confusion.
"Cough cough!" Leticia coughed loudly twice.
Obviously, she didn't want others to know about what she and Qila had discussed.
"This is a secret between sisters." After coughing, Leticia said mysteriously to Little Ya.
"Mm, can't you really tell me? When Little Qi isn't around in the future, I can also help supervise Sister Qianqian."
"No way." This time Leticia and Qila reached a consensus.
If Little Ya really found out, she would definitely side with her sister.