Even something like this could be attempted? Mu Mingtang looked angry. She carefully glanced outside the room and said in a low voice, “There are servants outside, be careful not to be discovered.”
“If I’m to be discovered, then so be it,” Xie Xuanchen still wasn’t taking it seriously, “We were going to meet sooner or later anyways.”
Mu Mingtang was so angry that it was all she could do not to trip backwards. But the way Xie Xuanchen was entering a girl’s boudoir made it seem like he was strolling around his own home. He walked to Mu Mingtang’s seat curiously and picked up the half-embroidered handkerchief for a closer inspection, “Were you embroidering a handkerchief just now?”
When Mu Mingtang saw his bold movements, she hurriedly went forward and blew out the light. She needed a good source of light when she was embroidering, so she had placed a lamp on the table. Now that Xie Xuanchen was standing here, wouldn’t he be seen from the outside since he was being illuminated?
Xie Xuanchen saw Mu Mingtang blow out the light as he blinked, but he suddenly smiled instead. Seeing that he remained restless, Mu Mingtang hurriedly went up to him in order to cover his mouth, “Don’t talk!”
At this time, the servant outside saw that the lights in Mu Mingtang’s room were blown out and hurried over to ask, “Young Lady, did the wind blow out the lamp? Don’t be afraid, I’ll come to accompany my ladyship.”
“There’s no need!” Mu Mingtang hurriedly shouted as Xie Xuanchen, who was beside her, started laughing again. Mu Mingtang forced herself to stay calm and tried her best to say to the servant in a normal voice, “I blew out the lights myself. I was tired of embroidering, so I wanted to turn in. You guys don’t have to come in.”
Although the servant thought the lady’s words were strange, she didn’t think much about it. After all, in their eyes, how could their lady, who had always been well-behaved, lie?
Even more, no one would have ever thought that there was a man hiding in the obedient lady’s room at this moment.
After the servant’s footsteps faded away, Mu Mingtang let out a sigh of relief. At this time, she found that her hands were still covering Xie Xuanchen’s face. His eyes were smiling at a rate that was almost brighter than the stars outside. Seeing her nervously listening to the commotion outside, he suddenly kissed her palm.
Startled, Mu Mingtang almost screamed. She hurriedly withdrew her hand and was at an actual loss for a brief moment.
“You…what are you doing?”
“To visit your boudoir at night, of course I’m here to do some lecherous things,” Xie Xuanchen looked at her with amusement after he teased her and said, “Actually, I’m standing behind the lamp, so our figures won’t be reflected on the window.”
Mu Mingtang turned back to look at the lamp on the small table and thought about what Xie Xuanchen said. Eventually, she agreed, “That seems to be the case.”
Then why was she so anxious? Moreover, with how she was in a hurry to blow out the lights and lie to the servants, did Xie Xuanchen see through her?
Mu Mingtang’s body visibly stiffened. In retrospect, Xie Xuanchen was only amused as he took her hand to sit on the luohan bed(1), “It’s okay, I won’t tell anyone.”
(T/N: Think of it as a daybed, but more traditional and has railings on one end. Also, it was made almost entirely of wood.)