Lin Xinlan choked, naturally she did not agree to his announcement.
Among the people she knew, almost no one was aware of her marriage to him.
She did not want others to know she had married him.
"I can really bathe by myself, please leave. If I need you, I will call you." With no other option, having failed with force, she tried gentleness.
But Rong Shaoze was someone impervious to both soft and hard approaches, "Hurry up, I won’t leave until I see that you’re alright."
He stepped forward, and Lin Xinlan thought he was going to lay hands on her. Scared, she clutched her clothes tightly and took a defensive step back.
To her surprise, he simply turned on the faucet and began to fill the bathtub with warm water, immediately steaming up the bathroom.
He took a bottle of rose essential oil from the shelf, opened it, and asked her sideways, "Do you want a few drops of rose essential oil? I like the scent of roses on you."
"No!" She immediately refused.
If he liked it, she wanted it even less.
Rong Shaoze hesitated with difficulty, put the bottle back, and reached for another bottle of jasmine essential oil, "Then a few drops of jasmine it is. Anyway, rose or jasmine, it’s your choice."
"I don’t want either!"
"Fine, then let’s just use rose for you."
"Jasmine, I want jasmine!" Lin Xinlan said hastily.
Since he insisted on her using one, she would choose the one he did not like.
Rong Shaoze looked at her and nodded in agreement. He added a few drops of jasmine essential oil to the bathtub, and a fresh fragrance wafted over.
Lin Xinlan found the scent somewhat familiar, but she couldn’t recall where she had smelled it before.
"All right, hurry up and bathe." The man even considerately brought her towels and a bath towel.
"You get out." She frowned slightly.
"If you don’t start washing yourself, I won’t mind helping you," he said threateningly.
Lin Xinlan was speechless. Was threatening all he knew how to do?
Yet she knew he would do as he said. If she didn’t wash herself, he would indeed start helping her.
It didn’t matter, as it wasn’t the first time he’d seen her—there was nothing to be embarrassed about.
She gritted her teeth and quickly stripped off her pajamas, revealing a rather nice figure before Rong Shaoze.
That moment, even without looking at his face, she could feel his gaze intensify, burning hot, making her uncomfortable all over.
Worried that he would take advantage of the situation, she hurriedly slipped into the bathtub, submerging her entire body except for her head.
But the water was too clear, and even lying in the bathtub, her body was visible in sharp detail.
Lin Xinlan curled up, enduring the humiliation and said annoyedly, "You see, I can wash myself, you can go out now, right?"
Rong Shaoze suddenly showed a triumphant smile. He rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, revealing his suntanned, muscular arms.
Then he picked up a bath lily, added a few drops of shower gel, worked up a lather of white foam, came over, took her arm, and gently rubbed it onto her skin.
Lin Xinlan was stunned, immediately realizing she had been duped!
He had deceived her, he actually had!
"Get out, how can you go back on your word! You said if I could wash myself, you would leave!"
..." After finishing with that arm, he reached for her other one.
Lin Xinlan quickly hid her arms behind her, so he simply started to lather her neck, then her collarbones...
Lin Xinlan was livid. She pushed his hands away forcefully and splashed water all over him.