Chapter 147: Tenderness in the Fitting Room

Feeling a burning gaze upon him, Lin Feng cast a sidelong glance.

He happened to see Chu Lingshuang standing proudly in the doorway, clad in a black dress, her eyes burning with intensity.

He looked slightly startled and asked, "Why are you here?"

His point was that he was in the middle of changing his clothes, and Chen Wanqing was also present, so such a direct entrance felt rather inappropriate.

Chu Lingshuang curled her lips slightly and walked over step by step with fiery eyes. "Is there any place here I cannot go?"

This was her home; naturally, she could go wherever she pleased.

It was evident she had misinterpreted his meaning.

Lin Feng explained, "I know, but I'm changing my clothes right now, and besides..."

He gently raised a hand and pointed toward the doorway.

At the main entrance, the door was left slightly ajar, and faint sounds of Chen Wanqing and Chu Yunran talking could still be heard.

Doing this now was not right.

Yet Chu Lingshuang didn't even bother to turn her head. She walked straight up to Lin Feng, her gaze dropping from his Adam's apple all the way down.

Suddenly, she raised her hand and touched the tie at his collar.

"Idol."

She let out a pampering laugh, murmuring to herself.

"That's not how you tie a necktie."

Her tone carried a teasing nuance. With a swift movement, she unraveled his awkward knot.

Her small hand rested against his throat, touching him loosely and cautiously, occasionally brushing against the skin of his neck.

It tickled slightly.

Unable to help it, Lin Feng's Adam's apple bobbed a few times as he lowered his head slightly to meet her serious eyes.

"Usually, I don't wear a tie when I wear a suit..."

He offered a somewhat clumsy explanation, looking toward the door with growing tension.

Chu Lingshuang did not reply further. With unhurried hands, she tied the knot for him again, and as she pulled it straight up in the final step, her gaze rose accordingly.

Sweeping past his absent-minded stare, she grew displeased.

She abruptly grabbed the tie and pulled it straight down—

"Did I give you permission to lose focus?"

Her fiery eyes were filled with annoyance.

Forced to lower his head, Lin Feng met her gaze.

"Elder Sister, Mrs. Chen and the others are—mmph!"

Before he could finish his sentence, his lips were forcibly sealed by hers.

Lin Feng's eyes widened in shock. He truly had not expected Chu Lingshuang to be so bold—the door wasn't even closed yet!

When the kiss finally ended, Chu Lingshuang lightly arched her brows, licked her lips as if wanting more, and delivered an overbearing threat.

"Lose focus again, and I'll keep going."

Wait, does she have no sense of occasion at all?!

Lin Feng subconsciously swallowed hard. Before his consciousness had fully returned, his brain had already blurted out a response: "I was wrong."

With a satisfied curl of her lips and a flicker in her eyes, Chu Lingshuang half-pushed Lin Feng away and tugged on his tie, forcing him to sit down on a nearby chair.

Lin Feng looked at this madwoman with considerable nervousness; after all, he had no way of predicting her next move.

Sure enough.

Chu Lingshuang rested her knee against his leg, her slender arms braced against the back cushion of his chair.

"You look very handsome dressed like this."

Staring at him with an inscrutable gleam in her eyes, she praised him without reservation, "I like it."

It was rare to receive a compliment from Chu Lingshuang.

If only it hadn't been followed by such a fiercely possessive remark.

Lin Feng explained honestly, "Mrs. Chen picked this out. I'm not very good at choosing clothes..."

Even as he spoke, Chu Lingshuang's hands grew restless.

Her fingers slid down from the collar, coming to rest gradually on the second button of his crisp white shirt.

"It's fine. I'll pick them out for you from now on."

She picked up his words with a pampering tone, her fingers hovering among the buttons.

Until they reached the very last one—

Her hand was intercepted and pressed down by Lin Feng.

"The door is open."

He felt compelled to remind her; after all, he was currently in someone else's home, and he had no desire to engage in such behavior right in front of her parents.

Glancing at his well-defined, tightly clenched hand, Chu Lingshuang curved her lips slightly.

"So what?"

"..."

Lin Feng was rendered speechless by her bluntness. Meeting Chu Lingshuang's utterly uninhibited gaze, he took a deep breath, glanced at the two shadows flickering through the door crack, and said calmly, "It's not very appropriate..."

Outside the fitting room:

"Ranran, is what you're saying true? Your sister likes Xiao Feng?"

Chen Wanqing stared at her daughter in utter shock, her eyes wide with disbelief!

"Could that possibly be false?"

Chu Yunran wiped the sweat from her brow and said with lingering fear, "My sister has known Brother Lin for a long time. I only went on that show out of curiosity..."

"It's a good thing you didn't try to play matchmaker right away, Mom, or I'd be dead meat..."

Hearing Chu Yunran's words, Chen Wanqing recovered from her shock and belatedly realized, "No wonder both your father and I felt Xiao Feng and your sister seemed somewhat a match. It looks like our intuition was quite accurate!"

Seeing how things were turning out, Chu Yunran breathed a sigh of relief.

The next second, however, she looked at her mother with mounting curiosity. "Mom, did you and Dad find out about Brother Lin through the show?"

"That's right!" Chen Wanqing nodded. At the mention of this, she immediately smiled. "Your father was furious at the time, insisting on having someone tie Xiao Feng up, hahaha..."

"Hmph!" Chu Yunran rolled her eyes and said, somewhat speechlessly, "My sister and I aren't children anymore. What was there to be angry about!"

Yet, upon saying this, Chu Yunran suddenly remembered something.

"In that case, Mom, you and Dad didn't know Brother Lin was from the Lin family back then, and you still agreed just like that?"

"What of it?" Chen Wanqing smiled. "Your father and I aren't fossils. Our family's foundation is well established here—you children can do as you please. As long as you find someone you love, just go after them boldly. We won't stand in your way."

Hearing her mother express such views for the first time, Chu Yunran had previously been afraid that they would target Lin Feng.

After all, this was the person her sister had chosen.

Though her sister rarely spoke with their parents, harmony still prevailed among them. If Lin Feng caused their household to be turned upside down in mutual conflict, that would be terrible.

Deeply touched, Chu Yunran remarked, "I never expected you to be so casual usually, Mom, yet so sensible when it matters."

"Hmph, you underestimate your mother!" Chen Wanqing smiled and stroked Chu Yunran's head.

Even as they spoke, Chu Yunran's attention shifted back inside the room.

She raised a finger to her lips with a "shh," winked playfully at her mother, and whispered, "Mom!"

Chen Wanqing understood instantly.

The two of them bent down, leaned forward, and pressed against the crack of the door to peer inside.

Inside the room, Chu Lingshuang was leaning forward with her back to the door, her upper body draped over the chair.

Meanwhile, Lin Feng was seated within.

Though their expressions were hidden from view, their postures were captured in full.

"Hiss!"

Chu Yunran drew in a sharp breath, half-covering her mouth with a sense of deep admiration. "As expected of my sister. Such smooth moves..."

Excitement brimming in her eyes, Chen Wanqing patted Chu Yunran and whispered, "It has to be someone like your sister! When it comes to boys, you have to take the initiative!"

"You should learn a thing or two!"

"No way! I prefer acting spoiled!"

"..."

Inside the fitting room:

Chu Lingshuang raised her eyes, her penetrating gaze locking onto Lin Feng's. Giving him no room to catch his breath, she pressed her advantage step by step.

"What is inappropriate about it?"

As she spoke, she turned her head slightly, her peripheral vision sweeping across the crack in the door. With a slight curl of her lips, she declared with a morbid yet greedy intensity:

"I want them to know that you belong to me..."