Chapter 50
Since entering her mating season, Pei the Red Panda’s head had already had several fireworks shows.
She had kept forgetting to search online these past few days and had never expected to stumble upon the answer just by buying some candy.
She licked her teeth, her attention focused, and continued to read the instruction manual.
[Please strictly follow the steps below to use this product:
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Cut your nails. Nails must be cut to their shortest length, and the edges filed smooth.
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Put on the finger cot.
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Enjoy tonight’s sweetness to the fullest.]
Sweetness?
Pei the Red Panda’s mouth watered, and she licked her teeth again.
Just as she was engrossed, a light sound suddenly came from the bedroom door.
She looked up and saw Ye Qingyu, who had just finished tidying up, walk into the bedroom, her expression a little surprised.
“Boss Pei, you’re so fast today?”
Pei the Red Panda nodded. “I’m unwrapping the candy. I’ll give you some after I finish reading the instructions.”
After speaking, she lowered her head and continued to read the manual.
Ye Qingyu took two steps in, and the scene by the bed came into full view—
She saw her beautiful boss sitting on the edge of the bed. Next to her leg was an opened pink box, and ten small, pink packets were spread out wantonly on the bed.
“…”
Ye Qingyu’s chest tightened. She was so struck by this scene that she was instantly dizzy, her vision blurring.
Although she had no experience, as an adult human, it was impossible for her not to recognize what that was.
Her heart pounded like a drum. Without a second thought, she walked quickly to the side of the bed and took the instruction manual from Pei Rong’s hand.
She was just about to see the truth about the fireworks, but the manual was suddenly taken away. Pei the Red Panda looked up, a little confused.
“Ye Qingyu?” she blinked.
Ye Qingyu met those shimmering and clear peach blossom eyes, and her voice was a little hoarse when she spoke.
“Boss Pei, you got the wrong thing. This box isn’t candy.”
Pei the Red Panda picked up a small, pink packet and sniffed it.
“Strawberry flavor, and sweet,” she said, unconvinced.
She was about to tear it open, but it was snatched away by the human’s quick hands.
Pei the Red Panda’s brow furrowed slightly.
Does the human think her sugar intake today is too high?
“I’ll just try two. I won’t eat too many,” she said seriously.
“This… this really isn’t candy. It’s not good for a red panda to touch,” Ye Qingyu said, more embarrassed and in a dilemma than ever before. A red flush silently spread from the tips of her ears to the side of her neck, and her breathing was also unsteady. “Let me put it away for you first.”
With that, she also picked up the empty box and, holding the pile of strawberry-flavored things, walked out of the bedroom.
Pei the Red Panda was stunned for a moment, and then her pink lips parted unhappily, revealing the tips of a small beast’s sharp canines.
The next second, she transformed into a fluffy red panda.
She leaped lightly onto the human, her two paws clutching the fabric of the human’s pajama pants.
“My candy…” Pei the Red Panda was in a mood, her voice full of grievance.
Ye Qingyu’s thigh was thus hugged by a koala-like red panda, which swayed with her every step.
And this koala-like red panda was still climbing up her as if she were a tree, quickly reaching her waist, its furry paws reaching straight for the pink packets in the human’s arms.
Faced with her persistent red panda superior, Ye Qingyu was torn between laughter and tears.
The living room was pitch black. With one hand, she held the finger cots tightly, and with the other, she protected the koala-like red panda clinging to her side. She even struggled to turn on the light with her wrist.
She coaxed in a soft, quiet voice, “This really isn’t candy. How about I buy you two other boxes of mints tomorrow? One strawberry flavor, and one mangosteen flavor.”
Hearing “mangosteen flavor,” Pei the Red Panda’s large, fluffy ears twitched slightly, and her pawing movements stopped.
“Really?” she asked.
“Really,” the human said with certainty.
Ye Qingyu was about to sigh in relief when she heard the furred boss ask sharply, “Even if this thing isn’t candy, why can’t you let me see it?”
“Does it attack red pandas?”
“…” Ye Qingyu’s lips moved, but for a moment, she was at a loss for words.
The next second, Pei the Red Panda transformed into her human form.
She pressed her advantage, her soft, white fingertips grabbing the young woman’s collar, and said calmly, “Don’t forget, I’m older than you. There’s nothing I can’t know.”
That was true.
But Ye Qingyu still hadn’t figured out how to explain this box of supplies, especially now, in the dangerous night.
She looked down and saw the woman’s long fingernails, and her throat moved slightly.
Actually, subduing this little red panda was very simple. She just had to cut her nails.
The human’s eyes were instantly clear and deep. Pei Rong, who had just been showing off her ‘older sister’ status with her chin held high, inexplicably felt a chill run down her spine.
She blinked her peach blossom eyes innocently and saw the human casually toss the things onto the sofa. The next second, she was easily swept up in a princess carry and was quickly walking toward the bedroom.
Pei Rong was nestled in Ye Qingyu’s arms, her two hands subconsciously hooking around her neck.
The young woman’s profile was a little deeper in the night, looking beautiful and dangerous. Pei the Red Panda stared at her for a while, and for no reason, a tingling sensation shot up from her tailbone.
Ye Qingyu gently placed the woman on the bed, then took out the secret weapon for restraining a red panda from the bedside table—nail clippers.
Seeing the small metal object, Pei the Red Panda immediately recalled the contents of the instruction manual, and her peach blossom eyes lit up.
Was Ye Qingyu preparing to give her the candy according to the instructions?
And so, Ye Qingyu, holding the nail clippers and confidently thinking she would see a pitiful little red panda, instead found her beautiful boss with a look of pleased anticipation on her face.
A bad premonition arose in her heart.
After a few seconds of hesitation, she still held the woman’s slender, white fingers and earnestly cut her nails.
Click, click.
All ten fingers were trimmed cleanly one by one, and even carefully filed smooth.
Looking at her short, rounded nails, Pei the Red Panda moved her fingertips in satisfaction and recited the steps from the instruction manual:
“Now that my nails are clean, you should put the finger cot on me.”
“…”
Ye Qingyu’s breath hitched, and she instantly looked up at Pei Rong.
This was not the first time her beautiful boss had said something shocking.
The woman’s tone and gaze were as pure and clear as ever.
But at this very moment, the night was deep, and the closed bedroom was quiet and fragrant.
The dim bedside lamp outlined their faces hazily, and every word spoken was soaked in a deep color.
Moreover, a certain thought had already been silently surging and brewing for a long time.
Ye Qingyu pursed her lips and stared at the beautiful woman before her, who was speaking nonsense with an air of innocence. A strange, evil factor stirred in her heart.
It was as if a demon were whispering lightly in her ear, wanting to stain this fragile white paper with black ink, to teach the little beast who was always teasing and not taking responsibility a corresponding lesson.
As the thoughts rose and fell, her throat felt dry, and even the act of swallowing became slow and clear.
Thump-thump, thump-thump…
The impulse gradually swelled in the spreading night. Her heart pounded until her chest was full of heat. Ye Qingyu stared at Pei Rong’s peach blossom eyes, like a wolf poised to strike.
Being looked at with such an aggressive and attacking gaze made Pei Rong’s heart tremble slightly.
With a red panda’s instinct, she couldn’t help but stick out her wet, pink tongue to sense the danger in the air, lightly licking her lips.
But this action made the human’s breathing heavier, and those eyes that were staring at her without a moment’s pause were like a deep pool, devouring all the clear white moonlight.
Pei Rong trembled all over, a faint heat soaking her skin, a tingling sensation shooting into her lungs with her every breath.
Her legs couldn’t help but move, and a dampness began to spread between them.
“Ye… Ye Qingyu.”
She spoke, her fingers unconsciously clutching the bedsheet, her thick lashes fluttering lightly, a pitiful, swaying moisture in her peach blossom eyes.
The next second, she saw Ye Qingyu suddenly lean toward her, carrying the heat and subtle fragrance of her post-bath, completely invading her senses.
Pei Rong unconsciously closed her eyes, and a wet, hot sting immediately came from the tip of her ear—she had been bitten.
This sting, at the extremely sensitive ear, turned into an electric itch, drilling into her tingling body and coursing wantonly through it. Everywhere it went, it rolled up waves of heat, intertwining and colliding with the stimulation of her senses and emotions—
Pei Rong trembled all over and suddenly threw her head back, her fair neck drawing a graceful arc.
Something in the depths of her body was throbbing, in sync with the pounding frequency of her heart in her chest.
As the fireworks bloomed, the contents of the instruction manual she had just seen flashed through her mind—
[This product will help you enjoy the ultimate pleasure of fireworks exploding in your head…]
She thought in a daze, I clearly haven’t used it yet, so how am I already enjoying it…
And while fireworks were exploding in Pei the Red Panda’s head, Ye Qingyu managed to come back to her senses.
Just now, she had been unable to control the itch in her heart, and also out of a malicious desire to teach the carelessly flirting little beast a lesson, she had bitten the woman’s ear.
She hadn’t dared to use too much force. It should have only been a slight pain.
The next second, she turned her head to look and saw her beautiful boss’s face like a peach blossom, her eyes unfocused. Glistening tears overflowed from her reddened eye rims and fell one after another onto the pajama fabric in front of her.
Her stunning face was flushed an alluring crimson, with a certain vibrant spring.
Ye Qingyu’s gaze froze, and she was instantly flustered and panicked.
If not for the strawberry-flavored candy that had caused such a big misunderstanding tonight, she would never have thought in that direction.
But at this very moment, in this particularly strange situation, her mind uncontrollably replayed the scene in the shopping mall’s fire escape, and the time before that on the sofa at her home…
Her beautiful boss had had this same hot and damp look.
The meaning that had once been difficult to grasp now fused and intertwined with the present, and the answer gradually became clear.
The moist sheen in the pitiful peach blossom eyes before her, the desire and satiation revealed in the movement of her licking her lips—all these details, inch by inch, thread by thread, further confirmed a certain fact.
“Ye Qingyu, my special time has come.”
“The fireworks went off again…”
The woman’s words echoed in her ear, and Ye Qingyu’s heart felt as if it were being squeezed by the damp and sticky meaning within them. For a moment, it was beating so fast it was about to burst from her chest.
How could she have… how could she have never thought that it was spring, and the small animals were entering their mating season…
The fireworks bloomed in her mind for a moment, and the sound gradually faded.
And for the first time, the human did not take the initiative to coax and hug her, nor did she wipe her tears, and so Pei the Red Panda’s tears fell even more pitifully.
She bit her lip and looked at Ye Qingyu, stubbornly silent, glistening teardrops constantly streaming down.
But she couldn’t help but reach out with her pink-flushed fingers and lightly tug at the pajama fabric in front of the human.
Seeing her beautiful boss crying more and more pitifully, her whole body trembling, Ye Qingyu finally pulled herself from her muddled thoughts.
A pain shot through her heart, and she didn’t have time to think too much.
She held the woman’s wet chin with one hand and gently lifted that tear-streaked, stunning face. With the other hand, she pulled a tissue from the side and carefully and skillfully wiped the woman’s tears.
Her movements were gentle and careful, with an imperceptible tremor, as if she were afraid that any extra force would shatter her.
After wiping her tears, her throat moved slightly, and she was at a loss.
In the end, she struggled to search for some not-so-rich knowledge in her mind and, in a daze, asked Pei the Red Panda, “Do you need to go to the bathroom?”
Pei the Red Panda looked at Ye Qingyu, disappointed.
The human had always known to hug her before. Why wasn’t she hugging her today?
She bit her red lip and said sullenly:
“I want a hug.”
The spring and innocence in the woman’s eyes were contradictorily intertwined, and in an instant, Ye Qingyu, the human who had understood everything on her own, became an innocent criminal.
But the criminal could not bear the dejection sparkling in those peach blossom eyes. She obediently extended her hands, and thus her sin deepened even more, unforgivably—
She pulled this little beast, who had clearly only been bitten on the ear but had already fallen into a long afterglow, into her arms.
An armful of warm fragrance and soft jade. Ye Qingyu’s breath trembled, and she was so inexperienced she didn’t dare to move.
And in that instant, she finally understood what she had always felt when she had wanted to eat the little red panda.
It wasn’t that she really wanted to eat her.
That was just the most primal, most savage, and yet most fervent desire.
Ye Qingyu’s lashes drooped slightly. The light shone on her jade-white face, and the shadowed parts revealed a dangerous and obscure emotion.
They hugged tightly for a long while before Pei the Red Panda was finally content and had recovered a little from the afterglow.
“I need to go to the bathroom.”
She spoke, and her post-fireworks voice had an unconscious coquettishness.
Ye Qingyu’s brow moved slightly.
She mechanically followed her command, picked up the woman, and, with practiced ease, gently placed her on the bathroom counter, then turned to get her slippers and put them on for her.
“And help me get a pair of underwear,” the woman said.
“…”
Steam suddenly rose from the top of Ye Qingyu’s head, and her movements became clumsy.
While the little red panda was tidying herself up, Ye Qingyu finally stumbled out to the living room as if fleeing and, at her wit’s end, picked up that sheet of instructions and quickly read it.
She had only heard a little about it before, and her knowledge was close to a blank slate. She didn’t know how much that little red panda knew.
Looking at that dazed and pitiful appearance, she was probably even more of a blank slate than her.
And yet, between them, there had been more than three times…
Ye Qingyu took a deep breath, not daring to think further, and tried to concentrate on reading the small booklet in her hand.
This instruction manual actually had more than a dozen pages, from physiological knowledge to various techniques, in-depth and easy to understand, and even had illustrations.
Ye Qingyu read ten lines at a glance, her ears burning red.
“Ye Qingyu…”
Her beautiful boss’s voice came faintly from the bedroom.
Ye Qingyu’s hand trembled. She hastily put the things away and piled them on a high cabinet, which a playful little red panda probably wouldn’t be able to reach.
Only then did she go back.
Pei Rong had already gotten into bed. She covered her mouth and yawned, the alluring crimson at the corners of her peach blossom eyes not yet faded.
“I’m so sleepy.”
“Then… let’s go to sleep.”
The knowledge she had just learned repeatedly floated in her mind, every single line clear. Ye Qingyu didn’t dare to look at Pei Rong.
She turned off the light, climbed to the other side of the bed, and lay down properly on the edge, so that if she moved just a little more, she would fall off.
“I have something to tell you tomorrow.”
She clutched the covers and said softly.
“Mmm.”
After the fireworks, Pei the Red Panda became clingy. Her hand fumbled and nuzzled under the covers, bonelessly slipping into the human’s warm palm.
A slick softness suddenly squeezed into her hand. Ye Qingyu, whose conscience was already uneasy, trembled all over and subconsciously pulled her hand away.
“…”
A brief silence fell over the bedroom, with only the slightly quickened breaths of the two of them.
Pei the Red Panda bit her lower lip.
A red panda in her mating season was already emotionally sensitive, and having just had a fireworks show made her even more fragile.
And Ye Qingyu had refused to give her the strawberry candy at night, hadn’t taken the initiative to coax and hug her after the fireworks, and now, she was even pulling her hand away when she tried to hold it.
The more Pei the Red Panda thought about it, the more wronged she felt.
She suddenly rolled over and sat up, puffed up with anger, and threw off the covers to get out of bed. “I, a little red panda, am running away from home tonight, and the four seas will be my home.”
