novelraw Chapter 267 : Video Call
Chapter 267 : Video Call
In the evening, after Lin Nan finished eating at Grandfather's house, she went straight back to the third-floor bedroom.
Her mood was inexplicably terrible. Even with two people her age nearby, she still felt there was nothing at Grandfather's house that could interest her.
The epidemic prevention measures in this small town were fairly decent. Broadcast vehicles could constantly be heard. The area was mostly middle-aged and elderly people, and the streets outside were already empty of people on normal days, though now even cars were all but gone.
Grandfather and Grandmother had also lost the pleasure of playing mahjong. Apparently half a month ago they had gone to play mahjong as usual, but someone's child reported them. The police came immediately, smashed the mahjong machine, and drove the group of elderly people home.
As a result, the two of them could only huddle in the living room or bedroom, watching movies with the kids.
A movie was already playing downstairs. Wu Guodong had brought the projector to the living room and set it up. Supposedly the effect was pretty good, barely creating the illusion of being in a cinema.
But Lin Nan wasn't very interested in that movie. She lay on her side on the third-floor bedroom bed, scrolling through short videos, occasionally glancing at QQ with full anticipation, but never receiving what she was waiting for.
"He promised we'd video chat every day..." Lin Nan muttered as she rolled over. "But he hasn't even sent a message."
It had been several hours since she left that afternoon, but Chen Yao hadn't made a peep. Lin Nan suspected he'd spent these hours absorbed in gaming.
But if she initiated a message, she didn't have any topics to discuss.
Lin Nan sighed lightly. Grandfather's cooking really didn't suit her, and now Grandfather couldn't go buy prepared foods every day to improve things, so for dinner she'd only managed to finish the rice but barely ate any dishes.
God knows why the beef at Grandfather's house was so tough it couldn't be chewed at all.
And whether it was pork, beef, or fish with skin, you could clearly see hair on the skin or fish scales.
She grimaced. Although her stomach was full, she still felt like she'd eaten nothing for dinner.
Similarly, the two cats Cola and Sprite also lay to the side looking miserable. The cat food hadn't been properly stored, so once past its expiration date it had gotten damp and spoiled. There were still some cans left, but not many. The two of them could only pitifully eat a meal of leftover rice mixed with soup that Grandmother had prepared.
Lin Nan waited on the bed for an hour. She waited until 7 PM without getting the message she wanted, so she finally grabbed her pajamas to take a bath.
The pajamas were the pink cat onesie from Chen Yao's mother. Although this outfit was a bit too cute, at least it covered her entire body tightly with no possibility of any exposure.
Like the thin nightgown her mother had bought her... wearing it felt so light and airy it was almost like wearing nothing at all.
Carrying her clothes into the bathroom, Lin Nan plugged the bathtub drain and turned on the faucet.
Locking the bathroom door, she stripped naked and stood in front of the half-length mirror in the bathroom.
It seemed like... she was increasingly able to accept this feminized body.
Lin Nan looked at her upper body in the mirror. Although still somewhat shy, her heart no longer held the disgust toward her body that she'd had initially. She didn't know if she was gradually getting used to it or if her thinking had changed.
She looked in the mirror, tilting her head slightly to observe for a moment, then finally let out a long sigh and muttered in dissatisfaction: "If I'd had a girlfriend with such a good figure and skin before, I definitely would've woken up laughing in the middle of the night."
"But instead..."
She turned around and stepped into the bathtub, gradually squatting down and finally lying flat in it.
At her height, even in this bathtub she had to bend her knees slightly to fit completely. If it were Liu Xinyi, she could probably lie completely flat in it.
Feeling the waterline gradually rise from her buttocks, pass over her hips, Lin Nan held her phone to her chest, idly continuing to scroll through interesting short videos. Eventually the bathtub water stopped near her collarbones. Lin Nan was about to put down her phone and officially start bathing when she suddenly received a video call from Chen Yao.
Her eyes lit up. Without thinking she clicked to accept, but then her face darkened as she suddenly realized she was completely naked.
"Why is your side all foggy?"
Fortunately, having filled a large bathtub with hot water in winter, the entire bathroom was almost filled with misty vapor.
Lin Nan placed the phone in the recessed shelf beside her where bath products were kept, adjusting the angle to ensure he could only see her face, then finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Just happened to be taking a bath."
Under the cover of the steam, Chen Yao couldn't even see Lin Nan's face clearly. But thinking that Lin Nan wasn't wearing anything right now...
"Pretty good, pretty good."
Just from his tone, Lin Nan knew what this guy was thinking in his head. She silently rolled her eyes. "I'm hanging up in two minutes to take my bath. If I soak any longer I'll get dizzy."
"You gonna livestream it?"
"You can dream on."
Lin Nan lay back comfortably in the bathtub, looking at Chen Yao sitting at his computer on the other end of the video, curling her lip as she began complaining: "You probably played games all afternoon, didn't you?"
"Not really. I also made a video. It's still uploading." Chen Yao looked at Lin Nan on his computer screen.
Lin Nan was already beautiful. That delicate face appearing and disappearing in the mist was like the prettiest fairy on stage. Although Lin Nan tried to keep only her face in the camera frame, he could still vaguely see some curves below her collarbones.
He suddenly suspected this might be deliberate seduction.
But Lin Nan was completely unaware, continuing to complain on her own about how boring Grandfather's house was.
"The internet here is terrible. It takes over ten seconds to load even watching TikTok." She looked at Chen Yao's face in her phone, then suddenly changed topics. "Why don't you just not cut your hair? Take advantage of this time to grow it a bit longer. What if it looks good?"
"I definitely have to grow it since there's nowhere to get a haircut anyway." Chen Yao scratched at the bangs hanging on his forehead, a bit uncomfortable. "Anyway, you..."
Lin Nan suddenly froze, staring straight at a cockroach slowly crawling out from behind the toilet.
She furrowed her brow. Although she wouldn't be scared into a panic seeing a cockroach, this thing was disgusting no matter who saw it.
"What's wrong?"
"There's a cockroach crawling on the wall." Lin Nan turned to grab the body wash beside her, trying to aim at the cockroach, saying confidently to Chen Yao, "Watch me kill it!"
If she weren't on video call, Lin Nan would have gotten up long ago and gone over to slap it dead with a slipper.
Chen Yao had no interest in cockroaches. The thing couldn't possibly hurt Lin Nan. He yawned carelessly. "What did you eat tonight?"
"Beef, drunken eggs, stir-fried clams with cooking wine dregs, and Chinese cabbage."
"Not bad, pretty rich."
Lin Nan sighed. "I don't like eating things cooked with wine dregs. You know that."
The cockroach on the wall suddenly stopped. Lin Nan seized the opportunity and threw the body wash directly at it.
However, the cockroach immediately sensed the threat. Its wings spread and it took flight, dodging the body wash attack. Then it instantly identified the culprit and suddenly flew straight at Lin Nan's face.
Lin Nan's mind went completely blank. Watching the cockroach fly at her face, she instinctively stood up to run.
"Ahhhhh!!!"
Chen Yao heard the scream and immediately looked closely at his computer screen, asking with a smile, "What..."
The words were suddenly stuck in his throat.