The Security Guard Who Won the Heart of the Unattainable Actress - Chapter 42.2

Chapter 42.2

Ran Mingyue joked, “Why don’t you stop focusing on Director Wang’s meager budget and just come work for me? I can fulfill all your needs.”

There wasn’t much to do around the house, and Ran Mingyue was meticulously handling Li Guang’s clothes. Looking from a short distance at the girl nestled on the sofa, she felt that the feeling of home was nothing more than this.

Only when Li Guang was right in front of her did Ran Mingyue feel that sense of security.

She watched Li Guang eating, watching TV, and stealing glances at what she was doing.

“Eat first. Don’t let your mind wander.”

“Okay.”

Li Guang licked the cream from her lips and quickly looked down.

Suddenly, a strong impulse surged within her.

Ran Mingyue’s protection and kindness towards her flashed through her mind. Ran Mingyue clearly rested even less than she did, yet Ran Mingyue called her meticulous. What about herself? She was even more meticulous, at least she prepared everything Li Guang needed to wear and use before going to bed.

When Li Guang was running late, she instantly threw on her shoes and ran out, only realizing her shoes were clean when she got to the filming location.

Ran Mingyue did all these things silently and never asked for a reward.

Why was Ran Mingyue so good… so good that her heart felt a little sour? That impulse rushed up, impossible to suppress, passed through her heart, and exploded into her mind like brilliant fireworks.

She thought she knew… she thought she understood.

The sentence Hua Yuzhi said.

The standard for liking someone.

Why use it to check if she liked that person? In reverse, she could check if the other person liked her.

Li Guang only just realized that she had never really taken the time to understand Ran Mingyue.

The sourness in Li Guang’s heart intensified. She pulled out her phone and saw that Hua Yuzhi had sent her an emoji five minutes ago as a greeting.

Looking at Ran Mingyue on the balcony, Li Guang still held the spoon with cake residue in her mouth, and she started typing:

“What should I do if I feel like I’ve fallen for that person?”

No, no, delete.

“If I feel a bit sour inside when I think of her, is that liking?”

“If my heart races when she gets close, is that liking?”

Li Guang typed and deleted, deleted and typed, still unable to find a phrase that accurately described her feelings.

She wasn’t uneducated, so why was she so inarticulate now? Li Guang thought, She absolutely had to question her strategist today!

Must! Get! An! Answer!

Li Guang continued typing, but the message from the other side came first.

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “What’s up?”

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “I see you’ve been typing forever. Why haven’t you said anything? Are you typing out a long, detailed story of unrequited love for me? Send it, I love to read it.”

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “Rubs hands.jpg”

Contemporary Lu Daiyu: “No, I’m not.”

Her story with Ran Mingyue shouldn’t be related to unrequited love. Ran Mingyue unrequitedly loving her was impossible.

She just had a question for her strategist right now.

Contemporary Lu Daiyu: “I want to ask a question! It’s just”

She hadn’t finished typing the sentence when Ran Mingyue’s voice came from the side: “Li Guang, isn’t it time for me to apply the medicine?”

Li Guang’s hand trembled when she heard the words “apply the medicine.” Her thumb hit the send button right before the phone dropped. So, the message was sent, and then the phone fell.

Li Guang had no time to worry about the phone, only looking up at Ran Mingyue: “Ayy—” she answered drawn out, “What?”

Ran Mingyue walked over. “Didn’t you say you were going to supervise me applying the medicine?”

Li Guang didn’t move. “Oh…”

“Wait a moment, I think the ointment is in a different jacket,” Ran Mingyue suddenly remembered. “I’ll go get it. Wait here for me.”

“Wait!” Li Guang looked at the spacious, brightly lit living room. “Here to apply it?”

“Right here,” Ran Mingyue seemed completely oblivious to Li Guang’s embarrassment. “The light is good here.”

Is this about the light?!

Ran Mingyue said, “Didn’t you come back specifically to supervise me applying the medicine?”

No… that’s… not… it…

Li Guang’s words drifted in her mind. She didn’t dare say them aloud. How could she be the one to handle the weighty task of supervising Ran Mingyue applying medicine?

Thankfully, Ran Mingyue had gone to fetch the medicine, and Li Guang quickly picked up her phone.

Hua Yuzhi had already bombarded her phone with several messages.

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “What are you saying!!!!!!!”

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “!!!!!!!!! Speak!”

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “You’re stuffing a piece of gossip halfway into my mouth and then pulling it out. You’re making me suffer, woo woo woo.”

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “Hurry! Let me know!”

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “Li Guang! Li Guang! Hurry and say it! If you do this, I’ll make a fuss!”

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “What happened? Hurry up, hurry up!”

Contemporary Lu Daiyu: “I’m here…”

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “I almost went to the police station security guard to look for you.”

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “Wait, that ellipsis of yours has a problem.”

Contemporary Lu Daiyu: “Don’t waste public resources.”

Contemporary Lu Daiyu: “What I wanted to ask is, if a person even needs you to supervise their application of medicine, doesn’t that mean they treat you very differently?”

Li Guang had typed this sentence and wanted to delete it, but Hua Yuzhi seemed to know Li Guang was going to delete it and immediately typed a line of text.

“Don’t backspace! Send it! Or you’ll never have a relationship!”

Li Guang was so startled by her words that the message was sent.

The moment the message went out, the person on the other side started spamming messages like crazy.

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “What? Applying what medicine? What kind of weird play are you doing!”

[Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “Be detailed.”

Contemporary Lu Daiyu: “Just normal medicine application! It just stands for some small matter.”

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “I understand, have you hit a home run yet?”

Contemporary Lu Daiyu: “?”

Drunk Fluttering Butterfly: “If you’ve already hit a home run, it means she thought sleeping with you was great and wants to sleep with you again. If you haven’t hit a home run yet, it means she wants to sleep with you!”

Li Guang didn’t even have time to send her question mark this time. The chat interface showed that the other party had retracted the message.

She already saw it!

Hua Yuzhi’s words were too direct. What was she even talking about!

“Li Guang.”

Li Guang was about to type, but when Ran Mingyue’s voice appeared, she was so startled that she nearly dropped her phone again. Now, she could only quickly hide it.

Hua Yuzhi’s words were too frightening and filled Li Guang’s mind.

Even though Hua Yuzhi retracted the sentence, Li Guang had been staring at her phone the whole time, so how could she not have seen it!

What does it mean, “She definitely wants to sleep with you”? How could she pin such an accusation on Teacher Ran! That’s not Ran Mingyue’s style.

Li Guang’s panic was visible to Ran Mingyue. Even though Li Guang tried her best to hide it, it was no use.

“What are you looking at so intently, like a thief?”

“Nothing!” Li Guang certainly wouldn’t admit what she was looking at, nor would she tell Ran Mingyue what she was asking Hua Yuzhi. This was a secret between her and Hua Yuzhi, the kind that Ran Mingyue could never know.

Otherwise, where would she put her face?

Ran Mingyue sat on the sofa, holding the tube of ointment. Li Guang’s mind was completely filled with what Hua Yuzhi told her:

She wants to sleep with you, she wants to sleep with you, she wants to sleep with you.

Ah, ah, ah, ah.

Get out of my head!

Don’t think about that!

“Li Guang?” Ran Mingyue said. “Why do you look a little absent-minded again?”

“…I’m sleepy. I ate too much just now,” Li Guang made an excuse.

“Sleepy?” Ran Mingyue stood up again. “Then go to sleep. Oh… I forgot, you didn’t sleep at all last night.”

Because Li Guang mentioned going to sleep, Ran Mingyue immediately dropped the matter of applying her medicine.

Li Guang understood! So, the job of ‘supervisor’ was simply for the literal reason, not some kind of ‘sleeping together’ reason at all!

Someone whose heart is tainted will see everything as tainted! Hua Yuzhi and Teacher Wen are truly annoying.

Li Guang immediately said, “I’m not sleepy anymore! Let’s apply the medicine!”

Ran Mingyue saw Li Guang’s eyes suddenly wide like copper bells. “…” What was going on? She had no idea why this girl suddenly had so much energy.

Li Guang and Ran Mingyue sat together on the two-seater sofa. Although it was a two-seater, it was actually very long. Li Guang sat next to Ran Mingyue, still leaving a person’s distance between them.

As soon as she sat down, Li Guang immediately turned her head and said, “You apply it. I won’t watch.”

Ran Mingyue said, “It’s fine if you watch.”

“?” Li Guang immediately said, “Sister Mingyue, please don’t joke like that. I can’t hear, I can’t hear.”

Li Guang had realized that Ran Mingyue liked to tease her.

Ran Mingyue said, “How do you know I’m joking? Maybe I actually mean it.”

“Hurry and apply the medicine…” Li Guang had no choice but to say, “Then you can go to sleep.”

Li Guang sat docilely beside her, and Ran Mingyue looked at her, amused.

Ran Mingyue said, “But I might not be able to reach that spot myself.”

“Then what should we do?” Li Guang choked a bit. “…It’s too private. I can’t possibly help you apply it.”

Li Guang noticed that Ran Mingyue stopped talking after she said that.

Li Guang continuously thought in her heart, Did I say something wrong?

Ran Mingyue: “…”

From her angle, she could already see Li Guang’s face starting to flush. Li Guang was blushing, and she was blushing, too, but thankfully Li Guang didn’t dare look her way, so Li Guang couldn’t see that her face was also red.

This was Ran Mingyue’s first time doing something like this as well. She was only pretending to be nonchalant. In fact, she wasn’t doing any better than Li Guang.

Li Guang sat there silently, her fingers twisting the hem of her clothes, incredibly conflicted.

She didn’t move an inch, so it was impossible for her to look back. Even though she and Ran Mingyue were so close now, she didn’t dare to look.

“Are you feeling shy?” Ran Mingyue suddenly asked.

Li Guang said, “No, I’m not.”

In front of Ran Mingyue, she had gradually refined her stubbornness to an art form.

It was okay for now, at least she didn’t have to see Ran Mingyue’s face.

Li Guang knew that when she met Ran Mingyue’s gaze, she was more likely to lose.

Ran Mingyue’s eyes were beautiful. She could always find something in her gaze that made her sink. So, she couldn’t look. If she looked, she would fall in, lose all her judgment, and forget what she had agreed to.

Li Guang had the least resistance to two things from Ran Mingyue: one was when Ran Mingyue ended her sentences with “is that okay?” in front of her, and the other was Ran Mingyue’s focused and bright gaze, directed solely at her.

She simply couldn’t resist.

And now, she wasn’t looking at Ran Mingyue, so she could pretend to speak to Ran Mingyue calmly.

Pretending is still pretending.

Her eyes weren’t focused there, but her hearing was exceptionally sharp, clearly picking up every sound from Ran Mingyue’s side.

The sound of trousers rubbing against the material. The trousers must be very soft. Perhaps, perhaps Ran Mingyue was lowering her trousers.

Besides the sound of the trousers, there was even… the sound of Ran Mingyue twisting off the cap of the ointment tube, the sound of Ran Mingyue picking up the cotton swab, and the sound of her tearing open the packaging.

Li Guang even slowed her breathing, unable to hear her own heartbeat. All her attention was focused there, just a person’s width away from her.

Her body was still sitting there, but her heart had already run off.

After a while, Ran Mingyue said, “I think I can’t quite reach that spot.”

Li Guang: “What?”

She really hadn’t snapped back to reality and didn’t know what Ran Mingyue meant by that.

Ran Mingyue didn’t speak for a long time. Li Guang didn’t know what she was doing, but she seemed to hear a sound again. This time it was the sound of a cotton swab touching… touching the skin, if she hadn’t misheard.

For the first time, Li Guang felt a strong itch in her heart. This itch was hard to describe physically, and it wasn’t any kind of itch she had experienced in her past two decades.

Li Guang thought, Does this feeling appear after liking someone, or before?

“Are you done?”

Li Guang didn’t hear Ran Mingyue’s voice again. Since she didn’t know what else she could help Ran Mingyue do, Li Guang spoke again, but Ran Mingyue still didn’t say anything.

“What’s wrong?” Li Guang was getting anxious. Li Guang couldn’t hear Ran Mingyue’s voice, and her own breathing deepened. She could hear her own heartbeat.

“It’s nothing… Nothing,” but when Ran Mingyue said “It’s nothing,” her voice was very quiet, sounding like she was holding back. This voice expressed the owner’s discomfort.

Ran Mingyue said, “It just feels a little uncomfortable… there, in the inner thigh.”

“Where else?”

Ran Mingyue didn’t answer Li Guang again, but this time Li Guang heard it. Ran Mingyue must have been applying the medicine over a large area. She didn’t know which painful spot she had touched, but Ran Mingyue let out a tiny, sharp intake of breath, a small “hiss.” Although the sound was very faint, Li Guang was sitting right next to Ran Mingyue, so she heard it.

“What’s wrong!” Li Guang was truly anxious now, more anxious than before. She couldn’t very well go and look. “Are you dressed, Sister Mingyue?”

“Not yet. I just touched a particularly painful spot,” Ran Mingyue said. “I might have a slight mark on my waist too. I need to apply some medicine there.”

“What? On your waist too? Let me see!” Li Guang said.

“Do you dare to look?” Ran Mingyue chuckled. The feeling of pain subsided. Li Guang paused at the question. She had been hit right on the mark; she didn’t dare look.

So Li Guang kept quiet. Ran Mingyue laughed at her again. “I knew you wouldn’t dare look.”

“Who said, who said I wouldn’t dare look,” Li Guang grumbled, successfully provoked by Ran Mingyue. “I dare!”

“Dare to look where?” Ran Mingyue asked languidly from the side. Li Guang had a nasty feeling that Ran Mingyue was deliberately teasing her now, but she didn’t want to think of Ran Mingyue as being that bad. Only bad people did that, and Sister Mingyue was so good to her.

It couldn’t be.

Li Guang said, “Dare to look at your waist.”

“So it’s the waist,” Ran Mingyue said. “That’s not where I thought.”

Li Guang: “Just let me off the hook, Sister Mingyue. You’re not allowed to tease me anymore…” I’ll actually take you seriously.

“If you tease me again, I’ll toss you into the sky,” Li Guang threatened her brazenly. “With my strength, it would be easy to pick you up, wouldn’t it?”

“I dare you,” Ran Mingyue said. “I dare to think it. Do you know, Li Guang, a person needs to dare to think big.”

Li Guang said, “…I’ll dare to think later.”

“You mean, after we get together?” Ran Mingyue’s voice was low, but Li Guang heard it clearly.

Li Guang choked, unable to react for a long time.

“I…”

“I don’t like beating around the bush. Under one condition, I’ll be very direct.” Ran Mingyue stood up. The sofa beside Li Guang had a slight indentation, and she heard Ran Mingyue’s voice right next to her ear.

“When I feel the other person is also testing me, I won’t beat around the bush anymore. Li Guang… you are testing me, too.”