The Humiliation of the Enigmatic Beauty

The next second, her already flushed cheeks turned a deeper crimson.

Dongyi pressed her lips together tightly, but her bodily functions seemed to betray her. Ultimately, she couldn’t stop it.

[Don’t let them find out, don’t let them find out, please don’t let them find out…]

She could do nothing but bury her face in her mind, like an ostrich.

However, in such a cold spring night, the wetness of her clothes clung uncomfortably to her skin.

Moreover, with Li Chunsheng having already reached the peak of Bronze-tier, how could his heightened senses possibly ignore it?

“Hmm…? What?! No way?!” Li Chunsheng suddenly halted, exclaiming in disbelief as he looked at the Enigmatic Beauty on his shoulder. “I only tapped you lightly, you wouldn’t… be so scared that you [did it] on the spot, would you?”

For a moment, he was frozen in place, unsure whether to continue carrying her or set her down.

“Wuwuwu—”

Hearing his words, a mournful cry, like that of a young beast, escaped from deep within Dongyi’s throat.

The extreme shame and humiliation utterly shattered the defenses of her self-respect.

[No… it’s not like that…]

“Oh, right, I forgot you can’t speak right now,” Li Chunsheng said, as if suddenly remembering something and realizing, “Open your mouth.”

“Li Chunsheng, you bastard—”

The moment she could speak, Dongyi cursed him in a hoarse voice, thick with suppressed sobs.

“Hey! Can you be reasonable? It’s clearly your fault for ‘leaking’ on me, isn’t it?” Feeling utterly wronged, as if he were Dou E herself, Li Chunsheng retorted with a pained expression.

“Bad man… you big bad man…” Dongyi had completely lost control. She buried her head in Li Chunsheng’s back, abandoning all resistance, and began to softly sob like a helpless little girl.

Her usually mature and enigmatic demeanor completely crumbled in that moment.

“Damn it… I give up! Why are you crying again?” For some reason, while Li Chunsheng could steel his heart against unreasonable women and confront troublesome men, and generally found women exasperating, he always seemed to soften when it came to women who had once been men.

“Alright, alright… I’m the bad guy, an unforgivable villain, okay?” He sighed, doing his best to clumsily comfort the newly-transformed woman with the gentlest voice he could muster.

However, his attempts at comfort seemed utterly ineffectual, causing Li Chunsheng’s mood to sour further.

Even after they arrived home, Dongyi’s subdued sobs showed no signs of stopping.

Li Chunsheng took out his keys and unlocked the front door.

“You’re back, Chunsheng? You must be tired!”

Under the warm glow of the lights, Liuxia’s gentle greeting, as soft as a spring breeze, was the first sound to fill the air.

But her voice quickly caught in her throat. She stared, dumbfounded, as her junior entered, carrying a stunning young woman draped over his shoulder, softly weeping, with only her legs visible.

Liuxia’s pupils contracted sharply in an instant.

“Chunsheng, you—”

“What is this…?” She couldn’t help but recall a widely circulated tactic online, a predatory method specifically targeting intoxicated women.

[No way?]

[How could he just go out to throw trash and manage to pick up a girl on the way back?!]

However, Liuxia’s keen eyes quickly caught a crucial detail.

The softly sobbing girl slung over Li Chunsheng’s shoulder seemed to possess long, shimmering ice-blue hair, as cold and striking as a glacier.

Such a hair color was exceedingly rare; in Liuxia’s vivid memory, only one person possessed it.

An enemy who had once made her feel both troublesome and dangerous.

“Inv… Investigator?” Liuxia hesitantly uttered the title.

The woman, already weak from crying, instinctively shivered.

It was this subtle reaction that instantly made Liuxia understand.

It truly was her.

Just then, Li Chunsheng finally spoke, his words laced with clear disdain.

“Ugh! Senior, she’s absolutely filthy! Please quickly take this whimpering Investigator to change into some clean clothes!”

Saying this, he tossed Dongyi onto the entrance hall floor as if she were a scorching hot potato, showing absolutely no tenderness.

“Look at her! I only brought her back to stay the night out of pity, seeing how pitiful she looked, wanting to die, and being homeless in the middle of the night!”

“Who knew she would! She actually returned kindness with enmity, on my shoulder…”

At this point, feeling the damp, cold sensation on his shoulder, Li Chunsheng’s anger flared.

He pointed at Dongyi on the floor, adding indignantly, “I think you shouldn’t be called Investigator Liao anymore; you should be called ‘Leakage Liao’ instead!”

This deeply insulting remark once again pierced Dongyi’s already shattered self-esteem.

Already disoriented from being tossed onto the floor, hearing such humiliation now brought tears of profound sorrow and grievance. She could only slump onto the ground in a vulnerable ‘duck sit’ posture, crying heartbrokenly and piteously.

“Wait, Li Chunsheng, what you’re saying is going too far!”

Though still somewhat bewildered by Li Chunsheng’s accusations, Liuxia, ever the compassionate one, knew at least one thing: she couldn’t allow the trembling, tear-streaked Enigmatic Beauty before them to continue her breakdown.

The young woman quickly stepped forward, gently helping Dongyi up from the cold floor. She patted her back and softly comforted her, saying:

“There, there, it’s alright, it’s alright… Investigator Liao… I know, things definitely aren’t like Chunsheng said.”

“I’ll apologize for him, okay? Please don’t cry.”

Liuxia’s voice possessed an inherently soothing power. Dongyi gradually calmed down, her sobs slowly subsiding.

However, the Enigmatic Beauty, though no longer crying, still kept her head stubbornly bowed, uttering not a single word.

By this point, Liuxia had already employed her superhumanly acute senses, carefully discerning the scent emanating from Dongyi. She quickly discovered that, apart from a unique, cool, and elegant fragrance—like a snow lotus blooming atop a glacial peak—there was absolutely no other discernible odor on the Enigmatic Beauty.

Thus, Liuxia couldn’t help but turn her head, speaking to Li Chunsheng with a hint of gentle reproach, “Chunsheng, this time you’re truly in the wrong. Where is there any scent on her, as you claimed, of… ‘doing that kind of thing’?”

“Are you acting like a grade-schooler, deliberately teasing her for your own amusement?”

“Huh? I didn’t!” Li Chunsheng exclaimed, feeling deeply wronged. He quickly turned around and showed Liuxia the wet stain on his shoulder. “Senior, look at the mark on my shoulder! This can’t be faked! It’s clearly there!”

Liuxia approached, half-believing, half-doubting. Upon closer inspection, she saw a distinct wet patch clinging to his skin. She snapped her head up, only to see Dongyi avert her gaze the instant she looked, her face flushing crimson once more.

[Ah… could it be that I really wronged Chunsheng? But…]

Liuxia subtly twitched her small, upturned nose, taking another delicate sniff. Yet, all she detected was the same unique, cool fragrance emanating from Dongyi.

However, the scent in that particular area was subtly different, carrying a faint, earthy undertone.

“???” Liuxia was utterly perplexed. How could the stain be so evident, yet the source remain undetectable on Dongyi herself?

But whatever the case, it definitely wasn’t the offensive odor Li Chunsheng had implied.

“Chunsheng, come here and smell it yourself,” the young woman tried to guide Li Chunsheng to the truth. “It’s quite clear you’ve misunderstood. Can you tell what it actually is?”

Li Chunsheng, still half-skeptical, leaned in and sniffed. A look of astonishment immediately spread across his face.

“It’s really true! There’s no foul smell at all, just a faint, peculiar dampness!”

A hint of intoxicated wonder gradually dawned on his face.

Listening to their conversation from the side, Dongyi felt as though she was on the verge of losing her mind.

What kind of utterly bizarre family was this?!

Or were they simply colluding to publicly execute her, over and over again, in this cruel manner?