“Are you done yet?”
Lin Xueling stared at the reddish-brown stall wall in front of her, listening to the sound of rushing water behind her. The tips of her ears were still bright red.
“Why are you in such a hurry? My kidney function is pretty good. What’s wrong with me taking a little longer?”
Xia Xi felt the warmth coming from his right hand and couldn’t help but chuckle softly.
This girl was really kind of dumb. What guy takes two or three minutes to pee?
He was just moving his foot back and forth over the infrared sensor by the urinal, keeping the water sound going.
Lin Xueling actually thought that loud, heavy stream of water was coming from him.
He wasn’t a faucet. How could he just open the floodgates like that~
“Still… still not done? I need to go too…”
Xia Xi had actually forgotten about this. Lin Xueling was the one who first said she needed to go to the restroom, which meant the girl beside him had been feeling the urge for a while. Now, he’d been dragging it out for so long…
Thinking about this, Xia Xi shifted most of his attention to his right hand, and a very strange feeling of holding in urine spread through it.
It felt like… the entire arm was filled with lactic acid – sore, swollen, and achy. He even felt like if he moved it just a little, blood might spurt out.
The uncomfortable feeling made Xia Xi immediately withdraw his attention. He hadn’t realized Lin Xueling had been enduring this the whole time.
Okay, this was definitely his fault. He shouldn’t have teased her on purpose like that.
“I’m done. Your turn.”
He gently patted Lin Xueling’s right shoulder with his left hand, then swapped places with her.
Since girls need to squat down, Xia Xi was forced to squat down right beside her.
He stared at the stall wall in front of him, listening to the sound of rushing water behind his ears, and finally understood that antsy, impatient feeling Lin Xueling had just experienced.
But he wasn’t a pervert. He absolutely wouldn’t turn around and stare at her when she was in such a vulnerable state.
“Xia Xi… do you have any tissue?”
Because of the commotion in the classroom when someone stopped them, Lin Xueling had forgotten to bring toilet paper.
Luckily, Xia Xi had the habit of keeping a pack of tissues in his pocket. Otherwise, someone would have had to put her underwear back on all wet…
They exited the stall, and Xia Xi went to the sink. Out of habit, he turned on the faucet and prepared to wash his hands.
The next second, something occurred to him, and the corner of his mouth curled into a mischievous grin.
“Hey, Xiao Xue, you’re my right hand, right?”
“Mmhm, why?”
Lin Xueling didn’t understand why Xia Xi was suddenly asking this. At that moment, she was also at the sink, washing her hands clean.
“After using the restroom, you’re supposed to wash your whole hand clean, right?”
“Mmhm, that’s right, but what about it?”
Lin Xueling still didn’t get what he meant.
Washing your hands after using the bathroom – isn’t that something even a three-year-old knows? Did he really need to emphasize it again?
Wait?!
Looking at the mischievous grin on Xia Xi’s face, and connecting it with his first question, Lin Xueling suddenly realized something.
“No way! I absolutely refuse to take off my clothes!”
Lin Xueling’s thought was: if Xia Xi wanted to wash his entire hand clean, that meant he wanted her to wash her entire self clean. How could that be possible!!! Forget the fact that they were in a public place at school – even if she was his right hand, she couldn’t just strip down in front of others!
“Who said anything about you taking off your clothes, dummy.”
Xia Xi still had that same mischievous, cheeky look.
He knew Lin Xueling would misunderstand when he asked that kind of question. That’s exactly why he wanted to tease her.
“Then what do you mean?”
Lin Xueling furrowed her brow. If Xia Xi wasn’t asking her to wash her whole body, then what was he getting at?
“Dummy, after using the bathroom, you obviously just need to wash your palms. Who washes their entire arm just because they went pee?”
Getting called “dummy” again, Lin Xueling snorted angrily and turned her face away, not wanting to deal with this jerk anymore.
If he wasn’t going to speak clearly – if it was just about washing palms, then while washing her hands, she might as well splash some water on her face too.
As if she were pouting, Lin Xueling cupped some water in her own hands (which were also his), splashed it onto his face, and scrubbed vigorously.
Suddenly, Xia Xi felt his palms were cool, and there was a rubbing sensation on his face.
“Now they’re clean! Let’s go back to the classroom!”
Everyone who walked into the restroom gave her a strange look, which made Lin Xueling feel very embarrassed. She didn’t want to spend another second in this place!
Darn it, why did I have to be this guy’s right hand!!! It’s so inconvenient!!!
…
The morning classes ended quickly. They didn’t have any classes in the afternoon, so the rest of the time, they were naturally going to go home and do their own things.
“So… where should I go?”
Lin Xueling looked a bit lost.
Logically, as a female university student, she should go back to the girls’ dormitory or her own home.
But she was also Xia Xi’s right hand, so she should go with Xia Xi…
So confusing. It all just felt wrong somehow…
“Isn’t it obvious? You’re my hand, so of course you’re coming home with me~”
Xia Xi didn’t want to follow Lin Xueling back to her home.
After all, her parents were there. If he showed up in this conjoined state for a “visit,” things would probably get even more chaotic.
He had no idea how reliable this system’s “making everything logical” function really was. If it wasn’t reliable, and Lin Xueling’s parents just freaked out on the spot, what then?
So, going back to Xia Xi’s own place was the safer bet.
“Oh, oh, right. Then I’ll let my parents know.”
Lin Xueling thought for a moment, nodded, and picked up her phone to call her parents. She told them she was safe and that she’d be staying at Xia Xi’s place tonight.
On the other end of the line, Lin Xueling’s parents seemed to think this was perfectly normal. After all, it was the most natural thing in the world for a body’s owner to go home with their own hand.
Even if that hand happened to be their daughter.
…
“Welcome back~”
The first to greet them when they opened the door was An Xiaoyu.
“Xia Xi-ge, Sister Xiao Xue, come and try the little cakes Sister Xin Yu and I just learned to make.”
“Sure, but what brought on the sudden urge to bake at home?”
Xia Xi agreed with a smile, took a small cake from the tray An Xiaoyu was holding, and popped it into his mouth.
“Because Sister Xin Yu makes really delicious cakes. I wanted to learn from her, and also give you a little treat for working so hard at school~”
Working hard?
Lin Xueling glanced discreetly at her “owner.”
She herself had sat through two classes peacefully reading. But Xia Xi… ha. If playing games for two classes counted as “working hard”…
“What’s with that look? I get tired too, you know!”
Xia Xi read Lin Xueling’s expression and got flustered with embarrassment~
