Chapter 086: I Do!
"Sir, here is your room card, please keep it safe!"
After checking in at the hotel front desk, Lin Lang took the room card and instructed the hotel staff to prepare several high-end specialty dishes, plus two bottles of imported red wine, and send them to the room.
Lin Lang habitually gave a tip.
"Thank you, sir! I will make sure everything is arranged properly." The hotel front desk took the two hundred-yuan bills and bowed respectfully.
Immediately after, Li Moli followed behind Lin Lang with cautious steps, like a little girl who had done something wrong, both anticipating and very nervous, yet daring not to show it, as they slowly proceeded to the hotel room.
The hotel receptionist was very efficient; after receiving the tip, she instructed the hotel kitchen to arrange a candlelight dinner.
Upon reaching the room door, Lin Lang swiped the card and opened the door.
"Creak..."
Li Moli stood outside the king-sized bed room, head bowed, twiddling her fingers, her face flushed, too shy to enter.
"What's wrong, Moli? Why aren't you coming in?"
Li Moli replied shyly, "A Lang, this is my first time getting a room with a man. It's just the two of us, a man and a woman, in one room. I'm a little scared."
Lin Lang replied with a smile, "Silly girl, I'll sleep on the floor and you sleep on the bed. I won't take advantage of you. Are you still afraid I'll sneak onto your bed in the middle of the night?"
"But what if you do sneak onto my bed in the middle of the night and try to do something to me? I wouldn't be able to resist you!"
"Moli, this is a society governed by law now. Going against a woman's will can lead to imprisonment. As long as you don't agree, how could I dare to do anything to you?"
"Leaving aside my character, I certainly don't want to go to prison to 'sew' (a euphemism for prison labor), so you can rest assured!"
Li Moli playfully stuck out her tongue and smiled, then stepped into the hotel's king-sized bed room.
"Click..."
The sound of the room door closing.
After closing the door, the air in the hotel room seemed to be filled with an ambiguous atmosphere.
Li Moli's heart was racing. She seemed to be anticipating something, appearing a bit flustered. Getting a room with Lin Lang, her childhood sweetheart, made her somewhat awkward.
Lin Lang noticed Li Moli was very nervous, so he sat on the large bed and casually turned on the hotel's television.
AI generated beautiful picture of Li Moli on the hotel bed
"Moli, before the hotel delivers our meal, let's watch some TV!"
"Okay!" Li Moli also sat on the large bed, but maintained a meter's distance from Lin Lang.
The wall-mounted television faced the king-sized bed in the room.
Lin Lang's original intention was to watch some TV programs to ease Li Moli's nervousness, but the movie playing on the TV showed the male and female protagonists passionately embracing and kissing.
"Uh..."
Lin Lang instinctively looked at Li Moli.
"Uh..."
The ambiguous scene in the movie was too beautiful, making Li Moli's face flush and her heart pound. The moment their eyes met, they were so awkward they could dig out a two-bedroom apartment.
Li Moli said with a crimson face, "A Lang, you're looking at me with such a longing gaze. You wouldn't want to try out the kissing positions from the movie with me, would you?"
Lin Lang quickly shook his head in denial, "No, no, no! How could I do that to you?"
"A Lang, you brought me here to get a room, and you're playing this kind of kissing scene for me to watch. And you're still denying you want to do that to me?"
"Moli, please don't misunderstand!"
"As soon as I turned on the TV, the kissing scene with the male and female protagonists appeared. I really didn't do it on purpose."
"I'll change the channel for you right now."
Lin Lang wiped away cold sweat and quickly pressed the TV remote control. However, it switched to a romance drama, and the scene was still a kissing one.
"Uh..."
Lin Lang chuckled awkwardly, "Why are today's TV programs all so improper?!"
Li Moli shyly covered her mouth and smiled.
Lin Lang quickly pressed the channel change button again, but the TV remote control didn't respond.
"What's going on?"
"Could the TV remote control be broken? Or are the batteries dead?"
Lin Lang aimed the remote at the TV and pressed it several times, but the TV screen still showed ambiguous scenes of the male and female protagonists in a sweet romance drama.
Seeing Lin Lang's flustered appearance, Li Moli couldn't help but want to laugh.
Helplessly, Lin Lang looked at Li Moli awkwardly and said half-jokingly, "The hotel's TV is setting the mood for us. How about we try kissing too?"
Li Moli lowered her head shyly, her chin tucked in, and replied bashfully, "A Lang, you're so naughty! How can you just 'try' something like that?!"
"You're thinking pretty nicely, but it's my first kiss!"
Lin Lang scratched his head and chuckled awkwardly, "I'm just teasing you. I'll control myself and try not to have any improper thoughts about you."
"A Lang, you said you'd 'try' not to have any improper thoughts about me, so you still do have improper thoughts about me, right?"
Because Li Moli was Lin Lang's childhood sweetheart, having grown up together, their feelings were very deep, so Lin Lang exercised restraint.
"Moli, you don't understand. My having improper thoughts about you is actually a form of respect for you."
"A Lang, what kind of bizarre theory is that?"
"Moli, imagine this: a beauty with an angelic face and a devilish figure like you, alone with me in a room, and I have no thoughts about you at all? That would be utterly disrespectful to you."
"A Lang, you're quite good at finding excuses for yourself, but if I kiss you, how will I ever get married later?"
"I wouldn't allow you to marry anyone else anyway!"
"You won't let me marry anyone else? Are you saying you'll marry me, A Lang?" Li Moli blinked her watery eyes, gazing at Lin Lang with deep affection.
Lin Lang replied truthfully, "I would never lie to you. If you are willing to marry me, you can only be an invisible girlfriend, but the children you bear out of wedlock will have inheritance rights."
Li Moli was shocked to hear this and said, "A Lang, do you already have a wife?"
Lin Lang replied, "No."
Li Moli pressed on, "Then do you already have a fiancée?"
"Not that either."
"Then you have a formal girlfriend?"
Lin Lang replied regretfully, "Sort of!"
Li Moli's expression turned resentful as she heard this, "What do you mean 'sort of'? Is your girlfriend Zhou Mengyao?"
Lin Lang replied truthfully, "No, she's a beautiful magnate worth hundreds of billions. I'm afraid if I ask her to be a concubine, she'll throw a few hundred million on the black market to put a bounty on my head for assassins worldwide."
Li Moli was stunned and continued to ask, "A Lang, are you being kept by this multi-billionaire beauty magnate, which is why you're so rich?"
"No."
"I earned my money through my own abilities, I wasn't kept by a beautiful magnate."
"Then, A Lang, do you love this multi-billionaire beauty magnate very much?"
Lin Lang replied with deep affection, "To be honest, my feelings for you are deeper than for any other woman. I always thought I only saw you as a younger sister. It was only after I had lustful thoughts about you today that I suddenly realized I seem to have liked you since childhood."
Li Moli said aggrievedly, "Since you like me the most, why can I only be your invisible girlfriend? Is it because you and the multi-billionaire beauty magnate have already slept together?"
Lin Lang replied truthfully, "No, I haven't had any physical intimacy with her."
"I also don't want to make her my official wife. I'm just afraid that if I ask her to be a concubine, she'll get angry and kill me. I can't afford to provoke a young lady from a wealthy family. Moli, if we had reunited earlier, I definitely wouldn't have provoked any multi-billionaire beauty magnate."
Li Moli's eyes welled up with tears as she said, "I think I understand. Even without this multi-billionaire magnate, you wouldn't make me your official wife because my family background isn't good, and my social status is too low, right?"
Lin Lang replied regretfully, "All I can do is tell you the truth. I will never lie to you, no matter what."
"High society is a hypocritical arena of fame and fortune. I am destined to become the Shanghai Emperor. My official wife's social status and connections, even if not from an old money family, must be from a prestigious family. Only then can she be worthy of my future prominent social status."
Li Moli was stunned and asked, "What is the Shanghai Emperor?"
"Is it the Emperor of Shanghai?"
"Or the richest man in Shanghai who can control everything on the Shanghai Bund?"
Lin Lang shrugged, "Something like that!"
Li Moli said aggrievedly, "Zhou Mengyao is from a prestigious family, so she has a chance to be your official wife. What you just implied was that you don't want to make the multi-billionaire beauty magnate your official wife, and you definitely want to marry Zhou Mengyao."
"In short, I'm just a small blade of grass. I know I'm not worthy of A Lang."
Lin Lang replied with heartache, "Moli, I'm not lusting after your body. We grew up together as childhood sweethearts and have a strong emotional foundation. No other woman can replace your importance in my heart."
Li Moli gazed at Lin Lang blankly, her expression resentful, and said, "A Lang, if I become your woman, can I only be your invisible girlfriend?"
Lin Lang implicitly replied, "If you don't want to be my invisible girlfriend, it's still not too late for us to stop now, since nothing has happened between us yet."
"Even if we remain siblings and have no physical intimacy, as long as you don't marry, I can support you for life."
"Moli, you need to know that no matter how we interact, you are the person I am willing to protect for a lifetime. This is clear as day and night, known to heaven and earth."
Li Moli burst into tears upon hearing this. Her emotions at this moment were incredibly complex, more tangled than a ball of twine.
AI generated beautiful picture of Li Moli on the hotel bed
Lin Lang tenderly wiped away Li Moli's tears, blaming himself, "It's all my fault. Before I reunited with you, I couldn't bear the loneliness and provoked other women."
"Although I very much want to have you and crave your tenderness, I don't want to hurt you."
"I should go!"
"I'm afraid that if I continue to be alone with you in this room, I won't be able to control myself and might act improperly towards you, and our relationship might not be able to return to being purely innocent."
"I'm truly despicable, to have had such wicked thoughts about you."
"I'm leaving. Lock the door when you're alone. Goodnight!"
Lin Lang stood up to leave, but was suddenly hugged tightly from behind by Li Moli, causing his body to tremble and him to stop in his tracks.
Li Moli cried, "A Lang, don't go. I'm willing to be your invisible girlfriend!"
"I've liked you since I can remember. These past few years apart from you, I've missed you so, so much!"
"A Lang, after we reunite this time, I don't want to be separated from you again. As long as you truly treat me well, are willing to take care of me for a lifetime, and allow me to bear children for you out of wedlock, I can disregard the title."
"A Lang, I love you!"
Lin Lang no longer restrained himself. He turned around and pulled Li Moli into his arms, embracing her soft waist, and passionately kissed Li Moli, unable to control his emotions.
Lin Lang took Li Moli's first kiss.
Li Moli, with her clumsy kissing technique, actively kissed Lin Lang back. It was a deep and passionate kiss.