America: I came here to study, not to show mercy.

Chapter 227 Here…is the Jaws
"Sean..."

With her eyes wide open, staring blankly at the young man whose face was getting closer and closer, Victoria called out softly.

His breathing became short and heavy, and Li Xiaoen still felt like he couldn't breathe. He reached out and stroked the girl's smooth skin and the scarf. Looking at his reflection in her bright eyes, he subconsciously lowered his head.

"Sean..."

With the light blocked and her vision shrouded in shadow, Victoria felt a sudden panic and quickly raised her hand, pushing the young man who was almost within reach back away.

She quickly sat up straight, avoiding the young man's gaze, her chest heaving. "No, don't do this..."

Coming to his senses, Li Xiaoen let out a breath and awkwardly touched the back of his head.

"I'm sorry, I acted impulsively."

I don't know what got into him, but he actually did something like that without thinking.

"No...it's okay."

Victoria clenched her clothes tightly in front of her, shook her head, and spoke in a voice barely audible.

"Um……"

Nodding, the scene fell silent. Li Xiaoen looked around, quickly got up, grabbed the clothes she had bought, and headed to the bathroom.

"I'm going to take a shower now. The cameras in the room have been removed, so you can take off your scarf now."

"Oh, well..."

Turning the water temperature down, the cool water washed over Li Xiaoen's burning body. He shivered at first, but his previously hot and sticky body felt much more comfortable, and his mind quickly calmed down.

Well, although he initially said it was to protect Victoria and increase their sense of security, when they were actually alone in a room, he couldn't help but have some ulterior motives—especially since he knew how Victoria felt about him.

Once he regained his senses, Li Xiaoen immediately drew a conclusion about what had just happened and stopped thinking about it.

Li Xiaoen opened the individually packaged toiletries, squeezed some shampoo onto his head and rubbed it in. He casually opened the system interface, his gaze sweeping across the backpack bar before finally stopping at the last small square, on the small suction bottle with "×5" written in the lower right corner.

With one hand extended forward, still covered in foam, Li Xiaoen grasped his palm with his five fingers, revealing a small suction bottle in his hand.

The small bottle looked exactly like the one in his memory. After carefully examining the liquid inside, he couldn't see anything unusual. Without hesitation, Li Xiaoen picked it up and sucked all the liquid into his mouth and swallowed it.

"..."

Is it that the effects only gradually become apparent later?

Feeling no abnormality in his body or mind, Li Xiaoen thought to himself, carefully examining the prop description of "True Life Number One," then shook his head and stopped worrying about it.

Supplementing brain nutrition, promoting bone growth, and improving memory—these three effects are obviously not easily seen in a short period of time. No wonder that when I was a child, this advertisement that was repeatedly broadcast on TV might have been a scam.

After a quick wash and a thorough shave with the hotel's razor, Li Xiaoen put on the short-sleeved shirt and shorts she had just bought and walked out of the bathroom.

Because of his experience of going out with Suffer, he had prepared clean, washed underwear in the [Containment Space]. He had previously taken it out and lied that he had prepared it in the car, but Victoria looked at him like he was a scumbag for a long time.

[Containment Space] This is great. Even though he acted on impulse to take Victoria away without preparing anything in advance, he can now easily handle almost any emergency situation—including the time he went to Aurora town with Sophie.

If the most frequently used [Eye of Insight] so far has been to raise his upper limit and provide protection, then this previously unnoticed [Containment Space] can be said to stabilize his lower limit—in fact, it could be said that even if he were thrown into some desolate wilderness now, he could survive for a long time and find a way to survive.

Stepping out of the bathroom and arriving at the hairdryer in the corner of the room, Li Xiaoen was about to greet Victoria when he saw the girl quickly run back inside, clutching her clothes as if fleeing. He paused in his actions.

A strange smile gradually appeared on his face. Suddenly, Li Xiaoen let out a long hiss and quickly took the hairdryer away from his hand. He kept rubbing the previously hot spot with his other hand, and then he felt much better.

After quickly drying her hair, Li Xiaoen glanced at the two single beds in the room, then walked to the bedside table and picked up the water bottle that Victoria had only partially drunk from.

Li Xiaoen took out a bottle of "True Life No. 1" and poured it into the bottle. Seeing that the liquid was transparent and odorless, he nodded repeatedly.

After putting the bottle back in its place, Li Xiaoen lay back down on his bed near the door, holding the back of his head with both hands. He was just thinking about planning his next trip when his eyelids suddenly felt incredibly heavy. He tried to struggle a few times but still managed to close them tightly.

That's right. After the intense exercise last night, he dragged three of Daniel's friends to practice singing all night, ran away with Victoria, chased her family's bodyguards on the highway for almost an hour, and went shopping for several hours. His mental state was almost at its limit.

With his last vestiges of consciousness flashing through his mind of the eventful experiences of the past two days, Li Xiaoen quickly fell into a deep sleep.

Two hours later, Victoria tiptoed out of the bathroom and peered into the room. She was startled to see the young man lying quietly asleep on the bed.

She tiptoed to the bedside, carefully observed the young man's condition for a while, and then breathed a sigh of relief, completely relaxing.

With a smile playing on her rosy lips, Victoria got up, picked up her phone, and fiddled with it, her gaze repeatedly drifting towards it, her previously calm heart slowly rising again.

"Cough cough..."

Victoria coughed twice, keeping a close eye on the young man out of the corner of her eye. Seeing that he didn't react at all, she got up, grabbed the hairdryer, and turned it on the lowest setting to dry her hair, but still, he didn't react at all.

The large room was empty and fell silent again, but she felt her heart pounding loudly.

Victoria walked around the room, looking up and down at the decor, and then unconsciously moved to the young man's bed and sat down.

She stared blankly at the young man's handsome face for a long while, blinked, and still couldn't resist the urge to recreate that Thanksgiving night. She raised her hand to brush aside her long hair that fell in front of her and bent down.

It was still tentative. Victoria swallowed instinctively, then lowered her head and gently pressed her lips to the young man's, a fleeting touch.

The soft touch came from her lips, and even though it was her first time, her body still couldn't help but tremble. Afraid of disturbing the young man, she quickly stood up and took a few deep breaths.

Victoria looked down at the young man who was still sleeping like a log, and for some reason, she recalled the experience that Suffer had confessed to her. Suddenly, she felt conflicted and aggrieved, and she could hardly breathe.

She was being very careful here, while Sophie was doing everything she could.

The more she thought about it, the more suffocated she felt. Torn between her own family situation and her own, Victoria steeled herself and resolutely squatted down by the bed again, sticking her head out over the edge.

This time, she didn't immediately pull away after taking the young man's lips into her mouth. She braced herself on the bed with both hands to control her trembling body. As her nervousness gradually subsided, she began her next move with trembling hands, opening her lips and tentatively sticking out her tongue.

She held this position for longer than all her previous moments combined. Suddenly, her tongue touched something softer and even moving. Confused, she subconsciously opened her eyes before realizing what had happened. Her whole body stiffened, and she opened her mouth tremblingly.

"Sean...you, you're not asleep?"

The young man didn't react, remaining peacefully lying on the bed. She watched as the bright reflection of his lips under the light, and couldn't help but let out a shy moan. She hopped onto her own bed in a few quick steps, threw back the covers, and hid herself completely. "..."

Only then did Li Xiaoen reluctantly open his eyes, a barely suppressed smile on his lips.

Considering the girl's shyness, he originally planned to pretend to be asleep to get away with it, but unfortunately Victoria could not accept such "self-deception" and instead hid herself away.

Turning his head to look at the bulging bun on the bed next to him, Li Xiaoen felt a surge of warmth in his heart. The lingering sleepiness from being startled awake vanished instantly, and he got up and sat on the other person's bed.

“Much profit… … ”

Reaching out to touch the top of the round, bulging bun, where the girl's back was curled up in a ball, Li Xiaoen spoke slowly, "I was asleep. It was only when you found me that I woke up and became conscious."

In response, another groan came from inside the blanket, as if trying to avoid his movements, and Victoria moved her body further away.

How can I appease her?
With a wry smile, Li Xiaoen scratched his head and tentatively lifted a corner of the blanket under Victoria's body, which startled Victoria so much that she snatched the corner back and pressed it back down.

With a smile on his lips and his eyes narrowed, Li Xiaoen suddenly let out a shout and searched around the small bulge on the bed for a loophole to exploit.

"Haha...Here...is the Jaws..."

Already on edge, Victoria shuddered again upon hearing this. Before she could react, she saw the young man grab the gap between her legs behind her and start pulling it outwards. Startled, she gasped and quickly closed her legs, turning to face the young man.

"Ha ha……"

Amused, Li Xiaoen didn't dwell on the other party's attempt to salvage the situation and withdrew the flaw he had discovered.

Victoria's reaction was quite amusing. He suddenly recalled his experience watching the horror movie Jaws with his cousin when he was a child. He had heard Daniel and others mention that the Jaws movie was a childhood nightmare for many American children at that time.

Was it the same in England, or was it just that his behavior made the girl nervous?

Li Xiaoen pondered to himself, and this time he changed his words and stopped trying to scare the other party. He raised his hand and tapped the clump that had turned around in front of him, which was clearly the girl's head.

“Victoria, open it up, let’s talk.”

"Don't think about it!"

A shout came from inside from Victoria.

"Well, you forced me to do this."

Li Xiaoen took a deep breath. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Victoria in front of him pull the blankets even tighter. He found it amusing, pressed his hand on the mattress and began to exert force, pressing down in a small arc, and quickly reached into the small mound that was covered up.

"Hey……"

With a gasp, Victoria quickly tightened her arms on the blanket, but was suddenly attacked from the side, her body ripped open. The room light had just shone in when it was immediately blocked by a figure.

"Why……"

Seeing the young man already squeezed into the bed, Victoria felt a wave of despair. She covered her face with her hands and let out a wail, "Why did you have to come in? Did you really want to see other people in such a sorry state?"

"No, Victoria."

Li Xiaoen chuckled, reached out and picked up the girl who was curled up on the bed, and said softly, "Victoria, that wasn't embarrassing, you looked beautiful then."

Victoria remained unresponsive, her head bowed and her hands tightly covering her face. After a while, a faint sound finally came out.

"Get out, I don't want to see you right now..."

"..."

Feeling helpless, Li Xiaoen did not comply with the girl's wishes this time. Instead, he lowered his head and leaned in to kiss her fair swan neck.

"Sean...Sean..."

The itching on her neck was unbearable, and Victoria twisted her neck uncomfortably, making suppressed sounds, "No, don't do this..."

"You kissed me without my permission, and I want you to give it back."

A sweet, delicate fragrance wafted into his nose, and a few strands of the girl's golden hair were still on his lips. Li Xiaoen felt the fair skin on his lips and chuckled softly.

"It's different, it's completely different..."

Victoria felt wronged and tried to dodge but couldn't. She tried to fall onto the bed, but the young man held her tightly and she couldn't move. She couldn't help but let go and glare at him, "You're being a scoundrel!"

"Where is he being a scoundrel?"

Only then did Li Xiaoen lift off the girl's neck, chuckling as he sat up straight. He glanced at the girl in front of him, whose face was as beautiful as a peach blossom, and was stunned again.

Unable to withstand that burning gaze, Victoria was so ashamed she wanted to disappear. She raised her hand to touch her face again.

"Hey……"

Before Victoria could act, Li Xiaoen quickly raised her hand to cup her cheeks, and just as Victoria looked up, she took a deep breath, pursed her lips, and smiled.

"Even though I've said it many times, I still have to tell you now."

"Victoria, you look so beautiful..."

Startled by what she heard, Victoria quickly looked away and gazed in another direction.

“I like you, Victoria.”

Li Xiaoen spoke softly again.

Victoria's eyes widened suddenly as she turned to look at the young man, whose face loomed close and kissed her lips.

The soft yet distinct touch on her lips was more intense and stimulating than ever before, and her nose was filled with the unique scent of the young man. Victoria was momentarily stunned, and her body began to quickly become limp and powerless.

(End of this chapter)