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

Chapter 276 A Feeling of Unfamiliarity

Li Xiaoen opened the door and rushed into the room while calling out. When she reached the bedside, their eyes met, and a sharp scream immediately erupted from the room.

Holding her clothes to her chest with both hands, the clothes fell down, barely covering her hips, revealing a pair of long, fair, and plump legs. Amelia shrank back in terror, letting out a long, sharp scream.

"Etc., etc……"

Li Xiaoen quickly raised his hands to stop her explanation, but seeing the girl bend down and pick something up from the bed to throw at him, he snapped out of his daze and quickly turned his back to Amelia. "Get dressed first, I have something to tell you, it's urgent, and I'm very concerned about you... ah..."

What started as some thin clothing was thrown at him from behind. Li Xiaoen silently endured it and offered a helpless explanation. Before he could finish speaking, a crisp thud sounded on his head, forcing him to raise his hand and cover the spot where he had been hit.

After completing this action, the transparent plastic box containing dried fruit fell to the ground, rolled a few times, and made a few thuds.

"..."

"I've already turned away and am not looking at you anymore, why bother throwing things at me?"

Li Xiaoen sighed helplessly, rubbed his head a few times (which didn't hurt much to begin with), and let go. "Besides, if you're going to throw something at someone, you should at least think about what it is, okay..."

"If there's a knife next to me, I'll pick it up and throw it to you without hesitation!"

After a hurried rustling sound, Amelia's indignant rebuke came from behind.

"Are you dressed yet?"

Li Xiaoen asked helplessly, slowly took a step and turned around, only to see that Amelia was already dressed, holding a lit desk lamp in her hand, and looking at him warily as he approached.

"I'm here to help you; I'm not interested in you."

Li Xiaoen rolled her eyes. She thought to herself that she had been concerned about the other person's privacy, but in the end she was wrongly accused of having ulterior motives. It was really frustrating.

"Help me, you mean suddenly barging in while I was changing clothes?"

Amelia snorted coldly. Seeing Li Xiaoen move, she also turned around warily, always facing the young man directly. Under her watchful gaze, the young man fiddled with a few things and took out a laser pointer, shining it into a router in front of the bed.

"You suspect there are security cameras in this room?"

With a slight frown, Amelia felt a little relieved and tentatively approached, peering inside.

Li Xiaoen glanced at him irritably, and when the other person trembled in fright and held the desk lamp at him warily, he couldn't help but sneer.

"Luckily, this is a recording camera, not some real-time monitoring system with data transmission capabilities, otherwise your footage would have been stored in some people's cloud storage."

"How could a normal person know where there are hidden cameras when staying in such a high-end hotel?"

Amelia pursed her lips and rolled her eyes.

“Those criminal suspects install cameras regardless of whether it’s a luxury hotel or not.”

Li Xiaoen rolled his eyes. "Besides, your kind of thinking is not practical in India. Please put away your self-righteous 'I thought' mentality."

"Judging from this, you seem to have a lot of experience."

Feeling embarrassed, Amelia looked over with an ambiguous gaze.

"If we're talking about experience, I do have some."

Li Xiaoen readily nodded in acknowledgment, then smiled and suddenly leaned towards Amelia, startling her so much that she trembled and took several steps back.

After receiving a disgruntled glare, he burst into laughter twice.

"With my circumstances, if I really wanted a woman, would I need to resort to such despicable methods?"

Glancing at Amelia, Lee Shawn gave a soft snort, waved his hand, and walked towards the door.

"I think your room is safe now. Goodnight."

"Oh, right, don't forget to lock the door. I just pushed that door open."

"Sean..."

Seeing the young man leave without looking back, Amelia couldn't help but call out to him. Seeing that he didn't stop, she quickly followed him. "Are you going to Professor Phyllis's room to check on him?"

"Professor Phyllis?"

Li Xiaoen raised an eyebrow, gave a strange smile, and shook his head repeatedly. "She's not in the room. She went out with Avika a long time ago. It's hard to say whether she'll come back to the room tonight..."

"really?"

Amelia asked in shock, but the young man didn't answer and walked out of the room on his own. Her heart skipped a beat, and she quickly reached out and grabbed his arm tightly, "Sean..."

"..."

"We've already disabled the room's security camera. You can report it to the hotel front desk tomorrow, or even now. What else do you want?"

He tried to pull his arm away a couple of times, but Amelia's hands gripped him even tighter. Lee Shawn slumped his shoulders and said weakly, "You won't repay kindness with enmity and blame me for framing you, will you?"

"No."

Amelia pursed her lips, denying it helplessly, but her eyes darted left and right as she stammered out the rest of her sentence, "And to find out about this in India, and in such a high-end hotel, I'm a little scared being alone in a room..."

"so?"

Li Xiaoen raised an eyebrow, tentatively leaning closer to look at Amelia's blushing face, only to be immediately looked away by her. "You want comfort, right? Whether it's comfort or to help you sleep, I recommend you go to TikTok, find those live streams that don't have anyone there, chat with the streamer for a bit, and then leave it there and let him talk."

"no!"

Upon hearing the young man's suggestion, Amelia's expression turned strange at first. Seeing him shake off his arm and about to leave, she quickly chased after him and hugged him tightly again.

Amelia's new clothes were rather thin, and Lee Shawn felt his arms sink into two plump, soft mounds, which startled him.

"Hey……"

He tried to pull his arm away, but Amelia hugged him even tighter. Lee Sean had no choice but to turn around and face her directly. "Let go. Just tell me what you want, okay?"

"I……"

Looking up to meet the young man's gaze, Amelia stammered for a long time before finally managing to utter a complete sentence, "You...you...can you share a room with me tonight?"

"what?"

As the words faded to a whisper, Li Xiaoen gasped in disbelief.

……

Inside the brightly lit room, the washroom, separated by a transparent glass partition, was concealed by a towel. The sound of running water could be heard from inside. Any young man in the prime of his life who knew that a beautiful young woman was taking a bath inside would inevitably feel a surge of lust and his mouth would go dry.

Li Xiaoen listened curiously for a while, but after not seeing any interesting images, he was immediately drawn to the notification sound from the computer.

Even though he was on a business trip to India for other reasons, he still had to worry about the company back in America. Right now, he was discussing the details of the collaboration with a Cambridge University professor and Ivan, who was working overtime in the studio.

After an unknown amount of time, the bathroom door finally opened, releasing a cloud of white steam. A long, pale leg, glistening with water droplets, stepped out first. "Sean..."

"Sean..."

When her first call went unanswered, Amelia took another deep breath and raised her voice, finally managing to get the young man to look up from his computer.

"Sean, you..."

Amelia pursed her lips and pointed to the soft bed beneath Lee Shawn, "You're lying on the bed..."

Li Xiaoen: “???”

"Any questions?"

Her personality was that of a nerd, extremely conservative. Even Amelia's pajamas were loose and soft long-sleeved tops and pants, revealing even less skin than her usual denim skirt outfit. Li Xiaoen looked her up and down.

"You're sleeping in the bed, where am I supposed to sleep?"

Amelia clenched her fists.

"You mean the two of us share a room? The room is so big, I've taken the bed, and there's so much space outside, you can sleep wherever you want."

Li Xiaoen waved his hand dismissively, his gaze sweeping across the room. He nodded at the sofa, recliner, carpet, bay window, and even the wardrobe. "Of course, if you want to stay in the bathroom, I won't object."

He had barely finished speaking when he noticed Amelia's slightly furrowed brows, her deep breath, and her aggrieved expression. He then snapped out of his reverie, chuckled, and pointed to the soft bed beneath him. "You're not trying to say you want to sleep in this bed, are you?"

"You asked me for help and asked me to share a room with you, so you're basically assuming I'll sleep on the sofa and make do on the floor while you sleep in the bed?"

Knowing that Amelia was shy and couldn't bring herself to say it, Sean Lee was both amused and exasperated. He tentatively mimicked her thoughts, "Amelia, touch your chest. Do you feel no heartbeat?"

Unable to understand what the young man meant, Amelia raised her hand to her chest, but it was initially blocked by his full breasts. She had to squeeze her hand towards the center and touch the inside. Suddenly realizing what was happening, she flung her hand away and glared at Li Xiaoen.

"Dirty!"

"Ha ha……"

Li Xiaoen laughed twice, then spread out one hand towards the floor below the bed, saying, "Since you're asking for help, you should show the sincerity you deserve. Anyway, I'm going to sleep in the bed; you can decide where you want to sleep."

"Oh, in bed is fine too."

As if remembering something, Li Xiaoen smiled and raised an eyebrow again, "I don't mind."

"Shut up!"

With a stern rebuke, Amelia quickly turned around, took a quilt from the closet, placed it on the sofa near the bay window, sat down heavily, and began to spread it out and tidy it up herself.

Turning his gaze back, Li Xiaoen shook his head and stopped teasing the other person, refocusing his attention on the computer.

Suddenly, a loud whirring sound came from inside the house. Amelia was drying her hair, which drew his attention again.

Just as Li Xiaoen finally felt relieved after enduring the ordeal, the lights in the room suddenly went out again, plunging him into darkness.

"..."

“Hey, Amelia…”

Li Xiaoen sighed helplessly, "You're not getting revenge, are you?"

Is there any connection?

In the pitch-black darkness, Amelia's cold laughter came from the direction of the sofa, "It's so late, and you've been on a plane for most of the day. You still have negotiations to attend tomorrow. Shouldn't you be getting some rest? If you have any energy left, you could go for a run..."

"Ok."

Shrugging, Li Xiaoen closed his laptop, grabbed the blankets on the bed, and rolled himself back onto the lower bunk.

At first, he didn't feel anything, but as soon as he lay down, Li Xiaoen felt his mental energy relax and he felt physically and mentally exhausted. A wave of drowsiness surged over him.

His consciousness was hazy. He first used [Eye of Insight] to confirm that the door was locked and that there were no suspicious persons within a 500-meter radius before he quickly fell into a deep sleep.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Xiaoen vaguely sensed a faint sound coming from the bed. The mattress and blankets not far from her were shaking slightly. She took a deep breath and reached out to touch them.

Reaching out, Li Xiaoen first touched the slightly cool bedding. Then, as he moved his hand up, he happened to touch something soft. He wondered what it was and tentatively pinched it a few times.

"what--"

Before his hazy consciousness could draw any conclusions, his hand was suddenly flung away, followed by a terrified scream from that direction.

"Ok?"

Suddenly pulled back from his dazed state, Li Xiaoen gave a puzzled hum and struggled to sit up in bed, turning on the light and looking in the direction where Amelia had spoken.

In his line of sight, the girl was clutching the blankets covering her body and chest with both hands, her eyes red and filled with tears, glaring at him angrily.

"..."

"what happened?"

Startled awake, Li Xiaoen was breathing heavily and asked with concern.

As his consciousness gradually cleared, he looked down at the spot beneath Amelia, recalling the sensations he had felt when he was groping around in a daze, and combining that with the reaction of the person in front of him...

"This is not my fault."

Li Xiaoen shrugged. "Why did you suddenly get into bed again?"

"I'm not comfortable on the sofa, so I can't sleep."

Rolling her eyes, Amelia's thoughts were unreadable. She opened her mouth but didn't know what to say. Unable to withstand the young man's gaze, she realized her face was getting hot, so she quickly pulled the blanket over her head and lay down on the bed.

"One blanket for each person, you can lie a little further down."

Li Xiaoen could only hear Amelia's voice from a blanket rolled up like a caterpillar in front of him.

"How about I draw a red line for you that you absolutely cannot cross?"

He had only ever seen such a scene on TV before, but now he was experiencing it in real life. Li Xiaoen chuckled and raised his chin. Unfortunately, his teasing words didn't get a response. He shrugged, turned off the bedside lamp, pulled up his blanket, and lay down.

The next day.

As consciousness slowly returned, a fragrant, soft body lay in his arms. Li Xiaoen's face was covered by long hair. He couldn't help but take a deep breath, raise his hand to push the long hair to one side of his face, subconsciously hugged the girl in his arms tighter, and lowered his head to kiss her forehead.

"..."

No, something's wrong.

A soft murmur came from the girl in his arms, and Li Xiaoen frowned in surprise.

(End of this chapter)