Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

"Snapped!"

A crisp and loud slap suddenly exploded in the cramped cabin, drowning out the monotonous roar of the engine outside.

After so many years of fighting wits and courage with Lin Xi, Shen Jingyuan was already familiar with her methods. Her angry counterattack at this moment was completely within his expectations. With his skills, it was easy for him to avoid or block this unplanned slap.

However, this time, he did not move.

He didn't even turn his head, but just closed his eyes slightly, tightened his jaw, and used half of his cheek to take the slap that Lin Xi slapped with all his strength.

After the crisp sound, Shen Jingyuan's head was tilted to one side by Lin Xi's force. Under the dim light, one could clearly see that several bright red fingerprints quickly appeared on his originally cold and hard facial lines, and the color was still deepening, which was extremely glaring.

Lin Xi swung her hand completely out of instinct and anger. She was of course aware of the huge difference in strength between the two of them. The moment she swung her hand, she was already prepared that this slap would miss or be easily subdued by the other party.

It was not until after the crisp sound and the numbness in her palms followed by a burning pain that she suddenly realized that Shen Jingyuan had not dodged.

Lin Xi couldn't help but be stunned, and then a surge of even more rage suddenly rushed into her heart.

"Cough cough... Shen Jingyuan! Are you... are you crazy?!" She coughed and yelled at Shen Jingyuan in a hoarse voice.

Upon hearing this, Shen Jingyuan slowly turned his head and met Lin Xi's eyes that were burning with anger and confusion. He did not reach out to touch the burning spot on his face, but glanced at her almost indifferently.

Then, he did something extremely simple, but it made Lin Xi's scalp tighten instantly.

He slowly raised the right hand that had just strangled her neck.

Just the action of raising his hand made alarm bells ring in Lin Xi's mind!

Her pupils suddenly constricted, her face turned pale, and she subconsciously used her hands to support herself and retreated quickly. Her movements were flustered and awkward, until her elbow hit the hard deck with a heavy "bang" and she was forced to stop.

Shen Jingyuan looked at her violent reaction like a frightened bird, and the corners of his mouth turned down slightly, outlining a cold and sarcastic arc.

"Did you see it?" His voice was low and smooth, without the slightest ripple, yet it made Lin Xi shudder involuntarily. "If the person who appeared on this boat today wasn't me, Shen Jingyuan, but any other strange man with ulterior motives..."

"At that moment, facing you, defenseless, he could have easily broken your neck with just a wave of his hand." His words were devoid of emotion, calmly stating a harsh and realistic fact. Then, he leaned forward slightly, and an invisible pressure weighed down on Lin Xi like a physical substance.

"Or, if it's the commander's enemy..." Shen Jingyuan's voice was still calm, but it revealed a coldness that penetrated deep into his bones.

"Then the identity of 'Commander's Daughter' that you are so proud of will definitely not be your ticket to immortality. On the contrary..."

He paused, then sneered coldly, "It will also become your—death! talisman!"

Lin Xi sat on the ground in a daze, and it took her a long time to come back to her senses.

A strong sense of shame and anger suddenly surged in her heart. She wanted to continue scolding this madman, but when she thought of his cannibalistic look just now, she could only silently swallow the words that were on the tip of her tongue.

But then he thought again, if he didn't say anything, wouldn't it seem like she was really scared and had given in?

After struggling for a while, she could only snort loudly to vent her dissatisfaction, then she got up from the ground, secretly rolled her eyes at Shen Jingyuan who was studying the map at the desk, and began to pick up the bottles, jars and clothes that she had just scattered on the ground.

"Bang!" She threw a powder box into the small suitcase with force.

"Bang!" An eyebrow pencil was deliberately dropped on the lid of the box.

"Bang!" She kicked the little leather shoes to the corner of the deck.

Shen Jingyuan: ...

After a while, Shen Jingyuan, whose forehead was throbbing with veins throbbing because of the noise Lin Xi deliberately made, finally couldn't help but stop what he was doing, turned around and glanced coldly at Lin Xi who was fighting and throwing things.

"you--"

Lin Xi, who was pretending to concentrate on cleaning but actually listening intently for a reaction, immediately caught his gaze.

She subconsciously shrank her neck, then suddenly raised her head as if to hide her guilt and shouted in a bluffing manner.

"What...what's wrong?! Can't I just pack my things? Am I in your way?!"

Shen Jingyuan looked at Lin Xi's face which was full of "I did it on purpose", took a deep breath, and completely gave up the idea of ​​studying the map quietly tonight.

He decisively folded the map and stuffed it back into the box. His eyes looked around the narrow cabin and finally fell on the old cabinet in the corner where Lin Xi had hidden.

He walked over, pulled out a roll of old straw mat, and then found two gray sheets. Then he walked back to the center of the cabin and pushed the table to the corner to make room.

Then he shook his hand and spread the straw mat on the ground with a "rustle". Then he picked up the two sheets, looked at their condition carefully, and then rolled up the one that looked relatively clean and newer and threw it in the direction of Lin Xi.

As for the remaining sheet with several footprints on it from Lin Xi, he turned it over, rolled it up into a ball and used it as a pillow.

"Huh?! What's that?! It smells musty."

Lin Xi was watching his movements with a vigilant look on her face, when she was caught off guard by the flying sheet that covered her head and face, instantly depriving her of her vision. She screamed in disgust and tried frantically to tear the sheet off her head.

But Shen Jingyuan did not give her the chance to attack. When she pulled the sheet over her head, he quickly extinguished the kerosene lamp beside her, and the cabin was instantly plunged into thick darkness.

Lin Xi only heard the rustling sound of fabric rubbing against each other beside her, and then Shen Jingyuan's cold voice floated over.

"sleep."

"Why are you sleeping? I haven't even brushed my teeth, washed my face, or put on any ointment yet!"

Lin Xi finally pulled the sheet off her head and growled angrily at Shen Jingyuan in the dark.

However, the only sound in the darkness was Shen Jingyuan's steady and long breathing, as if in the blink of an eye, he had fallen into a deep sleep. No matter how Lin Xi shouted and complained in a low voice, he remained unresponsive like a stone.

"Sleep, sleep, sleep! Sleep till you die!"

Lin Xi was so angry that she was fuming. She groped her way towards the vague figure on the straw mat, stretched out her hand, and twisted Shen Jingyuan's arm several times.

Unfortunately, the other person's muscles were as hard as iron. Not only did she fail to twist him, but she also hurt her own fingers.

"Hiss...Damn Shen Jingyuan! A body of dead flesh!" Lin Xi rubbed her aching fingers and cursed angrily.

In the end, she could only reluctantly give up the "wake-up call" and groped her way to the corner of the straw mat farthest from Shen Jingyuan, curling up angrily and lying down. The straw mat beneath her was hard and prickly, and the unpleasant musty smell lingered at the tip of her nose, making her extremely uncomfortable.

In the darkness, she opened her big eyes. The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved and angry she felt. She couldn't help but mutter towards the darkness with gritted teeth.

"Damn Shen Jingyuan... damn Shen Jingyuan... when I get back, I'll let daddy teach you a lesson! Beat you with a military stick! Beat you with a stick! Beat your butt until it's bruised! And let mom scold you! Let Uncle Quan say you... humph..."

She muttered to herself, her voice filled with sleepiness and dissatisfaction, becoming smaller and smaller, more and more unclear, and gradually becoming lower and lower until it finally disappeared completely.

In the darkness, Shen Jingyuan, who had kept his eyes open, curled up the corners of his mouth almost imperceptibly after hearing the complaining voice finally disappear completely, forming an arc that he himself did not even notice.

Then, as if he had finally relaxed, Shen Jingyuan slowly closed his eyes, accompanied by the long breathing sounds from the other end of the straw mat.