Chapter 74: Meng Linna’s Bottom Line

The distance between the two of them couldn’t be any closer.

Normally, at this distance, the thing to do would indeed be to kiss, right?

Na Naya also realized this from the other’s flushed cheeks, and only then did she belatedly pull back a bit, saying with some guilt, “I’m doing all this for your own good!”

Though Meng Linna felt a bit shy, her rationality still held the high ground in her mind, and she protested unwillingly, “How is this for my own good? I think you’re just trying to satisfy your own filthy desires.”

“What are you talking about! I don’t have any filthy desires like that!”

As soon as the words left her mouth, Na Naya noticed the iron chain around the other’s neck.

She hadn’t paid attention to it before, but this kind of pet-like collar worn around a person’s neck—it’s definitely a bit problematic, isn’t it?

Meng Linna noticed it too, and now wasn’t the time to worry about face anymore; she immediately shouted, “You dare say you don’t have even a single extra thought about this?”

“Of course not!” Na Naya nodded decisively, then spoke again. “But wearing this kind of collar on you isn’t appropriate; I should take it off.”

“Heh.”

Meng Linna wanted to mock her a bit more, but considering the key to the collar was still in the other’s hand, it was better not to provoke her right now.

“No worldly desires, no worldly desires…”

Na Naya silently chanted the mantra in her heart to calm herself as she held the key and drew close to Meng Linna’s body again.

There was no helping it; to take off the collar, she’d have to get this intimate once more, right?

At this moment, the subtle height difference between them became apparent.

Even sitting on the ground, Meng Linna was still quite a bit taller than Na Naya.

In this narrow corner, in this perfect position, to reach the collar, Na Naya inevitably sat on Meng Linna’s lap once again.

To be honest, Na Naya was very light.

Just sitting on her lap like this didn’t feel like much; if anything, it was quite relaxing.

For Meng Linna, the ideal day would probably be spending it in a country noble villa, holding a little loli wife in her arms and sleeping soundly.

But if the one in her arms was Na Naya, that was another story.

Far from feeling relaxed, Meng Linna didn’t even dare to breathe now.

Their breaths intertwined with each other.

Meng Linna could clearly sense that she was inhaling the air the other exhaled—warm and sweet, a suffocating something.

She didn’t dare move at all.

It might be better to just suffocate like this and let the other move, right?

At least, that’s what Meng Linna thought at this moment.

Na Naya also felt that the atmosphere right now was really a bit too ambiguous, so she sped up her hand movements quite a bit.

One hand gently lifted the collar around the other’s neck, while the other held the key and probed toward the keyhole.

Her left hand could even clearly feel the pulse in the other’s neck.

Click.

The faint sound announced the end of the restraint.

The tense Meng Linna reopened her eyes.

Of course, the weak her had long since closed her eyes, waiting for Na Naya’s actions.

Though haste makes waste, Na Naya had indeed done it quite quickly.

But it wasn’t without cost; the instant the collar opened, with her hands losing their support point, she involuntarily pitched forward.

When a person loses balance, they subconsciously grab onto something—what did Na Naya grab?

“Guh!” Meng Linna let out a pathetic sound.

In that instant, a bunch of excuses flashed through Na Naya’s mind.

If she had to explain, they were all force majeure; it really couldn’t be helped, right?

But on second thought, if she pushed everything onto force majeure and claimed she was completely innocent, wouldn’t that make her a totally irresponsible bad woman?

Of course, that kind of thing wasn’t important at all; what mattered now was dealing with the problem in front of her, right?

“Um, even if you grabbed it, it’s fine,” Meng Linna’s expression darkened; it was clear she was trying her best to hold back. “I know this might be accident, but at least, could you not squeeze so hard? It still hurts a little…”

“Sorry!”

Na Naya hurriedly let go, but that sent her into another extreme—because she released too hastily, her upper body inevitably toppled forward.

Yeah, it was a kind of unspeakable cleaning cosmetic.

When it came to womanly charm, Meng Linna was definitely more than a level above Na Naya—no, rather, the two were polar opposites.

Na Naya was the type who could starve a child to death, while Meng Linna, just from her appearance, was clearly the sort who could not only feed a child to fullness but even nourish a wife with excess.

So soft.

At first, it felt like her head had collided with an excellently elastic cushion, even a bit comforting.

Na Naya completely stopped thinking.

***

After spending a little time, the two finally recovered from the farce just now.

“I’m really sorry about earlier.”

“It’s okay, I can understand.”

The two with flushed faces tacitly didn’t mention the details.

But once her head cooled down a bit, Na Naya couldn’t help but start savoring the sensations from before.

The maternal glow on Meng Linna, especially that softness, easily awakened Na Naya’s longing for motherhood in her mind.

She kind of wanted to bury her head in it, to act spoiled…

When she realized what her head was thinking, Na Naya hurriedly shook her head to fling those bizarre thoughts out of her mind.

“Anyway,” to distract herself, Na Naya spoke up, “though I definitely shouldn’t use chains or anything, I will still monitor you seriously—no gambling, absolutely!”

At this point, Meng Linna felt it was time to state her position. “Miss Na Naya, don’t you think you’re meddling a bit too much? You’re not my guardian; I don’t need your permission for what I do, right?”

Meng Linna knew gambling wasn’t a good thing; before, it had just been a heat-of-the-moment impulse, and now, nothing could make her touch so-called horse betting again.

Even so, she absolutely had to make it clear to Na Naya.

Though she did mean well, she couldn’t cross the line.

Meng Linna considered herself a very mature adult.

Though she was willing to warmly treat everyone, she had her own social distance—her so-called bottom line.

And Na Naya’s actions just now had undoubtedly crossed into that bottom line, a boundary even the closest friends shouldn’t step into.

From birth until now, Meng Linna hadn’t allowed anyone to set foot in that area.

“But!” Na Naya also realized she didn’t seem to have a legitimate reason to monitor Meng Linna, and her retort got stuck in her throat for a moment.

“You should understand, right,” Meng Linna pressed her advantage. “We’re just ordinary teammates.”

“No,” Na Naya shook her head; her clever mind quickly found an excuse. “I’m the acting bishop of the Yanan diocese now, and you’re just a nun, so I have the authority to manage you within my jurisdiction.”