"This... Shichan, is this going too far?"
Upon hearing Tang Yuanchan's words, Qin Shiyun felt a chill run down her spine.
She couldn't help but rub her face and neck as if she had already been splashed with that unremovable paint.
"Shiyun, this Ningchuan is too arrogant. Don't you want to teach him a lesson? Look at his attitude towards you. Does it seem like he's here to protect you? It's more like he's here to monitor you! Besides, I won't do anything fatal. What are you afraid of? At most, he'll end up with a colorful face and look ugly! Hehe, I'm really looking forward to it..."
Tang Yuanchan covered her mouth and giggled, her crescent-shaped eyes spark with eagerness, fixing on the monitor screen.
"Well..."
Qin Shiyun still hesitated.
"Hey, Shiyun, don't tell me you really have feelings for this security guard and can't bear to see me make fun of him?"
Tang Yuanchan deliberately smiled mischievously.
"What a joke! To me, he's just a security guard, a tool."
Qin Shiyun recalled how Ningchuan had referred to her as "just a protected target," and blurted out.
"Look! Look! This guy is about to trigger my trap!"
Tang Yuanchan suddenly exclaimed in excitement.
On the surveillance screen, Ningchuan unknowingly walked towards the room with the trap.
On the partially closed door, there was a bucket filled with paint placed on top. As soon as Ningchuan pushed the door, the bucket of paint would splash all over him.
In the surveillance footage, Ningchuan approached the room, pushed the door, and entered.
But, the bucket of paint installed on the door didn't fall!
After a while of inspecting the room, Ningchuan walked out.
"What? How can this be? I set up the trap, why didn't it work? The paint bucket that I painstakingly placed, why didn't it fall? Strange!"
In the study, Tang Yuanchan furrowed her brow, looking puzzled.
When Ningchuan went to inspect another room on a different floor, Tang Yuanchan quickly ran out of the study and walked to the door of that room. She pushed the door and entered.
She wanted to see where the problem with her trap was!
However, at the moment Tang Yuanchan pushed the door...
A large bucket of colorful paint poured down from above!
Crash!
The bucket of paint, mixed with more than ten different colors like red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple, splashed all over Tang Yuanchan's head, face, neck, and even flowed into her clothes...
Tang Yuanchan stood still in shock for a good ten seconds.
Then, she let out a piercing scream that almost brought down the roof!
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!!"
In her screams, Tang Yuanchan tightly closed her eyes, afraid that the paint might get into her eyes, and hurriedly ran towards the nearby bathroom.
Splash!
After finally finding the switch for the shower, hot water gushed out from the showerhead.
Tang Yuanchan desperately scrubbed the paint off her head, face, and neck.
Her clothes were also covered in paint and she quickly took them off without any hesitation.
Though she didn't dare to open her eyes, she could feel with her hands that she was now completely covered in colorful paint from head to toe!
"Wow... Shiyun, save me! Please save me!"
With her eyes closed, Tang Yuanchan cried out loudly.
Just as she was shouting, someone walked in, turned off the hot water, handed her a towel, and then retreated to the doorway.
Tang Yuanchan took the towel with both hands and vigorously wiped her face.
"Shiyun, what should I do? My face is completely covered in paint now, sob sob..."
Tang Yuanchan reluctantly opened her eyes and looked at her reflection in the mirror, instantly on the verge of tears.
She was now dyed from her hair to her face, from her face to her neck, and from her neck to her collar... all in various colors.
"Various colors would be an understatement; it's at least seven or eight colors, maybe even nine or ten!
She looked like a female version of a circus clown!
"Waaah... Shiyun, what do I do? I can't rub it off! Waaah..."
Tang Yuanchan continued rubbing her face in front of the mirror, then turned her head towards the door.
But as she looked, she let out another scream, reaching 120 decibels.
"Ah ah ah!!! Ningchuan? Why is it you? Don't you dare turn around!!! Don't look! Don't look!"
While screaming, Tang Yuanchan grabbed a towel to cover herself.
"Don't worry, you're covered in paint from head to toe. Even though you're not wearing clothes, it's like wearing a paint suit, so nothing can be seen. Don't fret."
Ningchuan teased in a mocking tone.
"You bastard! It's all because of you! It's all your fault! You did it on purpose! I won't spare you!!!!"
Tang Yuanchan finally realized that Ningchuan had seen through her paint trap, and instead of falling for it, he turned the tables and drenched her in paint.
"You won't spare me? Maybe you should clean up the paint on yourself first."
Ningchuan chuckled, turned around, and continued inspecting the security issues in the villa.
At that moment, Qin Shiyun finally heard the commotion and hurried down from the second-floor study.
"Yuanchan, what happened?"
"Waaah, Shiyun, come in and help me rub it off! Waaah..."
Qin Shiyun quickly entered the bathroom, closed the door, and started rubbing the paint off Tang Yuanchan.
However, the paint Tang Yuanchan prepared was stubborn and couldn't be easily removed. As they rubbed, the colors mixed together, turning Tang Yuanchan into a failed impressionist artwork!
"Oops!"
While they were diligently trying to remove the paint, Tang Yuanchan suddenly exclaimed.
"Yuanchan, what's wrong?" Qin Shiyun asked.
Tang Yuanchan stiffly turned her neck and looked towards the corner of the bathroom ceiling.
There, she had installed a surveillance camera herself!
The red light on top was flashing slightly, indicating that it was still working!
"Ah ah ah!!!"
Tang Yuanchan screamed again and hastily wrapped herself in a bath towel. She pushed open the bathroom door and rushed towards the second-floor study.
As she reached the entrance of the study, Ningchuan walked out from inside.
"Ningchuan!! Did you tamper with my surveillance software?" Tang Yuanchan trembled as she spoke.
"I didn't tamper with it," Ningchuan shook his head.
"Phew!"
Tang Yuanchan immediately felt relieved.
"I just made a copy of a surveillance video, the one where someone was rubbing paint in the bathroom! It's quite funny! I saved that video to a cloud drive. If you're interested, I might upload it to those online video platforms and see if it goes viral or something." Ningchuan said casually.
"What? You dare!"
Tang Yuanchan instantly felt a mix of embarrassment and anger.
"I dare? Weren't all of these your plans? Since you dared to do this to me, why wouldn't I dare to do the same to you?" Ningchuan retorted.
"You... I..."
Tang Yuanchan was speechless, torn between wanting to cry and having no tears.
She had intended to play a prank on Ningchuan, but who would have thought that it would backfire on her?
And not only that, she had recorded her own embarrassing and ridiculous scene with her own surveillance video...
Now, that despicable Ningchuan had it as leverage against her. What was she going to do?
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