The room was filled with silence as two people stared into each other's eyes. The scene was radiating a scandalous vibe. The man was completely naked as he sat in the bathtub. If not for the dark water, his lower body would have been clearly visible.
He was grabbing one of the woman's hands who sat next to the bathtub. Her upper body was pulled closer to the man's and their faces were relatively close.
Xiang Ling almost forgot to breathe as she stared into Li Xian's breathtaking eyes. With closed eyes, he was looking tempting but with his eyes opened, he looked even more alluring to her.
Gulping down the sudden desire that she felt igniting within her, Xiang Ling tried to pull away from the man and thankfully, he too let go of her and straightened.
The air turned awkward as the two tried to look anywhere but at each other.
"Why are you here?" Li Xian asked as he stared at her with accusing eyes.
"I... I just came to check your pulse. The herbal bath has successfully detoxified your body. You should take a regular bath now and get some sleep." She defended herself while using a quick spell to change the water in the bathtub. Within a second or two, the dark murky water turned into fresh warm water with flower petals covering the surface. It happened so quickly and secretly that Li Xian didn't even notice, the man was just too focused on observing Xiang Ling to pay attention to anything else.
Xiang Ling's eyes shifted from his face to his hair and she again noticed how bad it looked because of the lack of attention it got from the man. Without thinking much, she offered, "Let me wash your hair."
Li Xian hurriedly looked up at her as if she had grown two heads out of the blue. "What - there's no need. I can wash it on my own." He quickly stated while diverting his gaze from her face as if he was just too embarrassed to look at her.
"You obviously don't know how to do it properly, the reason why your hair is in such a poor state. Allow me to perform my skills and I promise you will fall in love with your hair after this." Xiang Ling contradicted and she looked quite confident about her said skills of hair washing.
"There's no need-"
Li Xian didn't get to finish his sentence as he was suddenly attacked by the woman who sealed his acupoints and smiled at him evilly.
"Just sit and relax. Let me do the work." Xiang Ling told him with a warm smile before she stood up and moved behind him. Since his back was facing her and he couldn't move because of his sealed acupoints, she started taking out items from the Summer Cottage inside her space without any worry.
"When did you change the water?" Li Xian suddenly asked as his gaze finally landed on the water in the bathtub. He was expecting to see dirty water, instead, he found flower petals covering every centimeter of the water's surface. The thought of the woman changing the bath water while he was fast asleep, didn't sit right with him. Did she see his body?
"I just added the petals," Xiang Ling answered, knowing that it wasn't even good enough for her to believe let alone him. Yet, the man became silent after that and didn't speak.
Focusing her attention on the task at hand, Xiang Ling started washing his hair. She first picked up the ladle and scooped water in it to wet the hair. Once the hair was properly drenched, she picked up one of the porcelain jars and poured out the colorless liquid on her palm. She rubbed her palms together to create lather before she started applying it to Li Xian's scalp. She used her fingers to massage his scalp to clean it as well as for better blood circulation. After doing it for a while, she rinsed off the product from his hair and repeated the process for a second time for better results.
After rinsing his hair again, she applied another creamy product to the lengths and ends of his hair. She left the product untouched in his hair for a few minutes before rinsing his hair one last time.
Her massage technique was so good that it eventually helped Li Xian to relax and enjoy the luxurious treatment he was receiving. He almost felt bad when she announced that his hair was now washed. He thought there wouldn't be any more massage. However, he received a surprise when he felt her fingers on his shoulders a moment later.
His entire body went stiff at the unexpected contact, and if not for the fact that he was unable to move, he would probably have jumped away to the opposite side of the tub by now.
"Relax." Xiang Ling whispered as she started massaging his shoulders to relieve the stress in his muscles. "I'm only going to massage your shoulders for a while."
Li Xian didn't relax immediately as he probably didn't trust her words completely, but as she once again showcased her skills, it was hard for him to not relax and enjoy the massage. Just when did Chen Xiang Ling learn all this?
The woman massaging his shoulders at the moment was a far cry from the Chen Xiang Ling that he had been living with for nearly a year. If she was like this because of the loss of her memories, he wished she never regained them.
"When did you learn all this?" He found himself asking as he was really curious to know.
Xiang Ling was silent for a while before she answered, "What's there to learn? This is how the maids used to wash my hair and massage my body."
Li Xian accepted her answer and didn't think much of it. After all, Chen Xiang Ling was the only daughter of a noble family who was brought up with the best care from her parents. It wasn't weird that she used to enjoy such good services before she went insane a few years ago and drove away everyone who once loved her.