Caught in the Act by Aunt Lai

Seeing that Shen Hongmei was not angry at all, things turned out exactly as Li Zhiyan had expected.
Just a moment ago, Aunt Shen's silk-clad, beautiful legs had wrapped around him of their own accord.
And he had merely followed the natural course of events.

Looking at Li Zhiyan, who was still standing there in a daze, Shen Hongmei covered her chest and said, "Hurry up, Xiaoyan."
"Go buy the emergency contraceptive pill."

Only then did Li Zhiyan snap back to reality, get dressed, and prepare to head out.
"Oh, and by the way."
"Buy another pair of silk stockings while you're at it. This pair is ruined."

There was a hint of reproach in Shen Hongmei's tone. Whenever this boy saw silk stockings, he seemed utterly incapable of controlling his emotions.
She could sense it clearly.
Just how obsessed Li Zhiyan was with things like silk stockings.
It was practically an innate, deep-seated fondness.

"I understand, Aunt Shen."
"Rest assured."

Watching Li Zhiyan's retreating figure, Shen Hongmei felt a complex tangle of emotions. Drinking leads to trouble; drinking really leads to trouble.
It truly messed things up beyond belief.
If she hadn't been drinking, how could she have ended up doing such a thing with this boy yet again?
What on earth would she do if she got pregnant?

The mere thought gave Shen Hongmei a splitting headache. Cutting ties with Li Zhiyan had never been easy to begin with.
Now, it was completely out of the question, which was intensely exasperating.
...

Stepping outside the hotel, Li Zhiyan was still lingering on the lingering sensation from just now.
In truth, on the night Xu Qianqian had sent him to pay the bill,
Li Zhiyan really hadn't been able to hold his liquor.
His perceptions had been rather hazy, but this time was entirely different.
Boasting an astonishing capacity for alcohol, Li Zhiyan had remained completely sober.
Every single detail had been crystal clear.

And Shen Hongmei was indeed an exceptionally qualified teacher, thoroughly reviewing every single lesson she had previously taught Li Zhiyan with absolute completeness.
"That's another two hundred days of deep affection added with Aunt Shen."
Thinking of Shen Hongmei's slender, voluptuous, silk-clad legs, Li Zhiyan felt an overwhelming sense of satisfaction.
Such days were simply too blissful.

Arriving at the pharmacy, Li Zhiyan was quite familiar with the routine by now.
"Contraceptive pills, the post-coital kind."
During the first time, Li Zhiyan had been timid and somewhat embarrassed.
This time, he was bold and righteous—there was no way he could let Aunt Shen get pregnant!

Business at the pharmacy was always brisk, so the clerk didn't find his request strange in the least.
Soon, Li Zhiyan tucked the medicine deep into his pocket.
He then visited a supermarket to pick out a pair of silk stockings.

When paying, looking at his balance of one hundred and fifty thousand, Li Zhiyan felt a strong sense of security.
He recalled the moment earlier when Shen Hongmei had taken his finger to unlock his phone and transferred thirty thousand yuan to herself.
He felt that Aunt Shen's vision and generosity were truly top-tier; if it were some stingy boss, getting a mere thousand-yuan bonus would have been a miracle.
With everything taken care of, he finally headed back toward the hotel.

At that moment, Li Zhiyan also remembered how Zhao Shumin had been harassed by her boss late at night.
It was about time for him to prepare to leave these three aunties of Shanghai.

Just as he reached the entrance, Li Zhiyan spotted Lai Feifei and He Yanyong standing and talking near the window at the end of the corridor.
They had clearly just woken up not long ago.
Before Li Zhiyan could reach his own door, Lai Feifei caught sight of him sneaking about.
"Baby, come here!"

Li Zhiyan had originally planned to slip back into his room
to deliver the stockings and the pill to Shen Hongmei, but he hadn't expected to be intercepted before he even crossed the threshold.
"Aunt Lai."

Lai Feifei's face was flushed, the glamorous married woman looking exceptionally adorable.
Meanwhile, He Yanyong, whose face was equally rosy, filled Li Zhiyan's heart with nineteen parts of deep reverence.
This woman's appearance was simply enough to make anyone's hormones run wild.
The faint fine lines beside her enchanting eyes held an inexplicable lethality over Li Zhiyan, and considering she was Liu Jinxin's mother,
Li Zhiyan naturally felt an even greater fondness for her.

"Rongrong, I'm begging you, just feed my baby."
"My baby must be starving; it's practically time for dinner now."
"You have such an abundance of provisions; letting it go to waste would be a crime."

Even after having had a drink, He Yanyong felt utterly overwhelmed at this moment.
This crazy woman was becoming more unhinged by the second.
"What nonsense are you spouting? If he's your baby, why don't you feed him?"
"It's not like I have the raw materials for it."
"All thunder and no rain is useless, you know."
"This department still depends entirely on you."

As she spoke, Lai Feifei grabbed He Yanyong as if determined to put words into action. This deeply moved Li Zhiyan in his heart: Aunt Lai will forever be my Aunt Lai.
The things she does are truly touching beyond words.
Even a biological aunt wouldn't compare to Aunt Lai, though cashing in on it might be a bit difficult.

"Let go of me, you crazy woman!"
"You hussy!"

As the two of them bantered and scuffled, Lai Feifei soon noticed that Li Zhiyan's trouser pocket was bulging conspicuously.
Since the stockings were still in their unopened package, they inevitably caused a lump in his pocket.
This anomaly immediately caught Lai Feifei's attention.

"Baby, what have you hidden in there?"
"Let Mommy have a look."

With that, Lai Feifei reached out and pulled the stockings right out of Li Zhiyan's pocket.
"Stockings..."
"And they're flesh-colored! Yanyong, are these yours?"

Saying this, Lai Feifei gave a cheeky fondle to He Yanyong's gorgeous legs beneath her cheongsam.
"Your black stockings are intact, which means these can only belong to Hongmei."
"Well, well, well, baby."
"I knew it. You and Hongmei have something going on."
"Confess honestly, did you just take Hongmei for a spin in a big horse with a small cart?"

Guilt prickled even more sharply in Li Zhiyan's heart. The first time he met Aunt Lai, she had been spouting nonsense about big horses and small carts.
And the most guilty part was that everything Lai Feifei said was entirely true.
Who could possibly withstand that?

"Aunt Lai, Aunt Shen fell asleep in my room, and later she asked me to go buy her some stockings."
Naturally, Li Zhiyan couldn't possibly blurt out that a drunk Shen Hongmei had taken the initiative to relive old dreams with him.
In his heart, he actually harbored the grand ideal of everyone getting along happily together.
"You came at just the right time"—this phrase had always been the ultimate dream in Li Zhiyan's heart.

If he exposed himself now, he would lose all hope entirely. Without his ability to see through intelligence chips, Li Zhiyan would never dare entertain such wild ambitions.
But right now, he genuinely saw a glimmer of hope.
After all, even though his golden finger was somewhat weak, it was still a genuine superpower. In such a short span of time, he had already accumulated 150,000 in savings, which meant his future was full of promise.

"That hussy, riding big horses—she was definitely trying to seduce you."
"Baby, tell Mommy, did you sleep with her just now?"

Li Zhiyan could tell that Lai Feifei was genuinely a bit tipsy.
She had even started calling herself "Mommy."
Though, to be fair, that was entirely in line with Lai Feifei's personal style.

"Come on, I'm going to ask Shen Hongmei myself."
Dragging Li Zhiyan and He Yanyong along, Lai Feifei marched straight to the door of Li Zhiyan's room and skillfully fished a room card out of her pocket.
Li Zhiyan felt a wave of relief that he had hidden the medicine in his back pocket; if she had pulled that out too, any hopes between him and Aunt Lai would have truly vanished into thin air.

Once the door was unlocked,
Lai Feifei bolted into the room like a wife catching her husband in an affair.
"Hongmei, I knew you and my baby had a thing!"
"Let me check if there's a wrapper!"

With that, Lai Feifei lunged straight for the wastebasket to investigate.