I’ll Become the Female Lead in this Trashy Webnovel - Chapter 40-1

40. I have to wash up (1)

For an hour,  her paper-turning work without payment continued.

So-hee checked the clock on the opposite wall and yawned quietly.

It was well past six o’clock.

Joshua, who noticed that even if she tried not to make a sound like a ghost, asked.”Are you tired?”

“No. I’m not tired. What about you?”

‘Please say you’re tired, Joshua. I can’t do it anymore.’

She forced herself to lift the corners of her mouth and smile as she prayed in her heart.

The documents she read out of curiosity were just a list of words at first but now she couldn’t understand them anymore, making her yawn.

However, unlike So-hee’s wish, Joshua’s response showed no signs of exhaustion.

“I think it’ll be okay to stay like this for the rest of my life.”

“You’re out of your mind.”

“I don’t think I can use my arms for eternity, Ariad.”

“Indeed. You’re out of your mind.” So-hee replied, turning over a sheet of paper again.

“It’s a jest.” He said in a low voice, making her heart flutter.

“….”

“We can’t have sex without my arms so I don’t want that.”

Not immune to these surprise attacks, Sohee choked and her sleepiness rushed out of her soul at once.

Embarrassed, So-hee quickly changed the subject because she didn’t know what to say.

Joshua hadn’t ordered to turn it over yet, but So-hee did it and started to say something she didn’t mean to.

“Isn’t this enough that I have to work for money?”

As she looked at the documents she wasn’t even reading, she could sense Joshua’s gaze when he tilted his head to stare at her side profile.

Eventually, his intense scrutiny caused her earlobes to turn bright red.

“I can do a lot in an hour. I’m a bit expensive.”

Contrary to her intentions, a soft and warm sensation settled at the side of her nonsensical lips.

After leaving a sweet scent behind, he quickly withdrew.

Surprised, Sohee stiffened and raised her eyebrows.

Then, the beautiful man spoke a promise that matched his face. “My money is all yours.”

After that, Joshua kept doing things that made Sohee’s heart beat like crazy non-stop.

It all happened unintentionally, but it was inevitable for Joshua to be attached to her since he couldn’t use his arms.

Even though Joshua didn’t look tired at all, she went to the dining room with the man, who was supposed to rest after dinner and sat down in front of a table filled with food.

Sacrificing herself in the name of repaying the favor for taking care of her in the past, Sohee fed him food just like Joshua did.

Joshua ate the food So-hee gave him without complaining and didn’t dare take his eyes off her even while eating.

That moment alone was heart-fluttering.

However, a much more embarrassing incident occurred after both of them arrived at Ariad’s room after dinner.

As he sat on the bed without changing his clothes, Joshua’s eyes fixated on So-hee.

“I have to wash up.” He murmured.

Realizing what he wanted from her, she belatedly responded.

“Do you want me to wash you, Your Highness?”

“I never said that.”

Joshua smiled, gesturing at the bell on the table with his chin.

“Will you shake that?”

“You have to wash up.”

“Yes, I need to wash up so please call someone.”

“Why?”

So-hee sounded like a broken record.

She didn’t even know what she was talking about.

‘This man must be stripped in order to be washed.’ She thought.

If she accurately considered a ‘give-and-take’ dynamic between them, she should do so.

Yet, she wasn’t sure if she could touch this man’s muscular body like that.

Pupils trembling, So-hee quickly lowered her head and stared blankly at the marble floor.

“Ariad. I don’t think it’ll be easy for me to wash alone, so please call a maid.”

Joshua tried to make a point with So-hee, who was still in a daze.

Realizing that he wasn’t asking her to wash him, So-hee nodded and clutched the bell with her hand.

Come to think of it.

There was a problem with this, too.

Upon thinking about what would happen soon as she waved the bell and called the maid, Sohee stood firm again.

“So you’re going to show off your entire naked physique to another woman?”

The conversation suddenly veered in another direction.

“I’m not saying I’m going to expose my entire naked body to the maid but I’m going to have to take off my clothes to wash up.”

Joshua brought the conversation back to the initial topic in a calm voice.

The hazy red-colored images that were about to take place in the bathroom played in So-hee’s mind and she took them all in.

“I think it’s ridiculous. You can’t do that.”

“What the hell?”

The remark was difficult to understand considering he was the type of man who had entrusted all kinds of care to the maid since birth.