Chapter 11: Academic Exchange, Harley the Toffee
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In the dead of night, on a Gotham road, two figures walked. One, a man in a black trench coat, was carrying a woman in a white coat and a cowboy hat, whose fair thighs dangled and swung.
The two were Jiang Li and Harley, having just left the chemical factory.
At this moment, Harley was beaming, clearly ecstatic about what had just happened.
"Yee-haw!!" Harley raised the cowboy hat Jiang Li had let her wear, imitating the common cry of a western cowboy, her mood extremely cheerful.
Jiang Li could feel the soft thighs his hands were holding shaking non-stop. He said with some exasperation, "Alright, stop messing around. If you keep it up, I'm leaving you."
Who knew that Harley wouldn't fall for it. She put the cowboy hat back on her head, then wrapped her arms around Jiang Li's neck and whispered in his ear:
"You won't leave me. You're hopelessly in love with me."
After speaking, she planted a hard kiss on Jiang Li's cheek, leaving a bright red lip print.
"Sigh~" Jiang Li just felt tired. He'd seen confidence, but never *this* much confidence.
"Without me, what would you do?"
Jiang Li couldn't help but retort at the current Harley. He had saved her every time—the first time they met, and now again.
"Without you, I can't do anything."
Harley rested her cheek on the side of Jiang Li's head, smiling as she said, "So don't leave me in the future, okay? I'll be good."
"That depends on your performance."
The only one troubled now was Jiang Li, because he didn't know how he was going to explain any of this to Zatanna.
Their shadows stretched long under the streetlight. There was unavoidable roughhousing and playing along the way, Harley's gleeful laughter fading into the distance.
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Jiang Li finally managed to carry Harley back home. Along the way, Harley was constantly making physical contact, making it arguably the most arduous journey.
"Plop~" Jiang Li placed Harley on the bed and then decided to leave.
But in the next second, Harley's long, fair legs suddenly wrapped around Jiang Li's waist, stopping him from walking any further.
"Sigh~" Jiang Li raised his hands in a French surrender, turning helplessly to look at Harley, who was smiling at him.
"Harleen, what on earth are you doing?"
Jiang Li still called Harley "Harleen" at this time. Because before Harley returned, she needed to make some changes, for example, a cuter name.
Harley Quinn was about to become Harleen's new name, while "Harleen" would instead become Jiang Li's nickname for Harley, limited to his use only.
"Hehe~ You don't need to go back tonight, right?"
After Harley released her legs from Jiang Li, she knelt on the bed and pressed her entire body close to him. Her lips drew near his ear as she said softly:
"I learned a new dance online recently. Let me dance for you."
As her voice fell, Harley gave a forceful push, shoving Jiang Li down to sit on the sofa. She then walked into the bathroom.
Under Jiang Li's gaze, Harley quickly walked out. She emerged with a bewitching look in her eyes. Her gold-rimmed glasses were pulled down slightly, and her white coat was draped low, revealing her fair, smooth shoulders to the air.
At this moment, "beautiful" and "alluring" became Harley's descriptors as she prepared to offer a stunning dance to the person she loved most.
Jiang Li happened to see an unfinished glass of red wine on the table nearby. He picked it up and took a sip.
Just as Jiang Li was about to drink more, Harley straddled his lap, gently took the wine glass from his hand, and drank the rest of the wine.
Harley's blonde hair seemed exceptionally beautiful in Jiang Li's eyes, and Jiang Li's strong physique became the fuse for the love in Harley's heart.
Both of their faces were flushed, and the atmosphere gradually turned pink. As their eyes met, sparks of what seemed like love were erupting between them.
"Mmph..." The two kissed. Jiang Li took the opportunity to take off Harley's glasses, and Harley, in turn, took the opportunity to slide off Jiang Li's black trench coat.
Outside, Gotham City was being lashed by wind and rain. Inside the apartment room, it was much the same...
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The next morning.
A ray of sunlight... okay, Gotham basically has no sunlight, only a faint light shining into the room.
The room was a mess: scattered clothes, furniture arranged in an extremely irregular, man-made fashion, and two people sleeping soundly on the bed, wrapped in each other's arms.
Jiang Li was the first to wake. He blearily looked around, then noticed Harley sleeping peacefully in his arms.
Only then did he realize what had happened last night.
Perhaps Jiang Li's waking up startled Harley, causing her to wake up as well.
She also looked around groggily, then wrapped her arms around Jiang Li's waist, rested her head on his chest, and tried to go back to sleep.
"Alright, Harleen, I should get up."
"Mmph~" Harley made a sound like a kitten acting spoiled, making Jiang Li roll his eyes.
Jiang Li stood up directly. Harley, however, clung to his body like a koala, showing no intention of getting down.
"You're really like taffy, Harleen."
"Taffy?"
"Does that mean I'm your candy?" Harley looked up, gazing deeply into Jiang Li's eyes, and continued:
"Then do you want to taste me, your first piece of candy of the morning?"
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