"Why not?" Bo Yan thought she was playing the "catch-and-release" game. Although he took the glass of wine she handed him and drank it in one go, his tone was somewhat teasing: "The same game is enough to play once a day."
This was typical of Xia Siyu; she liked to play this kind of guerrilla warfare where the enemy advances, she retreats, and when the enemy pulls back, she harasses. The time they spent together wasn't long anyway, as there were often other tasks. It was fun to play once when they met, but going back and forth like this constantly left him unsure of how to respond.
Seeing Xia Siyu dressed so seductively, and since there was no one else in the room but him, who was she trying to seduce if not him? Dressing like this and then telling him "no" was intentionally tantalizing him.
