Can you give me a little kiss?
When Lin Yi said this, the rising tone at the end was cloyingly sweet, like a piece of candy that wouldn’t melt, enveloping her. It made her feel dazed, and she could only unconsciously repeat Lin Yi’s words: “Kiss you?”
How to kiss?
Lips touching lips was a kiss. Tongues exploring and intertwining was a kiss. Lips and teeth colliding, exchanging saliva, breath, and heartbeats was a kiss. Which kind… was Lin Yi talking about?
“Can’t I?” Lin Yi’s voice was small, but it easily pulled her wandering consciousness back.
Lin Yi’s lips were beautifully shaped, small yet full. They were starting to get dry from the alcohol, and when she licked them, they glistened, tempting her. “Kiss me… you can’t even do that?”
Lin Yi placed her arm over her eyes. Warm tears fell from the corners of her eyes, landing on the silk duvet.
She felt wronged.
What kind of days had she been having? The person she’d had a crush on for three years was suddenly getting married. How beautiful she looked walking down the aisle in her wedding dress, but it had nothing to do with her.
Her teammate, with whom she’d been doing fan service for almost three years, was ending their CP just like that, without even trying to stop it. And now, when she wanted someone to kiss her, she was being politely refused with all sorts of excuses. How could she not feel wronged?
Feeling wronged, she wiped her tears, looking like a wilted little bok choy in a field.
“Forget it,” she rubbed her eyes and propped herself up, trying to sit. “Forget it, I’ll just find someone else. There are plenty of people, I don’t- Mmph!”
The moon hid behind the mountains, and ethereal clouds drifted past the window. The sultry summer air, carrying the salty dampness of the sea, swept into the room, invisibly enveloping the two entangled people on the bed.
Faint gasps were especially clear in the silence, mingling with wet, smacking sounds.
Xu Shuyan pressed Lin Yi down on the bed and kissed her. The alcohol she’d drunk was rampaging through her blood. She thought she must be drunk too, dizzy and disoriented, otherwise how could she be so recklessly doing something even more wrong?
She hadn’t yet learned any skillful techniques of seduction. Her kissing was clumsy to the extreme, robbing them both of air. Amidst their rapidly rising body temperatures, she tasted the metallic tang of blood.
She cupped Lin Yi’s face and gradually found some semblance of a rhythm.
“Good girl.” Her voice was muffled by the kiss, like a villain coaxing a child. Her fingertips moved down, and down again. She said, “Xiao Yi, let me in, okay?”
Through the thin fabric, she tested Lin Yi’s limits.
Lin Yi’s chest heaved rapidly. Her hand on the duvet nervously clutched at a spot. Her eyes moved stiffly, and she was left breathless by the sudden, intermittent kisses. It took a long while before her gaze finally settled on Xu Shuyan.
So hot.
It was too hot.
Both the temperature and Xu Shuyan’s gaze felt like they were burning right through her. She couldn’t help but move. The hand clutching the sheet slipped, and her heart plummeted. She had to grab onto something.
Xu Shuyan caught her hand and pinned it to the pillow. Her lips drew close to hers, coaxing again, “Good girl, open your mouth.”
The pads of her fingers pressed down.
Lin Yi let out a soft cry. Her lips parted slightly, like an open city gate. Taking it as consent, Xu Shuyan kissed her again, this time probing with the tip of her tongue. Warmth intertwined with warmth. Between repeated sucks, her lips turned so red they looked like they could bleed.
The pressure on the hand pinned to the pillow loosened. Lin Yi limply raised it to wrap around her neck. The kiss became frantic. As their breaths mingled, fingertips, no longer content to stay still, began to move again.
The sea breeze blew in, making the window screen flutter. Hot sweat turned cold in an instant, only to be replaced by fresh beads on a pale, slender back, drenching her palm.
She was her rose.
Xu Shuyan’s thoughts ran wild amidst the kisses. She thought, Lin Yi is my rose. She took root and sprouted under my teasing. The small bud stood up, trembling. Day and night, I watered her, watching my rose grow, little by little, and bloom, little by little.
“It hurts…” her rose cried out.
Growing hurts. Her teeth bit gently on Lin Yi’s collarbone, then she licked the spot, gently soothing the delicate rose.
Only with growing pains can one finally bloom in the most magnificent colors.
The dress was pushed up, bunched around her collarbone. The stem of the rose trembled on the bed. As dewdrops scattered from the petals, the sound of fireworks started outside the window.
One after another, they rose into the dark blue sky and exploded over the sea, startling gulls into flapping their wings and flying past. They couldn’t be seen from this window, but the sound was clear, hitting the walls, a muffled, reluctant attempt to cover up the sounds in this room, which was awash with the tides of spring rain.
Lin Yi bit her fingers, stifling her muffled sobs between her lips and tongue. Her aching, swollen lower abdomen tensed, her beautiful V-line abs faintly visible.
The alcohol was exerting its final effects, stripping away her remaining consciousness and letting her sink into a daze. She was like a small asteroid orbiting in space that had suddenly deviated from its path. She was pushed and pulled, unable to find her way back or her destination, left to drift in the boundless universe.
Everywhere was burning hot. She had nowhere to run.
Eventually, she became immersed in this game, recklessly becoming an accomplice to the farce, enjoying it tirelessly.
Later, the fireworks stopped.
Her muddled consciousness drifted in a dream. She heard Xu Shuyan let out a soft laugh and say something.
Xu Shuyan said, “A voice kissed by an angel sounds very nice when it cries out, too.”
Lin Yi had another dream.
She dreamed that Xu Shuyan was kissing her. Clingy kisses moved from the space between her brows to her lips, licking the cut on her lip. The pain made her suck in a sharp breath. Only then did she hear Xu Shuyan say, “I will protect what is mine. No one can take it away.”
She was kissed until she had no strength left, unable to reply to Xu Shuyan that she didn’t like Yuanyuan anymore, that she wasn’t trying to take anyone.
But then Xu Shuyan suddenly pushed her away.
Another rapid fall.
The moment before she woke up, she suddenly realized: she was the “what is mine” Xu Shuyan had spoken of. No one could take her away, not even herself.
…Lin Yi’s eyes flew open.
Waking up with a hangover is always painful. Accompanied by a splitting headache, she groaned and rolled over, then suddenly froze-
Wait, that’s not right!
It wasn’t just her head that hurt; her whole body ached! Especially her waist and abdomen, which were so sore it was killing her, sorer than doing seventeen or eighteen backbends. Even moving her thighs slightly hurt. She let out a cry of pain.
What the?
Why was her voice so hoarse?
Lin Yi finally sensed that something was wrong. She looked around. Wrong, everything was wrong. She was in H City for Chen Yuan’s wedding. The room Chen Yuan had arranged for her was a sea-view room with a sky-blue ceiling. This one was pink.
Also, where was her dress? Who had changed her into a nightgown? Don’t tell me they beat her up while changing her clothes?
It couldn’t have been Xu Shuyan, right?
What kind of grudge was that!
Lin Yi casually glanced to her side and was instantly startled. Xu Shuyan was actually sleeping next to her! She had probably been thoroughly worn out by a drunk Lin Yi last night and showed no signs of waking up yet.
To be able to sleep so peacefully, she probably hadn’t beaten her. Could it be that she got drunk, rolled down the stairs, climbed back up, and rolled down again?
…Could something so absurd have happened?
When Lin Yi pulled open the collar of her nightgown, she should have known that there were things in this world more absurd than her repeatedly falling down the stairs- namely, that her body was covered in hickeys.
Covered in… hickeys…
Cov! ered! in! hick! eys!
Hickeys!!!
Lin Yi belatedly realized where the full-body ache had come from. Her vision went black. She quickly took a couple of deep breaths to calm herself and looked at Xu Shuyan, who was still sleeping soundly beside her.
After a long moment, she tremblingly reached out and pulled down the collar of Xu Shuyan’s nightgown.
Xu Shuyan was very pale, so the marks were even more obvious, especially one particularly deep one. How much must she have liked that spot to keep gnawing on it for so long, ahhhhhhh!
And then, in the midst of her breakdown, she faced the facts.
She and Xu Shuyan had slept together.
Countless grass-mud horses galloped through Lin Yi’s mind. Her temples throbbed. She pressed them, glanced at Xu Shuyan again, and her headache worsened. Sleeping together was already an established fact; there was no need to wait for Xu Shuyan to wake up to confirm it.
But what was she supposed to say when Xu Shuyan woke up?
Give a dry laugh and say, “We’re both adults, it was consensual, how about we just pretend today never happened and go back to being loving teammates?”
But what if Xu Shuyan wanted her to take responsibility?
…No, impossible.
Xu Shuyan wasn’t that kind of person. Besides, she was drunk last night. Who initiated it was still up in the air, so why should she be the one to take responsibility for Xu Shuyan? Wait… could it be that she got drunk, made a move on Xu Shuyan, and things got out of control?
She had blacked out from drinking and couldn’t remember anything. If they were to “face off in court” when Xu Shuyan woke up, it would all depend on Xu Shuyan’s side of the story. There would be no testimony in her favor.
Maybe the thirty-sixth stratagem- fleeing- was the best option?
The moment this idea popped into her head, Lin Yi thought it was feasible and quickly put it into practice. It was just that the soreness in her back and waist became more obvious once she was out of bed. Her calves were trembling, which made her mutter to herself.
Just how long had she and Xu Shuyan been at it last night!!!
As the door closed softly, Xu Shuyan, still in bed, opened her eyes.
Her eyes were perfectly clear.
She stared at the closed door for a while, then rolled over and slowly curled into a ball.
Just sneaking out of the room wasn’t enough. Lin Yi had her assistant book the fastest flight back to S City. She also sent a message to the still-sleeping Chen Yuan, saying she had an emergency and had to go back first, wishing her a happy marriage and a blissful life.
Without waiting for Chen Yuan’s reply, she paused at the door to Xu Shuyan’s room for three seconds before furtively getting into the car her assistant had sent.
After picking her up, the assistant asked, “I didn’t get any news from the team. Is there an emergency?”
“There just is.” Afraid that people would notice she’d been crying, Lin Yi wore sunglasses and gave a vague reply. Then she asked the assistant, “I remember Sister Fang has been selecting trainees recently. Is she at the company now?”
The assistant said, “She is.”
Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief. “That’s good. I’ll go straight to the company after we land.”
Seeing her urgency, the assistant assumed it was something top-secret and didn’t dare to delay. Before she boarded the plane, the assistant arranged for security and a car. After landing, they took the VIP exit and went straight to the company.
When Lin Yi knocked on Fang Yi’s office door, Fang Yi was handling documents. She was startled to see her. “Aren’t you at the wedding? I gave you guys three days off. Why did you rush back in such a hurry?”
“I want to end my CP with Xu Shuyan!” Lin Yi took off her sunglasses.
“This again?” Fang Yi was unfazed and continued to rummage through her files. “It’s a monthly thing. What’s the reason this time? What did she do to provoke you now? I’ve told you before, don’t bring personal grudges into your work. You need to be professional, you need to…”
“We slept together.”
“I knew…”
Fang Yi’s head shot up. “What the hell???!!!”
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