Then bully Jiejie like this, alright.
Perhaps no one can completely control their own thoughts.
Even if she tried to numbly immerse herself in happiness and diligently escape from thinking, Qi Song was still unable to stop herself from keenly perceiving some problems, and unknowingly produced many speculations from it.
——It was just like she felt that Yu Luo seemed to be in a God’s perspective1, knowing everything.
Initially, when Yu Luo came to find her to sign the agreement, her attitude was not good. Misunderstanding, suspicion, indifference.
Later, she uncontrollably loved Yu Luo, but was completely unaware of it herself, repeatedly pushing the other party away amidst her stubborn-mouthed2 denials.
Even later, she confirmed that she herself was the original owner, and thus accepted Yu Luo with her whole body and heart, impatiently falling into a passionate love…
Faced with all of these strange attitudes and abrupt changes, Yu Luo surprisingly never showed any astonishment. Instead, she always coordinated with her rhythm, displaying the appearance that best fit her state in her different emotional stages.
It was as if she knew what fog she was trapped in, and was patiently waiting or even guiding her to walk out.
As a 「book transmigrator」, according to the conventional tropes3, Qi Song should have been bound to a system and become the person who was familiar with the entire plot and possessed the God’s perspective. But as it happened, she was the one who knew nothing about the truth.
What exactly was it that gave Yu Luo the God’s perspective?
And what was it that was forcing Yu Luo?
——Just like she was shouldering a mission. Even if it meant signing a cold agreement, Yu Luo still had to take her and the child to the variety show. Although she was clearly unconcerned with worldly affairs on normal days, Yu Luo was inexplicably concerned about the amount of recording time, making some choices that went against her original intentions. And then there was the repeatedly mentioned 「It will be fine once the variety show ends」, as if some defined deadline existed…
In times of deep confusion, Qi Song would occasionally amuse herself with the wild thought that it was as if the system that should have appeared on her had transferred to Yu Luo.
For all these various reasons, too many feelings and speculations had unknowingly and unwillingly grown in Qi Song’s heart, yet she always deliberately crushed them back down into the bottom of her heart, not allowing them to surface. She was afraid that thinking about it even a little more would interfere with her current stable yet fragile happiness.
However, the truth permeated every sentence they spoke and every matter they encountered. Sometimes, it was completely unavoidable.
Just like today.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to talk. Rather, she had already guessed too much, and was too clear-headed yet confused. The variety show was about to end, and she was afraid that one wrong step would put Yu Luo in a difficult situation.
Therefore, at a time when perhaps anyone else facing these mysteries would have already been driven mad by the confusion, Qi Song still acted as if nothing was wrong, silently swallowing all of her worries.
Yu Luo gazed at the young woman before her, and suddenly felt that Qi Song had matured a lot at some unknown point in time.
Compared to before, when she could never hide her thoughts in front of her and would state all her ideas with absolute frankness.
The current her, in order to protect her4, had temporarily modified that part of herself, silently practicing self-suppression.
The little dog grows for the sake of love.
In different stages, under different circumstances, her love switched into the most suitable form; only its passionate essence never changed.
“…Fool.”
Amidst a trembling breath, the watery light in Yu Luo’s eyes shimmered. Her lips moved hesitantly, and only after a good while did she softly speak two words.
After Qi Song heard those two words, she belatedly realized she had been 「scolded」.
Her eyes, reddened from the influence of the alcohol, blinked innocently, and she suddenly hooked her lips into a smile.
Reaching out to hug Yu Luo tightly, she carefully kissed away the moisture from the corners of the woman’s eyes, “Jiejie, am I hopeless? I like it when you talk to me like this.”
“It makes it seem like you can’t do anything about me…” In her drunken state, her gaze was exceptionally innocent and roguish.
“…It makes it seem like you dote on me very much.”
Yu Luo looked at the young woman who, despite her hazy, drunken eyes, was still trying hard to gaze fixedly at her without blinking.
Uncontrollably, her eyes filled, bit by bit, with a gentle, smiling expression.
The disappointment that had arisen earlier because of Qi Song’s refusal to communicate had already vanished like smoke into thin air amidst this pile of drunken, frank words, leaving behind a kind of long-lasting certainty and stability.
There were some things that clearly only she knew, and only she was worrying about. But as it happened, Qi Song was actually able to make her feel as if she wasn’t shouldering those secrets all by herself.
Yu Luo closed her eyes, relaxing with her whole body and heart as she snuggled into Qi Song’s embrace.
A tight and quiet embrace.
The young woman’s breathing was a little heavy, her body was somewhat limp, and her body temperature was scorching hot. Her alcohol tolerance was truly too poor; not long after drinking just one glass of wine, she was already in such a drunken state.
After a moment of tenderness, Yu Luo gently pushed Qi Song away and stood up from the side of the sofa. She raised her hand and rubbed the drunkard’s head: “The alcohol content of this wine isn’t low for you. Jiejie will go find you some sobering medicine.”
The alcohol spread wantonly through her bloodstream, and Qi Song’s head grew dizzier. She furrowed her brows lightly, dissatisfied that Yu Luo could actually bear to leave her.
The restraint, forbearance, and concessions of this recent period of time were being permeated by the alcohol, and were currently brewing and fermenting.
Therefore, she did whatever she thought of——with quick eyes and fast hands, she reached out, wrapped her arm around the woman’s waist, and forcefully pressed the person into her own embrace.
With a low cry of surprise, Yu Luo fell onto Qi Song without warning, and the collar of the bathrobe in front of her also loosened slightly because of this, revealing her fair and delicate collarbones.
Immediately after, the scent of gardenias wrapped in the smell of alcohol entwined around her, and the young woman’s scorching breath sprayed onto the skin of her auricle.
Her earlobe was bitten, neither lightly nor heavily, and then licked unhurriedly by a wet and hot tongue.
Stimulating and tormenting, Yu Luo couldn’t help but part her lips and begin to pant lightly, subconsciously raising a hand to tightly grip the collar of Qi Song’s pajamas.
“Jiejie… who is Miss Li?”
Qi Song’s voice was slightly hoarse as she suddenly asked an inexplicable question.
Her train of thought jumped too quickly; it took Yu Luo several seconds to react and remember who she was asking about.
“The… the owner of a winery…” Amidst Qi Song’s even more tormenting assault, Yu Luo answered intermittently, “I’ve always ordered wine from her.”
“Mmm.” Qi Song lowered her head to savor the delicate, fresh fragrance on Yu Luo’s neck, and for a moment, did not continue speaking.
Yu Luo obediently tilted her head back and let her do as she pleased, her lips pursing slightly in her difficulty to endure, somewhat unsure if she had been coaxed successfully like this.
“…So jealous.” Qi Song’s gaze was hazy and deep, and she mercilessly used the tips of her teeth to grind against the fragile skin on the side of the woman’s neck, saying sourly5, “For the past two years, she has been able to see Jiejie.”
Yu Luo was slightly stunned, and then felt somewhat unable to know whether to laugh or cry. This angle of eating vinegar she had never thought of.
“We haven’t met…” Trembling lightly from being bitten, Yu Luo reproached playfully, “Mhm, it’s just sending a message and then making a payment.”
Hearing this sentence, Qi Song’s movements paused slightly, and then she retracted the tips of her teeth, lightly kissing the place where Yu Luo had just been bitten by her.
It seemed she was satisfied.
Yu Luo’s eyelashes fanned lightly. She reached out and unceremoniously ruffled Qi Song’s soft hair twice, making it a little messy.
Then, moving downwards, her hand landed on Qi Song’s chin, lifting the young woman’s face.
“Were you really eating vinegar just now?” she asked meaningfully.
Qi Song opened her mouth, and under Yu Luo’s gaze, subconsciously and obediently confessed: “No.”
“I just wanted to find a reason to bully Jiejie…” Under the influence of the alcohol, she confessed honestly and pitifully, looking for all the world as if she were the one being bullied.
“…” Yu Luo’s breathing quickened slightly.
A moment later, she punishingly pinched Qi Song’s cheek.
The skin in her grasp was delicate and smooth, so she couldn’t resist pinching it again.
“You want to bully me that much?”
She moved a little closer, the corners of her eyes suffused with a flirtatious crimson hue from Qi Song’s earlier bullying, her gaze deep and ambiguous.
“Then just now before my shower, I clearly gave you a chance, why didn’t you come and bully me?”
Qi Song was momentarily stunned.
Amidst the young woman’s flickering gaze, Yu Luo pressed forward step by step.
Lowering her head, her nose touched Qi Song’s as she asked nonchalantly: “Hm? Why didn’t you come bully me?”
Qi Song was easily bewitched by the woman’s gaze, and in her drunken state, she was even less able to hide anything she said:
“Because I was afraid of hurting Jiejie…”
“I was too uneasy today, and so I wanted you too much.” Qi Song, utterly captivated by her beloved’s deliberately enticing eyes, confessed frankly, word by word, without any defenses.
“I wanted to do you fiercely until you passed out, then inconsiderately wake you up immediately, and then continue to do you…”
“I was wor-worried about losing control like that, so I simply didn’t start.”
Qi Song’s gaze wavered with a guilty and pitiful emotion, and after speaking, she didn’t dare to look at Yu Luo’s expression, tightly closing her eyes.
The air fell into a brief silence.
The woman in front of her didn’t respond for a long time, so Qi Song couldn’t help but shut her eyes even tighter, to the point that even the tips of her eyelashes trembled from the effort.
“Then…”
After a good while, the woman’s clear and cool voice finally sounded, carrying a hint of embarrassment.
“Then bully Jiejie like this, alright.”
After Yu Luo finished speaking, amidst the young woman’s suddenly opened eyes—in that gaze which in an instant became so hot, humid, and thick as if it had substance—she couldn’t help but lightly bite her lower lip.
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