Chapter 34: Kissing with the Edge of the Kisses

Liu Chengxu has recently been seeing a video where a blogger alters messages sent by their crush to make them appear as they wish.

It's hilarious to watch, but if you try to make it yourself, it's a joke.

She took screenshots of the chat history.

Liu Chengxu: [Let's meet again.]

Su Zhiluo: [It's too far, come from [location]].

Continue making changes.

Su Zhiluo: 【□□□, □□ come □. 】

Revise it again.

Su Zhiluo: [I love you, come quickly.]

Liu Chengxu filled in the black squares stroke by stroke with black ink, stitching his broken heart back together stitch by stitch.

Clutching the repeatedly revised admission ticket, she secretly went to Guangzhou.

On the morning she arrived at her destination, she ran into Su Zhiluo, who was out throwing out the trash. Originally, she only wanted to take a look at Su Zhiluo and leave, so as to maintain her dignity.

The two looked at each other in the morning light. Su Zhiluo tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear and said, "I'm here."

This time, Liu Chengxu wasn't carrying anything; her hands hung limply at the sides of her jeans. Her throat was dry, and her heart was pounding like a drum.

She took off the headphones that weren't playing any music, made up an excuse, and said, "I've packed my things and moved out. You can terminate the lease anytime. I've come to collect my things."

At that moment, her heart ached, and she couldn't move. Su Zhiluo could only watch her quietly. Su Zhiluo tried hard to hear what she was saying, and she replied with an "okay." She threw away the trash and took Liu Chengxu upstairs.

There was a lot of stuff piled up in the center of the living room. Liu Chengxu suppressed his discomfort and asked, "Are you moving?"

Su Zhiluo said, "Chang Ruyin, Yang Jie is coming over. I don't want a long-distance relationship anymore."

Liu Cheng asked, "Isn't Yang Jie a key technical member, and also has shares?"

“Their company set up a branch factory in Guangzhou, and Yang Jie applied to come and bring the technology. She is now a senior executive and vice president of the company,” Su Zhiluo explained.

Yang Jie has always been outstanding. She graduated from university, has connections, owns a house and a car, and most importantly, she has good character. When she couldn't contact Chang Ruyin, she took leave to come and find her. Now she is still willing to go to Chang Ruyin.

Liu Chengxu understood that if it weren't for him, Su Zhiluo could have lived a peaceful life with Yang Jie, without having to worry about buying a rental apartment, and she could have lived with Yang Jie and completely moved on.

It was Liu Chengxu, this living relic, that trapped Su Zhiluo in place.

She both longed for Su Zhiluo to emerge from the shadows, yet bound her to the spot with invisible chains. This contradiction, like a poisonous vine, entwined her heart, and most twistedly, she even found a sliver of solace in this morbid entanglement.

Su Zhiluo was born to be mine.

My sister found it for me; she was sending me her blessings.

The small rented room was filled with traces of Liu Chengxu: the Doraemon wind chime tucked into the gaps in the bookshelf, and the certificates and awards displayed with a specially cleared shelf. Every single item was something she had personally placed there.

She didn't bring her schoolbag, so she had to stuff all her things into her arms.

Su Zhi stood aside and watched.

Liu Chengxu received the photo frame from the bedside table. Su Zhiluo acted faster than she thought, placing her hand on the back of Liu's hand and saying, "This... you shouldn't take it with you."

“Didn’t you refuse this when I offered it to you?” Liu Chengxu said.

Su Zhiluo calmly said, "I didn't say I didn't want it. Aren't we still family?"

Liu Chengxu stared at that face.

She saw clear pain on Su Zhiluo's face. She stood beside the desk, and the things in her hands clattered to the ground.

For a long time, they just sat there. Liu Chengxu walked to her side, knelt down on the ground, and looked up at Su Zhiluo.

The room was closed, the air conditioning wasn't on, and the intense heat of the room enveloped them.

"But we don't have family members like that, do we?"

Liu Chengxu asked in a low voice, his fingertips lightly tracing the skin beneath Su Zhi's loose dress, his palm warmly resting on her waistline.

This kind of thing shouldn't be done if it's just family.

It didn't start with her lips. She captured Su Zhiluo with both hands, hooking the edge and taking it into her mouth, as if to prove it. She bit hard, pulling at that one nipple, sucking fiercely, as if trying to draw out her sister-in-law's nipple.

Liu Chengxu held Su Zhiluo's hand to his face, as if to say, "Go ahead and kill me."

Liu Chengxu kept swallowing, then switched to another pill. No sister-in-law would feed her sister-in-law naphthalene, and no one would let their lover's sister eat it.

Her palms were filled with a woman's gentle sweetness.

She heard her sister-in-law groaning.

"Spit it out," she whispered in Su Zhiluo's ear.

"Do you know who I learned this from? I haven't watched any educational videos at all. I learned it from you."

Liu Chengxu said, "Sometimes when I came back from evening self-study, I would hear you in the shower room. You were making very soft noises. Also, a few times when I secretly went home, I saw you doing it. Once, you even called me by the wrong name, you called me Chengxu."

"You keep provoking yourself while calling out the wrong name."

"There have been many, many times when I came back from vacation and you didn't do anything, but you did everything when I left."

"If you don't like me, would you still fantasize about me?"

Liu Chengxu's tears fell onto his knees. "You were so good to me, so open and honest, you gave me everything, and I couldn't control myself. It's not that you don't love me, it's that I was forcing you, and I've ruined half of your life."

The more she talked, the more she inhaled. Su Zhiluo felt unbearable shame and pain. She had been in that state for so long that she could no longer distinguish which word she was calling... She thought that if Liu Chengxu forced her a little more and went all the way, she wouldn't have any wild thoughts.

She took Su Zhiluo's lips into her mouth and kissed her. She licked them; they were very soft. She then used her fingers instead and looked up to kiss Su Zhiluo's lips again.

She said, "Your name is Cheng Xu."

Her body was more honest than she imagined; she had already begun to kiss Liu Chengxu's fingers back. She bit her lip, and as Liu Chengxu's fingers hooked her fingers again and again, she cried out with tears in her eyes, "Chengxu."

As the base of her finger sank in, she cried out again.

"Liu Chengxu".

Liu Chengxu used only one finger.

Just like the first time she timidly reached out to hold Su Zhiluo's hand, she first tentatively touched the back of her hand, and then suddenly gripped it tightly. At this moment, with just one finger, she brought the tense relationship between the two of them to the brink of collapse, culminating in a climax.

"I'm leaving Taipei." She had come prepared with a lot of harsh words, wanting Su Zhiluo to taste the pain of losing her, but all of them vanished the moment she saw her.

Think of me more often in your dreams from now on.

It was very hot in the afternoon.

Liu Chengxu squatted down to tidy up his things, taking one of Su Zhiluo's backpacks. Su Zhiluo silently put on her underwear. She sat on the edge of the bed, neither pleading nor trying to stop the other, remaining silent. The sex they had just had stabilized their emotions.

The cicadas chirped incessantly, and the blazing sunlight shone on her shoulders.

Su Zhi stood by the window, watching her figure gradually disappear into the distance. Her gaze swept over the bedside table, which was empty, and her heart began to ache again.

The scene didn't resemble summer; it was more like the hazy, indistinct mist of late autumn, where everything was unclear.

After a long while, she came to her senses and wiped away her tears.

Liu Chengxu took his luggage and went to another city.

Su Zhiluo sent a message: 【Let me know if you need money.】

Liu Chengxu: [I will not come back to you, never. You have lost me, Su Zhiluo. You have completely lost me.]

Su Zhiluo: [Are you crying?]

Liu Chengxu: [I'm just telling you this.]

I won't tell you where I'm going. From now on, I'll forget you, just like you said.

She typed out those heartless words, venting her anger fiercely.

Before winter arrived in Taipei, Su Zhiluo returned to her rented apartment.

Pushing open the door, a musty smell hit her nose; mold covered the walls, and cobwebs swayed in the corners. This was what the house originally looked like. She suddenly realized that what she loved was never this house, but the home that Liu Chengxu had painstakingly created for her while waiting here.

Liu Chengxu lied to her.

She hadn't packed her things at all; they were still scattered throughout the room.

Su Zhiluo carefully organized and packed each item meticulously.

Looking at the washing machine one last time, the initial joy had faded. Now she could afford something better, but she couldn't bear to throw it away. She contacted a logistics company to send it to Guangzhou, but they subtly suggested it wasn't worth it and recommended reselling it secondhand. Su Zhiluo silently handed over the shipping label, turned around, and pulled two large boxes from under the bed, carefully wrapping them layer by layer with bubble wrap.

She spent a day and a night cleaning up the mess.

They did not see each other again for the next two years.

In the past two years, Liu Chengxu's parents were laid off from the factory and have been harassing Su Zhiluo every day. Su Zhiluo has always said that she doesn't know where Liu Chengxu has gone.

Actually, Su Zhiluo knew that she lived in S City. Every year on her birthday, she would receive gifts from her, ranging from perfumes and luxury bags to high heels and cosmetics, each item bearing the label of S City's fashion scene.

At twenty, Su Zhiluo loved beauty and would dress up carefully, wearing pretty dresses. Now, ten years later, all the beauty she once longed for has been delivered to her by another person via express delivery.

For the first two months, Su Zhiluo frequently received text messages from Liu Chengxu.

First: [I hate you.]

Second: [I hate you.]

Then, overwhelmed by her emotions, Liu Chengxu sent several extreme messages, expressing both longing and hatred for her. She endured the emotional backlash and stopped contacting Su Zhiluo to torment her.

At the end of the year, Su Zhiluo received a bank transfer notification.

500,000 in the first year.

The following year, Su Zhiluo asked her to return to Taipei to sign some documents. Liu Chengxu didn't reply, only saying "Congratulations," and then transferred 1.5 million yuan. The subsequent message wasn't sent; her sister-in-law returned all the money to her and blocked her.

Many things happened during the three years Liu Chengxu was away.

For example, Cha Baomei took a camera to Africa to film an animal documentary; Meng Zhenyue was opening a studio and had started a relationship with a significant age gap, which initially met with disapproval from everyone. However, her partner was a wealthy woman, so everyone changed their minds, and Meng Zhenyue invited them to her wedding. She was about to marry into a wealthy family.

This incident became the catalyst for our meeting.

One night, I tried to make a phone call, and it went through.

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There won't be any more torture tomorrow.

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