Chapter 36: Whatever You Want "As long as you want, as long as I have, for...

The sunset in the evening dyed the entire sky red like fire. The night was filled with stars. Breathing the fresh and natural air of the rainforest, Qiao Zhizheng had a good sleep.

Originally thinking that the next day would still be sunny, Qiao Zhizheng planned to ask Qiao Zheng to go together to experience the local specialties.

“It’s raining so hard!”

The hotel is built by the water. The heavy rain hits the water surface with a crackling sound, stirring up dense splashes of water, and ripples continue to spread outward.

Li Tianyi, followed by Tang Fengmian, came over and knocked on Qiao Zhizheng's door, wanting to ask Qiao Zhizheng to go to Xia Cangshu's house to play cards together.

Qiao Zhizheng yawned lazily and shook his head to refuse.

Tang Fengmian poked his head out from behind Li Tianyi and looked at Qiao Zhizheng expectantly. "Let's play together?"

Qiao Zhizheng shook her head. "You guys go have fun. I have something to talk to Qiao Zheng about."

Li Tianyi nodded. "Okay, then we'll go first. If you want to play, come to Director Xia's room anytime. We'll probably be there all day."

Li Tianyi turned around and took away Tang Fengmian, who kept looking back with a reluctant look.

Qiao Zhizheng ignored Tang Fengmian's strange behavior and went back to her room to pick and choose in the closet. She chose a yellow suspender dress, put it on, and picked up a bouquet of bright flowers that the hotel housekeeper had delivered that morning. The most special thing in the bouquet was a heliconia, which looked like a bunch of red birds hanging on a branch, swaying with her steps, lively and vivid.

The rain never stops.

Outside the window was a continuous curtain of rain, the sky was dark, and there was no light in the house. Qiao Zheng sat cross-legged by the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the crown-shaped splashes of water falling on the water, enjoying the quiet time alone.

"Knock knock knock." When Qiao Zheng heard the knock on the door, she moved her ears but did not intend to open it.

"Knock knock knock," another series of rhythmic knocks on the door.

Qiao Zheng vaguely heard Qiao Zhizheng's voice.

Qiao Zheng closed her eyes lightly.

The next moment, Qiao Zheng's phone rang.

Qiao Zheng opened one eye and pressed the answer button.

Qiao Zheng's tone was filled with displeasure at being interrupted, "You better be busy!"

Qiao Zhizheng's laughter echoed through the receiver. "Come open the door, Qiao Zheng! I have a gift for you!"

Qiao Zheng opened her other eye and stared at the door with a complicated look.

"Don't you want to know what the gift is? It's very special~"

"You'll definitely like it~"

"Are you sure you don't want to open the door and take a look?"

Over the years, Qiao Zheng has received all kinds of gifts, big and small, from friends' studios, brand partners, variety show teams, charity organizations she has participated in, and unified support gifts from fan clubs. Qiao Zheng has been overwhelmed with gifts and even has a room in her home dedicated to them.

To be honest, Qiao Zheng no longer feels any interest in receiving gifts.

But Qiao Zhizheng's ideas are wild and imaginative. When she first met Qiao Zhizheng, she could roughly guess what she was thinking, but now she can no longer predict what Qiao Zhizheng is thinking.

Qiao Zhizheng is like a cunning farmer, hanging a sweet and delicious carrot on a stick, trying to seduce Qiao Zheng, the stubborn donkey who is not easily moved by external things.

Qiao Zhizheng was still chattering on the phone, and Qiao Zheng became a little curious.

Qiao Zheng pinched her tired arms. After getting used to the quietness of being alone, she didn't want to get up, but she was a little curious about the gift in Qiao Zhizheng's mouth.

He stood up with a gloomy look on his face, walked to the door, put down the chain, opened the door, and was hit by bright and pretty flowers.

"For you! Do you like it?"

A touch of bright yellow broke into the world of black, white and gray. To be honest, Qiao Zheng felt a little swollen and painful in her eyeballs. It was not the kind of swollen pain that made people uncomfortable, but another kind of indescribable feeling.

If I have to describe it, it's probably like a rabbit that is used to eating grass and sleeping in its nest, living a stable life. Suddenly one day, the tall grass beside the nest is pulled aside, and a lively and active fox drags it to the grass to run wild and roll around. It's a strange feeling.

I don't hate it, nor do I want to refuse it, I just feel very uncomfortable.

Qiao Zheng's silence encouraged Qiao Zhizheng to enter the house.

Slender and beautiful fingers flicked the drooping red bird.

"Is this a gift?"

Qiao Zhizheng closed the door with her backhand, and with a "click", the door locked automatically. Qiao Zhizheng's smiling face seemed to be glowing in the dim room, and Qiao Zheng's eyes unconsciously followed the eye-catching yellow.

"This is a secondary gift. The main gift today is me."

Qiao Zheng frowned and looked at her in surprise, "You?!"

When Qiao Zheng thought about Qiao Zhizheng's strange behavior yesterday, an incredible idea came to her mind. She took a step back calmly, her hands unconsciously clenching the wrapping paper.

Qiao Zhizheng noticed Qiao Zheng's resistance, and a trace of frustration flashed through his heart, but his expression remained unchanged. "I can accompany you all day today, so you won't be bored~"

Qiao Zheng twitched her lips, "No, I'm not bored."

Qiao Zhizheng nodded and asked her, "What were you doing before I came in?"

Qiao Zhizheng made a "stop" gesture and said, "Don't say anything. Let me make a guess."

"Are you sitting by the window watching the rain?"

The sentence is structured as a question, but the tone is firm.

Qiao Zheng didn't say anything.

Qiao Zhizheng knew that she had guessed correctly.

Qiao Zhizheng walked to the window, sat down cross-legged, raised his head and waved at her expectantly, taking the initiative, "Come on, sit with us."

Qiao Zheng didn't know what was going on, so she let Qiao Zhizheng stay for no apparent reason.

Qiao Zheng returned to her original viewing position and sat cross-legged. The two of them faced each other, both tilting their heads to look at the rain outside the window.

In the silence, Qiao Zhizheng spoke first.

"Qiao Zheng, you know what? I really hate the rain."

Qiao Zheng didn't say anything, only her eyeballs trembled slightly, revealing the turmoil in her heart that Qiao Zhizheng was unaware of.

Qiao Zhizheng's eyes were gloomy, just like the sky that was so dark that it seemed to fall at any moment. The water surface in the distance and the sky merged into a thick darkness.

"My father jumped off a building on a rainy day. My mother also took away all the money and abandoned me on a rainy day. Our house was taken away and mortgaged. I had nowhere to go. I wanted to seek help from the relatives and friends my father had helped, but they turned me away. They even looked at me with disgusting eyes..."

Relatives who once complimented my father now avoided her as much as possible, and the approving looks that my father's former friends gave her when they visited her turned into uncomfortable amusement.

He put on a hypocritical and sanctimonious look, smiled and said to Qiao Zhizheng, "You are carrying so much debt now. As your father's friend, and you call me uncle, I should help you. But, you have nothing now. I, your uncle, also earned my money through hard work, and I can't just throw it away, unless..."

He stopped talking here, and his eyes were like a knife, scraping Qiao Zhizheng from head to toe, his meaning was self-evident.

He waited for Qiao Zhizheng to ask for mercy. If someone talked about it in the future, he could also say that it was Qiao Zhizheng who seduced him. He felt so pity for the daughter of his former friend that he could not refuse and had to accept it. He was tormented by his conscience day and night.

Qiao Zhizheng was naive but not stupid, and she fled in disbelief.

Qiao Zhizheng ran to the street and stood under the eaves, looking at the city's continuous rain for many days. The moist water vapor slid past the corners of his eyes and fell to the ground. Qiao Zhizheng lowered his head and saw one crown-shaped water droplet after another, melting into the water flow and going to an unknown place.

It had been a long time since this happened, but when Qiao Zhizheng thought of that day, she could still feel the sticky feeling of the rain-soaked clothes sticking to her skin.

"I was kicked out by the landlord on a rainy day. Well, it was also on a rainy day that I met you. Now that I think about it, rainy days aren't all unhappy memories."

Qiao Zhizheng's tone suddenly brightened, "It seems that since I met you, my life has become very lucky."

Qiao Zhizheng recounted, "I now have a stable place to live, and I have you and grandma who care about me. You reminded me, helped me avoid risks, and helped me get the role in 'Locking Spring Deep'. And because of you, I became the heroine of 'Another Me in the World'."

Qiao Zhizheng's tone was full of joy. "Qiao Zheng, maybe God felt that he had treated me too badly before and that it was time for me to have my day back, so he sent you to help me."

Qiao Zheng's eyes were dark and gloomy.

If Qiao Zheng had not appeared, Qiao Zhizheng's life would have been about trying to grasp the light in the darkness, and slowly changing from Qiao Zhizheng to Qiao Zheng.

Qiao Zhizheng's happiness at this moment brought out the pain deep in her heart.

Qiao Zheng fell into a state of madness that hadn't been seen for a long time.

——Why! Qiao Zhizheng! Why did someone come to save you, but no one came to save me? Why...

Qiao Zheng was brought back to her senses by the cool and silky touch of her fingertips.

Qiao Zheng's pupils focused, then constricted.

While Qiao Zheng was lost in thought, Qiao Zhizheng took out a box of red paint, took one of Qiao Zheng's fingers, and gently pressed it into the paint box.

Qiao Zhizheng held Qiao Zheng's hand, and his fingertips, painted with red paint, stroked Qiao Zhizheng's tender neck.

A streak of blood-red streaked across her soft, white neck, piercing the eye and irritating Qiao Zheng's eyes. The red blood in her veins seemed to boil, a piercing roar, rapidly spreading to the whites of her eyes and swirls to the corners—an intoxicating crimson. (Reviewer, it's just red paint, nothing else.)

Qiao Zheng's breathing became unstable and gradually rapid, her fingertips trembled, and the red marks she drew shifted.

Qiao Zhizheng looked at the moved Qiao Zheng, with a satisfied arc at the corners of his eyes.

——I knew it.

Qiao Zhizheng's eyes drooped, revealing a soft, harmless, trusting smile. She emphasized again, "Qiao Zheng, I told you I am your gift today. I won't let you get bored."

"Come on, do whatever you want."

"I know what you want to do, and I'll let you do whatever you want to me."

There was a dark cloud in Qiao Zhizheng's eyes, and he stared at Qiao Zhizheng closely.

Qiao Zhizheng was enjoying Qiao Zheng's eyes at this moment, the kind of eyes that only had Qiao Zhizheng in mind and body, only looked at Qiao Zhizheng, and needed Qiao Zhizheng so much.

Qiao Zhizheng thought, you are mine.

Qiao Zhizheng said, "I am yours."

Qiao Zhizheng slowed down her tone, "What you want to see is my tears, my scars, my weakness, and that I have no choice but to beg for mercy?"

"As long as you want it, as long as I have it, I will do whatever you want."

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The author has something to say: Qiao Mei knows her better than Qiao Jie herself, hehe

Healthy love is certainly enviable, but twisted love is really wonderful