Tickle him
It was already the next day when Zuo Xiao woke up.
Adulterer No. 1 lay beside her, his thin body wrapped around her. Zuo Xiao rested her head on his arm, closing her eyes and recalling the experience of last night.
Well, it’s a little bit worse than Zhou Zhihui, but it’s not impossible.
I reached out and touched it again and again: Oh, the touch is too bad, it seems that I can’t make do with it...
A soft laugh reached my ears. I opened my eyes and met Luffy's hazy gaze.
"Nice morning call." He smiled and kissed her forehead. Zuo Xiao curled her lips and gave him a faint smile: "It's better not to tell him that I was just inspecting the goods..."
The good morning kiss was just the appetizer. The man's hands, lips, and tongue moved together, wanting to eat her again. Zuo Xiao gently pushed him away, lowering her eyes and asking, "What time is it?"
Luffy understood what she meant, got off her, and reached for the bedside table.
"8:30."
They both got out of bed. Luffy brought a bath towel and a fresh toothbrush. When Zuo Xiao finished showering, breakfast was already set on the table. Each of them had a plate with a pile of greens, a few slices of bacon, a piece of toast, and a half-cooked fried egg.
Luffy, wearing a white T-shirt, walked over, holding two iced Americanos. Zuo Xiao took a closer look and saw he was wearing silver-rimmed glasses. He couldn't help but mentally comment: He already had delicate skin, peachy eyes, and the look of a scumbag. With the glasses, he looked even more like a scumbag.
Zuo Xiao sat on the dining chair, moving her mouth but not saying anything, and Luffy didn't say anything either. He just looked up from time to time and smiled at her lovingly.
As expected, silence is the best medical beauty for men. Zuo Xiao silently gave him a point in his heart.
In the elevator, Zuo Xiao said, "I've asked for leave today."
"Where are you going? I'll take you there."
"No, I'll just take a walk."
Before they parted, the man couldn't help himself and put his arm around her shoulders, giving her a light peck on the lips. His eyes were so charming that they could be drawn. This made Zuo Xiao feel a little guilty: "Brother, don't rush into it. I haven't decided whether I want to have sex with you again..."
Zuo Xiao didn't know where to go. With her bare face and no sunscreen on, she walked out of Luffy's neighborhood and sat down at a nearby cafe.
Yesterday, Zhou Zhihui had stabbed her already scabbed wound again. Even if it was true, as he said, that he didn't have another woman, and that he had broken up with her so abruptly because he wanted her to "learn a lesson" and treat him better in the future, she still couldn't accept it.
They had been in love for over three years! She had even thought about marrying him!
Didn't he consider how she would feel before he acted so childishly? Didn't he consider how cruel and irresponsible his actions were? Why should he beg for her forgiveness? Was he an idiot?
Yes, he is an idiot.
It's hard to admit you once cared about a fool. And the best way to avoid being hurt again is to completely erase his existence. There's no need to consider the path you've taken together, or to dwell on your own responsibility for the whole thing. New people replace old ones, and new memories overwrite old ones. It's that simple.
She understood the truth very clearly, but there was a wet spot in her heart.
At noon, Zuo Xiao found a restaurant near his company. Just as he finished ordering, a red whirlwind blew over, attracting everyone's attention.
"Why didn't you answer the phone last night? I was so worried!" Someone was already yelling before he even got off the phone. Zuo Xiao smiled slightly and said, "You could have been louder. Let everyone in the hotel know that I was being harassed by my ex-boyfriend."
Zhuang Jinghao quickly covered her mouth with both hands, her eyes wide open. After a while, she let go and whispered, "Where did you and Brother Lu Fei go? I called him, but no one answered..."
Zuo Xiao finally understood why she was anxious. If she couldn't eat the sweet and fragrant melon, she wouldn't be anxious.
She smiled and held her chin with one hand: "Want to know?"
"Hmmmm!" The eyes of the onlookers were all green.
Zuo Xiao winked at her: "Guess."
Zhuang Jinghao folded his arms and looked at her with the sharp eyes of a detective. Suddenly, his face changed drastically. He pointed at her and said excitedly, "You were wearing this little red dress yesterday!"
Zuo Xiao chuckled, put his index finger on his lips and made a "hush" gesture.
Zhuang Jinghao covered both sides of her face, a clear blush showing through her fingers: "So you...you..."
She suddenly stood up, moved the chair next to Zuo Xiao, sat down next to her, and lowered her voice: "Are you really asleep?"
"He took me out for drinks," Zuo Xiao said slowly. "We got drunk, and then we went to his house."
"Oh my god! Who... who is that..." Zhuang Jing was so excited that she was incoherent, her hands flying around. Zuo Xiao held her hands down and said, "That's what I told you before, to 'take advantage of the opportunity.' Learn more from your brother Luffy."
Zhuang Jinghao tilted his head and pondered for a moment, then asked foolishly, "So he took advantage of you being drunk and slept with you?"
Zuo Xiao chuckled: "I asked him to sleep with me."
Seeing that she looked confused, Zuo Xiao reached out and tapped her forehead: "Think for yourself first. Don't always wait for the teacher to chew up the knowledge points and feed them to you. You won't be able to grow that way. Understand?"
The young apprentice ate without savoring the food, her eyes darting around her face, as if trying to transfer the knowledge in her head to her own. As soon as Zuo Xiaogang put down his chopsticks, she couldn't wait to say, "Let's go out and talk!"
The two of them found a large tree in a nearby park to cool down. Zhuang Jinghao asked for a lot of details, making Zuo Xiao suspect that she was trying to copy and paste it onto Chen Liqing.
The weather was already very hot in late June, and sweat was beading on both of their foreheads. Zhuang Jinghao raised his hand to wipe it off and asked one last question:
"So you and Luffy-san, are you together?"
Zuo Xiao smiled and said, "No. If we have to be together just by sleeping together, I won't sleep with him!"
Seeing her apprentice's surprise, she added, "In my opinion, whether two people can sleep together is the most important basis for both parties to evaluate whether they should be together. It's not the other way around, where they only consider whether they are physically compatible after they've established a relationship. What if they're not compatible? Or even more extreme, what if the other person is impotent? Would you just put up with him and continue living with him, or kick him out if he's not?"
"Uh..." the young apprentice hesitated, "I guess I can't survive..."
Zuo Xiao smiled and said, "That's it. Since it's so important for both parties to sleep together, why didn't they confirm it earlier?"
She thought for a moment and then continued, "Of course, I'm not suggesting you do the same. It's because there's a lot of resistance and risks. Maybe the person you like can only accept the order they've determined. Or maybe they have a preconceived notion that you're just a friend in bed, not a girlfriend, because you slept with them before you became their girlfriend. That would make things very difficult for you, and you'd miss out on some people."
Seeing that the young apprentice wanted to ask more, Zuo Xiao patted her head and said, "Lunch break is long over. Why don't you hurry back to work?"
Before parting, she asked, "Have you thought about it? How are you going to deal with Chen Liqing?"
The young disciple shook his head: "I haven't even had the chance to meet him..."
Zuo Xiao thought for a moment and said, "That's right. You two have very few intersections in life. Apart from me, there's no other connection point... It seems you still have to rely on me!"
The young apprentice looked at his master eagerly and said awkwardly, "But you haven't contacted each other for a long time, right?"
Zuo Xiao calculated with his fingers: "Less than two weeks. It's okay. For the sake of my disciple's happiness, I will shamelessly go begging for alms!"
After returning home and taking a shower, Zuo Xiao immediately sent a WeChat message to Chen Liqing: "Want to go out and play tonight?"
Ten minutes later, he replied: "Sure. But I want it after 9 o'clock."
Zuo Xiao was lying on the bed with a facial mask on when she suddenly laughed out loud, causing the mask to wrinkle.
In just 24 hours, she first completely kicked out her ex, thus dropping one adulterer No. 1 and No. 2; then she slept with adulterer No. 1 after drinking; now she has made an appointment with her childhood sweetheart who was ruthlessly rejected by her... However, he has no chance of becoming adulterer No. 3 because he belongs to her apprentice.
Why not just number a few men like this: No. 1; No. 2; No. 3... Oh no, No. 0, which means impossible.
Just then the phone rang. It was number 1 sending a WeChat message:
"What do you want to eat tonight?"
"I have an appointment."
"So what do you want to eat tomorrow?"
"Hmm...fish? There's a place that sells good steamed fish in a stone pot."
Steamed fish in a stone pot? Could it be that this was the same place the Zhuang brothers and sisters had taken him to several times? Luffy looked up from his phone screen and cast his gaze at the serious-looking man beside him.
At this moment, a comprehensive review meeting of the 618 Promotion Festival is taking place in the conference room. Luffy and Zhuang Yu'an are both present to listen to the summary reports from the heads of multiple departments.
This year's 618 sales figures were quite impressive, and will be a highlight in the prospectus. Because of this, the heads of various departments expressed some degree of joy, but Zhuang Yu'an remained expressionless. Zuo Xiao once described him as "serious and sharp," and that was absolutely true.
He was slacking off when he was caught red-handed by a sharp, serious look. Luffy smiled, put down his phone, and turned his attention to the PowerPoint presentation his subordinate was making.
After the meeting, he was kept by Zhuang Yu'an.
"You seemed distracted more than once just now." Zhuang Yu'an's face was expressionless, and his tone was flat. "Didn't you get enough rest last night?"
Huh? Is this guy trying to trick me? Luffy got suspicious and countered, "You don't look like you've had enough rest either. Look, you have dark circles under your eyes."
Zhuang Yuan paused: "But I didn't get distracted during the meeting."
Good boy! Luffy laughed and said, "Maybe your distraction skills are better, so it's hard to tell."
Zhuang Yu'an was silent for a moment, then reached out and tapped his neck: "What's that here?"
Luffy subconsciously touched his neck, then took out his cell phone and turned on the front camera.
My breath suddenly hitched. Three red scratches were clearly visible on my skin, stretching from the back of my neck to the side. In my rush this morning, I hadn't noticed them.
I couldn't help but smile: What a hot little wild cat!
He put down his phone and said with a smile, "It was scratched by a cat."
Catching the fleeting hesitation in Zhuang Yu'an's eyes, Luffy felt a surge of pleasure in his heart. He knew very well that this was the natural reaction of a man after gaining an advantage in a competition.
Yesterday evening, he accidentally got involved in a competition. The competitors included Zuo Xiao's ex-boyfriend and her chosen "Adulterer No. 2", but in the end, it was him, "Adulterer No. 1", who won the beauty.
The more I think about it, the more proud I feel.
It was rare to see Zhuang Yu'an looking so frustrated. Although he seemed to be hiding it well, he couldn't hide it from his sharp eyes. Luffy chuckled and poured a bucket of oil on the fire:
"The kitten was really enthusiastic last night."
Before he finished speaking, the man opposite him stood up suddenly as if he had heard some terrible swear words, and said coldly: "No matter how you play with cats and dogs, be careful not to confuse public and private matters, and do not sacrifice public interests for personal ones." After that, he walked away.
Angry, angry... Luffy looked at his back and couldn't stop smiling.
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