Chapter 44 Well, let's touch it a few more times.
Chapter Forty-Four: Let's touch it a few more times.
Lin Su leaned against the door and touched her lips. Sure enough, his lips were very soft. When he slightly pursed his lips and sucked on her lips, she could feel his strength. That wonderful feeling was just as she had imagined.
But wouldn't he think she was frivolous? But they've already kissed, what else can he do? If she didn't kiss him, he wouldn't take the initiative. She's used to doing all sorts of things to him, one more time won't make a difference.
With that thought in mind, Lin Su steeled her heart and decided to do what she was supposed to do.
Not long after, the sound of a door closing came from outside. Lin Su opened the door like a thief. The living room light was on, but the room was empty; he had already left.
Lin Su sighed, feeling that she had been too cowardly.
He kissed me and then ran away, avoiding me completely; he's such a coward.
After a night, her mood had calmed down. If Zhou Yunqi came over today and brought up the topic of why she kissed him, she would face it calmly and say that she just wanted to kiss him and couldn't help it.
She was carrying a shopping basket when she went to the market to buy vegetables and also queued up to buy steamed buns. Suddenly, someone called her name.
Lin Su looked around and found that it was her deskmate Zhang Wenqiu.
Zhang Wenqiu asked, "Have you bought the groceries?"
"Hmm, and you?"
"I suddenly had a craving for steamed buns from this shop, so I came here. I didn't expect to see you here too."
The two of them decided to sit down and have breakfast together, and also bought a bowl of tofu pudding.
Zhang Wenqiu said, "You're quite something now, cooking delicious food for your partner every day at home."
Lin Su feigned composure: "Huh? Boyfriend?"
"Still not admitting it? You two don't live together?"
Lin Su thought Zhang Wenqiu knew about her relationship with Zhou Yunqi, but she hadn't mentioned it. Could it be that Xu Yaodong told her?
That's not right either.
“We don’t live together,” Lin Su said.
"You don't live together? Oh, I see. He probably stays at your place occasionally." Zhang Wenqiu smiled. "It's alright, I won't laugh at you. After all, it's quite interesting for the two of you to be together. If you have a good relationship, it's nothing. We've all opened up and reformed, who still sticks to the old rules?"
Lin Su, biting into a meat bun, said, "Don't talk nonsense, we really don't live together now."
"Okay, okay, we don't live together." Zhang Wenqiu didn't refute her, and continued to ask gossipily, "Have you met his parents?"
Lin Su didn't understand at first: "His parents?"
"Yeah, didn't he say last time that he had quite a lot of people in his family?"
"Last time? Which time?"
"That time, when I went to the school with you to pick up the mail, he also went around the school with you."
Lin Su asked in surprise, "You mean Xu Yaodong?"
Zhang Wenqiu: "Otherwise what?"
"What?! How could I possibly be with him?" Lin Su's reaction was extremely strong, drawing strange looks from the other people having breakfast.
This time, it was Zhang Wenqiu's turn to widen his eyes: "What, you two aren't..."
Lin Su reminded her, "Keep your voice down."
Zhang Wenqiu lowered his voice: "Aren't you two dating?"
"How could that be!" Lin Su said with an extremely firm tone. "No, absolutely not, you're thinking way too far."
Zhang Wenqiu: "But that day when we went to see the lotus flowers, didn't you say you liked a fellow educated youth? Wasn't he someone you were an educated youth with?"
"There were so many educated youths like me, he was just one of them."
“Okay.” Zhang Wenqiu said dejectedly, “I thought it was him.”
"No, that's impossible," Lin Su reiterated.
Zhang Wenqiu silently finished a steamed bun and started drinking tofu pudding. Lin Su asked, "Have you told anyone about this?"
"I just mentioned it to Sisi and the others in my class."
"That's it, the whole class knows now."
"I'll help you clear things up," Zhang Wenqiu said guiltily, then suddenly remembered something and looked up at her.
"What's wrong?"
"There's one more person, I've already mentioned him."
"who?"
"It's the person who picks you up at the school gate after the college entrance exam."
Lin Su's jaw dropped: "Zhou Yunqi?"
Zhang Wenqiu nodded.
Lin Su was speechless, but actually, Zhou Yunqi didn't care if he knew; he definitely understood that Zhang Wenqiu was lying. But he was still curious: "How did you get involved with him? Are you very familiar with him?"
“I ran into him on the street that day, and we walked together for a while. It was awkward not to talk, so I talked about you.” Seeing that Lin Su was still silent, she apologized, “I’m sorry, I wanted to ask you for confirmation, but I never had the chance.”
Lin Su had calmed down and was casually asking while sipping her tofu pudding with a spoon, "When did you run into me?"
Zhang Wenqiu thought for a moment: "Today is Monday, which is Tuesday of last week. It's the day before my sister's birthday. I'll go to the bookstore to buy a book for her."
"So what did you say to him?" Lin Su asked curiously.
Zhang Wenqiu repeated it.
Lin Su nodded without giving it much thought.
After they parted ways, Lin Su carried the groceries back home. On the way, she thought about how last Tuesday she was still at her grandmother's house and didn't return to Beijing until Wednesday.
After taking a couple of steps, Lin Su stopped.
Last Tuesday, Zhou Yunqi chased after her to Jinshi. Xu Yaodong said that his expression was strange that day, as if he had suffered some kind of blow.
That day, Zhang Wenqiu told Zhou Yunqi, "Lin Su said in person that he has someone he likes, and he is an educated youth."
In other words, he only went to Jinshi to find her after he heard that she liked him!
In other words, if he didn't know what she was thinking, he wouldn't have gone to her, nor would he have so openly declared that he wanted to pursue her.
He openly flirted with her so much, clearly harboring feelings for her, yet he never even considered that she might like him back?
Having gone through all this trouble, Lin Su became completely unhappy.
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After returning home, Lin Su became increasingly unhappy. After fretting for a long time, she decided to go out in the afternoon and didn't return until nightfall.
She opened the door and saw Zhou Yunqi sitting in the living room, looking at her helplessly: "Where have you been?"
Lin Su said, "I went shopping."
"Get ready, I'll take you out to eat." He stood up. "A friend is treating, and he asked me to invite you."
Lin Su was taken aback: "Your friend? What friend?"
He smiled faintly and said, "My partner who was working with me came back from North America. His wife also returned to China, so he treated a few of us to dinner. Xu Yaodong will also be there."
The overseas Chinese man, named Li Mingcheng, was in his forties and had lived abroad for over twenty years. He was quite a gentleman. Recently, during negotiations for cooperation, there were many trivial matters to discuss and many connections to smooth over. Besides providing raw materials, Zhou Yunqi also provided some personal connections.
Li Mingcheng saw that although Zhou Yunqi was young, he was steady in his work and appreciated him. Several times he wanted to invite Zhou Yunqi to have dinner with him, but Zhou Yunqi refused, saying that he had to go back to cook and that someone needed him to take care of.
That time, Li Mingcheng asked curiously, "Is she your wife?"
But Zhou Yunqi said no, he had just changed his tune a couple of days ago and said he was pursuing her, and today he finally found an opportunity to take her out.
Later, in the hotel restaurant, Li Mingcheng met Lin Su, who was wearing a brand new red dress. The girl smiled slightly, her beauty captivating.
Li Mingcheng looked Lin Su up and down and praised, "I've heard Yaodong say you're beautiful and I've always wanted to meet you. Now that I see you, you're even more beautiful than I imagined. The red dress suits you very well."
Lin Su smiled and thanked her.
Li Mingcheng's wife is also an overseas Chinese who likes to wear cheongsams. She told Lin Su about her experiences and feelings during her trip back to China, saying that since the reform and opening up, it has been very difficult to book rooms in hotels catering to foreigners this year.
He even asked Lin Su, "Are you and Xiao Zhou boyfriend and girlfriend?"
Lin Su quickly shook her head and denied it, saying, "No, no, we're just acquaintances, we're not related."
As he said this, Zhou Yunqi cast a strange glance at him.
Lin Su avoided that gaze. They weren't in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship to begin with, and she hadn't said anything wrong.
Mrs. Li smiled awkwardly: "It seems I made a mistake."
Several friends, all of whom are married, also attended the dinner. They ate and chatted together, and the atmosphere was quite pleasant.
They ordered red wine, and Lin Su poured half a glass into her own. They stood up and clinked glasses together.
Lin Su raised her glass and took a sip. The red wine actually tasted quite good at this point. Perhaps it wasn't much different from what she had drunk later; it was just a psychological effect.
Zhou Yunqi sat down next to her and reminded her, "Drink less."
"Okay, I know," she drawled. "I won't be allergic."
He laughed and said, "I'm afraid you'll drink too much and I'll have to carry you back."
Lin Su: "I can walk by myself."
Mrs. Li kept observing them; those with discerning eyes just smiled and didn't point it out.
The dinner lasted for more than two hours. They talked about the domestic and international situation, reform and opening up, and economic development... She was drinking silently.
Slightly tipsy, Mr. Li asked the driver to take them home. As they sat in the back seat, Lin Su felt a headache coming on and leaned on his shoulder, complaining of a throbbing pain.
Zhou Yunqi said speechlessly, "You can't drink, yet you drink so much. You're just asking for trouble."
When they got out of the car at the entrance of the residential area, the surrounding lights were dim, and Lin Su was carried out of the car by Zhou Yunqi.
Holding her in one arm, like a baby in your arms, the gatekeeper had already gone off duty and locked the iron gate. Zhou Yunqi held her in one arm and unlocked the gate with the other.
There was no one around. I entered the apartment building and started climbing the stairs.
Lin Su felt her whole body getting hot, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, squeezing him very tightly. Zhou Yunqi said, "At least give me some space, aren't you afraid I'll suffocate?"
However, as the alcohol took effect, Lin Su realized that he had pursued her because he knew she liked him, rather than because he liked her himself. The two were different in nature, and the more she thought about it, the more resentful she became. So she wrapped her arms around his neck and began to shake him incessantly.
"Zhou Yunqi, put me down."
"You're bullying me."
"Put me down."
...
Zhou Yunqi climbed the stairs, his stance still stable, letting her sway as she did so, and scoffed, "So drunk, aren't you afraid of nightmares?"
Lin Su: "I'm not drunk. You're the one who keeps bullying me."
"Tell me, how did I bully you?"
"Anyway, you bullied me."
"Unreasonable".
"It's you who are being unreasonable."
Tsk, you want to argue now that you've had too much to drink? He didn't have time to retort. He opened the door, carried her to the window where clothes were drying in the entryway, and when he tried to put her down, she continued to struggle.
Zhou Yunqi was so angry he almost laughed. Leaning against the window, he said, "You just said you wanted to come down, but now you don't want to. You're really hard to please."
Lin Su started to throw a tantrum, holding his shoulders with her eyes filled with tears: "Zhou Yunqi, I hate you."
He sneered: "How exactly do you find me annoying?"
Anyway, I hate you.
The man said casually, "That's true. In front of outsiders, they only say that we are acquaintances and have no relationship. It's obvious that they want to distance themselves from each other."
Lin Su: "I misspoke. I should have said that I'm not familiar with you."
He scoffed at first, then looked at her intently: "Why didn't you say anything when you kissed me on the lips last night? You would kiss a man you don't know well? Do you have that kind of fetish?"
Lin Su lost her temper and then resorted to pleading: "I didn't kiss you, it was an accident."
"Alright, alright, you accidentally touched my lips, and for quite a while." The man's eyes also became alluring. Trying to outdrink me, huh? Who hasn't had a drink...
He raised an eyebrow: "Then, touch it a few more times?"
Lin Su froze, staring at his thin lips. The soft touch from last night, the feeling of being sucked with just the right amount of force, came back to her.
She paused for a moment, then said, as if out of her own control, "Mmm."
Only after he finished speaking did he come to his senses and firmly refuse: "No."
The man's eyes darkened, he clicked his tongue, and patiently asked, "Really don't want it?"
Lin Su shook her head, feeling inexplicably wronged. She sniffed, but didn't shed tears. Instead, she seemed to be filled with resentment. She moved closer to his lips, but stopped in mid-air, wanting to kiss him but not quite.
Because she was holding him, she was higher up than him. Amidst his heavy breathing, the man's restraint completely crumbled. He tilted his neck back and leaned in, taking her lips in his own.
He firmly captured Lin Su's bright red and hot lips.
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Author's note: I can't finish writing anymore, I'll continue tomorrow~~~
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