The fog was thick, and the moon was hidden behind the dark clouds.
The not-so-light footsteps echoed in the quiet villa corridor. The dim light cast slanted shadows on the ground, and fresh roses overlapped the shadows, like flowers blooming from beside the ear.
Xu Shiyue wearily pushed open her bedroom door. Everything in the room was as it had always been, and she was surrounded by the faint scent of freshly cut roses.
Moonlight streamed through the window onto the table piled high with books, spreading its bright glow throughout the room, only to be blocked by a figure.
The dimly lit room was illuminated only by the moonlight streaming in from the window, and the direction of the light made it impossible to see the person's face.
But just from this simple shadowy outline, Xu Shiyue's steps into the room stopped abruptly.
She could hardly believe her eyes. Her lips trembled slightly, opening and closing repeatedly. After several seconds, she managed to utter, "You... are back."
"Yes, I'm back." The shadow nodded to her and walked towards her in the light.
The black hoodie made the person look much thinner, and the flowing hair still carried the scent of roses as always.
Xu Shiyue watched the person walking towards her, and finally saw those bright, black eyes, like jewels, beneath the person's fan-like eyelashes.
It is Lu Shizhen.
It's Lu Shizhen...
Xu Shiyue's eyes trembled slightly as she looked up, watching those eyes get closer and closer to her.
Then the girl's ever-warm hand touched her cheek, and she said in a voice that was all too familiar to her, "I'm sorry for making you sad for so long."
Even though the action seemed out of place for the person's unrestrained behavior, those dark eyes shone with a clumsy sincerity.
This feeling was all too familiar to Xu Shiyue. It was the same for her plant brother in her room, then for Yuanzi, and finally for herself.
She's back.
She really came back.
Xu Shiyue's eyes had been filled with tears for some unknown time.
Salty, fishy tears kissed her lips, and then pressed together against the lips of the person opposite her.
Without warning, Lu Shizhen was startled by Xu Shiyue's sudden appearance and stumbled, her waist hitting the edge of the desk.
Seemingly surprised, Xu Shiyue struggled to utter a single word: "Xu..."
Unexpectedly, before he could finish speaking, Xu Shiyue dictatorially silenced him again.
The gentle moonlight illuminated a small area in front of the window, casting overlapping shadows on the clean white wall.
It was just a light kiss, a fleeting touch of lips, but Xu Shiyue felt as if all the blood in her body was surging, and she pried open Lu Shizhen's lips.
It's called "prying" because Xu Shiyue's actions came without any warning and without seeking the other party's consent.
With just a light touch of her tongue, taking advantage of the other person's moment of breathing, she cunningly opened the other person's "city gate".
It's like she's become a different person, yet it also seems like this is the real her.
Her eyes and brows still held that aloof and cold demeanor, yet a number of contradictory traits had been added to it.
Xu Shiyue unilaterally grabbed Lu Shizhen as if she were raising her hand that was blocking them, and leaned her whole body over her.
Her kiss was forceful, as if she wanted to embed the person entirely into her body.
No one could understand the feeling of losing something and then regaining it better than Xu Shiyue; her lifeless heart seemed to come alive in that instant.
The more forcefully she kissed the person in front of her, the more she felt herself coming back to life.
The breath of the nibbling creature gathered at an extremely close distance, gradually becoming scorching hot.
Finally, just before she was about to run out of oxygen, Xu Shiyue released Lu Shizhen's lips.
The swirling air currents created a gentle breeze that rippled through Xu Shiyue's hair, catching her eye.
Their eyes met, and Lu Shizhen leaned against the desk, her slightly parted lips quickly gathering oxygen, but the uneven redness on her full lips was particularly eye-catching in Xu Shiyue's eyes.
This is what she just did.
She did it.
This thought was like a fire, suddenly flashing through Xu Shiyue's mind.
The moonlight fell between her and Lu Shizhen. The girl's oversized hoodie had slipped down from her earlier movement, falling onto her shoulder and revealing her collarbone.
Her skin, completely exposed, shone with a snowy white luster under the moonlight. Her breath caused her throat to bob on one side, making her more than just eye-catching.
An undisguised possessiveness surged to unprecedented heights, like a ferocious beast that instantly broke through the cage that Xu Shiyue had been unconsciously confining it to.
Therefore, this person belongs to her.
Moreover, it must belong to her.
The obsessive thoughts magnified little by little in the girl's eyes, and the cold darkness became entangled with many emotions mixed with fervor.
The delicate kisses were like raindrops suddenly falling outside the window, pattering softly against the osmanthus tree.
Downstairs in the living room, Aunt Sun's favorite Animal World program was playing, with a deep voice narrating how felines often use scent-collecting as a way to assert their dominance.
I don't know if it was the damp rain outside that dampened the original scent in the room, but the rose scent that had been lingering in the room was gradually overshadowed by another fragrance.
A gust of air rose from the smooth bed, softly supporting the body that was leaning backward toward it.
Long, slender legs crossed beneath her skirt, and the shadow on the wall appeared to be lofty and imposing.
It felt like unease, like cherishing something too much.
Xu Shiyue vented her anger with a violent kiss, her bloodshot eyes like those of a maddened beast.
It's like a cat that feels wronged after being abandoned by its owner.
It was unclear how much time had passed before Xu Shiyue finally released Lu Shizhen, her breath still trembling as she calmed down.
She stared at him, watching the marks left by her less-than-gentle movements, and waited for a long time without hearing any criticism from him.
The sheets rustled as she watched Lu Shizhen raise her arm towards her.
Then he gently lifted her face and returned her kiss in the gentlest, most tender way.
Like a cat with its fur standing on end suddenly being soothed by a human's gentle hand, Xu Shiyue's tense body suddenly relaxed.
She kept her eyes slightly open, looking at Lu Shizhen who had kissed her first. His delicate, thick eyelashes gently brushed against her eyebrows, and a barely perceptible tickle landed on her heart.
Lu Shizhen's kiss was much gentler than hers before.
Like clouds stolen from the sky, they hid the two of them inside, and in this pure white world, there were only them, so they could do whatever they wanted.
You can do whatever you want...
Lu Shizhen's hand encircled her waist, their slender fingers intertwined, resting on the concave spine.
Xu Shiyue kept her head down, constantly asking the person embracing her for kisses. She thought that some thoughts, when they reached a certain point, needed to be relieved in this way.
And that's what she's always wanted to do with Lu Shizhen.
The sweltering room felt like summer; the light drizzle that had been falling suddenly turned into a downpour, making the osmanthus branches tremble violently.
The world seemed to be in turmoil, and the wind blowing into the room caused the curtains by the bed to sway, the hazy gauze curtains outlining the figure of a young girl.
Her slender figure flowed smoothly like a river, as if it were a masterpiece of the Creator, without a single superfluous or incongruous turn.
Her long, waterfall-like hair swayed in the wind, each strand, glistening with moonlight, seemed to proclaim an inviolable sacredness.
Yet, some people still manage to get close to this masterpiece.
Touch her where God cannot see.
The torrential rain pattered against Xu Shiyue's ears, and she could hear the sound of her blood resonating with the rain falling that night.
She was the one who wanted to mark it first, but the scent of roses gradually enveloped her. The bright red petals were hot and burning, like a fire that would melt away all the ice in her body.
Finally, the fire reached its deepest point.
The wind and rain lashed the osmanthus branches outside the window, causing them to tremble violently. The shadows cast beneath the trees seemed to raise their necks high, unable to withstand the onslaught of the wind and rain.
"..."
A heavy breath was exhaled with a trembling sound, and a pair of eyes suddenly lit up in the darkness.
Xu Shiyue woke up.
What just happened was just a dream of hers.
Light seeped weakly into the room through the gap above the curtains, barely illuminating a single Roman rod.
Xu Shiyue stared at the ceiling with her eyes slightly open, her breathing still trembling slightly, not yet calm.
Since Lu Shizhen left, she has become even more demanding about her sleep environment.
She should have known it was a dream; the curtains in her room now couldn't possibly let the moonlight in.
However, even such a glaring mistake was completely concealed by Lu Shizhen, who appeared before her.
The girl's well-defined fingers slowly and carefully traced the sheets, reaching her hand to the other side of the bed.
The icy temperature relentlessly eroded the warmth from her hands, showing no sign that anyone had ever been there.
It was a dream...
It was just a fleeting dream of hers.
Not a ray of light entered the room, yet the emptiness and bewilderment in Xu Shiyue's eyes were still exceptionally clear.
This was the first time she had dreamed of Lu Shizhen.
After all these days, she finally agreed to come into her dream once.
Those empty eyes were filled with a deep sadness, heavy as if a flood was about to engulf the person.
Not long after, Xu Shiyue's eyes suddenly changed, filled with a mixture of love and hate, and sorrow. Countless emotions intertwined in her mind, gradually entangled her, and drove her mad.
Her love was precious and had endured many hardships, which made her love obsessive.
What had just happened made Xu Shiyue yearn for that person even more.
He wanted to bring her back, lock her up, and keep her by his side for the rest of her life.
She refused to believe that the Lu Shizhen she saw that night was fake; how could that bright yellow light appear in the sky out of nowhere?
"Ta-da!"
The knocking sound, steady and rhythmic, rang out at the door, interrupting Xu Shiyue's thoughts.
Aunt Sun's voice came from the other side of the door: "Miss Xu, Miss Shi En has arrived and is waiting for you in the living room."
Upon hearing this, Xu Shiyue silently withdrew her gaze, along with her morbid thoughts.
She composed herself slightly and said to Aunt Sun, "I understand, I'll go down now."
Xu Shiyue couldn't wear the whole set of loungewear anymore, so she changed the clothes underneath as well.
She was sweating a lot; the hair under her neck was already wet. After the temperature suddenly rose, the thin layer of sweat felt a bit chilly.
The sweet aroma of hot mochi milk tea wafted into the stairwell, and Xu Shiyue could see a little girl sitting on the living room sofa from afar.
Despite it being the dead of winter, she was dressed very thinly, and her downcast eyes showed no trace of the arrogant demeanor she used to have whenever she came here.
Yuanzi, who had never liked being with Lu Shien in the past, actually lay down next to her this time, letting her do whatever she wanted with her.
Lu Shien could only weakly stroke Yuanzi's body, hoping to find some comfort in the dog her sister had bought for her.
Perhaps it was because the sound of footsteps going downstairs was particularly clear in the empty villa that Lu Shi'en suddenly raised his head.
She watched the person who had just come downstairs from a distance, stood up angrily, and said in an extremely rude tone: "Why did you bring me here? If you want to apologize, you should go find my mother. She's soft-hearted towards you."
Xu Shiyue remained expressionless upon hearing this, showing neither anger nor annoyance.
She calmly walked into the living room and said to Lu Shien, "I did have something to ask you to come here today."
"You killed my sister, I have nothing to say to you!" Lu Shi'en sneered, his eyes filled with anger. "I was really blind back then to ask you to help my sister get revenge. I thought you were being kind by letting me reap the benefits without lifting a finger, but now it seems that you are the one who should be punished the most!"
Xu Shiyue remained calm and asked in a low voice, "Lu Shien, how can you be so sure that it belongs to your sister?"
Lu Shi'en was stunned when he heard Xu Shiyue's words.
She didn't know if this person was crazy or what, and frowned, saying, "What do you mean?"
Xu Shiyue remained silent, calmly sitting down on the sofa under Lu Shien's gaze. She then placed a badly damaged cell phone in front of Lu Shien and said, "I was able to find your sister, so are you going to choose to sit back and reap the benefits this time?"
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