Chapter 49: Hooligan? After school, Xie Shi was the last one to leave...
After school, Xie Shi was the last one to leave the classroom. He stood on the roof and looked down, his eyes following a figure with a strange, hysterical calmness.
The two of them had a fight in the morning, and apart from ignoring him, her mood seemed unaffected at all.
He joked and chatted with others as needed, and remained as stable, generous and lively as ever.
She pulled the table half an inch apart, and the two of them kept a distance from each other. Every movement was to draw a line between them and him.
Xie Shi felt a sense of panic and uneasiness that he hadn't felt for a long time. He clearly wanted to get closer to her, clearly wanted to pull her towards him, and clearly wanted to get her attention back, but she seemed to be getting farther and farther away from him. He had even begun to make her dislike him.
The light figure danced in his eyes. He stared at her from afar, when suddenly another figure rushed into his field of vision.
The male physical education teacher ran over from behind her and patted her shoulder gently from behind. She was stunned for a moment, then turned around to see who it was and smiled brightly.
From this angle, you can see the profiles of two people at the same time. They are looking at each other face to face, both smiling. The sunlight falls on their faces, and the corners of their eyes and eyebrows are full of light.
They walked side by side, talking and laughing, so close that their shoulders almost touched.
His eyes suddenly felt dry and stinging. He didn't know if it was because the sun was too strong today, or because their intimacy was too dazzling.
He knew from the beginning that she was only willing to get close to him and take care of him occasionally because she felt sorry for him.
But in fact, people like the following are the ones she really wants to get close to.
They are sunny, upright, and normal. People like them are her kind.
And he has been immersed in the dark corner for too long, his soul has been soaked, and he has never seen the sun all year round.
There are too many flaws in his pretended normality and decency. How can such a clumsy disguise compare to others? She is willing to get close to someone like him, so she will be even friendlier and closer to others. If there is a more sunny and beautiful person who comes along, she will sooner or later dislike him.
He had thought his soul had become numb, that no one in this world could stir his emotions anymore. He had thought that this world, where he had traveled through countless reincarnations, no longer held any mystery to him, that he could do anything, knew everything...
But at this moment, the person standing next to someone else a hundred meters away from him just smiled slightly and returned all the feeling of powerlessness to him.
His heart was beating abnormally, and the possessiveness that was so strong that it was almost out of control scared even him.
What is she going to do.
What else would she do...
......
Lin Xicai felt a little cold and dizzy when she returned home. She took a thermometer and found that she had a fever.
It wasn't serious, but she felt sleepy all over. Lin Xicai took some cold medicine. While taking the medicine, she thought of Xie Shi and felt that it was probably because of Xie Shi that she was angry with him.
After a quick dinner, Lin Xicai checked in to her account and sat down at her desk to do her homework. Cold medicine can make you sleepy, so she planned to finish her homework quickly before she got too sleepy and get some rest.
However, just as I started my homework, the room suddenly darkened. The overhead chandelier and the small desk lamp on the desk went out, leaving the room completely dark.
Lin Xicai was stunned for a few seconds, then groped her way out. Just as she reached the door, she saw Zhong Ping standing in the living room with a flashlight. "The power is out."
"Why did the power go out suddenly?" Lin Xicai said softly, with a hint of complaint in her voice, "I was doing my homework."
"It seems they're repairing the transformer. We'll probably have to wait for some time," Zhong Ping looked at her and soothed her. "You have a fever, don't stay up late today. You've just finished your medicine, so go to bed early."
"I'm fine," Lin Xicai blinked and asked, "Do we have any candles at home? I'll go to bed after I finish writing. Otherwise, if I can't hand it in tomorrow, I'll be criticized by the teacher."
"Then get up early and write. Candles are so dangerous. What if they burn? Haven't you watched the news? So many fires are caused by candles..."
Zhong Ping chattered on and on. Lin Xicai smiled and said nothing more. She nodded in a compromising manner, "Okay, fine. I'll go back to my room. You should go to bed early too."
Lin Xicai turned around and went back to her room, thinking that it was impossible to get up early. She could stay up three hours late but couldn't get up thirty minutes early.
Lin Xicai thought about it, returned to the room, locked the door, picked up the homework from the desk, and entered the space with the homework and study materials.
Li Ci had just finished taking a shower and was wearing a beige home outfit. His hair was wet and he was holding a hair dryer in his hand. It seemed that he was about to blow-dry his hair when he saw her suddenly appear and stopped.
Lin Xicai glanced at him calmly and walked to the dining table. "There's a power outage outside. I'll come in and do my homework for a while."
Lin Xicai put her things down, pulled out the half-finished exercises, took a deep breath, and began to tackle them one by one. At her current level, just finishing the homework assigned by the teacher took a considerable amount of effort, and when she encountered more difficult ones, she would really scratch her head.
Lin Xicai was so focused when she started doing her homework that she didn't notice that someone was standing there for a long time, looking at her a few meters away.
After Lin Xicai finished her basic homework, she took out her English textbook - this was a snack she forced herself to eat. Her spoken English was okay, but it was of no use in the exam, as the exam focused more on vocabulary, and her so-called fluent spoken English could not be directly converted into scores on the test paper.
Therefore, in order to keep her English grades up, she forces herself to memorize English words for at least half an hour every day.
When solving problems in other subjects, a high degree of concentration is required. Lin Xicai usually does not feel sleepy, but as soon as she touches English or Chinese, it is like taking sleeping pills.
Lin Xicai was practicing vocabulary words on a piece of scratch paper, and as expected, her eyelids grew heavier. At any other time, she would have been sleepy at best, but with a fever and recent medication, she lost consciousness, slumped over on the table while writing.
Li Ci had blow-dried her hair and was sitting quietly on the carpet. He watched her head lower and lower, until finally her face was directly pressed against the draft paper, and his heart wrinkled strangely.
Li Ci walked over and stood in front of the dining table, his body casting a shadow on her face.
Li Ci lowered his eyes and looked over. A pretty face was pressed against the manuscript paper, buried in the arms. Under the thin bangs were a pair of peaceful sleepy eyes. The eyelashes were very long and slightly curled. She looked innocent and harmless, as pure as a delicate baby.
This bitch, Li Ci stared at her, and his slender and beautiful fingers reached out and touched the hair beside her ear very lightly.
It would be fine if she just fell asleep like this and became a specimen here - she wouldn't go out to attract other men anymore, wouldn't leave him even a step, wouldn't show an expression he didn't like, and wouldn't utter words that made him sad from that rosy, beautiful mouth anymore.
They will stay here forever, rotting and decomposing together in this place where there are only the two of them. Their blood will mix together and their bones will nestle together. This is their home and their grave.
Li Ci's fingers moved away from the hair beside her ear, and his fingertips slowly slid down and brushed the collar of her neck. Li Ci stared at her slender white neck, and it was hard to tell whether there was hatred or obsession in his eyes. This bitch, she deserved to die.
His hands went very lightly around her calves and back, and he lifted her up carefully with his body stiff.
She seemed to frown slightly, and moved unhappily in his arms, but still did not wake up.
Li Ci held the body in her arms, walking very slowly, as if afraid to wake him. She never treated herself badly, even in her dreams, she knew to find a comfortable position in his arms. She moved, and her soft cheek brushed against his chest through the thin fabric.
Li Ci lowered his eyes and stared at the harmless and pure face. His eyes changed a lot, and the almost lingering hatred finally turned into a shapeless pool of humble satisfaction.
Even after he laid her on the bed, his body remained incredibly stiff.
He didn't dare get too close to her, so he just knelt on the ground, guarding her from the bedside, watching - in the past, when she had her eyes open, he didn't have the chance to look at her like this, she would get angry, have a tantrum, and say things that made him sad but he couldn't refute them. Now that she had her eyes closed, he looked at her with almost indulgence and greed, leaving traces of his gaze on her face.
His eyes moved to her eyes, nose, and finally to her rosy, slightly parted lips.
He stretched out his hand, his fingers as close to her lips as possible, as if he wanted to touch them, but in the end he pulled them back.
He hadn't had a good night's sleep for a long time, and it seemed that his ability to sleep had deteriorated. But at this moment, he looked at her sleeping beside him, and suddenly felt the long-lost sleepiness.
Then he closed his eyes, put half of his arm on the edge of the bed, and leaned his face on his arm.
The floor was hard and a little cold, and his legs were curled up there in extreme discomfort. Even in the most unsuitable conditions for sleeping, he still felt sleepy.
......
Lin Xicai was sweating all over and woke up in a daze. She opened her eyes and her thoughts stopped for a moment. She looked at the strange yet familiar ceiling above her head and suddenly sat up from the bed.
Lin Xicai breathed sweatily, looked at herself on the bed, then at Li Ci who was curled up on the floor. Her heart suddenly beat wildly and she was immediately frightened. She didn't expect that she actually fell asleep in the space. If, if Li Ci had just tried to kill her, she would be dead now.
No matter how docile and obedient this man pretended to be, he undoubtedly hated her deep down. He clearly had the opportunity to take action, but he, he didn't...
Lin Xicai felt a little complicated. She thought that the test she had designed before had frightened him, making him dare not take risks easily.
Lin Xicai didn't bring her cell phone with her. She looked at her watch and saw it was almost eleven o'clock. She had slept for over an hour. She wiped her saliva with the back of her hand and got up.
Li Ci also opened his eyes. His legs were numb and painful, and a twisted look of pain appeared on his fair and handsome face. "Are you awake?"
Lin Xicai didn't say anything.
"You, you can continue to sleep," Li Ci said, "I'll go outside."
Lin Xicai glanced at him calmly and walked out, "You should have woken me up."
As she spoke, Lin Xicai's body suddenly trembled slightly. It seemed that there was another pair of eyes falling on her in this place - no, it was not just now, it had been following her since just now, or even earlier, like a rope, like a poisonous snake, as if it had substance, as if it wanted to strangle and entangle her across time and space.
The feeling of being stared at was stronger than ever before.
Wet, cold, sticky, wild, and dangerous.
Lin Xicai looked over nervously, as if trying to find that aggressive and crazy gaze, but she looked around anxiously. Apart from Li Ci, there was only her. She couldn't find the third pair of eyes that existed here.
But is it really not?
Is it really just an illusion?
But she could clearly feel that he was about to jump out and say that he could see her, so why couldn't she find her?
Li Ci didn't understand what she was looking for, but he saw her fear. His heart and eyes followed her, never leaving her side.
The feeling of uneasiness became stronger and stronger. Lin Xicai took something from the dining table and left the space.
The electricity outside has come on, and the ceiling light and desk lamp are on.
Lin Xicai placed her study materials on the desk, and her cell phone was ringing on the desk.
Lin Xicai mechanically picked up the phone that was already burning hot, and was shocked by the dense number of missed calls on the screen. It was from Xie Shi, dozens of calls.
Lin Xicai's heart skipped a beat. What happened?
After calming down a bit, Lin Xicai answered the call, "How..."
The other side interrupted her and spat out two words: "Come out."
Come out? Lin Xicai was startled, "Where are you?"
"back door."
"Back door? What happened?"
Xie Shi still didn't answer her question. His voice was extremely strange, as if something was suppressed under his calmness. "Come out and see me."
What are you doing? This is a serious matter that must be resolved today.
Also, why should she listen to him? They had just had a fight during the day and were about to stop talking to each other forever. Why should she care about him?
She cursed inwardly, but while doing so, she found a thick coat and wrapped herself in it. It was already past eleven o'clock, and Zhong Ping had already gone to bed. She changed her clothes very quietly and tiptoed out the door.
It was a bit cold outside, but fortunately the back door of the villa was not far from the staff dormitory building. After walking downstairs for a few minutes, I reached the back door.
Xie Shi stood under the sycamore tree, dressed in black. His slender figure blended into the night and was hidden in the color of the trees. He was silent and motionless, like a male ghost coming to claim a life.
He stood there, looking at her dimly, his whole body radiating a dead aura, except for his eyes, which were terribly hot. In those eyes, which were usually calm and deep, it was as if there was a ball of fire, ready to burn them both to death at this moment.
It was difficult for her to describe what kind of look that was. She just felt that he seemed to hate her a little, so much so that... he could pounce on her and bite her to death in the next second.
In fact, he did bite her.
On her lips.
She didn't realize how he walked up to her. She was already pinned against a tree by him. He stared at her hatefully, at her lips that had been coveted by another man, and kissed her fiercely.
The kiss was awkward and violent, with a kind of desperation that made your scalp tingle.
It was as if something collapsed, Lin Xicai's mind went blank, her wrists were pinched and clamped to her chest, and she even forgot to resist.
Until he bit her lips and she felt pain where their lips touched, Lin Xicai woke up as if from a dream. She suddenly pushed him away, half to vent her anger and half as a conditioned reflex, and raised her hand to slap him hard in the face.
"Are you a gangster?"
The "hooligan" didn't say anything. His face was slapped aside by her, and he smiled in a self-deprecating manner.
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