306 Gathering (Part 5)
When He Yinxin returned to his dormitory, he rubbed his fingertips, where the faint fragrance of her hair still lingered.
The strong smell of alcohol emanating from her made him feel dizzy.
The flames he had suppressed deep inside his heart were now surging within him.
He Yinxin suppressed the burning desire that had been simmering within her for so long and opened the dormitory door.
Jia Shugui and Lin Yan were sitting at the table, eating potato chips and watching anime.
The two stared wide-eyed at He Yinxin's appearance.
"Holy crap, Lao He, you're back from your tribulation?"
"Old He, you... went to work at a nightclub?"
He Yinxin scratched her stray hairs, her thoughts returning to the "scumbag father" that Jiang Yichun had mentioned.
He frowned: "What nightclub? Lin Yan, what nonsense are you talking about? Why are you pinning this place on me?
The alcohol had clouded his judgment: "You're not staying in the dorm every other day, who knows what you're up to?"
"He Yinxin, what are you saying?" Lin Yan slammed her hand on the table.
He Yinxin glared at him: "Don't think I don't know about you and Yang Fei. This is the first time I've ever heard that the body and mind can be separated."
He glanced at Lin Yan and snorted coldly.
Lin Yan's face turned pale instantly. He crunched the potato chips loudly: "That's still better than someone pretending to be a woman to deceive a female student."
"I have plenty of experience, but you... I'm afraid you'll only get it on your first try..."
"Just once, it's much cleaner than yours."
"As for deceiving someone's feelings... I will atone for what I did. What about you?"
He Yinxin glanced at him, didn't waste any words with him, and strode back to her room.
He Yinxin plopped down in her chair, picked up a mirror, and looked at herself in it.
He stood there, stunned.
His body was covered in red marks and teeth marks from Jiang Yichun's bites, with a small, conspicuous red patch on the back of his neck, and his own face was covered in...
A worthless smile.
Even her own lips became red and swollen.
The white shirt he was wearing had been smudged with streaks of makeup from Jiang Yichun's skin.
For the past month, he could only watch Jiang Yichun run around in front of him from afar, and could only try to stay as far away from her as possible.
He felt as if the roller coaster he was riding had plummeted to the bottom because of her, and every night he could only stroke that pink little rabbit to fall asleep.
Until tonight, she took the initiative to throw herself into his arms, kissing and nibbling like a little animal, scolding and praising at the same time.
The delicate skin he touched by chance ignited a flame at his fingertips, which eventually converged and played out a romantic movie in his mind.
Those beautiful and sweet images instantly enveloped the burning anger in his heart. He touched the corner of his mouth and smiled foolishly.
"Hehe, Xiaochun said she likes me."
"She even kissed me, hehe."
"Xiaochun, so cute, you're even cuter when you're drunk."
"If only I could hug you for another five minutes..."
He muttered to himself, the lines from those romantic novels floating through his mind.
The male leads would also praise the female leads in the same way.
With that thought in mind, He Yinxin took off her white shirt and stood in front of the mirror to admire her figure.
Jiang Yichun's words from that day echoed in her ears: "Liar, you can sell your body."
He reached out and pinched the muscles on his body, his face burning even more.
He stood up and looked at his body in the mirror.
Tight muscle lines, well-defined abdominal muscles, a lean waist, and fair skin...
I wonder if Xiaochun will like it...
He was so engrossed in watching that he didn't hear the door open.
"Holy crap, Lao He, you're going to participate in the national bodybuilding competition?" Jia Shugui exclaimed in surprise.
He Yinxin froze on the spot, looking at Jia Shugui who had the door wide open, and shouted, "Close, close the door!"
Jia Shugui slammed the door shut, his face deathly pale: "What are you doing taking your clothes off in the dorm? He Yinxin, what kind of evil spirit is possessing you?"
"Hasn't the Ghost Festival arrived yet?"
He Yinxin picked up a short-sleeved T-shirt from the table and put it on, then coughed lightly: "It's nothing, just checking if I've lost any muscle recently."
"Why are you suddenly interested in this?" Jia Shugui frowned, strode forward, and sniffed around him.
"Ugh, it smells sour and rotten."
"Where is it sour and smelly, Xiaochun clearly..." He Yinxin subconsciously retorted, but quickly covered her mouth.
Jia Shugui burst into laughter and patted him on the shoulder: "What's wrong? Did you go and be all lovey-dovey with Jiang?"
His gaze swept over He Yinxin: "The battle is quite intense?"
He Yinxin turned her head away, her tone stiff: "What sweet talk? No... She was drunk, and I just happened to run into her, so I took her back to school."
Jia Shugui's smile widened: "You got bitten like this by her when you went back to school? Or are these red spots on your neck mosquito bites? Did you go on a field trip to the rainforest with her?"
"Yes, it's from mosquito bites!" He Yinxin decided to give up and grabbed the toiletries on the table, rushing to the shower room.
Jia Shugui was left standing behind him, watching his back and shaking his head.
He Yinxin turned on the shower head, took off all her clothes, and stepped into the misty water.
He pushed the tap, turned the water on full blast, and plunged into the hot water.
The rushing water was a sound he tried to use to mask the hidden fire raging within him.
But her figure gradually became clearer in my mind.
The incantation uttered by Jiang Yichun echoed in his mind, like the serpent in the Garden of Eden climbing over the high walls she built, luring him, the gardener, into her garden to eat the bright apple on the tree.
At that time, he only walked to the edge of the high wall and did not take another step forward.
Because there were poisonous snakes, and because he was just an ordinary gardener, while Jiang Yichun was just a giantess within high walls.
They are not Adam and Eve.
But that apple was so bright and appealing that he always wanted to reach out and pick it, then eat it bite by bite.
"Jiang Yichun".
"Koharu."
He Yinxin tilted his chin back, letting the hot water slide down his face from his hair into the sewer.
The sound of flowing water drowned out all other subtle noises, and bubbles swirled around him.
The bubbles refracted a dazzling array of colors under the cold light, transforming into spectacular fireworks blooming in the sky.
In a daze, that familiar, soft touch transformed into tiny ants, gradually dispersing from his chest along with the hot water.
A warm sensation spread from the soles of my feet throughout my entire body.
He felt as if he had walked into a deserted city, a deserted city with only endless yellow sand, and he was chasing a kitten with its tail raised in the waves of sand.
She always scratched him, but she would also lick his wounds when he was hurt.
He ran and chased after her, but he could never keep up with her pace.
Cats, sometimes close, sometimes distant.
The wind whipped up dust, and a meteorite fell from the sky, making a dull rumble on the ground. The dust and stones it kicked up instantly buried the entire isolated city.
In the final moment before being swallowed by the waves, he saw fireworks blooming on the horizon and successfully pulled her into his arms.
He heard the booming sound of fireworks in his ears, gradually obscuring the psychedelic colors and swallowing everything in the bathroom.
Those dazzling and hazy images turned to ashes, and the beloved vanished along with the illusion, leaving only a pale void.
Reason regained control of his mind, kicking out the strange thoughts brought on by alcohol.
He suddenly realized that those words of "like" were all blurted out by her when she was drunk.
Jiang Yichun never said "I like you" to her when she was sober.
"I'm afraid you'll end up like my father..."
He Yinxin lowered his eyes, running his hands through his loose black hair as the water continued to wash over his body, and sighed.
From her drunken ramblings, he could glimpse a corner of her family.
He had assumed she had a happy family, and that the box of mint leaves "grown by her father" contained his fatherly love.
It turns out that "I wish to meet you again" was just a wound inflicted by her father's deception.
The mint leaves were nothing more than a man's self-righteous "performance of love."
No wonder she was always evasive when she mentioned her father back then.
He eventually smashed the glass jar himself, turning it into shimmering fragments in the sunlight.
He had already shattered those beautiful illusions woven with lies.
He could see the real her, a small blade of grass ravaged by the wind, yet still rooted in the ground, blooming a small flower in the wasteland.
He had already crawled out of "Xixi's" cocoon, flapping his wings and flying towards her in his true form, landing on her petals.
He was now standing completely and truly before her.
The flowers he planted have spread to the base of her wall.
Even though... their love always seemed to fall just short of completion.
"Xiaochun..."
"I still don't have a formal status, right?"
He turned off the tap, picked up a towel to wipe the water droplets off his body, grabbed a T-shirt from the side, put it on, and walked out of the bathroom with his wet black hair.
He returned to his table, reached out and picked up the plush rabbit, gently rubbing it in his palm.
He Yinxin's Adam's apple bobbed as she placed a kiss on the little rabbit.
"Although you haven't officially said you like me, but..."
"I will try my best to prove to you that I really like you."
"Goodnight, Xiaochun."
"Hmm...where am I?"
Jiang Yichun rolled around in bed in a daze, reached out and touched something soft.
A stinging sensation, like a needle, pierced her mind.
The lewd words from last night echoed in her ears, and she suddenly felt sore all over.
"Sleep with me, and I'll forgive you."
These words echoed in her mind like a death knell.
Jiang Yichun dared not open her eyes, afraid that if she did, a man would be lying next to her. She could only sniffle and reach out to touch things randomly.
Her head was still spinning, and in her daze, a pink Patrick Star suddenly appeared before her eyes.
Patrick Star smiled and waved at her: "Jun, I'm developing very well!"
"Goodnight, baby."
His voice didn't sound like Patrick Star's goofy voice at all; it sounded more like another boy's...
"ah!"
Jiang Yichun suddenly opened his eyes and sprang into the air from the bed.
She rubbed her eyes and saw the familiar pillow and the teddy bear on the bedside table.
She wasn't in a hotel, or anywhere else; she was on her small bed in her dorm room.
Jiang Yichun clutched her chest, gasping for breath, and pulled open the bed curtains.
Three pairs of eyes under the bed curtains focused on her.
Jiang Yichun tentatively asked, "Did I call He Yinxin over yesterday?"
The three people under the bed nodded, and Zhang Xingxing handed them a glass of warm water.
"Yes. You two even... hugged and kissed."
"You said you liked him, and he said he liked you too."
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