I could almost hear my own heart pounding and see Ye Zhi's closed eyes. At that moment, I desperately wanted to become a saint who could see through everything and then step into Ye Zhi's heart to take a look.
I wondered what she felt when she received that bold and unrestrained kiss; perhaps disgust, perhaps a feeling of being greatly violated, or perhaps, like me, a burning flame within her heart... In any case, feeling her softness and fragrance, I felt as if I were about to turn to ashes.
I'm such a bastard. I actually used the excuse of helping her find money to forcibly kiss her, and in front of everyone, I didn't feel the slightest bit ashamed.
In that brief yet long kiss, my true nature seemed to be unleashed. I forgot the heartbreak after Wang Lei's death, and I forgot the pain and depression I felt when I broke up with Lu Jia... I felt like I had returned to the age of around 20, when I dared to think of anything and dared to do it.
So, I'm not crazy. I just rekindled myself in an extreme way after suffering from long-term repression... But I'm selfish because before I did this, I didn't consider how Ye Zhi would feel at all. All I cared about was the pleasure of living in the moment!
...
I finally let go of Ye Zhi, then breathed heavily. I was extremely nervous because I didn't know what the consequences would be after this indulgence.
I kept looking at Ye Zhi. There was a blush on her face that could only be noticed up close, and her expression was also very complicated... Before I could figure out what she was thinking, a burst of cheers suddenly erupted around us, and the atmosphere was no less enthusiastic than the marriage proposal show I had just seen on the Bund.
I pretended to be very calm and said to Ye Zhi, "Did you hear the cheers?... This shows how popular what I just did was."
"Thugs are created by people like these!"
"Public opinion cannot be defied..."
Ye Zhi's face suddenly darkened, and she said to me with a serious expression, "Michael, in my heart, you are still a man of upright character, but your behavior just now does not deserve the title of upright character... You are too audacious!"
"Whether I'm reckless or not is not important; what matters is... whether you enjoyed the process."
"asshole."
Ye Zhi cursed at me like that, then picked up her handbag and turned to walk out of the alley. At that moment, she was the most unpredictable person to me, because I couldn't tell what she was thinking from her words and actions... But this time, I really went too far, because for Ye Zhi, with her upbringing, to call me a "bastard" clearly showed that she was very angry...
I called out to her retreating figure again, "You promised to treat me to dinner, and you haven't paid yet!"
As I spoke, I took 200 yuan out of my pocket and placed it on the table. Without waiting for the shopkeeper to give me change, I quickly chased after Ye Zhi in the direction she had left.
...
I finally caught up with Ye Zhi by a convenience store outside the snack street. I grabbed her arm from behind and said, "I don't know why I did that just now, it was just a moment of impulse... If you mind, I'm sorry... Next time, I'll definitely find a more secluded place to do this. Doing it in public is indeed a bit uncivilized!"
Ye Zhi turned to look at me, and said with an inexplicable resentment, "Can I slap you?"
"If you don't care about your image, then go ahead and do it... It'll be a good opportunity to see just how thick-skinned I really am."
Ye Zhi really raised her hand...
I instinctively took a step back, then said to her, "Someone like me really isn't worth you hitting me... How about I punish myself and do ten push-ups for you, okay?"
"Just how bizarre are you to do something like this and say something like this?!"
"You forced me to... because you don't know how anxious I've been these past few days because of our situation... When people are anxious, they easily lose control, so I was in that state of being out of control just now."
"You've lost control?... If you commit murder or arson, do I have to share criminal responsibility with you because I'm the one who made you anxious?"
I smiled and said, "Isn't this great...we can run away together!"
"Can you go beyond a certain limit when you're joking?"
"Aside from what you said about murder and arson, I don't think you're joking... You know, when we first met at that viewing platform, looking at that small county town surrounded by mountains and rivers, I seriously thought about it... If I could live there with a woman I truly love for the rest of my life, I would have no regrets... But there, there's no LV, no Hermes... Although I don't pursue those things, it still makes me sad... Maybe for you women, this kind of life away from the big city isn't the idyllic tranquility of 'seeing the southern mountains'; it's practically a life on the run... Haha, who would like to be on the run!"
Ye Zhi didn't speak, but she kept looking at me.
I continued, "The longer you live in this society, the more you see about relationships between men and women; in reality, very few people can truly understand and empathize with each other in a relationship. I don't know if we ever really started anything, but if we did, then we deserve to die, because we are the most incomprehensible of all the people who can't understand each other..."
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