Mu Yiran's attention was still on the doll that shouldn't be there. The next second, she suddenly lost her balance and was thrown onto the bed next to the cage.
"Ah! Shi Youxi! Get up!" Mu Yiran shouted in a low voice, her face flushed.
Shi Youxi pinned her limbs down, hovering above her, and buried his face in her neck like he was petting a cat. "What, you're not scared anymore? Sister, you should be more obedient when you're scared."
"What exactly do you want to do!" Mu Yiran tilted her head, her whole body trembling uncontrollably.
She asked, and Shi Youxi replied, "What were you thinking when that Englishman kissed you?"
"What... a Brit? Candice? Ah—Shi Youxi, are you a dog?!" As soon as Mu Yiran said that person's name, a sharp pain shot through her neck. Shi Youxi bit her without mercy, and the spot where she was bitten felt numb and swollen.
"Answer me, are you happy? Do you feel shy or blush?"
How did he kiss you? Did he kiss your lips or your tongue first?
"...What...Are you crazy?!"
Mu Yiran was stunned by what Shi Youxi said. Just looking at the man's expressionless and serious face, she thought he was swearing an oath to revolt.
Shi Youxi was amused by her words: "Crazy? Heh... Didn't you always know I was crazy? Now you're suddenly scared? You used to like me a lot. You were the one who said you'd like me no matter what I did!"
"Right now, I only like you." Shi Youxi's eyes were filled with deep resentment as he pressed his fingertips firmly against the woman's lips.
"I like you, is it so hard to accept that?! Is it really worth making you hate me so much that you want to leave me?!"
"You don't like me! That kind of feeling isn't love at all!" Mu Yiran tried to reason with him:
"Shi Youxi, I do like you, but that's because I like you like a younger brother, like a close relative, like family!"
"You only mistook your feelings for love because of Bai Shengsheng, because you lacked maternal love, and on top of that... on top of that, you're going through puberty! Puberty is all about fantasies about love, and the excess hormones can make you curious about sexual fantasies—"
“Because I lack maternal love, I will only see you as my mother, not as a sexual fantasy object,” Shi Youxi said calmly, correcting her absurdly illogical logic.
"Illusion, curiosity?" Shi Youxi twitched the corner of his mouth. "I'm not curious about sex, I'm curious about you."
"I've always only been curious about you."
Shi Youxi was speechless with shock at the person beneath him, but he had no intention of stopping. He pressed his nose against hers and rubbed it affectionately.
"I'm curious about your name, why you like cheese candy, why you have a mole on the tip of your nose that always makes me want to bite it off, how you sleep, what you smell like, what you do when I'm not around, and why you can do other things when I'm around."
Mu Yiran couldn't bear to listen anymore. Her mind was filled with the painting on that wall, and she felt horrified. "...So you were spying on me?"
Shi Youxi frankly admitted her perverted crime, "Yes, it's because I was too curious about my sister. I wanted to know what you were doing all the time. You said I mistook sexual fantasies for liking."
Shi Youxi's eyes were deep and unfathomable as he bluntly expressed his desires to Mu Yiran, "But I only have sexual fantasies because of my sister. Do you know when I started fantasizing about kissing you and sleeping with you?"
"Shut up! Shut up!" Mu Yiran struggled free, grabbing the back of the man's head to keep him away, her breathing rapid.
"You call me 'sister' Shi Youxi, and I'm your sister, don't you know that! You've been calling me 'sister' since you were 10 years old, you can't—"
"Ha, if I call you 'sister,' does that mean you're my real sister? If I call you 'wife,' will you marry me?"
It doesn't matter what prefixes are added to her; as long as it's her, Shi Youxi will fall for her.
Shi Youxi had always been clear about this, so he wanted Mu Yiran to be clear about it too.
"...You..." Mu Yiran couldn't argue with him, so she could only keep pushing him away.
Seeing her constant resistance, Shi Youxi's lips curled into a smile, his dark eyes turning frosty. That familiar dizziness and burning sensation returned. He closed his eyes briefly. "You say I can't, but why can that Englishman?"
"What makes him better than me? Is he better looking? Is he richer? Or is he better at making you feel comfortable in bed?"
“When my sister begged me for it yesterday, she didn’t say I couldn’t.”
Mu Yiran was stunned. In her anger and embarrassment, she had already swung her hand toward Shi Youxi's face, but she stopped abruptly when she saw the bloodstain below his cheekbone.
Shi Youxi didn't even blink. He tilted his head and pressed his hand against hers, like a sweet gesture between lovers. "Does he know where you're most sensitive? Does he know that you like to bite my fingers when we're intimate and that you tremble? He doesn't know, but I do."
Mu Yiran's lips trembled, "Shi Youxi...you're a madman!"
Seeing her reddened eyes, Shi Youxi felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction, and his tone became increasingly boastful.
"I know you like my hair, you like to grab my hair and yell at me, you like to pinch my ears, you cover my eyes when I cry, and you say my eyes are pretty. You like everything about me. You clearly like me a lot. Can't you just think of this liking as liking me?"
"Sister, you like me!"
“Say it…say that you like me. Say it, I’m all yours, I’ll give you anywhere you like.”
Shi Youxi placed her hand on his face and kept talking, as if he were showing off his treasures and trying to make a deal.
"I'll let you pull my hair bald, I'll gouge out my eyes and give them to you, we'll go wherever you want, we'll do whatever you want, as long as you tell me first that you like me and won't leave me!"
Shi Youxi pinched the woman's chin, his obsession and madness in his eyes like a net, tightly binding the woman reflected in his pupils, as if he were weaving his own cocoon.
Even if he were to be trapped in his own web until his death, Shi Youxi still thought that he just wanted this one person.
Is he greedy? Well, let's say he is greedy.
Just this once.
"I don't need the birthday wishes and gifts you owe me, I don't care. Can't I use those to exchange for you?"
"Speak!"
"..."
Does this mean you can just like someone and that's it?
Mu Yiran's lips were pressed tightly together. She didn't know what it was like to really like someone. Maybe it was a crazy heartbeat, or maybe it was feeling at ease when she was close to the other person. All the words that describe liking someone are beautiful.
But the idea of being "good" doesn't apply to her at all.
The few remaining beautiful things in her life, besides her closest relatives and friends, were Shi Youxi.
Her past, in which she and Shi Youxi rarely lived together.
But now Mu Yiran has no desire to let that past go any further.
She couldn't convince herself to force her feelings for Shi Youxi to mean something else.
Shi Youxi cannot keep her by his side just because he likes her, and she cannot stay in this unreal place just because she "likes" her.
“…No.” Mu Yiran said in a hoarse voice, “I don’t like you, Shi Youxi.”
"..."
The man's face was deathly still. After a long while, Shi Youxi finally moved her pupils. "You saw everything in that room, didn't you?"
Do you know when this doll was locked inside?
Mu Yiran turned her head and saw the doll's locked feet. Her heart sank and a bad feeling rose to the top.
"What do you want to do... Ah!"
Shi Youxi reached around her chest with one hand, grabbed her wrists, and with the other hand, scooped up her calves and walked into the cage without hesitation.
He casually grabbed a long lock and slipped it onto Mu Yiran's wrist.
Dark iron locks, a suffocating iron cage, and the ear-piercing sound of the locks hitting the iron bars.
Mu Yiran stared intently, but the terrible memories just wouldn't go away.
"Don't lock it! You can't do this!" she screamed, slapping Shi Youxi hard across the face with her free hand, sobbing and yelling.
"Shi Youxi! Don't do this! Let me go! Don't lock me up!"
Shi Youxi felt waves of pain on his face. He looked at the woman's tearful pleas for mercy without any emotion, and asked mechanically, "Say you love me and won't leave me."
Mu Yiran couldn't hear anything, her fingernails scratching Shi Youxi's hand until it bled. "Untie it! Untie it!"
She gripped her wrist tightly; it was bright red.
Shi Youxi watched for a while, then knelt down behind her and hugged her like a trapped beast.
He tied her up and trapped the two of them in a tight cage.
...
Mu Yiran cried and screamed for a short while before finally collapsing from exhaustion and falling asleep in Shi Youxi's arms.
When I opened my eyes again, I was in bed.
Mu Yiran was still shaken by the cold, hard touch on her wrist. She immediately sat up to check and saw that her clothes and wrist were covered with a thin layer of ointment. The pain was gone.
She glanced around and realized that she was all alone in the huge room, and the cage was gone!
Could it be that Shi Youxi has had a change of heart?!
Without thinking twice, Mu Yiran eagerly ran off the bed. While no one was around, she could immediately begin her escape 2.0!
This time she was experienced and could run even further than before—"Ah!"
Just as her right foot stepped off the bed, before Mu Yiran could even take her first step in her escape 2.0, her left foot was pulled by a force, causing her to fall flat on her face.
She propped herself up to look and saw a leather-like ring on her left ankle.
She pulled her foot away, and a sharp metallic clanging sound rang out. Mu Yiran then saw the metal chain at her Achilles tendon. Following the chain upwards, she looked up and saw it leading straight to the ceiling above the bed, where an upside-down golden hook gleamed arrogantly at her.
"..."
Mu Yiran cursed, her face turning pale: "Shi Youxi! You bastard—"
"squeak--"
"My sister is calling me."
A sudden noise behind her startled Mu Yiran. Turning around, she saw Shi Youxi standing there looking quite presentable. He had washed his hair, changed into a flashy light pink shirt that was even brighter than a transformed Armor Warrior, had a band-aid on his face, and was holding a bunch of food in his hand.
Mu Yiran kicked her legs forcefully, "Untie me!"
Shi Youxi ignored him, picked up the tray, walked to the small table by the bed, and put it down naturally as if nothing had happened between them.
"You haven't eaten since last night, you must be very hungry. These are all your favorite foods, which one do you want to eat first? I'll feed you."
Mu Yiran, with a cold face and righteous indignation, said, "I'm calling you! Get out of here! Open up!"
"………………"
Seeing Shi Youxi's undisguised mockery, Mu Yiran was furious.
My stomach is growling with hunger; how am I supposed to escape like this?!
Without hesitation, Mu Yiran pointed to the claypot rice pot and said, "Give me the spoon, I'll eat it myself!"
Shi Youxi raised an eyebrow. "Okay."
Twenty minutes later, Mu Yiran let out a satisfied burp. Having eaten and slept well, she felt more energetic and her mind calmed down. The presence of the leather wrapped around her feet became even stronger.
Mu Yiran watched Shi Youxi clearing away the dishes and preparing to leave. There were still some red marks on her pale skin, from when she hit her.
"Shi Youxi," Mu Yiran called to the man who had stood up, "Let's talk."
Shi Youxi's back tensed for a moment. He turned around and said, "You should rest well these few days. We'll go out again in three days."
Mu Yiran was completely confused by his nonsensical words. "Why wait three days? Where are we going?"
"Didn't you say you wanted to go out and have fun?" Shi Youxi smiled faintly and placed a few books from the bedside table on Mu Yiran's lap.
"There are many tourist attractions here. See if there are any you like, or you can visit them all if you want."
He calmly flipped through the handbook, "Which country does my sister like? Shall we go see the sea? I've never traveled before. What do I usually need to prepare for a trip?"
Seeing the hint of joy and anticipation in his eyes, Mu Yiran felt a pang of sadness, but still interrupted him, "Shi Youxi, are you planning to keep me locked up here forever? And what about after we get out? Will you put a chain on my ankle too?"
Shi Youxi's eyes flickered as he gently rubbed her ankle. "Don't you like it? I had it specially made so it won't hurt no matter how much you pull on it."
"If you don't like it on your feet, you can wear it on your hands too. This chain is adjustable in length, so you can move around freely in this room."
"Ha... free to move around."
Mu Yiran was touched by his generosity and laughed, "This room is a dog cage? You want to take me out for a walk whenever you want? Shi Youxi, am I your dog?"
"A dog?" Shi Youxi lowered his eyes. "I'm the one who fawns over you and tries to please you. I believe everything you say, even if it's just a casual remark. Don't you know who the dog is between us?"
The man pressed down on Mu Yiran's head, while Shi Youxi grabbed her hand and choked his own neck.
"The ones on your hands and feet aren't dog leashes, the ones around your neck are. Sister, you've always been the one leading this dog like me."
"Without you holding my hand, I can't even walk, so don't even think about letting go. A dog will only die by its owner's side. If you dare to leave, I'll die on top of you."
"..."
Mu Yiran felt the pulse under her palm and was so shocked that she couldn't speak.
If Shi Youxi really is a dog, then it's not a person walking a dog, it's more like a dog walking a person!
Mu Yiran sensed that the person in front of her was completely out of control, so she swallowed hard and adopted a conciliatory approach.
"I'm not leaving. Untie the chain. I can only stay in this room anyway, so it doesn't matter whether the chain is on or off, right? Shi Youxi, I won't run away. I'll go play with you. Please untie this chain, okay?"
"..."
Shi Youxi stared at her without speaking, seemingly deep in thought, before finally saying, "Then kiss me."
"Shi Youxi!"
When the man saw that she had exploded, he immediately prepared to get up and leave, but the next second he was pulled back by her collar.
Mu Yiran blushed, her eyes shimmering, while the person in front of her leisurely bent over.
A policy of appeasement!
A policy of appeasement!
He's very easy to please!
You need to win people over first before you have a chance!
Having mentally prepared herself, Mu Yiran gritted her teeth and fiercely shoved Shi Youxi's cheek. She didn't control her strength well, and the blow left a shallow tooth mark on the man's face.
She licked her lips a little awkwardly, "Is this... alright? Hurry up and untie it!"
The spot where he was kissed felt tingly and numb. Shi Youxi raised his hand and touched it, and it felt even more tingly and numb. Just like that, his body underwent a change.
It's amazing that it can be done just like that...
not enough.
"No, not there." Shi Youxi leaned closer to her in a hoarse voice, staring intently at her rosy cheeks. "Kiss me on the lips, you have to kiss my lips."
"How did you and Candice kiss? I'll kiss for longer than him."
"I want you to kiss my lips hard and seduce my tongue."
"..."
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