Chapter 353: Encounter

Su Yun breathed rapidly, his eyes filled with complex emotions as he subconsciously stared at the face of the person in front of him.

Even with the light coming in from the cave entrance, the environment was still much darker than outside. The pair of blue eyes in front of me were hidden in the dim backlight, which made the smile at the corner of his mouth seem even more mischievous.

It's not like I haven't seen Zha Lan in her prime when she was young. As someone who was called "the director didn't even consider whether he had acting skills and just named him as the leading actor", even if I don't recall his current appearance or look for traces of light and shadow, I can understand the preferential treatment in other aspects caused by his excessive advantage in looks...

However, compared to his youthful appearance that was full of energy but always frivolous and unfaithful, Su Yun prefers his current mature self that has gone through many changes - it's strange to say, Zha Lan looked like a playboy when he was young, but as he grew older, he developed a righteous and aloof demeanor that is very much in line with the Chinese aesthetic concept.

I don't know if it's the influence of the gangster roles he played in recent years, or if his temperament and the impression he gives have changed as he grew older.

In addition, because Zha Lan felt that Su Yun was "very much like herself", she always gave her preferential treatment in matters related to her. Therefore, even though Su Yun always showed that she disliked Zha Lan, she often truly recognized Zha Lan as a friend and "elder" from the bottom of her heart.

Before she witnessed with her own eyes the evil that was infected by love and desire, she always held the reserved mentality of the Chinese people when facing this notoriously playboy.

As my mentality and emotions changed, all the things that I had intentionally or unintentionally ignored in the past suddenly reappeared in my mind and became clear.

And after the sharp and dazzling beauty that had been obscured by the years pierced through the surface of maturity and stability, the contradictory beauty of the past, which seemed to be born with innocence but evil, purity but gloom, and the angel and the devil permeating one body, once again grew and spread from him.

Some men are like wine. The longer they are stored in the cellar, the more dangerous yet charming they become.

There is no doubt that for Su Yun, the person in front of him was like a bottle of strong liquor that he could not help but be tempted by even though he knew it was dangerous.

Because of the scattered and unfocused gaze, the eyes that seemed blue but also had a hint of green melted the lonely and cold snowy scene of the past into the early spring when the snow and ice melted, exuding an ambiguous feeling of warmth and cold.

"What are you...going crazy about?" Su Yun calmed down her confused mind and said softly.

"Shouldn't I be the one asking you this?" He replied vaguely, then raised his hand to touch the corner of his lips that were almost bitten, and said with a look of disgust, "Your kissing skills are really terrible."

"Of course I'm not as experienced as you." Su Yun pulled the corner of his mouth, drawing a mocking arc, "You should be thankful that I was injured today and had to be careful with my movements, otherwise you wouldn't have to think about... taking advantage of me..."

Hearing Su Yun's words, Zha Lan laughed: "Of course I don't doubt that you will beat me up, but the facts prove that to deal with you, another way of 'fighting' is needed."

Although he couldn't see anything, his facial expression was not compromised at all. The arrogance revealed in his words made Su Yun's teeth itch: "Shameless!"

"Is this what you call shameless?" He clicked his tongue. "You probably haven't seen what a truly shameless man looks like."

"No, seeing your 'other side' is enough for me." Su Yun replied unhappily, and picked up two wild fruits from the ground and started to eat them with a crunch.

"Give me some." He caught the source of the sound and stretched out his hand without hesitation.

Su Yun completely ignored him and continued to eat alone, so he frowned after a while: "You just enjoyed it, why don't you give me a little "reward"?!"

Even someone as strong-willed as Su Yun was shocked by his unreasonable and arrogant look: "How dare you still think that I took advantage of you just now?!"

"Isn't it?" Zha Lan asked back with her eyes wide open, "Although you probably only have that one experience, but with your kissing skills, you would be laughed at if you were here..."

"And I showed you the beauty of a kiss between a man and a woman - so you shouldn't thank me?"

This time Su Yun really didn't care about food anymore. He aimed at his head and threw the half-bitten wild fruit in his hand towards him, as if he was using it as a hidden weapon.

But Zha Lan was not picky. She gently wiped the light red mark on her face, then fumbled to pick up the half wild fruit that fell into her arms, wiped it twice and then swallowed it in one gulp.

Judging from his anxious look, he was probably really hungry. After all, the two of them had not eaten anything since they shared the remaining bamboo shoots and two small bags of biscuits in Su Yun's backpack last night.

His backpack had been lost in the previous battle.

"I tell you, if it weren't for the fact that the current situation makes it difficult to care about all this, I would definitely settle the score with you." Su Yun said bitterly while wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.

"To be precise, you were the one who provoked me first." Upon hearing this, Zha Lan immediately revealed a contemptuous expression of "the one who provokes first is the loser", "If you hadn't deliberately made trouble in front of me, I wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to you."

"When did you become lazy about paying attention to me?" It would have been fine if he didn't say anything, but once he started talking, Su Yun was really furious. "I just went out to find food and water, and by the way, I checked the status of those poachers and knocked them out again..."

"It's inconvenient for me to walk now. The reason I hurried back so quickly is because I was worried that you might be in danger in the cave alone..."

"I'm just blind, but I'm not a useless person." Upon hearing this, Zha Lan immediately interrupted.

"Isn't it enough that you can't see at all?" Su Yun continued to reply unhappily: If a person with normal vision suddenly becomes blind, even normal actions may cause him to suffer unexpected injuries.

What's more, although the poacher leader fell harder than Zha Lan, it is still unknown whether he is dead or lucky enough to survive.

She tied the poachers into a ball and hid them in the bushes, which was itself a time bomb that could explode at any time.

Unfortunately, given the current "rules", we cannot take the initiative to prevent future troubles.

Then they could only rest as quickly as possible and find another way out - otherwise, the lack of food and water would make their physical strength worse and worse, and when they were as hungry and thirsty as the group of poachers who were tied together and had to chew leaves, the chance of escaping from the deep mountains and forests would become smaller and smaller.

Thinking of this, Su Yun took the initiative to talk about his ideas with Zha Lan who was eating wild fruits.

Zha Lan nodded, and raised her blue eyes that seemed to be covered with haze, moving slowly and aimlessly: "How is your foot?"

"It's just a sprain. Take a rest for a while. I'll go out with you when I feel better. You hold me and I'll be your eyes and you'll be my walking stick..." At this point, Su Yun's face turned stern again, "But you are not allowed to touch me again!"

"I have no interest in you." Zha Lan waved her hands with a look of disgust.

"You were not interested in touching me just now... Humph!" Although she knew that she would be suppressed again if she used her intact leg to fight back, Su Yun did not expect that his reaction was not to use his own legs to hold her legs, but the hand that was pressing on her shoulders slid down along her waist, and very easily grabbed her legs and lifted them up when she bent her knees to fight back...

Then, with a lift and a push, her legs were placed on his waist.

This embarrassing posture, if it is called an entanglement and struggle, can indeed be described as an entanglement of physical bodies that has reached a white-hot level.

However, if there is a premise of one man and one woman, and both of them have a good match in appearance and figure, then anyone who sees it will not think that it is a fight but rather that they are doing "bad things"...

"I really don't like forcing women, unless it's for filming a movie or playing with sex." Perhaps he heard the shyness in Su Yun's tone, he suddenly explained.

"Of course I know..."

Before Su Yun finished speaking, Zha Lan added something that seemed natural to others but extremely shameless to him, "You know, I don't need to force anything. Women like me, and even many men like me too. They have always been the ones chasing me..."

Hearing such remarks, Su Yun could not help but move a little further away silently: the narcissistic Narcissus next to her was really too unbearable. At this moment, she wished that she was the one who lost her eyesight - that way, she would not have the evil urge to penetrate her own eyes!

"So this is how you play around in the world?" Before setting off yet, Su Yun moved away, but soon she couldn't control her gossiping heart and continued to chat with Zha Lan in a random manner.

“If you don’t want to be abandoned, you must abandon others before they abandon you.” Zha Lan leaned against the stone wall of the cave and answered in a deep voice.

"You are too pessimistic." Su Yun frowned.

Zha Lan sneered: "What else? Would you rather be hurt by others than hurt others?"

"I don't know either." Su Yun shook her head and said, "But if I had a choice, I would probably choose to 'trust this person once'."

"But you obviously don't even want to try." Zha Lan said meaningfully.

"For me, love is just a embellishment of life." Su Yun sighed, "It's not that I don't have the ability, time or desire to explore this kind of emotion that is too easy to change and too easy to be profound, but I think it is not as important as some of the things I am currently focusing on."

"So you were indeed a little moved just now?" Zha Lan suddenly asked.

Su Yun was stunned for a moment, then suddenly woke up: "You don't have to be so roundabout to test me to find out whether your charm has worked or not - whether it has or not, a normal adult woman will definitely be a little shaken if she is teased like this, after all, you are not some ugly person with bad breath, but a famous handsome guy..."

It’s the mature man type that she likes very much. It would be a problem if she didn’t react!

Su Yun stared at him shyly, but only heard him chuckle softly - it was a slightly low and hoarse tone, completely different from the youthful clarity of a young man, it was truly enchanting and alluring as if it was filled with smoke and heavy fog.

"It's almost time, let's go out." Fearing that he would do something unexpected again, Su Yun quickly stood up, put on her backpack, carried the person, and walked out.

They supported each other as they walked along the rugged mountain road for most of the day. When the sunlight that penetrated through the gaps in the leaves gradually dimmed, the usual hazy fog of the mountain city vaguely turned everything in front of them into an illusion filled with fairy air.

But Su Yun was in no mood to appreciate the masterpiece of nature. She just wanted to find a shade or cave to rest in the evening as soon as possible...

I inadvertently came out of a dense forest and the view in front of me suddenly opened up.

"This is..." The winding path in front of me clearly shows traces of human intervention. It goes straight up to the invisible mountain top and then down into the clouds and green leaves. It looks like a mysterious staircase connecting heaven and earth.