Chapter 2 A Ray of Light "Did our Lianlian get scared?"...
Chapter 2: A Ray of Light
"Baby, what's wrong?"
Yu Peizhi's hand gently held Zhui Lian's shoulder. Faced with being pushed away unexpectedly, his voice was still gentle, but his face showed a bit of hurt confusion.
"Did I do something wrong?" He looked down at Zhui Lian intently.
Zhui Lian instinctively shook his head and said, "It's okay."
——“Today is the weekend.”
"Today is the weekend."
"Today is the weekend."
…
Words are like the tongue of a poisonous snake.
Aged, eternal, it embraces her without a trace.
It surges up and rolls around, and I can neither spit it out nor swallow it.
"It's just..." Zhui Lian's throat tightened a little, and she made up an excuse, "My stomach is still not feeling well, so the reaction just now was a bit strong."
Yu Peizhi's brows frowned slightly, then relaxed, turning into a thicker tenderness.
"Did you scare our Lianlian?"
He lowered his head, and his warm breath brushed against Zhui Lian's hair with a suffocating intimacy.
He raised his hand, and his cold fingertips gently stroked her brow, bringing a tense shudder.
"It's my husband's fault. Please apologize to our Lianlian." Yu Peizhi sighed softly, and his apology sounded sincere.
“…No, I wasn’t scared.”
Zhui Lian raised her eyes and smiled at Yu Peizhi, then hurriedly stood up and said, "I'll go see what's in the refrigerator and decide what to make for lunch."
But Yu Peizhi's hand came up in an instant and grasped her slender wrist.
The force is very tight.
It feels cool to the touch.
Can't break free.
"What's wrong?"
Zhui Lian looked back at him, shook her wrist uncomfortably, and said softly, "Pei Zhi, don't hold on so tightly, it's a bit uncomfortable."
Yu Peizhi let go of her wrists, but his ice-cold hands continued along her skin, climbing up little by little and holding her shoulders.
He held her in place with a force that seemed gentle but was actually tighter and more irresistible.
“…Pei Zhi?”
Zhui Lian couldn't help but call out her husband's name again because of his abnormal behavior.
Yu Peizhi finally spoke: "Baby, the weather is nice today."
Zhui Lian looked out the window. The snow in the border town was beginning to melt. The clear sunlight illuminated the green mountains and the frozen river.
"Although it's the weekend, we can't stay at home all the time. Do you want to go out and relax? How about watching a movie?" Yu Peizhi's tone sounded very gentle.
See a movie?
This is a good suggestion.
Ever since they came to this small border town, Zhui Lian had been often tormented by Yu Peizhi's astonishing needs in that area and had not left the house for a long time.
To be honest, she didn't know why her husband, who had always been gentle and docile, would show such madness and dominance in bed.
"Want to watch a movie?" Zhui Lian repeated his question, seeming to be thinking.
The tension on her shoulders suddenly loosened, and the husband in front of her raised a smile of pure joy, a smile that Zhui Lian was accustomed to.
Warm and bright, gentle and light.
This was the husband she was familiar with, a husband who looked very much like her white moonlight Xunli, and even the curve of his smile could be traced almost exactly the same.
Not the one who stroked her neck like measuring her prey.
So just now... it must have been just my illusion, right?
"Okay." Zhui Lian felt relieved, and finally smiled a little. She asked, "Pei Zhi, is there anything you want to see?"
*
The cold light of the screen reflected on Yu Peizhi's focused profile, outlining his clear and handsome outline.
"How about this?"
His long fingers slid continuously until they finally stopped at a dark blue poster. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly before quickly returning to normal. "I saw the online ratings were pretty high."
Zhui Lian leaned over and rested her chin lightly on his shoulder.
On the movie selection iPad, she saw that the movie chosen by Yu Peizhi was called "Subnautica".
The introduction only said that it was a romantic love movie, the type they often watched when they were dating, and it didn't seem to be anything special.
There is no need to be special when pursuing pity.
She just wanted this familiar feeling of security, stability and security, a familiar feeling that was very similar to Xunli's, exactly the same.
Zhui Lian nodded and said, "Then this one will do."
Yu Peizhi took Zhui Lian's hand and walked to the ticket counter. He handed the iPad back to the staff and said, "Two tickets for Subnautica, please. Thank you."
"Yes, sir."
The girl at the front desk took the iPad, her eyes first sweeping over Zhui Lian's innocent features, and then landing on their clasped hands.
She couldn't help but ask, "Is this your wife? She's so beautiful, you two are such a perfect match!"
Yu Peizhi smiled, turned his head to look at Zhui Lian, and then nodded, which was considered as tacit approval.
"Yes, this is my wife, thank you for the compliment."
He held Zhui Lian's hand tightly again and led her to the ticket gate. Zhui Lian's eyes flashed with the smile of the girl at the front desk again.
There was nothing wrong with that smile; it was warm, sincere, genuine—but she just wanted to get rid of it.
*
The first half hour of the film is pretty standard.
Golden sunshine, white waves, the hero and heroine always hugging and kissing on the deck.
Suddenly, without warning, the tone of the picture changed.
The light disappeared and the camera sank into the deep sea.
The bright colors looked like concentrated sulfuric acid.
As the azure sea water overflowed the field of vision, it corroded a dark blue color.
The slender fish tail jumped into the sight, and the pale golden scales were inlaid like layers of cloud gauze, but the heroine's beautiful face revealed a look of fear.
A cage fell from the sky and trapped her inside.
The male protagonist suddenly appeared across the cage.
His hand gently stroked the heroine's neck and circled it.
Again and again, scraping the skin.
Suddenly, he grinned: "Your real name is Lianlian, right?"
With an infatuated look and murmured words, the man on the screen said in a very soft voice -
"Lianlian, I found you."
Zhui Lian's heart skipped a beat, and her fingers unconsciously gripped the handrail.
"Lianlian, why are you sitting further and further away from me?"
Suddenly, Yu Peizhi's hand appeared behind Zhui Lian.
His fingers slowly moved up Zhui Lian's spine, slowly encircled her shoulders, and pulled her into his arms.
Zhui Lian then realized that she had indeed been sitting quite far away from Yu Peizhi without realizing it.
"without……"
She had barely finished her words when he asked again, "Are you scared?
Yu Peizhi: "Because... her name is also Lianlian?"
Zhui Lian hesitated for a moment, but still nodded: "A little."
So Yu Peizhi spoke softly, quietly and gently into Zhui Lian's ear.
The breath sprayed down bit by bit, and the words filled the ear canal bit by bit, and the tone was very close, like coaxing a disobedient child: "If you are afraid, then you should stay closer to your husband. Your husband is the one who will always protect you. Have you forgotten?"
The air stagnated for a moment.
"Pei Zhi." Zhui Lian changed the subject, "Let's watch a movie. Don't miss the important parts."
The ending of the movie -
Knock, knock, knock.
There was a knock on the door, again and again.
"Who is it?"
The heroine trotted over and opened the door.
Behind the door is the male protagonist who has obviously "died" a long time ago.
"Lianlian, I found you again."
The male protagonist said with a smile.
The camera stayed fixed on a corner of the iron cage that was exposed behind him for a long time.
The heroine's pupils suddenly contracted in the darkness.
The background music stopped, leaving only the dull sound of flowing sea water.
Zhui Lian immediately stood up as if escaping, trying to get out of Yu Peizhi's arms: "Peizhi, I'm going to the bathroom."
"Is it urgent?"
Yu Peizhi suddenly grabbed her waist as she stood up, pressed her back onto his legs, and spoke affectionately into her ear, "There are still Easter eggs to be seen, baby, why don't you wait a little longer?"
"Easter eggs?"
Zhui Lian looked up in confusion and saw a line of familiar, yet inconspicuous small words flash at the bottom of the screen.
[Special Guidance: Kogo]
The screen went dark, and the lights in the screening room came on. The ample heating made the winter temperature in the small town cinema as warm as spring.
But Zhui Lian only felt cold, a cold that penetrated into her bones.
Her mind went blank.
Gewu.
She remembered the name—
The dead man's friend.
At this moment, Yu Peizhi happened to turn his head slightly to look at her. His gaze fell on Zhui Lian's pale face, but it was as if he was appreciating a painting.
He asked casually, "Is this special instructor a newcomer?"
Zhui Lian instinctively slid open the screen of her phone and wanted to click on the search page. As soon as she typed the word "Ge" on the keyboard, she suddenly turned off the screen.
She forced herself to calm down: "Maybe, I'm not sure."
Yu Peizhi smiled again and continued to ask, "I've never heard of his name before. Has Lianlian heard of it?"
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"I'm sorry, baby."
The husband's regretful and distressed voice rang in Zhui Lian's ears again.
Yu Peizhi, who came in with a glass, stroked her cheek and said, "If I had known it would scare you like this, I wouldn't have chosen this movie."
Everything that happened today was too bizarre to describe.
Turn off the screen, turn it upside down, and it's done in one go.
Zhui Lian pushed the phone into the quilt, shook her head, and then said tiredly: "Don't blame you, Pei Zhi, I want to sleep."
"good."
A glass was handed over, filled with hot milk.
"Baby." Yu Peizhi called her softly, "Let's drink the milk, okay? This way you can sleep better."
Zhui Lian’s sleep quality has always been poor, so every night before going to bed, Yu Peizhi would bring her a glass of milk.
She held the glass, her palm against the wall, warm.
But today, as she stared at the thin layer of milk skin floating on it, her mind couldn't help but become empty.
"Baby?" Yu Peizhi's worried voice sounded again.
Zhui Lian let go and put the glass back on the bedside table.
"Wait, I'll read for a while and then I'll drink." She touched the book placed next to the pillow, took it in her hand and opened it, but was a little stunned.
It was a girls' comic. She glanced at the introduction on the cover and roughly judged that the story was about a celestial dragon falling in love with a weak little white flower, but the little white flower already had someone in her heart and would rather die than obey. It was a clichéd and melodramatic plot.
But this wasn't the book she bought.
Yu Peizhi reached out to tidy up her scattered long hair. The black hair flowed over his pale skin, and the two contrasted with each other, creating an extremely sharp contrast.
He was laughing: "Lianlian still likes to watch these things."
Like to watch?
That was a long time ago, so long ago... it could be traced back to her teenage years when the dead man was still alive and they first met.
At that time, fate had not yet become irretrievably entangled, broken, and in a mess.
"...This isn't my book." Zhui Lian turned the comic upside down, appearing calm but feeling a little horrified inside. "I've never bought this book."
"Okay, that's not the baby's book, it's my book." His fingertips brushed against her earlobe, feeling cool, but his tone was doting.
Then he stood up very quickly, giving Zhui Lian almost no chance to argue.
He looked at Zhui Lian with a gentle smile, scratched the tip of her nose, and said, "I'm going to take a bath. Baby, you can sleep first if you're tired."
The husband's thin figure walked towards the bathroom.
The red dot on the blade three years ago has disappeared.
The sudden appearance suddenly swirled around her eyes.
Zhui Lian blinked.
The red color overlapped with her husband's figure.
She stood up, took the glass from the bedside table, and walked to the bedroom window sill, where a small pot of white daisies was placed, swaying in the night breeze.
Half an hour later, Yu Peizhi came back from taking a shower.
He wiped the water droplets from the ends of his hair with a towel, but his eyes turned to the glass on the bedside, and he glanced at her with a half-smile: "Baby, you've finished drinking."
That glance gave her the creeps.
But the next moment, he returned to his familiar gentle tone: "Baby is great, let's go to sleep."
The lights were turned off and the room fell into darkness.
It's dark, subsidence, and the oxygen supply for people to breathe is thin.
Zhui Lian closed her eyes, trying to convince herself to fall asleep, but she couldn't stop making slight noises.
Yu Peizhi came up behind her and hugged her tighter, almost squeezing her into his arms. The last part of his voice sounded a little hoarse as he said, "Lianlian, can't you sleep? Then let's--"
When Zhui Lian heard his voice, a sore and numb feeling instantly surged up in her lower abdomen, and she immediately dared not move.
But in the middle of the night, she woke up.
Zhui Lian raised her eyes, and the thin and fragmented moonlight came in through the gap in the curtains and fell on the wall of the glass, making it even more transparent.
The bed sheet beside me was flat, and the bedroom door was not closed tightly, so something was leaking in from the living room.
A ray of light.
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