"Or is it a pet that you come over to pet during your free time?"
Shen Zhiyi felt goosebumps rise on her skin from his intense gaze.
After a long silence, she scoffed.
What do you want to be?
Gu Lianzhou pursed his lips and remained silent.
But my heart sank heavily.
Yes, what can a person be if they have no more use?
He doesn't deserve anything.
Shen Zhiyi kicked off the blanket and stepped on the muscle of his arm.
Gu Lianzhou subconsciously raised his hand, covered her ankle, and gently massaged it for her.
"Who wants this?" Shen Zhiyi stepped on his hand, tilted her head, and pointed to the storage cabinet not far away. "Didn't you buy me an anklet? It's hidden in the basement."
Gu Lianzhou paused, then abruptly raised his head.
Stray hairs cast shadows on her eyebrows and eyes.
"How did you know?" He looked at her in surprise.
“How could I not know?” Shen Zhiyi laughed again. “I’ve thought about returning everything you’ve done to me.”
She raised her chin and then placed the back of her foot in front of him.
"Since it's a gift for me, you should put it on me yourself."
Gu Lianzhou's dark pupils suddenly contracted, and a look of disbelief appeared on his cold and sharp face.
"You...you're willing?"
Shen Zhiyi straightened up and sat down in front of him. "I might change my mind in a little while."
Gu Lianzhou immediately turned around, took out a delicate jewelry chain from the storage cabinet, knelt down in front of Shen Zhiyi, took a deep breath, and carefully put it on her ankle.
He still seemed unable to accept this reality; his fingertips were trembling.
Shen Zhiyi rotated her ankle. "It's quite pretty."
A delicate golden chain, entwined with a butterfly, refracts light through the shimmering diamonds as it turns.
Gu Lianzhou grasped her ankle, raised his eyes, and looked at her with a dark gaze. "Do you know what this means?"
"This means that you are willingly trapped by me."
Shen Zhiyi bent down and touched his face.
"Um."
She looked into his eyes and repeated, word by word, "I am willing to be trapped by you."
"Do you know what you're saying?" Gu Lianzhou's eyes reddened as he looked up at her.
"I know," Shen Zhiyi replied confidently.
Only she knew that the ultimate goal of taming was never to take away.
It is about giving.
She gave him abundant love and her creative vitality.
A spark of light was rekindled in his bleak and repetitive life.
A chain cannot bind a butterfly.
But the butterfly can break free of its cocoon, and even turn back to kiss his unease again and again.
"Didn't you want to ask what role I would allow you to stay here?" Shen Zhiyi sat in the warm yellow light, curving her lips at him. "As my husband."
"Are you willing to accept this identity?"
Gu Lianzhou stared at her blankly.
He opened his lips in disbelief, "...What did you say?"
He suddenly sat up and cupped her face in his hands.
"Xiaoyi, were you... proposing to me just now?"
After losing her usefulness and all initiative, she actually proposed that he stay by her side forever, openly and honestly sharing the fruits of her labor?!
"Otherwise what?" Shen Zhiyi slapped his hand away. "In other words, it's about making you my dog legitimately. Are you willing?"
"Why...?" he stammered.
Seeing that he didn't answer, Shen Zhi's arrogant temper flared up, and she snorted, "Because I'm crazy and my brain isn't working properly, so if you don't want to, then forget it."
Gu Lianzhou snapped back to reality as if catching a falling pearl, and hugged her tightly.
"I do!"
“I didn’t refuse!” His shoulders trembled slightly. “I just can’t believe it…”
"Xiao Yi, what you just said still stands, right?"
He tightened his arms around her, holding her tightly in his embrace, and pinched the back of her neck, forcing her to meet his gaze. She pleaded anxiously, "You can't go back on your word, you can't lie to me."
He's been driven crazy by her these past few days.
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