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“That… Mr. Sang, your ring has been resized.” The salesperson pushed the door in fear and entered the VIP room, bowing slightly and presenting the ring box to me with both hands.
Perhaps it was because I smashed my phone and let out my anger, my mood gradually calmed down, and my twisted brain was able to function normally.
There is only one fatal secret between Ji Chenfeng and me, which is the mystery of our background. Apart from this secret, other emotional deceits, even if Zhou Jiyu told Ji Chenfeng everything I did, were not something that needed to be immediately put on first level alert.
The worst thing is that everything would return to the starting point, and I will no longer have any contact with Ji Chenfeng. In the end, it’s just a love game that failed. My foundation was not damaged at all, and my life would not change much.
Moreover…it’s not that I look down on Zhou Jiyu, an ambitious person like him will naturally know how to weigh the pros and cons. So what if he knows that my prey is Ji Chenfeng? He couldn’t share the hardships with Ji Chenfeng back then, so would he now offend someone he couldn’t afford to offend for the sake of his old lover?
I grabbed the ring box from the salesman, stepped over the broken cell phone on the ground, and strode out of the jewelry store with a sullen face.
With the mentality of breaking things up, I thought if Ji Chenfeng doesn’t contact me, then I won’t contact him either.
After buying a new mobile phone and installing the phone card, I immediately asked Ayao to check Zhou Jiyu’s address. I can go to the clinic to stop him tomorrow, but I want to solve it as soon as possible. I don’t want to wait overnight.
Ayao’s work efficiency was top-notch. Within fifteen minutes, I found out Zhou Jiyu’s current address— not far from his clinic, in a high-end apartment building.
After pressing the room number, the video doorbell rang three times and was picked up by a foreign man.
“I am a friend of Dr. Zhou, can you open the door for me?”
The foreign man muttered: “Zhou’s friend?” Then he asked in English from a distance, “Zhou, you have a friend looking for you.”
After a rustling sound, the person behind the visual doorbell changed.
“…Sang Nian?” Zhou Jiyu never expected that this “friend” would be me, so he called me by my name in surprise.
“Open the door.” I simply ordered him.
After a while, the access door below opened.
With both hands in my coat pocket, I leisurely entered the elevator, and the bright red numbers jumped to the floor where Zhou Jiyu was located. Finally, with a “ding” sound, the elevator door slowly opened.
Leather shoes stepped on the marble tiles, making regular sounds. If this was a movie, the background music would have become dangerous by now.
Zhou Jiyu opened the door and waited at the door with a wary expression.
“You…why are you here?”
I pushed him straight away and entered the house with my shoes on.
The interior decoration style was warm and lively, which does not match well with Zhou Jiyu’s ambitious personality, but rather matches his elegant and handsome appearance.
There are some daily photos of him and his boyfriend on the sideboard, indicating that they have been together for several years and have spent at least two or three summers together.
“Where is your boyfriend? Won’t he come out to meet the guests?” I glanced at the tightly closed doors on both sides of the corridor, then turned around and asked Zhou Jiyu who was closing the door.
“He is an architect and has a project on hand recently. He is working on blueprints.” Zhou Jiyu instinctively stood between me and those two doors, like a hen guarding her cubs, afraid that I would rush over and harm his little baby in the next second. “Moreover, he has a straightforward personality, and he is not very talkative. I am also afraid that he might say something rash that would offend you, so… let me entertain you.”
“Architect.” There was a golf bag standing in the corner, with its cover slightly opened, revealing various shapes of golf clubs inside.
I took out one of them and weighed it in my hand. I said, “His hand should be very important, right?”
The metal club is very powerful and well maintained. When you swing it suddenly, you can hear the sound of breaking wind.
Zhou Jiyu unconsciously took a half step back as I swung the club, his face suddenly turning ugly.
“Is there something I didn’t do well enough?” He said as he forced himself to calm down.
With the club propped up on the ground, I looked at him until he became anxious enough, and then slowly said, “What did you say to Ji Chenfeng?”
Zhou Jiyu’s expression turned into complete horror after a brief moment of astonishment. He stood there for a long time before he remembered to defend himself: “I…I didn’t say anything. Please believe me. I just reminisced with him about the past and went to look at his mother. As for you, that is the patient’s privacy, I didn’t mention a word.”
Lifting the club in my hand, I swept a photo frame off the sideboard without looking, and the sound of shattering glass echoed through the room.
“Really?” I watched his reaction, not letting go of any clues.
He looked nervous and nodded repeatedly: “I swear.”
One of the two closed doors suddenly opened a crack, and a warm bright light leaked out, followed by the voice of a foreign man.
“Zhou, are you okay?”
“It’s okay, I accidentally knocked over the photo frame, you don’t have to come out.” Zhou Jiyu tilted his head to appease the other person.
There was silence inside the door before the other party spoke again: “Okay, call me if you need anything.” After speaking, the man closed the door again.
Judging from Zhou Jiyu’s appearance, he probably really didn’t say anything. Moreover, his relationship with this foreign man seems to be pretty good. In this case, even if Ji Chenfeng remembered his old lover, it would be impossible for him(jc) to return to the other person’s arms, right?
As I walked toward Zhou Jiyu, he seemed to think I was going to hit him. His whole body was tense as he put his hands in a blocking posture.
I chuckled and stuffed the club into his arms. Pressing my palm on his shoulder, I whispered in his ear, “Dr. Zhou, I’m glad you’ve always upheld your basic principles as a psychologist and haven’t let me down. You taught me how to lure Ji Chenfeng, and you taught me how to make him addicted to this relationship. We’re accomplices, and I haven’t crossed the river yet, so you can’t tear down my bridge.”
Zhou Jiyu stiffened and hugged the golf club tightly, once again demonstrating his characteristic of being aware of the current situation, something I had valued in him from the beginning.
“I understand. I was just…driven by useless guilt, so I contacted him without telling you. I will never do it again, and I will draw a clear line with him.” In such a short time, his hair roots were faintly stained with sweat.
After beating, or rather threatening Zhou Jiyu, I left his apartment with a refreshed mind.
Returning to my own home, I thought there were only two cats to welcome me, but unexpectedly, as soon as I opened the door, Ji Chenfeng was also there.
Perhaps because he was tired of waiting, he lay down on the sofa and took a nap. When he heard the sound of me opening the door, he opened his eyes in a daze and his clothes fell off.
“What happened to your cell phone today? I couldn’t get through. You haven’t responded to my messages…” He said with a slightly sticky accent as he just woken up, “I thought something happened to you.”
Because I was too angry, I simply blocked him, so of course he couldn’t get through.
“My phone was broken and I just got a new one.” I took off my coat and threw it aside. Then I spread my legs and straddled him, holding his face and kissing him passionately.
Is Zhou Jiyu better than me?
I inserted my fingers into his hair, grasping the roots and fixing the back of his head, making it impossible for him to avoid it.
My teeth bit and tore at his lower lip, with careless force.
He snorted and grabbed my waist, from trying to pause and continue the conversation, to being provoked by me and unable to stop, there was only one purposeful thrust on his crotch.
His palms penetrated through the gap in my trousers, and his breathing gradually became heavier. Ji Chenfeng didn’t let himself be at a disadvantage for too long, but soon turned from defense to offense, starting to invade my territory on a large scale.
The tip of his tongue stirred my mouth, feeling as if my brain was also messed up by him. I held his shoulders and had to use some perseverance to end my entanglement with him.
He still wanted to come over and kiss me, but I stopped him by pressing my hands against his chest.
“Let’s do something different today…” I stood up, rolled up my sleeves, lifted my tight trouser legs, and bent my knees in front of him.
Can you do this shit with Zhou Jiyu?
Ji Chenfeng’s expression froze for a moment, and he wiped the saliva from my lips with his thumb. His eyes were deep as he said in a hoarse voice: “Are you sure?” Obviously, he already understood what I wanted to do.
Isn’t it just eating a lollipop? What’s so great about it?
I didn’t answer him and lowered my head to unwrap the lollipop.
I thought I would be very repelled, after all, I’ve tasted some sweet lollipops since I was a child, and this is still my first time tasting this new kind. But perhaps the desire to win outweighed everything and I didn’t feel too nauseous.
While thinking about why it was necessary to do this since it was just a love game, I still closed my eyes and abandoned the last limit.
Although I have never eaten pork before, I have still seen pigs running. Even if I wasn’t an expert, I have some personal insights. While eating, I recalled the key points and wasn’t in a hurry. The only problem is that the size of the lollipop was abnormal and it took longer to melt…
In the past, I didn’t quite understand those lollipops that were beyond the norm. I often thought, can normal people really finish eating them in a normal time? Most people buy it out of curiosity, right? Now that I think about it, I feel more and more that it is impossible for anyone to be able to patiently eat them bit by bit.
It was already good if I didn’t chew it into pieces.
Ji Chenfeng caressed the side of my face with his fingers, like an invisible encouragement, and as if he was unconsciously expressing his excessive emotions.
Good, good, you are doing a good job, but you can do better. He didn’t speak, but his actions seemed to express his desire.
I am already working hard, are you picking on me now?
Feeling dissatisfied, I raised my head and met his deep eyes that seemed to be covered with a layer of mist. My back suddenly felt as if electrified, and all the fine hairs stood up.
All his emotions and reactions were caused by me, and his eyes were filled with me…
Perhaps, should, could… I could actually do better.
The sugar finally melted, and there was a strange flow of liquid inside my mouth. Because the taste was too hard to describe, I didn’t like it and tried to spit it out, but Ji Chenfeng didn’t allow me to do so.
He asked me to fully accept it, and I did.
It wasn’t until the force that controlled me gradually diminished that I turned my face away, choked, and looked at the traces dripping from my mouth on the floor. It was only at this moment that I began to feel the impact.
However, before my complex emotions could brew thoroughly and turn into anger or disgust, Ji Chenfeng pulled at my clothes and kissed me without any hesitation, not caring about what was in my mouth.
What the fuck…
The brain said no, it’s disgusting, but the body has already given up resistance, holding up the white flag in the passionate kiss full of aggression and surrendering early.
The next morning, I woke up with pain all over my body. In the past, I only had pain in my waist and legs, but this time my mouth also started to hurt.
After washing up, I ate the breakfast prepared by Ji Chenfeng last night, and added some water to the two kittens who had snoozed somewhere. I was about to go out to the company when I touched my pocket and found two ring boxes— The red box contains two men’s matching rings that have been resized, and the blue box contains other rings for engagement.
Originally, after changing the ring size, I wanted to give the Sang family’s heirloom ring to Ji Chenfeng, but now… let’s first see how he performs.
Throwing both ring boxes into the safe, I went out humming a tune.
For the next half month, everything was calm and peaceful. The engagement date was finally decided on New Year’s Eve. That’s good, I don’t need to find another perfunctory excuse to deal with Ji Chenfeng.
A week before New Year’s Eve, because some companies had already begun their holidays and could not keep up with the work, the workload gradually decreased from the peak hours. From being too busy to leisurely gazing at the scenery outside the window, I had nothing else to do.
Turning the office chair, I was thinking about whether to call Ji Chenfeng. Suddenly, Zheng Jieyuan’s name appeared on the phone screen.
It was now half past nine in the morning, so he should still be sleeping. Why is he calling at this time?
“Hello……”
“Sang Nian, hurry up and save me! Some bastard left me in a deserted place and stole my clothes…” Zheng Jieyuan seemed to be on the verge of collapse, “My phone is almost out of battery, Sang Nian, help!”
I just thought it was an ordinary morning, but it turned out to be much more important than I thought.
Afterwards, I also asked myself, if I had known that I would miss Ji Chenfeng’s important call, would I have saved Zheng Jieyuan? The answer is an absolute no.
After all, even if Zheng Jieyuan can’t find me, he could still find someone else. But for Ji Chenfeng, I was the only one at that time.
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