Chapter 65 p1: The Vicious Supporting Female Character in a Romance Novel (18)
◎Water droplets slid down her waist continuously◎
Gu Lanqiu did not answer immediately. She stared at Jiang Mengyu’s reddened eyes. After a long while, she finally said in a low voice, “Fu Lianxi is just my university roommate.”
That’s all.
“Is that so?” Jiang Mengyu traced the corner of Gu Lanqiu’s lips with her fingertip, a hint of coldness flashing in her eyes. “Are you sure she thinks so too?”
Gu Lanqiu could not hear Jiang Mengyu’s thoughts, but she could hear the sarcasm and jealousy in her tone.
Gu Lanqiu was not unaware that Jiang Mengyu had a strong possessiveness for her. The way she looked at her was always deep and obsessive, the desire and affection in her eyes never hidden.
Jiang Mengyu was very concerned about Fu Lianxi’s existence.
Gu Lanqiu was motionless, looking deeply into Jiang Mengyu’s eyes. “You don’t like her.”
“Is it because I had dinner with her tonight, or because of some things she has done in the past?”
She easily threw the question back to Jiang Mengyu.
Jiang Mengyu’s fingertips paused. “Is there any difference?”
Gu Lanqiu curled her lip. “Of course it’s different.”
She had only had dinner with Fu Lianxi tonight and had gone to a bar for a while. There were other people present throughout the whole process, and Fu Lianxi had not said a single extra word.
Just like that, was it worth Jiang Mengyu being unhappy?
Gu Lanqiu narrowed her eyes, her expression also faint. “I remember I told you.”
“Don’t project your emotions for others onto me.”
The one who had made Jiang Mengyu dissatisfied was her in her previous life, not her now.
“Fu Lianxi has never said she loved me, and I have never said I would accept her.”
As Gu Lanqiu spoke, she turned her head to avoid Jiang Mengyu’s hand. “Put away your resentment.”
Jiang Mengyu’s breathing became chaotic for a moment. Her inky eyes seemed to be filled with a certain suppressed emotion. “Are you blaming me?”
“I’m just reminding you.”
Putting aside the fact that she and Fu Lianxi were innocent to begin with, even if there really was something, it was not Jiang Mengyu’s place to criticize her.
“You seem to have forgotten,” Gu Lanqiu closed her eyes. “I haven’t agreed to your pursuit yet.”
She knew that her emotions were not quite right now, but hearing Jiang Mengyu’s questioning tone, Gu Lanqiu still couldn’t help but say hurtful words.
What Jiang Mengyu cared about was not tonight’s matter at all.
When she looked at her, who was she thinking of in her mind?
This sentence turned on the tip of her tongue and was swallowed back by Gu Lanqiu.
“Lanqiu,” Jiang Mengyu seemed not to have noticed Gu Lanqiu’s thoughts. Her voice was a little hoarse. “You promised me that you would let me pick you up at ten.”
But in the end, Gu Lanqiu had broken her promise.
Because she was going to accompany another woman.
“I’ve already explained to you.”
Gu Lanqiu had never felt that Jiang Mengyu was angry about this matter from beginning to end.
“Meeting Fu Lianxi was just a coincidence.”
They hadn’t seen each other in years, and Fu Lianxi had taken the initiative to invite her. How could Gu Lanqiu refuse?
What’s more, Fu Lianxi was just here on a business trip. She might be leaving in a couple of days. But Jiang Mengyu was always at North Garden, and there was plenty of time to pick her up from work.
Gu Lanqiu did not think that there was any problem with her way of handling things.
For a moment, the image of Jiang Mengyu’s expectant face before she had gone out in the afternoon flashed in her mind, but it was quickly suppressed by Gu Lanqiu.
“Are you sure you want to fight with me over this matter?” she said in a low voice.
In the bar just now, she had tacitly agreed to Jiang Mengyu’s declaration of sovereignty, and when Jiang Mengyu and Fu Lianxi had had a conflict, she had unhesitatingly stood on Jiang Mengyu’s side. Gu Lanqiu considered herself to have done her utmost.
Jiang Mengyu did not answer. She stared at Gu Lanqiu without blinking. The blood that had rushed to her bewitching face from the kiss slowly faded.
Gu Lanqiu’s fingertips moved. Clearly, Jiang Mengyu’s hand was still on the side of her face. Gu Lanqiu could even recall the way Jiang Mengyu had forcefully hooked her neck and kissed her. But looking at Jiang Mengyu’s tightly pursed lips and stubborn and silent appearance, Gu Lanqiu felt as if she were looking at a small dog soaked by the rain.
A subtle feeling welled up in her heart. Gu Lanqiu knew that at this moment, she might only need to say a soft word to break the invisible stalemate between the two of them.
But she remained silent all along.
After an unknown amount of time, Gu Lanqiu finally heard Jiang Mengyu say in a hoarse voice, “I don’t want to fight with you.”
“Lanqiu, I’m just very scared.”
Jiang Mengyu stared at Gu Lanqiu’s eyes without blinking. Her voice was wrapped in the night wind that was blowing in from the crack in the car window. In Gu Lanqiu’s ears, it inexplicably added a hint of an ethereal and cold feeling.
“She has memories that belong exclusively to the two of you.”
“She has also seen the whole process of you going from immature to mature.”
That was a full twelve years.
Jiang Mengyu paused. “But I know nothing about your past.”
“Lanqiu, how can you expect me not to care?”
[Lanqiu has no idea.]
[How jealous I am…]
Jealous?
Gu Lanqiu thought, how could Jiang Mengyu think that she didn’t know what this kind of feeling was?
Seeing that Gu Lanqiu was not speaking, Jiang Mengyu’s breathing became even heavier. She lowered her eyes, her gaze sliding all the way down to Gu Lanqiu’s lips, her voice so soft it was almost inaudible. “Lanqiu, I really want to lock you up, in a place where only I can reach you, and be with you forever.”
Hearing this, Gu Lanqiu’s heart skipped a heavy beat. These words sounded a little familiar. Jiang Mengyu seemed to have said them before, but at that time, she had said that she wanted Gu Lanqiu to tie her up.
Gu Lanqiu could not tell if Jiang Mengyu’s tone was a joke, or if she really wanted to do this. But she had a feeling that Jiang Mengyu should be able to do such a thing.
So she and her in her previous life…
Was she really unwilling?
Thinking of how Jiang Mengyu had once said that it was Xu Zeyan who had locked her and her in her previous life up, Gu Lanqiu suddenly became suspicious of this.
It should be said that she had never really completely believed Jiang Mengyu’s words. It was just that at this moment, the suspicion in her heart had become even stronger.
Looking at Gu Lanqiu’s silent appearance, the scarlet in Jiang Mengyu’s eyes became more obvious. She stubbornly looked at Gu Lanqiu, her posture firm, but her tone was very humble. “Lanqiu, don’t look at her.”
“Just look at me, okay?”
The hand that was holding Gu Lanqiu’s cheek seemed to be confirming something, repeatedly rubbing her side profile. Gu Lanqiu was unable to move, her whole person as if she were completely imprisoned in a small space by Jiang Mengyu.
Her body was stained with Jiang Mengyu’s scent. The jasmine scent was everywhere, as if it had completely branded Gu Lanqiu.
Jiang Mengyu’s emotions faintly showed signs of losing control. Gu Lanqiu looked at the moisture in her eyes. Thinking of her appearance of clutching her chest and looking uncomfortable just now, in the end, she did not say any more cruel words.
“I don’t like Fu Lianxi.”
If she really had any thoughts about Fu Lianxi, would it be Jiang Mengyu’s turn to declare her sovereignty here?
When she had met Fu Lianxi, Jiang Mengyu was still in junior high.
At this thought, Gu Lanqiu’s expression suddenly became a little subtle.
She knew that there was a ten-year age gap between her and Jiang Mengyu.
But before this, Gu Lanqiu had never felt that there was anything wrong with it. In addition, Jiang Mengyu’s usual performance did not show any childishness at all, so Gu Lanqiu had naturally ignored this point.
Now that she thought about it carefully, when she was in university, Jiang Mengyu seemed to have just started junior high and was still a little kid who didn’t know anything.
Only then did Gu Lanqiu have a little bit of a real feeling.
“Really?” Jiang Mengyu’s lips brushed against Gu Lanqiu’s, and the hand that was on the side of her face followed down, grabbing her fingers and pressing them against her own heart.
“Lanqiu, did you hear that.”
The heart under her palm was beating forcefully. In a daze, Gu Lanqiu even had a feeling that her fingertips were numb from the vibration.
Jiang Mengyu’s voice was soft and firm. “Because the person in front of me is you, it will beat so fast.”
“Everything I have belongs to you.”
Her slightly hoarse tone seemed to carry an invisible seduction.
“In exchange, you also only belong to me, okay?”
Gu Lanqiu’s eyes darkened. Did she really only belong to herself?
The car was quiet for a long while before Jiang Mengyu heard Gu Lanqiu say in a low voice, “I won’t like anyone else.”
Besides Jiang Mengyu, no one else could bring her a similar feeling of being moved.
“What about me?”
Jiang Mengyu stared at Gu Lanqiu. “In your heart, what am I?”
The sentence “she is not my lover” had, in the end, left a mark in Jiang Mengyu’s heart.
Gu Lanqiu averted her face and said nothing.
Jiang Mengyu did not get her answer and continued, “Will you also sleep with other pursuers?”
Gu Lanqiu’s breath hitched. “You…”
Before she could finish her sentence, her lips were covered by Jiang Mengyu’s. The cool lips crushed Gu Lanqiu’s thin lips, fierce and deep.
Gu Lanqiu struggled a little, and her lower lip was immediately bitten. A hint of fire also rose in her heart.
This kiss was more intense than any before. When it ended, both of their lips were abnormally red, and their breathing was also very rapid.
“Lanqiu,” Jiang Mengyu caressed the faint red at the corner of Gu Lanqiu’s eye and murmured, “you are mine.”
“No one else can get close to you.”
Gu Lanqiu’s chest heaved violently. “Is that so?”
“Before I agree to your pursuit, you should have no right to control who I’m with.”
So Jiang Mengyu should try harder, try harder to please her now.
Gu Lanqiu licked her numb lips. “She didn’t smoke in front of you?”
“Mmm,” Jiang Mengyu’s long lashes were half-lowered. “No.”
That’s good.
To make Jiang Mengyu realize that she and her in her previous life were not the same person, she had to make her see clearly that they had different living habits and hobbies.
Gu Lanqiu calmed her breathing. “Next time you light a cigarette for me, you don’t have to be so close.”
“Has anyone else done this?” Jiang Mengyu immediately asked.
“No,” Gu Lanqiu said. “Only you.”
Only then was Jiang Mengyu finally satisfied. She pecked at the corner of Gu Lanqiu’s lips. “I’ll remember.”
Gu Lanqiu let out a light breath. She turned to look out the car window. “We’re here.”
The tug-of-war between the two of them had temporarily ended, but the ambiguous atmosphere that lingered around them, which was mixed with a stalemate, did not dissipate for a long time.
Gu Lanqiu withdrew her hand. She pushed Jiang Mengyu away and was the first to open the car door. “Let’s go.”
Jiang Mengyu silently followed behind her.
Gu Lanqiu had thought that Jiang Mengyu would do something else, such as holding her hand like in the bar.
Who knew that this person would just quietly follow her, and besides her gaze always being stuck on her, there were no other movements.
A hint of strangeness flashed through Gu Lanqiu’s heart.
Jiang Mengyu did not miss Gu Lanqiu’s small reaction.