Chapter 88: Stealing p1
The clock struck eleven. Jiang Youshu’s room was already dark. Jiang Mi was curled up on the sofa and sent a message to Yan Wei: [Wait a little longer. Jiang Hu is not asleep yet.]
The phone screen lit up again, and Jiang Mi lowered her head to reply to Yan Wei’s message.
From across the sofa, Jiang Hu’s voice sounded, “You’re not sleeping yet?”
Jiang Mi said, “I slept in the car during the day. I’m not sleepy now.” After she finished speaking, she looked up. “Aren’t you sleepy? You even helped with the cooking during the day. You’ve worked so hard. Aren’t you going to sleep? I think you can go to sleep.”
Jiang Hu looked at Jiang Mi and smiled slowly. “I’m not sleepy.”
Jiang Mi: “…”
She took a deep breath and watched as time passed, second by second. Just as she was about to have a showdown with Jiang Hu, Jiang Hu suddenly said leisurely, “Transfer me 200.”
Jiang Mi asked irritably, “For what?”
“If you transfer it, I’ll go to sleep.” Jiang Hu crossed her arms and looked at her with a half-smile.
Jiang Mi immediately understood. Her eyes lit up, and she picked up her phone. “Is 200 enough? I’ll transfer you 500! I hope my dear sister can sleep until dawn~”
Jiang Hu looked at the transfer notification and let out a soft humph, then stood up.
“Virtuous. Watch your step. Turn off the lights.”
At eleven-thirty at night, only a few cars were still “working” on the asphalt roads of Jincheng. The damp ground made the temperature of this night even more bone-chilling.
Jiang Mi wrapped her coat tightly and rushed out of the corridor. The cold air, wrapped in a fine rain, rushed towards her. She hailed a car and gave the hotel address, her movements smooth and practiced.
She hadn’t told Yan Wei that she had already set out.
So on the way, there was an anticipation mixed with apprehension and excitement.
The car passed through the empty streets. The light from the streetlights was on the car window, and also on Jiang Mi’s face. She turned her head and looked at the familiar streets, and a smile appeared on her face as she recalled everything that had happened tonight.
Everything was like a dream, and everything was so real.
Her fingertips unconsciously rubbed the edge of her phone, and then she thought of the fact that she had sneaked out. At this moment, her urgent desire to rush to Yan Wei was tinged with a subtle sense of guilt and forbiddenness.
They were clearly in a proper relationship, but at this moment, it was as if they were having an affair.
The moment the car came to a steady stop, Jiang Mi almost stumbled as she rushed into the hotel’s revolving door.
The elevator mirror reflected her flushed cheeks and slightly messy hair. The elevator floor numbers were flashing on the display screen, and every second was like a test of her patience.
After getting out of the elevator, the corridor was covered with a thick carpet, and her footsteps on it made a hurried and dull sound. Every sound was as passionate as the pounding of her heart.
Finally, Jiang Mi reached the door of the room, took a deep breath, and rang the doorbell.
Before the light sound of the lock springing open had dissipated, Jiang Mi had already squeezed through the crack in the door and held the person inside tightly.
Yan Wei was wearing a dark green silk slip dress. The room was warm, and her body was even hotter. Jiang Mi’s down jacket, carrying the cold air from outside, almost sucked all the warmth from her body, and she shivered violently.
She went to take off Jiang Mi’s coat.
“Why did you take so long…” The moment Yan Wei spoke, her breath was completely extinguished by the kiss that immediately followed.
Yan Wei tilted her head back to receive it, her fingers subconsciously grabbing onto Jiang Mi, and the neat clothes were crumpled into a messy mess, and then she impatiently threw them away.
It was unclear when the lights in the room had been turned off.
Only the dim wall lamp in the entrance remained, casting intertwined shadows on the wall.
Jiang Mi’s palm slid slowly down Yan Wei’s spine. The places it passed were aroused with a fine reaction, and finally, it stopped at the highest point, pressing down with a light and heavy force.
A whimper escaped Yan Wei’s throat. Her knees went weak, and her whole person was almost hanging on Jiang Mi.
Jiang Mi lifted her whole person up, and then, her back was against the cool wall panel. But her front was scorching hot, so the stimulation of the alternating temperatures made her toes involuntarily curl up.
She breathed in Jiang Mi’s ear, “You weren’t discovered?”
“Of course not…” Jiang Mi said.
“Teacher Jiang, you’re really… amazing…”
Yan Wei’s voice was broken. She reflexively tilted her head up. She felt that she was about to die, just about to die.
**
The mess in the entrance was not the end.
The bathroom door was gently pushed open, and steam rose. The mist, wrapped in the warm scent of shower gel, instantly enveloped the two’s bodies. Jiang Mi’s hair was still dripping with water. She held Yan Wei from behind, and the water droplets fell on Yan Wei’s shoulder, and then slid down…
Winding into a trail of water.
Yan Wei finally couldn’t stand anymore.
Jiang Mi quickly dried their bodies with a towel. She picked up Yan Wei and went to the room.
Yan Wei looked at Jiang Mi, her gaze always following the water droplets that were constantly dripping from Jiang Mi’s hair. Just as she reached out, wanting to brush aside the slightly damp hair on Jiang Mi’s forehead, the next second, she was held by the waist by Jiang Mi and fell into the soft bed.
A kiss that was different from the urgency in the bathroom just now, it went in very slowly, like a kind of a flashback or a compensation.
Yan Wei liked tonight’s Jiang Mi too much.
Not enough.
It was as if it were never enough.
**
Jiang Mi turned over and pulled the weak Yan Wei into her arms. The lit-up phone screen showed that it was two in the morning.
She reached for her phone and set an alarm for five. The cold light of the screen lingered on her face for a moment. She muttered, “I have to go back.”
Her voice was also hoarse with fatigue.
Yan Wei’s cheek was pressed against Jiang Mi’s warm neck. She let out a soft sound and whispered, “Jiang Mi, am I stealing someone? It’s been hard on you.”
Jiang Mi also let out a low laugh, and a slight vibration came from her chest. Her fingers were playing with Yan Wei’s hair, which was scattered on the pillow. “It’s not hard. Teacher Yan… you’re much more tired than me.”
Yan Wei paused, narrowed her eyes, and lightly bit Jiang Mi’s neck.
But in fact, she didn’t dislike it. This was a rare moment for Jiang Mi.
Jiang Mi took a light breath and begged for mercy with a smile, “Gently… I have to see my mom and my sister tomorrow. Don’t leave a mark.”
After the laughter, the room fell into a warm silence.
Only their breathing remained in the room.
After a while, Yan Wei’s voice sounded in the darkness, softer than usual, “Jiang Mi, I’m very happy today.”
“Me too.”
Jiang Mi tightened her arms, holding her even tighter.
They both knew that this day was particularly precious and important to them.
After a long time.
Jiang Mi called out very lightly, “Are you asleep?”
“No,” Yan Wei’s voice was clear, with a hint of a craving. She was enjoying this moment of clarity and happiness.
“Can I tell you about my biological mother?”
“Okay.”
Jiang Mi was silent for a moment, as if she were thinking about where to start. “Actually, my biological mother was not good to me either. Do you remember the tattoo on my ankle?”
Yan Wei remembered something, and a hint of pain appeared in her dark eyes. The arms holding Jiang Mi tightened. “I know.”
“That was actually made by my biological mother with a high heel, the kind with a round heel. After it healed, I went to a tattoo shop and got a small sun tattooed.” Jiang Mi said, “She was very beautiful, the kind of face that you would remember at a glance without any makeup.”
Yan Wei said, “Just like you.”
Jiang Mi paused. “Hmm? Something seems to be wrong, right?”
Jiang Mi said, “Few people know that she actually died by jumping off a building. Such a beautiful person… chose such a tragic way.”
Jiang Mi’s voice was very calm. She was reminiscing and narrating. If it weren’t for the fact that they were pressed so closely together at this moment, Yan Wei might not have been able to detect the subtle emotion in her chest.
“But do you know what she wanted to do most before she jumped off the building? It was to take me with her.”
The moment her words fell, Yan Wei’s kiss landed on Jiang Mi’s warm face. “I never knew these things.”
“But all of this is in the past now. I’m telling you this because I want you to know that some people are not born to live a happy life. You’re not, and I’m actually not either. So in the future, I will make you happy forever. I love you, and my family will also be your family in the future. They will all love you very much. I cherish everything now, and I’m very content. I will never leave you. I will always be by your side, and I will always love you.”
The night wind outside the window was blowing gently, and there was almost no light in the room.
But their hearts were bright.
Yan Wei’s eyes were hot. “I also, forever…”
**