Chapter 95: Promise
Su Yu gently knocked on the door. The crisp sound echoed in the quiet corridor of the second floor of the office building. He waited at the door for a while, the time slightly exceeding his estimation. Considering the possibility that the other party was taking a nap, he turned to leave.
But a slightly flustered sound came from inside the not-so-soundproof door. But soon, the sound of the lock turning drowned out the noise. The door was gently pushed open from the inside. The gentle-looking woman stared at him for a moment, then stepped aside to let Su Yu in.
“Then… I’m sorry to bother you, sister.”
Su Yu walked into the office with a slightly unnatural expression. He subconsciously touched the tip of his nose, his gaze slightly lowered at a forty-five-degree angle. But then he saw the woman’s bare feet, wrapped only in a layer of black silk stockings. Her small toes were slightly curled up, and the tight instep arched into an S-shaped curve on the floor, a sign of her master’s voluptuous figure, her charm sexy and alluring.
He didn’t dare to linger for too long for fear of being misunderstood by Gu Zhi. So he had to shift his gaze to the white wall, wanting to avoid such an exposure of spring scenery. At the same time, he had a faint feeling that such a mature charm was deliberately created, as if it were deliberately displayed in front of him.
But Su Yu smelled the neroli fragrance suddenly overflowing at the tip of his nose. The fresh and gentle scent made his thoughts a little chaotic. He shook his head, denying such an absurd idea in his mind.
When he looked up again, the distance between them had been shortened to a few inches, their breathing clearly audible. Gu Zhi smiled gently, the long corners of her eyes softened and became curved and alluring, a doting meaning in her eyes.
The air conditioner in the room was still running, and the warm air that was being blown out gradually filled the room, raising the temperature to a point where it was hot and stuffy.
Gu Zhi seemed to have just woken up from a nap. Her curvaceous body was only wearing a high-necked, tight-fitting sweater. She leaned forward, and her chest seemed even more ample. She frowned and bit her slightly thick lower lip, her eyes still filled with a sleepy haze. There was even a faint pink tinge around her eyes, and the corners of her eyes were moist, exuding a delicate temptation, like a poppy in the wind, stunning and poisonous.
But in front of Su Yu, Gu Zhi seemed to be completely unaware of her allure to the opposite sex, so careless that she was defenseless. She slowly pulled her hair, which had fallen to her shoulders, back into a bun, smiled and poked Su Yu’s forehead, her lazy voice with a mature, hoarse quality, the raised tail of her voice captivating.
“Why don’t you dare to look at me? Did you do something bad? Hmm?”
“I… I’m here to give you the Youth Association’s documents.”
Su Yu took two steps back in embarrassment. During their recent acquaintance, Gu Zhi had only briefly reminisced with him. Their conversation was very plain, all about past memories. But recently, his relationship with Gu Zhi had suddenly become a little intimate. This change made him feel inexplicably unnatural.
But his thoughts were not very clear. This gentle and considerate sister had given him so much meticulous care in the past, giving him warm love when he was at his most confused and helpless. No matter how he looked at it, the Gu Zhi in front of him was still the same gentle and mature Gu Zhi.
Su Yu had occasionally talked to Gu Chuan about Gu Zhi these past few days. Gu Chuan had told him that Gu Zhi’s parents had died in a car accident when she was young, and she had been raised by the Gu family’s patriarch. After she came of age, she had gone to a city a thousand miles away to live and had been alone ever since.
So Su Yu habitually attributed Gu Zhi’s feelings for him to a reliance on kinship, just like when he had met his sister Gu Zhi as a child, he had wanted to hold on to that warmth and not let go.
Su Yu shook his head, chasing away those meaningless thoughts. He handed the documents he was holding to Gu Zhi and asked, “Why did you have to ask me to deliver these documents, sister? Is there something else?”
“Isn’t it enough that I miss Xiao Yu?” Gu Zhi tilted her head, a hint of playfulness in her intellectual demeanor. But the confusion in Su Yu’s expression made her stop asking. She said, “Alright, no more jokes. I really have something I want Xiao Yu to do with me.”
“What?”
“Um… Xiao Chan needs to go to the pet store for a shot today. But I also need to buy some things at home. It might be a bit troublesome. Can you go with me?” Gu Zhi frowned in annoyance, her gaze at Su Yu particularly sincere.
“But isn’t your family, sister…” Su Yu remembered that with Gu Zhi’s status, she probably didn’t have to do everything herself.
“I don’t like to rely on my family to do things. That family… for me… don’t you want to go with me?”
A shadow crossed Gu Zhi’s bright eyes, which were outlined with dark eyeshadow, as if Su Yu’s words had triggered some sad memory. This made Su Yu suddenly realize that the redness in Gu Zhi’s eyes was probably not because she had just woken up, but because… she had cried not long ago?
His gaze passed over Gu Zhi and saw a few wet tissues piled under a book on the table. This also explained the recent chaos in the room. Gu Zhi didn’t want him to see these things.
The fragility that was inadvertently revealed in Gu Zhi’s expression was heartbreaking. This was the first time that Gu Zhi, who had always played the role of an older sister in front of him, had shown such a fragile side. Her past image seemed to have collapsed in an instant, revealing the real Gu Zhi underneath, lonely, a little sensitive, and even fragile.
“Actually, I’ve been alone all these years. It’s not a big deal to postpone the shopping. I’m sorry, I was being selfish. I just wanted… I wanted you to spend more time with me, Xiao Yu. I was so, so happy that you could have a drink with me that day. Sometimes I think it would have been better if I had never met you, Xiao Yu. Then I wouldn’t have realized how lonely my life was before…”
Gu Zhi shook her head, her fingertips gently brushing over the wetness at the corners of her eyes. She smiled gently, with a hint of self-deprecation. “I’m so embarrassing. I’m so old and I’m still crying. It’s clearly something from a long time ago, but I just can’t help it…”
Su Yu felt a sudden pang in his chest. He couldn’t help but curse his hesitation and immediately tried to comfort her. “I was just a little surprised. I didn’t mean anything else. I know you’ve been alone all this time. You can just send me a message if you need anything in the future. I… I’ll always be there. Didn’t you always accompany me like this before?”
“Really?”
Gu Zhi looked up, her eyes sparkling with a crystalline light. Tears welled up in her eyes, moistening the vermilion mole at the corner of her eye. She seemed to be moved. She bit her lip, as if she had made up her mind, and suddenly hugged Su Yu, burying her head in the crook of his neck. She seemed to be sobbing, and her breathing was clearly audible in his ear.
Her voice even carried a slight cry, the trembling end of her voice making Su Yu’s heart tremble with pity. She was suddenly as childish as a child. “I didn’t want to tell you, Xiao Yu. But something very bad happened. I’m really sad.”
“What happened…”
“Shh, just let me hold you for a while. Just a little while.”
Gu Zhi interrupted Su Yu’s question. She held the dazed and unresponsive Su Yu in her arms, her entire body leaning on his shoulder, her two arms wrapped tightly around him.
Her soft and heartbreaking sobs echoed in the office. The corners of her bright red lips slowly curved up in a blind spot that he couldn’t see, and her tears instantly became a false lie.
Gu Zhi had suddenly become a hunter fighting with her prey. She showed a little weakness to let her enemy’s guard down. If she could, she would have also used her legs to clamp the other party’s body to further trap him, like a spider wrapping its prey in a web, not giving them any chance to struggle.
Gu Zhi greedily sucked in the sweet scent of her prey, using a fake cry to suppress the sound of her heavy breathing, her expression as obsessed as a drug addict lying in a field of poppies, unable to extricate himself. She felt the monster lurking deep in her heart was about to awaken from its slumber, aggressively wanting to rush towards the locked prey, wanting to dismember the prey bit by bit, as if enjoying a feast.
She tried her best to endure, but her powerful arms unconsciously began to tighten.
“Sister?”
Su Yu, who was slightly out of breath, subconsciously wanted to struggle, but he suddenly found that the gentle and considerate sister actually had such strong arms, like an impregnable wall, imprisoning him in her arms, unable to break free. He even had the illusion that he was about to suffocate and die.
Just as Su Yu was about to further mobilize his body, the force that was restraining him suddenly loosened. He was able to relax a little and take a deep breath of the air mixed with neroli fragrance.
“You promised me, Xiao Yu. I will remember it forever, forever.”
Gu Zhi let go of him, her gaze suddenly serious and terrifying. But then her eyes curved down again, her long, narrow eyes squinting slightly, becoming alluring and charming. She wiped away the water that had moistened the vermilion mole at the corner of her eye, and once again showed a gentle and soft smile, just like an older sister who was very pleased with her well-behaved younger brother.
