Chapter 106: Capital
The silver suitcase was half-lying on the ground. He turned the lock and entered the password. The lid on one side of the suitcase popped open. The top layer was a few fluffy and large down jackets. The name tags were still on the collars. The capital was in the north, and it was much colder than here.
“I was supposed to go to the capital the day after tomorrow. It seems I’ll have to be a few days late.”
Xia Qiange took out the things she would need for the next few days from the suitcase. Perhaps it was because there was another person in the house, but she suddenly became reserved. She had changed her nightgown into long pants, and her top was also a loose style. Her whole body was covered in it. The buttons were buttoned from top to bottom, and the cuffs were not spared. As long as it was a place that could be reasonably covered, not a single bit was exposed.
“The capital…”
Su Yu swallowed a mouthful of the cooled lean meat porridge and put down the porcelain spoon without any taste. His heart, which had been hanging high in the sky, fell straight down. The thing he had been worried about was now starkly in front of him and Xia Qiange, like a mountain that could not be moved.
“Yeah, aren’t you coming with me?”.
Xia Qiange looked at him with great surprise. It seemed that this was already a foregone conclusion. That’s right. He was a lonely ghost without an identity. He should be content that someone was willing to take him and not find him a burden.
“No. The capital is really… too far. It’s even farther from home than Lin’an.”
Xia Qiange stopped packing her luggage. She stood up and walked over to sit across from Su Yu. There was a cup of freshly brewed coffee on the table to refresh her. She was looking down, and the porcelain spoon in her hand was slowly turning. The heart-shaped milk foam that she had specially made when she was in a good mood was stirred into fine pieces.
Why is he still so disobedient?
Her good mood was suddenly ruined. The emptiness of her unvented desire was accumulating in her blood vessels. Her hand, which was holding the porcelain cup, was imperceptibly tightened, and her slender knuckles were so pale that not a single bit of blood could be seen.
She took a few deep breaths and forcefully suppressed the urge to bare her fangs and bite the prey’s fragile neck, to suck his fresh blood. Her loose pajamas covered her violently heaving chest, and the blue veins were crawling up her snow-white and slender neck. She untied her waterfall-like dark hair and covered her loss of composure. She asked with great consideration.
“Are you worried about your family?”
“Not entirely. Although they still don’t know about me, it’s always good to be closer. I still want to find time to see them.”
Xia Qiange raised her eyebrows, and the gentleness in her eyes was as if it had been frozen by the spring water. Her hands did not stop, and she let out a light and inaudible sigh, which was particularly harsh in the silent atmosphere.
“I know. This is a bit sudden. I was supposed to leave the day before yesterday. But you’re here. I wanted to wait a little longer. I’ve already missed a very important interview for this. I can’t delay it any longer.”
“I’ve always been thinking that you might not have died. If I had gone to the capital a year earlier, when you were not there, maybe we would never have seen each other again. But in fact, I was right to wait… I hope I’m right this time too.”
Her eyes were red without any warning, and her voice was filled with a cry that made his heart soften.
“Su Yu, I’ve never liked anyone else. But I think this is something that both of us have to give. I really don’t want us to be separated like this. So… can you do something for me?”
Xia Qiange slowly held Su Yu’s wrist, and her fingertips were pressed against his rapidly beating pulse, gently rubbing it. Her dark pupils were staring at Su Yu, clean, pure, and craving… just like that, she had hooked him, leaving him with no room to escape.
He had made her cry again… a sense of self-blame was growing in his heart, tormenting him.
Su Yu felt guilty. He had already made this girl wait for so long. What else was there for him to hesitate about? Happiness was right in front of him. He could hold it with just a clench of his hand.
He held Xia Qiange’s cold hand and held it in his palm.
“Okay.”
…
Although he had already made up his mind to go to the capital, the speed at which Xia Qiange had booked the tickets and packed her luggage was far beyond his expectations. In less than a day, he hadn’t even had time to say goodbye to the supermarket owner downstairs, where he was working part-time. He had just come home from his part-time job, carrying a full of fatigue, when a ticket for the next day was forcefully stuffed into his hand. It had two cold words written on it… the capital.
It was another city that was completely strange to him. His luggage couldn’t even fill a medium-sized suitcase. The train station was a sea of people during the Spring Festival travel rush. People were squeezing against each other, and the noisy sound of people was buzzing in his ears. He was a little nervous, afraid that the two of them would be separated by the dense crowd.
Su Yu himself was still a little unaccustomed to the lively and chaotic scene here. His handsome and clear features were furrowed with a little bit of unease. He stared at the frail back in front of him, which was in the crowd. The bangs on his forehead were wet and sticky, and his teeth were clenched together.
He seemed to have suddenly made up his mind. He took a few quick steps forward and grabbed the girl’s wrist. His hand was long and powerful, with a hint of a damp and warm warmth, and it was just enough to completely hold that always-cold hand in his palm.
Xia Qiange looked back at Su Yu, and the corners of her lips were curved up. She had no intention of breaking free. She even intertwined her fingers with his, as if she had held the boy’s pounding heart. She slowed down her pace and walked side by side with Su Yu, and she shrunk her body, which was a little shorter than Su Yu’s, into his arms.
She was frail and was hiding in his arms. He was blocking the crowded crowd around her for her.
The waiting room was crowded with people. They found a seat in a corner. The broadcast in their ears was ringing again and again, and it was taking the people who were coming and going to the gate. Through the floor-to-ceiling window, Su Yu could still see the long and endless railway track.
A group of people looked back at their relatives and friends who were seeing them off and left just like that. He suddenly had an indescribable intuition. This round-trip train was just a one-way trip for him. He might never come back again. The determination he had made began to loosen again.
“What’s wrong? You’re in a bad mood…”
Xia Qiange had just put away her luggage and had sat down. She stared at the dark color in Su Yu’s eyes and asked with a normal expression.
Su Yu had just opened his mouth when a soft and slightly cold hand was stuffed into his palm. She held him, and her fingers gently rubbed his palm. These intimate gestures seemed to have become more and more natural between them.
“Do we have to go to the capital? I always feel that it’s too far.”
Xia Qiange looked at the uneasy emotion in Su Yu’s eyes and just lowered her head and smiled. A thick black mist was rolling in her clear black and white eyes. Those black emotions were condensing in her heart like a monster that had been raised, and they were growing and becoming ferocious.
She listened to the noisy and bloody roars in her mind, and her face was still extremely calm.
“I know you’re reluctant to leave them. Maybe I shouldn’t have forced you.” Xia Qiange let go of Su Yu’s hand, and the corners of her lips slowly flattened, and a distant and cold tone was dragged out.
“I probably need to stay there for three years. I’ll come back after three years. If you’re really not willing, then I’ll stay with you for another month. Then… we’ll see each other again in three years, if you’re still willing to wait for me then.”
Three years? Before he had met Xia Qiange, he might have been able to live numbly for three years. But now… three days was too long for him.
“No! Three years… is too long.” Su Yu instantly rejected this plan. He shook his head and took out his phone from his pocket and looked at Xia Qiange. “Do you have their contact information? Before you leave, I want to…”
“Don’t be silly. Be good. You can’t see them now.”
“I’ll help you. Sooner or later, you’ll be able to see them openly.” Xia Qiange pressed Su Yu’s phone back. She stroked Su Yu’s long and upturned hair over and over again, her voice gentle.
“As for now… you have me is enough.”
