Chapter 31: Pleasing
“Does it still hurt?”
The woman half-knelt in front of his knees, her thick, hot breath brushing against his sensitive skin. She carefully applied medicine to the wound, her movements gentle and soothing.
Su Yu was in a daze, smelling the rich neroli fragrance from the woman’s hair. His numb and stagnant thoughts brought him back to that cold late winter.
He had first walked into that always-deserted infirmary with a wound. His knee was quite badly injured. He sat on a chair in the infirmary, his feet not even touching the ground, just dangling in the air without any support. He saw the pity in the woman’s eyes, and the gentleness with which she cared for his wound filled some of the long-empty flaws in his heart.
He had once regarded this gentleness that he was indulging in as his childhood reliance. But now, he could no longer find a single bit of similarity worth lingering on.
“I said… does it hurt?”.
Gu Zhi held a pair of tweezers with a cotton ball soaked in medicine. The disobedience of her question not being answered made her suddenly a little impatient. The cotton ball, which was pressed on the wound, was slightly pressed, and fresh blood was squeezed out of the wound. The pain was transmitted from the nerve endings to the central nervous system. Her little dog came back to its senses and whimpered a few times.
“Hiss… it hurts…”
Su Yu gritted his teeth. The pain of the irritating medicine directly entering the wound was terrifyingly strong. He sucked in a breath of cold air, and his messy and tangled hair hung on his forehead. The cold and wet sweat slid down his temples.
“It’s good that it hurts. I’ve told Xiao Chan before, you can only remember more… when you feel pain.”
Gu Zhi was slightly lower than the boy when she squatted down, but it was as if she were looking down at him, with a condescending majesty. She greedily looked at the boy’s furrowed brows from the pain. His gentle and beautiful eyebrows were deeply locked together, and his dark eyes were filled with a desperate dead air.
She really loved the boy’s expression like this. The little guy seemed to have a magical power, and he could always intentionally or unintentionally arouse the darkest and most evil emotions in her heart, making her want to tear this fragile body apart and devour it.
He was like a naughty little beast that had accidentally fallen into the mud. The dirty and turbid mud had made his obedient and smooth fur a mess, but it had made his eyes look even cleaner and brighter. The little guy was looking at her so pitifully, and her heart had suddenly softened, and it had been soothed into a pool of hot pink liquid.
“Wh-Why?”
Su Yu’s pale and chapped lips trembled, and his Adam’s apple rolled up and down uncontrollably. The sound he made was hoarse and raw. He naively wanted to get a meaningless answer from Gu Zhi’s mouth.
“Why?”
Gu Zhi lowered her thick and curled eyelashes and laughed to herself, as if she had heard something funny.
She raised her head and carefully examined the boy’s handsome and gentle face. Her hot fingertips gently caressed the bloody scratch on the boy’s nose, and her fingertips were stained with a little bit of warm blood that had oozed from the wound.
She withdrew her finger, and her small pink tongue licked her fingertip, as if she were drinking a heavenly nectar. She savored the sweet and fishy taste that exploded on her taste buds. Her eyelashes trembled, and her gaze fell into a fanatical daze.
“This is the reason. I love you… Xiao Chan. Do you know? I really love you so much. I only hate now… I only hate…”
Gu Zhi suddenly pounced on him. She used her long, slender arms to block Su Yu’s body on both sides, imprisoning him in her arms. She completely ignored the fear in the other party’s eyes and leaned down, her lips pressed against the boy’s cheek, and said softly, “I only hate that I didn’t taste this deliciousness earlier. I naively played the boring game of sister and brother with you, and I even let you be stained with those disgusting and smelly scents all these years.”
“Gu… no, sister…”
SSu Yu could hardly believe such a ferocious and terrifying face could emerge once the gentle, hypocritical mask was torn away. His face was pale with fear, his heart clenched, and his blood froze in his blood vessels and stopped flowing. The fabric of his back was soaked with cold and wet sweat.
“Why are you doing this? I always thought it was good… it shouldn’t have become like this.”
“Good? What’s so good about it? There’s nothing in this world that doesn’t ask for a return. Do you think I just care about you calling me sister?”.
Gu Zhi chuckled, and her fingers gently ran through Su Yu’s dark hair, combing the tangled strands. Her fingertips caressed the area under his eyelids. “So… you should know what I’m here for. You should know better than anyone else.”
Su Yu raised his dark and dim eyes and looked at Gu Zhi. The desire to live forced him not to give up just like that. He could clearly see the crazy love and gentleness spreading in the woman’s light pupils. He was as if he had seen a long and thin straw at the moment of drowning, and he was trying to cling to it to find a way to live.
“It’s all my fault, master. After I brought you back, I had something urgent to do. I came back late, and I didn’t even have time to change your clothes.”
Gu Zhi was satisfied with the little guy’s current obedience, as he was no longer making a fuss. She looked at the other party’s somewhat dirty and messy body, and her tone became gentle again. “Xiao Chan… let’s go now…”
“Sister… let me go, please. I’m begging you.”
Su Yu’s trembling fingers slowly held Gu Zhi’s slender and fair wrist. He tried to force a smile that was as obedient as possible. He complied with the other party’s strong desire for control, but his voice was still uncontrollably trembling.
“Sister, I still have something very important to do… it’s a matter of life and death. Please let me go. I’ll pretend that nothing has happened. We can still be the same as before. I’ll still call you sister…”
“Shut up!”
Her words were interrupted, and the annoyance of being disobeyed by a little dog made the gentleness in Gu Zhi’s eyes instantly turn into a violent rage. She slapped the boy’s face, and the force was terrifyingly strong. The boy’s head was tilted to one side by the inertia, and a bright red handprint almost occupied half of his face, and a red swelling immediately appeared.
“I really don’t want to hear you say these things. Please be quiet, okay?”
Gu Zhi’s exhaled breath still carried a rich and fragrant, fresh scent. She fiercely grabbed Su Yu’s hair and lifted his head to her face.
“You’re a dead person. Do you still have the heart to worry about the life and death of others?”
She patted Su Yu’s swollen face. The soft flesh on his cheekbones was drooping, as if it had no sensation. The blood had accumulated, and the deep red swelling had turned a little purple.
“In the future… I don’t want you to mention leaving in front of your master. I don’t like it.”
Gu Zhi seemed to be pleased by the boy’s pathetic state. The moody flames dimmed, and the long corners of her eyes were upturned with an alluring and charming arc. Once she had torn off her disguise, the slightly upturned corners of her eyes would quickly expose the cold and sharp nature that was etched in her bones.
“And… there will be no sister in the future. I am your master… your only reliance. You can only look at me, only… love me alone.”
She couldn’t help but let out a vicious laugh, and the pleasure in her heart seemed to have been greatly satisfied.
Who was to blame for the little guy not being obedient? She didn’t want to either.
She wanted to drag the handsome young man, who was as brilliant as the sun, into a muddy quagmire, to grind his dignity and pride with the sharp tip of her shoe, to trample all his beautiful virtues and his loving heart into pieces, so that he could only be an obedient little dog, groveling at her feet.
The pain was only temporary. When the little dog was obedient… there would naturally be a reward.
Her caress of the boy’s cheek became gentle again. She blew on the purple and frightening swelling with a full of pity and comforted the boy, who had completely shrunk into a corner and was not saying a word, in a soft voice.
“Let me put some medicine on it for you, master. It will stop hurting soon… very soon…”
