Chapter 40: Out of the Cage
“Xiao Chan is so excited. His collar is crooked.”
Gu Zhi held Su Yu’s collar. His heart couldn’t help but sink heavily. After walking down this short flight of stairs, he would be completely free from the dark and sunless underground. With such an excited mood, a moment’s delay made him scared. He mistakenly thought that he would fall from the stairs and fall into the bottomless dark abyss again.
Su Yu turned his head, and Gu Zhi’s words clearly fell into his ears. He felt his feet still firmly on the mahogany stairs and let out a long sigh of relief.
He didn’t dare to disobey the woman at this special time. He suppressed the throbbing of breaking through the cage and returning to the light. He turned his head and walked in front of the woman, looking at the gentle smile in the corners of Gu Zhi’s eyes. He curled his lips, and his lips parted. His voice was as clear and gentle as a stream flowing over a mountain stream. “Can you help me with it?”
“Okay, I… I’ll help Xiao Chan tidy up.”
Gu Zhi was stunned for a moment, and then she quickly reacted. Before the joy could well up in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, she eagerly agreed. Her clean and fair palm was on her skirt and she wiped it, and then her trembling fingertips were on the slightly messy collar, and she pinched the button on the top of the shirt.
She lowered her gaze, and her thick and curled eyelashes fluttered like a butterfly’s wings. She carefully hid her loss of composure at this moment and seriously tidied up Su Yu’s collar, and then pulled at the wrinkled and messy corners of his clothes. The boy was dressed in a white shirt and black pants, and the monotonous and cold colors made the boy’s tall and straight figure even more prominent.
She was a little shorter than the boy. She looked up and was just at the same level as the other party’s Adam’s apple. The slender and slender neck made the Adam’s apple prominent, and it rolled up and down with his breathing. The hot breath lifted the loose hair on her forehead.
This small and meaningless interaction greatly satisfied her empty heart. The boy’s feelings for her were finally no longer resistant, and he even actively catered to her.
Her heart was filled with a special emotion, a short, crazy, and extreme emotion.
Her body temperature was rising rapidly, and her throat was so hot that it was dry and raw, and it was difficult to form a sentence.
Gu Zhi stood on her tiptoes, and as if a fish were craving water, she bit the boy’s thin, red lips. A fire seemed to have been lit in her cranial cavity, burning up the remaining oxygen, and a series of beautiful and warm visions suddenly appeared.
The clear and dry morning sun shone through the gap in the half-open door and into the slightly crowded entryway. In the narrow space, the wife clung to her husband’s shoulder like glue, gently stood on her tiptoes, and reluctantly kissed her beloved, wishing him a safe trip and an early return home.
A great sense of happiness almost made her lose her reason. She was willing to indulge in this hard-earned gentleness.
It was just a light kiss, without any fiery and crazy emotions. Her heels were on the ground again. Gu Zhi let go of the hand that was wrapped around the boy’s waist and back, her eyes curved, and a smile on her lips. She let him go with a light heart.
“You can open the door yourself.”
The dark pupils in his clear and moist eyes contracted for a moment. Su Yu swallowed a few rapid breaths and gently pursed his lips, which were left with a faint fragrance. The soft and sweet touch was like a pink marshmallow held in his hand in autumn.
He lowered his eyes and looked at the faint pink on the woman’s delicate and smooth skin. Her mature and intellectual face inadvertently revealed a bit of the shyness of a young girl, like a red apple with a hint of green, blooming with a sweet and lovely charm for a moment.
“Okay, I know.”
Su Yu moved his gaze back to the solid wood staircase behind him. He couldn’t see through the woman’s disguise, but a real craving was urging him to quickly push open the door at the end of the stairs and pursue the long-awaited sunlight.
“What time is it now?”
He took two steps up the stairs and suddenly turned his head and asked.
“Noon. It’s a sunny day.”
“It’s a sunny day… it’s a sunny day…”
Su Yu’s thin lips parted, and he murmured the same meaningless words over and over again. The short flight of stairs, he walked for a long time. Every step was particularly light and slow on the cold and smooth mahogany stairs, as if he were afraid of shattering this opportunity that he had been dreaming of.
His eyes were slightly moist. The counting in the dark room had been completely erased by him in the middle of the second month in a fit of self-abandonment. By now, he had completely lost count of how long he had been locked up.
Su Yu walked up the last step. He looked at the iron door that was seamlessly embedded in the wall in front of him. The bloodstains that had been on the silver handle from his fumbling with the door had been washed clean.
His trembling fingertips rested on the doorknob. He gently pressed down, and his palm did not encounter the obstruction he had experienced before. He didn’t use much strength to turn the gears inside the lock.
Click.
His thoughts seemed to be stuck by some hard object. His numb limbs were operating according to a pre-written program. He slowly pushed open the door.
A few scattered rays of light first entered his vision, followed by the sunlight that was rushing into the dark and secret room behind him. The brilliant and warm light poured in, completely enveloping his stiff body.
The sunlight was as dazzling as expected. He raised his arm to block his eyes, but he still rushed forward a few steps with great eagerness. The chain that was stuck on his ankle rattled on the ground.
He reached out and welcomed the large handful of sunlight that was shining through the floor-to-ceiling window. His fair and white palm finally held a few strands of warm light, and a few small and mottled light spots fell on his palm.
The boy in the white shirt and black pants walked out of the hazy and blurry halo. His thick black hair, which had grown longer, was drooping on his forehead, hiding his clear and deep-pool-like eyes.
He looked down at the light spots in his palm, as if he had found a treasure and was carefully protecting it in his hand.
“Do you like it?”
A gentle voice came from behind. He felt the plump and soft body pressing against him, but he didn’t care about that charming and ambiguous feeling at all. He still stared blankly at the few gently swaying light spots, repeating his answer to the woman over and over again, “I like it… I like it very much…”
“As long as you like it. I love the way you smile.”
Gu Zhi turned Su Yu’s back to her. Her small, snow-white ankles were on the cold porcelain tiles, and her pearl-like, translucent and alluring toes were on tiptoe. She got close to the boy’s handsome and gentle face and happily caressed his face.
She knew very well the joy of seeing the sunlight after being in the darkness. The boy was the only warm sunlight left in her life. She held the boy tightly and buried her head in the other party’s thin and slender chest. Time would always change everything. Sooner or later, she would completely hold this ray of sunlight that belonged to her.
She couldn’t help but start to build their future. But the infinite possibilities were like the deep and complex roots of a tree buried deep in the ground, spreading and growing. She was gradually unable to sort out those messy thoughts, and the entropy was growing wildly, rushing in the direction of chaos and disorder.
She subconsciously wanted to ask for the boy’s response, but just as she had uttered a meaningless and short syllable, the rest of her words were blocked between her red lips and white teeth and swallowed.
“I…”
A soft and moist touch suddenly came from his forehead, with a hint of warmth. His body was as if it had been electrocuted and was weak. His spine softened and collapsed, and his reason disintegrated. He was as if he had suddenly degenerated into a soft-bodied animal without a skeleton to support it.
She couldn’t muster a single bit of strength. Just like that, she was suddenly bathed in the fierce and hot sunlight. The ugly monster in her body was exposed. She had nowhere to hide.
