Chapter 53: Spring
The lightbulb exploded with a pop, and a bright white light shot into his eyes. He squinted, almost momentarily blinded.
The darkness shrieked and fled from his side, hiding in the shadows of the corner, peeking at his bewildered self. A bright red, silk, printed nightgown was vividly reflected in his eyes. Her lotus steps were light, and her porcelain-white and moist calves were hidden under the swaying hem of her skirt. She was like a blood-red rose that had suddenly bloomed in the middle of the night, blooming with a seductive and dangerous beauty.
Su Yu raised his head, his gaze moving up and down along the graceful and alluring curves of her body. He glanced at the hand that was hidden under her loose sleeve, but he did not see the long whip that was wrapped in black tape… and was stained with blood.
The woman looked as if she had just stepped out of a bath. Her long, dark curls tumbled over her shoulders like strands of seaweed. From time to time, crystal droplets slid down, disappearing into the deep, enticing valley of her cleavage—an image that stirred dangerous thoughts. She had taken off the pure white dress marred by bloodstains and slipped into a bright red nightgown that Su Yu found all too familiar.
“Don’t be afraid… I won’t use the whip. Otherwise…”
Gu Zhi was wearing flat crystal sandals, and her small toes were neatly arranged like exquisite pearls. Her translucent and bright nails were reflecting a bright red light. She had removed the exquisite makeup from her face, and the dark eyeshadow and crimson lip color had faded, making her beauty less flamboyant, but it had added a few points of gentle and elegant beauty.
She squatted down and caressed Su Yu’s trembling fingertips, which were trembling with an unknown fear. She curved her gentle and dark eyebrows, and the corners of her eyes were upturned with a happy arc. “If it gets blood on it, it won’t be clean anymore.”
Su Yu stared at Gu Zhi, and his dark and dim pupils contracted violently. His heart, which was filled with the woman’s unreasonable gentleness, suddenly fell empty, as if he had punched a soft cotton ball, and a wave of unease arose.
“Don’t touch me. I don’t want to talk to a madwoman about trust.”
He pulled his hand away and lowered his gaze, not even wanting to look at Gu Zhi.
“Xiao Chan is always like this, pretending to be disobedient to make me angry. Actually, your disguise is just a child’s play. I can see through you at a glance. From beginning to end, it’s all…”
Gu Zhi’s slender and powerful palm ran through his wet and sticky, messy black hair. She suddenly grabbed it and forced him to raise his head and look at her.
“Does Xiao Chan really dare to die? He clearly has so many people he cares about, his family, his friends, and the… girl he likes?”
She pretended to not understand, and she frowned with her delicate eyebrows, tilting her head and asking again, “Is it Xia Qiange? Is that girl’s name… Xia Qiange?”
“You… what are you going to do? You promised me… you can’t touch them.” Su Yu suddenly became agitated and crawled towards Gu Zhi. He held the woman’s wrist in return, his voice rushed but he had to soften it. “It has nothing to do with her. I don’t like her, not at all.”
“Is that so?” She stared at the other party’s seemingly resolute but actually fragile and vulnerable expression, and she curled her lips, with a hint of mockery. She leaned down and pressed against Su Yu’s ear, and her pink tongue licked the blood on his cheek. The hot air, which was mixed with a fishy smell, rushed into his ear canal.
“Then who does Xiao Chan like? Does he like me? Is that so?” Gu Zhi asked him with a full of confusion, but the corners of her lips were slowly curved into a vicious arc, and her tone was almost a naked threat. “Then say… you love me.”
Su Yu lowered his gray and lifeless eyes, and his fingers were tightly clasped in the gaps between the floor tiles. His fingertips were white, and soon blood seeped out, dyeing his fingers. He lowered his head with some difficulty and nodded in compromise.
“I told you to speak!”
A slap, without any holding back, hit his unprepared face. His head was suddenly turned to one side by the huge force. He lowered his head and panted a few times, enduring the burning pain on his cheek and raising his head again. His pale and thin lips parted, and he said hoarsely, “I… I love…”
“Say it with a smile. What’s the point of having a long face?”
A dark and gloomy shadow appeared in Gu Zhi’s eyes. She slapped Su Yu’s body again with her backhand and looked down at Su Yu, who was kneeling on the ground and struggling to get up. He shook his drowsy vision, and the dazzling white incandescent light made his eyes a little sore. He raised his curved neck and forced a smile on his cracked lips.
“I love you…”
He said such false words with an almost desperate tone, but he was helpless. He suddenly missed the time when the long whip was on his flesh. The real pain was better than this insincere obedience.
He suddenly realized that pain was just the woman’s most despicable means. The other party’s means of tormenting and manipulating him were simply endless. He smiled as if he had accepted his fate and lay on the cold ground in a daze, fantasizing that this torment could be over soon.
Gu Zhi suddenly smiled, and her cold and light laughter was filled with madness and obsession. She curved her eyes and stood up, and the sarcasm that almost made Su Yu’s eyes wide with anger was like a needle, drilling into his ears. “I was just kidding. You said it yourself. Don’t talk about trust with a madwoman. You dare to die… who knows what kind of crazy things I’ll do.”
She slowly walked to the box by the table and pressed the button. The lid of the box instantly popped open. In the boy’s confused and terrified gaze, she sprayed a little bit of medical alcohol on her palm and then slowly washed her hands. Her fingertips rubbed every strand of texture in her skin, washing away the dark red dirt and grease.
Gu Zhi slowly put on the milky white medical gloves on her cleaned palm and looked at them with satisfaction for a while before she took out the medicine and syringe from the box. The unknown medicine was almost colorless, just like the alcohol. She shook the bottle, and the crystal-clear liquid in the light shook and stirred up a little bit of milky white foam.
“What are you trying to do again? You…”
Su Yu stared at Gu Zhi, who had drawn a tube of unknown liquid, with some fear and couldn’t help but ask angrily.
Gu Zhi just smiled and didn’t answer. Her thumb gently pushed, and a few crystal-clear liquid beads seeped out. Her long, narrow eyes were filled with the sharp point of the needle, which was shining with a cold and sharp light under the bright white light.
“What am I doing? I’m making you fall in love with me willingly, not with these false and disgusting fawning. You’ll soon be kneeling on the ground and begging me to give you love, begging me…”
She approached Su Yu, who was curled up in a corner, step by step. Her eyes were slightly squinted, and they were shining with a resolute and ruthless look. “Begging me to love you… you will.”
“Get away, get away! You’re a madwoman… a pervert. Where’s your whip… get your whip… ugh.”
Su Yu swallowed his voice, and he was kicked hard in the abdomen. He had let down his guard and had fallen weakly, but he was pulled back by Gu Zhi. She licked her scarlet lips and imprisoned the boy in her pupils. The tip of the needle accurately pierced his flesh and blood.
No matter how frantically Su Yu struggled, it was useless. He kept questioning Gu Zhi about what she had injected, but he could only watch as the unknown liquid was sent into his body.
Gu Zhi pulled out the sharp needle, and her fingertips wiped away the few drops of fresh blood that had seeped out because of the excessive tension of his muscles. She slowly spit out the few strands of hair in her mouth. The dark hair was sticky at the corners of her lips, and she smeared the blood on her cherry-pink lips, dyeing them a bright red color again, with a seductive charm.
She caressed the boy’s cheek with satisfaction, her dark brown eyes filled with excitement. Her voice was low and gentle, as if she were comforting him.
“Just a little longer… it will be soon.”
