Chapter 68: Accident
“Scumbag… a pure scumbag. How could I have been so blind to have met such a dog of a man? I haven’t been in a relationship for three years, and I still have a shadow. My youth…”
Ye Wen took another large gulp of wine, her makeup ruined by her tears, and her clothes were soaked. She held onto Su Yu’s arm and wouldn’t let go. She stared at him with her red and swollen eyes and said, “You’re more handsome than him, but you can’t be like this. Sister Gu is a good girl. You have to treat her well. Otherwise…”
She made a fist in another direction, clearly very drunk. “Otherwise, I won’t let you off the hook.”
Su Yu was a little at a loss. Ye Wen’s tolerance for alcohol was even worse than he had imagined. He hadn’t had time to probe for some of the things he wanted to know, and the other party was already drunk.
“I’ll do it.”
Gu Zhi grabbed Ye Wen’s arm, which was on Su Yu’s body, and roughly separated the two of them. The girl let out a muffled grunt and was still very drunk.
Su Yu let out a breath and took advantage of the time when Gu Zhi was moving Ye Wen to the sofa to go to the kitchen, escaping the ambiguous and lively environment of the living room.
He washed his face with a handful of cold water and finally recovered from the drunken stupor. Many people were drunk, and they were still instinctively leaning against each other, joking and teasing. He even saw a couple curled up in a corner, kissing passionately. The atmosphere was filled with an indescribable charm and ambiguity.
The snow had suddenly stopped at night, and the hazy and fragmented lights were flickering. He stared for a while, and his eyelids were too heavy to stay open. He was a little sleepy.
“If you’re sleepy, you can go up and rest. They’ll be leaving soon. I won’t let these people stay at our house for the night.”
“Our house?”
“Yes, our house.”
Gu Zhi habitually ignored the direct and malicious sarcasm in Su Yu’s words and repeated his words with a smile, as if she were making a beautiful and devout vow with him.
She held a few broken glasses that had fallen on the floor and walked into the kitchen. She threw the glass fragments into the trash can at her feet, washed the residual wine from her wrist, and then wrapped her arms around Su Yu’s waist and back from behind. Her palm was on his flat lower abdomen, and she playfully caressed it in a circle. The itch was transmitted along his nerves to the tip of his heart, but it was blocked by his chest and could not be touched, arousing some dark and pure desires in his heart.
Everything was secretly hidden in the shadow of the cabinet. They, who were in the warm yellow light, looked as if they were just leaning against each other, looking loving and warm, which also aroused the sense of immorality of pursuing excitement in their instincts.
“Tonight, we…”, she bit her full and alluring red lips and licked and ground them by his soft earlobe. The wet and hot air rushed into his ear canal, as if it would control his consciousness.
“Are you hiding something from me?” Su Yu held Gu Zhi’s wrist and suddenly turned his head to look at her. “I saw blood in the bathroom after we were done that day. It smelled very strongly of blood. Why… what’s wrong with you?”
“What are you talking about, Xiao Yu? Did you remember it wrong?”
Gu Zhi’s heart was in turmoil. That day, it had been so painful. She, who was so meticulous, had actually made a mistake and had forgotten to open the window to get rid of the smell of blood in the bathroom. She suppressed the panic in her eyes, her expression unchanged, and faced Su Yu’s scrutiny. “Isn’t that all because you were too rough, Xiao Yu? You didn’t let me go at all. Look… it hasn’t even healed yet.”
She pulled up her sleeve, revealing the unhealed handprint on her forearm. Her eyes were filled with a hazy and watery light, and her voice was so soft that it made one’s heart ache.
Su Yu looked at Gu Zhi deeply. Gu Zhi’s words were always a mixture of truth and lies. Since Gu Zhi had already given him a reason, it would be futile to ask any further.
“Forget it. I was being nosy. It’s your business. It has nothing to do with me.”
Gu Zhi was not satisfied with Su Yu’s perfunctory reply. She took a step closer, and her fingertips brushed over the small tent without a fuss. She stared at the boy’s gradually reddening earlobes. She laughed viciously and instantly broke the boy’s deliberately maintained composure. “Why is your face so red, Xiao Yu? Do you have a fever?”
“It’s just too hot.”
Su Yu pushed away Gu Zhi’s forearm, which was wrapped around his waist and abdomen, and turned his head away in humiliation. But the rich floral fragrance on the woman’s body was steamed and diffused by her body temperature, and it seduced his particularly sensitive sense of smell at this moment. The warm fragrance was in his arms, and the fragrance seeped into his pores, making his body hot and unbearable, as if a fire were burning fiercely in his heart.
“Really? Xiao Yu is always like this. He always makes me be the bad guy. Do you really not want to?”
Her slender and fair palm was like a slippery little snake, and he couldn’t catch it. It went straight into the darkness.
“Are you crazy?”
Su Yu glanced at the living room. The people who were lying on the wine table had already fallen seven or eight times. He pulled away Gu Zhi’s wanton and bold hand, and his lips trembled slightly. The heat in his heart made his chest heave slightly. He said in a hoarse voice, “I’m tired. I’m going up to rest first.”
“Then I’ll see them off and go up after I’ve cleaned up. I’ll let you off the hook for today.” Gu Zhi suddenly pulled at the corner of Su Yu’s clothes and squinted her long, narrow eyes at him with a smile. The smile was without the usual affectation, and it was so plain that it made him feel inexplicably real.
“Thank you for not exposing me today. It would be great if it could become real now. We will become a couple one day…”
Su Yu was stunned for a few seconds. He stared at Gu Zhi’s suddenly happy and joyful appearance, which was a little neurotic and sudden, like a child whose thoughts were always wandering. No one could figure out what she was thinking.
He glanced at the messy and dirty mess on the dining table in the living room, and his tightly pursed and closed lips slowly parted. “I’ll wait for you to come back before I go up. I’ll leave the door open for you.”
“Good… good. Leave the door open for me… so good. It’s as if we really have a home.”
Gu Zhi raised her eyebrows, and her eyes were round. She was as happy as a cat. She was always so easy to satisfy. A little bit of charity could fill her heart. The sweet joy turned into a curve on her lips. She readily agreed and hurried past Su Yu, calling her friends to end tonight’s party.
The scene of their departure was a little chaotic. The sober people were supporting their drunk friends and were swaying out the door. Many people had just left the door when they couldn’t help but bend down and vomit. Gu Zhi was being pulled by a few girls Su Yu didn’t know, and they were talking about something. He couldn’t understand, but he always felt that the smile on Gu Zhi’s face had suddenly faded a lot, and he felt that it was just an illusion caused by drinking.
He saw a girl by the sofa who was struggling to pull up Ye Wen, who had completely passed out. He walked over and gave her a hand, helping Ye Wen to the girl’s shoulder. The girl said thank you to him, and Su Yu just happened to understand these few daily phrases.
Su Yu smiled and nodded, but his gaze inadvertently glanced at a phone under the sofa. He picked it up and wiped the screen, but he was startled by the familiar text that was displayed on the lit-up screen. This was the phone that had fallen out of Ye Wen’s pocket.
He opened his mouth and wanted to call out to the girl who had already walked to the door, but his fingers inadvertently slid the screen. He just happened to realize that the phone was not locked. His heart pounded a few times at that moment, and he subconsciously held back his words.
“What’s wrong, Xiao Yu?”
Gu Zhi turned her head and looked at Su Yu with a particularly sensitive expression and asked.
“Nothing. Someone’s bag is missing.”
Su Yu smiled and grabbed the coffee-colored leather bag on the sofa. He slowly stood up and kicked the phone into the deep part of the sofa, into the darkness where the light could not penetrate.
