Chapter 75: Cage
The night was as thick as water. The creaking of the door hinge turning in the darkness created ripples. The shadow enveloped the swaying figure, and the heavy desolation bent his spine, falling all the way to his feet.
He fumbled in the dark and found the light switch on the wall. His fingertips hovered over the switch for a long time, unable to press it. He was familiar with everything in this villa, as if this were the home he had lived in for more than a decade. However, he couldn’t find anything to comfort him here. It would be more appropriate to say that it was a cage for the rest of his life.
The darkness, which he couldn’t see the future in, covered the only remaining scattered sparks. A cold wind blew through his chest, and he was completely extinguished.
The accumulated anger and resentment were like the whispers of a demon that was urging him to be violent. With a merciless punch, his knuckles and the wall collided hard. The crisp sound of his bones almost breaking was a little harsh in the darkness, and the pain temporarily overshadowed his sadness.
Gu Zhi heard the sound and hurriedly kicked off her high heels. She rushed over barefoot and turned on the light above her head. The darkness was driven to a corner by the somewhat dazzling white light, and only a few scattered shadows remained. She was stunned to see the blood-red marks on the wall. At that moment, the impact was as if it had fallen on her heart, and a dull pain was pulled up.
The bodyguards who had sent them back had not gone far. They had noticed the strange movement and had peeked into the house. Gu Zhi waved her hand with some fatigue, and the burly bodyguards finally left the villa.
“Xiao Yu, you… why didn’t you turn on the light?”
She moved her gaze from the bloodstains and wrapped her arms around Su Yu’s waist and back from behind, leaning on his slender shoulder. The familiar scent was fresh and clean, like a hand smoothing the wrinkles in her heart. She curled her lips, which were a little smudged with makeup, and whispered in his ear with a joyful smile.
“You must be hungry since you didn’t eat anything at the banquet. Should I go and cook something for you?”
His powerless hand, which was soft from the pain, was clenched again. The fresh blood, like a living thing, flowed over his pale arm. The warm blood dripped onto the wooden floor with a plop and splashed, and a bright red and eye-catching bloodstain meandered to his elbow.
Su Yu turned his head and glanced at Gu Zhi coldly. His lips moved, and a hoarse and low voice came out weakly. He hunched his back and walked forward. “No need. I’m going down.”
“You’re not allowed to go down today. And you’re not allowed to leave me.”
Gu Zhi forcefully grabbed Su Yu’s wrist. The force in her hand was frighteningly strong, and it stung his fragile wrist. She stared at the boy’s straight and thin lips, which were without a trace of a smile. She rushed up like a child who had lost her beloved toy and turned his face, her fingertips pulling at the corners of his lips to create a stiff and mechanical smile.
She suddenly remembered that she seemed to have not seen the boy smile for a long time. The other party was curled up in the basement, and he had wrapped himself in the thick darkness, layer by layer. From then on, he was no longer the warm and fresh young man who was like the sun. It was as if he were really dead, and he was losing his vitality bit by bit. Her fingertips caressed his soft face, but she could only feel the coldness of the chains.
But the boy had clearly smiled at her before, like a dark charcoal that had suddenly burst into a cluster of sparks, burning in her eyes. She would never forget it, but now she couldn’t find it again.
“Get away… stop pretending. There’s no love in this world that’s built on cages and chains. I really have nothing now. You don’t have to be so superstitious about others. I don’t even dare to say a word to her now. Isn’t this what you wanted to see?”
Su Yu turned his back and stared at her, his eyes filled with an undisguised hatred. He shook Gu Zhi’s hand off.
Gu Zhi, who had never shown a flaw in front of him, suddenly seemed to have let down her guard and fell towards the corner of the wall. She even far exceeded the strength he had put into his arm.
The woman’s amber eyes, his shadow gradually shrinking, but she couldn’t find any resentment or blame on her face. She just stared at him in a daze, and fell backwards as if she had lost her strength.
Her seaweed-like, curled and dark hair was messy in the air. Her luxurious and plain long dress was scattered on the ground in a mess. She had completely lost the victorious posture she had at the banquet, and she was as frail as a reed that couldn’t withstand the wind.
Her slender back hit the ground hard, and her forehead hit the sharp edge of the shoe cabinet. In an instant, blood splashed, and it stained the dark black dress under her. A long and thin cut was opened on her smooth forehead, and it had ruined her makeup, and half of her face was red. But it had added a few points of a bewitching and alluring charm.
The pain came a little suddenly. It was not just the pain of the flesh, but the pain from the depths of the brain.
Gu Zhi gritted her teeth, and a thick and fishy smell of blood was in her lips and teeth. She held her temples tightly and knelt on the ground, grinding her teeth and roaring. The intense pain in her head forced him to frantically hammer the ground, and his hands were covered in blood, and it was already impossible to tell the new from the old.
In my head… it seems…
Something is talking!
A menacing and terrifying monster.
The central nervous system in the depths of her nerves seemed to be trembling and stirring. She seemed to be able to feel the dark shadow in her brain moving, as if a living organism were sprouting and invading her brain nerves. The blood was watering the fresh and tender flower buds, and the petals were raised with a more and more beautiful and alluring arc.
Su Yu opened his closed lips a little. He looked at the woman who had suddenly lost her reason with a complicated expression. The hysterical screams in his ears were piercing his eardrums. He suddenly felt that the other party was no different from him. They were both bound by iron chains, and they had lost everything. They were just a dying beast.
He stopped his leaving steps and walked to Gu Zhi, who was on the ground, which was covered in blood. He looked down at the woman who was sitting on the ground and was acting in a disorderly manner like a madwoman. The wound on her forehead was not big, but the blood could not be stopped no matter what. It was as if she had lost the body’s due self-healing ability. The blood was trickling down her cheeks and dripping from her tensed jawbone.
So much blood… how could there be so much blood?
He was suddenly a little flustered. He turned around and was about to go to the living room to get the medical kit, but his ankle was held tightly by a cold hand. Her hair, which was soaked in blood, was wet and drooping. The woman raised her head and stared at him with a disheveled look. Her face was pale and without a trace of blood. She was holding him and refused to let go.
“Let go. You’re a madwoman. You’ll die…”
“Don’t go. I’ll never let you leave me. Never.”
Gu Zhi propped herself up and crawled towards Su Yu bit by bit. Her body was covered in bright red and sticky blood. She took advantage of the gap when the boy bent down to push her away and bit his wrist. Her sharp teeth went into his flesh, and she bit the prey like an irrational wild beast and refused to let go.
Su Yu was a little caught off guard by the sharp pain in his arm. The woman pounced on him, and her frail body, which had not seen the sun for many years, had long since lost its nimble and crisp movements. The two of them were embracing each other and fell into a pool of blood in an awkward posture.
Gu Zhi pressed her entire weight on Su Yu. She curled her lips, and the blood flowed into her mouth and was swallowed into her stomach. She completely ignored the pain of something stirring in her mind. She curled her lips, as if she had caught something that was about to escape, and she let out a sigh of relief.
Su Yu stared at the crazy yet happy smile on Gu Zhi’s face in confusion. He reached for the leather bag in the corner and felt a hard little box. He pressed the only button.
“Don’t go… don’t go. Don’t go anywhere, Xiao Yu. You can not love me. Even if you hate me, it’s fine. I’ll never let you leave me…”
The wet and sticky blood dripped from her jaw and onto Su Yu’s eyelids without missing or hitting any spot. His vision suddenly became blood-red and blurry. The warm liquid slid from his cheeks and into the crack of his lips, and the sweet and fishy smell of blood was choking.
Gu Zhi kicked away the bag in Su Yu’s hand. Her palm was frantically wiping the blood on her wrinkled dress. Her fingertips gently brushed over the boy’s gentle eye bone, and she gently wiped the blood from his face.
“Don’t go, okay? I can… I can…”
She was in a daze, and her mind was empty. For a moment, she couldn’t think of what she could give Su Yu.
Gu Zhi suddenly remembered that the only time the boy would give her gentleness was when they were lingering in a lingering embrace.
Suddenly, Gu Zhi grabbed the skirt on the ground and pulled it up. She ignored the doctor’s instructions and was so forceful that she almost tore the thin layer of cloth. Her snow-white and plump thighs were suddenly exposed to the air, which was filled with a fishy smell of blood, and a few charming and alluring spring sceneries were revealed.
Her head was in so much pain that it was as if it would explode. She still kissed him without a second thought, her force fierce, and she was possessed, almost greedy and crazy.
“Let’s do it… Xiao Yu must like to do that kind of thing. I’m not afraid of pain, sister…”
