Chapter 31: Lover p1
Jiang Mi actually didn’t know what kind of expression she should have on her face right now. The color of her lips hadn’t completely faded, and there were even still marks on her lips from where Yan Wei had bitten her just now. She blinked, finally finding her voice. “A relationship without feelings, you mean, a lover relationship?”
She hoped Yan Wei would shake her head and say no.
Lover?
It didn’t sound very nice. Yan Wei frowned slightly. Clearly, she was not satisfied with this term. Her lips moved, but she didn’t speak. Deny Jiang Mi’s words? Then what should she use to replace it?
Jiang Mi also noticed the change in expression on Yan Wei’s face. She was still for two seconds, and finally, she took Yan Wei’s silence as a default. She tried her best to calm her congested heart and keep herself calm. “If that’s the case, I’m sorry, I don’t accept.”
Her heart felt as if it had turned into a lemon, and a hand was squeezing it, sometimes hard, sometimes letting go. The lemon juice overflowed, and her entire chest became abnormally sour, so sour that she had a little trouble breathing.
It wasn’t to the point of heartache, but it wasn’t pleasant either.
She looked directly at Yan Wei. They had been so close just now.
Yan Wei’s intimate breathing in her ear, her demand for her to be forceful, her low sobs of passion, all of this had just happened. But the person in front of her now had become so strange and distant.
She gently bit her lip. There was a faint salty taste.
Jiang Mi took a breath and said to Yan Wei again, “I refuse.”
Her beautiful brows furrowed even deeper. Yan Wei straightened her body. She didn’t want any entanglements in any relationship. She had a good impression of Jiang Mi, so she didn’t want things between them to be too complicated.
Before saying this, she had thought that Jiang Mi would agree to this proposal.
At least from the degree of their compatibility just now, at least from the strong Alpha pheromones still lingering in the air at this moment, from Jiang Mi’s sweaty, mesmerized eyes at that time… she had thought that Jiang Mi would agree to this proposal.
At least Jiang Mi wouldn’t refuse so quickly.
Yan Wei: “Jiang Mi.”
Before Yan Wei could speak, Jiang Mi stood up from the sofa. She pursed her lips and smiled, an emotionless smile. She was just a little confused now, because when she had taken this step, she had thought that Yan Wei liked her.
She could feel Yan Wei’s gaze, Yan Wei’s emotions, Yan Wei’s concern for her.
She had thought that was liking.
“Maybe there’s some misunderstanding between us.” Jiang Mi took a deep breath. She walked a few steps and stood opposite Yan Wei.
The two of them were separated by a coffee table. The temperature had dropped after the rain. Jiang Mi was wearing the hotel’s bathrobe, and at this moment, she felt a chill in her calves. She said softly, “Although our ideas are different, I was actually quite happy today. Unfortunately, what you said just now is not within my consideration, so I will treat this matter as if it never happened. I think this is good for both of us.”
“Treat it as if it never happened?” Yan Wei narrowed her eyes. She tilted her head up, and the faint pink mark on her neck immediately fell into Jiang Mi’s eyes.
Jiang Mi averted her gaze, much calmer. “Mmm. This can also avoid awkwardness when we meet in the future. It’s getting late… um, you should go to the hospital tomorrow to listen to the doctor’s advice about your foot.”
After she finished speaking, her gaze lingered on Yan Wei’s face for two more seconds, and then she turned and went to the restroom.
Jiang Mi closed the door. The steam in the bathroom had long since cooled, leaving only misty droplets everywhere. She took off her bathrobe, picked up her underwear, and looked up to see herself in the mirror. Her hair was a bit messy, and there were two marks of different shades on her chest. Further down, she saw a few nail marks on her waist and thighs.
They were pale pink, as thin as a fishing line.
They were from when Yan Wei had held her tightly, her hands clutching her waist. At that time, in addition to the slight pain, she had also felt an indescribable satisfaction and excitement.
But thinking about it now.
Jiang Mi thought, to put it bluntly, wasn’t she just like a fish in Yan Wei’s pond now?
What a “relationship without feelings.”
Isn’t it just no feelings, only physical?
Jiang Mi sneered silently at the mirror until the redness in her eyes had completely faded. She put on her clothes, opened the door, and walked out. This time, she didn’t look at Yan Wei, but only said politely, “I’m leaving.”
Apart from these three words, she didn’t want to say anything else now.
“Are you angry?”
Jiang Mi stopped. “I wouldn’t say that.”
This was the answer Yan Wei had given her back then. She hadn’t expected that she would one day be able to return it, and dare to return it. “We’re adults. One-night stands are very normal. We just made a mistake that all women make. Besides, we’re both single, so it’s not even a mistake… it was just an impulse. It’s fine.”
Yan Wei was sitting on the sofa. There was a red wine bottle and an empty wine glass on the coffee table. She lowered her eyebrows and didn’t look at Jiang Mi. “You think this is normal?”
Jiang Mi nodded. “It’s normal, so let’s not take it to heart… See you tomorrow then, Teacher Yan.”
She had tried her best to make her tone sound normal, but when she spoke, even she herself could feel an emotion different from usual. So Yan Wei must have known that what she was saying now was all a lie.
So she couldn’t wait to leave here.
She didn’t want to lose face in front of Yan Wei again. Jiang Mi walked two steps, then said word by word, “By the way, Teacher Yan, let’s not do things that will make each other misunderstand in the future.”
In the end, she didn’t even know what she had done. What had made Yan Wei think that she was the kind of person who would accept a one-night stand and maintain a physical relationship with someone?
Alright, she admitted it. She was a little angry.
Yan Wei couldn’t say why she was so unhappy hearing this. She turned her head and saw Jiang Mi’s quickly departing back. Finally, the door opened, and the person completely disappeared behind the closed door. Her brow was still furrowed, but she was unwilling to grab Jiang Mi.
She hadn’t said anything, but the feeling of being completely transparent suddenly vanished, replaced by a heaviness. She sat quietly for a moment. When she stood up, her legs were still weak, but this time, there was no soft, strong hand to support her.
There was still a bitter taste of red wine in her mouth, but for the sake of tomorrow’s filming, she couldn’t drink anymore.
She walked to the balcony and took out a cigarette, taking a shallow drag. Yan Wei lowered her head and saw the white dressing on her ankle. The image of the woman with her head lowered, carefully applying povidone-iodine, and the cool wind blowing from her slightly swollen lips, landing on her wound, appeared before her eyes.
It was fine and dense. She actually felt that the breath Jiang Mi blew was more stimulating than when the glass shard had pierced her skin.
It was only then that she slowly began to feel the physical pain.
Yan Wei suddenly felt that perhaps she shouldn’t have made this proposal so quickly.
Realizing this, her hand paused in mid-air for a few seconds, and a trace of surprise flashed in the pupils under her long eyelashes.
She didn’t want to have any contact with anyone, so she had always handled it herself.
And so Jiang Mi had become an exception.
It was because of this that she had a conflict between pretending and tearing off her disguise. She didn’t want to be close to anyone. She knew that the people around her would one day be afraid of her, would look at her with that fearful gaze, would be outwardly submissive but secretly break out in a cold sweat, would treat her like a monster.
But she also wanted Jiang Mi to see her true face sooner, the ugliness, viciousness, and morbidity beneath her glamorous exterior.
It was Jiang Mi who had provoked her first anyway. Even if she regretted it, it was Jiang Mi’s own business.
But just today, the moment Jiang Mi had bitten her neck, she had discovered that she didn’t want to be discovered by Jiang Mi so quickly.
She wanted a way that Jiang Mi could also accept, to make it last longer.
But she had made a mistake.
It seemed that Jiang Mi didn’t like this way.
Yan Wei looked at the steamy city, her thoughts unreadable, until her fingertips were burned by the cigarette butt and twitched physiologically. Only then did she extinguish the cigarette.
She went to the restroom and washed up again. Then, her fingertips landed on the mirror, gently wiping away the water marks on the glass.
She looked up at the mirror. The bloodshot veins in her eyes were getting deeper. Her gaze fell. The red mark on her neck was the color of a cherry. She then heard Jiang Mi’s voice in her ear again.
That panting that burst out after being restrained, such a soft and obedient Alpha, yet so explosive and passionate in bed.
She turned her head and touched her glands. It was the place where Jiang Mi had ground her teeth. It had just returned to normal, but now it was full of energy again. She washed her hands again and repeated Jiang Mi’s actions just now, but the pleasure and tingling sensation were no longer there.
She seemed to feel a little pain, but it wasn’t enough.
The expression on Yan Wei’s face in the mirror changed slightly, but it could no longer reach the state it was in when Jiang Mi was there. She bit her reddened lips and looked at her neck in a daze. If it were another Alpha, this place would have been covered in marks long ago.
But Jiang Mi hadn’t even been willing to bite down.
She curled her fingertips, not knowing if it was to concentrate her strength or to grab something.
Only when she felt the pain did she retract some of her strength.
In this process, only two words remained in her mind.
Jiang Mi.
Jiang Mi.
So, she couldn’t let Jiang Mi go now.
She had to keep Jiang Mi’s eyes, Jiang Mi’s heartbeat, Jiang Mi’s tongue, Jiang Mi’s fingers, Jiang Mi’s body with her.
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