Her Tentacles 33

Chapter 33: Scent

She can’t be fed!

In the end, Shu Yao forgot how she had gotten out of the bathroom and how she had been placed on the large couple’s bed to sleep. In short, she felt that she had been ravaged by her girlfriend, like an Oreo cookie, but the steps to eat the cookie were reversed—

Soak, lick…

There’s no way I can go out tomorrow.

With this thought, as she fell into a dream, she still felt the tears at the corners of her eyes being licked away, bit by bit. Until she buried her head in the quilt, she could still vaguely hear a soft chuckle.

Until the dazzling sun, which had turned from pink and orange to gold, leaped out of the sea and woke her up, as she was sleeping facing the balcony window.

Even though it was a holiday, the biological clock of a long-pua’d worker was not so easy to change. Shu Yao closed her eyes and squinted for a while, then stretched her hand out from under the quilt to block her eyelids, to look at the rising sun that was illuminating the entire sky and ocean.

Golden, it also dyed the clouds the same color, like a runny-yolked egg that had been pierced, with golden yolk flowing out.

At this thought, hunger also rose from her stomach.

Shu Yao quietly watched the sunrise over the sea, slowly waking up. She felt the soft warmth pressed against her back, and felt as if she were being held by soft clouds, just like that rising sun.

Lin Ran was holding her very tightly.

Not only was an arm across her ribs, but she even had to put her knee between her legs, her breath falling on the side of her neck through her hair.

But Shu Yao felt a great sense of security.

Perhaps it was because she had lived under Mrs. Shu’s strange rules since she was a child, so over time, these entanglements and shackles in her life had also subconsciously become a sense of security that she could feel at ease with. It seemed that only such a tight embrace could give her a sense of security.

…

Her random thoughts drifted aimlessly for a while.

Her empty stomach protested with hunger.

Shu Yao pulled Lin Ran’s hand away, wanting to get out of bed, but her wrist was suddenly caught. The person behind her tilted her head and kissed the back of her hand, her tone tinged with a bit of laziness:

“Good morning.”

“You’ve already recovered.”

Only when she was reminded did Shu Yao realize that the dark love bites on her wrists and arms had indeed all disappeared. Even though when she had been kissed last night, she had felt as if her skin had been branded very deeply.

But it wasn’t just her arms. When she escaped from Lin Ran’s embrace and ran to the bathroom to look in the mirror, she found that her neck, her collarbone, every inch of her skin that had been kissed yesterday, was now as fair as before.

It was as if that terrifying memory of being tasted was just her illusion, a hallucination of a confused soul.

Compared to last night, when she had complained in a tearful voice that she wouldn’t be able to see anyone tomorrow and wouldn’t even be able to wear a bra, it seemed a bit of an exaggeration.

Thinking of those blush-worthy scenes, she squatted in front of the sink, held her head, and let out a sharp cry in her heart—

Ahhh, just forget about it all!

She had a silent breakdown for a while, and only then did the heat dissipate. But when she looked up, she found that Lin Ran had gotten up at some point and was now leaning against the bathroom door with her arms crossed, watching her make a fool of herself for who knows how long.

Shu Yao: “!”

After a more intimate contact, her face had finally thickened a little. Now, she stood up calmly, and was about to find an excuse to cover up her previous posture when she heard Lin Ran say leisurely:

“So cute.”

“Then another kiss?”

She approached as she spoke, making Shu Yao involuntarily step back, her gaze wandering. Her lower back was pressed against the cold edge of the sink, and her hands waved frantically. “No, no, no… you can’t without washing up first—”

Before she could finish, a feather-light kiss landed on her cheek.

She was slightly stunned.

Lin Ran tilted her head. “Do you have to wash up before kissing your cheek?”

Shu Yao: “…”

“Or are you expecting more than just a kiss here?”

This time, the answer to Lin Ran was a force that pushed her out resolutely, and the bathroom door being slammed shut from the inside.

Shu Yao, who had been repeatedly teased, decided to have a one-sided cold war with her girlfriend for ten minutes.

After she finished washing up in the bathroom, she came out and rummaged through her suitcase, finding a printed long dress that was very suitable for sunbathing. Under the refreshing spaghetti straps, the ruffled skirt unfolded downwards, paired with a sun hat, the style was relaxed and playful.

After changing her clothes, she came out again, wanting to ask Lin Ran if she wanted to go to the glass bridge on the north side of the ship to take pictures. Because they had come back too early yesterday evening, and Situ Jin had sent her a picture of the glass bridge, saying that it was a good spot for photos, and that a young couple could go there early when there were fewer people.

By the time the sun set in the afternoon, the other tourists on the ship would surely gather there, and it would be very inconvenient to take pictures of either the scenery or the people.

Shu Yao didn’t like taking pictures.

But she liked to record beautiful scenery, and she liked to take pictures for others. When she had gone out with Situ Jin before, she had often acted as the rich woman’s dedicated photographer. Now that she had a super beautiful girlfriend, she also wanted to take pictures for her.

However, when she walked out of the bathroom, she found that there was someone else in the room.

It was the waiter who had come to deliver breakfast.

At this moment, he was diligently setting the table, placing breakfast on it, while Lin Ran stood not far from him. It wasn’t until she heard Shu Yao come out that her gaze changed from a supervisory state, and she greeted her girlfriend with a smile.

“Are you hungry?” she said. “Let’s have breakfast first before we go out.”

Shu Yao nodded and walked to her side, but she smelled a very strange smell.

…Like, salted seafood that had been left out for a bit and had gone bad.

This strange smell suddenly rushed over, making her eyes go dark and her steps falter. Her girlfriend also grabbed her hand at this moment. “What’s wrong?”

Shu Yao blinked hard.

She looked left and right, trying to find the source of the strange smell.

The answer was very simple. Previously, when only she and Lin Ran were living in this room, there was at most a faint sea breeze smell in the room, and even the manager had specially placed aromatherapy, for fear that some guests who were prone to seasickness would feel more uncomfortable if they smelled a strong sea smell.

Now there was only one more person in the room. If the smell wasn’t from him, who could it be?

And so, the waiter, who had already been made to feel uneasy and even a little shaky by Lin Ran’s gaze, was now being stared at by two pairs of eyes at the same time. When he put down the porcelain plate of fruit salad, he couldn’t help but make a clattering sound against the table.

“L-ladies, breakfast has been set for you. M-may I ask if there is anything else you need?”

Shu Yao shook her head, and Lin Ran didn’t say anything either.

The waiter lowered his head and slowly pushed the cart back, out of their sight.

…

The moment he exited the corridor and gently closed the room door, Lin Ran suddenly took a step forward, picked up a red bow tie that had fallen on the carpet at some point, and turned to Shu Yao, “His thing seems to have fallen. I’ll go and give it to him. You have breakfast first.”

But Shu Yao suddenly grabbed her hand—

“W-wait a minute?”

Lin Ran was a little surprised by her action. “Why?”

Shu Yao had stopped her too quickly and couldn’t find an excuse at the moment.

Mainly because the last time she had smelled these strange smells, it was either on that already missing Teacher Wu, or in the car of her ex-girlfriend, Lin Jingshu, who had been pestering her repeatedly after their breakup. Coincidentally, neither of these two had left a good impression on her, so Shu Yao instinctively felt that people with this strange smell were dangerous.

And.

The waiters who could serve the VIP cabins on this ship were all carefully selected. Their appearance, height, and service awareness were needless to say. Shu Yao didn’t believe that the manager would not criticize a waiter who carried such a strong strange smell, nor did she believe that other guests would tolerate this smell.

…Oh, the smell.

She immediately asked Lin Ran, “Did you smell anything just now?”

“Mmm?” Lin Ran, who could only smell delicious prey, didn’t know what she was asking about. And Shu Yao was just an ordinary person. Logically speaking, her diet was different from hers, and her sense of smell was not as developed as hers. Why would she suddenly ask this question?

Lin Ran rarely looked at her with a probing gaze. “What should I have smelled?”

Shu Yao was choked for two seconds.

She tried to answer, “Salted—salted fish?”

Lin Ran raised her eyebrows.

So she said in more detail, “It’s been left out for too long… it feels like expired salted fish?”

Lin Ran: “?”

In her clearly puzzled expression, Shu Yao rubbed her nose and laughed. “Maybe I smelled it wrong. How about this, I’ll go with you to return the thing?”

Anyway, she didn’t want her girlfriend to face that strange waiter alone.

Finding her inexplicably insistent on doing good deeds with her, Lin Ran was silent for a moment and had to give up the excuse she had just found. “It’s okay. You fill your stomach first, and then we’ll go out together.”

Shu Yao breathed a sigh of relief and also pulled her to sit down. “You eat too.”

Lin Ran: “…Mmm.”

Having seen her girlfriend’s picky eating and seeing her touch her fork and knife twice and then not touch the plate again, Shu Yao had originally wanted her to eat more, but found that the breakfast was not that delicious. So she had to work hard to finish the rest herself.

In order not to waste it, she almost ate until she was full, and couldn’t help but burp when she went out.

The two of them walked around the corridor of the cabin and didn’t run into that salty-fish-smelling waiter. At Shu Yao’s suggestion, Lin Ran could only regretfully give the bow tie to someone else at the service station.

Noticing that she seemed particularly regretful about not being able to do this small good deed, Shu Yao couldn’t help but curve her lips—

A beautiful and kind-hearted girlfriend is also very cute.

In order to cheer her girlfriend up, she pulled their clasped hands. “Do you like taking pictures? Jin said there’s a particularly beautiful spot that’s very suitable for taking pictures. How about we go and have a look?”

Having lost the opportunity to mark her food, Lin Ran could only nod in agreement.

In order to digest, Shu Yao deliberately chose a longer route. On the way, they passed by a bar that she didn’t know if it had been playing music since last night. Two familiar figures sitting on high stools at a long table at the entrance caught her eye.

“Yaoyao, morning.”

“Teacher Shu, good morning.”

The lazy Situ Jin and the energetic Mu Qing formed a sharp contrast.

Shu Yao could only stop and go over with her girlfriend. And in order to strictly prevent Lin Ran and Mu Qing from getting along, she turned to ask her girlfriend if she wanted to drink anything, and let her go to the bar to have a look first.

As soon as Lin Ran left, Mu Qing let out a light chuckle, crossed her arms, and the dark leather short jacket she was wearing made her look different from her usual casual and sunny self in the office. It seemed to make it easier for Shu Yao to mistake her.

She said leisurely, “Teacher Shu seems to be very displeased with me these past few days.”

Shu Yao was suddenly accused like this and looked over, a little reserved and at a loss. She pretended to be stupid and said, “Huh? I don’t think so?”

Mu Qing smiled and shook her head.

Then she looked at Lin Ran, and found that she was just looking at the bartender. The smile at the corner of her lips became a little more meaningful. “Are you afraid that I’ll get in between you two? Don’t worry, I don’t want our relationship to become like yours and hers. Teacher Shu doesn’t have to be so on guard against me.”

This made Situ Jin, who was watching the show from the side, raise her eyebrows in some surprise.

Shu Yao cautiously confirmed her gaze, judging whether what she said was true or false. Before she could breathe a sigh of relief, she saw Mu Qing raise her chin and gesture for her to look in Lin Ran’s direction:

“Your girlfriend has been staring at that bartender for a long time. She’s made him shy.”

“Aren’t you going to have a look?”

…

The bar area, which seemed to be short on electricity at all times, was very dim, and it was filled with a mixture of various wine smells day and night. Shu Yao didn’t like this kind of place.

She also didn’t think Lin Ran would be interested in this kind of place or the people here.

However, Lin Ran rarely paid special attention to anyone, so Shu Yao decided to go and ask her if something had happened.

But just as she walked up to her, she smelled it again…

A smell worse than the expired salted fish just now.

It was the smell of rotten, sun-baked marine life corpses on the beach.

Especially when this bartender looked at her, this smell became extremely strong, and even made Shu Yao, who had just put her arm on her girlfriend’s, sway a little, unable to stand firm.

Lin Ran, who had just run into another parasite, was originally in a very good mood, but she didn’t expect this parasite to dare to openly size up her person under her nose.

She narrowed her eyes—

But her attention was diverted by Shu Yao, who was about to fall.

“What’s wrong?”

She grabbed her girlfriend’s arm with her backhand and held her steady.

Shu Yao looked extremely weak, and finally couldn’t help but break etiquette and pinch her nose in front of people. “I don’t like the smell here. Can we go out, please?”

Lin Ran turned her head, memorized the bartender’s face, and replied slowly, “Okay.”

But the two had just walked out the door when another person, who looked like he had been drinking all night and had just woken up from the bar and remembered to go back to his room, also followed them out. His steps were wobbly, and as he passed Lin Ran, his foot twisted.

Just as he was about to bump into her, Shu Yao was already prepared and pulled her girlfriend several steps to the side to avoid him.

Lin Ran, who was enjoying the prey walking right into her trap: “?”

The man, who didn’t expect to miss: “?”

Shu Yao, who smelled an even stranger smell: “!”

And behind the two of them, Mu Qing, who had been watching the show with great interest, suddenly sat up straight, her thoughtful gaze falling on Shu Yao.

“Are you two going to the glass bridge?”

Before Shu Yao and Lin Ran entered the bar, Mu Qing was the first to get off the high stool and walked up to them briskly. “Just now, many tourists went over there and to the water park. There should be a lot of people.”

“I went over with Miss Situ yesterday and found a good, less crowded spot,” she recommended herself with a bright smile:

“Do you want me to help you two take a picture together?”