Volume 13
Chapter 26: A Virgin’s First Time (Part 2)
To make a beloved girl apologize to oneself was a matter that could be called a sin. In Lu Li’s opinion, as long as two people loved each other, there was essentially no room for error. He understood that the Silly Goose had endured too much pressure from her family, so at this moment, he certainly couldn’t let the girl become even more negative. So Lu Li said, “It’s okay, it’s okay, silly girl. It’s just right for you to go abroad for a few days to relax. Maybe you’ll see me when you come back.”
“But, but…” the Silly Goose stammered, as if she hadn’t expected Lu Li to answer this way.
“Don’t worry. Everything will be alright.” Lu Li’s voice was calm and peaceful, full of a reassuring power. If he empathized with Chu Xiaodong, it wasn’t impossible to understand his actions. It was nothing more than not wanting to involve the pure Jingyi in a dirty exchange of interests. And, the Silly Goose was just going abroad for a few days. If he and Chu Xiaodong reached a consensus, he could just bring the Silly Goose back. If… if things really developed to the worst-case scenario, Lu Li would find a chance to fly abroad and snatch her, and at worst, the whole big family just wouldn’t come back in the future.
The Silly Goose whimpered a few times. “Lu Li, you must come and find me. Don’t leave me.”
Lu Li’s heart trembled. He covered the phone and slowly said the word “okay.” After hanging up, Lu Li stared at his phone’s home screen in a daze. This call from the Silly Goose was actually a bit strange, even a little weird, but Lu Li couldn’t say where the strangeness was. Perhaps all questions would be answered on the day he met with Chu Xiaodong.
…
The winter nights in Mulan were not as long and cold as in the Capital City, and no snowflakes fell outside the window. Chen Jianing heard an expert on TV say that in the future, the earth would get warmer and warmer, until one day the surface of the earth would be so hot there would be nowhere to stand, and humanity could only board a spaceship and fly to an unknown, distant place. Just as the great cold wave had buried the former masters of this planet in the ice age, whether it was her or Lu Li, or anyone else, in the vast galaxy, they were just a tiny speck of dust. The Little Tiger cupped her cheeks in her hands and gazed at the night sky. The stars were shattered and the moon was whole, and there wasn’t a cloud in sight for thousands of miles.
Lu Li had to admit that this girl was actually very pretty when she wasn’t talking. She had an ethereal, sprite-like quality, as if she would rise with the wind and go with the wind at any moment. He gently closed the door but still startled the sprite under the moon. “Ah!… you’re here…”
“What are you thinking about?”
“…I was thinking, in ten thousand years, will anyone still remember me?” She looked at the moon. “Will the moon remember me? Remember that there was once a girl named Chen Jianing who watched over her on this night.”
“The last time you talked nonsense was when you were lying in the hotel.” Lu Li wrapped his arms around her from behind. “At that time, you had a fever of 39 degrees and were talking nonsense all the time. You probably don’t remember, but you even said back then that when you had money in the future, you would hibernate and sleep until ten thousand years later.”
Chen Jianing’s pretty face turned slightly red. She felt that the her of that year was a little childish. The her of now was much more mature; at least she didn’t argue with netizens online every day.
“I feel that a person’s life is so short.” The Little Tiger sniffed Lu Li’s scent. “I met you when I was nineteen. If I can live to be eighty, I’ll only be able to see you for another sixty-one years.”
“Sixty-one years is not short.”
“But a year passes so quickly. Look, it’s almost the New Year next month. I feel like I haven’t done anything, and time has just quietly slipped through my fingers. Maybe one day, I’ll suddenly find myself old, unable to hide the wrinkles on my face without makeup, and no longer able to take the stairs three at a time. So I want to sleep until ten thousand years later. At that time, everyone will have a lifespan of three hundred years.”
Lu Li pinched her cheek. “I can’t sleep until ten thousand years later. Lu Li is just a mortal. To live to be eighty is already a great blessing. It won’t even take sixty years. Maybe in another forty years, Lu Li will be too old to walk, a white-haired old man.”
“An old man is also handsome.” The Little Tiger turned around, her eyes sparkling. “Lu Li, I feel that time really passes so quickly. I hope the time I spend with you can be a little longer, just a little longer.”
Just a little longer. Simple words can often convey emotions that strike directly at the heart. Lu Li felt he owed the girls too much. He probably couldn’t make up for it even if he used his entire life.
“I won’t blow air this time.” The Little Tiger closed her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling slightly. Chen Jianing merged with the moonlight, as if she had completely transformed into the legendary moon sprite. Her moist red lips were trembling slightly, revealing the nervousness in the young girl’s heart. Chen Jianing under the moonlight was surprisingly beautiful, small and extremely moving.
Lu Li gently kissed the young girl’s red lips. He lifted the young girl’s delicate body, allowing her to kiss more easily. He remembered the first time he kissed Chen Jianing, the Annoying Ghost had blown a puff of air into his mouth. At that time, all he could think was, this unlucky girl. The girl who wasn’t even honest when kissing back then was Chen Jianing. Then who was this girl in his arms, as soft as water, without a bone in her body?
He placed the Little Tiger on the bed. She clutched the bedsheet nervously, biting her lower lip. Lu Li asked gently, “Are you ready?” At a time like this, to express any more untimely tolerance and consideration would be a crime. The Little Tiger swallowed. “Can you turn off the light?” This scene, this moment, was just like that year.
After Lu Li turned off the light, he heard the faint sound of clothes being taken off. By the moonlight, he could see a fair, girlish body lying on the bed, waiting for him to pick.
“…You have to go meet my parents, okay…” she said in a small voice.
“I will.”
“Don’t make them angry. Don’t say you’re going to marry several wives.”
“I will.”
“You also have to meet my aunts, my uncles… My family has a lot of relatives. You have to meet every single one of them. You can’t find it troublesome…”
“Mm-hmm.”
When Lu Li touched the young girl’s delicate skin, he could clearly feel the Little Tiger’s delicate body tense up. “And, and, you have to give a bride price…”
“How much do you want…”
“Give, give me five thousand yuan…” the Little Tiger said.
Where was there a bride price of only five thousand? Where was there a saying of giving the bride price to the bride? Lu Li didn’t refute her, but just nodded. “Alright. Don’t you want more?”
“…Your money will be my money in the future. If you give too much… if you give too much, my heart will ache.” She really was that little miser.
“Jianing.”
“What.”
“You’re so cute.”
“…Be gentle… will it hurt?”
“It will a little.”
“Can you tell me a story when you go in? I’m afraid of the pain.”
“Okay. What do you want to hear?”
“I don’t know. Just whatever—Mmm, you bad guy, it hurts!”
“I won’t move anymore. I’ll tell you a story.”
“It hurts so much! It’s a little full! Wuwu! I hate you!”
“It’s the same when a doctor gives a child a shot. They say they’ll count to three, two, one, but they actually stick the needle in when they count to two.”
“You bad guy! How can that be the same… wuwu… it hurts!”
Lu Li hugged this girl in his arms, who was constantly speaking sarcastically, and thought, will the moon of this moment remember, ten thousand years later, what a rogue named Lu Li did tonight?
