Chapter 70
“Don’t you have a four-day work week and a three-day weekend?”
After dinner, Lin Shuxing lay in Fang Yi’s arms, counting on her fingers. “Sigh, it’s still too short. It takes a whole day just to travel.”
The young lady let out a faint sigh.
Just after the college entrance exam, this long summer was like a freshly served shaved ice, with a white mist rising from it, melting very slowly.
She wanted to take Fang Yi to many places to play, but Fang Yi had to work, an endless amount of work.
The time of separation was always particularly long. Even if she slept until she woke up naturally every day, they were still separated by more than half a day. She stood at home, and Fang Yi stood in that cold office building, separated by a pile of meaningless, trivial matters.
“How did you spend your days off before?” Lin Shuxing was suddenly a little curious.
Before, in Fang Yi’s rented apartment, she hadn’t seemed to see any entertainment facilities, not even a TV.
“Reading, practicing algorithms.”
“Huh?”
If these words had come from someone else’s mouth, there would have been a hint of pretentiousness, but Fang Yi said it so lightly, so matter-of-factly.
She really didn’t have much personal entertainment. The most active she had been was when Wang Quan had dragged her to play games, which had added a little color to her boring life.
A colorful black.
Playing games was quite interesting, but it was a little noisy. Watching Wang Quan argue with strangers was not as pleasant as the moment of clearing an algorithm problem.
Most of the time, Fang Yi still preferred to be alone.
She liked the feel of an inch of light falling on a title page, and she liked the data stream instructions being arranged and running exactly as she wished… a wholehearted tranquility, where all sounds fell away.
But the young lady clearly didn’t think so. Her shifted gaze was already tinged with heartache. This strong emotion made Fang Yi a little uncomfortable.
She paused, her long, slender fingers running through her hair, tidying up the young lady’s scattered strands, and gently changed the subject:
“We can play nearby first. Didn’t we talk about a road trip before?”
“A road trip…” Feeling the woman’s gentle movements, the young lady’s thoughts were indeed led away by her. She squinted her eyes in enjoyment. “Let’s go to the grasslands!”
“It’s too boring nearby. It all looks the same.”
“The grasslands, I’ll remember that.” Fang Yi’s fingertips twirled, trying to add this item to her complicated schedule.
It was a pity that her schedule was too full. If she had to rush the project, the few holidays that seemed so short to the young lady were actually a bit of a luxury.
In order to go home as soon as she got off work, Fang Yi had compressed her working hours very tightly.
Perhaps because she hadn’t been exercising, her physical functions were not as good as before. She would be a little sleepy after she got home and took a shower.
At this moment, the young lady was lying softly in her arms, smelling fragrant. Her fingers, touching her hair, seemed to be also stained with the fragrance. A smile unconsciously appeared on Fang Yi’s lips.
She touched the slightly curled ends of her hair, smoothed them out, and the soft strands tensed into a line, and then quickly and angrily curled up again.
Like a cat’s whiskers.
—Don’t even think about touching what you shouldn’t touch.
Zong Heng’s cold voice still echoed in her ears.
There is no absolute vacuum in the world. A blank in the data can only mean that the traces of existence have been erased.
To be able to do this, Lin Xinyou was definitely not as simple as the merchant’s wife she claimed to be.
She had lied.
—Tracking is mutual. When you take that step, you have to be prepared to be exposed.
Meeting Zong Heng’s dead-eyed gaze, Fang Yi just smiled, spread her hands, and said that she would just forget about it. She was just curious.
Just as she didn’t trust Lin Xinyou, it seemed that Lin Xinyou also didn’t trust her.
How to get along with a mother-in-law is really a very difficult subject.
But thinking about it…
Fang Yi gently touched the young lady’s fair cheek.
If we also have a child, we will definitely be highly vigilant against the guy who comes to offer his services, right?
Like a dragon guarding its treasure.
Fang Yi laughed, and then was startled by her own thoughts.
She didn’t like children, and had never thought of having one, but this thought had popped up so suddenly.
She had very naturally started to fantasize about the future.
Her gaze refocused on the present. In a moment of daze, Fang Yi noticed a strand of white hair among the young lady’s hair.
Silver-white, it was exceptionally obvious in the scattered ink-black.
Lin Shuxing had opened her eyes at some point and was lazily staring at her face. “What’s with that expression?”
“…Nothing.” Fang Yi’s fingertips touched that strand and carefully hid it.
“I hate it when you’re like this,” the young lady pouted, imitating Fang Yi’s tone, and dragged out her words. “No… thing…”
“It’s a good thing you’re not a doctor. Otherwise, the family members would be scared to tears.” She laughed. “Take them home, eat what you should eat, drink what you should drink—”
Fang Yi’s index finger pressed against her lips, unexpectedly serious. “Don’t say that.”
“It’s just one white hair. Everyone has them.”
“Why are you so nervous?”
The young lady’s long, narrow eyes narrowed, and the tip of her tongue flicked out, the soft, wet touch wrapping around her green fingertips. She asked, “Then what should I say?”
Fang Yi’s throat trembled. She suddenly felt that the air conditioner seemed to have malfunctioned. Although she had just taken a shower, a thin layer of sweat quickly appeared on her back.
The summer that made one’s mouth dry, humid and stuffy.
The young lady’s cool skin slid up her neck, and she gave a charming smile. “Dr. Fang, you seem to be very hot. Let me wipe your sweat for you.”
Her mischievous thoughts particularly liked to see the woman’s sudden embarrassment when she was called by various names. Because she was embarrassed, she would put on a straight face, bite her lip with restraint, and beads of sweat would first appear on her forehead.
Lin Shuxing’s soft fingertips brushed over Fang Yi’s eyes, gently tracing them. But when the woman really bent down to kiss her, she blinked cunningly, dodged, and flashed a pair of innocent little deer eyes. “Dr. Fang, isn’t the physical examination scheduled for today? Why are you kissing me?”
“…”
Fang Yi supported herself on the bed with one hand, her long black hair falling down. “This is also a part of the physical examination.”
“But, but,” Fang Yi had adapted too quickly. Lin Shuxing hadn’t had enough of admiring her, so she propped herself up with her arms and pushed her away. “I have a partner, Dr. Fang. Please be respectful.”
Dr. Fang didn’t want to be respectful.
She raised her hand, half-covered her face, pretended to take off her mask, and revealed that cool face, and announced as if giving a medical order, “I am your partner.”
“That’s not okay either. It’s still working hours, Dr. Fang,” the young lady’s tone was a little resentful. She dodged back a little, her fingertips drawing circles on the woman’s chest. “You have to work hard… ah!”
Fang Yi bent down, letting the young lady’s hand rest on her chest, and held the back of her head from her hair, not giving her any chance to escape.
Crystal clear beads of sweat overlapped, and a round drop was pressed from a piece of skin into a patch of dampness, softly wetting the stray hairs on her forehead.
“Wuwu… Fang, Dr. Fang—” the young lady called her pitifully.
But this time, the woman did not show any mercy. Instead, she deliberately increased the force of her fingertips, covered the young lady’s ear, and her hot breath was so dry it was out of character.
“Call my name.”
Her voice was still very steady, cool and clear, like a silver scalpel, gently cutting open the young lady’s shy and bold disguise.
“No, don’t! I just like… like, calling you that… mmm!”
Lin Shuxing raised an eyebrow, and the nails on the woman’s body pressed down a little more in unbearable pleasure, her voice gradually breaking into an unmelodious tone.
Until she was tormented to the point of crying, she held onto that long and powerful arm as if begging for mercy, her curved eyelashes blinking with tears, and she begged softly, “Dr. Fang, I can’t take it anymore… be a little gentler.”
Still calling her Dr. Fang. It’s not enough.
Fang Yi kissed the trembling beauty mark at the corner of her eye, her fingertips gently caressing it, and repeated, “Call my name.”
Lin Shuxing bit her full, rosy lips, her upturned eyes clearly showing her defiance.
A soft body, pursed lips, the snow-white sheets were wrinkled, and the swaying moon shadow could not shine on the dripping spring waves.
“If you tell me to call you, I’ll call you. Wouldn’t I lose face? And, mmm… you don’t call me either…”
“Lin Shuxing,” The woman’s cool voice fell upon her skin, carrying a trace of barely perceptible restraint as she slowly pressed closer.
She felt the young lady in her fingertips growing up day by day, and the sticky and hot summer bloomed from the cracks of her cold skin, spreading and growing into a room full of flowers.
Lin Shuxing clamped her legs together, and was so startled by her low call that her whole body shivered, and she almost cried out again. “That doesn’t count… you, you’re cheating!”
In the moment of her womanly moan, her senses were completely focused on the swollen, square inch. Those steady syllables gently spread in her ear, and were completely inaudible when bitten between her lips and teeth.
“Don’t move, let’s do it again…!”
“Lin Shuxing, Star.” She kissed her over and over again, saying it carefully for her to hear.
One, two, countless stars fell… the sheets were also wet, and water droplets rolled down, making the moonlight exceptionally bright.
The originally arrogant young lady was now so choked up that she couldn’t speak, or perhaps it was intentional. She bit her lip, not letting those two words easily slip out with her heart.
She only traced and outlined them in her heart, and in a daze, she bit her name until it was wet.
Just the broken thoughts hitting her chest would feel very warm, but the restrained gasps from above still made the young lady not satisfied enough.
Fang Yi rarely made any requests in bed, but she had a particular fondness for her calling her name.
The two simple words were the shortest spell, soaked in the love potion, and were the only reins she had to bind her.
But it was too tight. Her long, slender neck was slightly raised. She condescendingly caressed the young lady’s lips and said in a low voice, “Be good. Call me.”
The woman deliberately paused at the high tide, as indifferent as a reef, letting the warm waves hit and bite, splashing white waves, and rippling in circles.
Lin Shuxing finally couldn’t hold it in anymore. Before she was about to drown, she tightly wrapped her arms around the cool and ruthless stone in front of her and cried out in a soul-stirring voice:
“Wuwu… Fang Yi, give it to me…”
The woman’s malicious fingertips curled deeply, and only then did she pat her soothingly. The accumulated gentleness overflowed from her eyes, and with a deep kiss, it descended. “Alright.”
The sudden downpour stopped, but the sound of the wet lotus leaves in the rain had not yet stopped.
She didn’t want to let her go so easily.
She counted for her over and over again, the sixteenth, the seventeenth, the eighteenth…
The distorted and out-of-tune syllables could barely be counted, but for every time she called her Dr. Fang, one would be deducted.
Only when they called each other’s names equally could tonight’s examination end.
“Little Star…” she added another finger.
“Mmm! Fang, Yi… I hate… you!”
“I like you.”
The light words of love fell on both ends of the scale, and the silver lever that was about to be balanced was instantly reversed, just as the night rose and fell, and could never be filled.
…
Afterward, Fang Yi held the deeply sleeping young lady and got up, preparing to take a shower, but was hooked by her weak arms.
“Tomorrow, I’ll have no strength.”
“I’ll help you.”
“No, don’t move. Just like this,” Lin Shuxing found a comfortable position, leaned in Fang Yi’s arms, and nuzzled her. “This is good…”
The long, lingering end of her words wrapped around her fingertips. Before Fang Yi could respond, the young lady by her side had already started to breathe evenly.
She can only wash in the morning.
Fang Yi sighed helplessly, took out a wet wipe from the bedside table, warmed it in her palm, and carefully wiped her clean.
The young lady flinched a little. Their body temperatures began to fade, but the pink still lingered on her pale skin.
What a cute cream strawberry.
So defenseless, sleeping in her arms.
Fang Yi kissed her between the eyebrows and said in a low voice, “Good night.”
She had a good night’s sleep and had a dream.
In the dream, she was driving, and Lin Shuxing was in the passenger seat. They passed through gray and black steel and concrete, through layers of dark green forests, and their vision gradually widened. The endless grassland was as green as grass.
At the end of the grassland, a snowy mountain stood alone.
It was so silent in the darkness, with only a faint outline. The vast starry sky hung low.
The young lady was humming a song softly. Accompanied by the free wind, they passed through the night.
The morning light appeared on the horizon. In an instant, white, pink, and orange, the delicate touch of an oil painting spread out. Behind the golden-glowing snowy mountain, a red sun suddenly leaped onto the dark blue sky.
Fang Yi narrowed her eyes and was just about to grasp this sun that was getting closer and hotter.
Ding ling ling—
Fatigue and sleepiness came together. She raised her hand in a daze to block the sunlight and woke up to the piercing sound of the alarm clock after a long time.
Her six-hour biological clock had failed, or maybe she hadn’t slept for six hours.
She had been up too late last night and hadn’t paid attention to the time.
The young lady was a very restless sleeper. At this moment, she was like an octopus, completely wrapped around her, her fluffy hair rubbing against her heart, a little itchy.
Fang Yi gently reached out and touched Lin Shuxing’s soft cheek.
So cute.
I don’t want to go to work.
Gazing at the young lady’s sleeping face, her gradually clearing reason had such a strong thought for the first time. One after another, bubbles of wanting to be lazy bubbled up.
She wanted to just hold each other like this and sleep on.
She wanted to live an ordinary life together, sleep until they woke up naturally, and then have lunch.
She wanted to go on vacation together, on a road trip, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, just the two of them, holding hands under the blue sky.
She wanted, she wanted her…
Fang Yi bent down, and finally hugged the sleeping young lady, turning a soft sigh into a gentle kiss between her lips and teeth.
Good night, good morning.
She really wanted to just indulge herself and sink in for once, to snuggle lazily together for a whole day, but there were still many responsibilities, many tasks pressing on her shoulders. At least before she had fulfilled the young lady’s wish, she could not rest yet.
Perhaps life is just like this, always having to be on the move, to make this moment of tranquility all the more precious.
Fang Yi sighed softly.
…
At nine in the morning, in the last second before the clock-in system closed, Fang Yi stepped into the office on time.