Chapter 156: Handcuffs
At night, Tong Yao was cooking in the kitchen. The muffled sound of the knife hitting the cutting board reached the living room. Ruan Xi wandered around the house a few times, found no trace of other little fairies, and so she slipped into the kitchen with peace of mind.
“Don’t mess around.”
Feeling someone hugging her from behind, Tong Yao twisted, trying to get free. “I’m cooking.”
The young girl didn’t let go, but instead sniffed a few times, her chin resting on her shoulder, her hand slowly moving up from her stomach.
“Hey!” Tong Yao was both shy and embarrassed.
“Yao Yao… don’t you miss me?” The owner of those hands let out a seductive breath.
“You… let me cook first.”
“But I miss you so much,” Ruan Xi obediently stopped, her chest pressed against Tong Yao’s back. “I think of you every day.”
“…Cheesy.”
Tong Yao put the food on a plate. “You’re only focused on that game you invested in. Where did you think of me?”
“I think of you in my heart,” Ruan Xi smiled, took Tong Yao’s other hand, and placed it on her own heart. “If you don’t believe me, you can feel it.”
Tong Yao trembled, almost dropping the plate in her hand.
Ruan Xi was wearing a thin chiffon shirt, and had even taken off her bra after coming home. Touching her was simply…
Her hand couldn’t help but linger for a while longer.
A little while longer.
Until the young girl’s soft moan startled her, and she guiltily withdrew her hand. Ruan Ruan had been so well-behaved a moment ago, like an innocent and naive young girl, which gave her a strange feeling of shame.
Ruan Xi’s cheeks were flushed. She lowered her head, straightened her clothes, and silently helped bring the dishes. Both of them were stirred with desire. Dry wood that had been sun-dried for nearly two months could catch fire without a spark, let alone when their lover was right in front of them, visible and within reach.
After dinner, they washed the dishes.
Dongyang, who was engrossed in watching an anime, was called to bed by Tong Yao. It was only eight o’clock. Dongyang said in a milky voice, “Little Aunt, I’m not sleepy,” and looked at Ruan Xi with hopeful eyes, but Ruan Xi didn’t help her.
“Go to bed early,” Ruan Xi said. “You’ll grow taller.”
Speaking of growing taller, Tong Yao silently compared Ruan Ruan’s and her own height—Ruan Ruan… seemed to have grown a little taller. Although it wasn’t obvious, the few centimeters difference was enough to make her resentful.
The door was closed, and Dongyang was sealed.
And another door opened, and the demon of desire was released.
Inside the bedroom, the door was locked from the inside. The two of them hugged each other, like two playful cats biting each other’s necks. Their kisses fell, lingering. Suddenly, Tong Yao let out a soft cry.
“Wait.”
Then, her hand fumbled in the drawer of the bedside table, and she said in a small voice, “I bought something…”
Then, under Ruan Xi’s shocked gaze, she took out a pair of handcuffs.
“Want to try?” Her expression was a little shy and charming.
The two of them sat opposite each other on the bed. Ruan Xi had never played this way before and said shyly, “Okay.”
And so, Tong Yao cuffed one side of the handcuffs to the young girl’s wrist.
Ruan Xi: “!”
So it was to cuff me!
“Where are you going to cuff me…” she asked weakly.
“Cuff you to me,” Tong Yao’s face was red. She cuffed the other half of the handcuffs to her own wrist. “This way, it’s fair.”
Her original intention was just to be romantic—a romantic sense of being inseparable, a CP locked together. But soon, she found that the effect was not just romantic. Every time the young girl caressed her body with that cuffed hand, her own hand was also moved. The lover’s whispers were in her ear, and she couldn’t break free. When she was in a daze, she couldn’t even tell whose hand it was.
She seemed to have… spun a cocoon around herself.
Her consciousness was still there. Their ten fingers were intertwined. The young girl sat on her waist, their softness rubbing against each other. In the shared pleasure, no one was in the lead. When she woke up in the middle of the night, the bedside lamp was still on.
The young girl was sleeping beside her, lying on her side facing her, like a sleeping little leopard, beautiful, elegant, and agile.
Tong Yao smoothed her messy hair. Her first thought was to turn off the light, but she also wanted to go to the bathroom. Not wanting to disturb Ruan Ruan’s sleep, she planned to unlock the handcuffs first. As she fumbled in the cabinet, her face became more and more panicked.
No way?
She remembered that she had put the key in the drawer…
After searching for more than ten minutes, the sound of rummaging finally woke up Ruan Xi. The young girl was still drowsy and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Tong Yao felt that she had no face to say the truth.
Why didn’t she check beforehand? It was because she was too nervous the first time she used them. Just taking them out had already exhausted all her courage and face.
“Ruan Ruan…” she took a deep breath, covered her face, and said with shame, “The key is missing.”
Ruan Xi was taken aback for a moment and quickly realized what she meant. Under the dim yellow light, she looked down at the handcuffs and tried to find some screws on them, but unfortunately, there were none.
“Do you have any bolt cutters?” she asked after searching on Baidu. “Or pressure pliers?”
Tong Yao had a long face and said, “Do you think we have them at home?”
“It seems you can pick the lock with a wire…” Ruan Xi thought for a moment and felt that it was not realistic. “Have you looked everywhere?”
Tong Yao was on the verge of tears. “Mhm.”
The air was almost frozen for a moment.
“That…” she said awkwardly. “Ruan Ruan, I drank too much water. I want to go to the bathroom.”
But, Ruan Xi blinked, looked at her lower body, and then smiled at her.
Tong Yao clenched her fists, her face flushed red. “What are you laughing at!”
“Mhm, it’s just that…” The young girl’s ears were a little red. “I’m looking forward to it.”
Tong Yao threw a pillow over. “You’re so perverted!”
Ruan Xi caught the pillow and got up impatiently. “Let’s go.”
“Come back!” Tong Yao looked at her hand that was being pulled up and said with embarrassment, “I’m not going! I’m not going!”
Ruan Xi tilted her head, sat down, and said seriously, “It’s not good to hold your pee.”
“Anyway, I’m not going!”
“…” Ruan Xi looked out the window and sighed gloomily. “What about in the morning? Dongyang will definitely ask.”
This was a problem.
Tong Yao bit her lip, thinking that if the child saw them cuffed together, she would probably think they were going to be arrested by the police.
It was an unprecedented crisis.
There were still some sticky marks between their legs. They had both fallen asleep from exhaustion last night and hadn’t cleaned up.
The only fortunate thing was probably that they were both wearing clothes.
Tong Yao lay on the bed, still not giving up. She lifted the blanket to look for the key underneath, but it was one disappointment after another. In the end, she really couldn’t hold it in anymore. A girl didn’t even have anything to clamp, and could only cross her legs awkwardly.
She tugged on the young girl’s arm, her life devoid of love.
“Accompany me to the bathroom…”
**
Late at night, the bathroom light was on.
Tong Yao sat on the toilet, her face burning hot, red enough to drip blood. The longer she held it in, the longer she peed. From the moment she sat down, time was like a noodle maker’s stretched dough, becoming incredibly long. One could imagine the psychological torment she had been through.
The young girl stood with her back to her. After there was no sound, Ruan Xi turned her head and found Tong Yao covering her face, avoiding reality like an ostrich.
They were not an old married couple. For a couple in the honeymoon phase, this kind of thing… was too embarrassing.
But the young girl very considerately pressed the flush button.
Afterwards, to avoid getting their clothes wet, they could only hold the shower head to rinse the stickiness off their lower bodies, and couldn’t take a shower. Besides, when drying their bodies with a bath towel, it was inevitable that the other person’s hand would be brought along to touch randomly.
—She had brought it on herself.
Back in the bedroom, Tong Yao silently changed into a new pair of underwear and looked at the young girl. Ruan Xi also took out a new pair from her suitcase and suggested, “Should we call a locksmith?”
“Who’s open this late…”
She glanced at her phone. It was three in the morning.
“Call the police? The firefighters can definitely get it open,” Ruan Xi said again.
Tong Yao pouted, her face filled with even more guilt, and said dejectedly, “I’ve implicated you. It’s all my fault for not checking the key.”
“Implicated?” Ruan Xi blinked and gave a playful smile. “I think I’m quite enjoying it. I’ve never experienced this before, it’s very interesting, and it’s with you.”
Tong Yao stared at her for a moment. Suddenly, she leaned over, pushed Ruan Xi down on the bed, and straddled the young girl’s supple, slender waist. She lowered her head and kissed her.
“Yao Yao?” Ruan Xi was taken aback.
“Let’s do it,” she blushed slightly.
“But…”
“You don’t like it?”
“The key is still not resolved…”
She raised her head and said in a small voice, “I just remembered, I bought another pair. It should arrive this morning.” She then added, “The keys are the same.”
“Why did you buy two pairs?” Ruan Xi was shocked again.
“That pair… is for the ankles,” she pursed her lips. “I’ll definitely never use this kind of thing again.”
**
Early morning.
Tong Yao had barely slept all night, but she still got up and made breakfast first.
Ruan Xi naturally followed her the whole time. Their movements had to be synchronized, otherwise it would be inconvenient to make breakfast with one hand.
In the living room, the sound of a bedroom door opening could be heard.
“Little Aunt, are you up?” Hearing the noise from the kitchen, Dongyang walked straight towards it.
“Ah, I-I’m up. You go wash your face and brush your teeth, breakfast will be ready soon!” Tong Yao shouted, a little flustered. This scene was just like secretly playing on the computer in the study and hearing her mother’s approaching footsteps.
Fortunately, Dongyang replied with a “okay” from a distance and turned around.
Ruan Xi lowered her head and chuckled softly. “It’s okay if Dongyang sees. Children don’t understand. And, I think Dongyang knows about our relationship, she just hasn’t said it.”
Tong Yao was silent. Of course, she had a vague feeling of what Ruan Xi was talking about. With technology so advanced and children maturing so early these days, it was perfectly normal for them to know some advanced knowledge.
“So, this child is very sensible,” she said softly, blanching the rice noodles, scooping them into a bowl, and carrying them to the living room. She called out, “Dongyang, I’ve put the rice noodles on the table. Ruan Xi and I have something to do in the room this morning, you can watch some cartoons by yourself.”
A muffled reply came from the bathroom, with a toothbrush in her mouth. “Mmm!”
Children are so easy to fool.
Back in the bedroom, they lay down on the bed to catch up on sleep in the fine morning.
“Yao Yao.”
“Hmm?” She was already used to being called this.
“Why did you think of buying this?”
Ruan Xi moved her wrist, and the metal chain of the handcuffs made a crisp sound.
“It was…” a bad friend’s suggestion.
Tong Yao didn’t sell out Lu Bingjie, because in the end, she had been willing.
“…You’re still so busy even after going to university,” she sat up and looked at the young girl nestled beside her. “We still rarely see each other. Since we’re together so rarely, of course it has to be a little more memorable.”
She said, half-jokingly, half-seriously, “Sometimes I really want to cuff you to my side.”
Ruan Xi was slightly taken aback. Suddenly, thoughts like “if I have to be a kept woman, so be it” and “anyway, I want to be with Teacher Tong” popped into her mind, trying to sweep away all her ambitious thoughts.
But in the end, she failed.
Their lives were still long.
For a better future, something had to be sacrificed.
But—
“My heart,” she pointed to the handcuff on her wrist, “has long been cuffed here.”
