Chapter 78 p1: Uncomfortable
Her ear was pressed against Qingli’s chest, quietly listening to her strong heartbeat, a heartbeat that was getting faster and faster. Yu Chujin’s heart also began to swell.
She had never thought, and had never dared to hope, that there would be such a person who would be so moved just by her getting close.
“Your heartbeat is so fast,” Yu Chujin mumbled.
“Yes, my heartbeat is very fast,” Qingli did not hide her feelings.
When Qingli liked someone, she would express it openly, show it openly, never be subtle, and even less so, be insincere.
Yu Chujin hated to guess what a person was thinking. It was too tiring to guess. She had no patience to guess, and she was even more afraid of guessing wrong.
And Qingli happened to make up for this. Qingli never needed to be guessed. All her emotions, all her feelings, would be clearly and intuitively presented.
Just like she expressed her liking all the time, just like her heartbeat at this moment.
“Snake,” Yu Chujin called her.
“The snake is here,” the snake responded immediately.
“Qingli,” Yu Chujin called her again.
“Qingli is here,” Qingli would always respond immediately.
Yu Chujin raised her head slightly and looked at her well-defined face, which was almost unrealistically beautiful, “Qingli.”
Qingli met her gaze, “I’m here. Why do you keep calling me?”
Yu Chujin: “Can’t I keep calling you?”
Qingli: “Of course you can.”
“Then can others keep calling you?”
“Others can’t!”
“You’re so sure in your answer? You don’t need to think about it?”
“Others just can’t. If others keep calling me, I’ll eat them.”
Yu Chujin was so amused by her words that she chuckled, “What? You’re going to eat someone just for calling your name? Did you watch the legal program for nothing?”
Qingli: “I’m not a cannibal.”
Yu Chujin was amused by her again, her shoulders shaking with laughter.
“Yu Chujin, you’re very happy. Then I’m also happy. Haha,” Qingli copied her way of laughing, and at the same time, she deliberately shook her shoulders, making her shoulders shake in an incongruous way.
Qingli loved to copy people. To be precise, it wasn’t that she liked to copy people, but that she liked to copy Yu Chujin.
Because she liked Yu Chujin, she would always subconsciously imitate her.
Yu Chujin slowly stopped laughing, retreated a little, and rested her head on her hands, admiring Qingli’s way of copying her laughter.
Her smile was so beautiful, although the way she deliberately shook her shoulders was a little comical.
Qingli stopped laughing and shaking her shoulders, and instead, she copied her, resting her head on her hands, her gaze at her bright.
Yu Chujin couldn’t help but reach out, trace her eyebrows and eyes, and stroke her cheek.
Qingli let her do as she pleased, not dodging or avoiding, and even enjoyed her touch, her eyes squinting in comfort.
Yu Chujin traced from her brow to the tip of her nose, and finally landed on her lips.
Her finger stopped, and her gaze also stopped.
“Why did you stop touching?” Qingli was not satisfied.
As Qingli spoke, her perfect lips opened and closed.
Yu Chujin said, “Don’t talk.”
Qingli was puzzled, “Why shouldn’t I talk?”
Yu Chujin stared at her opening and closing lips, her eyes deepening, and she unconsciously swallowed.
She remembered the dream she had had that day. In the dream, they were also lying face to face on the bed like this. In the dream, she had absurdly and suddenly kissed Qingli.
“Qingli.”
“I’m here.”
“I’ve never liked anyone in my life. I don’t know how to like a person, and I’m not sure if I can treat this affection correctly. Can you understand this feeling?”
Such a complex emotion, such a complex conflict. For a simple-minded snake, she probably couldn’t understand.
Yu Chujin didn’t expect her to understand either.
But Qingli looked at her eyes very seriously, “You don’t know how to like a person? Then I’ll teach you. I’m very good at liking people. I can be your teacher.”
Yu Chujin glared at her, “You want to be my teacher? That’s a bit of a rebellion.”
“Why not? I’m very good at liking people.”
“How good?”
“I like you. I love you. I super love you.”
A sweetness welled up in Yu Chujin’s heart, “Is this your way of being good at liking people? It’s so mushy. Also, can you get rid of that ‘oh’?”
Qingli agreed readily, “Okay, oh.”
Yu Chujin: “…”
The two of them lay face to face on the bed, their gazes meeting, and fell into a brief silence.
“This thing, ‘like,’ is not something that can be taught,” Yu Chujin turned over, lay flat, and looked at the crystal lamp on the ceiling, which was sparkling.
The crystal lamp was very beautiful, but a little dazzling.
“A person’s feelings are very complicated. I’m afraid that my small affection is not worthy of your affection.”
Qingli’s affection for Yu Chujin was 100 points, because the full score was only 100 points. But how many points was Yu Chujin’s affection for Qingli?
Yu Chujin herself was not sure. Maybe just a passing grade? Maybe a little more than a passing grade? Or a score that far exceeded her psychological expectations.
She didn’t know. She wasn’t sure. It was too ethereal.
A person’s affection is like this, with too much uncertainty. Unlike Qingli, unlike this snake, her affection is certain, has a standard answer, and will not have any variables.
“What if I’m a scumbag? What if I like you and then I don’t like you anymore? What if I change my mind in the future? What if…”
She was a little paranoid, but Yu Chujin was just that unconfident. She believed that Qingli would always like her, but she actually didn’t believe that she would always like Qingli.
She had never thought of herself as a good person, a person with principles, or an upright person.
Qingli’s affection was too pure. Yu Chujin was afraid of letting this affection down, afraid that one day she would change her mind and become bad.
“Yu Chujin’s worry is so strange.”
“Is it strange? Where is it strange?”
“How can you not like someone after you’ve liked them? I’m going to like Yu Chujin for a lifetime.”
“Is that so? A lifetime of liking…” Yu Chujin stared at the crystal lamp on the ceiling in a daze, “A lifetime is a long time.”
The room fell silent again.
Who knows how much time had passed, but Yu Chujin suddenly turned to the side, faced Qingli, and broke the silence. She said, “Then I’ll try to like you for a lifetime. I’ll try not to change my mind and not be that bad person.”
Qingli’s pale green pupils lit up with a fine light, “Alright, Yu Chujin will like Qingli for a lifetime.”
Yu Chujin looked at her happy appearance and also began to smile, and also began to be happy.
“What am I to you?” Yu Chujin suddenly asked.
“My mate. Yu Chujin is my mate!” Qingli said decisively.
Yu Chujin, who had always been silent when faced with this question before, for the first time, did not dodge her gaze and for the first time, answered directly.
She said, “Yes, Yu Chujin is your mate.”
After saying that, her face turned red, and the tips of her ears were burning.
Her voice was very low, like the buzzing of a mosquito, but with Qingli’s hearing, she could hear even the smallest sound clearly.
“We’re mates,” Qingli came closer, “Then we have to fulfill our duties.”
“What duties? There’s no such thing,” Yu Chujin shyly pushed her away.
“Don’t push me away,” Qingli came closer again, even if she was rejected, even if she was rejected countless times.
She would still, without hesitation, come closer again and again.
***
The seven-day period, under Qingli’s careful care, passed very smoothly.
At the same time, Qingli also became more clingy.
It wasn’t that Qingli had become more clingy, but that Yu Chujin was not so resistant to her getting close anymore.
Yu Chujin did not reject her and let her be. She naturally became more clingy, wishing she could stick to her all the time.
“I’ve discovered a problem,” Yu Chujin said.
“What problem?” Qingli came over to nuzzle her face.
“I’ve discovered that as long as I don’t push you away, you can hug me all day. Sometimes, you also need a little personal space, don’t you think so?”
“I don’t need it.”
“What I meant was, I need it. I need a little personal space. Who cares if you need it or not?”
“What? I don’t know, I don’t know. I can’t understand. I can’t speak human language. I don’t understand, I don’t understand,” her head shook like a rattle drum.
“You really are…” Yu Chujin was both angry and amused.
“Hiss hiss.”
“You’re starting to hiss, are you? You’re starting to play dumb, are you?”
“Hiss hiss.”
Forget it, forget it. If she wanted to stick to her, then so be it. She couldn’t really be fierce with her. She was a little reluctant to be fierce with her.
Looking at the person so close to her, her gaze unconsciously fell on her lips. They were pink and moist.
Yu Chujin reached out her finger and poked her on the lips, saying, “Your lips look so soft.”
Qingli copied her and also reached out her finger and poked Yu Chujin on the lips, “Your lips are also soft.”
They poked each other’s lips with their fingers.
As they were poking, the pleasant temperature slowly became a little scorching.
Yu Chujin pursed her lips, her voice a little hoarse, and repeated what she had just said, “Your lips look so soft.”
Qingli was out of it, “Yu Chujin’s lips are also very soft.”
Yu Chujin’s finger, pressing on her lips, increased its force, “At a time like this, you shouldn’t be replying with such a sentence. You should…”
Qingli opened her mouth to speak, and the finger pressing on her mouth accidentally pressed into her lips. The wet fingertip was full of ambiguity.
Yu Chujin’s expression paused for a moment, but she did not pull her finger back. Instead, she pushed her luck and felt her neat teeth and soft tongue.
Yu Chujin’s eyes darkened, and her breathing grew heavy.
Qingli was still out of it and grabbed her hand, “Don’t put your finger in my mouth. What if I accidentally bite you? My teeth are very sharp. You’ll get hurt.”
Yu Chujin looked at her hand that was being held, then at her. Her gaze once again fell on her lips.
“I’m not afraid of you biting me. I’ll let you bite me,” Yu Chujin’s voice was low and hoarse.
“No, I can’t bite you,” Qingli shook her head, “You’ll get hurt. Yu Chujin will be in pain if she’s injured.”
“You won’t bite me, but I want to bite you,” Yu Chujin’s eyes were dark, “What should I do?”
Qingli tilted her head, thinking. The next second, without any warning, she came closer and lightly pecked her on the lips.
Yu Chujin’s breath hitched.
Qingli said, “I’ll kiss you once, and then I’ll let you bite me. A fair exchange.”
She had already finished kissing. Qingli very generously held out her hand, “You can bite now. Bite hard. You’re welcome.”
Qingli happily shook her head, looking as if she had gotten a great bargain, very proud.
Yu Chujin suddenly really wanted, really, really wanted, to make that dream from that day a reality.
“You’ve watched so many TV shows and learned so much from them. You only know how to kiss people like this?” Yu Chujin recited the lines from her dream.
“Did I learn it wrong?” Qingli began to doubt herself.
“Wrong,” Yu Chujin’s answer was very certain, “A kiss is not like this.”
Qingli came closer again and pecked her on the lips with a smack.
“Isn’t it like this?”
“No.”
Qingli came closer again and pecked her on the lips again.
It was too brief, a dragonfly-touching-the-water kiss. It was over before she could even feel it.
Qingli kept asking, “Isn’t it like this?” and Yu Chujin kept denying, “No.”
The result was that Qingli kept repeating the action of pecking her on the lips.
Yu Chujin did not stop her actions and was even indirectly encouraging her to do so.
No, it wasn’t indirect encouragement. It was a blatant encouragement.
Qingli kissed her once, Qingli kissed her twice, three times, four times, five times…
Yu Chujin swallowed, her eyes dark. Finally, she couldn’t stand it anymore. Just like in her dream, she grabbed her by the collar and pulled her over.
“I’ll teach you.”
Yu Chujin leaned over and pressed her lips against hers.
It was different from the feeling in her dream. Qingli’s lips were not so cold. They had a little warmth.
It was the same as the feeling in her dream. Qingli’s lips had a grassy scent, a very fresh scent, a very sweet scent, and it was very delicious.
Kissing, even if she had never experienced it before, it didn’t stop her from learning it by herself. Yu Chujin clumsily and tentatively extended her tongue and licked the corner of her lips.
Qingli’s eyes instantly widened.
Look at Yu Chujin go! Be the best mate for Qingli! 🐉