Chapter 4: The Future Movie Queen About to Be Abandoned (4)
Yu Yinglan suffered greatly for her choice.
She actually had a high tolerance for pain. After all, with a father who enjoyed violence, Yu Yinglan had learned from a young age when to remain silent. Crying and screaming would not only fail to elicit pity from the abuser, but might also lead to more severe injuries.
However, Su Mingxiu’s fingertips made her not only endure the pain in her waist, but also control her instinct to clench her teeth.
The sounds in her throat were shattered before they could even escape.
Only when the bruises on her waist were rubbed open with medicinal wine did the woman slowly withdraw her hand. At that moment, Yu Yinglan’s gaze was somewhat unfocused as she lay on the chaise lounge, her lips parted slightly. Only when she saw the glistening moisture on the slender fingers reflected in her pupils did she suddenly come back to her senses. Realizing the origin of the glistening trace, her face flushed crimson, even redder than the other person who had just emerged from the hot spring pool.
Su Mingxiu’s right palm was covered in medicinal wine, and she was about to get up and walk to the nearby shower room.
But seeing Yu Yinglan staring at her left hand, blushing and dazed, her playful thoughts, which had subsided for a while, stirred again. She raised her hand and saw two faint red marks on her index finger from being bitten. The feeling from just now resurfaced.
Several times, Yu Yinglan couldn’t help but want to bite down. But every time her teeth touched Su Mingxiu’s skin, she would abruptly stop the force and be forced to release the strength in her jaw. However, this relaxation would only make her mouth and tongue spasm even more…
Su Mingxiu lowered her eyelashes. Her already dark eyes were even more unfathomable in the misty atmosphere by the hot spring pool. Realizing what she was recalling, she gently closed her eyes.
When she opened them again, she used her backhand to wipe the moisture on her fingertips onto Yu Yinglan’s cheek.
The person lying on the chaise lounge hadn’t reacted yet and could only see her leaving figure.
Yu Yinglan was very sensitive to changes in people’s emotions.
She could feel that Su Mingxiu’s mood seemed a bit unpleasant just now.
Why?
[You have developed desire for her.]
Amidst the splashing water, Su Mingxiu stood in front of the mirror, her neck bent low, carefully washing away the pungent smell of medicinal wine from her palms. Hearing the clear mechanical voice in her mind, her movements paused, but she didn’t respond.
However, the system seemed to have already gotten the answer. After a brief analysis, it said to her in a matter-of-fact tone: “Human love and intimate relationships are inseparable. Deceiving the protagonist both physically and mentally will deal a greater blow to her—establishing an intimate relationship with her at this stage will help you get a higher score after completing the final mission.”
The woman in the mirror suddenly raised her hand and turned off the faucet.
The room fell silent in an instant.
She looked at herself in the mirror, their eyes meeting. Su Mingxiu asked in her heart: “You seem to really want me to have a relationship with her?”
System: “I’m just giving the host better suggestions.”
“I’ll give you a suggestion too.” Su Mingxiu changed to speaking out loud.
She smiled at herself in the mirror. The smile was too shallow, far less than the depths of her eyes: “Mind your own business.”
[…]
The person who had washed her hands clean returned to the courtyard.
Yu Yinglan had just sat up from the chair and seemed to be waiting for her. Su Mingxiu had just soaked in the water and enjoyed a massage, so she was a bit hungry now. Seeing that Yu Yinglan hadn’t left, she thought she wanted to stay here.
“You just applied the medicine. It would be a waste to soak in the water now.” Su Mingxiu reminded her indifferently.
The girl suddenly got up from the chair. After all this time, the blush hadn’t faded from her face. She waved her hands and explained: “I… I just wanted to ask if there’s anything else I can help you with.”
“No.” Su Mingxiu replied truthfully.
Seeing the clear eyes of the girl in front of her suddenly dim, like a pearl covered in dust, it was a pity that the person facing her had no intention of being gentle and considerate. She walked straight out of the courtyard towards the dining room in the villa and immediately ordered the servants to prepare the meal.
After spending more than a month on the set of “Celebrating the Mountains and Rivers,” Yu Yinglan’s acting skills had greatly improved. During this period, she also solved many incidents with her own abilities. The progress in her career made her think that she had been reborn. But until she saw Su Mingxiu again, she realized that she still couldn’t understand this person.
She was still affected by the other party’s every move, experiencing the trance of heaven one second and hell the next.
For example, today.
Su Mingxiu was clearly rubbing the bruises on her waist, but she insisted on making her feel so uncomfortable. It even made Yu Yinglan wonder if the other party had seen through her probing intentions and was warning her?
And when she tossed and turned, unable to sleep because of this guess, Su Mingxiu knocked on her door.
“I remember the bed in your room isn’t small.” The woman was wearing a nightgown, the silky fabric too close-fitting. Rather than covering up, it seemed to outline her exquisite curves. In the dim night, only the light from the bedside lamp cast a shadow on her. It should have been a somewhat suggestive scene, but because of her overly indifferent expression, people didn’t even dare to have any disrespectful thoughts.
Seemingly already accustomed to Yu Yinglan’s slow reaction, Su Mingxiu patiently finished her sentence: “Lend me half.”
Perhaps it was because the other party’s tone was too righteous, Yu Yinglan didn’t even have the chance to refuse before she had already moved aside.
Only when she stood by the door and watched Su Mingxiu pull open the quilt and lie down on her bed did a question mark slowly appear on Yu Yinglan’s forehead.
Not only her, but Su Mingxiu herself, who suddenly came to this room tonight, was also confused.
It all started before going to bed.
Su Mingxiu had taken a two-hour nap by the hot spring pool, but this was far from enough for her, who had been suffering from insomnia for a long time. She originally thought that she was in a relaxed mood today and could continue her sweet dreams as soon as she touched the pillow at night, but she was wrong.
Back in her room, she couldn’t sleep again.
And the drizzle that had fallen outside the window at some point dispelled her idea of going to the courtyard to continue her open-air hot spring hypnosis. It was already midnight, and she couldn’t call for a massage therapist.
After counting them one by one, the only person in the entire villa who could help her relax and fall asleep was Yu Yinglan.
Su Mingxiu knew that she was going back to the crew tomorrow, so naturally, she wouldn’t exploit her rest time at night. With the attitude of trying anything, she chose a compromise.
—Find a place to sleep near the massage therapist, so that she could give her another massage before she left tomorrow.
Now.
Finding that the owner of the room was still standing at the door without moving, Su Mingxiu yawned and threw out two words: “Not sleepy?”
Only then did Yu Yinglan hurriedly close the door and move towards the bed. She moved carefully, but with some difficulty. After all, after following Su Mingxiu for so long, she had never been so close to her.
So she tried to find an excuse for the other party.
There happened to be a muffled thunderclap outside the window.
“Are you… afraid of thunder?”
The person who had already closed her eyes hummed through her nose, even with a hint of laughter, and said languidly: “Be quiet.”
Yu Yinglan’s cheeks flushed slightly from her laughter, then she reacted to her command, quickly turned off the light, and gently pulled open the quilt on the other side, quietly pulling it up to cover her face.
If it wasn’t fear of thunder, then what was it?
Qi Ran’s words inexplicably echoed in her ears: Little girl, never think you’re special in front of Su Mingxiu.
A little devil popped up in her heart, holding a fork and retorted: “But she’s never been close to anyone else, and now she’s climbed into your bed.”
Maybe she’s changed her habits?
The little devil whispered in her ear: “But she climbed into your bed.”
A person like her would only love herself, not others.
The devil continued to whisper: “But she climbed into your bed.”
Yu Yinglan: “!”
The little devil made her toss and turn even more, unable to help but turn over.
Su Mingxiu, who had just barely fallen asleep on the other side, was awakened by this slight movement. She opened her eyes in the darkness, stared at where the other party was for a while, and after confirming that Yu Yinglan didn’t do it on purpose, she slowly closed her eyes again.
A few minutes later.
The other side of the quilt started rustling again.
Su Mingxiu, who was almost asleep: “…”
She took a few deep breaths, but in the end, she couldn’t hold back. Amidst Yu Yinglan’s exclamation, she stretched out her arm and pulled the other person into her arms, grabbing her wrist, pressing down her legs, and her lips against the other’s ear: “Shh.”
The exhaled breath made the ears of the person in her arms turn red.
But Su Mingxiu just closed her eyes, her voice low and husky, warning softly:
“Don’t make a sound.”
“And don’t move.”
“Otherwise, I’ll gag you and tie you up, hmm?”
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