Ruan Nianchu remembered very clearly that Li Teng had once said he didn’t like people touching him. Every time she got close, he would push her away as if she were a ghost.
How could she explain it now? Her face was burning, her mind was foggy, and she was too flustered to think.
Li Teng hugged her from behind, his hands tightly holding her wrists, and said in a deep voice, “Don’t just stand there stupidly. Do as I taught you.”
“… ” Ruan Nianchu expelled the air from her mouth, calmed her mind, and then recalled his words. Press down with the palms, and push backward with force from the waist.
The person behind her didn’t budge an inch.
She couldn’t break free. She repeated the process of using her hands and waist several times, pushing even harder each time. But she still couldn’t break free.
After a few repetitions, Li Teng frowned tightly and took a deep breath. This woman was warm, soft, and delicate, and couldn’t exert the slightest bit of strength.
It was torturing him. She twisted and turned in his arms, almost driving him crazy.
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Nk Mldt pvyale pvayktbv yv bla, yde yqvla y xsxldv, bl clnjsdle vs bla, “Usxl blal.”
Swyd Lkydnbw eked’v jdso obyv bl oyp tskdt vs es, ps yqvla psxl vbswtbv, pbl oyzjle shla.
Tl pyke, “Twt xl.”
“… ” Fbl aykple bla blye ycawrvzu, bla lulp okeldle kd pwarakpl, “Ebyv?”
Nk Mldt zssjle pwarakpkdtzu nyzx yde pyke zktbvzu, “Kwpv zkjl bso R bwttle usw lyazkla, bwt xl. R’zz elxsdpvayvl kv qsa usw.”
Ruan Nianchu hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly walked behind Li Teng and stretched out her hands, encircling his waist tightly. Her face, which had just cooled down, suddenly flushed again. His waist was narrow and strong, with firm and tense muscles.
Her soft fingers slid unconsciously over his abdomen through his clothes. Li Teng clenched his teeth secretly. “Where do you put your hands? Did you put your hands around my waist like I did?”
“…Oh.” Ruan Nianchu coughed dryly and lifted her arms to encircle him. He was too tall, making it very difficult for her.
Li Teng half-bent his knees.
It was a struggle for her to encircle him with her thin arms.
“Tight enough?”
“Mm.” Ruan Nianchu subconsciously hugged him tighter, clasping her left hand with her right hand tightly.
Li Teng broke free in just a second, effortlessly. She didn’t even see his movements clearly.
“How did you do that?” Ruan Nianchu frowned and asked.
Li Teng put her hands back in place, squatted down, and taught her step by step, “If the enemy attacks you from behind and restrains your hands, you do it like this… Yes, palms down, press down forcefully, and at the same time, use the strength of your waist and abdomen to push backward… Yes, that’s it.”
After listening to him, Ruan Nianchu understood, nodded, and said, “I think I got it.”
“Try it.” Li Teng’s tone was very indifferent. After speaking, he hugged her again.
Ruan Nianchu took a deep breath, closed her eyes, pressed her palms downward toward her waist, and pushed backward with force. The grip on her sides loosened, and she took the opportunity to slip out, landing on the trampoline and swaying. She smiled and said, “Did I get it?”
Li Teng’s lips curled slightly. “Yes.”
Seeing the faint smile on his face, she inexplicably felt better. As she backed away, she said, “This move seems useful. But I don’t think I’ll be unlucky enough to encounter any perverts…” Before she could finish her sentence, her face suddenly changed, and she exclaimed softly.
The trampoline was soft, and she was already unstable.
Ruan Nianchu accidentally fell off. In the split second before she hit the trampoline, instinctively, she grabbed Li Teng beside her.
Both of them fell freely.
“Bang.”
Although the trampoline was soft, Li Teng instinctively protected her with his body, holding her tightly. In the end, he fell on the trampoline, and she fell on top of him, entangled together and rolling around a few times.
They didn’t finish rolling on the last round and ended up with her on top of him.
Thinking back to the scene just now, Ruan Nianchu found it funny and couldn’t help but laugh. From silent laughter to audible laughter, her chest heaved, and she burst into laughter.
Li Teng looked down at her condescendingly.
In the night breeze, the girl’s black hair gently brushed past his fingers and cheeks. Her small and exquisite face, bright eyes, and red lips were more charming and agile than seven years ago.
Li Teng lowered his eyes, staring at her, and something surged in his eyes.
After laughing for a while, Ruan Nianchu looked up at him, her gaze puzzled and confused.
A few seconds later, he suddenly whispered her name, “Ruan Nianchu.”
Her eyes flashed, her heart beating irregularly, and she responded, “What?”
Li Teng lightly scraped her cheek with his fingertip and said, “The way you smile is very beautiful.”
Ruan Nianchu looked at him and said, “You said that seven years ago.”
“Did I?” He raised an eyebrow, his tone very indifferent. “I don’t remember.”
She smiled, with a hint of disappointment in her eyes. “In Cambodia. That day, you were injured and had a high fever, maybe you were delirious, so you don’t remember.”
The wind around them suddenly stopped.
Li Teng wrapped his arm around her waist, his left hand propped up on her face, and fell silent, ready to get up.
At this moment, Ruan Nianchu suddenly spoke, “That day, in the garden outside the hospital, what did you want to do to me?”
“… ” Li Teng’s movement paused, coldly, “I didn’t want to do anything.”
She bit her lip, half sat up and leaned towards him, “Did you want to kiss me?”
As soon as the words fell, he suddenly turned his head to look at her, his eyes sharp and deep, as dark as two pieces of the sea. He didn’t speak.
Ruan Nianchu, however, didn’t flinch, staring back at him.
Then she said, “Why did you stop later?”
Li Teng’s face darkened, and his tone turned cold. “I told you. I didn’t want to do anything that day.”
“Why did you touch my face if you didn’t want to do anything?” Ruan Nianchu didn’t know where her courage came from, frowning as she questioned, “If you didn’t want to do anything, why did you press my head down? If you didn’t want to do anything, why did you hug me just now? I thought you didn’t like others touching you? What are all these?”
He replied with just one sentence, “You can just assume I’m f*cking crazy, okay?”
Ruan Nianchu’s mouth twitched for a moment. She swore it was the first time she heard someone curse at themselves.
Li Teng’s eyebrows tightened even more, not saying another word, standing up and turning to leave.
A strange anger surged in Ruan Nianchu’s heart. She gritted her teeth and angrily shouted at the figure disappearing into the night, “You were crazy to begin with. Just because others aren’t allowed to provoke you, does that mean you can provoke others at will?”
Li Teng clenched his fist fiercely, without turning back or stopping, and opened the door of the jeep, getting in.
“It’s cold at night, go home early,” he said as he rolled down the window and threw out a sentence to her.
In response, she sat on the trampoline and shouted back with a curse, “You bastard!”
The black jeep disappeared into the dust.
~
That night, Ruan Nianchu tossed and turned in bed until two in the morning. Then she picked up her phone and sent a WeChat message to the emotional expert Qiao Yufei: Are you awake?
That girl was a night owl, always turning day into night. She quickly replied: Hey, the health-conscious girl is still not asleep today.
— I have something to ask you.
— About men?
“… ” Ruan Nianchu’s fingers paused on the screen, and then in her heart, she silently gave a thumbs up to the insightful expert Qiao. She replied again: Yes.
— What aspect of men?
— If a man clearly tells you that he likes someone else, what does that mean?
— It means that regardless of whether he likes someone else or not, he won’t like you. This is to cut off your thoughts.
— What if later on, he agrees to be in a relationship with you?
— That means he was playing hard to get before, teasing you.
— But after being in a relationship, he shows no further development with you, always wearing a poker face, being fierce and forbidding you from provoking him, what does that mean?
This time, Qiao Yufei’s reply was delayed for a full two minutes. She replied, “It means that guy is crazy, you should stay away from him.”
Reading the two sentences sent by Qiao Yufei, Ruan Nianchu furrowed her brows, falling into serious contemplation.
She contemplated for a full two days and one night.
Li Teng wasn’t like a normal person. In order to capture Kunsha and Tuwa, he hid for four years, becoming brothers with those notorious bandits, committing all sorts of atrocities, killing and burning. Ask yourself, which normal person could do such a thing? Such a person might be the best warrior on the battlefield, but in daily life, he was definitely not someone you could stay with for long.
Ruan Nianchu initially thought that the experience from seven years ago would at least allow them to get along harmoniously and develop naturally. Unexpectedly, it had the opposite effect.
What Qiao Yufei said was right: people who are not of the same kind can never be together.
Some people and things are not meant to be possessed, only to be remembered.
After understanding this, on a Monday night at 9:20, Ruan Nianchu sent a message to the WeChat account named “0714”. She wrote: Captain Li, after two weeks of being together, I found that we are not suitable for each other as a couple. Let’s break up.
She initiated the relationship, and she initiated the breakup, which could be considered a complete end.
Just five minutes later, Li Teng’s reply came.
Okay.
It was a very short reply, without even any punctuation marks. It looked as indifferent and unemotional as he was. Ruan Nianchu unconsciously tightened her fingers holding the phone, feeling uncomfortable in her heart. After a while, she typed on the keypad with her lips bitten: Don’t worry, I will continue attending Little Xing’s classes.
There was no response from the other side.
After waiting for a while, Ruan Nianchu put down her phone and suddenly laughed a bit self-mockingly. Her second relationship was even shorter than the previous one, lasting only two weeks and three days. Qiao Yufei was right again, this crow’s mouth.
*
After that, Li Teng appeared again on the fifth day after their peaceful breakup.
It was an unusual Friday. A colleague from the performance group was treating everyone to dinner for getting a promotion, and they were going to eat and sing karaoke all in one place, at the Wancheng Mall not far from their workplace. Ruan Nianchu didn’t want to go, but she couldn’t resist her colleagues’ enthusiasm, so she ended up going.
It wasn’t until 11:30 in the evening that she got off the taxi and yawningly made her way home. It was late summer, and the evening breeze was already tinged with a slight autumn chill.
Inside the doorway, the corridor was pitch black.
Ruan Nianchu stomped her foot, but the motion sensor light didn’t turn on. It seemed to be broken. She frowned, and had no choice but to carefully make her way up the stairs, feeling her way along the handrail.
When she reached the platform on the second floor, she paused. Looking up, she was startled and almost stumbled.
Under the small square skylight, a man was leaning against it, tall and casual, not knowing how long he had been standing there. He was smoking, and the sparks between his lips flickered, illuminating his eyes when they lit up, which were fixed straight on her, dark and deep, unfathomable.
“… ” Ruan Nianchu recognized who he was, steadied herself with a firm resolve, and managed to stand straight, saying, “Captain Li? What are you doing here? Is there something you need from me?”
The view was too dark, which made her feel very scared.
Li Teng looked at her for a moment, then smiled, threw away the cigarette butt and extinguished it with his foot, saying, “You kept asking me before what I wanted to do. I’ll tell you now.”
Ruan Nianchu heard his sober and calm tone, and was slightly less afraid. She nodded, “Go ahead.”
Li Teng took a few steps towards her. The next moment, something she never expected happened.
He grabbed her wrist and pulled her against the wall, holding her chin and fiercely muttered a few words in a wild and unruly manner: “I just want to do this.”
Ruan Nianchu widened her eyes in astonishment.
Defenseless, her lips were sealed by him fiercely.
Sansukini: What a huge ego! It’s better for a man to be straightforward. But things will have a fast development soon. Great job Li Teng. You finally kissed the girl.
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Ack!! I had the ba-thumps in my chest in those last lines!! Captain Li isn’t good for my heart 😆