Ruan Nianchu’s body stiffened, her mind went blank for a moment. In her nearly twenty-six years of life, she had never been this intimate with any man, not even her ex-boyfriend Dai Jie, with whom she had only hugged and held hands.
She had never been kissed.
Let alone such an intense, hot, and filled-with-cigarette-and-alcohol breath kiss like this.
What brought Ruan Nianchu back to her senses was the stabbing pain from her lips. Her senses surged back to her limbs and senses like a tide—surrounded by darkness, in the darkness, Li Teng pressed her tightly against the wall, ravaging her lips, almost frenziedly kissing her.
She frowned, pushing him away with all her might. But her strength was too weak, and Li Teng, irritated, grabbed both her wrists, lifted them over her head, and pressed them down firmly.
She kicked him in anger.
He easily avoided it, then pinned her legs down as well. She could hardly move.
Li Teng’s lips were still crushing hers, without any technique or rhythm, just gnawing and entangling, as if venting some emotions on the verge of breaking down, fierce and savage.
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“…” Ruan Nianchu frowned, clenched her right hand into a fist, and finally let it go. What kind of creature was this person? He treated her like ice when they were together. Clearly, they had agreed to break up, yet he came to forcibly kiss her in the middle of the night.
If it weren’t for the fact that he had saved her life, she would want to kill him.
“What’s wrong with your brain…” She started to say, but suddenly remembered that her home was just a floor above, so she took a deep breath, suppressed her anger, and continued in a low voice, “Has your brain been kicked by a donkey?”
He still didn’t speak.
A faint light came through the skylight, and she saw his eyes, bloodshot and filled with wildness and chaos, so complex that they reminded her of a wild wolf she had seen in the animal world.
It was scary. Ruan Nianchu, thinking of what had just happened, felt a lingering fear, and involuntarily backed away, saying firmly, “If you, noble one, forget things so easily, let me remind you that we broke up peacefully five days ago and are no longer a couple.”
Li Teng’s tone has returned to his usual indifference: “I know.”
“If you have a lot to drink in the future, please stay away from me. You have no idea what you were doing just now.”
He said, “I’m not drunk.”
“…” Hearing this, she turned her head, pinched her brow, and after a while, continued in a low voice, “Captain Li, we’re still considered friends, you saved my life, you’re a hero in my heart and you’re a good person. So please don’t ruin my impression of you by doing inexplicable things over and over again, okay?”
“A hero?”
Li Teng’s eyes dimmed, suddenly sneered, the curve of his mouth mocking and playful, “Who the hell wants to be this damn hero. Ruan Nianchu, do you really think you know what kind of person I am?”
Still not looking at him, “I don’t want to figure it out now.”
Then the whole corridor fell into silence.
After a while, Li Teng laughed self-deprecatingly and said, “It’s late. Go back and rest.” Then he turned and walked downstairs.
Ruan Nianchu glanced at his back and suddenly spoke, her tone unclear, “Do you want me to forget what happened tonight?”
Li Teng’s figure abruptly halted.
Her hands subconsciously clenched into fists as she continued, “Just like you instructed me seven years ago, forget everything, wipe the slate clean.”
He stood still for a moment before continuing to walk forward without turning back, his voice hoarse, “It’s up to you.”
It was late at night, and the sky over Yuncheng was as dark as ink, with thick clouds obscuring the stars and moon.
Li Teng didn’t leave but stood downstairs from the Ruan’s residence for a while. The air was chilly, and the cold wind blew fiercely.
By the side of the greenery platform was a large tree with luxuriant branches and a trunk as thick as three people’s waists, indicating its age. He walked over, leaned against the tree, took out a cigarette from his pocket, circled it with his left hand, flicked open the lighter with his right hand, and lit it. After taking a puff, the thick white smoke came out of his nostrils and drifted into the sky.
Tonight was an act of losing control.
He and several comrades had a dinner appointment at a tavern, and after a few cups of yellow soup, he was a bit drunk. He usually had a good tolerance for alcohol, but today, they managed to get him drunk with just a couple of ounces of white liquor. As he walked out of the tavern, he found himself in front of Ruan Nianchu’s residential area before he could fully regain his senses.
He kissed her like a madman. Li Teng took a drag of his cigarette, touched his lips, his expression cold.
As a result, even now, there was still a taste of her between his lips and teeth. A faint fragrance, like jasmine blooming at dawn, fresh and sweet, more addictive than he had imagined.
At this moment, footsteps sounded from the adjacent building.
His gaze swept over, and in an instant, the eyes behind the white smoke narrowed slightly. The girl had obviously returned home, changed into a white nightgown and a thin coat. The hem of the dress was short, just reaching her knees, revealing a pair of delicate calves, enticingly slender and an attractive figure.
Li Teng made no move, silently watching her, finishing his cigarette in one breath.
She wrapped her coat around herself and passed by him. The position of the greenery platform was inconspicuous, and coupled with the darkness of the night, it was not easy to be noticed. But after walking a few steps, she seemed to realize something and suddenly froze.
Li Teng flicked away the cigarette butt.
She turned back and stood in front of him. The two of them looked at each other in silence. After a few seconds, she raised her right hand and slapped him, calling him a bastard, and then quickly ran away.
“…”
The slender girl with thin arms and legs didn’t have much strength; hitting someone was no different from tickling them. Li Teng closed his eyes, fell silent for a moment, then suddenly punched the tree trunk behind him fiercely.
Blood beads immediately appeared at the joints of his knuckles.
Just now, Ruan Nianchu had swollen eyes and a red nose, clearly showing signs of crying.
*
When Ruan’s mother cut her finger while slicing fruits, Ruan Nianchu went downstairs to buy band-aids. After slapping Li Teng, she went straight to the convenience store, bought two packs of band-aids and six cans of beer.
When she returned, he was already gone.
She wiped her eyes with her hand, went upstairs, and entered the house, trying to act as usual. Ruan’s mother came over to take the band-aids and saw the beer she bought. She raised an eyebrow slightly and asked suspiciously, “Why did you buy alcohol so late at night?”
Ruan Nianchu kept her head low, not letting her parents see her embarrassed appearance after crying, and muttered, “Qiao Yufei broke up with her boyfriend. I’m having a video call with her to drink together.”
Ruan’s mother applied the band-aids and casually said, “That girl breaks up every now and then. Your mom is used to it, but you aren’t yet. Alright, finish your drink and go to bed early. You have to go teach at the tutoring center tomorrow afternoon. Don’t forget.”
“I know,” Ruan Nianchu replied, locking the door to her room.
She opened the video call, and Qiao Yufei on the other end was applying a face mask, massaging her face while asking, “Strange. You suddenly asked me to drink with you. What happened?”
Ruan Nianchu opened a can of beer, took a sip, smacked her lips, and then said calmly, “Li Teng and I broke up.”
“What?” Qiao Yufei was shocked, and the face mask fell to the ground. “Didn’t you just start dating three weeks ago?”
Ruan Nianchu shook her head. “It was two weeks and three days. We broke up this Monday.”
“Why did you break up?” Qiao Yufei frowned. “Did Li Teng cheat too? He’s in the military, surely not.”
Ruan Nianchu didn’t respond, drank a few more big sips of beer, feeling a bit dizzy. She said, “I initiated it.”
“Why did you initiate it?”
“Because he’s more despicable than cheating.” She said, her nose suddenly tingling, smiling, and speaking slowly, “He doesn’t like me, yet he keeps bothering me. Isn’t that despicable?”
Qiao Yufei didn’t quite understand, so she thought for a moment before saying, “He’s a jerk. Nianchu, he doesn’t like you but didn’t you know that from the beginning?”
“Yeah,” she said, her eyes somewhat glazed, raising the beer can towards her friend on the computer screen. “I knew.”
“And besides, you don’t like him either.”
“Yeah, I don’t like him.”
Qiao Yufei suddenly furrowed her brows. “So why are you so upset then? Haven’t you always enjoyed being single?”
Ruan Nianchu lifted her eyelids, red and swollen, “Am I upset?”
The person on the video call nodded.
She laughed foolishly, put down the beer can, and lay flat on the bed, feeling intoxicated. Feeling dizzy, she slowly closed her eyes and said, “Who knows. Hey, why do you think I’ve had such a rough love life for so many years and haven’t met anyone I like?”
Qiao Yufei suddenly felt very uncomfortable in her heart and said, “I don’t know.” She only knew that Ruan Nianchu, whom she had known for many years, had always been a carefree and lazy person, free-spirited and unrestricted, as if there was nothing in the world that she couldn’t handle. She only knew that Ruan Nianchu lived freely.
She had never seen her like this before.
On this side, Ruan Nianchu’s cheeks were red, and she chuckled mysteriously, “I know.”
Qiao Yufei’s eyes turned red too, and she smiled, “Okay, then why don’t you tell me why?”
Ruan Nianchu replied softly, “Because my name is Nianchu1Her name is 念初. 念(Nian – to remember) 初(Chu – the first/the beginning). Maybe she means that her name means that she remembers the first (love) because she already liked him a lot in Cambodia and never forgot him.. I got this name really badly.”
Qiao Yufei sighed, “You’re drunk.”
Ruan Nianchu said, “Yes. I am drunk.”
The reason people have troubles is that their memory is too good, and they have too many memories. If there were no memories, every day would be a fresh start.
Be happier.
*
After getting drunk and falling asleep without covering herself with a blanket the night before, Ruan Nianchu woke up the next day feeling like her head was about to split open. She thought it was just a hangover, so she didn’t pay much attention to it. After finishing lunch, she went out on time to teach Xiaoxing.
Regardless of how people’s moods change, the weather in Yuncheng at the end of summer is always good.
The sky was clear, and the breeze was gentle.
Ruan Nianchu immediately saw the jeep parked at the entrance of the community.
She opened the car door and got in. Li Teng’s expression was cold, with no trace of last night’s madness. Feeling dizzy and swollen-headed, she simply leaned back in her seat and closed her eyes to sleep.
Li Teng turned his head, his gaze sweeping over her swollen eyelids and pale face. He frowned, his face also turning colder. He asked in a deep voice, “Are you feeling unwell?”
Ruan Nianchu’s head was pounding, and she didn’t want to pay attention to him.
He called her name with a displeased tone, “Ruan Nianchu.”
This time, she finally opened her eyes and looked at him without any goodwill, saying irritably, “I’m fine, just a little sleepy from not sleeping well last night. Can you not disturb me? Please?” Then she closed her eyes again.
“… ” Li Teng didn’t say anything more, his face remaining cold as he started the engine.
The journey was unusually quiet. He drove, she slept, and there was no dialogue between them.
At one thirty in the afternoon, the car stopped at a rest area on the outskirts of the city. In the past, Ruan Nianchu would get off here to buy snacks and chew them halfway through the journey.
Li Teng parked the car and turned off the engine, saying coldly, “We’re at the rest area.”
There was no response from the person next to him.
He reached out to push her. His fingers touched her arm and stopped, feeling abnormal warmth. Realizing something, his heart sank. He then gently touched Ruan Nianchu’s clean and white forehead.
It was burning hot.
Li Teng’s eyebrows furrowed deeply. He patted her face and said, “Ruan Nianchu.”
After a while, the girl seemed to regain some consciousness. Without opening her eyes, she muttered unclearly, “Don’t… this jerk, don’t touch me again…” Her face was also wrinkled, like a small bun.
Li Teng’s voice was calm, “You have a fever. This jerk is going to buy you medicine now and then take you to rest somewhere.”
She seemed to understand, yet also seemed not to. She responded, “Don’t want to.”
“Ruan Nianchu,” he looked at her, his voice inexplicably softening, “be a good girl.”
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