The Sixteenth Song – 《Overflowing》

My first reaction was to swear, and my second reaction was of course, to hug him.

It was a pity that I still held a large box in my hands, it was caught between us, which made it inconvenient to move.

After turning twenty-five, I rarely ever cried, but Lu Chengze pushed my emotional button, and right now, he looked soft and furry.

I laugh while crying in the elevator, saying: “You look silly.”
He stared: “You as well.”
I looked up: “I’m not wearing a panda hat.”
He reached out and brushed aside the hair on my forehead: “But your hair was ruffled by the wind.”

It was this natural and gentle movement that made me want to embrace him even more.

I handed over the box in my hands: “Can you hold it for a moment?”
He held it with one hand.
I said: “Because it’s not convenient for me to hug you.”
Lu Chengze understood my meaning and stretched out his arms in my direction.

I let myself plunge into his arms, and in response, he wrapped his arm around my back with his free arm, very tightly, as if to lock me in his arms.

He was incredibly warm, real yet dream-like.

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Lu Chengze said: “Let’s go in, it’s weird to stand here.”
I pulled on the controller: “Especially since you are still wearing this stupid hat.”
Lu Chengze suddenly had a look on his face, which said ‘And who’s fault is it?’ Then he secured my hand in his, and pulled me along with him while walking.

My face was sore from smiling excessively.

Walking into the aisle, the white sensor light automatically turned on, and I stopped: “You don’t live with anyone else?”
I was worried that Lu Chengze lived with his parents. It would be very presumptuous and bothersome to visit in the middle of the night.

Lu Chengze turned his head and said, “It’s just me.”
His eyebrows were slightly furrowed and serious: “There was a bird with me, but it was also deceived away by someone.”

I gave him a glance: “What are you holding in your hand?”
He couldn’t help but smile: “Fortunately, she still has a conscience.”

I was speechless and stopped talking. I was so angry, I couldn’t respond. When he stopped to unlock the fingerprint lock, I hammered on his back shoulder.

I didn’t use much force at all, but he still reacted. He hissed in pain, rubbed the area, and began to scam me: “What is the sentence for deliberately harming the national treasure?”
I raised my hand and took off his hat. He wasn’t allowed to have such a harmless appearance while being a little devil.

He did not resist, nor did he make to go back. With a head full of messy hair, he made a gesture of inviting me in.

When I walked in, he took out a new pair of slippers for me. He was still wearing his home slippers. He had rushed to the elevator to wait for me without changing his shoes. It was these details that made me laugh.

I stood up happily and met his eyes.

He suddenly opened his lips: “Your place…” He stopped talking.
Me: “Huh?”
He said: “Last time, you gave me…” He seemed to want to continue speaking but stopped.
Smiling, my voice went up higher: “Say everything all at once, ok?”

Lu Chengze stopped pretending to be mysterious: “The men’s slippers at your place are used, and you had a condom.”

I froze for a moment and reacted: “What?”

He was accusing yet frank, his voice calm. I was glad he was able to say all of this out loud.

Lu Chengze stared at me for a few seconds and hummed: “No.”
I did not feel ashamed or apologetic for this: “What’s wrong with a single woman having these in her home?”

“I don’t know, after thinking about it later on, there didn’t seem to be any problems with it.” Lu Chengze’s eyelashes drooped slightly as he said, “Maybe I was a little jealous at the time.”
He immediately corrected his words: “Not just a little bit.”

My heart ached.

“When you told me to grab it from the drawer, I…” He paused, looking like he was about to make a corny joke: “I had bought some on the way over.”
I curled my lips after hearing his words: “Why didn’t you say so?”
Again, he responded with, “I don’t know,” and then said: “I was over my head at the time, and there was nothing good to say. I didn’t want to break the mood.”
I thought back to that time and pursed my mouth while feeling a little embarrassed: “We were both immersed in the moment.”

Lu Chengze’s eyes darkened immediately. He lowered his head and kissed me, only sucking on my lips and then parting. But there was still a desire raging in my body, strong and warm. I pulled on his collar, wanting to continue. He immediately understood what I wanted, raised my chin, and cooperated, coming back over.

Like heck he cooperated.

He was unrestrained, pressing on the nape of my neck with one hand, not giving me a chance to escape. Lu Chengze most likely had just washed, as there was a minty smell between his lips and teeth, cool yet burning hot, and my tongue slightly ached from how hard he was sucking on it. But I greatly enjoyed this kind of impatient punish and demand, painful and contradictory, and it drew me in like a moth to a flame. I couldn’t help groaning.

When we stopped, we were both panting fiercely.

When he was emotional, not only did Lu Chengze blush, his eyes would become moist, just like the lips I had just kissed. I brushed my fingers over his face: “Don’t be angry, okay?”
Lu Chengze looked at me, “It was just that day. I’m not angry anymore. But I thought you didn’t want to have anything to do with me anymore.”
I understood what he was saying: “But I really did need to have dinner with a client at noon that day.”

So it was that message, the crux of the misunderstanding which occurred at a delicate point. An adult’s self-esteem could lack a lower limit, but it can also be set up high, they would not turn to walk back down the steps, and they wouldn’t disparage their own pride to turn back.

I still felt some lingering fear yet, at the same time, I was also grateful: “It was unexpected that I went to work at Guangniu.”
Lu Chengze said: “I wasn’t expecting it.”

I asked, “How did you feel at Costa today? Did I scare you?”
Lu Chengze thought for a while, and said in a low voice: “It felt like being powered on again.”

I was grinning from ear to ear after hearing his response, and began to vent to him unscrupulously: “Do you know why I went? It wasn’t my project at first, but because I missed Lu Chengze so much, I really want to see him again, and I want to see if I could accidentally——”
I let out a forlorn sigh: “But in the end, I realized your company was so big. It made me so angry.”

The big boy in front of me laughed: “WeChat is very small.”

I retorted: “You didn’t look for me in WeChat.”
Lu Chengze replied: “You were living well even without me.”

As expected, he had been secretly checking on me.

But he must have said this deliberately, upset about my “nothing happened” attitude which I had been displaying over this period of time, he was not a stubborn person.

So I looked up helplessly, hoarsely saying: “I told you before that Moments are deceptive.”
And was his, “Disappearance from the Earth Technique” not a scam? Wasn’t it creating an atmosphere of being hurt, stimulating my sensitive nerves?

Lu Chengze seemed to be able to hear my heart: “I didn’t even want to put on an act. I couldn’t make it up. I missed you, but I didn’t know how to find you.”

When he said these words, there was sincere frustration in his eyes.

A sudden tingling which stemmed from my heart palpitating made me press my lips together. I couldn’t speak.

Lu Chengze smiled helplessly: “Qi Miao, you really are amazing. I have never been so heartbroken.”
He repeated: “I miss you so much.”

I felt a stinging in my nose: “I also missed you so much. “

We hugged each other again, for a long long time. It seemed that the world had narrowed down to the small hallway carpet, a small boat, us depending on each other, and never wanting to be separated.

　　—

I decided to stay overnight at Lu Chengze’s place, but unfortunately, I was on my period, and he had to go out to buy me tampons.

There was no TV in his living room, just a simple white wall and projector.

While I was watching a movie on the sofa with a cup of hot water, he video-called me and asked which brand I used.
I smiled and said: “Any of them are fine.” I couldn’t help but add: “An adult man sweeping his cell phone over the feminine hygiene product shelf with his cell phone in the middle of the night, won’t the cashier call the police?”
Lu Chengze cut the camera back to his handsome face and looked at the side. He looked at me again, and smiled with white teeth: “No, I think she is about to fall asleep.”

Help, he is so handsome.
So cute too.

He aimed the camera at other shelves and asked: “Would you like me to buy any snacks?”
“No,” I put down the cup: “You’d better come back quickly, or I will ransack your house, and the projector looks like a pretty good place to start. It seems to be valuable.”
He asked: “Am I included?”
I smiled and ended the video.

After ending the video call, my mind was filled with thoughts of Lu Chengze, and only a few minutes after he left my sight, I began to miss him.
The thought of focusing on the movie disappeared. I lowered my head and swiped through the phone, looked at the Weibo homepage, and then NetEase Cloud.

When I habitually opened Lu Chengze’s homepage, I saw he had added a new song to his personal playlist which hadn’t been updated for quite a few days.

　　《Overflowing》

I opened the link and looked at the lyrics. I was so elated that I wanted to let out a few squeals on the spot. In any case, I wouldn’t be the one who would be complained about by the neighbors later on.

I wasn’t patient enough to wait until he arrived, so I took a screenshot and sent it through WeChat: When did you add it?
He replied in seconds: Just now.
I said: You’re very fast at finding songs.
He said: Always prepared.

The author has something to say:
You can search up and listen to the song in today’s chapter. I like the overall lyrics very much but I won’t put them into the text.
If you’re too lazy to listen, I’ll post it below. Please don’t find that it’s too long.

“Am I over my head
Is that something you said
Am I losing my breath
Going crazy
Heart’s all over the place
Oh that smile on your face
Why can’t I stare away
Is this magic?
I can’t explain
How I’m feeling
This way
Holding on to last emotions
I can’t expect
That you look in
My way
In a way, I’m losing senses
I don’t know it’s a start or the end if you ask
In a way they are the same and I would do it again
I don’t care what you say if you leave or you stay
Any case, I’ll admit, I’m not going away
I’m flowing now, falling in and out floating in slow motions
I’m flowing now, falling in and out floating in slow motions
Did I drive you away
All the mess that I made
Watching you slip away
I’d rather be dead
I don’t know it’s a start or the end if you ask
In a way they are the same and I would do it again
I don’t care what you say if you leave or you stay
Any case, I’ll admit, I’m not going away
I’m afraid It’s too late that I may’ve missed my train
Any day I will wait I won’t lose you again
I’m flowing now, falling in and out floating in slow motions
I’m flowing now, falling in and out floating in slow motions