MTMIO Chapter 108

“You have to leave before me, because the one who leaves later has to endure many lonely days and nights.”

Her words were mixed in with the gentle contact of her lips.

“And for my future tombstone, I want it to have your name engraved on it. I want the epitaph to be that sentence from Jian Zhen – At this moment, I just want to fall into the embrace of the night with her, tripping down the stairs together.”

Breathing brushed close again, Yue Yunxi cupped her face in both hands, as if holding a treasure, and landed a devout and lingering deep kiss.

She thought, she would never love someone like this again.

To love someone like loving a god.

No one else would ever make her feel this way again.

She wanted to kiss the other person into her body, to let them see her heart that was leaping for them.

“Can I take this as a marriage proposal?”

Lu You said with a smile, “That’s too lacking in ceremony. Other people’s proposals are arranged so beautifully.”

“This place is also very beautiful.”

“There’s no engagement ring either.”

“There’s hardware in the five-metal shop.”

“No family or friends are here.”

“Aren’t they here? They’re just sleeping.”

Lu You found it amusing, “Then friends aren’t here either, and there are no beautifully packaged roses, no slideshow of touching photos, no video recording of this moment, and no engagement ring, nothing at all…”

“Isn’t there you?”

Lu You was stunned.

“Having you is enough. Compared to something carefully arranged, witnessed by family and friends, full of ceremony, I prefer this kind of thing, as if two people are sharing a secret, ambiguous and hidden, a surprise that belongs only to me.” Yue Yunxi said, touching her forehead, “Love is just a matter between two people, isn’t it?”

Lu You moved her lips, but before she could speak, she felt Yue Yunxi’s lips touch hers.

Her voice was softened and lowered by the gentle caress, and there was apprehension hidden within it.

“Then… are you willing? Are you willing to become each other’s designated guardian with me?”

The unexpected proposal gave the romance a touch of realism.

It was so down-to-earth.

And made happiness seem within reach.

Yue Yunxi laughed very softly.

After that moment, all the surging emotions filled her chest, plucking every string in her body, playing a song of praise.

“I am willing.”

Her eyelashes fluttered gently, and mist condensed into tears that fell. In those eyes, like the moon floating in water, Lu You saw herself in the center of the light.

Tears rolled between their lips.

Blood vessels throbbed and pulsed, and love and desire intertwined and expanded.

It had been two weeks, and it was almost inevitable that sparks would fly.

The cool breeze on her face fanned the flames, making them unstoppable.

By the time Lu You heard the “beep” of the air conditioner starting to work and came back to her senses, she was already following Yue Yunxi into the bedroom, her arms around her shoulders, her skin exposed to the cold wind, but her body was hot.

The zipper on her side waist had been pulled down at some point, and the formal dress was being pulled down by a pair of clean, slender hands.

She wasn’t wearing a bra, and as the dress slid down gently, the softness of her breasts peeked out and escaped from the slipping neckline.

“Are you crazy? Aren’t you afraid of being heard?” Lu You subconsciously covered herself with her hand, not because she didn’t want it, but because she was nervous.

“Then you’ll have to bear with it and don’t make too much noise.” Yue Yunxi’s voice was biting at her ear, saying bad things in a gentle voice.

It still made her lose her temper.

Lu You bit her lip involuntarily, catching Yue Yunxi’s chuckled breath, and said with annoyed embarrassment, “I never believed in astrology before I met you, but you really are a textbook Scorpio.”

Hearing her deliberately lower her voice, Yue Yunxi silently curved her lips. “How so?”

In the dimness, Lu You felt her breath, carrying her body temperature, brush against her neck, sometimes close, sometimes far away.

At the moment when the breath was pulled to the farthest point, Lu You’s shoulder was pushed hard, and her body leaned back involuntarily, falling into the soft bedding.

The dress slid to her feet, and a large area of skin came into contact with the cool air. She pointed her toes, suppressing her voice and reminding, “Be careful, don’t ruin my dress.”

Yue Yunxi lowered her head, gently and carefully took off her dress, and looked up.

The atmosphere lights on the terrace were still on, and the faint halo shone dimly through the glass door, like the hazy moonlight, gently sprinkling on the undulating mountains, flowing along the plains, and falling into the shallow valleys.

She placed the dress on the leather sofa next to her and bowed her head to Lu You’s knees.

Perhaps it had been a while since they had been intimate, and she had become sensitive.

Or perhaps her keen hearing amplified the subtle movements, and the erotic sounds of water and licking drilled into her skull, constructing a vivid and seductive image.

It made her blush, made her heart beat faster – nervous and apprehensive, afraid of being discovered.

Even though they were both adults, it felt like they were secretly dating behind their parents’ backs during their school days, tasting the forbidden fruit for the first time.

Lu You almost instinctively supported her upper body with her left hand, and grabbed Yue Yunxi’s hair with her right hand.

Those curly, seaweed-like long hair were wrapped around her knuckles.

Soft, delicate, and slippery, they invaded her sensory nerves and were another touch she felt.

Lu You didn’t make any further movements.

She couldn’t tell whether she wanted to pull Yue Yunxi away or throw away all shame and meaningless reason and press down hard, allowing the other person’s softness to reach further.

To give her more satisfaction, to fill the sores and holes corroded by her sad emotions.

Fill her desolation.

Lu You maintained this “reluctant but welcoming” posture, biting her lower lip to slow her breathing, slowing it down to the point where she involuntarily held her breath.

Seemingly passive, but actually actively accepting Yue Yunxi’s pleasure.

Countless small, constantly expanding joys were like small bubbles constantly rising in boiling water.

Poured into fine lotus root powder mixed with honey, the powder was stirred until it melted.

Flowing over the tip of her tongue, it was both sweet and sticky.

Yue Yunxi’s wet lips, wrapped in her breath, kissed her, becoming entangled with her.

Kissing until she couldn’t breathe, Lu You turned her head slightly, and her lips slipped to her ear.

“How many pineapples did you eat?” Yue Yunxi pulled the quilt over her.

Lu You’s ears turned red, and she didn’t say anything.

When they were chatting casually around nine o’clock in the evening, she was hungry and didn’t want to eat staple food. Zhang Wenyin remembered that she had bought a bag of perfume pineapples.

They were small, eight in total. Zhang Wenyin took out four, cut them into pieces, put them on a plate, and brought them to the table.

Lu You was afraid of sourness and waited for Yue Yunxi to eat one and tell her it was sweet before she poked a piece with a small transparent fork.

It was fragrant, sweet, and full of moisture.

She was greedy for sweetness, eating one piece after another, not knowing exactly how many she had eaten.

She only knew that Zhang Wenyin later cut another plate, and most of both plates went into her mouth.

Now the sweetness was feeding back to the place below.

Yue Yunxi flicked her ear, which was hot, and changed the question with a smile, “You still haven’t answered me, how am I textbook?”

“…” Lu You was silent for a moment, then said in a hoarse voice, “Sharp and sensitive.”

She would keenly notice her unhappiness and be sensitively moved by her inadvertent actions, worrying about gains and losses.

“Low sense of security.”

Clearly, she was a very, very good person, gentle, considerate, and thoughtful, but she would amplify her imperfections, worrying about not being accepted as a complete, whole, and three-dimensional self.

“Very jealous.”

The pH value was acidic, like a small moon soaked in vinegar.

“Meticulous and extremely scheming.”

After understanding Zhang Wenyin’s difficulties and her true desires, she would not hesitate to exhaust herself to weave a huge net of gentleness for her.

Enticing her to go deeper, step by step falling into it.

Pretending to let go, handing the line into her hands, as if giving her the right to take in the net or scatter it all, but she had quenched the line with juice – letting her indulge, become addicted, become so familiar with her scent that she could no longer forget it or let it go.

Such a good way to retreat in order to advance.

“Very possessive and especially horny!”

Lu You said the last one almost through gritted teeth.

Yue Yunxi lay on her side next to her, propping her head up with her hand, playing with her ear from time to time. “I feel like you’ve been searching my horoscope a lot lately.”

“…Is that the point?”

“It is for me.” Yue Yunxi said with a smile, “It’s quite accurate.”

“That’s why I said you’re textbook.”

“So.” Yue Yunxi kissed her cheek, got up and said, “I’m going to wash my hands.”

“…”

Lu You covered her head with the quilt, and her fingertips stroked the cheek she had kissed.

The wet and warm touch still lingered, as if it had penetrated into her skin.

Following her throbbing heartbeat, it spread throughout her body.

The formal dress slumped on the sofa, bathed in moonlight, and the silk flowers on it trembled gently in the wind leaking into the room from the crack in the door.

Lu You tried to control the volume as much as possible, which was very difficult for her.

Because Yue Yunxi seemed to be stimulated by her forbearance and had developed a kind of inferior nature, deliberately trying to make her lose control.

In the quiet space, all the movements were magnified countless times, and muffled groans were contained within them.

Lu You heard Yue Yunxi’s soft coaxing: “Shh – be good.”

She also felt her malice, angry, anxious, and undeniably, very good.

Lu You bit Yue Yunxi’s shoulder, suppressing the urge to make a sound.

After that, like the wordless wind carrying a silver crescent moon, she sank into the winding stream.

In a certain hidden, out-of-focus, and absent-minded moment,

She felt a strong love grow.

……

More than an hour later, Lu You took a quick shower in Yue Yunxi’s bathroom and sneaked back to Zhang Wenyin’s room like a thief.

She had just changed into her pajamas in the bathroom when she ran into Zhang Wenyin getting up to go to the bathroom.

Zhang Wenyin was still very sleepy, and scanning her with drooping eyelids as she hugged a bulging coat in her arms, she asked with a yawn, “What are you doing?”

Lu You’s heart was in her throat, and she didn’t say anything.

“Do you want to go to the kitchen to drink water?” Zhang Wenyin said, “There’s some in the room, under the sewing machine, there’s a kettle.”

Lu You’s heart slowly fell back into place. She said “Oh, oh” twice, she had already had water at Yue Yunxi’s, but she still poured another cup and poured it into her still parched throat.

Restraining herself from making a sound was really hard on her throat.

Zhang Wenyin turned on the air conditioner for her and said vaguely, “Did you eat something salty for dinner?”

Lu You mumbled “Mm.”

Zhang Wenyin turned over, wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, and quickly fell asleep again.

Lu You breathed a sigh of relief, put down her formal dress and coat, and lay back on the bed.

The room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, as if nothing had happened.

Only the too-fast heartbeat and the feeling in her body that hadn’t completely dissipated proved how crazy she had been doing this sleepless night.

She took out her phone, turned down the brightness, and sent Yue Yunxi a WeChat message: [Safely landed, good night, you crazy woman.]

Yue Yunxi replied almost instantly: [Good night, you crazy woman who went along with me.]

A second later, Yue Yunxi sent another message: [Send me the video.]

Lu You remembered that the spinning video was taken with her own phone, found the video in her album and sent it to Yue Yunxi, and with a smooth hand, posted one on Moments as well.

After posting, she briefly lost consciousness from sleepiness.

When her hand holding the phone naturally dropped down, she was inexplicably awakened.

Closing her eyes, she unconsciously recalled the simple proposal tonight.

Because legalization hasn’t happened yet in China, she said that kind of proposal.

But… same-sex marriage is legal in Austria.

Lu You suddenly lost her sleepiness, opened her phone, and searched for relevant information online by pressing the screen.

After a while, she found Elena’s account and sent a message to the other party.

When the reply came, she sat up, pressing the screen with both hands.

After a long time, she lay down again, resting her head on the pillow, looking at the ceiling in the dimness, and breathed a long sigh of relief.

She turned over, pursed her lips with a smile, and brewed sleepiness.

In a half-dream, half-awake state, she felt Zhang Wenyin get up from the bedside to tuck her in.

At that moment, she had a very strange feeling that she couldn’t describe, making her feel dependent and desolate – like when she dreamed that Zhang Wenyin hadn’t left her when she was a child, but woke up to find that she was the only one in the huge room.

And an hour later, when Zhang Wenyin came to wake her up and said, “Get up quickly, Jiaojiao is here, and she even fried some pork tenderloin for you.”

That strange feeling flowed back again.

She opened her eyes and saw Zhang Wenyin by the bed. In the corner of her eye, Yue Yunxi leaned against the door in a relaxed posture, curving her lips and sighing with a smile, the arc was a helpless indulgence.

This time, there was no desolation in that indescribable emotion.

She felt her heart fall sharply into a pool of warmth.

–

Like yesterday, the two families gathered to have breakfast together.

Yue Shao made spicy soup and brought the pot directly.

There were also egg pancakes and mini burgers on the table. The egg pancakes were folded into triangles, and the ones with scallions and the ones without scallions were stacked separately on two round plates.

The mini burger was only half a fist big, with only a piece of chicken and a slice of cheese inside. Lu You had bought it on a grocery shopping app.

This was obviously what Zhong Mi wanted to eat. Before she even sat down in her chair, the little girl started chanting, “Hamburger hamburger hamburger, Xiu hamburger~”

Walking to the dining table, she reached out and took two: “Mi Mi one, sister–”

Zhang Wenyin’s shoulders rose.

Zhong Shuyun gently slapped the back of Zhong Mi’s hand: “Did you wash your hands?”

Zhong Mi was both wronged and guilty.

Zhong Shuyun put the small hamburger that fell on the table into her own bowl, and seemingly casually, but not at all conveniently, clipped an egg pancake without scallions to the plate in front of Lu You, “Your mother made it, try it.”

After speaking, she put down the serving chopsticks and pulled Zhong Mi to wash her hands.

Zhang Wenyin’s shoulders obviously sank a bit, and her gaze moved from Zhong Shuyun’s cheek to her plate, fixed on the egg pancake, her expression visibly apprehensive.

Lu You picked it up with chopsticks, lowered her head and took a bite. It didn’t have the taste of egg yolk, but it was fragrant and soft. “Delicious!”

She clipped a piece for Yue Yunxi: “Super delicious, you try it too.”

Turning her head, she saw that Zhang Wenyin’s shoulders had completely relaxed, and a smile spread on her lips.

Lu You saw the change in her expression, curved her lips, and thought of the video recording her growth. Zhang Wenyin’s expression was also like this when she first successfully made the baby food she liked.

From worrying that she wouldn’t want to eat it, to being afraid that she wouldn’t like it if she ate it, to being delighted and satisfied when she saw that she liked it.

“Why aren’t you eating?” Zhang Wenyin asked softly.

Lu You came back to her senses and asked with a smile, “Is there a tutorial recipe for this? I’m not used to white people’s food. If I’m craving it, I can make it myself.”

This was true love.

Zhang Wenyin put her heart down and asked, “Can you cook over there?”

Lu You turned her head to look at the side. Yue Yunxi swallowed the food in her mouth and replied, “Yes, I can.”

“Then I’ll send you all my recipes.” Zhang Wenyin said.

Lu You curved her eyebrows, and before she could say okay, she heard Yue Yunxi say, “Send it to me, Auntie.”

It was clear that she didn’t trust her cooking skills and knew that she wouldn’t share the recipe if she messed up. Lu You moved her foot under the table, found the right position, and stepped down not too lightly or too heavily.

“…” Yue Yunxi coughed and said, “Her cooking skills are not good.”

She was actually deliberately revealing her shortcomings.

Lu You stepped on her again.

She missed.

Raising her eyes, the person who dodged pursed a shallow smile, hiding the slyness of playing with people in her well-behaved innocence.

The next second, that smile froze on the corner of her mouth.

Because Zhang Wenyin said with a straight face, “If we’re going to have our Youyou call Ashao mom, then you can call me aunt?”

Yue Yunxi quickly adjusted from her slightly stunned state, deepened the arc of her mouth slightly, and said softly, “Mom, send me the recipe, I’ll make it for her.”

From expression to tone, she was extremely natural, as if she had been calling Zhang Wenyin this for a long time.

Yue Shao snorted lightly, scooped up the spicy soup, and clanked the porcelain spoon, sighing, “Girls are always going to leave home.”

“Okay, it’s clearly just that there’s another daughter, where is she leaving home.” Zhang Wenyin clipped an egg pancake with scallions for Yue Shao, “There’s a lot of scallions, you like it.”

“How rare.” Yue Shao snorted again, “Send me a copy of the recipe too.”

“I’ll give it to you! Everyone gets one.”

“What is it? Do I have it? Do I have it? I want it too, I want it too.” Zhong Mi came back from washing her hands, not caring what it was, she just wanted it.

“Winter vacation homework, do you want it?” Zhong Shuyun poured a basin of cold water on her.

Zhong Mi instantly wilted.

Lu You couldn’t help but laugh, afraid that Mi Mi would be even more sad if she saw her laughing, she considerately raised her phone to block her.

Message reminders kept popping up on the screen, all from the Big Dipper group.

She saw the chat history – Chen Feifei and the others had made many versions of the video of her spinning around, with various background music, and some even had slow-motion effects.

Finally, they voted and rated the photo of Jian Yanzhi’s screenshot with a filter as the best, @her, and asked her to repost it on Moments.

Her hand slowly dropped down, and when there were still three fingers’ distance from the table, the phone slipped onto the table with a “smack,” and her hand still maintained the posture of grasping the phone.

The sleepiness was gone, and she had only two thoughts in her head.

No wonder Yue Yunxi sighed and smiled like that…

When people are sleepy and confused, they are really no different from being drunk…

Zhang Wenyin looked up at her dazed look and thought the same.

“I’ve sent it to you all, you must pay attention to the batter forming before flipping it over, and the spatula can’t be too thick or too sharp, too thick is not easy to flip, and too sharp will poke through. And… what’s going on with that video you posted on Moments?”

Zhang Wenyin asked, “I really thought you were going to the kitchen to drink water, how did you end up filming a video?”

Lu You flickered her eyelashes twice, and her gaze turned very slowly, meeting Zhang Wenyin’s gaze.

She couldn’t help but touch her nose, so she had to honestly confess, “I just… had a whim, I wanted to… show her.”

As she spoke, she glanced quickly in Yue Yunxi’s direction.

“…” Zhang Wenyin said sourly, “You can’t even wait a moment.”

Lu You lowered her head and drank the soup, wishing she could bury her head in the bowl.

Yue Shao watched the excitement and didn’t think it was a big deal, joking, “Girls are always going to leave home, Youyou, next time you come back, just sleep at our place.”

“No way.” Zhang Wenyin said angrily, “I’ll have Jiaojiao come to our place.”

The two mothers argued endlessly, Zhong Shuyun tapped her fingers on the table and called out, “Yoyo.”

Lu You, with the last mouthful of soup in her mouth, raised her head from the bowl.

“You’re at least my student, a closed-door disciple, be more domineering,” Zhong Shuyun glanced at Yue Yunxi, “Next time you want her to see it, let her… come to you.”

The pause was like she wanted to say “roll” over to you.

Listening to Zhong Shuyun’s words, Lu You swallowed the spicy soup in her mouth and almost choked.

Thinking it was okay, she picked up her cup and took a sip of water.

Then she heard Zhong Shuyun mutter, “Who sends themselves to people’s door to be seen.”

This time, Lu You really choked, tears coughed out, and turning her head, through the water mist, she could vaguely see Yue Yunxi’s face smoothing her breath.

Overlapping with a certain moment from last night in her memory.

The features and expressions were blurred, like a hazy and bright moon, shaped like a duck egg.

Only the smooth outline remained, still beautiful beyond reason.

She didn’t dare to say that she not only sent herself to people’s door to be seen, but also let them eat her clean.

She couldn’t blame her either, she thought.

She loved the moving moonlight, but the moonlight was playing with her.

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After breakfast, Lu You and Yue Yunxi went to the airport to prepare to leave Nanquan.

The sense of happiness before the farewell was so full that even the reluctance overflowed.

Zhang Wenyin repeatedly held their hands and told them to eat on time, add clothes when it’s cold, and take care of each other.

For a moment, only for a moment.

She thought of the past, when the little old lady’s carrot-like, wrinkled, very rough hand held hers, gently patting, one pat, one instruction.

In the next moment, it seamlessly connected with the scene in front of her.

– “But now, I don’t even have a single relative left.”

– “It’s the most important thing, but not the only one. Grandma has paved the way for you.”

– “What I hope is that if there really is such a day… you will still be someone who is loved and cared for.”

The security line was getting shorter and shorter.

When it was almost time, Lu You left the line and walked to Zhang Wenyin, hugging her tightly.

Afraid of delaying her boarding, Zhang Wenyin didn’t dress up carefully like she did when she saw her that day. She wasn’t wearing heeled leather boots, but flat furry shoes that were more convenient for traveling.

Hugging Zhang Wenyin, she realized that her mother, who used to be much taller than her, had become shorter than her at some point.

“Mom, this time, will you wait for me, okay? You have to live every day well, like I used to, and wait for me to come back.”

Zhang Wenyin raised her head, her chin resting on her shoulder, and squeezed out a difficult “Mm,” her choking voice carrying two lines of clear tears falling down.

And in her blurred vision, she saw that her good sister Yue Shao, who had a gentle and considerate face that could take care of people, but was actually stubborn and awkward, and never expressed her emotions correctly, was tidying up her daughter Yue Yunxi’s collar.

“I saw on the internet that it’s very cold there, wear more, pay attention to keeping warm, don’t be vain and freeze.”

Yue Yunxi asked, “Do you want a hug?”

Yue Shao gathered her scarf and said with her head lowered, “You’re so old, what are you hugging for…”

The hair on her temples fluttered up and fell down again.

Yue Yunxi still opened her arms and hugged her, whispering in her ear, “This is the first lesson I learned from her.”

“What?”

Yue Yunxi’s eyes fell on Lu You, her red lips slightly opened, her voice soft but powerful, falling into Yue Shao’s ears, hitting her heart directly.

“About, the ability to love, it needs to be learned after birth.”