Chapter 53

    Surprisingly, Ruan Shengyi gently shook her head.

    She hesitated, “Xiao, I might not be able to tell you how much money I took away…”

    Actually, even if she didn’t say it, Xiao Wenyu could imagine.

    Their shops were bought almost at the same time. Ruan Shengyi still had two cars and a house. Although she had made some money in business over the years, more of it probably came from the money she brought from her family.

    Xiao Wenyu understood that escaping the fate of being completely exploited meant she might never be able to go back, never giving that group of people any chance to retaliate.

    But Xiao Wenyu still raised her hand to stroke that lock of long hair, and said, “But I still need to go back and see Mom.”

    “When I can withstand long-distance travel, we can go back together.”

    One more person meant one more sense of security.

    But Ruan Shengyi still shook her head.

    Xiao Wenyu looked at her in confusion.

    Ruan Shengyi raised the corner of her mouth, and said, “The next thing, really only you know, even Chen Yuexin doesn’t know.”

    “Ruan Qing said before she left that she wanted to live truly free, so…”

    Ruan Shengyi gripped Xiao Wenyu’s arm tightly, and said in a low voice, “I could have avoided crossing the desert, there was another route that was longer but safer, but I didn’t take it. I went through the desert for only one reason.”

    “I buried the urn in the yellow sand, waiting for the day when the box degrades, and she might be free. Later, I stayed in the sand for three days, guarding her spirit, waiting for her to completely turn into a star in the sky, before I left the desert and continued eastward.”

    She spoke lightly, even in the most relaxed tone of tonight’s storytelling session, but the listener’s breathing slightly paused.

    Xiao Wenyu trembled as she stroked her cheek, turned over, and looked at her lying there calmly, her voice paused, “That time, it should have been the dead of winter?”

    “Almost spring, about half a month away.”

    “…”

    She spoke lightly, but it was heartbreaking to listen to.

    To let a child who was not yet twenty personally send away her last family member, and send them into the boundless desert, and then guard the coming of spring little by little at the end of the cold winter, watching hope arrive late.

    This was too painful.

    The promotional photos of the desert are all golden, but that doesn’t mean the desert’s winter isn’t cold. The desert’s winter is also very cold, freezing people to the point where they can’t move, and it even snows.

    “Ruan Shengyi…” Xiao Wenyu propped herself up, frowned and looked at her, “How did you grow up? How did you not go astray?”

    The person who was praised grinned, “I don’t know.”

    “Since Auntie has become a star, she should be able to hear us talking here, right?”

    Ruan Shengyi smiled, “Want to try?”

    If she wants to try, then she’ll try.

    Xiao Wenyu looked up at the sky, and said softly, “Auntie, your An’an has really grown into a very good adult. Her life has not failed the two words you chose, the two words that belong to her life.”

    She lowered her head, and the person who had one hand behind her head had red eyes again.

    She raised her hand and gently brushed away the tears from the corner of the other person’s eye, “Now, I’m going to kiss my Shengyi.”

    There was an obvious moment of stiffness, but the slender finger then stroked her cheek, and finally gently pressed on her jaw, and said softly, “Don’t be afraid, don’t hide.”

    After that hasty and impulsive failed kiss when they first met in early August, the red lips that had made Ruan Shengyi’s heart flutter once again fell. She closed her eyes subconsciously, allowing the other person to dominate the kiss.

    But the somewhat trembling body showed how deeply rooted the fear was. It couldn’t be solved by one telling, it couldn’t be soothed by one hug. Her heart tried its best to accept it, but her body was still stiff and trembling. What flashed in her mind were the dirty scenes she had seen as a child.

    In the gaps in the wardrobe, between the exchange of red lips, there seemed to be something greasy and disgusting growing longer and shorter.

    But the person in charge didn’t rush to the next step, just overlapped their red lips, sucking on her lips, and gently kissing the corners of her lips, more like passing air than kissing.

    But this was enough to burn something in her dry body, like a wildfire, burning off reason inch by inch.

    Suddenly, the red lips separated, and the cold air extinguished the flames.

    Ruan Shengyi’s eyes were moist, and she looked at the person who got up with a frown, and said in a low voice, “Am I very bad, very unsuitable?”

    “How could you be.” The woman stroked her cheek, her voice charming, “You’re great, you’re just a little green, remember to breathe.”

    “How…?”

    “How you breathe when you run, that’s how you breathe now.”

    The woman leaned down again, flicking her broken hair, and said in a low voice, “I can’t last too long, you have to learn.”

    This time it started from the corner of her lips, comforting the fear that arose from the bottom of her heart, until she gently sucked on her lip pearl, Xiao Wenyu was still trying to smooth out her trembling, but her body suddenly lightened, the other person stretched out her arm to support her, sharing some of the pressure for her, and at the same time, the tip of her tongue gently poked her lip.

    She quickly took it back.

    Laughter spilled out from between her lips, Xiao Wenyu pulled her up to sit up, and was glad that the trunk space was big enough, so she didn’t have to worry about hitting her head when sitting upright.

    Ruan Shengyi looked at her nervously, “Right, right?”

    “Ruan, you wouldn’t have never even seen porn, would you?”

    The voice was mixed with warm breathing, like a cat scratching, tickling her heart.

    Ruan Shengyi nodded slowly.

    She didn’t dare, she feared any information that would trigger her anxiety, and consciously avoided that information. Of course, that didn’t mean she didn’t understand, after all, she had lived for twenty-seven years, and was about to turn twenty-eight. She wouldn’t be so stupid that she didn’t understand this.

    When kissing, you should always stick your tongue out.

    Xiao Wenyu smiled, “It’s right, continue?”

    Without waiting for a response, she took the initiative again, putting her hands on Ruan Shengyi’s shoulders, forcing her to retreat, leaning against the car, so as not to fall down.

    The tips of their noses touched, the glasses had already been taken off and thrown aside, their eyes met without any obstruction, the water mist seemed to flow, conveying language.

    Xiao Wenyu asked softly, “Would you mind? I’m very good at it…”

    Ruan Shengyi lowered her eyes to look at her, “I don’t mind.”

    “That way you’re more like a scabbard, a scabbard that controls my direction.”

    I appreciate you, admire you, admire your courage, and mend the cracks in my heart. I won’t care about those so-called pasts, because holding on is meaningless, and people who leave are entitled to be happy again.

    “You’re so serious, it’s never been your fault.” Ruan Shengyi wrapped her arms around her waist, and spoke very seriously.

    This time, she took the lead in filling the gap, but first sucked away the tears from the side of her face, and then gently pressed her red lips, “Teach me.”

    Fill all the blanks, and announce to the world under the night sky that you are the best teacher, and I am your only student, and the best student.

    Shacheng was just a small county town in the northwest desert, with only one high school. The online rate of first-tier universities every year was only 5%, but Ruan Shengyi could still rely on herself to get an admission notice from Yecheng Normal University.

    At this moment, when Xiao Wenyu didn’t know about the woman’s past, she couldn’t help but admire Ruan Shengyi’s learning ability in her heart.

    When their red lips met, the tip of her tongue only wandered around once, and the other person’s tongue followed closely behind. The arms she had placed on Ruan Shengyi’s shoulders had clearly changed from hooking at the beginning to supporting herself so that she wouldn’t fall down.

    She was forced to retreat, but had nowhere to retreat, so she lay down halfway, putting all the strength of her body completely on Ruan Shengyi’s body.

    Ruan Shengyi naturally took care of her body, slowly and gently helped her lie down, felt her couldn’t help but shrink her shoulders, then let go of her soft lips, gently bit her jaw, and then gently sucked her neck, then held the water mist that was about to ripple out, propped up her body, and turned on the reading light on the front top.

    Xiao Wenyu was also breathing slightly, her eyes were like she had just cried, the water mist was lingering, she closed her eyes when the light was turned on, and then slowly opened them, not much better than her.

    Ruan Shengyi slowed down and said in a hoarse voice, “Am I very crazy?”

    “No, not at all.” Xiao Wenyu held her face, “You are the angel of the night.”

    Soothing and considerate, how could she be a crazy person.

    But Ruan Shengyi was still worried, “…but I’m very uncomfortable now, I can’t explain it.”

    She was worried and very serious.

    Xiao Wenyu chuckled, and pinched her cheek with two fingers together, “So silly. Because this is just the ten-minute pre-class of this class.”

    “How do you feel about the content of these ten minutes? Is it as bad as those in your impression?”

    “…Not at all.”

    “Then do you want to learn the remaining thirty minutes of the course?”

    Ruan Shengyi suddenly smiled, leaned down and kissed the corner of her lips, and then leaned close to her ear and said, “A university class is ninety minutes long, and there are still eighty minutes left for the rest of the content.”

    She clearly knew everything, and still had the mood to tease her.

    Xiao Wenyu pinched her face, “But the teacher can’t stand anymore, a little guy is going to take fifty minutes.”

    “…I’ll go collect the tent, you wait for me.”

    *

    When they went back, the two leaned on their respective sides without saying a word, one focused on driving, and the other didn’t know what she was thinking.

    Ruan Shengyi nervously peeked at her, and felt even colder in her heart when she realized that the other person was inexplicably cold to her. She wanted to open her mouth, but she was not good at words in the first place, and her heart was even more up and down at this time, not knowing what to say.

    After entering the city, she stopped the car.

    Ruan Shengyi: “I’ll go buy something.”

    Xiao Wenyu glanced at the name of the store next to her, and nodded with a smile.

    When she came back, a slender white hand gently knocked on the center console armrest, the fingers danced flexibly, accompanied by the woman’s warm smile, “I didn’t say that I would teach the follow-up courses tonight.”

    The hand made Ruan Shengyi’s heart itch, she tried to hold it, but the woman slapped it away, “Drive carefully.”

    What a cold sentence, but if the hand was also taken back, she would believe that Xiao Wenyu really didn’t want to teach her the follow-up things, as for now…

    The fingers bent and stretched on the armrest, playfully fiddling with the storage box, opening it, closing it, like teasing the rabbit’s jaw, watching the three-part mouth break the past silence, impatiently seeming to move her to bite it.

    It tickled Ruan Shengyi’s heart.

    So excessive.

    Opening the door, closing the door, entering the door, they walked side by side, there were too many things to fill all their hands, but at the moment when the elevator door slowly closed, Ruan Shengyi finally couldn’t bear it anymore, turned sideways, and pressed the person against the corner.

    “So excessive.” She groaned through gritted teeth.

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