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    Chapter 113 This is enough to prove what they did last night.

    Perhaps the moment Sheng Jia’s whisper appeared, it represented that some things were already out of control.

    Song Ji’an leaned on the deck chair, watching the huge waves and glaciers that the cruise ship passed by, and it was difficult to focus her vision anymore.

    On Aliya Island, trapped by the environment, she and Sheng Jia only explored each other with their lips and tongues, but now, the atmosphere is so good, and there are more things for them to explore.

    The dark gray blanket that was originally draped over Sheng Jia’s shoulders had been covering Song Ji’an’s shoulders. She seemed to hear the sound of water closer than the rolling waves.

    Sheng Jia leaned close to her ear and whispered, “I feel like I’m wrapped up.”

    Song Ji’an couldn’t speak, and she couldn’t break free. She turned her head and wanted to bite Sheng Jia’s neck, but only bit a strand of her hair.

    Immediately afterwards, this strand of hair was pulled away from her lips. Song Ji’an clenched the armrest, but in an instant, her fingers were pried open by a force. Sheng Jia forcefully interlocked her five fingers with her left hand. She felt the wetness from the tip of her middle finger to the knuckle, and subconsciously wanted to break free but was clenched again.

    “Sheng Jia, sit back on the chair,” Song Ji’an felt the warm breath, not on her neck, nor in her ears, but in a place that made her even more stretched, making her want to cover Sheng Jia’s mouth and nose, so that she could no longer make trouble with her breathing.

    But she couldn’t do it. Sheng Jia seemed to be in control of her, so that after she finished saying this, she could only use her free hand to press her lowered shoulder, crumpling her neatly ironed shirt, until Sheng Jia raised her head herself.

    She knelt on the ground on one knee, with a few smudges on her glasses, and perhaps not just on the glasses, but also on her Talking nose.

    Song Ji’an gritted her teeth, she held the two interlocked hands in reverse, and pulled Sheng Jia from the ground onto the deck chair.

    The wide deck chair was enough to accommodate two people, but only two people. They were very close, and the heat was transmitted between them through the thin pajamas.

    Song Ji’an’s face was flushed, and she hadn’t felt her heartbeat so violently for a long, long time. Sheng Jia brought her a feeling she had never felt before, like a spark of fire lit in her body in the cold winter, instantly burning to her whole body.

    She raised her hand to hold Sheng Jia’s face, and tears suddenly flowed from her eyes. Her eyelashes trembled slightly, and the tears became a string of beads.

    Song Ji’an didn’t know why she was crying, and she didn’t have time to sort out her thoughts. She only followed her instinct to find Sheng Jia’s moist lips.

    They kissed again in the bumpy waves, from this balcony to the huge floor-to-ceiling windows of the room.

    The Pandora’s box symbolizing desire and indulgence was completely opened in the hearts of the two people, and only a discordant gasp remained in the quiet bedroom.

    Later, there was hypnotic music that Sheng Jia had timed to play in the room.

    The ethereal female voice was like a Siren singing softly, unable to make people sleep, and unable to make people wake up.

    She repeated in a low voice—

    Painful people, have you fallen into madness?

    In the gentle afterglow, who is kissing your cheek.

    Difficult to suppress emotions spread, tearing at suppressed desires.

    You never left, like a shadow, unable to get rid of.

    Day and night cycle, only the moon above knows everything.

    In the cadence of Norwegian, Song Ji’an raised her hand and passed through Sheng Jia’s already wet hair, and said in a hoarse voice, “It’s you.”

    The shadows of the two people were printed on the glass, countless palm prints buckle on it, one covering the other. Sheng Jia looked at her in the mirror and asked in a low voice, “What do you mean?”

    No matter how good Sheng Jia is, it is impossible to master such a niche language as Norwegian so easily.

    But Song Ji’an understood, she was answering.

    ——In the gentle afterglow, who is kissing your cheek.

    ——It’s you.

    It’s Sheng Jia.

    She had never admitted Sheng Jia’s attraction to her so boldly.

    Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an never left the room on the return trip of this ship.

    Sometimes it was by the window, sometimes it was on the bed, sometimes it was by the wine rack in the room. Several bottles of spirits were opened. Song Ji’an had no omissions for Sheng Jia’s destructive desire. She even poured the spirits down Sheng Jia’s chin, drenching her whole body. Of course, in the end, she was also buckled back to the wine table. Those scalding liquors returned to her mouth through kisses, and she also learned Sheng Jia’s way, tasting more different juices in other places.

    Their madness lasted until the ship was about to dock.

    The iconic seaport of Aniels Main Island appeared in front of them.

    Sheng Jia lay down on the head of the bed, everything in her vision was upside down.

    She was already exhausted.

    Song Ji’an wiped her hair, dragging her tired body out of the bathroom, glanced at Sheng Jia and threw a thin blanket on her.

    “Go take a bath,” her eyes were deep, “There’s still half an hour before the ship docks.”

    Sheng Jia smiled. At this time, she understood a little bit what it felt like for Meng Yeran and Song Ji’an to always like to rely on cigarettes and alcohol to get through when they were mentally blank.

    At this time, she did need something to restore her brain to reason.

    Of course, it could be something else.

    Sheng Jia squeezed her eyebrows. The tooth marks on the corners of her lips this time probably wouldn’t fade so easily. Outside the window, she could no longer see the iceberg. The gradually darkening sky and sea were connected into one, and she could only see a tiny bit of light from the tall lighthouse on the main island, which was the only star in the sea and sky.

    Sheng Jia threw off the thin blanket and stood up from the bed naked, passing by Song Ji’an and lazily walked into the bathroom.

    Song Ji’an stood there. Not to mention the bite marks on Sheng Jia’s face, even her own neck and wrists were full of bite marks and kiss marks.

    This is enough to prove what they did last night.

    But now the ship is about to dock.

    In another ten hours at most, they will leave.

    These five days of indulgence will also come to an end.

    She sat by the wine table and put the vinyl record played last night back into the retro gramophone in the room.

    No one had the mind to stop it last night. She didn’t know how many times it had been repeated in her ears. Afterwards, they moved from the floor-to-ceiling window to the wine table. Song Ji’an tremblingly took out the disc. At that time, Sheng Jia was deliberately making trouble, making it difficult for her to move. Finally, she was splashed with wine all over her chin as an end.

    The room was full of clothes, in a mess. Song Ji’an rested her chin on her hand and listened to the record again.

    When Sheng Jia came out of the bathroom, there was no one in the room.

    Only that familiar music was still playing.

    Sheng Jia walked to the gramophone, without any other action, she reopened the computer and solved the follow-up work that she hadn’t had time to deal with last night.

    It was impossible for Song Ji’an to accompany her to the last moment of madness. She needed time to gather her indulgent mind and withdraw from the madness.

    Sheng Jia didn’t plan to push too hard.

    Or perhaps, she also needed time to return to normal.

    She had never planned that the two of them would continue to be crazy like this. People with reason as their background cannot enjoy long-term madness. That would only destroy people completely, just like the two years she suppressed after learning the truth in high school.

    If she hadn’t taken the opportunity to get close to Song Ji’an, she might have become even more crazy.

    Soon, the cruise ship docked on the main island of the Aniels Islands. The captain’s reminder sounded inside, and special crew members came to knock on the door.

    Sheng Jia closed the computer and responded lightly through the door.

    After she walked out of the room, the door next to her also opened. Song Ji’an walked out of the door with a suitcase. The two looked at each other and tacitly didn’t say anything, walking forward along the corridor side by side.

    It was not until they arrived on the deck that they saw Meng Yeran and the others again. Hilda and Ellie Shen Qi disembarked a few minutes earlier than them. Only Meng Yeran and Dong Zhen were left by the ship’s corridor. They saw the two and said hello.

    “You’re finally down,” Dong Zhen took her hand out of her pocket, and two special popsicles appeared in her hand. “The chef on the ship said that she didn’t see you all day yesterday, and this gift was too late to send out. Homemade popsicles, I heard that they are rarely made, and I was asked to give them to you.”

    Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an took them respectively. Meng Yeran, who was also holding a popsicle, looked at the two of them.

    To be honest, since the seven people boarded the ship, it was random who could meet whom. Even Meng Yeran had only met Dong Zhen and Hilda on the ship. She hadn’t seen any of the remaining people. After all, the ship was indeed too spacious for seven people.

    But looking at the state of Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an, they could probably tell that they must have been staying together all day.

    However, Meng Yeran was a little overwhelmed now, and didn’t have much extra thought to watch Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an’s fun.

    On the contrary, Dong Zhen still remembered the purpose of this return, which was also the reason why she and Meng Yeran were waiting here.

    “So what kind of deal did you make with Hilda?” Dong Zhen asked bluntly.

    They were about to go back, and she also needed to report back to Fu Minglang.

    “20% of the mining rights and a low-price transportation channel in China,” Sheng Jia didn’t hide anything, and answered bluntly.

    “Okay,” Dong Zhen nodded lazily. Of course, she knew that there must be some other conditions in the middle, but this was obviously something that Sheng Jia and Meng Yeran needed to worry about.

    Dong Zhen had become much more sophisticated over the years, and of course, she had become more lazy. She would never cause trouble for herself.

    She believed whatever Sheng Jia said. As for how the 20% of the mining rights would be distributed within the three companies, that was none of their business, and the groups of the three companies would discuss it themselves.

    “What’s your itinerary after disembarking?” Dong Zhen asked again.

    “We’re going back to China,” Sheng Jia said, “The things that need to be discussed with Hilda have been clarified. It’s the same to discuss any follow-up issues in China.”

    The “we” she said naturally referred to herself and Song Ji’an.

    Song Ji’an didn’t refute.

    Dong Zhen glanced at Song Ji’an, and she was a little hesitant whether to take out the other thing in her hand.

    “Is there anything you want to say to me?” Song Ji’an saw her hesitation and asked understandingly.

    “There is a gift that Julia asked me to give you.” Dong Zhen took out two boxes from her pocket with some helplessness. “Do you remember five years ago when we were on Ansdert Island? At that time, Julia was aiming for the wasp jade, but she didn’t get the ownership of the island in the end. You gave her 1% of the mining rights for free, fulfilling her obsession with the wasp jade. She hasn’t forgotten these years, but she can’t find you. This time, when she heard that we were coming to Norway, she originally wanted to come and see you herself, but she was held back by something at home. So she could only entrust me to pass this gift on to you.”

    Song Ji’an was slightly stunned, and finally remembered this matter.

    After their winter vacation ended that year, she secretly gave Julia the authority, but later, this island had nothing to do with her and was voluntarily abandoned by her.

    She understood the reason for Dong Zhen’s hesitation.

    Song Ningqiu had always been extremely meticulous in introducing her to upper-class friends in the past. Neither Dong Zhen nor Julia were people who would look down on others. Just like they could treat Sheng Jia equally in the beginning, they can also treat Song Ji’an equally now, and they will never make any of them feel uncomfortable.

    The same was true for reuniting with Dong Zhen this time. She didn’t show any surprise or alienation, as if the five years of blank space in the middle had never appeared. This was a particularly comfortable and pressure-free approach.

    But she wasn’t sure whether Song Ji’an was still willing to mention these past events.

    Song Ji’an took the gift box from her hand and only smiled, “Thank her for me, I’ll accept it.”

    Sheng Jia beside her raised her eyes to look at her, but quickly withdrew this glance.

    Dong Zhen responded, “Okay, I’ll thank her for you tomorrow.”

    “Aren’t you going back to China?”

    Dong Zhen shook her head, “Julia invited me to play at her place for two days.”

    “What about you?” Sheng Jia asked Meng Yeran.

    Meng Yeran replied meaningfully, “I’m going to stay in Northern Europe for two more days to solve something in Iceland.”

    Sheng Jia nodded, without asking too much about what Meng Yeran was going to do, but she guessed that it was probably related to Vilma, after all, Iceland was Vilma’s base camp.

    But she still reminded, “If you think through Hilda’s conditions, you can contact me at any time.”

    “Okay,” Meng Yeran didn’t resist much this time, and only said directly, “I just want to play for a few more days. As for what choices to make, haven’t you already chosen for us? There’s no other choice to make.”

    Sheng Jia pretended not to hear the complaints and sarcasm in her words. The four of them got off the ship, too lazy to wait for the villa to pick up the car, so they simply got on the shuttle bus.

    Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an sat in the last row by the car window. The leisurely scenery of the town passed quickly. In a silence, she whispered to Song Ji’an, “Ansdert Island is still in your name. The snake that Selena left behind is still being well raised.”

    Song Ji’an paused slightly. She turned her head to look out the window and suddenly smiled, “Is that so? But it shouldn’t belong to me.”

    “It can belong to you.” Sheng Jia said slowly, “Song Ji’an, don’t rush to refuse. Haven’t you noticed that you have actually changed a bit?”

    At least when she had just reunited with Sheng Jia, she would never have accepted Julia’s gift.

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