TFS | Chapter 53

“What do you want the phone for?”

Qi Yue rubbed his aching head. A flicker of unease flashed through those black eyes, fixed intently on her, and he leaned over to hold her.

His warm chest pressed against Xu Linruan’s shoulder. Maybe he had noticed she was distracted, because the strength of his embrace slowly tightened too, as if that way, she wouldn’t run away.

Xu Linruan glanced at him, her tone cool. “Even if we don’t go out, do you think you can hide forever? You may be a little stupid, but even an ugly daughter-in-law has to meet her in-laws someday. Don’t tell me you really don’t plan to go home with me and meet my parents?”

Uh… ugly daughter-in-law meeting the in-laws?

Was she talking about him?

Qi Yue was slow to react. It took him a few seconds to process it, and then those black eyes stared at her tightly. His voice was so excited it went a little overboard. “Ruanruan, do you mean you want to take me home to have a baby?”

Xu Linruan: “…”

Was this guy’s head full of only that one thing?

When Qi Yue saw that she was quiet again, he simply pounced and pinned her down, unable to contain his excitement as he confirmed again and again, “Ruanruan, Ruanruan, you’re going to take me home? Take me home to meet your parents, and then the two of us have a baby together?”

Xu Linruan silently turned her face away, not planning to look at his expectant, idiotically pleased expression. “Not having one.”

“Huh? Not having one! Why not?”

Qi Yue froze, glanced at his girlfriend’s disgusted look, and immediately started clinging and fussing over her. In a pitiful voice, he said, “Ruanruan, why won’t you have one with me? I like children, especially yours. Give me a soft little daughter, okay? I’ll spoil her for sure. I’ll definitely be a very gentle, very good dad, okay? Please, Ruanruan…”

“No. I’m afraid it’ll come out a dummy.”

“…That…”

On this question, Qi Yue actually had a little concern too. If the daughter they had in the future ended up with grades as bad as his, wouldn’t that waste his mother’s good genes?

The young master frowned, struggled for a moment, and then continued to suggest, “Then what about a boy? A boy being a bit stupid is fine, and he can take a beating too, okay?”

Xu Linruan couldn’t help laughing. This guy’s stance was really not firm at all, so she asked, “Do you like boys or girls?”

The guy opposite her took the chance to sneak a kiss when she wasn’t paying attention, his cheeks even a little red. “I like you.”

Xu Linruan pushed his face away. “Who asked you that? I asked whether you like boys or girls.”

Even though they had already done things far more intimate, every confession still made his heart race uncontrollably. Those round black eyes looked at her with absolute focus. “I just like you. I only like you. Anything related to you, I like it.”

Xu Linruan gently brushed his hot earlobe with her fingers and asked softly, “Mm… then how much do you like me?”

He rubbed his reddened cheeks and buried his head in her chest. The sweet talk that came out of him seemed wrapped in honey, so sweet it was almost melting. “Very much. Ruanruan, I love you. I love you so, so much. You have to love me very, very much too in the future, okay?”

Xu Linruan raised her brows, not fooled by his sugar-coated bullets. She sat up. “Then if I love you, does that mean I have to make you happy every day?”

He nodded quickly. “Of course.”

“Mm. Then if I love you, do you have to listen to me?”

“That too.”

Xu Linruan went on, “Then let me out now. We’ll leave here together?”

The voice on the other end stalled at once. “…That… won’t work…”

“Why?” Xu Linruan hooked her arm around his neck and flipped over to sit on his lap. Her tone was faintly cool. “Are all those things you said about loving me and listening to me fake?”

“Of course not.” Qi Yue adjusted his posture so she could sit steadily on his lap. “Ruanruan, can’t you stay with me for a while? When this period is over, I’ll let you out, okay?”

“How long is a while?”

Qi Yue prevaricated. “Soon.”

What was wrong with him? She had heard that kind of vague answer more than a dozen times already. This attitude was obviously bad for their relationship. Excessive possessiveness would only make people feel suffocated and exhausted.

Xu Linruan thought about it. Since reasoning with him didn’t work, there was nothing else for it. This was the choice he had made himself. If softness didn’t work, then she would have to be hard on him.

So her pale fingers slowly moved up to his collar, brushed from his chin across his Adam’s apple, and then pulled at his tie.

He swallowed unconsciously. “Wifey, wh-what are you going to do?”

“Guess.” His girlfriend smiled at him, her brows and eyes irresistibly alluring.

He guessed she definitely wanted to do something bad. Following her gaze, Qi Yue watched as her slender fingers slowly took the gray tie away and played with it carefully. He cautiously reached out to touch his wifey’s little hand, only to have it slapped back with a sharp pop.

Qi Yue rubbed his stinging hand. He wanted to touch her but didn’t dare, so his voice got even softer. “Wifey, that hurts. What do you want to p-play with? I can cooperate with you.”

Xu Linruan gave him a sideways glance and said nothing. The next second, she used the tie to bind his hands. Qi Yue stared wide-eyed at the move, somehow finding it oddly familiar. Wasn’t this a dirty trick he had used on his wifey a long time ago? How had it become his turn now?

Could it be that wifey wanted to play forceful love? Qi Yue was thrilled. He could. He absolutely could. He could be forcefully played with a hundred times.

“Really? Then can I play with you?” She leaned close to Qi Yue’s ear and spoke softly, her warm breath deliberately brushing against it. Qi Yue only felt a faint tingle at the tip of his ear, a little itchy. He wanted to reach up and rub it, but he couldn’t, because he was tied up now.

She reached out and touched his slightly red earlobe, her voice very gentle. “Did you forget that some time five years ago, you pinned me onto the sofa and had so much fun you couldn’t even close your legs? Want to try again?”

Yes, yes, yes. He wanted it so badly!

The young master nodded hard, though the pose was a little bizarre. Being tied up by his wifey and pressed against the sofa made him inexplicably feel a little ashamed. Especially since his wifey’s clothes were neat and proper while his own were messy and disheveled, making him look utterly wrecked and played with. It even looked a little exciting…

Most importantly, this still wasn’t the hardest part.

Once he got excited, and his little brother was also spirited and ready to go, standing tall and proud to greet his girlfriend, the momentum of the whole thing was like a meeting between two sides, just waiting for a hole-in-one, a triumphant final rendezvous.

Then his girlfriend suddenly withdrew. She let go and stopped caring about him, and after teasing him like this, she just left him hanging. Qi Yue froze, wanting to stuff her into his arms and bite her to death. He looked up at her, eyes wet, cheeks flushed with a thin layer of color, looking utterly strained.

“Ruanruan, come here, okay?”

He wanted to move, but his hands were tied, and the other end was fastened to the corner of the table. The more anxious he got, the less he could break free. All he could do was stare at the person in front of him with red-rimmed eyes. “Don’t… don’t do this, Ruanruan. Come here, get a little closer to me, okay?”

Xu Linruan curved her lips. Her fingers circled over his chest, and seeing him on the verge of collapse, she smiled even more temptingly. She was not going to let him off that easily.

“Nope. You’re not listening to me now, so I can’t give it to you.” Xu Linruan sat on the sofa, long hair spilling over her shoulders. She propped her chin on her hand and watched him with leisurely ease.

Qi Yue was almost crying from anxiety. Sweat beaded on his forehead. He tugged hard at the tie, his wrists already rubbed red, but no matter how it had been tied, he still couldn’t get loose.

He seriously suspected his girlfriend was some kind of female demon, specially running over to toy with his body and mind. But if she was going to toy with him, then she should see it through. Why quit halfway? Wasn’t that killing him? Not professional at all.

Right now he only wanted to pin her to the sofa and make her cry for mercy, and yet here he was, the one tied to the sofa by his wifey and made to suffer unbearably, neither living nor dying.

This life was impossible.

Qi Yue refused to take it anymore. This time he really did cry, the corners of his eyes bright red. Probably pissed off enough to become fiercely aggrieved, his eyes were wet and misty, as if a thin layer of vapor had settled over them. As a grown man, being pinned to the sofa by his girlfriend to do this kind of thing, and being reduced to this state, how was he supposed to survive if word got out?

Xu Linruan glanced at him. He really was crying.

She was a little surprised. Was this kid really this bad at playing along? Weren’t there posts from two days ago where he was bragging that he was tough as nails and could handle whatever she threw at him?

And he couldn’t even take it from the beginning?

Those thick lashes trembled slightly with grievance, his hair was soaked with sweat, and because he was in so much distress, his whole body had gone rigid. Even like that, he was still murmuring her name in a muffled voice. “Ruanruan…”

Xu Linruan leaned in a little closer and kissed the corner of his mouth. “Be good. If you listen, I’ll help you.”

The young master’s breathing stopped. He rubbed his head against her in grievance, nuzzling her ear, his face full of a pitiful little expression. “Give it to me, okay? I’ll be good, I’ll listen. This kind of play will break me, wifey, that place hasn’t been exercised in so long, it’s probably, wuwuwu… going to explode. Can you help me…”

Xu Linruan lowered her head and chuckled softly. “Then will you listen?”

Qi Yue twisted his body, trying hard to get closer to her. “I’ll listen, Ruanruan.”

“Good. Then close your eyes.”

…………

When it was over, Qi Yue sat on the sofa in a state of frustrated desire. He pulled her into his arms, too tense to dare lift his head. “I still haven’t…”

Xu Linruan ignored him. “Then bear with it.”

Qi Yue’s face was red as he bit at her ear. “You lied. You said you’d give it to me, but in the end, and… and right here, you just feel it yourself and you’ll know, it got hard again.”

Xu Linruan gave him a look. “Then go to the bathroom yourself. I didn’t tie you up this time.”

He didn’t want to go to the bathroom and handle it himself. He was a man who had seen the world, after all. That kind of low-level operation could no longer satisfy him at all.

He lowered his head and sniffed and licked around her neck, his breathing damp. That doglike habit started up again. “If I can’t touch it, then at least let me feel it?”

Xu Linruan smacked his head. Her tone was cold, utterly merciless. “No.”

Qi Yue grew even more aggrieved. His eyes misty, he looked at her. His girlfriend had tied him up and pressed him onto the sofa until there wasn’t even a pair of underpants left on him. And yet she, on the other hand, was dressed neatly from head to toe, not even a button undone. Was that something a human being would do?