Chapter 32: Does it Hurt?

The curtains in the office were drawn tightly, the room in disarray. Lu Beiyan sat in a corner, clutching a bottle of red wine.

He had refrained from contacting her for two days. Last night, he missed her so much he couldn’t sleep, only relieving the longing by chain-smoking, without disturbing her.

Because he wanted Shi Ran to come to him on her own initiative.

But with a floor littered with cigarette butts, as dawn broke, he still missed her terribly.

He thought of a sleepless night.

In the morning, he tried to act as if nothing had happened, still driving to work. But while processing documents, her face would involuntarily appear in his mind.

The exhilarating moments they shared in bed.

Therefore, he could no longer bear the longing, even just hearing her voice.

The moment her voice clearly came through the receiver, he felt it.

He stood before the mirror, one hand supporting the sink, the other reaching down.

He found release in the soft sounds coming from the receiver.

No one knew how much Lu Beiyan suffered from the mere days without seeing her.

So, when he desperately craved her, when she cruelly rejected him, when her tone was so perfunctory, when he saw her living so well without him, Lu Beiyan’s emotions were completely shattered.

However, Shi Ran on the other side was completely different. The days away from Lu Beiyan were like a fish finally returning to the sea, a bird finally soaring in the sky. She felt that even the air was free.

On the evening of the third day, she and her grandmother were sitting in the living room, watching a melodramatic TV series. Her grandmother was watching with gusto.

Her phone rang abruptly. Seeing it was Lu Beiyan, remembering yesterday’s call, Shi Ran subconsciously hung up.

The evening breeze blew across her face and hair, leaving her alone and disheveled in the wind.

What should she do?

Only after hanging up did she realize the seriousness of the situation.

She had actually hung up on Lu Beiyan.

Call him back? She didn’t want to.

Not call him back? It would make her seem deliberate.

Before she could think too much, the phone rang again.

This time, she stared intently at the phone screen and slid the answer button.

“Hello.”

“Come out.”

“What?”

“I said come out! Are you deaf?”

Before she could speak, the call was disconnected.

She held her phone, unsure what to do. Her grandmother was still engrossed in the melodramatic TV series. What excuse should she use?

Seeing a bag of garbage in the living room, she went over and picked it up.

“Grandma, I’ll take the garbage downstairs and buy some skewers from the village entrance. Do you want some?”

Her grandmother waved her hand, glanced at the clock swinging on the wall, and instructed, “Oh, I’m an old woman with bad teeth, I can’t eat that stuff. It’s quite late, don’t stay out too late, come back by nine o’clock.”

Shi Ran looked at the time, it was 7:30, and quickly agreed.

Going out, passing the vegetable garden filled with seedlings, a Bentley was indeed parked at the corner outside the courtyard. A tall, slender figure stood beside the car, dressed in a silver-gray, impeccably tailored black suit.

She turned left, threw the garbage into the bin, and walked towards him.

“What…”

“Matter.”

Before she could finish, he pulled her into the back seat of the car.

The already reclined back seat was too suggestive.

He buried his face in her snow-white neck, showering her with kisses.

“Ranran, did you miss me? I miss you so much, I miss you so much!”

He kissed her neck, or rather, it was more like biting.

Shi Ran winced in pain, trying to push him away, but he only became more unrestrained.

Shi Ran instinctively cried out.

Then she realized where she was and bit her lip to prevent herself from making a sound.

This house was in a quiet area, and usually no one would pass by.

Ignoring her struggles, he pulled off his tie and bound her hands above her head.

“Lu Beiyan, you’re crazy! It hurts!” Shi Ran whispered, tears uncontrollably rolling down her cheeks.

Lu Beiyan had never treated her like this before.

“Don’t touch me, you promised me.”

Lu Beiyan bit her shoulder, looked at her panicked expression, and lowered his head to kiss her lips.

“Ranran, does it hurt? But it’s nothing compared to my pain these past two days!”

“Ranran, I won’t touch you, in a moment, I’ll make you beg me to touch you!”

As Lu Beiyan said, he didn’t go all the way, but she was completely defenseless.

His long fingers were nimble.

Under the night sky, beneath the locust trees, the apricot-yellow light in the car illuminated their intertwined bodies.

But he withdrew as she was losing herself.

Almost there!

…

Two hours later.

Shi Ran’s hands were unbound, her wrists red. Lu Beiyan gently rubbed them, blowing on them.

Shi Ran was sulking. This tenderness was for show!

Who was the one who tied her up so enthusiastically just now!

Lu Beiyan was too cunning, he knew exactly how to tease her, how to make her swing between heaven and hell.

This time, Shi Ran was the one who surrendered, begging him!

Thinking of her own seductive appearance, Shi Ran felt it was a huge conspiracy.

The parched earth met the rain, the dead tree met spring.

Life was vibrant.

But Shi Ran felt ashamed of her lack of self-control.

She adjusted her wrinkled clothes and looked at Lu Beiyan, who was still impeccably dressed, as if nothing had happened, a picture of abstinence.

!

“Ranran, you’re quite strong!” Lu Beiyan lifted his shirt sleeve, showing a bruised area on his arm, and his back was also burning with pain.

He had really angered the little thing this time.

He chuckled.

Shi Ran ignored him and got out of the car, but he suddenly grabbed her wrist.

“Ranran, see you tomorrow night.”

Shi Ran shook him off, but Lu Beiyan didn’t get angry.

“Ranran can be like today, anyway, I always have a way.”

“……”

After Shi Ran got out of the car, she checked her phone, it was ten minutes to nine!

That bastard Lu Beiyan!

She ran to buy some skewers at the village entrance. When she returned, Lu Beiyan’s car was still there.

She was so scared that she took a big detour. Lu Beiyan was sitting in the driver’s seat, and seeing her running away in panic, he laughed until his chest shook.

“Hey!”

Shi Ran turned back, looked at him, put her index finger to her lips to make a silencing gesture, and whispered, “Don’t shout! Keep your voice down!”

Lu Beiyan still laughed and waved at her.

Seeing this, Shi Ran didn’t go over, she just wanted to run inside.

“Ranran!” He shouted louder.

Shi Ran’s scalp tingled.

Devil!

She turned back to his car door.

“What? Don’t shout! Grandma will hear!”

Lu Beiyan: “Isn’t it good if Grandma hears? Then Grandma will definitely ask me to stay overnight, and you won’t be able to escape tonight!”

Shi Ran: “…”

Ahhhhhhhh!

She was going crazy, who let the devil out!

Can someone please take him away!

I can’t take it anymore ahhhhhhh!

“What’s wrong?” She was carrying a white plastic bag with some skewers, emitting a fragrant smell.

She was also holding a half-eaten grilled wing in her other hand.

“I want to eat skewers.”

“Huh?” Shi Ran looked at him in confusion, her face saying: Are you alright?

From her understanding of Lu Beiyan, he never ate this kind of junk food.

She held up the bag, “Here, which one do you want, take it yourself.”

Lu Beiyan suddenly leaned out of the car window and kissed her, nibbling on her lips.

“I got it.”

Shi Ran: “…”