That was right.
“Yezhe, thank you…”
That’s it…
“It’s fine. You should get some rest.”
‘Just one more step…’
“Mm-hmm…”
‘Just have to go in…’
Yezhe slowly supported the limp Yudong as they walked toward the bedroom, soon stopping in front of a wooden door.
‘Just have to reach that place…’
His palm rested on the metallic handle. After a *click*, Yezhe opened the closed bedroom door.
‘This… is Yudong’s bedroom.’
By the silver moonlight pouring in from the window, the boy’s gaze swept across the room.
Clean, tidy. And, lonely…
It was a common bedroom layout: one bed, one desk, and one wardrobe.
Everything was in perfect order… as if it had been disciplined. Not a single trace of clutter could be found.
But besides that?
There were no cute dolls, no posters on the walls, and no small ornaments on the nightstand or desk.
There wasn’t even a single photograph. The entire room was as empty as a model room used for a real estate display; there was no sign of a young girl’s vibrant life.
As if he couldn’t believe what he was seeing, Yezhe widened his eyes to observe more closely, but the darkness blocked his view.
‘It’s a bit dark… I should turn on the light.’
Thinking this, Yezhe’s free hand naturally reached for the blurry outline on the wall.
“No, no need for the light… Just help me to the bed.”
Pale fingertips caught Yezhe’s hand as it reached for the switch. Yudong tilted her head slightly, her moist eyes looking at Yezhe with a pleading gaze.
“Uh… okay.”
This action caused the boy to turn his head, meeting her tender, watery eyes and her pale cheeks stained with tears.
Her expression made it look as if the girl in his arms had committed some terrible mistake, making it impossible for Yezhe to refuse…
Besides, it wasn’t an unreasonable request.
With a word of agreement, Yezhe helped Yudong to the bed.
“Come on, slowly now…”
Removing her soft, slender arm from his neck, Yezhe crouched slightly, turning his body to help Yudong lie down on the bed.
… …Huh???
“Yudong… you…”
The change happened without warning. Just as Yezhe’s body was halfway turned, a force far beyond his expectations surged from his shoulders.
This sudden strength caught him off guard, instantly throwing off his balance.
He was carried by her force, falling straight backward and slamming heavily onto the bed.
Before Yezhe could react, the girl had already leaned down and pinned him.
Her hands clamped onto the boy’s wrists like vines, pinning his arms firmly against the mattress on either side of his body.
Her slender body erupted with astonishing strength; for a moment, Yezhe was completely suppressed by her.
“…You… what exactly is wrong with you today…”
It happened so suddenly that even though he was pinned beneath Yudong, his thoughts remained a mess.
“Yezhe…”
“Yezhe, Yezhe, Yezhe…”
The girl’s voice was no longer weak like before. She called his name over and over again, as if that name was her only lifeline.
Her breathing grew rapid, and her warm breath brushed against Yezhe’s cheek in waves.
“Well, you— Mph!”
Yezhe was about to ask something when he saw Yudong press her whole body down, sealing his words.
Their eyes met, and time seemed to stand still…
It was a gaze full of remorse. It was a reckless gaze, full of determination.
It was… a gaze filled with happiness, yet one where desire grew boundlessly.
Yudong kissed him.
A gentle sensation came from her lips. At this moment, the warmth the girl had sought day and night was finally hers, and tears welled up from the corners of her eyes.
These were tears of happiness…
A light touch was no longer enough to satisfy her.
After a while, Yudong slowly sat up, looking down at the shocked, panting boy beneath her.
The scene that had appeared countless times in her dreams had finally become a reality.
‘Yes… just like this… Pinned beneath me… At my mercy…’
Then, Yezhe’s words pulled the girl back from her thoughts.
“Hah… What… are you doing…”
“Let—”
…Hmm?
When she heard that word, a chill washed over Yudong’s happy face, suppressing her joy, satisfaction, and all positive emotions. Only desire and madness remained to drive her.
‘With great difficulty… the happiness I finally obtained… and you actually want me to… give it up?’
‘Ah… I wanted to let you catch your breath for a bit… Hehe… Why… Why can’t you just obediently follow my heart’s desire?’
Before he could finish, Yezhe felt a sting of friction on his wrists. Then, Yudong leaned down once more.
“Mph…”
It was completely different from the gentleness of the last time. This time, she didn’t give Yezhe even a sliver of room to struggle.
Along with the feeling of suffocation came a venomous snake flicking its tongue. Yezhe clearly felt something enter… enter…
‘I can’t… think…’
In an instant, the logic in the boy’s mind was bitten hard by the venomous snake in his mouth and then crushed.
Yezhe felt as if magma were surging deep within his body, and his skin became scalding hot.
The intense stimulation made him tremble uncontrollably.
He felt as if all his strength had been drained; he was so exhausted that he couldn’t even attempt to struggle…
Compared to Yezhe, Yudong felt an unprecedented surge of extreme pleasure rush through her entire body like a high-voltage current.
The pleasure was so intense and pure that her whole body couldn’t help but shudder.
‘By the way… just now… when I was forcing my love on Yezhe… He was trembling, right?’
‘He was, right?’
‘He was, he was, he was…’
‘Ah…’
A massive sense of satisfaction and a desire for control crushed the girl’s reason like a flood.
The slight trembling of the boy’s wrists from his futile struggles became the ultimate catalyst, stimulating her nerves, which were already stretched to their limit.
‘I can’t anymore… Reason or whatever… It seems unnecessary.’
“I’m sorry, Yezhe…”
Yudong sat up again, her voice carrying a strange tone mixed with gasps, tremors, and a kind of morbid satisfaction.
She still looked down from above, gazing at the warm face beneath her, which was flushed red and filled with shock and confusion.
It was clear that kissing him… was already the greatest concession the girl could make. At this moment, the throbbing in her heart was the best proof.
‘It’s not enough… I want more… More, more, more!!!’
This brief yet intense contact had not only failed to fill the massive void in her heart, but it had also been like pouring ninety-eight-octane gasoline onto a flame, instantly igniting an even more violent and greedy fire.
‘It’s still not filled… My heart… That heart that is broken, deformed, twisted, and almost rotten…’
‘Please, please, Yezhe, use happiness, use trust, use tolerance, and use warmth to mend this broken heart of mine, okay?’
‘I’m so sorry for forcing you… but I really… I can’t take it anymore…’
‘You clearly, clearly have me already… Why, why… did you have to adopt Liuyin?’
‘Do you know how much I… suffer…’
‘No… It’s not like that… I shouldn’t be so selfish… It — no, it’s not your fault…’
‘It’s all my fault… My fault, my fault… It’s all because I’m too selfish… I shouldn’t monopolize you… I can’t…’
‘If only I were capable… If only I were a bit braver… If only…’
‘It’s all my fault for not being charming… My fault for not being pretty enough to attract you… I’m sorry that you’ve always had to endure my one-sided demands…’
‘But… this… You’re the one who clearly enticed me again and again… Why, why are you so gentle?’
‘Even with a hopeless person like me… you won’t give up on me… You could have just let me rot… but you insisted on barging in…’
‘Your embrace is truly warm… I’m sorry… I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry… I’m truly sorry for wanting to monopolize you…’
‘I know… I’m… already broken. Whether it’s family or the future… A person like me has nothing to give you…’
‘It’s so cruel… I hate my own weakness… Now, the only thing I can give you… is myself…’
“I’m sorry… Yezhe, I’m sorry…”
Murmuring, Yudong apologized to the boy beneath her over and over again. Cold tears full of remorse flowed from the corners of her eyes, wetting her face.
‘The first time… let me have it?’
This remorse did not affect her mad and morbid heart in the slightest.
At this moment, her gaze was locked onto the boy beneath her, whose eyes were blurry and whose breath was uneven, as if she wanted to suck his soul into her bottomless abyss…
‘If you don’t say anything… I’ll take it as your consent?’
Along with the girl’s thoughts, the corners of her mouth uncontrollably curled up into a near-ghastly arc, and her eyes were filled with her morbid love, leaving no room for anything else.
‘Hehe?’