Chapter 42: Why Won’t You Accept Me?

Another kiss ended. Strands of silver saliva reflected the faint moonlight in the dim bedroom like a spiderweb.

Soon, only the sound of their staggered breathing and the squelching sounds of exchanging bodily fluids remained in the bedroom.

The soft, sweet touch on her lips lingered in her heart, as if it were about to pull her into the Pure Land.

Seeing him lying there with his clothes disheveled made the young girl feel like she couldn’t hold back anymore, not to mention Ye Zhe’s rough, heavy breathing.

‘Isn’t this… just tempting me to commit a crime?’

The boy beneath her lay paralyzed on the bed, his face flushed as if he were melting.

That helpless look in his eyes — wasn’t this exactly the scene she had seen in her dreams countless times?

Pleasure and desire intertwined, washing over her remaining logic like a flood, shattering it.

This feeling made her suffocate, even making her a little afraid.

But she could no longer think.

The speck of lust in her heart was infinitely amplified by her own hands until it completely occupied her heart.

‘Break, Ye Zhe.’

‘Break just like me! From now on, you will only look at me, and you can only love me!’

‘I’m a lunatic! A complete and utterly hopeless lunatic, a lunatic willing to abandon myself because of a few words from you!’

Her slightly rough, long fingers slowly brushed over the boy’s soft and warm cheek.

Her eyes, filled with deep affection, scanned him over and over again.

A tint of madness filled her gaze. Yudong’s trembling hand reached toward the boy’s lower body…

“No!”

An electric sensation spread from where the girl’s fingertips touched, piercing his entire body in a single strike.

The boy shouted as if waking from a dream.

The silence of the night was torn apart by the boy’s rough and urgent voice, which also pulled Yudong out of her lingering erotic dream.

After a dull *thud*, the girl on top of him stopped her hand as if in a daze, her whole body curling back.

Ye Zhe took the opportunity to break free from her restraint.

Everything returned to silence.

The boy barely propped himself up with his arms while Yudong remained in the same position, hand still extended as if dazed.

“You, I… you can’t do this, I…”

Looking at the panicked Yudong, Ye Zhe shook his head, realizing his reaction might have been a bit too intense.

“Don’t you like this?”

Yudong’s tone was quite calm as she shrank back and looked at Ye Zhe.

Unfortunately, though she suppressed her tone, she couldn’t suppress her tears.

Just now, the boy she longed for day and night had personally rejected her — rejected her love.

“This, you…”

Looking at the girl who was pretending to be calm while trembling slightly, Ye Zhe’s heart was filled with a complex mix of emotions.

“Then how about I change the way? You take the lead. Come on…”

The look of fear vanished in an instant, and crazy thoughts surged through the girl’s body once more.

With a sense of desperate determination, Yudong crawled toward Ye Zhe, stripping off her clothes as she went.

“Don’t do this.”

Ye Zhe was panicked; he never imagined things would develop this way.

“Ye Zhe, do you hate me? Do you think I’m ugly?”

His retreat was blocked by the wall. Ye Zhe could only watch as that demonic figure continued to approach him.

“No… it’s not that…”

“Then do you like me?”

The distance continued to shrink.

“I… I…”

The girl slightly raised her soft and delicate leg, pinning it between Ye Zhe’s legs and slowly moving upward.

“Can you please not do this?”

Ignoring Ye Zhe’s words of rejection, Yudong still moved forward bit by bit. Her clothing had been shed until only a few pieces of underwear remained.

“You don’t hate me, right?”

Finally, Yudong and Ye Zhe were almost face-to-face. The girl’s palm rested gently on the boy’s cheek.

Two bundles of warmth moved forward, pressed tightly against the boy’s sweat-soaked shirt.

The girl extended her small tongue, lingering for a moment on the boy’s slightly bobbing Adam’s apple before moving to leave her mark on the corner of his mouth.

“It’s fine… Mmm, we’ll just start over. Let’s start as friends, okay?”

The girl’s words, mixed with the sound of moisture, rang in Ye Zhe’s ear.

Her broken and blurred gaze was forcibly pulled back by a sense of despair.

Silent tears from the corners of her eyes fell onto her cheeks.

The makeup she had worn during the day had long been ruined by this ordeal.

Under the repeated washing of her tears, the thin layer of makeup was completely torn away.

The dark circles hidden underneath were revealed once more.

Coupled with the lack of light in the girl’s eyes, she looked like a flesh-devouring demon lurking in the dark, closing in on Ye Zhe.

“Ye Zhe, accept me, okay?”

“I will take **responsibility** for you.”

These almost fawning words would have sparked lust in anyone else, but to Ye Zhe, they were like a heartless hammer.

Or rather, they were the very thing he dared not face in his heart.

Ye Zhe, who had just been full of panic, now seemed possessed by a wild beast. His entire being became more agitated than ever before.

“STOP THIS!!”

Facing the crimson lips approaching him, Ye Zhe finally fought back.

……

There was no sensation of extreme comfort as expected.

In the darkness, the girl watched as the boy’s hands grabbed her arms and pushed her away.

He turned around, preparing to get off the bed.

“Please, I beg you, don’t hate me. Don’t leave me, okay? Don’t leave me. I’ll give you everything. Whatever you want…”

Seeing the boy’s figure rushing toward the door, Yudong panicked.

Ignoring the pain in her knees from hitting the floor, she rushed over and lunged at Ye Zhe.

Her hands tightly grabbed the hand that the boy was preparing to use to open the door.

Unfortunately, how could the exhausted Yudong win against a boy who was serious?

“Don’t go…”

She couldn’t stop him.

Yudong struggled and refused to let go of her tightened grip, but Ye Zhe forcibly pulled his hand out.

The love in her heart turned into a thousand words pouring out, but they couldn’t keep the boy’s silhouette there.

“Don’t go…”

In almost a millisecond, Ye Zhe threw the bedroom door open and rushed straight for the main entrance.

After a heavy sound of the door slamming, the entire house fell silent.

Only Yudong lay crying silently at the bedroom doorway, and Liuyin looked on in astonishment.

He ran away…

The boy she longed for had run away like that.

He ran without even taking his jacket. He didn’t even care when Liuyin called him.

He ran. He rushed downstairs in one breath and ran in a random direction.

Even though Yudong wasn’t following him, even though he didn’t know where he was, and even though he hadn’t even brought his mobile phone.

Her body, which had been entangled in the fires of lust just moments ago, became incredibly cold after the boy left.

The girl, with her clothes in disarray, looked at the pitch-black door frame.

“Why…?”

……

‘I hate it the most…’

‘This feeling of a broken heart…’

With a *thud*, the girl, whose hopes were dashed, collapsed onto the cold floor tiles, letting them strip away her body heat.

……

Cough, cough!

He didn’t stop until he could no longer run, until the disposable slippers on his feet were shredded by the concrete ground, until there was only the sweet, metallic taste of blood in his throat.

Coughing violently, the exhausted Ye Zhe also collapsed onto the concrete ground, letting the cold autumn air invade his lungs.