Shi Li had clearly seen his tattoo once, and he still thought it was beautiful when he saw it again.
Just as everyone was staring at his swallowtail butterfly tattoo, studying it and admiring its beauty, Ban Sheng mercilessly pulled the zipper directly to his larynx.
It was pitch black and I couldn't see anything.
"Am I your monkey?" Ban Sheng raised his eyebrows and asked.
A group of people were laughing, but Shi Li was the only one who spoke amidst the laughter. She looked at Ban Sheng with frankness and admiration in her eyes, and said in a joking tone:
"Wow, this butterfly tattoo is so beautiful, can I have one too?"
The subtext is - Can I get the same tattoo as yours, as a couple's tattoo
Ban Sheng took a sip of wine, and his protruding Adam's apple slid up and down slowly. The light shining on him turned away, and his face fell into shadow, and his expression could not be seen clearly.
"You are not suitable." Bansheng said.
Shi Li was a little discouraged. When she wanted to say something else, the door of the box was suddenly pushed open, and a girl wearing a tight black sweater and an umbrella-shaped mohair skirt came in.
This outfit is a bit weird, but it is very suitable for girls, giving them the temperament of a rich and beautiful girl.
When the other person turned around, Lin Weixia saw her face clearly. It was Li Shengran.
Obviously, Li Shengran also saw her.
Compared to the big lady who would get angry at any time in high school, she has grown a lot now. When she saw Lin Weixia, she didn't get angry or roll her eyes, but chose to ignore her.
As soon as Li Shengran came in, the atmosphere became lively. Ban Sheng's friends seemed to know her and said:
"Miss, why are you here just now?"
"Vany, you're here!"
"Your brother has been forced to drink a lot of alcohol today. You are here to help him today, right?"
Someone squeezed to the side of the sofa to make room for Li Shengran. She spread her hands and shrugged:
"You guys are welcome to do whatever you want. Even though he is my brother, I stand by the right side, not the relatives."
This sentence made everyone present laugh, because Li Shengran joined in, added a cup, and the game continued.
During the whole game, Lin Weixia was a little absent-minded. She was wondering what the butterfly tattoo of Ban Sheng meant, or whether she simply got it because she thought it was beautiful.
Lin Weixia had no right to ask.
She was in a daze when the crowd burst into laughter again. Some people laughed so hard that they fell backwards. Qiu Minghua was speechless.
"Master Ban, I think your location is too unlucky. Do you want to change it?"
Lin Weixia looked over and found that Ban Sheng had lost the 789 game again.
"Ask questions." Ban Sheng said.
"Ahem, now here comes the question. Is that swallowtail butterfly tattoo you got for some important person?"
As soon as the question was asked, everyone present, except Li Shengran, was curious about how Ban Shenghui would answer. Shi Li was very nervous and she was also waiting.
She wouldn't lose before she even caught up with Ban Sheng, Shi Li thought.
Lin Weixia picked up a glass of ice water on the table. She took a sip of the water and the ice cubes accidentally slipped into her mouth. She chewed slowly, but she was obviously not in the right state of mind. She just chewed it casually and wanted to swallow it whole.
The prismatic ice cube got stuck in my throat. It was cold and a bit uncomfortable, as if something was stuck in my throat.
Ban Sheng drank a little too much tonight. He leaned back on the sofa with his head tilted back and red eyes. He looked decadent and careless.
The aura around him was gloomy.
Lin Weixia looked at him, Ban Sheng curled the corners of his lips, raised his hand to pick up a glass of wine on the table and drank it all in one gulp.
He chose to drink.
Did not answer the question.
The group let Ban Sheng go. He seemed to be drunk and not in a good state. He quit the game and slumped on the sofa, playing games on his phone.
Lin Weixia was still in the game. People who were dazed were often easily punished. After a while, she rolled 9. Everyone looked at her. Qiu Minghua laughed and said, "Drinking or truth or dare?"
"The truth." Lin Weixia.
Without waiting for others to ask questions, Lin Weixia quickly drew the truth card from Qiu Minghua's hand. This was safer than being asked questions by others.
Lin Weixia took the card and spread it out. A group of people looked at it. It read: What is the bravest thing you have ever done
Li Shengran glanced sideways, not knowing what she remembered. She lowered her head to remove the hair that had fallen on her sweater skirt, a sneer appearing at the corner of her mouth.
"After the college entrance examination, if a person gets bone screws inserted, does that count?"
Lin Weixia's voice was neither loud nor soft, but it made everyone present quiet down.
Ban Sheng was buried in the sofa. He was playing a game, his fingertips quickly moving across the screen. He paused, a hint of gloom and anger lingered between his brows.
He didn't say anything, and the phone he was holding kept sending out the sound of "game over".
"Yeah, that's too much!" A boy slapped his thigh.
"That's so cool. I thought about it, but was persuaded not to do it. It hurts just thinking about it," said a girl.
"After the college entrance examination, I was no longer an adult. I was really brave."
Someone else asked, "Does it hurt?"
During their discussion, Lin Weixia felt as if a dark gaze was always falling on her, nailing her to her seat, unable to move, and hiding everywhere.
The man sitting opposite her seemed to be constantly examining her, examining whether her words were true or false. His eyes were filled with hatred, as if he wished to burn her to ashes.
At this moment, Qiu Minghua didn't know whether he understood his brother's eyes or guessed it himself, and was about to speak.
Shi Li interjected suspiciously:
"This bone nail of yours isn't for lovers, right?"
The eyes of the group immediately became ambiguous and they looked at Lin Weixia as if they wanted to hear the story right away. Only Li Shengran did not look happy.
Lin Weixia curled the corner of her lips and asked, "Are they a couple?"
No, when Ban Sheng pulled the zipper and revealed his tattoo just now, there was no bone nail next to his collarbone.
"That's the next round of the game." Lin Weixia said flatteringly.
When they played the game later, Lin Weixia was extremely alert and guarded closely, so naturally they had no chance.
During the break, the girl who had praised her for being cool came over and asked in a low voice:
"Can I see your nails? Because I want to play too, but I'm too scared."
Lin Weixia looked at the girl, who had a pleading look in her eyes. She hesitated for a moment:
"Can."
Lin Weixia is wearing a white low-necked sweater today, paired with a maple leaf plaid long skirt.
She pulled her collar down with great effort, and the girl came over to watch.
The red light made the atmosphere in the entire box hazy and ambiguous. The two girls were close to each other and were pulling off the clothes of one of them, which soon attracted the attention of others.
The girl soon discovered it, stood in front of Lin Weixia, and said:
"Go away and play your games. You are not allowed to see the collarbone of a beautiful woman."
"Okay, okay, I don't want to look." Several boys stretched their necks back again.
The white sweater was folded down, revealing two syllable-like collarbones embedded in the chest as white as frozen jade.
Three silver bone nails were nailed in sequence on the lower side of the left clavicle. They were very beautiful and looked like a crescent when connected together.
"Wow, that looks good. Does it hurt?" the girl asked while staring at her bone nails.
Lin Weixia shook her head and said calmly: "Not bad."
"Really? Don't lie to me."
When Lin Weixia wanted to say something else, she caught a glimpse of the tall figure opposite her standing up suddenly. He picked up the Marlboro and lighter on the table and walked out.
The fabric of his trouser legs accidentally brushed against her knees. Ban Sheng didn't even look at her, and walked out with an unapproachable coldness.
After the person left, Lin Weixia withdrew her gaze, and the girl next to her was still waiting for her answer.
She said softly, "It hurts a lot, actually."
Five minutes later, the phone in Lin Weixia's pocket vibrated repeatedly. She took it out and saw that it was a text message from Ban Sheng. His words were quite brief and his tone was cold:
[Come out for a moment.]
Lin Weixia turned off her phone and followed him out. Away from the noise and heat of the bar, she felt much more relaxed.
When I opened the door of the bar, a damp and cold wind blew in, and it started to rain in the winter.
Strangers kept coming in. Lin Weixia leaned sideways with her hands in her coat pockets. She habitually glanced to the right and found a black figure at the end of the corridor not far away.
She walked over and saw Ban Sheng standing at the very edge, leaning against the wall, his waist slightly hunched, one of his long legs resting against the wall, smoking a cigarette with his head down.
The hand holding the cigarette was frozen red. The rain kept falling, and raindrops kept hitting his arms. His black jacket was covered with tiny raindrops.
Like a spider's web.
He exuded a cold, dark aura.
Seeing him smoking so heavily, Lin Weixia wanted to persuade him to smoke less, but she would definitely be ridiculed by him.
When the words came to his lips, his lips moved and turned into: "What do you want from me?"
Ban Sheng stopped smoking and threw the scarlet cigarette butt away. The half cigarette butt formed a parabolic arc and was thrown into the trash can in the rain.
She followed his gaze, and before she could react, a cold hand rested on her neck, and her whole body was pulled violently, pushing her against the wall again.
Ban Sheng moved his large palm from her neck to her chin, and his palm firmly grasped her chin, gradually tightening the force.
From the side angle, it looked like he was strangling her neck.
But actually not.
Lin Weixia was pressed down by him, her chin was clamped, her head was forced to tilt back, she was unable to move, and her pair of bright and quiet eyes stared at him.
Ban Sheng's eyes were filled with hostility. He stared at the girl in front of him angrily, with red eyes, as if he was suppressing something.
Lin Weixia suspected for a moment that Ban Sheng wanted to strangle her to death.
Ban Sheng looked at her and sneered:
"You're here again."
"Is this to test how much sincerity you still have towards me?" Ban Sheng looked at her and said word by word.
Ban Sheng looked at her and spoke slowly, his tone mocking:
"Lin Weixia, do you know what you are good at? Acting."
He had seen all kinds of Lin Weixia, who lied without batting an eyelid, acted pitiful to make him feel distressed, kept two-thirds of her sincerity, and threw a little to him when she was moved, and took advantage of his unconditional love for her to make promises easily, and then broke them with her own hands.
Lin Weixia's eyes suddenly became wet, and she kept moving her eyeballs to push back the dryness in her eye sockets. She stared at the dense rain curtain not far away in a trance.
After the college entrance examination, Lin Weixia walked through the narrow alleys under the scorching sun and came to the piercing studio alone.
When she drew aside the curtain and went in, the proprietress had just finished serving a customer. Through a half-open door, Lin Weixia saw a man lying on the bed, his face pale, having just had bone nails inserted.
Lin Weixia retreated for a moment.
The proprietress saw the hesitation in her eyes and asked, "How old are you, little girl? Why are you coming here to get bone nails inserted at such a young age?"
"I'm over 18." Lin Weixia was afraid that the boss would not give her the card, so she took out her ID card.
The proprietress took it and looked at it, then raised her eyebrows: "It just came out not long ago, it's still so small."
Lin Weixia didn't answer, she just stood there, her eyes showing calmness. The proprietress knew at a glance that this girl had a stubborn personality, shrugged her shoulders and replied:
"Come in with me."
The boss's wife led Lin Weixia into a work cubicle, and Lin Weixia lay down as she was told. The boss's wife prepared a row of piercing tools. When the tweezers holding the cotton ball were used to disinfect the collarbone, a cool feeling came.
"Relax, don't be nervous... Oh—" the proprietress sighed.
She looked at the girl's reaction in front of her and knew at a glance that Lin Weixia had a sensitive physique. Even the pain she experienced from injections was stronger than that of ordinary people. With this physique, it would be a great disadvantage to have bone screws inserted.
The proprietress glanced at the customer. The skin around her collarbone was white and flawless. She asked Lin Weixia to get up.
Lin Weixia didn't understand what the boss meant. She sat up, leaned against the wall, and looked at her quietly.
The lady boss said, "Sister, you are really the same age as my sister at home, that's why I said that. This bone nail doesn't require anesthetic. The hole is made by a perforator and the bone nail is buried in the flesh. The recovery period is three months. If you are really not ready, why not come back another day and ask someone to accompany you, or reconsider."
The boss lady's voice was very gentle. She was really worried about her. Lin Weixia, who had been calm, suddenly couldn't hold back after hearing the last sentence. She hugged her knees with both hands and began to cry non-stop. Her eyes turned red from crying, and she couldn't breathe. Her voice was twitching:
"No... no one came with me."
"I can't... I can't not fulfill any of my promises."
She had already felt sorry enough for him.
Finally, the boss's wife gave her the injection. From the time the puncture needle was inserted to the time the bone nail was buried deep in the skin, Lin Weixia broke out in a cold sweat, but she didn't make a sound and endured it.
The rain was getting heavier, and the sound of rain hitting the ground brought Lin Weixia back to her senses. She looked at the boy in front of her.
"If you want to know about my change of major, it was my father who asked me to change it. He is already moving into the field of medical devices." Ban Sheng released his hand that was holding her chin and spoke slowly.
Ban Sheng's attitude was very clear. He had given her the answer she wanted, so she could stop.
Lin Weixia knew that whatever she said would sound like an excuse, and it would sound pale and powerless if she said it out loud, so she said softly:
"I just don't want to lie anymore."
Ban Sheng was stunned for a moment, his dark eyelashes were like wind and rain, and his emotions were dense and difficult to read. At this moment, a female voice came from not far away:
"Brother, are you okay?"
Lin Weixia looked over and saw Li Shengran standing not far away, holding an umbrella in her hand. The hem of her skirt made her figure look taller. Her expression was calm, as if she was sure that Ban Shenghui would come over.
Ban Sheng withdrew his gaze from her and walked over. He took the umbrella from Li Shengran's hand, slightly bent down and opened it. His shoulders were broad and were stained dark by the rain that hit him diagonally. Then the two of them walked into the rain side by side.
Then he disappeared from Lin Weixia's sight.