During the Spring Festival holiday this year, Lin Zhixia and Jiang Yubai did not celebrate the New Year in the provincial capital.
Lin Zhixia made a plan for an island trip. She and Jiang Yubai flew to the Maldives.
When Lin Zhixia was a child, she watched a movie called "McDull's Story". The protagonist of the movie was obsessed with traveling to the Maldives, and that persistent belief also aroused Lin Zhixia's curiosity.
Finally, during this year's Spring Festival, Lin Zhixia and Jiang Yubai arrived at the airport in Maldives.
The tropical weather of more than 30 degrees made Lin Zhixia forget that it was winter in the northern hemisphere. She and Jiang Yubai stayed in a hotel's sea suite, surrounded by the rippling light blue sea.
Before the Spring Festival, Lin Zhixia worked for more than three months without taking weekend breaks in order to catch up with the project. Now she suddenly relaxed, as if her bones were broken, and lay limply on a sofa chair on the balcony.
Jiang Yubai was still packing his suitcase.
He took out a pink cloth bag, opened it and saw that it was full of Lin Zhixia's swimsuits.
They went out to play for four days, and Lin Zhixia brought seven swimsuits. How thoughtful, Jiang Yubai liked this about her.
Jiang Yubai tied the bag tightly. His left hand was clasped on the pure black suitcase, and the silver wedding ring on his ring finger was shining.
Lin Zhixia called him: "Jiang Yubai?"
Jiang Yubai didn't respond.
Lin Zhixia changed her name to: “Jiang Jiang Jiang Jiang Jiang Yubai!”
Jiang Yubai walked towards her slowly in slippers.
Jiang Yubai changed into a pair of swimming trunks. In front of Lin Zhixia, he quickly jumped into a swimming pool. The bright sunlight shone on his body that was wet by water droplets. Lin Zhixia was stunned. She held the handrail tightly, and the handrail was also terribly hot.
Lin Zhixia rushed to Jiang Yubai in two steps. Jiang Yubai thought she was eager to get close to him. However, she asked, "Have you applied sunscreen?"
She pointed to the sky and said, "The ultraviolet rays are very strong. I'm afraid you'll get sunburned if you soak in the pool."
Jiang Yubai picked up Lin Zhixia without saying a word. He took Lin Zhixia to the bedroom, drew the curtains, washed his hands, and walked back to her with a bottle of sunscreen.
"What are you going to do?" Lin Zhixia asked him.
Jiang Yubai stared into her eyes, with his hands on her left and right sides: "Help you apply sunscreen."
Lin Zhixia nodded: "Apply it to me first, and then I'll help you."
Jiang Yubai's fingertips gently slid across her collarbone, stroking upwards along the light-colored blood vessels under her snow-white skin. He swallowed just right, his expression fascinated but not obsessed, like a handsome vampire in an urban legend who specialized in seducing young girls.
Lin Zhixia suggested: "Let's play a game."
He chuckled as if he had expected it, "Role play?"
Lin Zhixia nodded vigorously. She said, "Just now you touched my neck like a vampire, of course, in a very handsome way."
Jiang Yubai determined the roles of both parties: "I am a vampire, and you are a human."
"Okay, okay!" Lin Zhixia jumped for joy.
A lot of imaginary images suddenly appeared in her mind, so she was very excited and very happy. Jiang Yubai was also in a very good mood. He set a game scene: "It's dark, I walk into your room, no matter what I do, you can't make a sound, otherwise..."
"What will happen otherwise?" Lin Zhixia asked cautiously.
Jiang Yubai's slender fingers were already covering her lips.
He said, "Shhh...it's dark."
Lin Zhixia was completely lost in his deep gaze. She held her breath and dared not say a word. It was only then that she suddenly realized that she had completely fallen into a passive situation.
In the past, when she played games with Jiang Yubai, she was the winner almost every time. When she played poker with him, she could always win all his chips.
And now, she is like a lamb to be slaughtered.
So exciting and novel.
Lin Zhixia thought that as long as she followed the rules of the game and didn't say a word from beginning to end, she would definitely be the final winner.
Jiang Yubai unbuttoned her collar: "What are you thinking about?"
She closed her eyes.
Jiang Yubai said, "Look at me."
Lin Zhixia opened her eyes and looked at him. Before he did anything to her, her cheeks turned red. The color was very much like the bright peach blossoms in mid-spring, or the pink tips of lotus flowers in a pond in midsummer.
Jiang Yubai stroked her cheek as if he were playing with a treasure, and she thought to herself: What a gentle vampire.
He lowered his head slightly, took her earlobe in his mouth and sucked it hard. She was startled and wanted to scream, her fingers clenched the bed sheet tightly.
Jiang Yubai kissed her from her earlobe downwards, and when he passed her neck, his kiss was light and slow, no vampire did it like him. Although Lin Zhixia didn't know what a real vampire looked like, her heartbeat was still accelerating, and the force of her heart pumping blood might also be increasing. Thinking about it this way, Jiang Yubai's actions made sense, and both of them should abide by the settings of this game.
"Why do you smell so good?" Jiang Yubai said to himself.
He whispered in her ear: "It tastes sweet."
Lin Zhixia bit her lips lightly.
Jiang Yubai was kissing her, and his right hand was still stroking her. His fingertips seemed to carry a trace of electricity, bringing a comfortable and thrilling feeling wherever they touched.
Lin Zhixia was extremely stubborn. She cooperated with Jiang Yubai, but she didn't say anything. Jiang Yubai asked, "Can this game last all night?"
"No!" Lin Zhixia said immediately, "I won't play if that happens."
As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly realized: "I spoke, I lost?"
Jiang Yubai nodded.
Lin Zhixia shook her head: "You asked me a question, I can't just not answer you. You unilaterally paused the game, so I can speak up, this is more fair."
Jiang Yubai said, "What I just asked was about the whole night." He buried his head in her neck and shoulders, smelling her fragrance: "It's still the scene setting of the game."
really.
Jiang Yubai is right.
Lin Zhixia took the initiative to admit defeat: "Then I lose."
Lin Zhixia likes to pursue new experiences, but she doesn’t have much understanding of “losing.” Her academic and career development paths are going smoothly. Except for her busy work, the word “loser” is almost insulated from Lin Zhixia.
Therefore, she admitted defeat openly.
Jiang Yubai asked her to recall the rules of the game, and the scene that just happened in reality was replayed in her mind. Jiang Yubai lifted a thin quilt and covered himself and Lin Zhixia. It was a sunny day with clear water. Lin Zhixia and Jiang Yubai had no time to appreciate the scenery. From afternoon to late night, they did not step out of the front door of the room again.
The next morning, Lin Zhixia and Jiang Yubai had breakfast and took a walk along a long coastline.
Lin Zhixia wore a sun hat with a bow and two light-colored ribbons hanging from it. She wore a long skirt, the hem of which rose in the wind and floated into Jiang Yubai's arms.
She looked back at him.
His eyes were not on her, leaving only her silhouette. He looked at the rising sun in the east, with the shadows of clouds and the sunset reflected in his eyes.
Lin Zhixia suddenly said, "Hello, let's be friends. Can you give me your cell phone number?"
Jiang Yubai understood what she meant instantly. He pretended not to know Lin Zhixia: "I don't use a cell phone."
"Why?" Lin Zhixia asked him.
Jiang Yubai said: "Because I..."
Lin Zhixia helped him come up with a setting: "Because you are a fisherman."
Jiang Yubai continued, "If you go fishing alone, there is no signal at sea, so it's useless to buy a mobile phone."
"Will you feel lonely when you go out to sea alone?" Lin Zhixia asked, "Will you feel lonely?"
In this world, loneliness and solitude are the norm in life, while companionship and understanding are rare and precious. Jiang Yubai raised his head slightly and looked at the sea view in the distance.
Lin Zhixia thought that Jiang Yubai was going to say something philosophical and then discuss the meaning of life with her, but Jiang Yubai said, "I was just thinking about catching fish."
Lin Zhixia laughed out loud.
She held Jiang Yubai's hand and pulled him forward: "You are not alone, I will always be with you."
She stroked Jiang Yubai's palms repeatedly until his palms became slightly warm.
Under the bright morning sun, the sea breeze blew with the sound of the waves. Lin Zhixia turned her back to the sea, and her long hair was messed up by the sea breeze. Jiang Yubai helped her tidy up her hair. She stood on tiptoes and then fell back to her original position, her eyes fixed on Jiang Yubai's face.
Jiang Yubai wanted to kiss her. He didn't hesitate and leaned over to kiss her. Their shadows fell on the beach covered with fine sand. The shadows and the beach seemed to merge into one scene, engraved in the memories of Lin Zhixia and Jiang Yubai.
The author has something to say: I really can’t bear to part with Xia Xia and Xiao Jiang.