The evening breeze outside the door is cool, but the person on my back is warm.
Nan Youxi walked on the quiet street late at night, the woman's chest pressed against his back, his wrists resting on the woman's legs.
He tilted his neck to the right and looked at Guan Yuejing's cheek resting on his shoulder. The light from the street lamp shone on the woman's beautiful face, reflecting her half-closed, tired eyes.
The woman's breath mixed with the wind blew on his shoulders, causing some itch. If it were Nao, she would blush and feel flustered in this position.
However, Nan Youxi did not have any fantasy at the moment. Firstly, he was not familiar with Guan Yuejing, and secondly, the hand that Guan Yuejing put around his shoulders and placed on his chest was cold.
The woman was wearing one of Minami Yuki's long coats. The long sleeves of the coat covered her wrists, hiding the folding knife in her hand.
This is a dangerous woman, Nan Youxi thought.
The warmth on the back, the softness on the wrists, the itch on the shoulders and the fragrance blowing in the wind are not as cold and hard as the blade.
He thought of the fertile Nao, the poor Yuko, the trendy Mitsuki, the classical Reina, the approachable Kazumi and the expensive Shiori.
He had to find a way to leave Guan Yuejing. He had made a decision.
[Guan Yuejing threatens you and asks you to take her to the old house of Guan Yue's family. ]
[She took out her folding knife. She didn't use it when she attacked you. You don't know whether it was because of her kindness or because you were not qualified to let her draw the knife.]
[Perhaps, Guan Yuejing is actually a gentle person. ]
[But you don't have the heart to verify this. You decide to escape from the other party's clutches. You have Nao, Yuko, Reina, Kazumi and Shiori. You don't want to take risks. You have already given up the idea of pursuing Guan Yuejing. ]
[Arriving at the Guanyue family's old house, you opened the electronic lock. ]
[There is an unsettling atmosphere lurking in the dark corridor. You want to leave, but Guan Yuejing drags you in. ]
[You have to stop being silent, you talk to Guan Yuejing and promise that you won't tell anyone about what happened tonight.]
[The woman does not believe you. The moment she attacks you, she has already made up her mind: you will be imprisoned by her.]
A short conversation floated into Nan Youxi's ears. Those were the words that Guan Yuejing used to threaten him.
"You must be wondering now why I attacked you and why I brought you to this villa." Guan Yuejing spoke.
"I know that this villa belonged to Guanyue's family before, and you just want to go back to your hometown to take a look. If you want, you can stay here forever. I will give you a very fair lease contract, and you can buy it if you want."
Nan Youxi prayed in her heart, praying that Guan Yuejing would not tell that story.
His prayers failed, and the woman revealed a secret that he knew but did not want to know.
"I killed someone." Guan Yuejing replied.
"I don't think I need to know this." Nan Youxi wanted to cry but had no tears. He knew he couldn't leave.
"You need to, and you already know it. I heard your phone call with Ichinose." said Shizuka Kanzuki.
It turns out that it was you, Ichinose, who tricked me!
"The police will definitely find me. I am not going to resist or surrender. I just want to spend the last moments quietly. Moreover, to me, there is no difference between one life and two lives."
[Guan Yuejing revealed her crime and used it to intimidate you.]
[She told you that she just wanted to spend her last moments in peace before the police came to her door.]
[For this reason, she must detain you, the insider, to prevent you from disturbing her final peace.]
[Your cohabitation life has begun.]
[Under her coercion, you sent a message to Nao, Yuko, Reina, Mitsuki, Kazumi, and Ichinose, telling them that you had something important to do and would be in seclusion for a while, and asked them not to come to see you.]
[Guan Yuejing asked about your relationship with them, and you told her that they were all your girlfriends.]
[Guan Yuejing couldn't believe it. She looked through the chat records between you and the girls and had to believe this fact.]
[She doesn't want to involve your girlfriends, and you don't want to involve Nao and the others. You have reached a consensus on deceiving Nao and the others.]
[In order to appease the girls, you reach an agreement that you can use your phone and chat with the girls under her supervision.]
[Naixi Lingmei and Yishi are not willful people. Under your serious request, they will not come to you in the short term, but it will only be in the short term. ]
[You worry for a long time, and something unexpected will happen. Yuko, Reina, and Mitsuki are all smart people, and Nao's intuition is also very sharp. If they start looking for you, they will definitely find clues. Guan Yuejing may take action against them. ]
[You have made up your mind to pretend to be cooperative and wait for an opportunity to escape.]
[It's getting late at night, you're still quite energetic, but Guan Yuejing is very sleepy. She pulls you into the bedroom, ties you to the foot of the bed with tape, and lies on the bed herself.]
[The tape was so tight that you couldn’t even turn around, so you just sat at the foot of the bed all night.]
[In the early morning, pale light seeped through the gaps in the curtains, and the sparrows' chirping was a little hoarse.]
[You turn your head to look at Guan Yuejing on the bed. The woman is sleeping soundly, and the bird calls are completely unable to wake her up.]
[If you could, you would like her to sleep like this forever, but you can't. You have an emergency and you must wake her up immediately.]
Memory scenes emerge.
Guan Yuejing had a dream. She dreamed about her childhood.
At that time, her father was still alive and her mother had not yet become addicted to gambling. Guan Yue's family was a happy and harmonious family. Her father was gentle and considerate. Although her mother was strict, she was willing to spend money on her. It was at that time that she learned karate.
During dojo competitions, her parents would come together to watch and cheer for her, and then drive her home. Her father would prepare a large table of meals and buy her favorite snacks.
If she won, her mother would congratulate her happily. If she lost, although her mother would not make fun of her, her face would not be happy and the snacks she bought would be of lower quality.
Guan Yuejing smiled on her sleeping face. At that time, she felt that her mother's cold expression after losing was a scolding. Now, she felt that that face was a rare happiness.
Because... my mother later sat at the gambling table.
The smile on her face disappeared. She didn't know when and by whom her mother was induced to get involved in that ugly activity. She only remembered her parents' quarrel, her mother's raised hand, and her father's pale face and the blood at the corner of his mouth.
Blood, the bright red blood that my father coughed up onto the white sheets, the blood that flowed back from the infusion needle as he lay on the hospital bed, and the crimson blood in the iron furnace during cremation.
Red, the mother's flushed face as she resisted the debt collectors, her bloodshot eyes as she sat at the gambling table, and her bright lips as she took away the inheritance left to her by her grandparents.
Her right palm suddenly spasmed, her brows furrowed, and the scene of that day appeared under her tightly closed eyes. The touch came from her right hand, the stickiness of the cheap fruit knife's plastic handle, the resistance of the flesh being pierced, the hotness of the blood flowing out...
She was breathing heavily, and not just her right hand, her whole body was shaking.
She realized that she was dreaming and tried hard to get rid of this nightmare, but her body was pressed down by something invisible and she could not wake up from the dream.
She tried hard to control her fingers and bend her knees. She knew that if she moved a little, the nightmare would disappear.
But she couldn't move.
Blood flowed under the silver blade, dripping onto the cheap tatami, forming a puddle, then a pool. The blood kept flowing, flooding the tatami, her ankles, and her knees. She could not move, and could only watch the sticky blood flow to her chest and climb up to her neck.
The blade was sucked into the blood, the body was sucked into the blood, and everything around was red. She felt like she had fallen into a scarlet swamp, the blood mud had already submerged her chin, was about to block her nose, cover her eyes, and invade her head through her ears, squeezing her brain.
Her will to struggle became stronger, and her eyelashes trembled violently as she lay on the bed, but she could not escape this nightmare by herself.
The blood finally covered her head, and her eyes were full of blood.
At this time, she heard a voice.
Sorry for being late. I went to the dentist for the last time during the day and got a crown put on. I feel like all my teeth want to fight with the crown. It's really torture.
(End of this chapter)