SM Chapter 30

Zhu Shihao’s Strategy

“Zhi Xu, your body loves me so much.”…

Weekends for working people are always leisurely or extravagant, and this birthday party didn’t end until almost midnight.

As the host, Feng Zan responded to everyone’s farewells one by one at the door.

Wei Wang twirled his car keys and shouted at Ran Cai, “Want me to give you a ride?”

Ran Cai had an alert expression that seemed to say, “What trouble are you trying to get into?” She asked, “You drank the ‘cross-cupped wine’, can you still drive?”

“Can’t I call a designated driver? I’m just seeing that it’s dangerous for a single woman who’s been drinking to be out late at night, Ran Cai, have some trust. I wouldn’t break the law.” Wei Wang, who had studied law for seven years, was extremely speechless. Even if his focus was on commercial law, he still had common sense.

Ran Cai was relieved, then subconsciously looked at Zhu Shihao.

“Okay, does good sister still need you to worry about her?” Wei Wang curled his lip.

Hao Hao also deeply agreed: “Brother Xu is here, there’s no room for you to interfere.”

That made sense, Ran Cai nodded secretly: “Shihao, I’ll hitch a ride with Wei Wang and head out first.”

Her voice wasn’t quiet, and Fang Xiaoyan heard it too, her gaze almost subconsciously following the direction of Ran Cai’s line of sight. She saw two people standing side by side, the man tall and broad-shouldered. His back, which should have been straight, was slightly hunched as he lowered his head towards the woman in front of him.

Back then, she thought they were a small, exclusionary group, but now, almost ten years later, she realized that they just had a genuine, good relationship. Unlike her, her friends had come and gone, and only one or two remained.

A faint sense of envy arose.

Hearing Ran Cai’s voice, Zhu Shihao looked over and nodded, “Okay.”

“Hurry up and put this on.”

Tan Zhi Xu held the down jacket by the shoulders, looking down as she put her arm halfway through, and pulled it up to urge her on.

The weather was not to be trifled with.

Zhu Shihao obediently continued to put on her coat: “Send me a message when you get there.”

The few waved goodbye.

Bending down to pull up her zipper, Tan Zhi Xu caught a glimpse out of the corner of his eye. The neckline shifted with her movements, revealing a flash of white skin. While putting on her coat, he moved a step in front of her, blocking any potentially lurking gazes.

Zhu Shihao was completely unaware of his little actions. By the time she had zipped up her coat and slowly stood up straight, the light was bright again.

The man in front of her took a step forward and took her bag.

“Let’s go.”

His gaze was calm, and this voice seemed to be giving an order, but he didn’t move.

“Okay, let’s go back.”

She smiled, stepping to his side, and Tan Zhi Xu followed her.

Fang Xiaoyan stared at the backs of the two people, their shoulders, one high and one low, were only millimeters apart, and sometimes the fabric of their sleeves would rub against each other. She tightened her lips, her gaze moving to the bag in Tan Zhi Xu’s hand.

It was a women’s bag, Zhu Shihao’s.

She suddenly thought that after so many years, the person walking beside Tan Zhi Xu in the end was still Zhu Shihao, which made her suddenly recall scenes from high school, when she always seemed to see the two of them leaving together.

And after so many years, the distance between them was not farther, but closer.

“Let’s go too, it’s so cold.” Zhou Shishi looked at her bare neck and took off her scarf to wrap it around her.

The soft touch suddenly dispelled the cold. Fang Xiaoyan looked at her, even though she herself was rubbing her hands.

A smile lightly tugged at her lips. She loosened the scarf and wrapped the other end around her neck: “Okay, let’s go, let’s go to my place.”

There was nothing to envy. She also had good friends.

Besides, if it was Zhu Shihao, it was better than anyone else.

The two sat in the back row, snuggling together all the way back to Shen Yi.

Inside it was warm, Zhu Shihao took off her down jacket and hung it up, turning around to see him leaning against the wall watching her, his expression indifferent, but his gaze was the complete opposite.

It was heavy with possessiveness, robbing her inch by inch, from head to toe.

When her eyes met his, Zhu Shihao clearly perceived his dormant desires that had already awakened.

She took a step back to the door, and with a “click”, locked it.

Watching her walk over step by step, Tan Zhi Xu laughed, his voice low and knowingly asking, “Why are you locking the door?”

Raising her arms to wrap around his neck, she tiptoed to kiss his lips.

“To do you.”

Tan Zhi Xu let her move as she pleased, and when she kissed his neck, he indulged her by tilting his head to make it easier for her. He lowered his eyes to look at her, his large hands on her lower back, but then he pressed her hard against himself in the next second.

“You always say it wrong, Shihao, it’s me doing you.”

Hearing this, Zhu Shihao gently bit his Adam’s apple, then soothed it with her tongue, leaving a light, numbingly soft kiss.

She couldn’t see his increasingly deep eyes, but she could feel the force with which the arms around her waist tightened, and the ferocious beast that was thoroughly aroused.

But this was something to be happy about.

Hearing her soft laughter, Tan Zhi Xu gave his first response of the night. He lifted her chin with one hand, taking her lips in his mouth, licking and gnawing.

“Open your mouth, baby.”

She was obedient, not refusing his every intrusion.

When she was breathing rapidly, and his lips left hers, thin strands of saliva were drawn between them, ambiguous and passionate to the extreme.

Only then did he ask, “What are you laughing at?”

Zhu Shihao’s eyes were even more watery, sparkling, rippling with clear, yet charming, spring water. Her already bright and generous features were infused with seductiveness.

“Zhi Xu, your body loves me so much.”

His thumb caressed her red lips, his gaze deep: “Yes, loves you so much.”

I love you so much.

Zhu Shihao curved her lips and smiled, reaching out a hand to stroke his face: “I’m very honored, so am I.”

Tan Zhi Xu’s mouth turned up in a slight arc, his large hand letting go of her tempting red lips, slowly sliding down, his fingertips following the lines of her body, finally stopping at her peak.

“The honor is all mine.”

His hand slid from her waist to beneath her buttocks, Tan Zhi Xu leaned over and lifted her up, like holding a child.

He didn’t go back to the bedroom, but threw her on the sofa, covering her body and holding her lips once more. In her dizzy state, the man on top of her got up, and Tan Zhi Xu stood up straight, looking down at the woman with a blurry look, with a bit of condescension.

Slowly and methodically taking off his expensive watch, rolling up his shirtsleeves, his eyes fixed on her, gliding over her glistening lips, one exposed shoulder, and her surging chest.

Bending over again, he first hooked the hair around her cheek, dropping a fleeting kiss on her lips.

“It’s uncomfortable, Shihao, help me untie it, hmm?”

The rising intonation of the last word was both a question and a coax.

Half of her mind had already collapsed, her eyes only filled with the man she had been thinking about for so many years, and the object of her affection for more than a decade.

Her brain, which had stopped thinking, only simply received the instructions. Zhu Shihao reached out her hand, and the familiar instinct allowed her to lightly and skillfully untie his belt, his buttons, and the zipper slowly slid down bit by bit, even with her blurry eyes.

She was stopped halfway when her hand was caught.

“Okay, just like this for now.”

Without waiting for her confused mind to ask why, Tan Zhi Xu lifted her buttocks with one hand and took off the clothes covering her lower body with the other.

“You haven’t washed your hands or taken a shower yet, are you feeling uncomfortable? Good girl Shihao, I’ll help you first.”

Before she could react, the tall man’s knees landed on the thick carpet, and he took each of her legs in his hands. The feeling of the air made her uneasy, but she was held tightly and could not resist.

“Zhi Xu.”

Almost instinctively, she let out a soft moan, arching her back and unconsciously calling “Zhi Xu” again and again, each sound exceptionally melodious and lingering.

She didn’t know how long it had been, but she finally let go of his hair with her hands.

Tan Zhi Xu stood up and looked at her, chuckled softly, wrapped an arm through her still separated legs, and wrapped his other hand around her waist, picking her up and glancing at the sofa, which was still a bit messy with the dark, wet marks left behind, and headed towards the bedroom.

“I can’t stand it anymore, it’s my turn.”

He carried her straight to the bathroom.

Flipping the switch, warm water poured into the bathtub.

The bathroom gradually filled with mist. He took off her body-hugging dress and underwear, and tempted her to help him take off his clothes. Holding her again, he stepped into the bathtub.

“It’s a bit small for two people to lie down, so Shihao bear with it a little and sit on me.”

It was quite hard work. In the end, she was not only sitting on him, but also lying on top of him.

Delighted and refreshed, Tan Zhi Xu still woke her up before nine o’clock to have breakfast.

The two lay on the sofa playing games. As they played, Zhu Shihao gradually went from sitting and leaning on him to resting on his lap.

Tan Zhi Xu took the time to pat her face while playing: “Don’t play like that, it will hurt your eyes.”

After they both understood the concept of nearsightedness, he often said this, even when they were twenty-six or twenty-seven years old.

Like a conditioned reflex, she was about to get up, and Tan Zhi Xu reached out a hand to support her back.

The phone vibrated twice, and a message notification popped up.

Seeing that name, Tan Zhi Xu didn’t even blink. As if completely indifferent, he swiped his thumb, revealing a small map that had been partially obscured.

After playing two games in a row, they quit the game, as if they were taking a break.

Zhu Shihao stretched out her feet and stepped on his legs a little.

Reaching out to grab her ankle, Tan Zhi Xu pulled her somewhat bunched-up socks up a little and slightly raised his eyebrows: “What’s wrong?”

“Zhi Xu, I want to drink water.”

He didn’t answer, but his getting up was the best answer.

Tan Zhi Xu put on his slippers, first went to get her cup, then went to get water. While waiting, the phone rang again. The wrinkle between his eyebrows flashed by quickly.

Su Yuewei: [Zhi Xu, are you busy?]

Su Yuewei: [I’m so bored, can you keep me company for a while?]

These two messages were almost an hour ago, and the one below was new.

Su Yuewei: [Zhi Xu, it’s your birthday tomorrow, how are you going to celebrate it? Can I help you celebrate?]

After pressing the switch, Tan Zhi Xu picked up the cup and walked to the living room.

He thought that “read but not replied” between adults was a very obvious meaning of rejection, but some people didn’t seem to understand, or perhaps they were pretending not to understand.

He very smoothly set his phone to Do Not Disturb.

Returning to the main screen, he pressed the power button again, and the light of the phone went out in an instant. The black screen reflected his cold and detached expression rather clearly, with carelessness between his eyebrows.

He handed the cup directly to her, raising his eyelids to just look at her while she drank water.

The normal-sized cup almost hid the lower half of her face.

Seeing that she had finished drinking, he took the cup and put it on the coffee table.

While leaning back, he reached out and hooked her waist, pulling her back so that half of her body fell on him.

Caught off guard by his pull, she didn’t hold the phone steady and it fell onto her legs. Zhu Shihao picked it up, but didn’t play with it anymore, instead putting it aside, tilting her head and looking up at him.

“Are you going to work tomorrow?”

Her fingertip was poking at his Adam’s apple, the itching sensation of her fingernails, even though they were smoothly trimmed, still had a scratching feeling.

Letting her play and tease as she pleased.

Instead, Tan Zhi Xu took her other hand, lowering his eyes to look at her: “Yes, but if you want to go out and play, I won’t.”

This place obviously wasn’t Zhu Shihao accompanying him, but rather him accompanying Zhu Shihao.

Tan Zhi Xu’s mouth turned up and he spoke with a teasing tone: “Want to go again?”

They had to go once or twice every year. Sometimes there might be other people, but regardless of whether there were other people or not, he would definitely be there.

Zhu Shihao grabbed his hands with both of hers, gently shaking them, her voice also soft, not saying she wanted to go, but only calling his name repeatedly.

“Zhi Xu, Zhi Xu…”

He listened as she repeated his name over and over, the curve of his lips becoming more and more obvious. After who knows how many times, she finally stated the only answer from beginning to end.

“Okay.”

“Zhi Xu is the best, I knew you’d agree.”

The repeating sound stopped abruptly, and the next moment was her saying a familiar, glib phrase that she had said countless times.

Looking at her curved eyebrows, her smiling eyes.

Tan Zhi Xu only felt that he loved this satisfied, happy, yet arrogant little look to the extreme, clearly saying that she knew it would be like this, and her smugness at having figured him out.

Even if she didn’t know that he loved her, she was still certain of her specialness. She could be capricious, and she could say whatever she wanted.

Pinching her face, slightly pulling it outwards, as if punishing her, but then after only two seconds he soothed her with affection, rubbing against her.

Tan Zhi Xu answered her, “You better know it.”

In this world, no one would be better to Zhu Shihao than Tan Zhi Xu, so Zhu Shihao only needed to have Tan Zhi Xu. He would accompany her to do whatever she wanted, and give her everything she wanted.