SM Chapter 54

Chapter 54: A Silent Understanding, Hearts Aflutter “Do you love me, Shihao?”

Chapter 54: A Silent Understanding, Hearts Aflutter “Do you love me, Shihao?”

After the overwhelming sensation of the kiss subsided, Zhu Shihao proactively nestled into his embrace.

“So, boyfriend?”

Tan Zhi Xu hummed in agreement, raising a hand to encircle her waist. He thought to himself that “husband” would also be an acceptable term.

Her eyes looked up at him, a touch of silliness in her gaze. Tan Zhi Xu stroked her hair: “Are you hungry? What do you want to eat?”

Zhu Shihao pondered. “Let’s have noodles. Your noodle-cooking skills are barely on par with mine.”

He glanced at her, not saying a word, but pinching and tugging at her cheek.

After dinner, the two sat by the window, drinking wine.

Looking down, Deep Lane was cloaked in silence, streetlights casting faint shadows. Further away, a livelier world stretched out, its bright lights and bustling energy palpable even from a distance.

And the dark night was as deep as ink, like a familiar gaze.

“Zhi Xu, let’s not tell our families about us yet.”

She turned her head, unexpectedly meeting his eyes.

His deep eyes weren’t just calm and still; they clearly reflected her, like stars and the moon punctuating the night sky, like skyscrapers piercing the darkness.

However, it was difficult for the other person to focus on her momentary trance right now.

The wine glass that had just touched her lips was moved away again, Tan Zhi Xu’s expression didn’t change much. “Reason.”

Zhu Shihao paused slightly. “First, our families are too close. I’m afraid our relationship will affect the relationship, especially between my mom and Aunt Ting. So, let’s wait until our relationship is more solid.”

More solid?

Actually, she was just afraid that their breakup would make their parents feel awkward.

Tan Zhi Xu chuckled, his tone extremely blunt: “Wait if you want to wait, but I’m reminding you, even now, there’s nothing fragile about us. And Zhu Shihao, I’m warning you, a breakup is not an option. Don’t even think about it.”

Alright, actually, that “first” wasn’t even the main point.

She had finally gotten this man. She wouldn’t worry about a breakup now.

Thinking of this, Zhu Shihao also warned him: “If you dare to do me wrong, don’t even think I will celebrate your birthday let alone your death anniversary!”

Tan Zhi Xu: “…”

What a unique threat.

“You could dig up my grave for all I care.” He lifted his chin towards her. “Continue, what about secondly, thirdly, and lastly?”

“…There aren’t that many.” Zhu Shihao stammered, first muttering softly before continuing seriously: “Another reason is, as you know, my mom has been arranging blind dates for me recently. If I show resistance one moment and then start dating you the next, my mom might think we reached some kind of agreement, conspiring to deceive her and Aunt Ting.”

Her expression was extremely serious, and what she said made some sense.

If their relationship hadn’t changed, and Zhu Shihao was worried about being forced into blind dates, he would indeed help her.

No matter what role Tan Zhi Xu played, he would be willing to put on a show with her.

Tan Zhi Xu tilted his head back slightly, holding his wine glass. Zhu Shihao saw his Adam’s apple bob. She felt like a cat being teased, her hands itching to reach out.

Until the other person casually asked her:

“Why couldn’t it be that Aunt Liu thinks you’ve liked me for a long time, and I’ve liked you for a long time, and then the truth comes out, and two people in love quickly become a couple?”

Those lingering thoughts vanished in an instant, and Zhu Shihao’s breath hitched.

Of course, I don’t want you to think that!

Not long ago, she had confessed to her mother that she once had someone she liked very much, the subject of that love letter. Now her mother was somewhat forcefully asking her to go on blind dates, probably largely because of that.

As a result, she turned around and got together with Tan Zhi Xu. Madam Liu was very clever and would probably guess the cause and effect. Knowing her mother, she might have trouble coming.

“Hmm? What’s wrong?”

She was somewhat serious, and Tan Zhi Xu couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows and ask.

Staring at the person in front of her, not daring to miss the slightest expression, observing him until he asked the question, Zhu Shihao breathed a sigh of relief.

Good, good, good, he still didn’t know that the rascal from back then was himself.

Faced with his question, the best answer was to give him a roll of her eyes.

All the nervousness and panic from just now were completely concealed, and she returned to normal without leaving a trace. One arm rested on the table, her fingertips sliding along the rim of her glass. The other arm propped her chin up with her elbow on the table. Zhu Shihao put on a somewhat speechless expression.

“How can you say such things so calmly?”

As she said this, she glanced at him, seemingly speechless at his shamelessness.

Amused by her lively expression, Tan Zhi Xu leaned closer, stretching out his arm across the small table and flicking her forehead with his finger, a smile hidden at the corners of his lips.

“Actually, it’s not a lie, at least you really do like me, and I really have liked you for a long time.”

Well, I’m really sorry. I have liked you for even longer, a slight win.

But naturally, she couldn’t say that. Instead, she became interested in what he said, Zhu Shihao asked him: “What made you like me?”

Hearing this question, Tan Zhi Xu was rare to had a moment of distraction, a brief trace of absentmindedness unconsciously appearing on his face.

He seemed to have fallen into a memory. Zhu Shihao didn’t rush him, but quietly waited.

But he shook his head. “I don’t know, but it must have been a long time.”

Such an answer was not something that should be satisfactory. It even sounded a bit perfunctory.

Zhu Shihao looked at the candid smile that was rarely on his face and believed him without hesitation.

“Shihao, you should ask me when I realized it.”

Zhu Shihao had always existed in his life. From beginning to end, she was significant and irreplaceable. They hadn’t grown apart because of age. Time had passed, and it was difficult to clearly pinpoint the exact moment he fell in love with her.

He only knew that falling in love with Zhu Shihao was a mature decision.

But the moment he discovered he was in love with her was clear.

From that moment on, every time he thought about their intertwined lives, he deeply felt that it was a gift from God, allowing him to have a lover from the very beginning of his life.

Tan Zhi Xu possessed all of Zhu Shihao’s life.

“I haven’t had a chance to ask yet.” Zhu Shihao had no idea about his inner thoughts, with even a bit of liveliness that didn’t match him. “So, when did you realize it?”

Tan Zhi Xu reached out his hand to her, a smile on the corner of his mouth, and beckoned to her, “Come here.”

Was he still being mysterious?

Zhu Shihao blinked, but still went over as he said. She had just put down her wine glass when he pulled her into his arms, sitting her on his lap.

Tan Zhi Xu gave her a kiss on the face as a reward: “The end of the year I opened the company. Shihao, I realized I couldn’t stand other people appearing beside you, taking away your attention, getting your care, no, it was enough to make me unbearable that he just appeared, and I wouldn’t be so complete without you.”

“Are you sure this is love?”

He twitched the corner of his mouth, staring straight at her: “I’m not that stupid yet.”

This question isn’t stupid, okay? Zhu Shihao pouted, and the next second his thumb pressed against her lips.

The sensation from his fingertip was clear, Tan Zhi Xu’s tone was light: “I exhausted all excuses and still couldn’t validate a single reason. That’s a possessiveness that couldn’t be appeased, therefore released, from then on, when I think of you, I think of your lips, your body, revolving around your answers.”

His fingers slowly moved down, tracing her curves as he spoke.

“I’m absolutely certain that you can only be mine.”

“Having me inside you is enough.”

His fingertip rested on her chest, sinking slightly through the thin autumn shirt. That action and his gaze, like the possessiveness and aggressiveness he expressed in his words, were thick and heavy, washing over her.

Friendship and affection turned into something else; from the moment he could no longer convince himself that he didn’t love her, Tan Zhi Xu wanted Zhu Shihao. He wanted her companionship, he wanted his gaze to be only reflected in her eyes. All this began to be filled with desire and exclusivity.

Zhu Shihao left a kiss on his lips, and said softly, “Tan Zhi Xu, don’t look down on people.”

Unjustly accused, Tan Zhi Xu didn’t refute it, slightly picking up his sunken fingers, instead, his five fingers stretched out, his large palm dropping once again.

Round dewdrops fell into an open flower, richly moistening the entire flower.

It was soft and elastic, and adding her excitement, and from gaining the response she wanted, he subconsciously slightly retracted, the strength he exerted was twice the weight.

Zhu Shihao cried out, “Ah,” and slapped his shoulder: “Really, really, be gentle!”

Tan Zhi Xu was awakened by her cry, his movements gradually stopping, holding her hand, a faint smile hanging on the corner of his mouth.

“Well, speaking of which, I’ve watched you grow up.”

She was stunned.

Too shameless!

Punching him with her fist, Zhu Shihao said fiercely, “You better not be a real pervert!”

Responding to her was his gradually clear chuckle.

“Well, no.”

That was the most important Zhu Shihao, as a friend and as family, were the purest and most lovely people in his eyes, those boys with bad intentions glanced one more time, would say more than one sentence, he would rush up, how could he let himself become the person who would hurt her and blaspheme her.

She was so pure, so precious.

Letting her beat him a few times, Tan Zhi Xu then grasped her wrist, a thin circle, with his fingers, there was still room. He kissed her and asked: “Do you love me, Shihao?”

This question seemed superfluous.

But his gaze was too deep, so deep that Zhu Shihao could not see the end of this emotion.

“I love you, Zhi Xu, I love you so so much.”

More than you think, and for longer than you know.

Tan Zhi Xu perked up the corner of his lips, looked straight into her eyes, and asked again: “Do you want me?”

Zhu Shihao smiled slightly, and suddenly produced a few charming, pointed her fingers to his chin: “Yeah, been on so many times, always remember the heart and one of the people together.”

Now she took on such a high-profile stance, hoping that she could speak so stubbornly later.

He raised his eyebrows, picked up the wine glass on the table, not knowing whose it was, picked it up and took a sip, pinched Zhu Shihao’s chin and kissed it, his fingers resting on her throat, feeling it slide.

The kiss stopped, their tightly pressed lips separated, Tan Zhi Xu bent his fingers to wipe away that little bit of dark red residue from the corner of her mouth.

“It’s always been one, but I have no objections if you want to commemorate it.” He first corrected, and then said something a little absurd, “I only hope Shihao will eat more later.”

Zhu Shihao’s eyes instantly opened wide, she raised her hand to cover his mouth.

Unfortunately, the sound still went straight into her ears, with a heart-wrenching lowness and magnetism.

“Shihao, it’s time to wash up and go to bed.”

She was a fish willing to take the bait, led by the line in his hand.

“Well, but Shihao, isn’t my rein always in your hands?”

Tan Zhi Xu was a wild horse tamed by Zhu Shihao, no matter how fast he ran, he would listen to the direction she indicated, and he would kneel and surrender before her.

“Shihao, you are a flower I cultivated with my heart’s blood. As long as you are happy, your thorns can stab me, stab anyone.”

She looked at the person on top of her in a daze.

“I won’t, Zhi Xu, I absolutely don’t want to hurt you.”

The next day, she woke up, lying on the bed holding her waist, and reflecting on it. She didn’t know if it was because their relationship began with her wanting to “take the lead,” but she was always too stubborn in this regard, especially when she liked to provoke him.

“Awake?”

Zhu Shihao followed the voice and looked over, and saw the man coming over, dressed impeccably.

Zhu Shihao, who was known for her gentleness, intellect, and elegance, rarely showed such an expressionless, yet subtly painful expression on her face.

Tan Zhi Xu sat down on the edge of the bed and touched her face: “What are you thinking?”

Zhu Shihao pursed her lips, determined to learn from the pain: “Reflecting on myself for having my yin energy harvested to replenish yang, which I was sent to people for a great supplement.”

Someone was stubborn last night for a long time, seeing her face was red, her whole body was rosy, sweat like fog-like a layer of fluttered on her body, it was clear that people were soft to the point of almost losing their mind, but they insisted on persisting to bits and pieces, refusing to admit defeat.

It had to be said that that look was very beautiful.

It was very endearing, making him both love and pity her, and exerted a bit more strength.

The images in his mind were vivid and sensual, and he didn’t dare to think too much. Tan Zhi Xu’s eyebrows twitched, and a few traces of emotion emerged between his eyebrows, with a sense of unfulfilled addiction, praising: “Yesterday’s performance was good, Shihao ate well.”

As he said this, his face revealed an encouraging and appreciative expression, as if to say, “Look, you can do it.”

She grabbed the pillow on the side and threw it at him.

“Tan Zhi Xu, shut up!”

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