Su Ning, who had been watching the show from the side, let out a “Wow.”
Shen Ji copied her and also said, “Wow.”
Gu Yueshuo and Bu Zhongyao were nothing more than a couple in name.
One was a spoiled young master from a wealthy family, while the other was a pampered young lady from a wealthy family.
Because they both knew exactly how delicate and sheltered the other was, Bu Zhongyao had never thought of asking Gu Yueshuo to help her dig through a trash can.
She had assumed that Gu Yueshuo would not help her either.
She simply had not expected him to step forward on his own.
Bu Zhongyao covered her face and secretly glanced at Gu Yueshuo again and again.
Although he now had a pale, haggard face and heavy dark circles under his eyes, looking completely different from his usual spirited self who loved showing off, she unexpectedly discovered today that this boy somehow looked even more handsome than Xuan Yuan Mo standing beside him.
Su Ning whispered to Shen Ji, “See that?
It’s easy to win a girl’s heart.”
Shen Ji glanced at the two boys digging through the trash can.
He pursed his lips, then took two steps forward, intending to dig through it as well.
Su Ning quickly grabbed him.
“What are you doing?”
Shen Ji said, “Ning Ning, I want your heart too.”
Su Ning said, “My heart has always been yours.
You don’t need to dig through a trash can for it.”
Shen Ji shook his head.
“No.
Ning Ning’s heart isn’t mine.”
Su Ning looked at him in confusion.
Shen Ji raised his hand and placed it over his own heart.
Looking troubled, he said, “There’s no Ning Ning’s heart here.
Ning Ning, I want your heart.”
Su Ning glanced at him several times.
She had no idea what kind of fuss he was making again.
Recently, he had become clingier, and he also seemed more prone to being sentimental.
Come to think of it, Shen Ji had been climbing in through the fourth-floor window every night for so many days just to sleep with her.
Yet aside from kissing and hugging her, he had never done anything more.
Could he have been holding himself back for too long, making him feel insecure and overthink things so easily?
Su Ning calculated their ages in her head.
They had both been adults for quite some time, and next year they would turn twenty and graduate from the school.
The school provided a relatively open education that combined Chinese and Western influences, so considering the environment they lived in, it was not unreasonable for her to give him a little more of a reward.
Thinking about it made even Su Ning feel a little excited.
She rose onto her toes and kissed his chin.
Then she hooked her finger around his and coaxed him, “Why don’t you come and take my heart tonight?”
Shen Ji’s eyes lit up.
He nodded firmly.
“Okay!”
Su Ning’s face also grew a little hot.
She covered her face, unexpectedly becoming as shy as Bu Zhongyao for once.
After Xuan Yuan Mo and Gu Yueshuo finished gathering everything, the group went to the place where they had encountered Zhao Yuan before.
By then, it was already dark.
There was pig liver and stomach, sheep stomach and intestines, and even fish hearts and lungs.
The pile of mismatched organs assembled from all over the place looked extremely out of place.
Gu Yueshuo asked doubtfully, “Will this really work?”
Bu Zhongyao sprayed perfume on him as she answered, “We’ll know after we try it.”
Both Gu Yueshuo and Xuan Yuan Mo smelled terrible.
For once, however, Xuan Yuan Mo did not get to enjoy Bu Zhongyao’s attention.
Of course, he did not mind and simply said, “I hope it works.”
The moon had already risen.
Su Ning was eager to return to the dorm and properly prepare for the wonderful night ahead, so she spoke briskly.
“All right, all right.
If you still have nightmares, just tell Zhao Yuan to come find me.
I’m not afraid anyway.
Let’s call it a day and all go home.
I’m going back too.”
With that, Su Ning took Shen Ji’s hand and left.
Shen Ji said, “Ning Ning, he won’t come find you.”
Su Ning said, “Of course I know he won’t come find me.”
After all, all this running around was nothing more than a way to give Bu Zhongyao and Xuan Yuan Mo some peace of mind.
Once they felt reassured, they naturally would not scare themselves.
That was right.
From beginning to end, Su Ning had simply been treating the whole thing as playing along with them.
Shen Ji wanted to go back to her dorm with her, but Su Ning stopped him at the entrance to the dormitory building.
“Go home and take a shower first.
Change into clean clothes before you come find me.”
Shen Ji blinked.
“Oh.”
Su Ning was afraid he would come back too quickly before she was ready, so she added, “You need to wash yourself thoroughly.
Don’t come too quickly.
I need to get ready too, understand?”
He obediently nodded.
“I understand.”
Su Ning hugged him.
Shen Ji happily wrapped his arms around her waist.
Just as he lowered his head to kiss her, she covered his mouth.
Su Ning’s face was flushed.
Her expression was shy, but there was also a bold excitement in her eyes.
She deliberately slowed her voice and spoke in a lingering, suggestive tone.
“Tonight, I’ll be waiting for you to come and…
take my heart.”
After saying that, she pushed him away and ran into the dormitory building.
Shen Ji stood where he was.
Slowly, he raised his hands and covered his face.
His bright eyes seemed to hold a sky full of stars.
As soon as Su Ning returned to the dorm, she took a fragrant shower.
If the conditions had allowed it, she would have even wanted to light a scented candle and smooth out the bedding until it was perfectly neat.
She looked at the two pillows and, for the first time, thought that they looked really nice placed together.
But then she remembered something.
She had not prepared the most important thing.
Su Ning thought about it for a while.
The room next door was occupied by a socially anxious girl with a disability who was determined to live a strong life, while the girl upstairs often got lively in the middle of the night.
The girl upstairs seemed like she probably knew how to have a good time.
So she left her room and went upstairs.
When she reached the door, she knocked.
“Sorry to bother you.
Can I borrow something?”
The door opened a crack.
The lights inside were off, making it impossible to see what was inside.
Su Ning smiled.
“Do you happen to have any condoms I could borrow?”
Su Ning seemed to hear a gust of wind.
The room was completely silent.
After a long while, another gust of wind came from inside, and a trembling hand holding something slowly reached out from the darkness.
Su Ning glanced at the woman’s hand.
Her nails were so long.
They would probably look good with a manicure.
She took the box.
There were only two left inside, but that should be enough.
Su Ning sincerely thanked her.
“Thank you.
You’re such a kind person.
I’m also sorry for speaking so loudly to you before.
I’ll definitely bring you a gift to thank you later.”
The door closed, and there was no other sound.
Su Ning carried the little box back to her room.
She deliberately placed it in the bedside table so it would be easy to reach.
Then she lay on the bed and waited for the young man to climb in through the dark window.
The wind kept blowing outside.
She had no idea how long she had been waiting before she gradually became drowsy.
Su Ning had a dream.
In the dream, she was having trouble breathing.
When she tiredly opened her eyes, the young man on top of her was kissing her passionately.
Every time he kissed her, he softly called her name.
“Ning Ning, Ning Ning…”
Su Ning was dizzy from his kisses.
She asked him, “Why did you come so late?” The source of this chapter is g.com.
A smile appeared on Shen Ji’s clean face.
“Because Ning Ning told me to wash myself completely clean, so I took every bone apart and washed them clean.”
Su Ning thought to herself that he really knew how to use exaggerated figures of speech.
The next second, she felt the strap of her nightdress slide down her shoulder.
When the young man’s hand moved along her collarbone and rested against a large area of smooth skin, her body instinctively tensed.
Shen Ji lowered his head and gently left a kiss against her chest.
“Ning Ning, I want your heart.”
Su Ning could not take this teasing any longer.
She was already tired of him only rubbing against her without getting to the point.
She urged him, “Can you hurry up?”
Shen Ji blinked and, as always, chose to listen to her.
He sat up and pulled off his T-shirt.
His lean, sturdy body seemed to conceal endless strength.
His large hand stopped over the place he had kissed earlier, where he could feel her heart beating with such powerful vitality.
He should take off his pants next, right?
Su Ning was just thinking this when she suddenly felt a chill in her chest.
She looked at her perfectly intact body, then looked at Shen Ji.
Shen Ji was carefully holding a still-beating heart in both hands.
The corners of his eyes curved upward, and his smile held an extreme infatuation and an intense sense of satisfaction.
Right before Su Ning’s eyes, he opened his mouth until it became almost impossibly wide, like a huge bloody maw.
With one exaggerated bite, he swallowed her heart.
Swallowed it…
Swallowed it…
Swallowed it!?
Su Ning’s eyes widened.
“What are you doing?”
Shen Ji held Su Ning’s hand and guided it downward along his throat.
It passed his delicate collarbone before reaching his left chest.
Beneath her hand, she could feel a heart beating again and again.
The young man grinned widely.
“I’ll take good care of Ning Ning’s heart.
No one else can eat it.
It belongs to me!”
He lowered himself again until their lips touched.
His black eyes curved into beautiful crescents as he locked his gaze onto hers.
His entire body trembled with excitement, yet his smile remained as innocent as ever.
“Ning Ning, can you feel it?
We’re connected now.
You can’t go too far away from me, okay?
Otherwise, you’ll die.”
As if announcing the greatest happy occasion in the world, he said excitedly in an exaggerated tone, “I can’t be without Ning Ning either.
Otherwise, I’ll break down.
With a smack, I’ll shatter into pieces!”
Su Ning: “…”
She chose to close her eyes.
The next morning, Su Ning woke up to the familiar ceiling.
She instinctively tried to move, only to find herself unable to because the person beside her was holding her too tightly.
Shen Ji was sleeping soundly.
When he was quiet, he was unbelievably well-behaved, like a little animal waiting to be cherished.
Su Ning thought about it.
She had fallen asleep while waiting for him the previous night, so the things she had prepared had never been used.
She had no idea when he had arrived.
It seemed she had even had an absurd dream.
She carefully slipped out of his arms.
Her mind was a little hazy as she walked into the bathroom in her slippers and almost bumped into the door.
Fortunately, she stopped in time.
Su Ning patted her chest.
“That scared me first thing in the morning…”
Wait.
She touched her chest again.
Not convinced, she used her other hand and felt over her entire body once more.
Huh?
Where was her heartbeat!?