No, this wasn’t a kiss!
It was biting, it was venting!
It was the fangs of a ferocious beast bared!
His lips crashed against hers, wild and unbridled, invading without any finesse.
The taste of blood surged forth, unclear whose it was.
His tongue forcefully pried open her teeth, plunging deep with a self-destructive madness, as if returning all the unspeakable hatred, humiliation, and resentment.
Lin Ran was stunned for a moment, but she quickly reacted and met him head-on.
This was like a war.
Fought in the confined space between their lips, teeth, and breaths.
There was no tenderness, no lingering affection.
Only pure, naked confrontation!
Suddenly, the door was knocked.
“Lu Feng? Lin Ran?”
Su Wanyu’s voice came through the door, laced with anxiety and unease, “Are you two alright?”
No one answered.
Lu Feng’s hand gripped Lin Ran’s waist tightly, while Lin Ran’s fingers dug deeply into his shirt.
He plundered, she counterattacked.
Their breaths intertwined, the coolness of mint clashing with the sweet freshness of lychee, mixed with the metallic tang of blood, creating a strange, viscous sensation.
Lu Feng’s eyes were open.
He watched Lin Ran’s trembling long eyelashes, her cheeks flushed from lack of oxygen.
Like a demon aroused yet refusing to concede, determined to fight back.
This realization drove him even more mad!
He kissed her deeper, harder, almost stealing their breath away.
One hand still held the back of her neck, while the other began roughly tearing open his own shirt.
Two buttons popped off, revealing his fair, smooth muscle lines, exuding a seductive allure that was both concealed and exposed.
The knocking outside the door grew more urgent, Su Wanyu’s anxious voice rising.
“Lu Feng! Lin Ran! What are you doing in there? Open the door!”
The two inside paid no heed.
Lu Feng’s hand slid down from Lin Ran’s waist—
“Lu Feng!” Lin Ran squeezed his name out from between her teeth.
But he didn’t respond, only kissed her more forcefully, his hands continuing their movements, his scorching palm sending shivers across her skin.
Lin Ran’s body stiffened, her eyes suddenly turning cold.
“Slap!”
A crisp, resounding slap landed squarely on his face.
Lu Feng’s head snapped to the side, a clear handprint rapidly blooming on his fair skin.
The fierce kiss came to an abrupt halt. The bedroom was left with only their uneven, heavy panting and Su Wanyu’s increasingly frantic pounding on the door.
Lu Feng held his head-tilted posture for a few seconds before slowly turning back.
He pressed his tongue against the burning inner wall of his mouth, tasting a hint of blood.
He looked at Lin Ran, a turmoil of emotions swirling in his eyes, finally settling into an extreme, icy disgust, tinged even with a hint of contempt.
“Isn’t this what you wanted?”
“I surrender, Miss Lin. Are you satisfied? Do you need me to lie down to make it easier for you?”
Lin Ran rubbed her wrist, looking at the handprint on his face and the undisguised loathing in his eyes, and smiled.
There was no triumph, no anger in that smile, only regret.
“Lu Feng, you truly disappoint me.”
She raised her hand, her fingertip pressing against his chest, right over his heart, “I’ve said it many times, what I want is—”
“Here.”
Her fingertip pressed down slightly.
Lu Feng’s body stiffened.
Then, he let out a scornful laugh, “Then in this lifetime, you will never get it.”
His tone was resolute, as if stating an eternal, unchanging truth.
“Is that so?” Lin Ran chuckled softly as she smoothed her hair and zipped her dress back up.
She took her phone from her clutch, her tone indifferent. “Add me as a contact. You start officially tomorrow.”
Lu Feng expressionlessly pulled his phone from his pocket and unlocked it. Lin Ran directly took it, set herself as his top contact, and assigned a special notification tone.
After finishing, she ignored his dark expression, walked to the door, and opened it.
Outside, Su Wanyu stood pale-faced, her hand still poised mid-knock.
Her gaze first fell on Lin Ran—lips swollen, skirt slightly wrinkled.
Then she saw Lu Feng inside the room.
His meticulously buttoned shirt was wide open, his lips swollen, and his face bore finger marks.
Su Wanyu’s breath caught instantly.
“You two…” Her voice trembled. “What were you just doing?”
Lin Ran didn’t answer.
She leisurely straightened her skirt, smoothing out the wrinkles, each movement carrying an air of careless composure.
Turning, she cast a meaningful glance at Lu Feng before elegantly stepping through the messy living room in her high heels and leaving.
Su Wanyu immediately rushed into the bedroom. “Brother Lu Feng, are you okay? Your face… Did she hit you? Just now, you two…”
Lu Feng took a step back the moment she approached, avoiding her touch.
His voice was hoarse and weary. “I’m fine.”
“Xiao Yu, thank you for coming today. Please go back first. I need some time alone.”
“But—”
“Go back.” Lu Feng cut her off, his tone leaving no room for argument, cold and distant.
He couldn’t face any concern right now, especially the kind of pure, genuine concern Su Wanyu offered—it only made him feel more wretched.
Seeing his tightly shut heart and the aura of despair surrounding him, all her words stuck in her throat.
Biting her lip, she finally whispered, “Then… rest well. Call me if anything happens.”
Su Wanyu turned and left, her heart sinking to the depths.
She clenched her fists, nails digging into her palms.
No.
This can’t go on any longer!
Tomorrow at the library, she must confess her feelings to Brother Lu Feng.
She would heal him as his girlfriend.
Once she had that title, if Lin Ran continued to flaunt her entanglement, she’d be nothing but a homewrecker, condemned by everyone.
With her proud personality, she’d never be able to bear that.
Thinking this, Su Wanyu felt full of confidence for tomorrow’s confession!
After Su Wanyu left, Lu Feng looked down at his open shirt, as if the warmth of Lin Ran’s fingertips still lingered over his heart.
It felt like a needle pricking his chest.
He tore off the shirt and threw it on the floor, then raised a hand to scrub his lips fiercely, repeatedly, as if trying to wipe away something disgusting.
He pressed so hard that his already swollen lips stung, breaking the skin until they bled.
But some things seemed impossible to erase.
Outside the window, dusk deepened, the last glimmer of daylight swallowed by darkness.
Lu Feng closed his eyes.
Lin Ran’s smile surfaced in his mind—bold, unrestrained, brimming with the certainty of victory.
She wanted his heart.
A cold, mocking smile tugged at Lu Feng’s lips.
His heart?
Did he even have one?
His biological father had never seen him since birth.
His biological mother abandoned him on a rainy street.
His adoptive parents took him in, and he learned gratitude, responsibility, and how to protect himself with indifference.
But he never learned how to “love.”
What Lin Ran wanted was something he never possessed in the first place.
Thus, from the very beginning of this game, she was destined to lose.
Only, she didn’t know it.
And he would never tell her.
Lu Feng opened his eyes, gazing at the pitch-black window.
Starting tomorrow, he would be Lin Ran’s servant.
One month.
Thirty days.
Seven hundred and twenty hours.
He would play this game with her.
Either she would destroy him, or he would destroy her.
Lu Feng firmly believed that he would be the winner.
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At the entrance of the residential complex, a white luxury sedan sat quietly parked.
Lin Ran settled into the back seat, and as the car started, the system’s notification promptly echoed in her mind.
【Current Mission: 1. Make the male lead, Lu Feng, kiss you voluntarily. Time limit: within 24 hours (Completed)】
【2. Within tomorrow, disrupt the original plot point “Female Lead Confesses to Male Lead in the Library” (Incomplete) Mission failure penalty: +20 Misfortune Points】
【Ultimate Goal: Change the death ending, seize all of the male lead’s affection. Full value: 100. Current Affection Value: (-100) Current Misfortune Points: (0)】
After the system finished its announcement, it immediately expressed concern:
【Host, aren’t your methods a bit too extreme?】
【If the male lead continues to hate you to the bone like this, the subsequent missions will be very difficult to carry out!】