MORIC - Chapter 118
Chapter 118: The Young Couple's Craving
Chi Yueshan was startled, but she couldn't get up anymore.
The rocking chair swayed gently. The dim, setting sun cast its light on the flowerbeds, and the climbing ivy had long since covered the two-person-high fence.
Over there was the corridor outside the library. It was just after classes had ended, so one could hear the clamor of the crowd and the occasional hum of a hovercar's engine.
More than that, there were the sounds of birds and insects, and the sound of Xi Zhoumeng's breathing.
Chi Yueshan didn't want to get up either. The rocking chair swayed and swayed. Her lips were moistened, stained with Xi Zhoumeng's lipstick, which smudged at the corner of her mouth before being gently wiped away.
Chi Yueshan thought: How cheesy.
But she quite liked this kind of cheesiness, an intimacy that felt like vows of eternal love.
Even though Xi Zhoumeng had never spoken any sweet nothings to her about the seas running dry and the rocks crumbling.
She was unrestrained, yet she was restrained. She was harsh, yet she was tolerant.
Xi Zhoumeng had so many faces. Even though she never hid them, Chi Yueshan still felt she was an unsolvable puzzle.
One worth spending a lifetime turning the pages of.
"I wasn't stealing a kiss, I was…"
Chi Yueshan buried her face in the crook of Xi Zhoumeng's neck. Her nose was filled with the other's scent. She struggled with her eyes closed and said, "I was kissing you openly and honorably."
After saying that, she felt a little melancholic.
Why isn't it legal?
Xi Zhoumeng: "Want to do it again?"
Their school robes overlapped, as did their hair, as intertwined as the atmosphere of the moment.
A flock of wild geese flew past. Chi Yueshan still refused to look up. She said petulantly, "Why did you treat everyone?"
Damn it, that's not what I wanted to ask.
Xi Zhoumeng: "Because I felt like it."
She held Chi Yueshan, patting her back as if coaxing a child, and squinted her own eyes.
"Already trying to manage my money?"
Chi Yueshan: "Of course not!"
Xi Zhoumeng: "I'm not going to let you manage all my money."
Chi Yueshan hadn't thought much of it at first, but now she was a little angry.
"Why not?!"
"You don't like me at all, do you?"
Xi Zhoumeng hadn't expected her to jump to such a huge conclusion. "I need a card with no limit."
Chi Yueshan's heart went cold. She felt she couldn't afford to support this scoundrel at all.
"But if you want it all, I don't mind giving it to you."
Xi Zhoumeng ruffled Chi Yueshan's hair, then started to find fault with the outfit under her school robe.
"I told you not to wear such baggy clothes. They're so ugly."
Chi Yueshan: "None of your business!"
Xi Zhoumeng: "You want to manage my money, but I can't have a say in what you wear?"
She said this with a smile, her bangs painted by the setting sun as if made of gold foil.
Chi Yueshan: "It's comfortable to dress like this."
Xi Zhoumeng picked up the book from the ground. A small housekeeping robot nearby stacked the scattered pages and handed them to her.
"Your chest is so beautiful, but wearing loose clothes doesn't show it off at all."
The person said this nonchalantly while inserting a bookmark, yet her tone was teasingly familiar, leaving Chi Yueshan speechless for a long moment.
"Shy again?"
Xi Zhoumeng praised her openly. "It's genuinely beautiful. Didn't you say mine wasn't as nice as yours?"
She chuckled and glanced at her own notes. "Oh well, as long as one of us has a nice one, that's enough."
"Besides, you've had your tattoo removed. You should show it off to those people openly."
Xi Zhoumeng was being roundabout, most likely with some ulterior motive.
Chi Yueshan huffed. "I'm busy with classes usually, not improper like you."
Her gaze fell on the book the other was holding. The cover looked very serious, but the first page had someone whimpering and exclaiming something.
What is this stuff!
Can't you just read the e-book? You have to read the physical copy!
Lewd!
And there are even annotations.
Chi Yueshan's eyes widened as she watched Xi Zhoumeng write next to the sentence 【Third Lass covered her face, her complexion like a peach blossom, her voice so delicate it seemed it could drip water】—
Just so-so.
The scattered pages were all translations Xi Zhoumeng had done in class. Seeing Chi Yueshan unresponsive for a while, she followed her gaze.
"What are you looking at?"
Chi Yueshan: "You actually write comments when you read this kind of novel!"
Xi Zhoumeng: "Is that strange?"
She flipped through it matter-of-factly. There were quite a few circles and marks. "There are bullet comments when you read it online. What's wrong with me participating?"
Chi Yueshan read a few pages and found they were all filled with this person's shameless self-assessments.
- Not as pretty as me.
- Just average.
- The male lead is way too stingy.
- Third Lass is pretty cute.
- Wifey.
Wifey???
Chi Yueshan was still lying on Xi Zhoumeng. The rocking chair swayed, and Chi Yueshan felt her mind swaying with it.
Chi Yueshan: "You're so frivolous."
Xi Zhoumeng: "What right do you, who's done adult livestreams, have to talk?"
Chi Yueshan: "What about it? Haven't you watched them?"
Xi Zhoumeng nodded. "They were very good."
She always made Chi Yueshan feel like she was punching cotton.
But her looks were unfairly good, making everything she did seem dazzling.
"So, are you feeling better?"
Xi Zhoumeng reached out, touched Chi Yueshan's waist, and finally tapped her on the chest.
That tattoo had already disappeared. The tattoo parlors in the Upper World had far better technology than those in the Lower World, and the recovery was excellent.
It was as if the former declaration had never existed.
It was just that the yellow rose stuck in the middle was a bit jarring.
Chi Yueshan turned her face away unnaturally and hummed in affirmation.
Xi Zhoumeng: "Can't you just refuse my rude requests?"
She actually had the gall to blame Chi Yueshan.
Chi Yueshan directly fanned Xi Zhoumeng's face with the book. "You have the nerve to say that?!"
"And you say my clothes are ugly!! How am I supposed to wear tight-fitting things! How am I supposed to wear low-cut tops!"
"You like to show skin, don't drag me into it!!"
Damn it, I call Xi Zhoumeng lewd, but she herself never seems to wear those kinds of barely-there outfits.
Always in layers, looking like she's about to be coronated at any second.
But she makes me wear all these fancy, gaudy things. It's so annoying. Am I a doll?
Xi Zhoumeng hissed. "That hurts."
Chi Yueshan: "It's supposed to hurt!! I'm in more pain!!"
In reality, it wasn't that painful. The Xi family's medicine was very effective.
It was just that she used it up too quickly, so much so that one day when Chi Yueshan ran into the Xi family's private doctor, Hong Sa, a white-haired female Alpha military doctor, she felt embarrassed.
The other woman, however, just smiled kindly and was gentle throughout the examination of Chi Yueshan's physical condition.
Xi Zhoumeng wasn't there that day, and Chi Yueshan ended up asking Hong Sa several questions.
For example, how Xi Zhoumeng's health was.
What would happen if things continued like this?
Oh, it wasn't that she was worried about the mark—people could live no matter what. She was afraid that Xi Zhoumeng would leave.
After all, this person's body housed a soul from another world.
Chi Yueshan couldn't say it out loud, so she appeared rather shy in Hong Sa's eyes.
The military doctor didn't misunderstand, though. She could see Chi Yueshan's concern and told her not to overthink it.
In the end, she even made a joke—
"Who knows, maybe I'll even get to hold your child?"
Chi Yueshan nearly exploded on the spot.
With Xi Zhoumeng… a child… that's too weird!!
No way…
But once the idea was born, she couldn't help but think about it when she slept with Xi Zhoumeng at night.
She asked in a small voice: Can you get pregnant without a mark?
Xi Zhoumeng hadn't really wanted to use that part to begin with. She knew Chi Yueshan's body like the back of her hand, but this question caught her completely off guard.
It was as if she was frightened.
Xi Zhoumeng hated children.
Chi Yueshan could sense it without being told. She even suspected that if this person really became an Alpha, she might even go get some kind of surgery herself.
At this moment, Chi Yueshan inexplicably recalled Xi Zhoumeng's sigh from that day.
Her own mood suddenly plummeted.
Xi Zhoumeng thought she was genuinely angry, so she put those things down and asked Chi Yueshan, "Want to go dancing tonight?"
Chi Yueshan: "Huh?"
The sky had already darkened. The moon hung in the sky, and the imitation pearl on top of the Pearl Auditorium was like a second moon.
In the distance, music drifted from the concert hall.
Xi Zhoumeng: "There's a small ball tonight. Want to try it today?"
Chi Yueshan: "Don't you have a lot to do?"
Xi Zhoumeng and Wen Xinghuo were both very busy. One was busy strengthening her body and traveling between the Upper and Lower Worlds looking for loopholes.
The other was still studying notes and asking people to find things.
Every time Chi Yueshan asked if she could help.
Xi Zhoumeng always said no.
When she was serious, she was completely focused. Her faint smile vanished, and only the misty effect of the fragrance remained in the study.
It made Chi Yueshan, who was drawing beside her, absent-minded.
But Xi Zhoumeng seemed to know what she was thinking.
"It's not that I think you can't help. It's that I think I can solve it."
After she finished, she smiled at Chi Yueshan again, a not-so-proper smile. "After all, your humble servant has to serve you at night."
Chi Yueshan: …
They had many moments alone, many intimate moments. After sweating profusely, Xi Zhoumeng would also tell her bits and pieces about her past.
But it was never coherent, like a fragmented life story devoid of any joy.
Chi Yueshan didn't ask much either.
She just thought: It would be nice if there was a way to go and see someone's past.
Even with the frantic advancement of technology, it seemed that ability didn't exist.
Instead, on some forums, people had idly started threads talking about how if the spatial folding from movies were realized, people could instantly go to other places.
Some people also posted unverified urban legends, and everyone just treated it as entertainment.
It was Chi Yueshan who, waking up in the middle of the night, would feel an itch in her heart, wanting to poke Xi Zhoumeng.
She wanted to go into the other's heart, into her past, to see what this person was really like before.
So this is what it's like to love someone. It really makes you feel an unbearable itch in your heart.
I really want to see Xi Zhoumeng look like she's suffering from that same unbearable itch for me.
Would she?
Xi Zhoumeng, who for now only grabbed Chi Yueshan's chest and scratched Chi Yueshan's legs in bed, shook her head. "It's just a dance."
She gave another teasing smile. "You're not going to step on my shoes again this time, are you?"
Chi Yueshan: "Absolutely not!"
"Where is it? What time does it start? Let's go!"
It was Chi Yueshan who became impatient.
Xi Zhoumeng stood there and watched her for a good while. The sky had darkened, and the lights in the flowerbeds turned on automatically.
The lighting effect was like fireflies. Amidst the flowers and grass, Chi Yueshan suddenly mimicked Xi Zhoumeng's sarcastic tone with an "Oh my," saying, "Doesn't this mean I have to change clothes?"
Xi Zhoumeng: …
It was called a small ball, but the venue wasn't small at all.
It was a ballroom with red and white floor tiles, and she didn't know what the theme was. Neon lights flashed constantly, and only then did Chi Yueshan realize that everyone, regardless of gender, was wearing a mask or a veil.
No one was dressed too formally. The music was not at all proper, but rather alternated between slow and fast tempos.
The band on stage was mostly composed of Betas, and there were many Omegas chatting on the outer circle.
Chi Yueshan had changed into a dress. She covered her chest in embarrassment, feeling that Xi Zhoumeng had planned this all along.
This dress is too revealing! The music's tempo is so fast. Why are people pole dancing?
Won't my boobs fall out while dancing!!!
Xi Zhoumeng put an arm around her waist and led her onto the dance floor. Colored lights scattered at the feet of the crowd, and faces were hazy under the lights.
The band's next song was a ballad, a variation of "Für Elise," with a cool electric guitar part.
Chi Yueshan didn't even know how to lift her feet. She could only feel Xi Zhoumeng's hand on her waist. Xi Zhoumeng's outfit was very academic.
As if she were truly a gentle senior, guiding Chi Yueshan step by step in the dance.
Chi Yueshan: "Is this dress really not going to fall off?"
She bit her lip, afraid of being overheard, and leaned closer to Xi Zhoumeng to speak.
Xi Zhoumeng had hundreds of veils. The one she wore at school wasn't as extravagant; at least it wasn't entirely made of diamonds.
But she just loved the crisp sound of gemstones clinking together. Even if she didn't wear them herself, she made Chi Yueshan wear them.
Chi Yueshan wore a low-cut, square-necked dress. As they danced, the hem of her skirt occasionally brushed against the leg of Xi Zhoumeng's trousers, and even the gems on their veils would touch.
Just like now, she had no idea how captivating she looked when she raised her eyes.
Captivating when shy, captivating when annoyed.
It made Xi Zhoumeng's heart pound, as if a long-dead thing buried underground had been given life by the wildflowers and weeds of the mortal world.
A sense of belonging and possession filled her eyes.
Fortunately, the lights were dim. Fortunately, there were no electronic dogs to check identities, and no one cared who came.
Xi Zhoumeng, who seemed to never wear trousers, was wearing a casual, loose-fitting suit.
Chi Yueshan, who was usually so carefree that it was hard for her to wear form-fitting clothes, was in a black dress.
They drew closer step by step during the lyrical music and embraced fiercely during the fast-paced melody.
And kissed uncontrollably to the beat of the drums.
Wasn't everyone around them the same?
Guyun Academy was the final carnival before becoming an adult. The young would always have to mature.
To live or to die, to become great or to fall, but youth only comes once.
A fleeting crush could also last until the seas ran dry and the rocks crumbled.
Chi Yueshan looked into Xi Zhoumeng's eyes. Around them, someone was confessing their love, someone was jeering playfully, and someone was lifting another person up.
The cheers and music merged, a kind of happiness among peers that Chi Yueshan had once disdained to participate in, the kind that Zhou Fengqin had pushed her to join.
At this moment, her palms were sweating, and her heart felt like it was about to leap out of her chest.
Every breath she took was a craving for Xi Zhoumeng.
She wanted this person to love her until death and beyond.
She wanted this person's world to stop just for her.
"Xi Zhoumeng."
Chi Yueshan called her name.
Xi Zhoumeng lowered her eyes.
Chi Yueshan suddenly rushed into Xi Zhoumeng's arms, hugging her waist, and in the restless background noise of the new music, she asked loudly in the other's ear—
"Why do you like me?"
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