Xu Ruobing was very thoughtful.
When she went to order the cocktail, she specifically replaced the ice cream scoop with the most expensive flavor—the very one she loved the most, costing hundreds per scoop.
When the ice cream fell onto Jiang Lai’s chest, even she couldn’t help but feel a pang of sympathy.
Xu Ruobing usually maintained an almost perfect figure by being extremely particular about her diet.
Her three daily meals were basically arranged by a chef.
Only on very rare occasions would she allow herself to indulge and take a few bites.
Sometimes when she craved something, she would purposely buy a small portion to taste it, chewing it slightly before spitting it out—never swallowing.
Feeling the sweetness of the flavor she just tasted, Xu Ruobing’s tongue softly traced Jiang Lai’s warm skin along the melting ice cream’s trail, moving little by little to Jiang Lai’s chest.
Jiang Lai’s breath hitched as she suddenly realized the taboo mark left by her sister-in-law was still on her body.
Hastily, she placed a hand on Xu Ruobing’s shoulder, signaling her not to move any further downward.
“Aren’t you here to drink with me?”
“Sure, let’s drink…” Xu Ruobing said, then lifted herself slightly, deliberately twisting her body against Jiang Lai.
Jiang Lai fully felt the feminine charm of Xu Ruobing’s slender and soft figure.
A few strands of her silky hair brushed lightly over her, some sticking to the cleanly licked wine stain on her snowy white skin.
Jiang Lai kept reminding herself these things didn’t matter, but her eyes couldn’t help but glance at everything Xu Ruobing was doing on her body.
Jiang Lai had expected Xu Ruobing to move away after this, but to her surprise, she instead swept her long hair back over her shoulder.
One hand traced gentle circles on Jiang Lai’s chest with her fingertips, while the other lifted the cocktail beside them, taking a small sip.
“Don’t tell me you want to feed it to me!” Jiang Lai felt like she was losing her mind, her ears flushing red. “I didn’t mean to drink like that…”
Before Jiang Lai could finish, Xu Ruobing’s body pressed against hers again.
She first leaned in to kiss the corner of Jiang Lai’s soft pink lips.
At that moment, her flowing hair cascaded down like waves.
Jiang Lai wanted to keep her lips closed, hoping Xu Ruobing wouldn’t behave so shamelessly while drinking, but she had severely underestimated just how brazen Xu Ruobing could be with her.
When their soft lips pressed tightly together, Xu Ruobing didn’t try to pry open Jiang Lai’s closed mouth at first.
Instead, she slowly released some of the wine she held in her mouth onto Jiang Lai’s lips.
Jiang Lai’s tempting, tender lips were soaked in the liquid, which soon flowed out more and more from Xu Ruobing’s mouth.
Jiang Lai could only feel her breath being stolen, replaced by the strong scent of alcohol from Xu Ruobing’s mouth.
The warmth of their mouths mingled with the wine’s sweet chill, laced with fruity fragrance.
Jiang Lai marveled that Xu Ruobing had only taken a small sip earlier, yet it now seemed endless—she simply couldn’t take in any more.
Not wanting to stain her clothes—since that would mean changing and possibly exposing the marks on her body—Jiang Lai tried to hold back.
Though Jiang Lai hadn’t contacted her sister-in-law even once in the past two days—not a meeting, not a single message—this almost complete separation only made the sight of the red marks left on her body trigger all her memories of what her sister-in-law had done to her.
Sometimes, Jiang Lai wanted to timidly protest to her sister-in-law—she had said she needed a few days to calm down, but then she really didn’t come to see her?
Jiang Lai found her own feelings impossible to predict.
Deep down, she couldn’t accept her feelings for her sister-in-law, yet those feelings formed a stark contrast to the long-standing dependence she had developed.
Her current state was one of fear to face her sister-in-law, yet an irresistible urge to think about her.
Just the thought of her sister-in-law filled Jiang Lai with a confusing mixture of frustration, heartache, and entanglement—emotions so complex she couldn’t make sense of them.
Over the past two days, Jiang Lai even considered cutting things off completely, but she couldn’t bear to.
Now, Jiang Lai felt utterly shameless—only wanting to enjoy the benefits from her sister-in-law, unwilling to think of anything else.
As she scolded herself in her heart, her shimmering eyes sparkled like scattered diamonds, looking utterly pitiful.
Throughout the feeding, Xu Ruobing kept her eyes open.
Without doing so, she couldn’t ensure the flowing liquid would enter Jiang Lai’s mouth precisely.
But when Xu Ruobing saw Jiang Lai, who had kept her eyes closed during the kiss, now slowly opening them with tears welling up, she was completely startled.
Jiang Lai’s half-open eyes, blurred by the tears gathering in their corners, turned the ceiling light into a blurry patchwork of glow—Meiren’s Tears.
Especially silent tears like these stirred the deepest pity.
Had her earlier actions frightened Jiang Lai? Seeing those tears, Xu Ruobing immediately blamed herself.
The remaining wine in her mouth was no longer offered to Jiang Lai but swallowed nervously instead.
As they parted, she quietly whispered an apology.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to. You’re just too captivating. I won’t do this again. If next time you don’t like it, just call my name and I’ll stop right away.”
“…”
Jiang Lai looked at Xu Ruobing’s apologetic face and thought of the sister-in-law she once considered a jerk.
She gently wiped away her tears.
Sometimes, looking at Xu Ruobing helped her forget the tangled mess in her heart.
Though the problems wouldn’t disappear, just seeing Xu Ruobing gave Jiang Lai a fleeting sense of living in the moment.
Otherwise, if she stayed trapped in her conflicted, gloomy mood, Jiang Lai felt she might fall into a deep depression.
“Ruobing, sometimes I’m really grateful to have you by my side…”
Jiang Lai smiled now, eyes half-closed, tilting her head as she gazed at Xu Ruobing with a look both infatuated and alluring.
Seeing Jiang Lai like this, Xu Ruobing’s eyes were filled with obsession.
She wanted to press herself against Jiang Lai again, to pin her down on the sofa.
Her heart felt tightly gripped by desire.
Originally cold and restrained, Xu Ruobing wasn’t used to strong desires, but with Jiang Lai, those feelings seemed endless.
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