Late at night.
Recently, Zhizhi’s sleeping hours had clearly shortened. She watched some cartoons with me before finally dozing off in my arms.
“Miss.”
I pushed open the maid’s room door. Chunqiao was startled, immediately standing up with utmost respect.
I glanced into the room. “This is odd. Why is Chunlan in your room?”
“Chunqiao is discussing new recipes with this servant.”
I looked at the two little maids, timid as quails, and pushed the stroller with my daughter toward them. “Take care of Zhizhi for me. I’ll come get her before bed.”
“This servant will certainly look after the little mistress well.”
Before I left, I added, “If anything happens, just come knock on my door.”
Compared to having my life disturbed, I was more worried about my daughter waking up crying.
Master bedroom.
Before the door was even shut, Su Liumeng couldn’t wait any longer, trapping me in front of her.
“What… are you doing?” I blurted out instinctively.
I’d never encountered this situation before, so for a moment, I even forgot what I’d just agreed to.
The excitement in Su Liumeng’s mind was doused as if with a bucket of cold water. “No, didn’t you just promise me…”
Seeing her disappointment, my memory came rushing back. Gritting my teeth, I rose on tiptoe and kissed her.
It was my first experience with the oppressive feeling that comes from a height difference.
Especially when I was the one in the lower position.
Su Liumeng’s true form was a downright cute girl, but even in her dragon form, she exuded a mature and composed aura that made others feel inferior.
Feeling that was enough, I was just about to pull away when she domineeringly pressed my head in place.
That’s right! She held me down!!!
It was that forceful kind. I tried to say something, but was so thoroughly “consumed” that not a single sound could escape. I could only shield myself with one hand between us, and unintentionally, my hand landed on something equally soft and shocking, making me draw it back as if I’d been electrocuted.
Nowhere to place my hand.
More importantly, nowhere to escape.
That was my truest feeling at the moment.
Finally, when I could hardly breathe, my mushy brain suddenly conjured up a brilliant idea.
I’d originally planned to jump up and give her a heavy punch right on the top of her head.
Just like the head-on attacks I’d landed so many times recently.
That had become my best silent attack.
But at the moment I reached out, my thoughts shifted, and I changed direction—grabbing tightly onto that tail she’d swung over my thigh, gripping it right at the crucial spot.
Su Liumeng’s body went stiff. I took the chance to break free from her grip, though I was still in her arms.
“You even promised me… that you’d keep your tail under control.”
Looking at the girl’s flushed cheeks, Su Liumeng seemed to be in a state of shy indignation, grabbing at something random and trying to change the topic.
Her heart thumped in panicked disarray.
“I just got too excited… couldn’t control myself.”
“Oh really…” I deliberately stretched out my tone, my beautiful apricot eyes lifting to gaze teasingly in the direction of the kitchen.
“I have a way to fix that, you know~”
Su Liumeng shuddered. “Baby, don’t have such dangerous thoughts. That’s still a part of my body. You can’t do something so cruel.”
“Hmph.” I snorted coquettishly and let go of the slick tail.
With a swoosh, Su Liumeng instantly retracted it, as if, if she were even a second slower, she’d never see the sun rise again.
I reflexively wiped my mouth, then, hands behind my back, hopped forward. “I’ve already sent our daughter to the maids’ room.”
My voice had grown very quiet.
Saying it aloud, the hidden implications made me feel a unique kind of embarrassment.
Did my feigned light footsteps falter for a moment?
In Su Liumeng’s eyes, the small figure in pale pink pajamas, momentarily frozen, was so cute it defied words.
Gurgle.
I heard that sound again and couldn’t help glancing back, grabbing a pillow I didn’t like and tossing it at Su Liumeng.
“You’re gross!!”
“Can you stop making that weird noise every time?”
Now and before—every single time I lost composure, she would come in with a heavy blow right at the edge of my shame.
The pillow struck Su Liumeng square in the face. Her dragon horns instantly poked two visible holes into it. The pillow was clearly done for.
She looked at the pillow that had slid onto her arm.
That… was her favorite pillow.
No wonder I’d thrown it without hesitation.
I watched Su Liumeng’s twitching mouth as she held the pillow’s corpse, disheveled.
Knowing I’d done wrong, I started stammering. “Um, I didn’t know it was your favorite pillow…”
Su Liumeng’s eyelid twitched. She stepped forward, reaching for my favorite little blanket.
Watching my beloved blanket, the one I always took out with me, tightly clutched in Su Liumeng’s grasp, I panicked. “What are you doing, wuwuwu, let’s not hurt each other, okay?”
“You know I can’t sleep without it.”
Su Liumeng’s eyes were calm, but her manner made me more and more guilty.
“Let, let my blanket go, please.”
I shut my eyes in resignation. “In exchange, I’ll let you do whatever you want with me.”
Su Liumeng looked at my trembling figure.
I suppose that single sentence took all my courage.
But she just let out a soft laugh. “You’re thinking too well. Isn’t this what you promised from the start? How did it become a new condition?”
Realizing my trick had failed, I pouted and opened my eyes. “Then what do you want?”
Su Liumeng looked at her pillow’s remains, took a deep breath, and tossed it into the trash. “Out with the old, in with the new. Now I have a hug pillow I like even more—it’s time for this one to retire.”
“Hm? So, what do you want to do?”
“Nothing.” Su Liumeng pinched my cheeks just like I did with our daughter, enjoying watching my eyes widen, “Who told you to have the privilege of being unreasonable?”
……
After the playfulness passed.
I leaned against her, watching as she toyed with my hand, trimming my already neat nails so there wasn’t a trace of sharpness left.
“I feel like a cat, having my claws clipped by my owner.”
“What a weird comparison.”
“It’s true… It really feels like it. Especially when I’m curled in your arms, and you’re so big you can pick me up entirely.”
One hand finished, Su Liumeng watched as I willingly offered up the other, inexplicably thinking how obedient and cute I looked right now, making her want to tease me even more.
“Baby, I never asked you—how did you trim your toenails while you were pregnant?”
My body went rigid. “Can I not tell you?”
“But… I really want to know.”
Good grief, Su Liumeng could act spoiled too. Wuwuwu, and she smells so nice, and that pitiful tone—was it always this hard to refuse?
I stared at my slender fingers, so much smaller than Su Liumeng’s, being carefully manicured. My instinct was to clench my hands, but she held them tightly. “I’m helping you trim your nails, don’t move or you might get hurt.”
“I… don’t really want to say.” My voice grew small.
Honestly, there were so many difficulties during pregnancy.
Some of those hardships, I didn’t want to tell my partner.
As long as I knew them myself, it was enough.
“Alright.” Su Liumeng looked at my clean, pretty hands, and wrapped her arms around my waist, pulling my whole upper body into her embrace. “If you don’t want to say, then don’t.”
“How about trimming your toenails too?”
My body went stiff, nearly sliding off her lap.
Thankfully, Su Liumeng held me tight, or I would’ve startled her with my struggle.
“No.”
“Why do you still remember that?”
My gaze grew suspicious.
Being hugged from behind, I couldn’t twist around, but I stared hard at Su Liumeng with my best glare.
She was too embarrassed to speak.
She really hadn’t meant anything by it, but given her past record, how could I not suspect her?
I forcibly turned around and sat on Su Liumeng’s knees, staring at her. “Tell me, are you still a hopeless foot-fetishist?”
Su Liumeng looked even more embarrassed but had to admit it. “Yes, I still am, but I really wasn’t thinking that just now.”
My bare feet dangled, toes curling reflexively in the air, suddenly at a loss—wanting to hide, but unable to do so.
Luckily, Su Liumeng didn’t even notice my little movements.
She chattered on, “Like, if you wore a little bell, or a red string, or painted your nails—with how perfect you are, you’d look so cute.”
I shot her a fierce glare. “You really thought of everything—even a bell! Why not just call me your pet?”
“I was only joking. You’re not actually taking it seriously, are you?”
People aren’t pets.
That was a line I’d never cross in my heart.
Su Liumeng explained anxiously, “No, no, I just meant it would look pretty. I never thought of treating you like a pet.”
“Tch. I’ll trust you one more time.”
As a seasoned foot-fetishist, she wept silent tears in her heart.
She figured she’d be stuck with air for life.
After cuddling a bit more, I had to admit, hugging her was really comfy—at least she smelled sweet and seemed to brighten my entire day.
And, she was quite soft.
I didn’t know what it felt like for others to hug me.
I couldn’t hug myself, so if I wanted to know, I’d have to ask Su Liumeng.
Probably, it felt similar to hugging Su Liumeng’s true form.
I recalled the feeling of holding Su Liumeng: the fragrance that made my heart race, the petite body in my arms, all my senses amplified by her cuteness.
Even Su Liumeng in half-dragon form was pretty soft, mostly because she had an equally ample chest.
Su Liumeng had no idea my little mind was wandering. Noticing my blank look, she felt a bit ignored, as if even when I was on her lap, I was still as unresponsive as usual. Wasn’t that like saying she was worse than a beast?
So, Su Liumeng decided to become the “beast,” erasing the “worse than” part, and reached right for a very sensitive spot she could never really control…
Since it was Su Liumeng, I just stiffened but didn’t struggle.
My whole petite body went limp, melting into her arms.
“Was I too rough?” Su Liumeng asked, always considerate.
Ah—
How was I supposed to answer that?
My whole face flushed, voice as soft as a mosquito. “It… it didn’t hurt at all.”
“You could even go a bit harder.”
Inside, my heart was screaming like a prairie dog.
I was already blaming Su Liumeng for always asking obvious questions. She was a girl herself, didn’t she know this kind of pressure was nothing for girls? Only a little more strength could trigger the deepest longing.
“Like… this?” Su Liumeng mimicked her little wife’s head-tilting move. She thought back to her usual manner—this should be just right.
“I-it’s already fine.” I couldn’t say a complete sentence anymore.
A quarter hour passed.
Half an hour passed.
A whole hour passed.
The thing Su Liumeng was most looking forward to just wasn’t happening in the room.
I looked at my little hand, at where Su Liumeng held it. “Aren’t you tired? You’ve been holding me so long my hand’s gone numb.”
“Not tired. I’m full of energy.” Su Liumeng was brimming with enthusiasm, a smile on her lips. “Baby, don’t always say you’re tired, this is just getting started.”
I glanced at the clock and suddenly went silent.
Can’t you calm down a bit?!
“Um… my hand’s really not that nice to look at.”
“I swear!”
“It’s true!!!”
I wanted to make up an excuse, to get away with it somehow.
Anyway, I was on strike.
“Nonsense, your hands are adorable and pretty. They’re perfect for…”
“……”
Alright, you can shut up now.
No need to finish, I already know what you want to say.
Two hours passed.
I finally snapped. “Su Liumeng, are you ever going to be done? Look at this bed—can anyone even sleep on it now?”
“You buy so many things, yet you never use them. You just go after my hands every time.”
“That’s different—how can objects compare to you?”
“Because, I only like you.” Su Liumeng replied as if it were obvious.
Hearing this, all my impatience instantly vanished, and I quietly let her have her way.
Seeing my forced composure, Su Liumeng grinned, “It’s fine. Next time, it’ll be more fun.”
“I promise, it won’t be this boring.”
I nodded seriously and shifted a bit.
There were fewer and fewer spots left on the bed where one could actually sit.
Besides, I was kneeling, which already took up a lot of space.
Su Liumeng watched me avoid her with a hint of psychological cleanliness, but couldn’t say anything because of how cute I was. She couldn’t help but smile.
She explained, “I… don’t usually do this.”
“It’s just because you’re here tonight.”
“Mm-hmm.” I nodded sincerely. “I’ve always known.”
I slowly raised my bright eyes, sparkling like the stars, and smiled.
“Because, I like you too.”
That smile was so sweet, like the evening glow at the horizon.
Su Liumeng was stunned, so much so that even years later, she couldn’t forget the way the girl’s eyes reflected her, filled with starlight.
Suddenly, I looked at a certain spot and, for no reason, said, “Can’t you use that tail of yours? If you helped yourself with it, wouldn’t it be easier for me?”
Su Liumeng went silent, then replied with exasperation, “That’s my tail, and it’s just a tail. What goes on in your little head? I’ve told you to read fewer of those weird novels—tails are always soft, they can’t do anything!”
Me: “……”
Hah, so that’s how it is.
No wonder our daughter likes reading novels, too.
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