Chapter 315 – Great God, I heard you’re going to travel a thousand li to deliver (49)
His lips were tingling from the teasing licks, and Yan Luo couldn’t help but pull back a little. But he followed, closing the distance once again.
Stubbornly clinging to this intimacy.
In the end, Yan Luo sighed in resignation, parting her lips as she gently patted his head.
And so, another round began. Fang Shi’s eyes gleamed as he explored this new territory.
“What exactly are you trying to say? Just say it properly. If there’s something you want to tell me, then say it clearly. Normally, your mouth is quick enough to spout all sorts of nonsense, isn’t it?” Growing impatient with his relentless exploration, Yan Luo finally pulled away from the heat of his breath.
Right at their doorstep, their actions had already grown far too intense.
Yan Luo pressed a hand against his forehead, preventing him from leaning in again, and opened the door, pulling him inside.
A certain someone, hopelessly intoxicated by it all, let out a whimpering sound as he tried to pounce on her again.
Only after rubbing against Yan Luo for quite some time did he finally process the meaning behind her words.
—”What is there to hide from me? Shouldn’t we be facing things together?”
A faint sting settled in his eyes as he rested his head on Yan Luo’s shoulder.
Despite being so much taller than her, he curled in on himself, leaning into her. It was an odd yet delicate sight.
“To be honest,” Fang Shi finally spoke, his voice carrying a hint of sharpness, “with everything they’ve done, the punishment they got was far too light…”
That faint darkness in him seeped out without restraint.
A girl—a girl who, as a child, only wanted love, who longed for even the slightest bit of attention from the adults around her—just how much had she endured, how many things had happened to her, for her to grow into someone he both cherished and felt deeply sorry for?
If anything, Yan Yuxu had acted too soon, tying the Yan family’s company to his little girl before he could do anything. That alone was enough to keep Fang Shi from making a move against the Yan family’s business.
As for Yan Yuxu, for the sake of his Luoluo’s feelings, he wouldn’t interfere too much.
But Yang Si and the others…
The darkness in his eyes deepened. Yet, he lowered his head and placed a gentle kiss on Yan Luo’s hair, his voice unbelievably soft.
“But whatever you do is right. If you don’t want to deal with them, then don’t. You don’t have to care about them anymore.”
As long as she looked only at him, that was enough.
She didn’t need anyone else.
He would fill every empty space in her life, fill them all with himself.
“And what about your family?” Yan Luo asked.
—Don’t you have a grandfather who dotes on you?
Yet right now, he felt so lonely, so fragile.
As if, by pulling her into his world, they were the only two people left in it.
Fang Shi was silent for a long time before he finally spoke. He gazed at Yan Luo, took her hand, and pressed it against his face, rubbing against her palm in an affectionate yet desolate manner.
“If Luoluo can ask that question, it means you already know something, don’t you?
“…Sometimes, affection is just another form of restraint.”
—It’s exhausting.
“I do have a Grandpa. A lot of people say my parents weren’t good to me, but that my Grandpa was. That he even wanted to leave the Fang family to me.
“But that’s not how it was.
“Maybe when I was little, there was some genuine care, faint as it was. But once I unconsciously revealed my talents and abilities—once I became a potential threat to the Fang family—then all that sudden attention…
“It wasn’t love anymore.”
His Grandpa provided him with the best material things.
But in his Grandpa’s eyes, there was only wariness, alienation, and another chain meant to bind him.
As a child, he hadn’t fully understood those gazes, those emotions.
But even then, he had vaguely sensed that they were not something to be happy about.