My Late Ex-boyfriend Pestered Me on WeChat

Don't Leave Tonight

Gao Hong was so drunk, she stumbled to her feet with amazing perseverance, saying that she wanted to go back to her house, determined not to be a third wheel for the two people, that when Lin Ranyi wouldn't let her go, she had to crawl to the front door. Lin Ranyi had to hold her forehead and help her go back. Fortunately, the two people lived in the same building, Lin Ranyi on the 23rd floor, while Gao Hong lived on the 26th floor.

Lin Ranyi settled Gao Hong to sleep and came back to open the door when she heard a phone ringing in the room, it wasn't hers, then it must be Li Songyang's. Lin Ranyi hurriedly opened the door and rushed into the room. Seeing Li Songyang picking up his phone and was about to answer, she bolted towards him as if in a 100-meter sprint, grabbed the phone, and glanced tremblingly. The call was from Chief Editor Du.

Lin Ranyi shoved the phone back to Li Songyang, feeling dehydrated from exhaustion, and plopped down on the sofa.

Li Songyang was frightened into a piece of wood with dropped jaw, freezing for a long time before answering the phone. Mr. Du asked him if he wanted to come and try out the male host of a lifestyle program that was available on the station now.

Li Songyang lightly said yes and hung up.

The room became quiet suddenly. Li Songyang stood on the edge of the sofa, looking down silently for a while without saying a word to Lin Ranyi, and then slowly squatted down, hesitating, stretched out his arms and wrapped Lin Ranyi in his arms.

The stars outside the window was dim, the moonlight was hazy, spilling on her taut shoulders. The familiar scent of the man's body lingered around the tip of her nose and ears, gentle and loving. Lin Ranyi sniffed carefully. The wisps of familiar smell instantly seeped into her limbs and bones. The heart of stone she built for a year flew away like smokes and ashes.

Lin Ranyi reached out and wrapped her arms back around him, not knowing when she was already in tears.

In a strange time and space, this person was lying in the icy darkness, inch by inch decaying into dust. She couldn't imagine what it was like...

She suddenly hugged Li Songyang tightly, eager to sink him into her hard and hot chest. Li Songyang's body stiffened, suddenly he cupped Lin Ranyi's thin cheeks, lowered his head and kissed her frantically. Ignoring her struggle to resist, swallowing her, eating her alive. Salty wet tears along the corners of the girl's lips was stirred in between the two people grinding together in the lips, turning into a lingering bitterness.

Li Songyang finally let go after an unknown period of time. He lowered his head gently against the girl's forehead and said hoarsely,

"I'm sorry..."

Lin Ranyi finally could break free from his tightly-clasped arms, panting and wiping the undried wet stains from her red and swollen lips.

"You bastard..."

Lin Ranyi pushed him aside violently, her face flushing.

Shame on you, shame on you, she swore to God, reaching out to hold him was definitely a reflex, she didn't mean it, Li Songyang, the scum, got the wrong idea.

Li Songyang was pushed to the ground, his face reddened at a speed visible to the naked eye. He sat up with his body half-supported, his thin lips still had a touch of flush and full of water stains, "I'm sorry, I thought..."

"You thought?" Lin Ranyi interrupted with a red face.

Li Songyang closed his mouth with a strong desire for survival.

"Li Songyang, we're done."

Lin Ranyi said indifferently.

"I don't agree."

Li Songyang sat up with a thud, panicked and wanted to hug the girl again, but Lin Ranyi got up and walked to the table and began to clean up the leftovers.

She was too lazy to tell him anything. In his life, he never really cared about anything except digging information, digging shady tricks, betting with luck, and risking his life.

It really took her so much energy to figure out this problem. She really had no strength left to get involved with him again.

Only this time, she'd help him escape the unknown, and then from now on, they should walk on different roads, never disturbing each other.

Li Songyang walked to the dining table with a very good attitude of pleading guilty. He wanted to help Lin Ranyi clean the table with two extra hands. When Lin Ranyi took the plate, he grabbed the plate. When Lin Ranyi took the chopsticks, he grabbed the chopsticks. Like a pug following blindly, trying to help eagerly but creating more mess instead. So the more he helped, the more meddlesome he became, and finally two plates met in mid-air and perished together on the ground, shattering the peace.

Li Songyang bumbled to find a broom and dustpan to clean the broken porcelain crumbs on the ground. While sweeping, he observed his words and expressions with a guilty heart, and tried his best to be low and small. When he met Lin Ranyi's difficult eyes, he quickly bent his fox's eyes and smiled at her, almost wagging his tail.

Lin Ranyi sighed silently, picked up a pile of plates and walked into the kitchen, out of sight, out of mind.

When the two of them finished cleaning up the messy kitchen, it was already 10 o'clock at night. Lin Ranyi sat on the sofa looking at her phone, Li Songyang stood uncomfortably in the foyer. He didn't want to leave, but he didn't dare not leave.

After hanging for a while, Li Songyang had no choice but to say to Lin Ranyi who had her head buried in her phone, "Then... go take some rest early. I'll go back first."

Lin Ranyi suddenly raised her head to look at him, her gaze looked very tangled.

A gaze Li Songyang couldn't read.

His throat was slightly bitter. As he slowly walked towards the door, he couldn't help but looked back at the girl again.

"I didn't agree with the breakup."

He said lightly as he reached out to open the door.

Suddenly the girl's voice came from behind, sounding more tangled than the look in her eyes, "Don't leave tonight..."

Li Songyang heard his heart violently missing half a beat, and his brain began to buzz suddenly. He froze in place for a long time before finally reacting to what she said, a moment of blood rushing, from his trembling little heart all the way to his cerebral cortex, and then turned rushing to another body part with vigour.

He tightly pursed the corners of his lips on their way up, turned around and took quick steps towards the girl on the sofa. When the handsome man rushed to her face, Lin Ranyi resolutely got up and dodged, ran into the kitchen and fumbled to boil a pot of water to make tea, grabbed an apple, cut it and recalled about her past pain, wondering, what should she do to survive this bad night.

Li Songyang rubbed his forehead and got up from the sofa, good things don't come easy, good things don't come easy.

Calm down, calm down...

She actually made the first move to let him stay overnight...

This progress was already a miracle.

The future was bright, the road was winding, even if she set up countless* roadblocks that took him half of his life, it was what he deserved.

*「九九八十一」—9x9=81—infinite/countless

That said, between the selling beauty plan or the pretend to be hurt and selling pity plan, which one would him give quicker results...

Li Songyang was distracted thinking about how to look miserable in one thought and how to seduce in another thought. He brainstormed all the way and followed Lin Ranyi into the kitchen, leaning against the sink to watch her cutting apples, watching and unconsciously rubbing against Lin Ranyi's body, stretching out two slender arms to wrap the girl in his arms from behind. Leaning over, he gently placed his chin at the crook of Lin Ranyi's thin and clear neck.

"What should I do to make you stop being angry..."

The man whispered softly in the girl's ear.

Lin Ranyi's ears reddened, her back tensed up tightly, but her legs softened.

"I was wrong, I won't do those dangerous things anymore. Just now Chief Editor Du called me and said that the lifestyle column needs more host, so he asked me if I want to try, I agreed. I won't go anywhere from now on, you can't drive me away..."

The man's slightly hot nose in the girl's ears gently teased, his voice was getting more hoarse, lower and lower, the last word like a soft feather, gently falling behind the girl's fair ear. The thin lips along the girl's ears slid to the slender soft neck, dropping a string of dense kisses.

When Lin Ranyi got back to her senses, Li Songyang already took a bite on her shoulder.

"Bastard."

Li Songyang, however, still refused to behave and asked her with a hoarse voice, "Then what do you mean to do, asking me to stay?"

This was a great shame she couldn't refute.

Lin Ranyi was full of grief and indignation, she slammed an elbow backward, and Li Songyang staggered a step back covering his stomach, beads of sweat swelled from his forehead.

He swore to God this was definitely not the pretending to be hurt he had originally planned. This wretched look was too realistic, it would've scared her.

Li Songyang held back his pain, straightened up, walked along to the cut apple and took a bite from Lin Ranyi's hand, then walked out of the kitchen like nothing happened.

Lin Ranyi was stunned for a moment before realizing that Li Songyang's pain didn't look quite right. Her elbow didn't exert that much force. She hurried to chase and saw Li Songyang, sitting on the sofa, curled up into a shrimp.

Lin Ranyi rushed to his side, squatted down and asked,

"What's wrong with you?"

Li Songyang's face was pale with pain. Seeing Lin Ranyi's panicky eyes, he sat up straight hurriedly, his fox eyes slightly raising, and he smiled with a flirty face.

"You want to murder your own husband..."

Lin Ranyi was too familiar with this person's qualities. Too lazy to talk nonsense with him, she directly lifted up the hem of his shirt.

"Indecent..."

Li Songyang yelled while he dodged, making her teeth itch with resentment.

But Lin Ranyi's eyes and hands were quick. She caught the sight of the palm-length scar on Li Songyang's stomach. It was bright red, hideous and shocking.

Her knees went weak, she fell down to the ground with a thud and her eyes went dark.

"What's wrong with you, what happened?"

Lin Ranyi's voice trembled, clutching Li Songyang's arm in a deadly grip, and the pinch made him grimace.

"Stand up, wife, stop kneeling. Why do you need to perform this big salute."

Super cheap guy Li Songyang, making silly jokes and flirting at the same time. Lin Ranyi had long been accustomed to this annoying person's true face. She calmed down her mind, got up to help him slowly lie down on the sofa, grabbed a pillow cushion for him, and then squatted back down to look at his wound carefully.

"You look like this, you're going to make me misunderstand..."

"Three inches more downwards, that's the right place to look..."

Li Songyang was so determined to flirt regardless of his physical disability.

Lin Ranyi rubbed the corner of her forehead, wanting to ask the heavens, what evils had she committed in her last life, to meet such a fine man in this life, to have a relationship like withstanding heavenly tribulation.

"Do you want to tell me the truth?"

Lin Ranyi asked him with red eyes coldly.

Li Songyang looked at the girl's cold eyes, his mouth full of vulgar words gradually stopped.

For some reason, for a moment, he felt that her eyes were loaded with immovable sadness, as if wading against the water, powerless, couldn't reach his other side of the shore no matter how hard she struggled.

He felt an indescribable heartbreak. How could he caused her so much pain?

He softened his voice and comforted the girl gently,

"It's just a small injury, why are you so distressed?"