Chapter 38: You Are Mine Now

Two pairs of dark, shiny eyes met—big eyes meeting smaller ones in a silent exchange. The lower pair’s neatly lined lashes trembled slightly. Chestnut hair fanned softly across the floor. Four lips, thin and pale, faced each other in close proximity.

“Thud.”

A muffled sound broke the tense stillness.

“Ugh…”

Hei Yuyi suddenly felt a fierce impact from below. Pain forced him to clench his fists and bite down hard on his lips, his eyes darkening with discomfort.

“Uh…”

The girl’s bright, glassy eyes began to well with misty tears, her delicate hands gripping tightly.

“Ah… you’re such a dog!”

Hei Yuyi’s careless close contact with the girl’s lips was met with a sharp bite, causing him to jerk his head up sharply. A drop of fresh blood from his wounded lip fell onto the girl’s mouth.

“Get off me.”

The girl looked at Hei Yuyi coldly, her misty eyes filled with resentment.

“Why are you suddenly blocking me?”

Hei Yuyi felt uneasy under such a gaze from a girl. His chest tightened, and a dull discomfort settled within him.

“Are you sure you won’t get up?”

The girl’s soft brown brows furrowed.

“What if I don’t?”

Hei Yuyi didn’t know why he was suddenly arguing with her. Maybe it was her constant arrogance and rudeness, or perhaps the unfamiliar look in her eyes unsettled him. Without thinking, he retorted sharply.

Suddenly, the girl raised both hands and grabbed Hei Yuyi’s head. His trained body instinctively wanted to fight back, but he stopped mid-motion. He remembered that the girl beneath him was just an ordinary girl; they had no deep grudges. Hurting her would be regrettable.

In that moment of hesitation, the girl bent her left leg and pushed off the ground, then lifted her right leg sharply under Hei Yuyi’s groin.

“You…”

Once again, Hei Yuyi felt a sharp pain, and his strength immediately waned.

Taking advantage, the girl used the momentum to pin Hei Yuyi beneath her. Holding his face in her hands, she unexpectedly pressed her lips to his.

Hei Yuyi’s eyes widened as he gazed at the face so close to his, inhaling the faint scent of an unknown skincare fragrance. He felt her slightly hurried breath, and chestnut strands of hair brushed gently against his cheek.

Before Hei Yuyi could react, a soft tongue pried open his teeth, moving erratically.

“Bang.”

Having never experienced such an encounter, Hei Yuyi didn’t understand what was happening. All he knew was that his body began to flush with warmth, a strange impulse rising within him. In a moment of desperation, he rammed his forehead against hers.

“What are you doing?”

The girl winced in pain, clutching her forehead.

“Shouldn’t it be me asking you that?”

Hei Yuyi countered.

“Wasn’t I doing what you wanted?”

The girl snorted coldly, raising her hands to wipe the blood from her lips, unaware that the crimson had already mixed with her lipstick.

“Are you crazy? Suddenly kicking and biting me, and why did you smear your lipstick all over my mouth?”

Hei Yuyi licked his lower lip, tasting the mingled sweetness of blood and lipstick.

“Heh.”

The girl laughed, even with her face lowered, one could see that there wasn’t an ounce of excess flesh on her delicate features.

“…”

“Can you please take your hands off?”

She exhaled a breath scented with fragrance onto Hei Yuyi’s face.

“Huh?”

Hei Yuyi raised his head slightly and instinctively clenched his fists. A soft fabric pressed against his hands, enveloping the flesh beneath.

“Mmm~ not had enough yet?”

A rosy flush tinged the girl’s cheeks as she asked, a mixture of shyness and anger.

“Sorry.”

Having never tasted pork but having seen pigs run, and now having felt “flesh,” Hei Yuyi knew exactly what he had touched and quickly withdrew his hands.

“You’ve kissed and touched me, and all you say is ‘sorry’?” The girl planted her hands firmly on Hei Yuyi’s shoulders, towering over him with a half-smile.

“Uh…”

Hei Yuyi felt a shiver crawl across his scalp under her serious gaze. He wanted to explain that it was all her doing, but how could a man admit that aloud?

Taking advantage of the situation and then playing innocent?

“What? Dare to do but not to admit?”

The girl sneered coldly, her hair falling across Hei Yuyi’s face, softly brushing against him with her movements, tickling.

“I… am not afraid, okay?”

Hei Yuyi never imagined that just two days after arriving on the island, he would try something he had never before dared. Campus romance? Not really. He fell for Watanabe Reimu on the first day, and the next, he found himself physically close to this girl whose name he didn’t even know. With no experience and facing such a strong-willed girl, he had no choice but to be firm and answer her back.

“Then what do you propose?”

A strange gleam flickered in the girl’s eyes as if she were pondering something.

“Can you get off me?”

Hei Yuyi intended to push her away but thought better of it. He was clearly in the wrong, and she was a girl—beautiful, no less—and he had just taken advantage of her. So, he refrained from being rough.

“Fine.”

The girl planted both hands on the floor, ready to get up. Suddenly, whether from weakness or intent, her body fell forward, her ample chest landing squarely on Hei Yuyi’s face. Just as she was about to touch his nose, she stopped and then stood up abruptly.

“You did that on purpose?”

Being tempted by a woman with such a perfect figure and stunning looks stirred an involuntary reaction in Hei Yuyi, despite the pain from earlier blows. The discomfort made the reaction all the more aggravating. Most others would have lost their response long ago.

“Ahem… Are you planning to kick me again?”

The girl glanced down and noticed the change in Hei Yuyi’s lower body, her cheeks flushing red. Her eyes flickered away briefly before locking onto his face with determination.

“You…”

Hei Yuyi hurriedly stood up, stuffing his hands into his pants to hide his embarrassment, speechless as he faced the girl.

“Hey, you still haven’t said what you plan to do.”

The girl turned her profile to the classroom mirror, brushing her slightly tousled hair and throwing a glance at Hei Yuyi.

“I… wasn’t it you who kissed me the second time just now?”

With no experience at all, Hei Yuyi struggled to find something to say and finally blurted this out.

“Alright then, I’ll explain.”

She smoothed her hair, shaking her head lightly. Her silky locks cascaded down her back as she turned to face Hei Yuyi.

“You speak.”

Hei Yuyi nodded, eager to leave this troublesome place.

“From now on, you belong to me.”

The girl extended a slender, pale hand with glossy, colored nails and pointed at Hei Yuyi’s nose, declaring this firmly.

“What do you mean?”

Hei Yuyi raised his eyebrows in surprise, as if hearing something unbelievable.

“I mean exactly what I said.”

Without further explanation, she spoke with undeniable conviction.

“But…”

Hei Yuyi wanted to argue but found no grounds. He couldn’t possibly say she had assaulted him and was now claiming him. If she were an ordinary girl, someone might believe it, but this girl was beautiful, elegant, likely from a good family. If this escalated, he would be the one to suffer.

“What, you think you’re at a loss?”

The girl frowned. Many had chased after her and flattered her, but her family background and temperament kept most at bay. With such high standards, she had taken the initiative today, and yet Hei Yuyi hesitated.

“No, but… fine, you decide.”

Hei Yuyi figured from her tone that she probably spoke out in a moment of impulse. He’d agree for now and sort things out later once he left. Reluctantly, he consented.

“Remember, from now on, you’re mine. You can go now. Come here after school tomorrow afternoon.”

Blushing deeply, the girl uttered a phrase loaded with innuendo, waving Hei Yuyi away.

Standing by the windowsill, peering through the curtain’s slit, she watched Hei Yuyi’s receding figure with complex emotions. Biting her lip, she murmured softly,

“What happened to me today? Why did I act so irrationally?”