Sigh!

Whatever. Xu Su decided not to hold it against him. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

If he left a few marks, so be it. Besides, she kind of enjoyed it...

After changing her clothes and finishing up in the bathroom, she came out to see Zhou Mochen back in the room, standing by the bed. Xu Su followed his gaze and saw the marks on the lotus-pink sheets...

"Satisfied now? You can finally give it a rest!" She averted her eyes, feeling a bit awkward, and huffed, "Zhou Mochen, do you have some kind of virginity complex? If last night I wasn’t... you would’ve changed your tune completely, wouldn’t you!"

Xu Su’s voice broke Zhou Mochen out of his thoughts. He froze for a moment; he really couldn’t bring himself to lie and placate her...

’What if she wasn’t...’

’What if she had been that intimate with someone else before... like they were last night...’

Zhou Mochen’s fingertips trembled. He refused to even think about it. His mind quickly tossed aside the baseless speculation, and the corner of his lips curled into a smile. He reached out and pulled her into his arms. "There are no ’what ifs.’ Are you hungry? Come on, let’s go eat first."

Xu Su didn’t spoil the mood by pressing for an answer.

’They knew each other too well. Even if he said he didn’t care, she wouldn’t have bought it...’

The two of them had a sweet, lovey-dovey lunch. Zhou Mochen made a point of watching her finish a bowl of nourishing soup. Xu Su didn’t object—as long as it tasted good, she didn’t care if it was a medicinal tonic.

After lunch, Xu Su curled up on the sofa, her head resting on Zhou Mochen’s lap, and played a tile-matching game on her phone.

After clearing several levels, she glanced at the man stuck to her side like a conjoined twin and couldn’t help but ask, puzzled, "Didn’t you say you’d be busy lately with work handovers? You didn’t go out this morning, so why are you still at home this afternoon?"

"I’ve already gotten most of it done over the past few days." Zhou Mochen’s eyes hadn’t left Xu Su since he woke up. Hearing her question, he stroked her hair and said with a smile, "Susu, I want to be with you."

’That last sentence was the real point...’

Xu Su was a little speechless. ’Aren’t girls supposed to be the ones who feel a sense of loss and insecurity after their first time?’

’Do guys get like this too?’

’Why did it seem like his clingy Attribute had successfully leveled up into an enhanced version overnight...’

Xu Su didn’t really like it...

"You don’t have to stay home with me all the time. If you have work to do, go do it." She wasn’t the clingy type. The reason she’d been angry a few days ago was his lukewarm attitude and the fact he didn’t even call when he wasn’t coming home for lunch.

Now that they had talked out their conflict, Xu Su really couldn’t stand the idea of them spending twenty-four hours a day together.

Hearing this, Zhou Mochen put on a pitiful expression. "Susu, are you tired of me already?"

"...Don’t overthink it." Xu Su gave him a pained glare. "I just think you should go to work if you’re busy. We’re both independent individuals. There’s no need to become like conjoined twins, attached at the hip just because we’re dating."

Her words would have sounded perfectly reasonable to anyone else, but Zhou Mochen completely disagreed. ’He wished he could just slap a pair of handcuffs on them so neither could ever leave the other...’

But under Xu Su’s intense gaze, he could only nod against his will, his face full of reluctance, and force himself to say, "You’re right."

"..." Xu Su fell silent for a moment. Knowing him as well as she did, how could she not see what he was thinking? She sighed internally but patiently coaxed him, "How about this: you go to work first and get everything done. Once the marks on my neck fade, I’ll take you back to my grandmother’s place to meet my family. What do you think?"

"Okay." Hearing that he would get to meet her family, how could Zhou Mochen possibly say no? He glanced again at the love bites on her neck, his eyes darkening. He reached out and stroked her skin. "I didn’t even use much force. How are you so delicate?"

"Are you blaming me for this? I’ll let it slide this time since you’re inexperienced." Xu Su issued a stern warning, "But if you’re so rough again next time that I can’t even leave the house, then you’re banned from touching me for at least a month."

What a vicious punishment. It was a direct hit to the bull’s-eye.

Zhou Mochen’s fingers froze instantly. He tried to negotiate, but Xu Su had already scrambled up from his lap and given him a push. "What are you looking at? Hurry up and go to work! Stop being so clingy, will you?"

The way she looked like she was trying to kick him out made Zhou Mochen’s teeth itch with frustration, but he couldn’t bear to go against her wishes. In the end, she really did push him out the door.

Once the clingy pest was gone, Xu Su went back to lying on the sofa. She was still a bit sore and didn’t feel like sitting at the computer to play games for a long time...

She grabbed the remote and flipped to a TV series that looked interesting.

After watching for a while, she found it wasn’t that great, so she just picked up her phone and opened QQ.

There were a ton of messages in both her group chats and private messages.

In their three-person group, Huang Feng had woken up from her hangover. Surprisingly, she hadn’t blacked out and still remembered what happened in the private room last night. She was frantically @’ing Xu Su in the chat, asking if she and Zhou Mochen had kept fighting after they left.

Her words were filled with admiration for Xu Su. In Huang Feng’s eyes, Zhou Mochen was the great demon king himself. Even her own brother was completely subdued by him, yet her best friend wasn’t afraid of him in the slightest and even dared to challenge him head-on.

An entire bottle of red wine! And she downed it without even batting an eye!

Qian Jia, who hadn’t been there, wasn’t as shocked after Huang Feng’s explanation. As Xu Su’s former deskmate, she had a better understanding of Zhou Mochen’s tolerance for Xu Su.

If nothing else, during the year of pick-ups and drop-offs in their last year of high school, Qian Jia had long since discovered that whenever Xu Su appeared, the man who was so cold he was stingy with his expressions would instantly come to life, as if a soul had been injected into him.

Looking at the group chat messages from a few hours ago, she saw that in the last few, Huang Feng had been worried she’d gotten beaten up since she hadn’t been online...

Xu Su didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as she typed out a reply.

She then went into the class group chat and scrolled up through the history. There weren’t any strange comments.

’Right. Even if her classmates wanted to gossip, they wouldn’t do it in the main group chat...’

As long as she didn’t see any discussion, Xu Su could play the ostrich. She breathed a small sigh of relief and continued replying to her private messages. Rao Lu and a few other good friends had all messaged to check on her and Zhou Mochen after they left last night.

Xu Su replied to everyone one by one. Finally, her fingertips paused over Xi Zirong’s message, and she hesitated.

She chose to ignore it...

’He already said he would try his best to get over her.’

’So, what she needed to do now was disappear from his life. With time, he’d eventually move on.’

After replying to all the necessary messages, Xu Su started chatting idly with Huang Feng and Qian Jia in their three-person group while continuing to flip through channels with the remote.

Suddenly, a familiar face appeared on the screen. She froze and stopped changing the channel.

Watching the show intently for a bit, Xu Su began to understand why Huang Feng liked Fei Qiao. Not only was the character very likable, but the actress herself was also very talented.

’And very beautiful...’

Her performance was completely immersive. Just as Xu Su was getting engrossed in the show, the electronic lock on the front door clicked as someone opened it from the outside.