Salted Fish Tide

Chapter 231

Night was like a surging tide, churning back and forth. The pool water caught a strand of moonlight and cast it across the ceiling indoors, leaving traces of its visit.

The villa after the lights were turned off was far too silent. Even the moonlight outside was brighter and clearer than inside. Through the tightly shut double curtains, the rolling outline of Wushan could vaguely be seen.

Catching the dewdrops sliding down trembling leaf veins, the wind was gentle, stroking down the branches bit by bit and making the leaves shudder in waves. They rustled softly, like lovers whispering.

Once his eyes adjusted to the dark, there was smooth skin within reach, along with catlike eyes gleaming faintly like pearls.

"Come here." His voice was husky, carrying a trace of languidness.

The cat tilted his head. Long, bamboo-slender fingers were clasped one by one, enveloped and swallowed by the night.

At night, one could cast aside all defenses and fear nothing, opening one's arms to embrace a heaving sea, rising and falling with the waves as they seized a moment of pleasure.

Droplets, like a night rain, fell two or three at a time, then more and more, spilling uncontrollably across his chest. The chill they brought scattered his muddled thoughts.

Clinging on, grasping the only driftwood amid the tides, his voice distorted slightly. "Cheng Yu..."

"I'm here." His tone was incomparably gentle as he brushed aside the other man's damp bangs and left behind a slightly cool kiss.

Fish and dragons plunged and leaped, clouds parted to reveal the mist, and flowing water murmured on without the slightest pause.

His fingers were curled, unable to straighten or muster even a little strength. He simply let them lie there, unwilling to move at all.

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