Daydreaming about Me

Chapter 49

The young man had a bit of alcohol, and his breath felt intoxicatingly close. Lin Yujing felt her ear, where his lips were nearing, start to burn, and then the heat spread all over her body.

Shen Juan, this person, was too overwhelming.

His aggressiveness was too intense, with one move following another, not giving her any time to catch her breath.

Lin Yujing’s mind was buzzing from his teasing, but she didn’t want to appear too weak.

Like an old hand at this, he would tease her, and her ears would turn red, and she would be blushing all over—how embarrassing.

Lin Yujing tried hard to look evenly matched with him.

She didn’t dodge, but leaned against the wall, even tilting her head to get closer. “If I tell you everything with just one kiss, what will you do if I want more?”

The girl’s voice was soft, like an ambiguous allure in the night. Shen Juan’s jaw and neck line were tense.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, tilted his head back a little, and lifted her chin with his hand.

Lin Yujing didn’t expect him to move so directly and was forced to tilt her head up, looking shocked.

She was considered tall for a girl, but standing in front of him, she was nothing. She was a size smaller than him, like an eagle and a chick.

Shen Juan lowered his eyes, his gaze covered by dark lashes. In the dim light, his emotions were unreadable as his fingers gently brushed the delicate skin of her chin.

With each brush, she trembled, even her eyelashes quivering.

Shen Juan curled his lips, leaned in closer, his voice now husky, “So curious, want to try?”

Lin Yujing froze completely.

The young man bent his long legs slightly, enclosing her in front of him, his overwhelming presence pressing down on her.

It felt deliberate, his movements slow and intentional, getting closer and closer, until they were at an unprecedented intimate distance, almost feeling like their noses were touching.

Unable to bear it any longer, Lin Yujing turned her head away sharply, her face flushed, and her voice filled with flustered anger, “Shen Juan, can you act like a decent person?”

Her breath and voice were already a mess.

Shen Juan stopped moving, silent for two seconds, then suddenly dropped his hand, leaning his head against her shoulder.

He started laughing.

A deep, low laugh spilled out, his head resting on her shoulder, laughing uncontrollably.

“……”

Lin Yujing regained her composure. He was deliberately teasing her, just to see when she’d lose her patience.

His behavior was utterly shameless, his methods particularly rogue, making her want to punch him.

She fought the urge to hit him right there in school, took a deep breath, “Stop laughing.”

That only made Shen Juan laugh louder, his shoulders shaking. Lin Yujing: “……”

Isn’t he in need of some lessons?

She silently counted to ten in her mind. He was still laughing. “Shen Juan,” she called calmly.

Shen Juan looked up, still laughing, “Hmm?”

Before he could react, Lin Yujing’s fist was already flying at him. It was a bit dark, so she didn’t see clearly, but she hit him.

Shen Juan reacted quickly, grabbing her wrists. Lin Yujing twisted her hand to grab him back, but he pulled her away and held her tightly. He was strong, and her movements were restricted, so without thinking, she lifted her leg to knee him.

Shen Juan immediately sensed her intention, slid his leg forward, and pressed against her leg. The next second, he leaned in, pinning her against the wall.

They twisted together, his leg pressing against hers, hands holding hers, leaving her unable to move.

It was supposed to be a fight, but something felt off.

And he was still laughing, “Little girl, some places you shouldn’t kick, you know?”

There was a significant strength difference between boys and girls. Lin Yujing wasn’t professionally trained, relying on clever tricks to deal with weaker opponents. But against Shen Juan, she was completely overpowered.

Lin Yujing was about to explode, a mix of anger, embarrassment, and other indescribable emotions surging up. Without thinking, she lifted her head and bit his chin hard.

Shen Juan let out a long “hiss.” Lin Yujing froze.

She even stayed there, biting his chin for two seconds, before coming to her senses and letting go.

Shen Juan released her, stepping back half a step, creating some distance, “So fierce?”

“I…” Lin Yujing stood still, opened her mouth, then lowered her head, and softly said, “I’m sorry…”

Shen Juan said nothing.

Lin Yujing felt a bit guilty. She had bitten quite hard; it must have broken the skin. But who was to blame?

If you let me punch you, without holding me down, I wouldn’t have bitten you.

“Who told you to be the first to act like a rogue,” Lin Yujing added.

Shen Juan raised his hand, his thumb touching the spot she had bitten, feeling it wet. He rubbed his thumb and forefinger together, “Your bite is way more rogue than me.” “……”

Lin Yujing had no retort, falling silent.

It was nearing ten o’clock, and the dormitory was about to lock up. The dormitory supervisor was urging the girls still chatting at the door to go inside. Shen Juan took out his phone from his pocket, glanced at the time, “They’re locking up, you should go in.”

Lin Yujing didn’t move, sneaking a glance at his chin. In the dim light, she couldn’t see if it was really broken.

Lin Yujing had a restless night. Just before going to bed, she received a call from Lin Zhi.

Ever since the last call from Lin Zhi, they hadn’t spoken for a long time. Apart from the monthly or sometimes more frequent transfers of money, there was no other communication.

So when Lin Yujing came out of the shower and sat on her bed to see the call, she was a bit taken aback.

After two rings, she picked up: “Mom.”

Lin Zhi’s voice was as usual, slightly cold due to its calmness: “Have the midterm exam results come out?”

This was the first thing she said, just like always, without any change. Lin Yujing was used to it and responded, “Yes.”

Lin Zhi asked, “What rank?”

Lin Yujing paused, “Second.”

Lin Zhi was silent for a moment, then said calmly, “No. 8 High School in City A isn’t even a top-tier school, and you can’t even get first place?”

Lin Yujing remained quiet for a moment before saying, “No. 8 High School is also quite good.”

Lin Zhi said nothing more.

After a long silence between them, Lin Zhi suddenly sighed lightly: “Xiaoyu, I don’t know if the new environment has some impact on you. Even though your father and I are separated, I’m still your mother. I don’t want these things to affect your grades. You should be number one no matter where you are.”

Lin Yujing sat on her bed, leaning against the wall, staring indifferently at the white wall.

The dormitory had a single bed, which was narrow. One of her legs hung over the edge of the bed, with droplets of water still clinging to her feet.

It was late autumn, and she felt a bit chilly. She curled her toes and placed her foot on the bed.

When Lin Zhi didn’t get a response, her voice softened a bit: “I have a business trip to your city next month. Do you want to come out and have a meal with me?”

Lin Yujing was stunned.

Do you want to come out and have a meal with me?

This kind of question, asking for her opinion, almost never came from Lin Zhi. She always issued absolute orders.

Lin Yujing cleared her throat: “You’re asking for my opinion, which means I can refuse, right?”

Lin Zhi was silent for a moment: “I hope you don’t refuse.”

“Okay,” Lin Yujing took a deep breath and straightened up, “Call me when you arrive.” Lin Zhi said a few more words and hung up.

Lin Yujing stared at the black screen of her phone for two seconds, then climbed to the head of the bed to plug in the charger, placed it on the desk, returned to bed, pulled up the quilt, and closed her eyes.

She was indeed tired. Too many things had happened today, and her mind was constantly flooded with new information, all replaying in her head.

The last image before she fell into a daze was Shen Juan’s face. –

Li Lin had a great night’s sleep. The previous day’s victory in the game left him in high spirits, so much so that he didn’t even panic when he remembered he hadn’t done his physics homework.

He felt that this week, no, at least this month, was his lucky period. After all, they had beaten Class Seven, the darlings of fate.

Even though the victory had nothing to do with him, it didn’t matter. A brother’s strength is his strength, and a brother’s luck can also be his luck.

Li Lin lived on campus. In the morning, he specifically skipped the cafeteria and went to the breakfast cart opposite the school to buy breakfast.

He even ran into Song Zhiming, who didn’t live on campus.

Song Zhiming looked in good spirits, humming a song while waiting for the lady at the breakfast cart to fry his fish cakes. Li Lin greeted him: “Long time no see, captain! Missed me?”

“Missed you, brother,” Song Zhiming responded enthusiastically, “I brought bone soup flavored broth today. Did you bring chrysanthemum tea?”

Li Lin laughed and cursed at him.

He ordered a fried dumpling and got a bag of soy milk. Song Zhiming waited for him, and they walked to school together.

“Did you guys get home alright yesterday? I woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible headache,” Song Zhiming bit into his fish cake, “My mom got up and made me some soup. It helped, but it didn’t taste good.”

They chatted as they walked. Halfway, Li Lin realized he was so happy when he left that he forgot his backpack and went back to the dorm.

Song Zhiming went back with him, and as soon as they entered the building, they ran into Shen Juan coming out.

Since Shen Juan didn’t live on campus, Li Lin was a bit surprised to see him and stopped in his tracks.

Song Zhiming was also surprised: “Morning, boss.”

Shen Juan clearly wasn’t fully awake, barely lifting his eyelids: “Morning.”

Not only was he not fully awake, but he also looked like he’d been in a fight and got injured, with a scrape on his nose bridge and a round bite mark on his chin.

…Huh?

A bite mark?

Song Zhiming and Li Lin exchanged a glance, seeing varying degrees of shock and fear in each other’s eyes.

Song Zhiming thought this seemed a bit complicated.

He looked up at the boys’ dormitory building, then quickly turned to look at the girls’ dormitory building, and turned back: “Boss, didn’t you not live on campus before?”

Shen Juan, eyes drooping, voice hoarse with sleep: “Yeah, it was too late yesterday, I didn’t go back.”

It was too late yesterday.

Too late.

Late.

They got back before nine last night, right after their usual evening self-study, so this “too late” couldn’t be referring to the time they got back.

Song Zhiming glanced again at the bite mark on the boss’s chin. Before he could speak, He Songnan came around the corner from the cafeteria and called out to him from a distance: “Juan!”

Shen Juan yawned and walked toward him.

Song Zhiming waited downstairs for a while. Li Lin came down with his backpack. Song Zhiming turned to him: “Did you see the bite mark on the boss’s chin?”

“I’m not blind!” Li Lin mumbled through a fried dumpling, “Whoever did that is fierce, daring to bite the boss.”

“…”

Song Zhiming turned his head and looked at him in confusion: “You’re not blind, but how can you be such an idiot?”

“That’s uncalled for.” Li Lin said, “Do you think calling me an idiot makes you smarter?”

“I don’t know if it makes me smarter, but I do know that your question is really stupid,” Song Zhiming said, “In our school, who do you think would dare to bite?”

“At our school,” Li Lin finished his last dumpling, thought for a moment, “I think besides Lin Mei, no one else would dare.”

Li Lin’s voice stopped abruptly.

Song Zhiming didn’t speak, just looked at him.

Li Lin almost dropped the half-eaten dumpling from his mouth: “Crap? Seriously?”

Song Zhiming sighed: “Do you think if the boss got into a fight, someone would bite his chin?”

“Although I’ve always thought there’s something between them, isn’t Juan not into, you know…” Li Lin found it hard to say, lowering his voice, “Wasn’t there a post about him and that senior He Songnan, with photos of him dominatingly pressing someone down? That post got over a thousand replies from schoolgirls shipping them as a couple.”

“Maybe he was pressing someone down to beat them up,” Song Zhiming, a very straightforward boy, only believed what he saw with his own eyes, “I think the turning point was yesterday. After halftime in the game, Juan started acting differently.”

“…” Li Lin was speechless. He gulped down the last of his soy milk and sighed, “Ever since our boss decided to act differently, his back doesn’t hurt, his legs aren’t sore, and he might be covered in bite marks.”

Shen Juan was completely unaware that his classmates had created so much drama about him. The previous night, it was simply too late for him to bother going back, so he had spent the night in He Songnan’s dorm room.

While washing his face in the morning, his chin and nasal bone still ached a bit. He had really hit hard.

Shen Juan looked at himself in the mirror, tilted his chin up, and noticed a small ring of reddish bite marks. Then he lowered his head, placed his hands on the sink, and began to laugh.

Although Lin Yujing had bitten him out of frustration after he had grabbed both of her hands when she tried to hit him, that wasn’t the main point.

The main point was that he could still recall the feeling of the girl’s soft lips at that moment, even though it was soon replaced by pain. A bit of pain was no big deal.

Shen Juan suddenly felt like a real pervert.

When he arrived in the classroom, Lin Yujing was already there, looking not very cheerful, and was propping her head up while reading an English book.

Shen Juan brought over two custard buns and placed them on her desk. Lin Yujing looked up, saw him, and stood up to give him space.

Shen Juan sat down and glanced at her. She was also looking at him, tilting her head and leaning down to stare at his chin. Shen Juan raised an eyebrow and let her look openly.

After a while, she frowned, pointed at the bite mark on his chin, and whispered, “This mark is still quite visible. Why didn’t you put a band-aid on it?”

“I don’t have one,” Shen Juan replied.

Lin Yujing sighed, pulled her bag over, and took out a pack of band-aids from a side pocket. She opened it, tore off a strip, and handed it to him. “Here.”

Shen Juan didn’t take it. Lin Yujing held it for a moment, then looked up. “Take it.”

“I don’t know where to put it, I can’t see,” Shen Juan pointed to his chin and said, “Shouldn’t the person responsible take care of it?”

“…”

Lin Yujing looked around. It was morning self-study; some classmates were copying homework, others were chatting. She turned her head and met Li Lin’s intense gaze. She didn’t know why he was so interested.

Lin Yujing calmly turned back, leaned on the desk, and whispered to Shen Juan, “There are so many people here. How am I supposed to put it on for you…”

Half a month or even a week ago, Lin Yujing would have just slapped the band-aid on without a second thought. But now, things had changed. Their relationship as desk mates had become somewhat… less pure.

For some reason, she suddenly felt a faint sense of melancholy.

She sighed again and looked up to see Shen Juan taking off his clothes. Lin Yujing: “…?”

Shen Juan took off his school uniform, revealing the sweatshirt he had worn the previous day. He shook out the uniform, put it over his head, and held it up with his hands, creating a small tent. He looked at her from under the uniform. “Come inside.”

Lin Yujing: “…”

Lin Yujing was stunned. “Shen, are you so desperate that you can’t control yourself in the classroom?”

Shen Juan calmly said, “I’m just trying to block the view. Come inside and put it on, so no one will see.”

Lin Yujing: “…”

This was a genius idea! Shen Juan, you are truly brilliant! This method is absolutely inconspicuous!

Lin Yujing rolled her eyes, took out all the band-aids from the small package, and placed them on his desk. “You put them on yourself. If you don’t know where, just cover the whole area. A row of band-aids will do the job.”

Shen Juan still held up the uniform, looking at her. “Do I need to remind you who left the bite mark?”

“…” Fine.

Lin Yujing took a band-aid, tore it open, exposing the adhesive part, and then looked around again, making sure everyone was busy and no one was watching them.

Lin Yujing quickly ducked under the uniform. Almost simultaneously, Shen Juan silently smiled and pulled the uniform further forward, covering both of them.

Light filtered in from below, faintly illuminating the bite mark on his chin. In the small space under the uniform, Shen Juan’s presence felt amplified. He lowered his eyes, looked at her, and softly asked, “Can you see it?”

Lin Yujing didn’t respond.

Shen Juan couldn’t help but smirk. “Do you want me to…” “No,” Lin Yujing interrupted him quickly. “Can you be quiet?”

Her ears started to burn. She lifted a hand with the band-aid, placing it on the small bite mark on his chin. The cool touch of her fingers brushed against his jawbone, causing both of them to pause.

She wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but it felt like the entire classroom had gone silent.

Lin Yujing’s hand trembled slightly as she pressed the band-aid firmly onto the bite mark. The force seemed a bit strong, and Shen Juan softly hissed, “Gently…”

Unable to stand it any longer, Lin Yujing swiftly pulled away from the uniform, her head emerging as she saw someone standing by the desk.

She instinctively looked up and froze.

Next to her, Shen Juan slowly and methodically lowered his uniform, also looking up.

Liu Fujian stood there with his hands behind his back, bending slightly, and looked at them kindly. “What are you two doing?”

The author has something to say:

Juan felt that a bite was more stimulating than a kiss.

You all really know how to have fun, even putting on a band-aid can be so playful