Attention Sir, I Have Your Heart Handcuffed!-Chapter 661: Epilogue 21: Knowing it’s a mistake, still not letting you go

Chapter 661: Epilogue 21: Knowing it’s a mistake, still not letting you go

She suddenly fell silent, making him inexplicably anxious.

He knew that, from a stringent logical standpoint, if he wanted to keep his identity secret, he shouldn’t have asked for the dried orange peel duck for her. But...he did it anyway.

Because compared to the fear of her uncovering his secret identity, he cared more about her moment of happiness in the darkness.

However, since she refused to speak to him, he could only remain silent as well.

Much like their three-year interaction online, he respected her talent for reasoning and awaited her to find the answer on her own.

The waiting in darkness was an endless, boundless process, and it was the first time since he was imprisoned that he had such a long stretch without anyone talking to him.

He could now better understand her own solitude and despair alone in the darkness before he came.

He knew he deserved to experience this as well.

During this endless waiting, Shi Nian discovered the most terrifying thing for her: she was due for her menstrual period.

She was completely unprepared and couldn’t go out to buy, making her so anxious she felt helpless.

The more anxious she became, the worse the stomach pains grew, and the longer she wished to delay the period, the more heavily it descended, seemingly ready to arrive any moment.

She didn’t know how long she endured, only remembered eating seven meals, before discovering with despair that her period had arrived.

The tension and the deepening autumn chill made her abdomen ache severely. Despite her efforts to endure the past two days and avoid letting him notice, he still sensed something was amiss.

—She spent increasingly long time in the restroom.

—She seemed to gasp silently in the corner of the sofa.

He disregarded her resistance and grasped her concealing hand, reaching to check her forehead. After confirming she didn’t have a fever, his hand traversed down from her forehead.

She felt both embarrassed and annoyed but couldn’t resist his strength.

Her reaction alerted him to the additional implications of his actions, and his hand trembled as it continued downward.

His little girl, he increasingly realized her manner.

At last his hand found hers on her abdomen; he hesitated and immediately grasped the situation.

He felt somewhat awkward but wasted no time in standing up, going to the door, and pounding on it forcefully.

Gu Yong took him out, and upon hearing they were going to buy sanitary pads, Gu Yong and the others seemed troubled. Gu Yong told him to write down what to buy; he ordered Xiao Mao to purchase, yet he insisted on doing it himself this time.

Gu Yong’s face darkened.

Tang Yanqing understood that his request had reached Gu Yong’s limit.

Ultimately, at this moment, he was still a hostage.

He sat down and slowly said, "In the future, there will be unavoidable confrontations with the police. I’ll make an exchange with you regarding today’s incident: If that day comes, I’ll save your life."

Gu Yong stared at him for a long moment before slowly nodding: "It’s your word. I hope you don’t break it."

Once night fell, under the cover of darkness, Gu Yong personally escorted him out. They went to the nearest country convenience store, and he went inside to search. Naturally, the sanitary pads sold in rural convenience stores were mostly common brands, and after glancing around, the priciest was ’Seven Degrees of Space.’

Perhaps because of the name, perhaps because of the grievances and connections between him and her because of this number, he picked up that brand, and at checkout, he cautiously asked the shopkeeper if this brand was good.

Seeing a handsome young man buying it, the shopkeeper smiled slightly and whispered, "Buying for your girlfriend, right? Don’t worry, she must have used it before. It’s an old brand, everyone knows it unless they’ve just returned from abroad."

It was only then that he felt assured, paid the money, and obediently got in the car to return with Gu Yong.

Gu Yong carefully watched him from the rearview mirror throughout the ride; he pretended to sleep peacefully, not wanting Gu Yong to know he was discreetly observing the terrain. Additionally, this brief sight of daylight helped him again determine the times of day and night.

Back in the room, he handed her the sanitary pads and wrote "Seven" on her palm.

Girls tend to be cautious with sanitary pads, not daring to use too obscure brands. Seeing "Seven" written on her palm, she cleverly deduced, "Seven Degrees of Space?" 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

He smiled, gently squeezed her palm in relief.

Shi Nian had indeed used this brand before, and thus, she calmly went inside the restroom...

Aside from helping her deal with restroom sounds, he had now helped her buy sanitary pads as well... Shi Nian felt increasingly grateful, but for the same reason, her suspicions about him also heightened.

He was able to meet with Gu Yong and others, request food, and even go out and buy things?...

Nevertheless, she vaguely understood, even if he might be complicit with the kidnappers, he harbored no malice toward her.

Though she couldn’t fathom why, being part of the kidnappers, he was confined together with her.

She exited the restroom, still feeling grateful, ending her silence toward him. She took the initiative to say thank you and then curled back into the corner of the sofa.

He sighed lightly, moved closer, and took off his jacket, wrapping it around her waist and abdomen. The jacket carried his body warmth, warming her in tendrils.

In the darkness, she sighed silently, then slowly asked, "The bird you drew on my palm that day, could it be a swallow?"

There are countless types of birds in the world. Just by the shape of the bird he drew, she couldn’t immediately think of a swallow.

But eventually... she still thought of the person online.

He paused, sitting up straight in the darkness, holding his breath and looking in her direction.

The last step had been reached; should he reveal everything to her?

But if she found out, would she deduce his connection to all of this?

Would she hate him then?

But he had long made up his mind: even if she hated him, he would not let her go.

He therefore extended his hand and touched her palm with a finger.

Silence surged up like darkness, suddenly overwhelming.

Then she screamed, "How could it be you?"

Based on their three years of online interaction, based on her assumptions about his identity, he should have been far away in another country. How could he suddenly appear before her, and under such circumstances?!

He took this opportunity to lean forward, lifting her chin and kissed her almost forcefully...

He didn’t care anymore. He threw caution to the wind. He was determined to have her.

He knew that if he left the darkness one day, she would inevitably resent him after the truth was revealed; and her father Shi Haoran would likely disapprove of their relationship due to the string of virtual cases from the past... So he simply decided that before escaping, he would use this closed space where they were alone to possess her.

He knew he was wrong, but he would never let her go.

So even if he was a scumbag, this time he would be one to the end, never missing out on her.

She was terrified, desperately resisting, but his determination and power prevailed, accurately capturing her lips...

Her softness was just as he imagined.

He pressed her arms under her body, and with all his strength suppressed her resistance, passionately and dominantly kissing her.

.

That day, she kept crying.

Her tears even flowed into his mouth.

Her tears contained surprise, grievance, fright, and... panic.

It was her first kiss.

Damn it, how could it be forcibly taken under such circumstances?

He was not gentle at all, damned not slowing down even a bit.

He was almost consuming her, as if trying to swallow her whole.

But later, amidst confusion, she unconsciously gave up resisting.

Although she still didn’t know if she had fallen in love with that person online, she knew that since encountering him online after the college entrance examination, she had never let any other guy into her heart during her university life.

It’s not that she didn’t want to fall in love with him online, she was just very, very afraid that he might be an old man, or someone who already had a family.

But it turned out... he was so young, so mischievous, the kind of person she once treated as a younger brother.

That day, she barely had the chance to speak because apart from letting her breathe, he was constantly kissing her.

.

From this day forward, her world was completely turned upside down.

She couldn’t escape his passion and affection; he didn’t even care about her intentional resistance. Besides the kisses he delivered at any time and place, he would always pull her into his arms to sleep.

She was very unfamiliar with such intimacy from someone of the opposite sex, feeling slightly alarmed beyond the sweetness each time.

The only relief was that although the room was decorated like a hotel room, there were no beds or blankets; otherwise... otherwise he would probably have taken her forcefully.

Although he pushed the speed of intimacy with a domineering force, the details of their interaction were still filled with gentleness.

For example, when falling asleep, he forcibly wrapped her in his arms but never went too far; he simply embraced her and wrote "stories" in her palm, stroke by stroke.

My goodness, a story has so many words, she had to decipher them word by word. Often she hadn’t discerned ten words before falling asleep.

It’s the same reasoning as "Counting Sheep."

In the instant of falling into dreams, she always felt his lips imprint on the top of her head, as if softly saying, "Sleep now."