Both of them sat on the sofa. Lu Chengzhou watched her take out a needle and disinfect it with a lighter. Then, she wrapped the thick cotton thread around the needle such that 2mm of the needle was exposed.

  She fixed the needle with the cotton thread at the end of the marker. When Gu Mang applied the red ink on the cotton thread, her eyes moved a little. A moment later, she slanted her body and stared at Lu Chengzhou’s collarbone. She pressed on it.

  Lu Chengzhou moved his head back slightly, his chin up in the air.

  Gu Mang was really close to him and he could smell the faint aroma of her shampoo intertwined with her unique scent.

  Lu Chengzhou swallowed.

  He heard her say, “It’ll hurt near the bones.”


  Her breath against his skin made him feel slightly ticklish.

  “I’ll fight through the pain for you,” Lu Chengzhou answered seriously. “Don’t you also……”


  “Shut up,” Gu Mang said coldly.

  Lu Chengzhou looked at her and smiled. Gu Mang took the marker pen and drew a pattern on his collarbone, then she turned the pen around and began to tattoo. The first time she poked his skin with the needle, she looked up at his expression.

  Lu Chengzhou pinched her cheek. “Don’t worry, just do it. This pain is nothing.”


  “Okay.” Gu Mang looked down and continued to tattoo him.

  The needle poked through Lu Chengzhou’s skin continuously, but he did not react. He tugged at the belt of her robe.

  “Stop moving around,” Gu Mang warned, looking up at him.

  Lu Chengzhou complied.

  The needle delivered the red ink into his epidermis and the outline of a tooth print was beginning to form.

  Gu Mang looked at the time. Twenty minutes had already passed.

  Lu Chengzhou glanced at the clock on the wall, then he squinted. “It’s been half an hour. Lu Yī is very inefficient today.”


  He had not brought their dinner over.

  “Hold on, let me make another phone call,” Lu Chengzhou said softly. “It’s not good for your growth. You can’t get any slimmer.”


  With that, he tried to get up.

  Suddenly he realized that his entire body was fully numb. He thought that his brain was playing tricks on him and he was struggling to think straight.

  “Neurotoxin,” Gu Mang suddenly said.

  The smile on Lu Chengzhou’s face stiffened. He turned to look at her as if he doubted what he had heard. He asked, “What?”


  Gu Mang’s hands did not stop.

  Lu Chengzhou realized that he could not sense any pain at all. His entire body was numb.

  Then, he heard Gu Mang speak again. “After being injected with this, your entire body will go numb in three to five seconds. As it was mixed in ink, the toxin took a little while to take effect.”


  Lu Chengzhou pursed his lips. His lips were straight. His dark eyes were as deep and dark as ink. He stared at her face. This was the first time that he had looked at her in such a way. He always restrained the sharp look in his eyes around her, but this time his eyes were cold.

  He was angry.

  Gu Mang’s hands paused for a second while still holding the marker. Then she continued to tattoo the tooth mark on his collarbone casually. “Calm down and listen to my explanation.”


  “Calm down? How can I calm down?” Lu Chengzhou gritted his teeth. He wanted to yell at her but he couldn’t bear to. He laughed bitterly. “My girlfriend set me up and seduced me so that I’d lose my vigilance. Then, she poisoned me using tattoo ink. What are you trying to do?”


  Gu Mang swept her eyes up and down. She looked at him and the way he was unable to move at the moment made her confident and fearless. “You have to calm down even if you refuse to.”


  Lu Chengzhou was infuriated by that. He stared at her for a long while, then he took a deep breath to suppress his anger.

  He said rather calmly, “I’ll talk about the poisoning later. You didn’t call Lu Yī just now, huh? Tell me, what did you do with my phone?”


  Gu Mang did not reply. She hadn’t expected him to realize so quickly. For some reason, she was glad that she had taken action early. If she had done so any later, she could not imagine what would have happened.

  The neurotoxin only paralyzed Lu Chengzhou’s body such that he could not move. He was still conscious and coherent.

  Lu Chengzhou stared straight at her.

  Gu Mang looked down and continued to tattoo his skin. She answered rather honestly, “I told Lu Jiu to send Gu Si to the capital airport.”


  Lu Chengzhou squinted. Were they taking Gu Si away as well?

  He was silent for a few seconds before asking, “You are…… returning to Jijing Island?”


  There was an obvious pause in the middle of his sentence. Although it was a question, he sounded sure of it.

  Gu Mang did not answer him.

  Lu Chengzhou laughed again and there was a cold look in his eyes. “Would you have mentioned giving me a tattoo if I hadn’t? Did you plan all of this in advance?”


  Gu Mang looked up at him and answered righteously, “You’ve been very vigilant lately. If I didn’t use some special tricks, you would have found out right away.”


  He did not expect her to be so honest.

  Lu Chengzhou choked. He clenched his teeth. “.……You’re pretty honest.”


  Gu Mang looked down. She pierced his skin with the needle and continued to give him a tattoo.

  Lu Chengzhou stared at her eyes. She was very calm. She was so calm that he felt like he would not be able to stop her today.

  From the moment he had arrived at the apartment, he had been ensnared in her trap.

  “Lust leads to bitter consequences. I finally understand.” Lu Chengzhou’s breathed heavily. It seemed like he was very angry.

  Gu Mang couldn’t help but smile when she saw his rather depressed expression.

  She chuckled but that did not stop her hands. The needle was very stable in her hands.

  Lu Chengzhou’s expression became even darker. “Why are you still laughing?”


  “What?” Gu Mang was finishing up the tattoo and her tone was very low. “Then should I cry?”


  Lu Chengzhou shut his eyes and sighed slowly. “Gu Mang, you cannot leave today. All of the borders are closed.”


  “Your men can’t stop me if I want to leave,” Gu Mang said firmly.

  Lu Chengzhou had nothing to say in response to that.

  Gu Mang finished the edge and looked at the reddish skin on his cold, pale, and delicate collarbone. There were bright red tooth marks on his skin. “Done.”


  With that, she took out her phone and snapped a picture of it. Then, she showed it to him.

  “I haven’t done this in a year, but I’m not rusty at all,” she said.

  Lu Chengzhou looked at the obvious tattoo on his collarbone.

  Gu Mang was quite good. The red tooth markings looked full of lust and love. It showed that he belonged to someone.

  It looked so lifelike that it was hard to differentiate between the markings she had given him when she bit him in the heat of passion and the tattoo.

  Lu Chengzhou looked up into her eyes. “You’re leaving and yet you are still leaving a part of you behind on me.”


  “After all, you belong to me. I have to prove that I f*cked you once,” Gu Mang answered expressionlessly in a very serious tone.

  Lu Chengzhou was silent.