Every time you breathlessly call my name, I realize I would die with you every night.

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Warning: Mature Content

Truth is a matter of perception. It's a matter of what you believe in. That belief can vary between hearing from a trusted person and seeing it with your own eyes, leading it to sway within many definitions, point-of-views, and tiny shifts of perceptions.

As a result, people build their own version of the truth; a final outcome of all those perspectives and beliefs. And they rely on it, try to reason it. But, by the end of the day, it's just a perspective of the whole story.

We all know this. But knowing and doing are two different things, and the tendency of mixing those two up is inevitable.

I wish I could draw a solid full stop; but I could only wish that others will want to leave my past behind just like I do, that there will be no next time for this, that I can be on time to save people I love.

But I know one thing. I'm done running away. I'm done letting others shape my character in the way they want.

Use me to hurt the person I love? Fuck them for thinking that I'll let it happen.

"What are you thinking?" Lan Zhan asks. He was hugging me from behind and I could feel his breath on my hair.

"About what happened today... I thought you were asleep." I reply.

"No. I was-"

"Yeah, I know. You were staying still with your eyes closed. Not pretending to be asleep."

He chuckles. "Mn." He says. "Thank you, for saving me today."

"You don't let me thank you, the same goes for you, Lan Zhan."

After a while, I turn around, facing him with my face against his neck. I start kissing it starting from the base and graze my teeth against his skin when I reach his chin.

"What are you up to?" he asks. He lets out a gasp as I start sucking on his Adam's apple. I look up and kiss him sensually.

"Are you sleepy?" I ask.

"No." He replies with a smirk.

"Make love to me, Lan Zhan." I purr and I know, that's all it takes.

I spread my legs to let him get on top of me.

He kisses me and I part my lips with a sigh, letting his tongue it and passionately duel with mine. My hands were exploring his body under his t-shirt, feeling his smooth skin above the firm muscles.

He pulls away helping me remove it and uses that time to pull down my shorts. He kisses go down to my collar bone, moving up along the side of my neck. He lightly nips on my jaw with his teeth then comes back to my mouth devouring me with his tongue.

He takes my hands and holds them above my head and with his other hand, he touches my tip to lubricate his fingers before they enter me. Feeling the restrain of my movements and his fingers down there hitting a bundle of nerves simultaneously, doubles the currents that were going up my spine together with the uncontrollable sounds my mouth made.

I'm glad that Cheng is not home today, or it would've added more reasons for his silent treatment.

Still holding my arms, he enters, somewhat roughly in the way I like. He rams in, hitting my spot again and again with each slow deep thrust and my toes curl with the pleasurable electricity that spreads within my body. He pumps my member matching the rhythm of his thrusts, and my mind goes blank, getting lost in his hands.

I almost miss the ringing of Lan Zhan's phone. I look at him to ask him to pick up.

"Ignore it," he says. For how incoherent his words sounded, it was best that we did ignore it.

A shiver runs down my spine causing me to arch my body with my head thrown back as I hit my release. Lan Zhan kisses my exposed neck, continuing his thrusts, and he too groans out his climax, filling me up.

"Will it be over now, the rumor?" Lan Zhan asks. He was lying on my chest, back in his staying-still mode.

"Hmm," I reply. "Wen Chao wouldn't dare to go against my words this time. He pretends to be so almighty, but he's a coward."

"What about you? Is it over for you?" he asks.

I smile. "It is over for me as long as you're here, Lan Zhan," I answer, I don't know how to explain it, but that's the truth.

Lan Zhan lifts himself to his arms and brings his face close to mine. He looks into my eyes, a gaze that spoke to my core. "I can't live without you." He whispers.

"Don't say that," I mumble, feeling anxious all of a sudden. But deep within I know, if I were to confess, I'd say the same thing, because those words were nothing but the truth.

"You know that it's true, Wei Ying." He says as if he read my mind.

I pull him down by his neck. I kiss him with all the love I have for him, without caring where it will take us. That's the only thing I could think of doing after such a confession.

"Me neither," I whisper back as I pull away for breath.

He moves down to kiss me again and his phone starts ringing. He ignores it.

I know he does that because I ignore my calls when I'm with him. But for a fact, I know that Lan Zhan doesn't get random calls to say some useless thing like 'I'm bored'. Well, except ones from me maybe.

"Take it," I say. "It can be something important."

He sighs and sits down on the bed to answer the phone.

"Brother?" he tells to the phone.

The conversation seemed somewhat agitated. And it ends with him saying 'I'll be there'.

"Is everything okay?" I ask as he keeps his phone back on the nightstand.

"Uncle is coming back today. I should leave." He says as he leans in to place a kiss on my cheek.

"All of a sudden?"

He nods and starts gathering up his clothes.

"Take a shower before going," I suggest.

He thinks for a while and then disappears into my bathroom.

I get down from the bed and pull up my sweatpants and a t-shirt. Then I take one of Lan Zhan's shirts out from my wardrobe, I know I can always find one in it; we were almost sharing our closets.

I leave them on my couch and sit on the bed scrolling through my phone.

Lan Zhan comes out after a while –his hair damp and a towel wrapped around his waist –and starts dressing up.

He messed up the order of a few buttons of his shirt, causing him to remove and button it up again and almost tripped when wearing his pants. As someone who had seen him getting dressed countless times, and knowing how neatly he does it, it didn't take long for me to realize that he was nervous.

"Are you in trouble for staying here?" I ask.

"No, he doesn't know that I'm here. He hasn't arrived yet. It's better to be there early." He replies.

I sigh as I get out of my bed. I walk over to him and adjust his collar and dampen some crumples of his shirt. Then I comb my fingers through his all-time perfect hair, which doesn't take long to look good. When I'm done I cup his face and place my lips on his.

"It will be okay," I tell him. "Just work your charm, Lan Zhan," I add and that makes him smile.

"Mn." He replies.

"Come I'll walk you down."

Once we reach his car, I hug him and he kisses me again.

"Love you." He says.

He gets into the car and before I could reply.

The engine comes to life and he races it for a second before pulling out from the parking spot. I wait there watching him drive away until his car disappeared as he takes a turn from the corner.

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