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Chapter 40: The amorous are angered by the heartless (I)

This was the first time that Song Shijiu had heard Li Shiyi speak on intimacy. However, it wasn’t aimed at her. Originally, when the four characters of “eternal and forever” came from Li Shiyi’s mouth, it was as pleasant to listen to as experiencing a long-lasting kiss. Song Shijiu felt her own love, hanging in the balance, had turned into tea, and had been gently plucked out by Li Shiyi, placed within a pot, and been scattered by boiling water, the four scattered limbs and white bones emitting a pleasant scent, and being picked up in a reserved and aloof manner by her, from the small pot to being accepted by her mouth. To love someone in secret was to lift a heavy weight as if it were life; even if the heart expanded a hundred times and contracted a thousand, what was usually shown on the surface was only the remainder of those few things which were not crucial. It was impossible to demand that anyone else sympathise with this; even hoping there wasn’t anyone else who could sympathise