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When she was very young, she used to listen to her grandmother’s stories, and she remembered hearing a story about a tiger that came to the forest one day, so terrifying that the little animals didn’t dare to come up to the tiger, or even look at it for more than a couple of moments. Suddenly, one day it rained heavily, and the tiger collapsed in a flash as a result of the rain. The animals went up to watch and realized that it was a paper tiger!

This story made the young girl realize that being deceived by appearances would only make her more and more timid and cowardly. And now, ten years later, when she recalls this story, she naturally connects the paper tiger soaked to the point of collapse by the rain with Shan Yanxiu – they are just too similar.

It wasn’t that Shan Yanxiu was a motionless paper tiger; the man’s fierceness during their first acquaintance had really frightened her, and she still had palpitations to this day. She just felt that after being with him for a long time, the original demarcation line slowly began to blur.

His needs were harsh and restrained, his moods and demeanor free, always stopping where he wanted, even if he wanted it badly, but never going any further. She had decided that there was something almost morbidly stoic about the man, always chipping away at his base desires with sheer force of will. She felt that such a person could be calm and objective, even cold and determined, watching everything, seeing life and death without ever interfering in it – and he had certainly behaved that way before.

All the transformation seemed to have started in the hospital, no, it could be pushed back a bit, maybe it started when she couldn’t take kicking and punching him when she was too overwhelmed to do so. At the time, she still thought he was a tiger, and only thought that the big deal was to die with him, but it never occurred to her that the tiger was made of paper. Of course, based on how long it had taken for the tiger to soften, it was more likely that it was made of cardboard or a waffle box – something a little sturdier than paper, that is.

The demon wasn’t invincible, she’d just been going about it the wrong way.

In the beginning, she has always placed herself in the victimization of the oppressed side, has spared no effort to fight back, whether explicit or implicit, never with him hard to come. During the period had also learned to be good, know how to play the sheep, but a good play play soft also just coaxed him for a while, her little heart was never firmly pinch him in the hands of escape. She always felt that she was a Taoism not in place of the Wukong, by his cold face black heart of the Rulai to pinch dead.

But until yesterday, after that one lewd and thick-faced joke, she actually saw that demon’s face slowly and slowly reddening, and later even the roots of his ears were reddened.

Ya Xiao in the single demon top tomato head gas extreme slammed the door away that night holding the quilt ball on the bed to think of a night, from puzzled to suddenly clear, from frustrated to the chicken blood again and again, it turned out that the demon does not eat soft not hard to do nothing but will be deflated, the sky and the earth is not afraid of the earth is afraid of only being molested! Can’t blame her for realizing late, the old man has always said, this person is soft and hard to do nothing, and from the beginning of her coming here that the demon and she slept in the same bed and from time to time also showed a very animalistic, there are several times that she thought it would be a gun to the fire (that said, this is what we are looking forward to, right mouth beard! I’ll wait for you! ～Who would have thought that he would be afraid of molestation under such a premise?

Demon was molested gas one night did not return, she also in the guest room to cover the mouth to eat and giggle all night. The next morning when she looked in the mirror, her face did not have the fatigue of a person who stayed up all night, because the spirit was too pleasant. But the dark circles are still inevitably framed in the eyes, which is not afraid, ice two spoons stick a paste on it.

From the refrigerator out of the toast bread sliced and lightly toasted and smeared with homemade strawberry jam with barley tea is the beginning of a healthy day, she tea in one hand and bread in the other hand slowly paced to the balcony to take a deep breath, lying on the balcony of the glass fence, slippers on the foot of the beat one time and not one time. She silently prayed that the release of lycopene in that tomato head would last longer, so that her good mood would last longer.

What a beautiful morning, with good tea, sizzling bread, sweet and sour homemade strawberry jam, fresh air, and …… a hunky muscle man downstairs.

Since the last time to peep at the muscle man was single diffractive Xiu found, a long period of time as long as she walked to the balcony side, no matter what single diffractive Xiu is doing – watching TV or reading magazines or even in the study to do things or, always catch her about to cross the line of the moment swept a horrifying gaze. She was weak inside and out, and was swept away by his invincible gaze as if it were a honeycomb cake.

Today, when she was in a good mood and Shan Yanxiu wasn’t around, she was able to let her eyes feast on ice cream.

Ya Xiao moved her body to the side, and her gaze swept down the opposite side of the downstairs muscular man who was doing chest expansion exercises. The light in the morning is good, the muscle man is also very cooperative to stand close to her side of the direction, she can clearly see the shaved head of the muscle man is the standard broad shoulders and narrow waist, she sipped tea, her eyes implicitly but all-round swept over the other side of the buttocks and leg muscles, tsk, taut can be really tight ……

Just as she was admiring the muscles, she vaguely heard a sound of smashing things from downstairs, mixed with vague and angry curses. She was stunned, isn’t Monsoon living downstairs? She hurriedly put down the bread and tea and grasped the railing and tried to stretch her head to look out, but at this angle, she could only see the situation downstairs with the head of a giraffe. She opened her mouth to call Monsoon, but due to the height of the building sound transmission is really limited. She had an idea, hurriedly turned back to look at the muscle man, he was in the seat and monsoon’s balcony is a level, should be able to see what happened.

Sure enough, the muscle man has stopped expanding the action of the chest, began to expand the eyes to and have more and more expanding trend. After watching the muscle man expand his eyes to the limit, he began to expand his mouth, as if he had been shocked too much. Ya Xiao can not help but stomp his feet after several times to attract his attention, turn around and ready to go down to see. What did she expect to see just as the door opened was Shan Yanxiu standing in the doorway, looking at his hand hanging in mid-air as if he was about to press the fingerprint lock. His face was gloomy and his eyes were bloodshot. Any fool can also see that the current demon is not too much to say that he will eat people. Caught off guard, she only came to let out a short scream before covering her heart and stepping aside. What the hell, when she went out she was a fresh and cute little tomato, but when she came back she was a hot and miserable green old pickled pepper? She looked at him warily, and he glared back fiercely. Self-conscious, she pinched her hand back subconsciously against the undulating pattern of the door panel, her nails unconsciously scraping against it.

“Where are you going?” He spoke grimly after a long, vicious stare at her.

She unconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva and responded dryly, “To, to open the door for you.” Could one still dodge a bullet by molesting him in this situation?

“Lie.” He approached aggressively, raising his hand to pinch her chin, cold and raw, “You want to run, don’t you!” His force was so strong that the pinch hurt her entire face. She suddenly remembered what he once said that he wouldn’t let her go anywhere, and immediately reacted, “I didn’t want to run, I just, I just wanted to open the door to freshen up the air with the penetrating wind ……”

“Lying lying lying.” His voice became more and more cramped, as if there were a few points of exasperation.

“No lie no lie!” She yelled louder and louder, and the pain in her jaw was no match for the fear in her heart. Her body was thrown against the door with a forceful fling, the door panel bouncing against the wall from the weight, the carvings on the door panel hurting her back. His hand moved from her jaw to her neck, slowly tightening.

He was out of control!

That was her first thought, but quickly the bonds around her neck slowly loosened. Feel the coldness in his hands is slowly fading, but his face is so close to her, close to the slightest exposure, close to her can clearly see a mist in his eyes, like an ink stone on the frozen frost out of the tiny ice flowers, crystal but fuzzy, but will still be flickering with a crystalline peculiar light, and will be projected light and concentrated reflection, the reflected light is sharp and piercing, from her! The reflected light was sharp and piercing, piercing in from her eyes, all the way to her heart, and then penetrating in one fell swoop.

She forgot when they had begun their love affair, only that he was demanding more than ever, like a starving man feasting on a gourmet feast. From behind the rose-gold doorframe she could clearly watch his back arch upward, exactly as a raptor would before launching a deadly attack. His fingers were buried deep in her hair, their strength bone-deep in her confinement. He seemed to have lost all control of his emotions and behavior, nibbling at his prey almost greedily. Soon she tasted a hint of blood, and her lips were hot and painful, obviously bitten by him. If she hadn’t still had a shred of sanity, she almost thought she would have been swallowed alive by him. And at this point he still didn’t relax a bit, still demanding forcefully and without restraint. She couldn’t stand it any longer and bit him back, a bite so hard that almost instantly her mouth tasted of salty rust. He finally let go of her, his rapid breathing gradually smoothed out, only the obvious blood marks at the corners of his mouth mixed with saliva shallowly smeared a line, a kind of weird beauty.

Unable to tell if he was shaking or if she had to be shaking herself, she could hear a few suppressed creaks from the springs above the carved door. He was close enough to her that the intertwining of breaths was unavoidable, and the physical contact was more direct, and the sound of the creaking and squeaking added to the chaos …… It was a good thing that there was no one living next door, or else anyone walking by would have easily conjured up a series of lewd scenarios that had to be triple-mosaiced just by looking at them or listening to them for a few seconds.

“Where are you going?” He asked softly against her ear.

“…… I’m trying to get downstairs… ow ……” It hurt, her ear was going to fall off, she screamed in pain, and “I’m going to see the neighbors, see Monsoon!”

The sound of grinding teeth could clearly be heard, “And then what, run?”

She sizzled and sucked in cold air, her mouth, swollen from the tongue suction he had bitten through, began to burn and hurt, and the fire followed, “Run run run, run your sister! Give me back the photos and negatives and I’ll run!” Paralyzed, if she wanted to run, she would have run long ago, there was plenty of time and opportunity for her to run. Besides, even if she wanted to run away, she wouldn’t be stupid enough to pick the middle of the day to run away.

“You’re dreaming,” he finally let go of her, his sharp teeth grinding up and down against each other a few times, quite a bit of demonstration. His face has returned to its usual appearance, his eyes are also clear, as if what she saw earlier was all a mirage.

She couldn’t care less about arguing, covering her ears and furiously yelling at him, “The ears are going to be bitten off!” The five senses were destroyed by him in two places, and the wear and tear rate was even higher at 70%.

“What’s the point of keeping a disobedient ear?”

She was about to yell when she was so angry, but then she heard a loud noise coming from outside the balcony, and she jumped up in shock and blurted out, “Monsoon!” Immediately rushed over, he frowned and hesitated a little before following. Arriving at the balcony, the two of them in a rare unison of movement plopped down to the edge of the balcony and bent their heads to look down –

Still unable to see the scene downstairs, but the scene on the opposite side of the floor was clearly visible. Ya Xiao only glanced at it and felt his scalp explode – I’m going to hell, the muscle man was actually attacked on the ground!

The one who attacked him was not someone else, but …… Wellsword?