I'm Interested In Your Friend - Chapter 54
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She didn’t know how long she had been standing in the snow.
By the time the ground, which had initially refused to hold the ice, slowly became covered in a soft layer of white snowflakes…
Her long, dark eyelashes were also adorned with glistening hexagonal snow crystals.
Only then did the embrace slowly fade away.
Back inside the villa,
Tan Suran went to the water bar and poured a cup of hot water.
She pressed it into Yu Lili’s hands. “Warm yourself up.”
The room felt like a completely different world from outside.
The lingering tenderness in the boundless snowfield now turned into restless hesitation within the confined space, mixed with a faint sense of shyness.
“I’m going to bed first,” Yu Lili said, pointing upstairs.
“Mm, I’ll go up too,” Tan Suran followed Yu Lili upstairs.
“Goodnight.”
At the bedroom door, Yu Lili bid Tan Suran farewell.
Tan Suran replied, “Goodnight.”
But her footsteps didn’t move, as if she intended to watch Yu Lili go inside.
Yu Lili puffed her cheeks and turned away first.
A series of footsteps followed behind her.
The person who was supposed to leave had instead followed her into the room.
Yu Lili turned around in surprise and asked Tan Suran, who had entered, “What are you doing?”
“Sleeping,” Tan Suran said calmly.
“Your room is over there,” Yu Lili tilted her chin, gesturing to the opposite side.
Tan Suran let out a soft laugh, bent down, and rested her chin on Yu Lili’s shoulder.
“I can’t walk anymore.”
The distance between the two rooms was, at most, a dozen steps.
And now she “couldn’t walk anymore.”
Yu Lili had a reasonable suspicion.
Tan Suran was up to something.
“Let me sleep here tonight, okay? Lili.” Tan Suran’s voice grew huskier with each word.
Alright.
She wasn’t just up to something.
She was up to her.
“Really tired?”
“I haven’t slept a wink since last night. Squeezed two days of work into half a day and rushed back on a plane to see you.”
“That’s really hard.”
“It’s not hard, as long as I can see—”
“Then you sleep here. I’ll go sleep over there,” Yu Lili said.
Before Tan Suran could finish her sweet words, Yu Lili shattered them to pieces.
“……”
Her lips softened. “I was wrong, Lili.”
“Hm?” Yu Lili feigned innocence. “What’s wrong? Why are you suddenly apologizing?”
“I’m afraid of the dark. I don’t dare to sleep alone,” Tan Suran nuzzled her chin against Yu Lili’s shoulder.
“……”
“Then I’m curious—how did you manage to sleep all these years before?”
Tan Suran remained composed. “Starting tonight, I suddenly became afraid.”
“……”
“Is that so?”
“Then don’t turn off the lights when you sleep.”
“……”
“I’m leaving,” Yu Lili waved her hand.
Just as she was about to step out the door, Tan Suran grabbed her sleeve. “Lili.”
“I want to sleep with you.”
She came clean.
Yu Lili froze for two seconds, then said haughtily, “Oh, suddenly you want to?”
“No,” Tan Suran’s throat bobbed, her voice low and rough. “I’ve wanted to for a long time.”
Yu Lili turned away, not looking at her, and began playing hard to get. “Oh? If you wanted to so badly, why didn’t you make a move the past few days?”
Tan Suran let out a laugh, sounding helpless. “Lili, I’m not the aggressive type. I needed time to process… to confirm.”
“Confirm what?”
“That I really have you now,” Tan Suran lifted her gaze.
She took Yu Lili’s hand and gently rubbed her palm.
Her skin was slightly cool.
Yet it inexplicably ignited a scorching heat.
She turned Yu Lili’s hand around,
bringing them face to face.
Tan Suran slowly leaned in.
Brushing the tip of her nose against Yu Lili’s.
Then pressing her lips closer.
When only 0.1 centimeters remained between them,
she paused.
Yu Lili’s breathing was visibly erratic.
“Can I?” Tan Suran asked.
Yu Lili’s eyelashes fluttered like startled butterfly wings.
Before she could answer,
Tan Suran’s lips were already on hers.
From the lightest touch
to a deep, bone-melting kiss.
It was both tender comfort and extreme seduction.
Her hand slid to the back of Yu Lili’s neck,
stroking back and forth,
igniting waves of tingling pleasure.
Their ragged breaths intertwined in the quiet room.
Their steps tangled as they slowly moved toward the bed.
Tan Suran’s lips left Yu Lili’s mouth,
trailing to her flushed ears,
then her snow-white neck.
Everywhere they touched, fire bloomed.
“No,” Yu Lili grabbed Tan Suran’s wandering hand.
She turned her face away,
ending the chaotic kiss.
Their clothes were disheveled, their breathing uneven.
“Why not?” Tan Suran murmured by her ear.
Yu Lili’s expression was odd. “I’m… on my period.”
Tan Suran chuckled, propping herself up on the bed with one elbow. She reached out with her other hand to tuck a stray lock of hair behind Yu Lili’s ear.
It was unclear whether it was teasing or tidying.
“What are you laughing at?” Yu Lili’s face burned as she turned away.
“I meant sleeping literally—just lying on the same bed with you. I wasn’t planning to do anything else.”
Yu Lili’s face flushed with embarrassment. She slipped out from under Tan Suran’s arm.
“I’m going to shower.”
She rushed into the bathroom.
Staring at her reflection—her face as red as a ripe apple—
she poked her own cheek and scolded herself: Don’t overthink it. Don’t let your imagination run wild.
When she came out after her shower,
Tan Suran wasn’t in the room.
Yu Lili climbed into bed,
clutching the edge of the blanket, still thinking about what had just happened.
After stewing in embarrassment for a while, she realized something was off.
This person had been kissing her neck so fiercely earlier.
Did she really just want to sleep?
No way.
Absolutely no way.
She finally understood.
When it came to quick thinking in the moment,
Tan Suran was second to none.
She must have improvised that excuse on the spot after hearing Yu Lili’s words.
Before long, Tan Suran returned.
It seemed she had showered in another room.
“Going to sleep?” Tan Suran asked.
“Mm.”
“Then I’ll turn off the light.”
With a click,
the room plunged into darkness.
The sound of the blanket being lifted reached Yu Lili’s ears.
The bed dipped slightly beside her.
Their quiet heartbeats echoed in the room.
At first, they maintained a respectful distance.
But gradually,
the person beside her shifted imperceptibly closer.
The faint fruity fragrance grew stronger.
The space between them shrank.
Tan Suran turned over and draped an arm over Yu Lili’s waist,
holding her gently.
“Will this make it hard for you to sleep?” she asked.
“No.”
Tan Suran kept holding her like that, making no further moves.
Her breathing gradually slowed.
“I lied earlier,” Yu Lili whispered into the darkness after a while.
Tan Suran sounded drowsy. “About what?”
“That… it’s not here.”
“Mm.”
Tan Suran acknowledged it.
But for a long time, she didn’t do anything else, just held her.
Had Yu Lili misjudged her?
Had she been overthinking things?
As her thoughts wandered,
her eyelids grew heavier and heavier.
Just as she was about to fall asleep,
a slender, elegant hand
drifted lazily to her waist.
Circling slowly.
“What are you doing?” Yu Lili’s voice was sleepy.
“Nothing. Go to sleep.”
That’s what she said, but her hand crept upward,
setting fires along the way.
This was absolutely a seduction.
Yu Lili grabbed that wandering hand. “Didn’t you say we were just sleeping?”
“I was worried you’d get cold,” Tan Suran’s low voice was so close it seemed to whisper directly into her ear.
“I’m not cold,” Yu Lili scooted forward slightly, putting some distance between them.
“Then… do you want to?” Tan Suran asked.
Damn.
So blunt.
Yu Lili didn’t answer, biting her lip as she debated.
“I—”
After a long internal struggle,
she managed a single word.
But from behind her came the sound of Tan Suran’s steady breathing.
She turned her head slightly to look back.
Tan Suran’s eyes were closed.
She was already asleep.
……
Who the hell starts seducing someone and then falls asleep first?!
Yu Lili exhaled.
Pulled the blanket tighter.
And went to sleep.