"I should go back…"
Ding Jie struggled to get up but slowly crawled towards Jack's body. She was like a lazy little kitten, swaying and dazed as she pressed against his chest, tilting her head to reach for the cigarette in his left hand. Greedily, she took a puff from between his fingers and then slowly exhaled between her delicate nose and thin lips.
"You are the first man in my life to actively seduce me!" Ding Jie looked up at Jack, gently reaching out a hand to caress his face. The stubble felt a bit rough, yet it made Ding Jie somewhat infatuated. Then she lowered her head and kissed Jack's lips, whispering against them, "Actually... Yun Fei didn't send me to ask you for a gun; it was just an excuse!"
"You..." Jack looked at Ding Jie in surprise, but she chuckled softly and said, "Don't be surprised. If I didn't find an excuse for myself, I really couldn't get over that hurdle in my heart. Besides, he, Yue Yunfei, has tacitly agreed!"
"What do you mean?" Jack asked, utterly confused.
"He only said one thing to me tonight!" Ding Jie suddenly turned over to lie beside Jack, her face filled with bitterness as she said, "He told me we need a rifle! Hehe~ Don't I understand what that means? Where does a rifle come from? Only you have it. If I don't come to find you, who will? He, Yue Yunfei, still needs to maintain his image and wouldn't dare to order Ruina Thomasli, and Shawa definitely wouldn't. Only I, only I would be so worthless!"
"Sigh~ You could have just told me directly!" Jack reached out to embrace Ding Jie, his hand falling on her smooth chest, immediately feeling a sticky liquid, remnants of his last bout of madness.
"I know that if I ask you, you would definitely give me a gun, but I just can't accept it!" Ding Jie's eyes suddenly filled with rage as she nearly screamed, "What have I sacrificed for him? I spent my entire youth on him, but in the end, what did I get? I got nothing, and he could just send me away for a gun…"
Sad tears have already covered Ding Jie's delicate face. She cried helplessly, her sobs filled with deep sorrow. Jack didn't know how to comfort her, as Ding Jie was completely a stranger to him; he knew nothing of her past, so comforting her was out of the question.
Jack sighed softly, gently patting her shoulder and said, "If you're willing... I can take you away. Maybe leaving him will make you feel better!"
Upon hearing Jack's words, Ding Jie shivered slightly, slowly lifting her head. Her face was still wet with unshed tears as she gazed at Jack with a dazed expression. Suddenly, she forced a bitter smile and said, "You don't understand me. I'm not a good woman at all, and I'm the stupidest woman in the world... Jack, you don't need to pity me. Loving someone is sometimes like being addicted to drugs; even knowing that the person you love is dangerous, you still want to get close to them like a moth to a flame. I've given too much for him, and I can't bear to leave him. I'm not willing to just walk away. Even if I die, I want to die with him!"
"What's the point of that?" Jack asked helplessly.
"Alright, my little lover, you're so wonderful, I really don't deserve to have you. Beneath my somewhat beautiful exterior, there's so much dirt that you don't know about!" Ding Jie shook her head sadly, looking at Jack, but she couldn't help but lean over and kiss him again. However, this time Jack tasted too much bitterness in her mouth, a flavor that carried the sorrow of tears.
As their lips parted, Ding Jie lingered on Jack for a while. After taking a deep breath, she finally got up and smiled at Jack, saying, "I will always remember you, remember a good man with whom I crazily made love five times. I will never forget you!"
After saying this, Ding Jie cheerfully got off the bed, and the sorrow on her face seemed to vanish in an instant. But Jack knew she was just putting on a brave face, wanting to leave each other with the most beautiful memory.
Ding Jie stood by the bed, subconsciously wanting to pick up her clothes, but the bedside was empty, with no clothes in sight. She then remembered that they had come in passionately from the corridor. She could only stand there naked, her face flushed with embarrassment as she shot Jack a glance and playfully said, "Get up and get the gun, I really don't want to admit it!"
"The bullets in the gun are all used up, only the empty gun is left!" Jack didn't want to make the atmosphere too heavy, so he joked with a smile. Ding Jie bit her lower lip, gave him a flirtatious eye roll, and then laughed and scolded, "You still have the nerve to say that? A gun with five bullets is worse than a small revolver!"
"Nonsense, can this be a small revolver? This is an anti-material large-caliber sniper gun!" Jack laughed heartily, scooping Ding Jie up in his arms and directly walking out. However, Ding Jie suddenly became sentimental, burying her head deep in Jack's embrace and softly said, "I really want you to hold me like this for a lifetime!"
"As long as you are willing!" Jack stopped in his tracks, standing at the spot where they had talked last night, looking at Ding Jie with a very serious expression. Ding Jie remained silent for a long time, and in the end, she shook her head, hooked her neck, jumped down from Jack's arms, picked up the only remaining nightgown, and silently put it on. Finally, she turned her back to Jack and sighed, saying, "We are not young anymore; we can't treat a moment of impulse as if we had met too late... Give me my things, I really have to go back!"
"Sigh~" Jack let out a heavy sigh, watching Ding Jie's desolate figure, a sense of helplessness welled up in his heart, as if they were one-night stand lovers who met in a bar, both having their own families, and with dawn breaking, it was naturally time to say goodbye.
It seemed that Ding Jie also sensed Jack's low mood; she slightly turned her head and weakly said, "Go! Don't add to your own troubles!"
Jack could only turn around and walk to the door of Hu Laoda's resting room, but as soon as he pushed the door open, a thick cloud of smoke rushed out to greet him. He saw Hu Laoda sitting on the edge of the bed with a weary expression, smoking, with cigarette butts scattered all over the floor. With bloodshot eyes filled with resentment, he looked at Jack and pointed to the gun leaning against the wall, saying, "The gun is over there, take it yourself. It's loaded with three magazines!"
Jack looked at him in surprise and asked curiously, "Uh… did you not sleep all night?"
"Sleep! How could I sleep?" Hu Laoda complained with great indignation, "That little woman was so loud, she screamed all night long. It would have been fine if she just screamed, but she even had lines, it was like watching an adult film. Doesn't she know the walls aren't soundproof?"
"Uh… then you should hurry and sleep, we'll leave in the afternoon!" Jack forced a stiff smile, quickly grabbed the gun from the wall, and ran out. He estimated that Ding Jie's moans from last night, filled with lines, were heard not only by Hu Laoda but also by Gao Chujing and Thomas Xu without a doubt.
"I… I'm leaving…"
Outside the door, Ding Jie was a bit flustered as she took the gun from Thomas Xu and hugged it to her chest, her face turning bright red. She didn't expect that her first experience of falling into debauchery would end up with her having a "concert," and she could no longer bear to be intimate with Jack, raising her flashlight and fleeing in embarrassment.
"Ah~ finally gone, a moment of spring night is worth a thousand gold!"
Suddenly, a door behind Jack opened, and Thomas Xu stretched lazily as he walked out, looking full of energy and not at all lethargic. He glanced ambiguously at Jack, who was only wearing underwear, but soon after, with a "click," Gao Chujing also came out, sporting two large dark circles under his eyes, looking curiously at the energetic Thomas Xu and asking, "Huh? You slept? Mayor Ding… that sound was really loud!"
"Hehe~ At a glance, you guys are inexperienced!" Thomas Xu looked at Gao Chujing with a smug expression and said, "Next time there's a live broadcast like this, I'll teach you a method. Just keep playing with the pipe, and when you get tired, you'll naturally fall asleep, hahaha…"
"Damn…"