Indulgence - Chapter 57
Chapter 57
This every day? The demand seemed a bit too high. Jiang Nian thought for a moment and negotiated with the person beside her, "Two or three times a week is also fine."
Yao Ran wanted to laugh when she heard that. She looked again at Jiang Nian's haggard face. "Get some good rest. Your eyes are swollen from crying."
"Mmm," Jiang Nian hummed. She was so tired she could barely keep her eyes open. Weekends in her line of work were grueling. Listening to Yao Ran's soft and gentle voice, she closed her eyes and fell asleep quickly.
The night light cast a gentle, warm yellow glow.
For a long time, Yao Ran's gaze remained on Jiang Nian's peacefully sleeping face. She brushed her hair aside with her fingers and then touched her cheek.
Jiang Nian turned her head slightly, coincidentally rubbing half of her face against Yao Ran's palm.
Yao Ran lingered on the smooth, delicate skin for a while longer, watching her, lost in thought. Jiang Nian, both in looks and personality, was indeed very likable.
Jiang Nian's breathing gradually evened out, her brow relaxed in sleep, and her lips moved slightly.
Yao Ran's fingertips happened to brush against her lips—they were soft and beautiful. She silently touched them with the pad of her finger, and then, without realizing it, leaned in and kissed them again.
Gently holding the softness, after uncontrollably stealing two kisses, she nuzzled Jiang Nian's nose. Only then did she become aware of her own actions. Her heart beat a little faster, and she felt a strange sense of bashfulness.
As she was about to go to sleep, Yao Ran saw the screen of Jiang Nian's phone light up with an incoming call: Director Xue.
Jiang Nian had just fallen asleep. Yao Ran didn't want to wake her, so she picked up the phone and swiped to answer, intending to give a simple reply.
As soon as the call connected, a stream of words poured out from the other side:
"Baby, you've been wronged! Mommy just saw the WeChat you sent. That old bastard is really getting more and more out of line. I'll call and scold him right now. When I come to Beilin, I have to teach him a lesson in person. Using my precious daughter as a punching bag, has he lost his mind!"
Yao Ran could roughly tell it was Jiang Nian's mother. She had no choice but to say, "Auntie."
The other end of the line suddenly fell silent.
Yao Ran continued, "I'm Jiang Nian's friend. Jiang Nian is already asleep. I'm with her tonight, so you don't have to worry."
"You're Nian Nian's friend?"
It felt disingenuous to say "friend," but it wasn't appropriate to say anything else directly. Just as Yao Ran was about to say "yes"...
"Or are you her girlfriend?" Xue Ying on the other end asked proactively, her tone filled with delight and excitement. "You're our Nian Nian's girlfriend, right?"
Yao Ran was taken aback. From the other person's tone, it seemed Jiang Nian had already come out to her family. She replied, "Yes."
Xue Ying's laugh was even happier now. "That child, honestly. She didn't even tell me she has a girlfriend."
"We only got together recently."
"That's great, that's great. No wonder when I tried to introduce her to girls before, she kept saying no. So it's because she already had someone she liked," Xue Ying said.
Yao Ran smiled. She could tell that Jiang Nian's mother was very open-minded. Jiang Nian's personality was a bit like hers.
"I'm relieved now that you're with her. And no wonder she didn't call me tonight, turns out she has a girlfriend to comfort her." Xue Ying added, "Nian Nian is in a bad mood today. I'll have to trouble you to take good care of her for me, Auntie. She usually seems quite carefree, but when she's wronged, oh, she's just a crybaby."
"Yes, Auntie, I will."
The more Xue Ying listened, the happier she became. This voice was so gentle and soft, she liked it just from hearing it. She thought about coming to Beilin to meet her, but then worried that being too hasty might scare the girl off.
"It's getting late, you should get some rest too."
Yao Ran politely said "good night" and ended the call. When she put the phone down, she looked at Jiang Nian. She was probably exhausted, sleeping soundly, not woken up by the call at all.
Jiang Nian slept sweetly that night and had a wonderful dream. She dreamt that Yao Ran was holding her wrists, pressing her into the bedding, and kissing her deeply with gentle initiative. It was incredibly passionate.
When Yao Ran woke up the next day, she touched Jiang Nian's forehead as usual to make sure she didn't have a fever.
But the touch woke Jiang Nian up. She opened her drowsy eyes. With her cold, she wasn't in a good state.
Yao Ran told her, "Your mom called last night. I answered it for you."
Jiang Nian: "Huh?" After being hit, she had indeed immediately sent a WeChat to Xue Ying to complain, but Director Xue was busy and wouldn't see it right away.
Yao Ran added, "She asked if I was your girlfriend. I said yes."
Jiang Nian, half-asleep, smiled. "Mmm, it's fine. She knows I like girls. She was probably very happy that you answered the phone last night."
The mother and daughter really understood each other. Yao Ran: "You go back to sleep. Rest well today. I'm going to work."
"Mmm." Jiang Nian didn't try to be strong and offer to drive her to work. She really had no energy.
"Eat on time, and remember to take your medicine."
"Got it, Director Yao," Jiang Nian said with a heavy nasal voice.
Jiang Nian went back to sleep and slept in a daze until noon before she slowly shuffled out of the bedroom in her slippers.
On the living room sofa, she spotted a paper shopping bag containing a slip dress, perfect for the height of summer.
Opening WeChat, Jiang Nian found a message from Yao Ran: The dress on the sofa is for you.
She immediately replied with a sticker of a leaping Si Mao and asked: Why did you suddenly buy me a dress?
Yao Ran had just finished her meal and returned to the break room for a short rest. Seeing the sticker Jiang Nian sent back, she smiled faintly. She replied simply: I thought it would suit you.
In her impression, Jiang Nian loved to wear all kinds of dresses, especially mature and sexy styles. When she saw that dress last night, she had the same thought as Ruan Xin—it was perfect for Jiang Nian.
A moment later.
【Happy Puppy】 Wanna see? I'll try it on for you next time
Yao Ran had changed Jiang Nian's contact name on a whim. It seemed a bit childish, but on second thought, it felt very much in line with Miss Jiang's style.
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Jiang Nian suffered from the cold for two days before finally recovering. After a busy weekend, her weekdays were relatively quiet. During the day, she mostly drew drafts in her office, and in the evening, she would have one or two client appointments.
Using her discomfort as an excuse, she had been quite clingy with Yao Ran these past two days. Coupled with the reserved woman's display of thoughtfulness and gentleness that night, she was now a little unrestrained.
The two of them usually contacted each other for a while around noon.
Yao Ran, tired from a long morning, leaned back on the sofa and answered the phone to a soft, smiling voice: "Has Director Yao eaten on time?"
"I have."
Since they couldn't meet, Jiang Nian wanted to hear her voice more. She asked clingily, "What did you eat?"
Yao Ran thought about the lunch her secretary had ordered and replied softly, "Braised beef and stir-fried asparagus."
It was a rather trivial topic, but Yao Ran found herself enjoying it. She quite liked hearing the not-so-young Miss Jiang act coquettishly; it seemed to relieve her fatigue and help her relax.
"I want to eat braised beef too," Jiang Nian said, dragging out her words. "I..."
Yao Ran listened with her eyes lowered, her voice lazy, "Hmm?"
Jiang Nian whispered with a smile, "And I miss you."
Does she have to be so clingy? It's only been a day... Yao Ran complained internally. After a moment of silence, she asked softly, "Dinner together tonight?"
Jiang Nian first laughed happily, then her voice was full of helplessness, "I can't eat with you tonight, I still have a client..."
Yao Ran thought for a moment and said, "I'll come find you."
Jiang Nian: "What?"
Yao Ran lowered her eyes and explained, "I'm getting off work early tonight."
Jiang Nian smiled. Why did it feel like someone else was also quite eager, even though Director Yao said it so casually?
Jiang Nian wasn't a nine-to-five office worker. They both had busy jobs, and it was hard for their free time to align. One of them always had to accommodate the other.
The studio's foot traffic started to increase in the evenings, and Jiang Nian usually didn't have time for a proper dinner. She would just order takeout to get by, without much fuss.
After discussing the design plan with her client in the evening, Jiang Nian's stomach was rumbling with hunger. She returned to her office, and upon pushing the door open, she found that Yao Ran had already arrived, sitting on the sofa feeding snacks to Si Mao.
"When did you get here?"
Yao Ran looked up. "Not long ago."
Jiang Nian also sat down on the sofa. She turned her head to look at Yao Ran. "Every time it acts cute, you feed it snacks. You're spoiling it."
Yao Ran: "Am I?"
Jiang Nian discovered that although Director Yao always had a cold expression, she was a real sucker for coquetry. Having seen through this, she glanced at Yao Ran, then turned sideways, wrapped her arms around her waist, and stared straight at her after getting close.
Yao Ran loved seeing Jiang Nian smile like this. She looked at her for a few more moments. She, who had always been accustomed to keeping her distance, seemed to be getting more and more used to this clingy way of interacting. She had never met anyone more clingy than Jiang Nian, and of course, no one had ever dared to be so clingy with her.
They held each other. Yao Ran looked down at Jiang Nian and said to her, "I brought you dinner. It has braised beef."
Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment. She had only said that casually at noon. Her eyes curved into a smile. "Director Yao dotes on her girlfriend this much?"
A faint smile also touched Yao Ran's eyes. She felt that if Jiang Nian had a tail, it would be wagging up to the sky right now, just like Si Mao's. She asked Jiang Nian again, "Is your cold better?"
"It's all better," Jiang Nian paused, a sensitive look on her face. She studied Yao Ran's face. "What's wrong?"
That not-so-innocent "what's wrong" from Jiang Nian left Yao Ran speechless. She had just asked casually, with no other meaning. Being stared at so intensely by Jiang Nian, she said coolly, "Let go. Eat."
But Jiang Nian stared at her lips and said quietly, "First, pay back what you owe me from that night..."
Before Yao Ran could react, she was gently pressed against the back of the sofa. Jiang Nian's face drew near, followed by warm lips pressing against hers.
Capturing her lips, Jiang Nian kissed with a greedy heat, accompanied by a wanton fluttering of her heart. She couldn't understand it herself—how could her heart be stirred for so long? It was as if she had an endless supply of passion for Yao Ran.
Yao Ran closed her eyes and returned the kiss quickly. She parted her lips, meeting Jiang Nian's lips and tongue in a familiar, sucking motion.
They were both taking the initiative, and this kind of kiss, where they both revealed their affection, was addictive. Jiang Nian's eyes fluttered open as she held Yao Ran's lower lip, kissing it over and over.
Yao Ran also sucked and kissed her upper lip. Perhaps it was that night, when she herself had an itch to kiss Jiang Nian... Now, as they kissed recklessly in the office, she found she didn't want to stop for a long time.
Jiang Nian caught a glimpse, and the gentle, successive kisses made her whole body go weak, even her waist softened. She simply became completely passive, obediently offering her parted lips, letting Yao Ran kiss her in every way.
Yao Ran impulsively continued to kiss for a while longer.
"Mmm—"
Jiang Nian's soft pants grew louder as she was kissed.
Yao Ran loosened her lips, realizing she might have gone too far. She calmed down a bit, only to find Jiang Nian staring at her intently.
They both slowed their breathing.
Yao Ran quickly regained her composed and cool demeanor, except for a faint blush on her cheeks. She feigned nonchalance and said, "Eat. The food will get cold."
A smile played on Jiang Nian's lips. "If you haven't had enough, you can kiss a little longer."
"..."
Yao Ran gave her a warning look.
"Okay, let's eat first." Jiang Nian licked her lips, still not fully satisfied, but smiling blissfully. She added in a very soft whisper to Yao Ran, "I'll let you kiss me again when we get home tonight."
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