Could it be that their relationship was doomed to remain such?
This relationship, this way of getting along, such a transaction where each took what they needed...
Every night when he returned, to her, it was simply one-sided.
Plainly speaking, she was just a woman he kept, and he wouldn't let go only because he still had need of her.
She wanted to move out, to advance their relationship a step further... but those were all just delusions.
Because the relationship was not important to him; all he wanted was her obedience, submission, cleverness, to stay by his side. As for anything else, he didn't care about it at all.
......…
The night grew thicker, and Tong Ran turned her head. In the still midnight, she could hear his forceful heartbeat gradually steadying. She closed her eyes, only to feel an increasing bitterness in her heart.
She didn't know how long had passed when the man's heartbeat finally settled. He propped himself up and went to the bathroom.
