Chapter 7 By the Piano
I took him to my penthouse apartment in the city center.
The moment the door opened, his eyes lit up at the sight of the Piano beside the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Then he quickly lowered his head and changed his shoes in silence.
"Do you like the Piano? Did you ever learn?"
"I learned a little when I was young, but I stopped later," he said.
I pulled him over to the Piano and pointed at the untouched sheet music.
"Try playing."
I saw rare excitement and fondness in his eyes as he looked at it.
His fair fingers touched the keys, but the notes came out hesitant and broken after so long.
After a while he stopped and gave me an embarrassed smile. "I'm not very good anymore."
I leaned against the Piano and watched him. That shy, awkward smile hit me hard in the chest.
Strange, complicated feelings rushed up.
Chu Qingyun looked somehow both youthful and captivating in that moment.
He had just stood up when I pushed him against the Piano in the next breath.
I lifted one of his legs onto it. The keys groaned under the weight.
He froze, then whispered, "Don't..."
I caught his lips and swallowed the rest of his words. Once my hand slid onto his waist, I couldn't let go.
I held him from behind and mocked him. "Useless. So fast? You've already dirtied the Piano."
He opened his watery eyes and gasped. He leaned weakly against my chest.
I bit the side of his neck, right over the pulsing artery.
He shuddered and snapped back to attention.
"Hold on to your favorite Piano properly."
"You bastard."
"Yeah." I was a bastard. Seeing someone as pure as Chu Qingyun made me want to ruin him.
Seeing him show love for anything else made me want to destroy that too.
This feeling was complicated.
Especially now that Chu Qingyun belonged only to me. No matter how much he once looked down on me, he was mine now.
I enjoyed that feeling.