Everyone's playing Red Giant? I, Black Hole, devour everything!

That kiss wasn't gentle.

But the touch on her lips was both hot and soft.

Su Li felt herself falling downwards, with absolutely no room for struggle.

She didn't want to struggle either.

She reached out and hooked her arm around Lin Tian's neck, responding awkwardly.

Her technique was pitifully clumsy; her teeth bumped against his lips, but she didn't care at all.

She felt like her heart was about to jump out of her chest; she couldn't think of anything, and nothing mattered.

Is this what kissing feels like?

Su Li thought to herself in a daze.

After an unknown amount of time, the two finally parted ways.

Su Li was panting heavily, her eyes still red.

"You...how can you be so skilled..." Her voice was still trembling. "Did you secretly practice with Xuejian?"

Lin Tian chuckled at her words: "No."

"real?"

"Really." His thumb gently brushed against the corner of her mouth. "You almost bit my lip."

Su Li's face flushed red to the roots of her ears.

No matter how shameless she usually is, she's still a novice when it comes to this kind of thing.

The kiss just now has left her brain buzzing, and all sense of reason has long since vanished.

"I...it's my first time." She buried her face in Lin Tian's shoulder, refusing to lift it up. "What's wrong with letting me bite you once or twice? You'll get better with practice..."

"Still thinking about the future?"

"Nonsense!" Su Li suddenly raised her head, her fighting spirit rekindled in her eyes. "I can't just give you my first kiss for nothing; you have to take responsibility."

That's Su Li for you. Even with her face still red and her lips still swollen, she would never let the atmosphere stay sticky.

"Oh, right." She suddenly blinked, leaned close to Lin Tian's ear, and whispered, "That...it felt really good. How about we do it every night from now on?"

Lin Tian looked at her self-righteous way of asking for a kiss and suddenly found it a little funny.

This girl's shamelessness has truly reached the level of a black hole.

She was blushing and saying it was her first time, but then she started haggling.

"It depends," he said.

"What do you mean by 'depending on the situation'?" Su Li persisted. "Then how about this: I'll come find you after every battle, okay? Anyway, Xuejian handles official business during the day, and I'll take care of things at night—um!"

Before she could finish speaking, Lin Tian gently pinched her lips.

"Is there nothing else in your mind besides these things?"

Su Li broke free of his hand and retorted confidently, "And you! You're already in my head, what else do you want me to think about?"

She said these sweet nothings without blushing at all.

Looking at her like this, Lin Tian's smile deepened.

He reached out and ruffled her hair.

Her naturally curly long hair felt softer than I had imagined, a complete contrast to her temperament.

Su Li squinted her eyes as he rubbed them, like a fox whose fur had been stroked.

"Lin Tian," she suddenly said softly.

"Um?"

"Thank you." Her voice was very soft, as if afraid of disturbing the quiet of the moment. "Thank you for not pushing me away when I was most daring to speak."

Lin Tian stopped.

Then, he lowered his head and gently kissed her lips.

This kiss is different from the one before.

It is neither passionate nor tender, and it doesn't even involve any skill.

It's like a quiet lamp in the dead of night.

"Um."

Su Li's eyes immediately reddened.

She buried her face back in his shoulder.

Lin Tian gently patted her back: "Why are you crying?"

"I didn't cry," Su Li said stubbornly in a muffled voice.

The two of them stayed in the lounge for quite a while longer.

Su Li cried and laughed, laughed and cried.

Her facial expressions kept changing, making a mess of her first kiss night.

……

The days of rest and recuperation passed quietly like this.

The cleanup work in the Eighth Star Sector is proceeding in an orderly manner.

The inventory of spoils is updated daily, and the evolution progress of the Black Hole Legion members is steadily increasing.

Everything is moving in a positive direction.

Su Li was a completely different person after that night.

Although she used to pester Lin Tian, ​​it was always somewhat joking.

Now look what's happened; the last veil has been completely torn off.

During the day, he would still act as boastful as ever on the command channel, but at night he would always find various excuses to run to Lin Tian's rest room.

Of course, every time, Lin Tian would grab him by the back of his collar and kick him out.

Lu Xuejian was not unaware of this change.

In fact, Su Li's change was so obvious that the entire Black Hole Legion was talking about it in private.

Lu Xuejian saw it all but said nothing.

She simply took extra care of Lin Tian's daily life than usual.

Before entering his office, I would pause for a couple of seconds at the door, as if to give myself a silent pep talk.

She was indeed somewhat disappointed.

But she wasn't jealous of Su Li, because she knew all too well that Su Li could do things that she herself couldn't.

Su Li dared to take the initiative to kiss her, but she didn't.

She would only stand silently behind him in her own way.

She didn't know when she would be able to take that step, or perhaps she would never be able to.

But it doesn't matter, as long as she can stand behind him, she feels that's enough.

She kept these subtle feelings to herself very well, at least that's how she felt.

But who is Su Li?

Lu Xuejian's little schemes were as transparent as glass to her.

So on the tenth night of her rest, Su Li did not go to Lin Tian's rest room as usual.

She went to Lu Xuejian's room.

"Xuejian, have you been having something on your mind lately?"

Lu Xuejian, who was organizing documents, paused for a moment upon hearing this: "No."

"Liar." Su Li chuckled and leaned closer. "Is it because someone's been bothered by a vixen lately, and you, the empress, are unhappy?"

She always speaks like that, half-truths, making it hard to tell if she's joking or speaking from the heart.

Lu Xuejian put down the documents in her hand: "Su Li, I'm not upset... I just... I just don't know what to do."

Her eyes were already slightly red when she said those words.

"I know he's nice to everyone, but the nicer he is to me, the less I know how to get close to him. I'm afraid that if I get close, he'll run away... I'm afraid that if I say anything, I won't be able to keep this relationship we have now."

Her voice grew softer and softer until it was almost a whisper.

After her family was destroyed, she began to feel anxious and cautious.

But clearly, she wasn't like this before.

Seeing her like this, Su Li's smile slowly faded.

"Xuejian, actually I'm scared too."

"Then why did you still go?"

"Because if I don't go, I'm afraid I'll regret it for the rest of my life... Some things will get moldy if you keep them in your heart."