She said indifferently without any emotion, giving the impression like she lost all meaning in life.
On hearing this, the hand which the man placed on her eyes shuddered.
“Who knows?”
It was still that perfect mandarin.
Ji Anning said in honesty, “My fiancé and his mistress.”
Since he tied her to his bed time and time again, it proved he must have targeted her, so he ought to know everything about her situation.
On saying that, her lips curved into a cold smile, “She should be considered his mistress since I’m his child bride, and they’ve only been together for five years.”
“How did they find out about us?” asked the man.
Ji Anning said, “They checked the hotel’s CCTV for the day and saw you leaving the room first, so threatened me with it.”
Suddenly, she reached out agitatedly, grabbing the man’s hand, “You’ve no idea how hard it was for me to come this far.”
After feeling frustrated, she lost heart yet again. Releasing his hand, she lay flat on her back, losing all hope with life coldly once more.
“Either way, you’re a monster. Even if you know, you won’t be the least bit sympathetic.”
The atmosphere in the room went silent for two seconds before that perfect mandarin rang beside Ji Anning’s ear again, “So this was why you were upset the last two days and cried?
In astonishment, Ji Anning turned around, staring with her dark bright eyes, “How did you know?”
The moment she turned her head, she made eye contact with the man’s deep eyes. In the pitch-black space, a brilliance swept by rapidly.
Covering her eyes with his large hands once again, he placed the mobile phone by her ear.
“Haha. I installed a bug on you.”
Although it was reading aloud, Ji Anning could still detect the wickedness and cunning in between the lines.
“Are you a pervert?” Ji Anning reached out in annoyance, grabbing the man by his arm hard.
After using all her might, she sensed that she tore the skin on the back of the man’s hand.
But without even moaning, the soft palm remained plastered to her eyes like a massage device that was at a constant temperature.
“Something like that. So you can’t go against me, or else I don’t know what I might do to you.”
Ji Anning felt speechless towards the likes of him. To her surprise, he was not only unashamed of his perverse actions to her but he was proud of it.
Twitching her lips, she appeared nonchalant, “It doesn’t matter what you do since you’ve already taken my virginity. My boyfriend doesn’t want me anymore, and I’ll live a life worse than death from now on.”
“Why are you so cowardly?”
Sensing the deep disdain in the man’s words, Ji Anning smiled bitterly, “Ha. I wish I could be as strong and proud as him so no one can look down on me.”
“Him? Who?”
In the darkness, the man’s vicious eyes narrowed threateningly with a flash of jealousy.
Ji Anning replied angrily, “It’s none of your business.”
“We are so close. How can it be none of my business?”
Putting the phone next to Ji Anning’s ear, the man reached his other hand into Ji Anning’s clothes, placing his fingers in front of her chest and grazing across it back and forth.
He was wickedly teasing her.
Ji Anning imagined that a lewd smile must be brimming from his face right now. Would his face be the same since there were so many scars on his waist?
At the thought of that, she could not help shivering.
“Why don’t you just break up with your fiancé and be with me?”
Placing his lips next to Ji Anning’s ear, the warm and damp scent floated around her ear.
Stimulating the most sensitive nerves throughout her body, she reached out to give the man a shove, “I might as well just die.”
The previously forgotten tears overflowed once again.
“Don’t cry.”
The man hastily halted his actions to gently wipe her tears.
This gesture made Ji Anning feel a sense of hope. Reaching out to hug both his hands, she begged him pitifully, “You’re a good man. Please let me go. I’ll do my best to repay you in the future.”
At the drop of her voice, she distinctly heard the man laughing softly, making even the mattress tremble in the process.
Very quickly, he put the mobile phone by her ear once more, “No. I’m a bad person.”
Ji Anning, “…”
“I won’t let you go and don’t need you to do anything to repay me either. I’ll help you handle those threats the scumbag and his mistress made on account of how…”
“… close we are.”
He deliberately finished the single sentence slowly.
Especially the word, “close”, which felt inexplicably evil to Ji Anning.
“Thanks then,” Ji Anning expressed her gratitude without being the least bit sincere or taking his words seriously.
Then she asked again, “What’s your name?”
“Xu Yishi.”
“Xu Yishi? What kind of bloody name is that? It sounds awful.”
The moment Ji Anning heard, she complained. As the man smiled, his thumb grazed her face gently.
Gazing at her with indulgence brimming from his eyes.
With a promise of a trouble-free life.
Ji Anning could not recall what else they talked about after that. After losing guard from the chit chat, she dozed off.
When she woke, it was already daylight.
The moment she opened her eyes, upon seeing light streaming in through the gaps in the curtain, she got stunned. After recovering from the shock, she hurriedly sat up.
Lowering her eyes to gaze at her clothing, she was wearing the hotel’s bathrobe. She pulled open the collar a little to check her body and found no marks like that of the last two occasions.
Then last night…
As Ji Anning speculated with uncertainty, her mobile phone abruptly vibrated a couple of times while it sat on the bedside table.
She plunged her hand into her hair and pulled it vexedly before reaching to take her mobile phone.
“Don’t get too smug over that little ruse of yours because you didn’t succeed. I deliberately let you off instead. Next time, I can do it while I’m chatting with you.”
Ji Anning, “…”
It turned out he knew all along she purposely chatted with him in an attempt to distract him.
Is he way too clever, or am I too naïve?
As she thought, she could not resist curving her lips into a smile.
…
Since things had gotten to this stage and what was meant to come will come today, there was no reason for her to be afraid.
Ji Anning stood under the showerhead and bathed herself again and again.
Raising her head, she closed her eyes, beaming as she soothingly let go of her worries.
It had been a long time since she last felt so relaxed.
After showering, she was standing before the mirror with a hairdryer getting ready to dry her hair when her mobile phone abruptly rang.
Putting down the hairdryer, she went out and located her mobile phone on the bedside table. As she looked at the caller ID, sadness overflowed from her face.
It was Ji Jingfeng calling. It was Saturday today and the deadline that they gave her.
He probably called at this hour, pressing her for a decision.
Sigh!
After sighing powerlessly, Ji Anning picked up the phone. Without waiting for her to say hello, Ji Jingfeng quickly said, “Anan.”
Caught by surprise, Ji Anning went speechless for a while.
Why did his greeting and tone sound off?
Why did it resemble those occasions when he called asking her to help cover up for him?
Was he perhaps worried she might not let him be with Bai Guo and was going easy on her first?