After leaving the bar, Shen Nanyue slipped into the car parked at the entrance.
Rain poured heavily outside, and she was soaked through.
The man lifted his eyes, stubbed out his cigarette, and the first thing he said upon seeing her was, “Take it off.”
“Don’t dirty my car.”
A burning heat coursed through Shen Nanyue’s body.
Hearing his voice, she blinked through her hazy vision and realized it was Zhou Yushen.
After a moment of surprise, she smiled, wrapped her arms around his neck, and licked her red lips lightly.
“Then help me take it off.”
Her voice was soft and coquettish, full of an adult’s seduction.
This was only the second time she had met Zhou Yushen.
The first time was at a welcome party for a friend.
He had sat in the corner, smoking with an alluring posture, his brows carrying an air of cold restraint and abstinence, while a faint sandalwood incense lingered around him.
Even though no one believed he actually practiced Buddhism.
He was mysterious.
Everyone noticed the watch on his wrist, worth as much as a courtyard house in Beijing.
Only Shen Nanyue had noticed his nose bridge instead.
She’d heard that men with high nose bridges tended to have especially strong desires in bed.
Zhou Yushen narrowed his eyes slightly, his expression unreadable.
After a long pause, he chuckled softly.
“I thought you needed me to call 120 for you.” *Emergency Center number
Shen Nanyue froze for a second.
She really had eaten something tainted.
Courtesy of her so-called stepsister.
She had noticed it while leaving the bar, which was why she’d stumbled into the car in the first place.
She had assumed it was the driver she’d called.
She hadn’t expected it to be him.
Still, she curved her brows into a smile, her thick lashes glistening like they were touched with dew, and leaned closer.
“Big brother, what I need… is you.”
Going to the hospital was an option.
But it would make things much bigger.
Especially for her already terrible reputation.
Zhou Yushen’s gaze settled on her.
The dim car lights illuminated her red lips, black hair, and snow-white skin.
Her drenched clothes clung to her body in a way that stirred desire.
Like a rain-soaked rose, vivid and intoxicating.
The next second, Zhou Yushen gripped her waist and pressed his lips down onto hers.
Shen Nanyue’s mind dissolved into chaos.
Before things truly escalated, she heard him ask in a low voice, “Do you know who I am?”
His voice was husky and cool, tinged with indifference.
“Zhou Yushen…”
Biting her lip, Shen Nanyue clung to his shoulders, calling his name impatiently as she urged him on.
“Be good to me…”
The man’s eyes darkened.
Shen Nanyue drifted between scorching heat and chilling dampness over and over again.
By the time it was nearly over, she had scratched several marks across his back, and a single thought surfaced in her mind.
He really was exceptionally good at that.
When the storm finally subsided, Shen Nanyue’s clothes were completely ruined.
She called someone to bring her a fresh set.
After changing, she prepared to leave.
The man lit another cigarette and stopped her, his tone casual.
“So you’re just leaving like this? What about my car?”
Shen Nanyue paused.
Looking down at the mess inside the car, she realized most of the traces had been left by her.
“You did all this.” Zhou Yushen lifted his eyes slightly, his fingers pinching her chin meaningfully. “Not planning to take responsibility?”
There was obvious implication in his words.
Her mind flashed back to what he’d said when she first got into the car: “Don’t dirty my car.”
Alright then.
Clearly, he treasured it.
Blinking innocently, Shen Nanyue smiled. “Mr. Zhou, then how about I pay for the car wash?”
“Sure.”
Zhou Yushen’s voice was lazy as he pulled out his phone and had her scan the code for a transfer.
Shen Nanyue’s eyes gleamed mischievously.
She transferred three thousand yuan and said with a bright smile,
“Besides the car wash fee, there’s also a service fee. Thank you for tonight, Mr. Zhou.”
Honestly speaking, her experience had been pretty good.
For a fleeting one-night encounter, meeting someone as exceptional as Zhou Yushen wasn’t exactly a loss for her.
Even among a crowd of male escorts, Zhou Yushen would still rank as the absolute top star.
Zhou Yushen paid no attention to her petty retaliation.
Looking at her, he replied unhurriedly, “That’s a bit too little.”
“True enough.” Shen Nanyue paused, then added leisurely, “I’ll make it up to you next time.”
She deliberately emphasized the words “next time.”
The two of them weren’t close.
After one night together, there would probably never be another intersection in their lives.
Shen Nanyue casually left behind an empty promise, then turned and hailed a taxi away.
Zhou Yushen watched her departing figure, then glanced at the patch of bloodstains on the seat, raising his brows meaningfully.
As the night deepened, Zhou Yushen stayed in the car smoking for a while.
Not long after, he received a call from Xu Ping and drove to Lingshui Garden.
When he arrived, Xu Ping leaned closer with an ambiguous grin.
“I saw Shen Nanyue getting into your car outside the bar just now, so I came over by myself. Just a reminder—Shen Nanyue isn’t exactly a good person.”
Everyone in their circle said Shen Nanyue was a rose with thorns.
Beautiful, undeniably so.
One glance at her was enough to leave people breathless.
But everyone in Fengcheng also knew Shen Nanyue was ruthless enough to break her own uncle’s leg.
Not to mention, she supposedly had unclear relationships with quite a few men.
Yet Zhou Yushen remained indifferent, casually replying, “She climbed in herself.”
Xu Ping glanced at him and smiled knowingly.
“Well, I heard she’s involved with a lot of men. Leaving everything else aside, she’s been fighting with her fiancé Chen Mu lately. Just don’t get emotionally invested.”
A man like Zhou Yushen was far beyond someone like Shen Nanyue, no matter how wild she got.
They were worlds apart.
Zhou Yushen didn’t respond.
He merely lowered his gaze to the mahjong table.
Someone had just discarded a South Wind tile, and he pushed his tiles forward leisurely.
“Winning hand.” *Mahjong game
…
Worlds apart.
Xu Ping wasn’t the only one who thought so.
Shen Nanyue thought the same thing herself.
Zhou Yushen wasn’t part of their social circle.
Rumor had it that he possessed enormous assets overseas.
His family was probably from Beijing or Shanghai, and after some conflict with them over the past two years, he’d come here to relax.
Truthfully, she’d enjoyed herself that night.
But affairs between men and women were best left at that.
Continuing to get entangled would only become meaningless.
Afterward, Shen Nanyue returned to the Lin family home.
She had always lived by one principle: revenge must be repaid.
Lin Siwan had drugged her and nearly ruined her.
Shen Nanyue wasn’t going to let that slide.
Lin Siwan and her fiancé Chen Mu had been colluding behind her back for a long time.
Shen Nanyue had already run out of patience.
So the next day, while the two of them were tangled together in a hotel room, Shen Nanyue brought over more than a dozen male escorts and staged a dramatic “caught in the act” scene.
Seeing Shen Nanyue walk in together with a group of men asking whether they needed “special services,” both Lin Siwan and Chen Mu’s faces darkened instantly.
“Big sister, what do you mean by this?!”
Lin Siwan let out a shrill scream and hid pitifully behind Chen Mu.
Chen Mu’s expression was equally ugly.
His face darkened as he shielded Lin Siwan behind him, his eyes full of disgust.
“What are you causing trouble for now? What did Siwan ever do to offend you?”
Catching the coldness and disdain in his eyes, Shen Nanyue felt a fleeting chill in her heart.
She and Chen Mu had grown up together since childhood.
When had this fiancé of hers begun looking at her with nothing but malice and loathing?
“First, Lin Siwan, this is just a small lesson. If there’s a next time, I’ll chop off your hands and feet.”
“Second, Chen Mu, we’re completely over. To hell with this engagement!”
Shen Nanyue curled her red lips into a smile, wicked and reckless.
She could tolerate Chen Mu’s indifference, but she wasn’t generous enough to share a man with Lin Siwan.
Chen Mu’s face turned livid.
Seeing Shen Nanyue about to leave, he grabbed her wrist and sneered coldly.
“Shen Nanyue, what do you mean by this? You want to break off our engagement? Besides me, who else would even want you?!”
