Lu Qianzhou snatched the pillow from her hand and tossed it aside. With a mischievous smile, he said, "You were the one who said that as my pillow-mate, you might stab me in the back at any time. It's a pity you missed your chance last night."
Yan Xia was both angry and annoyed. She had been making concessions step by step, but Lu Qianzhou showed no sign of backing down. He was sure that she wouldn't really attack him, so he had been provoking her again and again. Now he was even humiliating her.
Her eyes were cold. Her heart felt as empty as if it had fallen into an abyss. The tangible sense of loss made her feel extremely powerless. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, trying hard to control her emotions.
"You can choose to move back and share the bed with me again. There will always be opportunities as long as you seize them."
He was still humiliating her!
"Will you ever stop being such a jerk!" This was the first time she had sworn in her life, and it happened at this moment. Her chest was heaving rapidly. "Lu Qianzhou, don't ever let me see you again. Either kill yourself to atone for my sister's death, or I'll find out the truth about what happened back then. Before either of these two possibilities comes true, I'll completely ignore you. Don't push me too far, or I'll do anything."
Her long hair covered half of her face, but the obvious anger and disgust in her eyes were clearly seen by him.
She had never felt so disgusted with him before.
She scanned the room but didn't see her clothes. Yan Xia looked at him coldly.
"Where are my clothes?"
Lu Qianzhou frowned. As soon as this topic came up, he had a lot to scold her about. "You smelled of alcohol. A girl shouldn't drink so much. If you can't hold your liquor, don't drink. You vomited all over me when you came back last night and clung to my clothes. If it weren't for..."
"Where are my clothes!" She raised her voice and asked again.
"I had your dirty clothes washed. There are still some of your old clothes in your room."
Yan Xia didn't listen. After all, she had lived here for a long time, so she knew the place well. She went to the balcony where the clothes were hung. Without caring whether they were still wet or not, she reached out and grabbed them, then went back to the room to change. She didn't want to stay here for a single extra second.
Just as she undid one button of her clothes, the locked door opened from the outside.
Yan Xia clutched her clothes tightly with both hands. "How did you get in? Get out! I don't want to fight with you."
Lu Qianzhou waved the key in his hand. "Do you think there's a room in this house whose key I don't have?"
He was so shameless. In his territory, she really had no room to bargain. Yan Xia simply undid the buttons of her pajamas right in front of him and put on her semi-wet clothes.
"You're crazy. These clothes aren't dry yet." Lu Qianzhou stopped her from continuing to dress. "I'll have someone bring your old clothes for you."
"No need."
Yan Xia pushed his hand away and continued to get dressed. Soon she put on all her clothes, opened the door and walked out. Of course, Lu Qianzhou didn't want to let her go so easily. He quickly stepped in front of the doorframe.
"Are you just going to leave like this?"
Yan Xia was so angry that she laughed. She looked up at him. "If I could, I'd like to slap you right now. That's what I want to do. Do you accept it?"
Lu Qianzhou raised his eyebrows. He was completely unmoved. He just wanted to keep her here, even for one more minute.
"You've really become something, Cheng Yan Xia. You've been keeping a lover behind my back, and now you even want to attack me."
This kind of person is tough when faced with toughness and soft when faced with softness. She tried hard to calm her emotions and not argue with him. The most important thing was to leave here immediately.
She said expressionlessly, "If you can't do it, get out of the way."
Lu Qianzhou looked down at her. "Since you don't want to admit our relationship, there's no such thing as a free ride in this world. Settle the service fee and accommodation fee for last night first."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Xia suddenly slapped him hard across the face.
"You've always said that you love me and want to maintain our relationship like before. But I can't feel a bit of your love. All I feel is coercion, force and humiliation! I don't understand why you just won't admit what you've done. If accepting your so-called love means enduring all that coercion and humiliation, I'd rather die. Do you understand?"
Her hands were trembling slightly. After saying these words, she suddenly pushed him away and ran out desperately, quickly escaping from the second floor.
When she was going downstairs, the maid was just downstairs. Seeing the angry look on her face, she thought that the two of them might have quarreled. As servants, they had to depend on the mood of the master. Of course, she hoped that this family could be harmonious, so she stepped forward to stop Yan Xia and wanted to say a few words to her.
"Miss Lu, you're awake. It's really you. You're finally back. Is Mr. Lu up yet? Your clothes aren't dry yet. Why are you wearing them? Let me get you a clean set..."
"No need. I don't need anything."
Yan Xia replied coldly, then strode out of Lu Qianzhou's villa.
The wet clothes were really uncomfortable to wear. She walked quickly out of the villa area, then put on the earrings that she had been holding in her hand. When she woke up this morning and saw the earrings on the bedside table, she had casually grabbed them.
She walked a long way but couldn't get a taxi. Her phone was turned off. She turned it on again and booked a car online, then squatted by the roadside waiting for the car.
There were more than a dozen missed calls from Fang Jiangyi on her phone. Maybe because he knew that she was with Lu Qianzhou and at least her safety wouldn't be a problem, he finally gave up and just sent her a message asking her to reply when she saw it.
Yan Xia replied to his message, saying that she would go to Shengshi Company today.
Then she called Shangguan Yao.
Shangguan Yao answered the phone immediately. Since they had decided not to leave any evidence, he and Yan Xia had always been in single-line contact and rarely met.
"Hello. Finally got in touch with you. I heard from Fang Jiangyi that you were taken away by Lu Qianzhou last night. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Yan Xia said calmly. "For now, Lu Qianzhou won't do anything to me."
Although she didn't know how much he was hiding from her, she knew that Lu Qianzhou had feelings for her now.
Shangguan Yao heaved a sigh of relief. "That's good. Did you see Long Tao last night?"
Yan Xia said, "No. I just saw him, and then he went out to meet Lu Qianzhou. Didn't you say that Lu Qianzhou wouldn't go last night? As soon as he showed up, my whole plan was disrupted."
Shangguan Yao sighed heavily. He knew very well that Lu Qianzhou was a difficult person to deal with. It seemed that he had spent all his energy on Yan Xia. Thinking about it this way, he should have gone there for Yan Xia last night.
"Lu Qianzhou is really persistent in chasing you. Don't think too much about it. We'll send you the location of Long Tao's next action in time. You should meet him first. People in their line of work are usually very vigilant. If it's too easy to get close to them, there might be a problem. You can use your past relationship with Lu Qianzhou to your advantage."
Although Yan Xia didn't really want to have anything to do with Lu Qianzhou in her heart.