The waves had subsided, and all was over.
Lu Qianzhou turned to look at Yan Xia, who was sound asleep beside him. There was no light or sound in the room, only their deep breaths.
After all this time, he still remembered every bit of her initial beauty, and greedily wanted to relive it, constantly demanding more.
When facing Yan Xia, there was always a kind of almost pity - like compassion in his heart for her. Maybe it was because he had witnessed everything she had gone through, or perhaps it was because he loved her so much.
But every time he wanted to pity her, she would always be unexpectedly stubborn. Her eyes were filled with a blatant frankness, as if she didn't need anyone's pity or help. In fact, though, she had always been troubling those around her, just that he wasn't among them.
She was really like that person.
Just because she truly loved someone, she wanted to give everything for him. No matter how excessive the request was, she would do her best to meet it.
In the end, she even lost her own life.
Those people were so cruel. They deliberately chose his birthday for that, turning what should have been a happy day for him into a lifelong nightmare.
He was very afraid that Yan Xia would follow in that person's footsteps.
He reached out to brush away the stray hairs on Yan Xia's face. With her lying beside him, a long - lost sense of contentment welled up in his heart.
"Don't be so headstrong anymore. After I finish this act, I'll give you whatever you want."
Yan Xia's dream had lasted a long time. When she woke up, the room was still pitch - black, as if it was already the early morning. She woke up from the nightmare and found herself in a warm embrace. After the extreme physical exertion, her body was so weak that she had no strength at all.
After the intense passion, there was only an empty feeling in her heart.
She reached out to push the quilt away and get up, but her hand touched a hard chest. Her mind went blank for a moment, and the memories before she fell asleep kept flooding into her mind.
She only remembered that she had been in great pain and scratched her own arm, and the person beside her was... Peng Zixu!
Her heart seemed to plummet from the mountaintop to the valley bottom in an instant. It felt as empty as missing a step when going downstairs. The string in her mind tightened, and she suddenly woke up from the warm and peaceful state.
If the person lying beside her now was really Peng Zixu...
She suddenly raised her head, trying to distinguish the other person's facial features in the darkness. Her breathing, which she had been trying hard to keep steady, became a bit chaotic. Fear took root in her heart.
"Only now do you know to be afraid? What were you doing earlier?" Lu Qianzhou's lazy voice came into her ears.
Perhaps because he noticed that she was trembling slightly, his words were sharp.
Recognizing his familiar voice, Yan Xia didn't know whether to feel relieved or lucky for a moment. It was better that the person beside her was him than someone else.
"Why is it you..." Since this was Jiang Yue's scheme, why was Lu Qianzhou here?
"Who else did you think it would be?" Lu Qianzhou laughed and answered her in the darkness. "Why, you seem quite disappointed to hear that it's me beside you."
Yan Xia had no mood to bicker with him. "This was Jiang Yue's scheme. Peng Zixu was here before. How did you find this place?"
She knew that Lu Qianzhou disdained to be with those people.
Lu Qianzhou said, "Jiang Yue alone couldn't have set up such a big trap. Before I came here, I received a call from the mastermind behind the scenes. He gave me the address and told me to come here to find you."
His hand was on her waist. They were naked, and with his faint teasing, the atmosphere was always very ambiguous.
Suddenly, Yan Xia wrapped herself in the quilt and took away the bedding on him. She got up and sat aside, leaving Lu Qianzhou completely exposed to the air.
"Are you saying that Jiang Yue and the mastermind behind the scenes joined hands? Just to drug me and then call you here to... have sex with me?"
She would never believe such an explanation.
Lu Qianzhou was amused by her words. He thought she was quite cute when she was throwing a tantrum.
"Of course their intentions couldn't be that simple. The mastermind behind the scenes wants to use you to control me. He wants me and Fang Jiangyi to kill each other. As for Jiang Yue, I think she's out of her mind now. She's probably being used as a pawn." Lu Qianzhou analyzed rationally.
Saying this, he pulled the quilt over himself and got closer to her.
"But I didn't expect you to be so stupid. You actually went to Jiang Yue's appointment. It was clearly a trap, but you still jumped into it. What were you thinking?"
Being criticized by Lu Qianzhou, Yan Xia remained calm.
"Why did I go to the appointment? It was because Jiang Yue always said that there was always you between her and me. She said she had something to clarify with me." Yan Xia retorted, "Mr. Lu is really Mr. Lu. He can make someone as proud as Jiang Yue love him until now, and even go crazy for him. If I didn't want to stop her from seeing me as a love rival and attacking me, do you think I would be willing to go to the appointment?"
So far, it seemed that all the things that had happened were because of the mastermind behind the scenes.
Maybe even Lan Mengfan's death was related to him.
Hearing her sour tone, Lu Qianzhou curved his lips. "Are you jealous?"
"Jealous of you? Lu Qianzhou, you think too highly of yourself."
Yan Xia thought his words were absurd.
But there was a strange feeling fermenting in her heart. No matter if Jiang Yue's appointment was to assert her sovereignty or for other reasons, she wasn't afraid. Moreover, she was very clear now that Lu Qianzhou really loved her.
Maybe those who are favored are fearless. She wasn't afraid of this kind of confrontation.
Lu Qianzhou just looked at her with a smile. Everything was understood without words.
"Do you have any other thoughts about this? Why did the mastermind behind the scenes tell you where I was? Just like before when he tricked me into seeing Jiang Yue being violated and made me make a choice, did he... also ask you to do something?" Yan Xia suddenly asked.
"You're right. He wants me and Fang Jiangyi to kill each other. It's either his death or mine." He took a sharp breath. "If you had the right to choose in this matter, who would you want to die?"
Yan Xia's heart skipped a beat.
She was suddenly stumped by Lu Qianzhou's question. If she really had to choose one person to die, she seemed unable to make a choice. If she really had to choose, maybe she would choose herself to die.
The one who leaves first is the happiest.
But she didn't show her true feelings. "Do you have to ask such a self - humiliating question?"
Lu Qianzhou suddenly pinched her face. The flesh on her face bunched up, making her look very cute.
"Cheng Yan Xia, you hesitated." He was very excited. "I forgot to tell you that I took a psychology elective in college."
So, all the signs of her lying were seen by him.
Yan Xia was speechless. She shifted her gaze, suddenly covered Lu Qianzhou with the quilt, quickly picked up her clothes on the ground, and hid in the bathroom.