Chapter 22: A Horse Stumbles

Xu Heng had considered throwing down 200,000 with great panache and acting cool by saying, "Take this money for now, you can pay me back later." After all, that's how the rich second generation always acts in TV dramas, and the female lead is immediately so moved that she throws herself into his arms.

But after thinking it over for a few minutes, he realized that he wasn't a rich second generation, and Liu Yiyan wasn't a female lead.

If he gave her 200,000 for nothing in return, wouldn't that make him a total sucker?

So, half an hour after leaving the Duhuang Hotel, Xu Heng brought Liu Yiyan back there again.

"One single room."

The receptionist took Xu Heng's ID and the money, looked up at the two of them with a playful expression, and didn't even ask Liu Yiyan for her ID.

Everyone knows what a man and a woman coming to get a room together are there for.

"Standard room 208."

Xu Heng walked in front, with Liu Yiyan following behind him with her head down; she didn't say a word until they were out of the elevator.

The room card swiped the hotel door open.

"I'm going to take a shower first."

Xu Heng rubbed his head; after drinking some Wine, although he wasn't dizzy, his whole body reeked of the unpleasant smell of alcohol.

"Oh... okay!"

Liu Yiyan sat bolt upright on the sofa, her legs tightly clamped together in agitation; ever since entering the room, she had become increasingly panicked.

Actually, she knew what was about to happen, but her psychological reaction still involuntarily made her nerves tense up.

About ten minutes passed, and Xu Heng walked out of the bathroom in a loose bathrobe, naturally sitting down beside Liu Yiyan and wrapping his arm around her soft waist.

In his past life, as a regular customer of foot massage parlors, Xu Heng was quite clear on how to interact with young ladies.

"Yanyan, you are so beautiful."

Liu Yiyan felt his heavy, scorching breath, her face flushed: "Um, I'm going to take a shower too."

"No need, just like this; I like the scent on you."

As he spoke, Xu Heng leaned in and kissed the corner of her lips; it wasn't the sweetness he had imagined, but rather a bit of the taste of Wine.

His hands began to restlessly perform the first step of a math problem.

Since it was summer, Liu Yiyan was wearing nothing but a yellow short-sleeved shirt, hot pants, and her undergarments.

Xu Heng wasn't in a hurry to tackle the last two problems; he just kissed his way down from that snow-white, slender neck until he reached Liu Yiyan's calves.

That pair of smooth, jade-like feet appeared before his eyes, delicate and lovely, with toes tightly closed, looking completely flawless.

Xu Heng couldn't help but pinch those little feet.

Liu Yiyan had originally resigned herself to her fate, but being teased like this made a sense of shame well up in her heart again.

"Xu... Xu Heng, I'm not ready yet..." she stammered.

No, sister, you're already out here selling yourself, what's this talk about being ready or not?

Xu Heng didn't think that much at the time; he only knew that the arrow was on the string and had to be fired, and he impatiently pushed the beauty down.

That night, Liu Yiyan's knowledge of biology was greatly improved.

……

The next morning, Xu Heng was woken up by the ringing of his phone. He groggily picked it up, saw that the caller was Mother Xu, and answered.

"Mom."

"It's me, your sister." Xu Meimei's voice sounded slightly angry.

"Oh, Ruoxi, what's up? Is something wrong?"

"You're asking me if something's wrong? Brother, you're the one who didn't come home all night, not me!"

"Uh, I was too happy seeing an old classmate yesterday, drank a bit too much with them, and fell asleep at the hotel."

Saying this, Xu Heng glanced at the expanse of snow-white skin on his left side and sighed slightly, "I'll be back in a bit."

"Fine, fine, as long as I know you're not dead. Mom was worried all night, saying you wanted to rebel, and you bold one didn't even call back to explain the situation."

"I was so drunk I wasn't even conscious, how could I have called?"

Xu Heng explained a couple more things, and Xu Meimei said she understood and hung up the phone, then casually rubbed the cheek of the beauty in his arms.

"Mmm... don't, let me sleep a little longer."

"……"

Seeming to realize something, Liu Yiyan's hazy eyes snapped open.

She looked up at Xu Heng's sharp-featured face, her little mouth opened, and her face turned red enough to drip blood.

"I..."

"You've never had a boyfriend?"

Liu Yiyan nodded.

Xu Heng was speechless. He just wanted a quick meal and to find a young lady he could cooperate with long-term to satisfy his physiological needs; he hadn't expected that despite Liu Yiyan dressing so provocatively on the surface, she was still a virgin.

You're a virgin and you sold yourself for 200,000 for two years?

Then if I sleep with you once a day, doesn't that break down to less than 300 yuan per time?

Of course, 300 yuan is a high price in a small city nowadays, but with Liu Yiyan's looks, she could easily make over 10,000 a day in a big city.

Even an old pro can crash his car; Xu Heng had the bad luck of crashing his car right here with Liu Yiyan today.

Seeing his expression wasn't great, Liu Yiyan thought he had changed his mind and didn't want to give her that 200,000, so she whispered: "If you give me 100,000 so I can pay off the debt for now, that's fine too."

"Is your brain broken?"

Xu Heng let out a long sigh, finally understanding why Liu Yiyan only wanted 200,000.

Because this girl was too stupid and hadn't been beaten down by society yet.

She was far inferior to the likes of Ying Ziyun whom Xu Heng knew. To use a real comparison, she was a bit like Xu Heng during his college years in his past life—straightforward and simple-minded, the type who would get cheated out of two yuan the moment they stepped out of the house.

She clearly had enough capital, yet she insisted on timidly going to Cui Tianhua, and even if she hadn't succeeded with Cui Tianhua, she still sold herself to Xu Heng for 200,000.

Xu Heng put on the T-shirt that still smelled of Wine: "There is 250,000 in the bank card on the coffee table, the password is 880905, and also, give me your contact number and QQ."

Liu Yiyan was stunned, somewhat incredulous: "Why give me an extra 50,000?"

"I f*cking..." Xu Heng swallowed the curse back into his throat, picked up the small bag on the nightstand, and pulled out an old-fashioned Little Smart phone from inside.

Fine, this phone didn't even have QQ, but fortunately, it could make calls.

Dialing his own phone number, Xu Heng saved this number into the phonebook and said indifferently: "I will look for you when I have needs in the future. For these two years, you are my person; don't go looking for other men or boyfriends outside. I don't like sharing with others, understand?"

Liu Yiyan nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

Actually, putting aside her appearance, she was not such a dissolute person; even if Xu Heng didn't care about her finding men, she wouldn't go out and mess around with others.

Back when she started her freshman year, a director took a fancy to her and declared that as long as she spent one night with him, he could get her a role as the third or fourth female lead.

At that time, nothing had happened to her family yet, so Liu Yiyan refused.

In the entertainment industry, those who are not famous as actors are either too ugly or too upright to accept unspoken rules.

Liu Yiyan was certainly not ugly; one could even say she was better looking than most female stars, but after a year of enrollment, she hadn't received any small roles in TV dramas or movies, which was enough to prove just how upright she was.

After speaking, Xu Heng added: "If you are short on money later, you can ask me for it."

Although he had received massages many times in his previous life, the only girl of Liu Yiyan's level of beauty he had interacted with deeply was Ying Ziyun.

Not to mention that the other party didn't even ask for him to take responsibility.

Everyone was just in a relationship of mutual need, which was much more relaxed than being a couple or husband and wife.

Xu Heng had already started to think about extending the long-term contract with Liu Yiyan.