Chapter 110: Free Ride

The morning sunlight shone in through the gaps in the curtains.

Li Xinran slowly opened her eyes, feeling only a splitting headache and soreness all over her body.

She struggled to sit up, only to discover that she was stark naked.

"Ah!"

Li Xinran let out a cry of alarm, sat up abruptly, pulled the quilt over to wrap herself tightly, and widened her eyes in terror.

She subconsciously turned her head—

In an instant.

Li Xinran felt her brain explode with a buzz.

She saw a familiar face sitting comfortably on the sofa at the corner of the bed, curling his lips into a smile at her.

"Awake?"

Shen Huai said indifferently.

He was spinning and playing with a black mobile phone in his hand.

Li Xinran's gaze suddenly constricted! This phone... wasn't this what she had put into the cabinet last night, intending to record video evidence of Young Master Shen forcing himself upon her?

How could it be in his hands! And that wasn't even the most critical part.

Li Xinran pulled the quilt up to cover her chest and looked at Shen Huai in disbelief, her pupils filled with shock.

How could Shen Huai be here!

"... Are you very surprised?"

"Are you wondering why it's me here, and not your rumored boyfriend?"

A ball of rage ignited in Li Xinran's eyes.

"How could it be you? When exactly did you come in..."

"When?" Shen Huai shrugged, leaning back on the sofa with a look of ease, "The great star Li really has a short memory; hasn't it been me the whole time since last night?"

"!? Impossible!"

Li Xinran panicked; disregarding the fact that she wasn't dressed, she pointed angrily at Shen Huai: "The person who came last night was clearly... clearly..."

As she spoke, Li Xinran's brain suddenly jolted! She suddenly realized.

That person yesterday had never once admitted to being Young Master Shen!

Everything had just been her own subconscious, subjective judgment...

"From beginning to end last night, it was me; there was no Young Master Shen at all."

"Yesterday you left Star Brilliance without authorization, so I had no choice but to chase you here from Jianghai City."

Shen Huai had long since prepared his story, calmly providing an impeccable explanation.

Li Xinran's mouth twitched.

She truly could not accept that not only had she drunk the medicine intended for Young Master Shen, but she had also ended up with the wrong person! Looking at Shen Huai's detached expression, Li Xinran was furious: "Then why didn't you just identify yourself? Why wear sunglasses and a mask! Are you sick?"

Seeing Li Xinran try to shift the blame, Shen Huai laughed instead of getting angry: "Did you give me the chance?"

"I had only just said one word when you came straight in for a kiss."

Shen Huai deliberately emphasized the last few words.

Instantly, Li Xinran's face turned bright red, and she was so ashamed and annoyed that she wished she could crawl into a crack in the ground.

"I was quite innocent last night, you know. ~"

Shen Huai calmly raised the phone: "This recorded everything clearly. The great star Li didn't expect that when she got proactive, she would say such lewd things."

"It even recorded until the battery died; in the end, it was me who kindly helped you charge it."

After Shen Huai finished speaking, he raised his hand with a flourish—

The phone traced a parabola through the air and landed with a dull thud beside Li Xinran's hand.

Li Xinran swallowed hard.

She mechanically picked up the phone beside her and, trembling, tapped to open the video in the album.

The next second.

A long, drawn-out moan poured out from the speaker, directly blasting Li Xinran's brain into a blank slate! She saw that in the video, her own black pajamas had already been pushed down to her waist.

She was sitting on top, swaying with the rhythm of the sounds, completely immersed in pleasure.

"No, continue, it's still not enough..."

"I'll do it myself, give it all to me, okay..." Listening to these unbearable words, Li Xinran's entire face burned red.

Was this... something she had said herself?

And the man beneath her remained silent the entire time, only pinning Li Xinran's hands down at the critical moment to launch a full-scale assault.

On the wrist of that large hand pinning her down, there hung a red sports string.

Li Xinran looked toward Shen Huai's wrist.

That red string was swaying clearly right there on his wrist.

In an instant.

Li Xinran's only remaining hope was completely extinguished.

One night.

A whole night.

She had been taken advantage of by Shen Huai for an entire night! After the shock, what remained was mostly anger and shame.

The video's shooting angle was from a hidden gap.

It happened to only be able to capture the middle of the bed.

Therefore, in the video, one could only see her movements and her figure the entire time.

And the man lying underneath was perfectly hidden! Li Xinran's inner sense of dignity collapsed with a boom.

She felt as if her soul had been drained away, becoming completely distraught for a moment, and could only frantically scroll through the video.

Originally, in Li Xinran's plan.

It should have been Young Master Shen drinking the drugged red wine, then taking the initiative and occupying the dominant position.

That way, she could have negotiated terms with him from the stance of a victim.

As it turned out, she drugged the wrong person, got into the wrong bed, and stood in the wrong position.

Everything had been turned upside down.

Not only did she fail to get the result she wanted.

Instead, she had personally delivered evidence capable of ruining her into someone else's hands! "Remember now?"

Shen Huai calmly stood up and threw the garment on the floor, which Li Xinran had torn herself, onto the bed: "Team Leader Lin asked me to invite you back. I've booked a noon flight for you; if you get up now, you'll have just enough time."

"You are nothing but a Public Relations Specialist, what right do you have to order me around!" Li Xinran said stubbornly.

At this moment, whenever she saw Shen Huai's face, she couldn't help but recall that night of passion, and her feelings of anger were almost impossible to control.

Hearing this, Shen Huai just smiled indifferently, crossed his arms over his chest, and tapped his temple: "Let me guess, why are you so angry?"

"Because you discovered that the one you went to bed with wasn't Young Master Shen, but your shabby ex-boyfriend, so you're angry, right?"

"Yes! That's right! That's exactly it!"

Li Xinran was extremely unwilling in her heart: "You are just a Specialist, I am about to become a figure in the spotlight; the gap between us will only grow wider and wider!"

"……Why did it have to be you? I was clearly only one step away from success……"

In front of Shen Huai, Li Xinran dropped her public facade and vented her dissatisfaction at him in an almost hysterical manner.

Shen Huai looked coldly at the woman before him, who was weeping like a flower drenched in rain.

"Just because of my status, you feel you've been wronged?"

"Just because of your status! So what! I just look down on poor people like you! I only wanted to be famous, what did I do wrong!"

Li Xinran roared.

"……"

Shen Huai looked at her with deep eyes, was silent for a moment, and then slowly asked: "If the price of fame is that you must live forever in the fear that your lies could be exposed at any moment, never knowing peace, would you still be willing?"

Li Xinran didn't even think about it; she wiped her tears with the back of her hand and looked up without hesitation: "So what if it is! As long as I can be famous!"

Looking at Li Xinran's determined eyes.

A trace of coldness welled up in Shen Huai's heart.

Some people cannot be awakened by persuasion.

Since that is the case, let her taste the consequences of this choice herself.

(End of chapter)