Chapter 370

I love you

I love you to the end

For the first time in my life, I let go of my restraint

Letting myself imagine everything about you and me

You love me

You love me to the end

For the first time in my life, I let go of my restraint

Believing that I can truly love you deeply

Love you deeply

Love you deeply

☆, (7 Fresh Coins) Chapter 304: Shameless Greed

Trembling, He Lele shrank her body, looked at Ruan Lin, whose teeth were clenched, and then at the broken porcelain bowl and scattered rice grains on the floor; her heart felt sour and powerless.

"Lele... what do you take yourself for? And what do you take me, us, for?" Jie Ji's gaze, which had been on Ruan Lin, slowly turned to He Lele.

"I..."

"Find a remote place to live? Visit you when we want to see you? Not be an eyesore when we don't? Do you take yourself for a dispensable pet? Or do you take us for a group of johns you have to deal with?!"

"Jie Ji!" Mu Wei barked.

He Lele looked at Jie Ji in shock; his questioning was like a sword and knife, hacking at her heart with every word. "I..."

"Did I say something wrong? Heh... yeah, how could I forget, you, Mu Wei, are different. You tell her to accept whoever, and she accepts them. How could someone like you be the same as us! Heh..." Resting his elbows on the table, Jie Ji hid his sorrowful, bitter face in his palms.

"Jie Ji, I..." Looking around at everyone, at the fascinating faces, at the men she both loved and hated, He Lele gritted her teeth and spoke slowly, "I do wish you were just a group of johns."

"If you were johns, I wouldn't be happy because of your existence, and I wouldn't become more greedy day by day! I wouldn't have to look at your faces every night before falling asleep and force myself to remember that one day I will lose the people before me! Every day, living cautiously in a dream that could collapse at any moment, constantly warning myself not to indulge, yet watching myself sink deeper and deeper every day!"

"... Knowing how humble and ordinary I am, yet completely unable to control my own greed, even knowing how shameless, despicable, and vulgar such greed is, I still can't control it!"

"I want... I want that man who has a terrible temper but never pretends in front of me and always aggressively wants to give me protection; I want that man who treats me like family and purely makes me feel heartache and peace; I want... that man I can't understand or guess, yet who makes me rely on him like a deity."

Ruan Lin, Qin Zhixiu, and Mu Wei were all moved by He Lele's words, one after another. A look of regret even faintly appeared on Ruan Lin's face.

Li Yiquan lowered his eyes to look at the exquisite bowl and chopsticks; his handsome face and posture looked like a jade statue sitting quietly.

Jie Ji slowly lowered his palms, his eyes fixed on her lips, as if he wanted to listen to her next words with his eyes instead of his ears.

Looking back into his eyes, He Lele curled her lips bitterly, "I want that man who is so sharp-tongued that I want to kick him, but after I kick him, he will hold me."

After a long while, Jie Ji finally "read" the language of her lips, closed his eyes, and his palms trembled slightly.

"Then what about him?" Mu Wei tilted his chin toward Li Yiquan, "To you, the one who is truly different is him, right?"

Hearing this, He Lele turned her eyes to look at Li Yiquan. Li Yiquan raised his eyes slightly, only to be surprised to see her attachment and adoration, unmasked for the first time.

"L, you're right, I do like you, I like you entirely, I like everything you give me. But I... have nothing left to give you," she pointed to her heart, "Here, there is only a greedy, shameless heart—I am just a... shameless woman who wants to be a whore and still have a chastity archway built for her. That is all."

With her weak yet inherently resilient appearance, and her contradictory smile of self-loathing yet frank acceptance, the woman before them was clearly more crystal-clear than any woman they had ever met, yet just looking at her made them... lose themselves.

Seeing her place her hands on the table and stand up, the men all stood up in a panic, as if they were generals seeing off their superior after a meeting.

He Lele was slightly stunned, "If you have anything to say, let's talk after eating. It'll get cold if you don't eat." She said to Ruan Lin, "Clean up what you smashed yourself later."

After saying this, He Lele walked into the kitchen and served a new bowl of rice for Ruan Lin.

After dinner, everyone cleaned up.

"Go back, and from now on... don't come again." Looking up at Li Yiquan with lingering attachment, He Lele said in a low voice.

"Tell me the truth."

"..." He Lele hesitated for a moment, but finally shook her head.

Li Yiquan sighed softly. This woman... needs training. If he just goes along with her, he probably won't get her even in the next life.

Aggressively wrapping his arm around her waist, Li Yiquan brought He Lele to the center of the living room to sit down. Li Yiquan looked at the men standing silently in various parts of the living room, and before long, the four men sat down one after another.

"This apartment is nice, do you mind one more person paying the property fees?"