Chapter 3: Chapter 3: It Takes Two to Tango
[The previous two chapters, as well as a small portion of subsequent chapters, are being screened and will be released once the author has made the necessary revisions and they pass the review. You should still be able to understand the continuation of the story.]
Gu Annan’s brows suddenly furrowed as he looked at the shock on her face, his gaze growing heavy.
“What, are you disappointed?” he asked, his eyes lowering to hers, “Or do you have the courage to sleep with someone, but not the guts to admit it?”
“Who says I won’t admit it!” Lu Wanwan straightened her spine to hide the guilt and panic in her eyes, “I just didn’t expect it to be you. But what’s done is done, so let’s just leave it at that.”
A chilling danger emanated from Gu Annan’s eyes, bearing down on her.
Her wrist ached as he efficiently pressed her against the wall behind her, “You mean to say, it doesn’t matter to you who you sleep with?”
“Gu Annan, what does it have to do with you?” Lu Wanwan, unable to break free, retorted angrily.
Facing his inexplicable rage, what troubled her the most was the strong scent of hormones mixed with his post-shower fragrance, which embarrassingly made her legs go weak.
“Sorry, I apologize.” Her temples throbbed; she was certain the drug from last night hadn’t entirely worn off, which was why she felt so flustered, “I really didn’t know it was you. If I had known it was you last night, I definitely wouldn’t have… Ah!”
Anyone would do, but absolutely not him?
Her wrist was suddenly squeezed tighter, causing her so much pain that stars danced in her eyes.
“You must be disappointed,” Gu Annan’s voice, cool and icy, rang in her ear, “but Lu Wanwan, I’m not someone who’s easy to sleep with.”
Her back was against the wall, and he was too close.
Lu Wanwan took a deep breath and lifted her chin, trying to sound conciliatory, “Look, it takes two to tango; you can’t place all the blame on me. We are both adults, so let’s just pretend nothing happened once we’re out of this room! Okay?”
“You might regret that,” he warned in a low, deep voice.
“You agree? Goodbye then!”
She didn’t give much thought to the meaningful undertone in Gu Annan’s low voice; she immediately pushed past him and ran out of the room.
Gu Annan watched her hasty retreat, his lips pressed thin, his dark and deep eyes unknowingly shifting.
The WeChat message included a photo and a link.
The photo, taken at the entrance of a bar, showed a utterly naked man clutching his head, wearing an expression of unbearable pain—it was clearly the buzz-cut man from last night.
His long fingers moved to the link and opened it; it was a striking headline, “Man brutally sodomized in bar, flees and weeps naked in the streets.”
As he read, heading back into the room, his eyes remained cold and indifferent. Just before closing it, his hand slipped and he tapped ‘Like’…
Just having set down his phone, he looked up with a slight furrow in his brow.
On the nightstand by the bed, there was a crumpled pile of cash and a scribbled note, “Payment for last night.”
His face suddenly collapsed into an expression cold as millennia-old ice.
Did this woman actually treat him like a male escort?
Lu Wanwan, you better get back here and wait for me!
Lu Wanwan was on the verge of a breakdown, with no time to even mourn her lost virginity.
It was only after she ran out of the hotel that she remembered a problem—if she had known it was Gu Annan, why on earth would she leave money? Aside from their existing grievances, now that she’d given him the money, what would she use for the cab?
Fortunately, the hotel wasn’t despairingly far from the newspaper office where she worked. After a night of physical exertion that left her legs trembling with soreness, she relied on sheer willpower to make it to the newspaper office.
“Lu Wanwan, do you have any concept of time? You’ve just been here a short while and you dare to be an hour late! Is this your work ethic? Do you think you’re some kind of princess?!” Editor-in-chief Li Mochou’s voice echoed through the office, “You’re losing this month’s entire bonus!”
Thinking about the money, Lu Wanwan tentatively spoke up with a touch of pain in her voice, “Editor, it’s still ten minutes shy of ten… there’s no need to take away the entire bonus, right…?”
“Are you questioning my decision? Or would you prefer to get out of here instead?”
Lu Wanwan silently lowered her head.
Her father had made it clear that they were expecting an important guest at home today, and she was supposed to arrive early. She had planned to ask for the afternoon off.