C49

By the time the ball ended, it was already past eleven in the evening.

It was a little cold outside when I came out of the banquet hall.

It was already autumn.

I was still wearing my summer attire. The night wind was blowing on my body, but it no longer had a gentle feeling. Instead, it had a sharp edge to it.

While I was trembling all over, someone suddenly pulled me into a nearby alley.

The alley was dark, and I couldn't see the man's face clearly, but the familiar scent of cologne made me feel a little better.

"Why are you here?" There was a hint of surprise in my voice.

"You should have asked me how long I waited." He took off his coat and draped it over me.

I felt the touch of his palm, and it was cold.

"Let's go, it's getting late. Let's go back." After saying that, I headed out of the alley.

But before I could take a few steps, he pulled me back and pinned me to the wall.

His hand was on the back of my head, and I looked at him blankly.

"If you don't even know to tell me when to come out by yourself, what will happen?"

The voice was cold and reproachful.

"All these years, what have I not seen? "It's nothing."

I was used to his fuss.

I'm not a seventeen or eighteen year old girl, how could I still be lost in that kind of idyllic situation where one gets lost or is kidnapped by a trafficker?

"Why didn't you tell me?"

His voice was low and even sounded somewhat wronged.

"Aren't you angry with me?"

"That's why I came out with you. I didn't expect that the banquet would last so long …" He sighed and said, "You have to compensate me today."

I didn't say anything. I just looked at him.

"Come with me."

As he spoke, he took my hand and walked to the car he had specially come to pick me up.

When I got back to the hotel, I took the hate off my feet. My ankles were swollen.

Jiang Yu looked at my feet, picked me up, and carried me to the sofa.

"Does it hurt?"

His voice was a little shaky.

I shook my head. Looking at his focused expression, I suddenly felt a trace of warmth in my heart.

It's been a long time since someone has treated me so warmly...

"Just wait, I'll get the medicine."

As Jiang Yu said that, he ran to the front desk of the hotel and brought out a large medicine chest.

"No problem, I'm already used to it." Although she scolded him for making a big fuss out of it, she felt a bit of sweetness in her heart.

"Sometimes I wonder if you're made of stone."

As Jiang Yu helped me deal with the red and swollen parts of my leg, he said something to me to divert my attention.

"Don't wear shoes like that tomorrow."

"Alright."

I don't like to dress up too formally, but I have to do this to deal with the basic etiquette of the upper classes.

"I used to think you were a stone, a man of stone. But now I know that you are not only for others, but for yourself as well. "

After helping me tend to my wounds, Jiang Yu looked me in the eye and said seriously.

I was stunned and didn't know what to say.

"But even so, I still want to stay by your side and protect you."

With that, he sat down beside me.

"Qianqian, let's go public."

Hearing his words, I was stunned for a moment before shaking my head.

"Why?"

He couldn't understand why I refused.

But I knew very well that this feeling I had for him was far from love.

I know, I'm dependent on him, and I know that every word he has said for a long time has made my heart pound.

He was a man who was deadly to women, and even I had been crazy about him.

But so what?

I know better than those times of obsession that any emotion, once mixed with benefits, becomes impure.

In the end, there were only two possibilities: the first was to hurt feelings for the sake of benefits, and the second was to lose benefits for the sake of feelings.

I'm a businessman, and to me, either of these two possibilities is a bad deal.

"Like I said, although you're my boyfriend now, I only have benefits to exchange with you."

For some reason, when he said these words, he felt somewhat guilty, and did not even dare to look into Chen Changsheng's eyes.

In the past, it was very fair for me to pay for both items, but now, I am no longer satisfied with this kind of fairness.

"Benefits?" He looked at me with a cold smile.

"Right, how could I have forgotten? How could a mercenary woman like you have any feelings for me?"

I didn't say anything. Seeing him like this, I didn't know why, but I felt a little uncomfortable inside.

"Do you really think that the reason I've been with you for so long is because of your small amount of money?"

His tone suddenly became incomparably serious. "If you really want to build everything on the benefits you can obtain, that's good. I can help you, no matter how much you want me, I can help you! I can do anything, but I want you to use your sincerity in exchange! "

Jiang Yu looked at me with a gaze that was filled with ferocity that I have never seen before, "Ye Qianya, do you dare?"

he said, and my heart slowed by half a beat.

I lowered my head and tried to avoid him, but he lifted my head and forced me to meet his gaze.

"Why are you avoiding me? I only want an answer from you! "

I pushed his hand away and said unnaturally, "What do you think you are?"

As I said these words, I felt a little weak myself.

"Yes!" I'm nothing! At least in your eyes, I'm nothing! In fact, even with me by your side for so long, it can't even compare to an old man who has been divorced! "

Jiang Yu threw himself at me as if he had lost all sense of reason after hearing my words. He squinted his eyes and looked at me coldly.

"What's better about that old man than me! Could it be bed martial arts? " He sneered.

I know that he's talking about Zhou Zijin, but this man is really stingy. It's been so long, but he still remembers!

"Stop messing around, I'm very tired today!"

As I said that, I wanted to forcefully push him away, but there was a huge gap between me and him, so I could only concede.

I closed my eyes and didn't have to think to know what was going to happen next.

He roughly helped me take off my gown and set it aside. As I closed my eyes for the storm, he stopped what he was doing and did not continue.

"Aren't you tired? "Then I won't disturb you. Have a good rest."

As he spoke, he got up from my body and prepared to leave.

But I feel a little unwilling.

I reached out to hold his hand. "Help me bathe."