Liu Ruyan had lived for twenty-six years and had never had such intimate contact with any man.
Nor had she ever, like tonight, actively invited a man to stay overnight at a hotel.
If those people in Imperial Capital who knew her well were aware of this matter, probably not a single one would believe it.
Yet she did not regret it in her heart.
What truly made her feel nervous was not what might happen next.
It was that she discovered she would actually take the initiative to make such a bold decision for a man she had not known for very long.
This was completely unlike her past self.
Yet precisely this feeling of breaking the rules and indulging herself made her experience an unprecedented sense of novelty and anticipation.
Liu Ruyan lowered her eyelids slightly, her gaze falling on the handbag beside the washbasin.
Inside it were the spare clothes prepared in advance by the female bodyguard.
Liu Ruyan did not take out that set of clean business attire meant for leaving the hotel tomorrow.
Hesitating for a moment, she took out another pair of unopened black silk stockings.
These were the spare items she usually kept in her car.
She had not expected that tonight, they would actually be used in such a place.
Liu Ruyan tore open the packaging and smoothed out the stockings bit by bit.
When everything was prepared properly, she raised her gaze once more to look in the mirror.
The woman in the mirror still possessed that cold, peerless, and exquisite face that made people hesitant to approach her lightly.
Only her damp, long hair hung naturally loose behind her shoulders, with a few strands of jet-black silk clinging to her fair cheeks, adding a sense of post-bath languor and allure