The next day, sometime after four in the morning, Liu Erlong shook Lu Qian awake in her arms.
Lu Qian stirred groggily and looked at Liu Erlong in his arms.
"What's wrong?"
"No, we can't do this."
Liu Erlong shook her head hard.
But Lu Qian looked at Liu Erlong rather helplessly. She seemed to have said that at least a dozen times tonight.
To Lu Qian, though, those words carried no real weight whatsoever.
So this time, Lu Qian felt there would be no exception, either. He couldn't be bothered to waste words. With Liu Erlong, he thought action worked better.
What Lu Qian hadn't expected was that Liu Erlong would be unusually resistant this time. Under his puzzled gaze,
Liu Erlong repeated:
"We're being far too outrageous, far too crazy. I'm old enough to be your mother. We really can't do this. Besides, I feel like I'm letting down..."
Liu Erlong had meant to say she was letting Yu Xiaogang down, but when she saw Lu Qian's gaze, she swallowed the words.
"Not happening. I've got you, and I'm not letting go."
Lu Qian looked every bit a scoundrel.
Seeing him like that, Liu Erlong really couldn't resist him at all.
But the sky was growing light now. Terrified that someone might catch her and Lu Qian in their outrageous affair, Liu Erlong was filled with anxiety.
That incident between Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang had already left her with a tremendous psychological scar. Even after so many years, she had thought she could let it go.
But now, after meeting Lu Qian, Liu Erlong felt even more strongly that she couldn't put it behind her.
So no matter what, for the sake of her dignity, Liu Erlong didn't want anyone to discover this.
Yet Lu Qian was