Wait until I get tired of sleeping with you

The hands I had been about to push Gu Hansheng away with finally dropped to my sides because of what he said.

He took off his clothes as he said with a faint, ambiguous smile, "Don't you dislike me? You don't think I like you, do you? Hmm?"

There seemed to be a hint of grievance in his words.

Gu Hansheng didn't care whether I liked him, and he didn't like me. How could I not know that?

I had known from the very beginning.

But hearing him say it so bluntly shattered the faint sliver of hope I had harbored.

Wasn't it obvious from his attitude toward Shen Nian?

He began undoing my buttons, smiling darkly. "Didn't you tell me to degrade you? Let me tell you, I want revenge. I'm treating you like this now because you humiliated me before!

"I'm only sleeping with you because I never got to touch this body of yours after we married, and I couldn't let that go. Do you understand?

"Since you've become my little mistress, you'd better fulfill your duties as my lover!"

Gu Hansheng's gaze roamed over my body. After he stripped off my clothes, his dark smile turned into a sneer. "Nothing special."

I was born with pride in my bones, and his words only made me feel worse.

"Shen Nian has a great figure. Why don't you go sleep with her?"

Without a second thought, he looked at me and said, "She's not as slutty as you! She wouldn't wear sexy lingerie to please me!"

Those words were like a knife plunging into my heart.

My scalp tingled, and my hands and feet went cold. I had already been hurting so much I wanted to cry, but I had held it in all evening.

Now, after hearing what he said, I couldn't hold back anymore.

I turned my head away, refusing to look at him.

But he kept staring at me.

I clenched my teeth, not wanting to let my tears fall, but my vision grew blurrier and blurrier.

I raised a hand to wipe them away, but as soon as I wiped away one batch, more came.

I hated myself for being so pathetic even more than I hated him.

So what if he mocked me a few times? So what if he said he didn't like me?

What was I crying for? What good would crying do?

Not only would it fail to win his sympathy, it might make him even more annoyed and lead him to torment me even more.

I tried hard to hold my tears back.

Gu Hansheng watched me for a long moment, then raised a hand to wipe my tears. I thought he was about to mock me again.

Instead, his voice softened, even taking on a slightly coaxing tone. "Since when did you become such a crybaby?"

I might have been all right if he hadn't said that, but his words made my tears flow even harder.

Gu Hansheng stared at me blankly, then suddenly smiled. "Stop crying. Keep this up and your eyes will swell into peaches."

"That's none of your business!"

"How is it none of my business?" He pulled me up.

He settled me astride him and pulled out a tissue to wipe my tears. "If you cry until your eyes swell up, you'll turn ugly. I don't want to sleep with an ugly hag!"

He was still teasing me even now. Which of us was the heartless one?

At that thought, I went from biting my lip and crying silently to sobbing out loud.

Barely two seconds into my wailing, he silenced me with his mouth. Gripping my chin, he immediately began biting fiercely at my lips.

My nose was a little blocked from crying, and with him kissing me like this, I couldn't breathe at all.

I no longer cared whether I could push him away. I just kept struggling.

His arms held me like steel bars.

Only when I was almost out of breath did he release me, and I gasped for air.

Yet he said lightly beside me, "Not crying anymore, are you!"

I turned to glare at him. "Humiliating and degrading me isn't enough? Now you're trying to kill me?"

"I didn't want you crying so ugly!"

I raised my hand to hit him, but he caught my wrist, his tone hard. "Don't be so intimate with Shen Yanchuan again. No, you can't be that intimate with any man."

After saying that, he scooped me up in his arms and even bounced me a little. "When exactly did you and Shen Yanchuan get so close?"

"What does Shen Yanchuan have to do with this? Why bring him up now?"

"Just stay away from him!"

I said nothing, and neither did he.

I didn't want to keep going on like this with him. He liked Shen Nian anyway. "You, you..."

Before I could get my question out, he cast me a cold glance. "Want to end our arrangement?"

I paused, then denied it out of habit. "No!"

He sneered. "You'd better not!"

Silence fell again.

After a long while, his icy voice rang out. "What? Are you that eager to leave me?"

"If I pay back all that money, will you let me leave?"

His face darkened. "What do you have to pay me back with now?"

I suddenly remembered. "I-I found a job."

He scoffed, set me on the bed, then lowered his head and kissed my lips gently. "Wait until I get tired of sleeping with you!"

"Tired of sleeping with me? Is there a time limit? Like, when will you get tired of sleeping with me?"

His hand clasped the back of my neck, stroking it, and he just looked at me for a long while.

His lips parted slightly, and in a low voice, he tossed the question back to me. "Yes, when will I get tired of it?"

Somehow, it felt as though that question wasn't directed at me.

With that, he leaned in and kissed me.