"Can you spend the night with me? I... will give you a lot of money..."
Ren Chuqing belched with alcohol, hiding the cancer diagnosis in her hand, and directly blocked the man in the banquet hall's corridor.
She had always been law-abiding, never doing anything out of line.
But what she got in return was her boyfriend's betrayal!
Now the doctors say that she could live at most one more year.
She didn't want to be law-abiding any longer, she didn't want to die without ever having experienced what it meant to be truly alive.
"Do you want me?" The man's thin lips parted slightly, his voice as luxurious and pleasing as a gentle breeze through bamboo.
"...Yes," She nodded absentmindedly.
The man before her had sword-like eyebrows and thin lips, with profound phoenix eyes. When his eyelashes trembled, it was as if endless charm was stirred up.
It gave her an impulse to want him!
The man's gaze flickered slightly. "Can you afford the price of having me?"
"What... kind of price?" Her gaze fell upon his lips, which were parted, finding them extremely attractive, thin and sharp, glistening with moisture.
"Take responsibility for me until death," he spoke again.
"Okay... I, I will take responsibility for you, until... until I die."
Anyway, she had only one year left to live, it should... probably be okay.
As her voice fell, she tiptoed up and took the initiative to kiss his lips.
Soft, warm lips... so this was the feeling of a kiss. She had been with Jiang Huai for five years, and Jiang Huai at best had only ever held her hand, never willing to even give her a kiss.
Back then, she should have understood that the man didn't love her anymore, rather than foolishly devoting five years to him.
She kissed him earnestly, unaware that Shen Zhihai, who was not far away witnessing all of this, was utterly incredulous.
No way, this woman actually reached out and touched Second Young Master's face, and... even kissed him.
What was more surprising was that the usually cold-hearted Second Young Master was actually allowing a woman to kiss him like this.
In City Yan, it was said that while you could provoke heaven and earth, you must never provoke the Wen Family.
Because every member of the Wen Family is a madman.
And the craziest of them all was probably Young Master Wen.
There was once a big shot who crossed him, and the result was that the big shot ended up kneeling outside the Wen Family's main gate for three days and nights, bowing and begging for mercy, nearly dying on the Wen Family's doorstep.
Since then, no one in City Yan dared to provoke this man.
But now, as Wen Muqing's personal secretary, Shen Zhihai was seeing his own boss allowing a woman to do such things to him for the first time!
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In the hotel room, the woman's hands were pinned by the man's single hand, raised above her head.
The man's lean and strong body was pressed close against the woman's body.
The sounds of heavy breathing, carrying the thrill of taboo, stirred the senses.
"Do you want me to stop?" The cool voice carried a raspy edge, as if deliberately suppressing something.
Ren Chuqing shyly bit her lower lip, her eyes blurry as she gazed at the face in front of her, tainted with a stunning, seductive beauty.
"No need to stop..."
The next moment, he ripped open the clothes on her body.
Her snow-white skin was exposed to the air.
His lips kissed her fair neck, his teeth pressing against her tender skin. He bit down gently yet firmly.
"Ah!" She cried out softly in pain.
But he looked satisfied at the bite mark on her neck, as if he had branded her skin with a mark that belonged to him.
"From now on, you can only be mine!" the man said lowly.
One night of indulgence, and it wasn't until the next day that Ren Chuqing woke up with a sore back and a body full of marks from the previous night's passion.
She barely dared to glance at the man still sleeping on the bed, and after leaving a stack of money, she hurriedly left!
This one-night fling was impulsive, but she didn't regret it, although it was likely she wouldn't see this handsome man again.
When she arrived at the company, Jiang Huai was already waiting for her in the meeting room, along with a group of senior executives and Su Yuyu.
Ren Chuqing sat down expressionlessly.
"At today's meeting, I have something to announce," Jiang Huai stood up. "From now on, Miss Su Yuyu will replace Manager Ren as the head of our company's sales department!"
The moment these words were spoken, there was dead silence in the room.
After all, Ren Chuqing's business skills were obvious to all; it could be said that she single-handedly carried the company.
And now, was this newcomer Su Yuyu going to take Ren Chuqing's place just like that?
Su Yuyu stood up, smiling. "Hello everyone, I will be leading the sales department to achieve even better results in the future."
The crowd exchanged glances.
A senior executive couldn't help but speak up, "Miss Su has no prior sales achievements, suddenly becoming the head of the sales department is hardly fair, what about the thoughts of other members of the department?"
These questions made Su Yuyu bite her lower lip, her expression embarrassed, as she looked pitifully at Jiang Huai.
Jiang Huai's face darkened. "I am the chairman of the company, if I make this decision, it is undoubtedly for the better development of the company. This matter is settled! No one is to object!"
"What if I object?" A voice rang out, it was Ren Chuqing who spoke calmly!
All eyes suddenly focused on Ren Chuqing.
Jiang Huai frowned, a flash of displeasure in his eyes, "You are still in charge of the R&D department, and I did this also out of concern for you, wanting to lighten your load for fear that you'd overwork yourself."
"Concern for me?" Ren Chuqing's gaze was mocking as she looked at the man in front of her.
"You're concerned about me, so you let another woman take over the position I worked hard for?"
"You're concerned about me, yet you're messing around with another woman behind my back?"
Yesterday, after she left the hospital with her cancer diagnosis in hand, what she saw was him and Su Yuyu naked in the office.
At that moment, she knew that this man had never truly cared for her.
Seeing the situation spiral out of control, Jiang Huai shouted furiously, "You're just an employee, I am the decision-maker here!"
Ren Chuqing suddenly began to laugh, tears welling in her eyes.
Her look at Jiang Huai turned from anger and disappointment to indifference.
She should thank Jiang Huai for extinguishing the last bit of feeling she had for him in her heart!
She ceased laughing and spoke, "Jiang Huai, let's call off our engagement."
"What?" Jiang Huai looked at Ren Chuqing in shock.
Even the others in the meeting room were stunned.
"I said, let's call off our engagement." Ren Chuqing's voice was cold and resolute, "I will resign, and from today on, we will be completely cut off from each other, dead or alive. If I die, I hope you won't appear at my funeral!"
Having said that, Ren Chuqing stood up and left the meeting room directly, ignoring the commotion behind her!
Elsewhere, Wen Muqing walked out of the hotel, and Shen Zhihai was already waiting at the door.
"Check out Ren Chuqing's information from the past few years," Wen Muqing commanded.
"Ren Chuqing?" Shen Zhihai was taken aback; it was a name unfamiliar to him.
"The woman from last night."
Shen Zhihai responded and then carefully asked, "Did Second Young Master know Ren Chuqing before?"
After all, in Shen Zhihai's view, the Second Young Master was not someone who would impulsively have a one-night stand with a woman.
In City Yan, countless women tried to get into Second Young Master's bed without success, yet last night, he showed no resistance to that woman.
"Yes, I knew her," Wen Muqing said indifferently.
But his next sentence completely took Shen Zhihai by surprise.
"She is my Sister!"