"Qingxia, stop struggling. Tonight, I'm going to thoroughly enjoy you, as well as your sister. She's already waiting on the hotel bed, hahaha!"
"Help..."
In the dead of night, on the bridge, the voices of a man and a woman could be heard, the woman's voice clearly calling for help.
Lu Ping, passing by not far away, furrowed his brows and decided to rush up and play the hero.
Unexpectedly, in the next second, the man on the bridge pounced toward the woman with urgent lust; the woman dodged, the man lunged into the air, lost his balance, and with a splash, fell into the river below, never to move again.
The woman, panicked, looked around a few times and quickly ran away.
"This place really isn't very peaceful."
Lu Ping shook his head. A would-be molester had fallen into the river; he certainly wasn't planning to rescue him.
It was getting late, and he had just arrived in Jiang City, so he had to find a place to stay.
Before long, he found a small inn nearby and rented a room.
Click!
He entered the room, closed the door behind him, and without turning on the light, he threw himself onto the big bed.
Uh!
Suddenly, a woman's moan came from underneath the blanket.
Combining the sensation against his back, Lu Ping was stunned for a moment, then turned over and lifted the blanket.
Whoosh!
Instantly, sleepiness vanished as his eyes widened.
By the light of the moon through the window, he saw a stunningly beautiful woman lying on the big bed.
The woman was barely covered with two palm-sized pieces of cloth, her face flushed red, panting slightly as if struggling to restrain herself.
One hand was clumsily pulling at the last two pieces of cloth, while the other was extending toward the root of her long leg, attempting to remove black silk stockings...
Lu Ping's throat went dry, his blood rushed to his head, and his face turned red as he stammered, "Sorry, sorry, I... I might have entered the wrong room. I didn't see anything."
The voice of Lu Ping caused the woman lying on the bed to look up with desire in her seductive eyes.
"Man...?"
The woman squeezed out two words from her throat.
"Yes, yes, I'm a man..." stammered Lu Ping, turning to get off the bed.
But in the next second, the woman's arms, smooth as jade, wrapped around Lu Ping's head, pulling him down with force.
"Ugh!"
Lu Ping almost suffocated as he instinctively strained his neck and lifted his head, exclaiming in shock, "Miss, what are you... trying to do?"
"I want..."
The woman's lips were close to Lu Ping's ear, her breath as fragrant as orchids as she whispered.
Buzz!
Lu Ping's mind exploded with a buzzing sound.
Although he had lived for over twenty years without losing his virginity, he hadn't eaten pork, but he'd seen pigs run. He had seen more than a few educational films...
In this moment, with these surroundings, Lu Ping could restrain himself no longer.
With a roar like a tiger, he pounced...
...
The next morning, Lu Ping was awakened by a woman's scream.
Opening his eyes, he saw a naked woman sitting half a meter in front of him.
The woman was strikingly beautiful, with a figure to take one's breath away. She was covering her breasts with both hands, her face showing grief and hatred as she glared at him with grinding teeth.
So, the woman he'd been with last night was this beautiful!
The women from the foothills are indeed wonderful!
Lu Ping sighed inwardly, reminiscing the madness of the previous evening when he suddenly stared fixedly at the half piece of Jade Pendant hanging from the woman's chest.
Subconsciously, he reached out to grab it.
"Take your filthy hands off!"
The woman sharply withdrew her body and began to angrily lash out.
"Lu, you despicable villain!"
"Let me tell you, even if you've taken my body, you have not captured my heart!"
"I will never agree to our marriage!"
"Not only that, but I will also accuse you of rape!"
"I'm going to the hospital for an examination and then to the police right now!"
"Lu, you just wait to go to jail!"
After showering him with words, the woman quickly jumped out of bed, turned her back, dressed in a flash, and dashed out the door.
Bang!
The sound of the door slamming brought Lu Ping back to his senses.
"The woman just now, why does she look a bit like the one from the bridge last night?"
Lu Ping frowned, talking to himself.
But he quickly shook his head. The woman couldn't possibly be the one from the bridge, as the one from the bridge had headed in a different direction the night before.
However, why did this woman talk as if she knew him well?
He had just come down from the mountains yesterday, his first time in Jiang City.
She must have mistaken me for someone else, right?
And last night, it was clearly she who seduced me, and now she claims I raped her?
She wants to go to the hospital to gather evidence? And to report it to the police?
Pssh, whatever.
After all, the unlucky guy, the one called 'Mr. Lu', is going to suffer.
But, how come this unlucky guy shares the same last name as me?
Lu Ping shook his head and looked down at the bed.
On the stark white bedsheet, a bright red flower seemed quite glaring.
"I didn't expect that it was her first time..."
Lu Ping pondered for a moment.
He got dressed, left the room, and took one last glance at the room number.
Huh, I didn't go into the wrong room, did I?
So what exactly happened last night?
Lu Ping shook his head, not wanting to think further, and walked out of the hotel.
Then, he took out a piece of paper and followed the address to the front of a large building in the center of the city.
The reason Lu Ping had come down the mountain was that his master had arranged for him to have nine fiancées—to court each of them in turn, find the most compatible one, and to retrieve a token from each of the fiancées.
Hidden within these nine tokens were the secrets of his origin and his relatives.
He came to Jiang City because his first fiancée, Qiao Ziyan, was the president of the Qiao Family Corporation here.
Speaking of tokens, Lu Ping suddenly remembered that the woman he had just been with had a piece of a Jade Pendant on her chest, and it emitted a somewhat familiar aura.
But before he got a good look, she had turned away and put her clothes on...
...
"Stop right there, what are you doing?"
Just as Lu Ping arrived at the entrance of the Qiao Family Corporation, he was stopped by a security guard.
"I'm here to see Qiao Ziyan," Lu Ping said.
"You're looking for our president? Did you make an appointment?" the security guard asked.
"No."
"You want to see the president without an appointment?"
The security guard snorted with laughter, giving Lu Ping a once-over, then had an epiphany, "You're here for a security job, aren't you? I could tell you're from the countryside at a glance. Did you think you needed the president's approval for a security position? Really clueless, go over there and get in line!"
"Applying for a security job?"
Lu Ping was startled and looked to the side.
Sure enough, a dozen or so people were standing in a line, undergoing selection by the lead security guard.
Lu Ping did not explain.
His aim was to meet Qiao Ziyan; getting a job as a security guard first and then seeking her out would work just the same, wouldn't it?
Hadn't his master always said that harmony is most valuable in all things?
If he barged in forcefully, it would inevitably lead to a confrontation with these security guards.
With this thought, Lu Ping nodded and joined the line of applicants.
"You, you, you, and you, the four of you are selected. You'll start as interns for one month, and if you pass the probation period, you'll become official," the security captain quickly chose four people, handing over security uniforms to each of them, including Lu Ping.
Lu Ping changed into the security uniform and went to the restroom to relieve himself. Then, while washing his hands at the basin near the restroom entrance, he pondered how to sneak into the president's office.
At that moment, a woman came out of the opposite ladies' room and reached over to the sink to wash her hands.
After washing her hands, she looked up at the mirror.
"Ah! How are you still alive?"
The next second, the woman pointed at Lu Ping, screaming in terror.
Lu Ping looked at the woman and was also stunned, "It's you? How come you are here?"
The woman in front of him was none other than the one he had spent the night with!
"Mr. Lu, don't mess around, you...you...last night at the bridge, you fell into the river yourself, it has nothing, nothing to do with me!"
"Even if you've become a ghost, don't come after me for revenge!"
The woman clearly panicked, her face turning deathly pale.
"The bridge? Falling into the river? Turning into a ghost?"
Lu Ping was taken aback.
In an instant, the scene he saw at the bridge last night flashed through his mind.
Could it be that this woman was talking about what happened at the bridge last night?
But... the woman on the bridge had walked away in the other direction, didn't she? How could she have ended up in a hotel bed, undressed and lying down?
And why did this woman say he was a ghost?
Could it be...
At this thought, Lu Ping suddenly grabbed the woman's hand, turned her back to him, and pressed her against the washbasin.
"Ah! What are you doing?"
To maintain her balance, the woman bent over involuntarily, her hands instinctively bracing against the basin, as she turned her head back and screamed in anger and fright.
The position was identical to one Lu Ping had seen in an instructional video he had watched!
Lu Ping said nothing, but he lifted the woman's shirt.