In the morning, Lin Yan woke up.
The slender silhouette of the man stood before the mirror. He buttoned up his white shirt, one by one, then swiftly put on his suit jacket and tied his tie.
"Awake?" He looked at her through the mirror, his dark eyes fixated on her.
At the sound of his voice, Lin Yan's heartbeat sped up. She couldn't hide her embarrassment, especially thinking about the madness of the previous night.
"Hmm..."
Lu Boyan adjusted his tie again, eyes unblinkingly fixed on her reflection in the mirror, not missing a single expression of hers. Then he slowly turned around, their eyes meeting.
"I have something to deal with, I'll go first." The indifferent look on his face remained. He adjusted his tie again and walked towards the bedroom door.
"Boyan!" Lin Yan's face changed, fearful that he might just leave. She hesitated and called out to him.
This made Lu Boyan's steps halt at the bedroom door. His fingers resting on the door handle paused for a moment, furrowing his brow as he listened to her following words, his expression becoming too tense.
"Boyan, last night both of us drank too much, so something like that happened... I think..."
She didn't know how to broach the topic of asking him to marry her.
Just as she seemed to continue speaking, Lu Boyan, seemingly afraid of hearing something unpleasant, furrowed his brows and interrupted her, "I didn't take last night’s incident to heart and you shouldn’t either.”
"....Ah?"
Lin Yan slightly opened her mouth, taken aback for a moment.
Didn't take it to heart? What did he mean?
"Should she have been more straightforward?"
As Lin Yan contemplated, she carefully adjusted her long hair, unintentionally revealing her white, delicate skin from below her collarbone. In an instant, Lu Boyan’s dark eyes turned to her.
He squinted his eyes, listening to her words. "Boyan, you misunderstood. What I wanted to say is that Granny Lu really wants a great-grandson. I think we can get married and fulfill her dream..."
Aside from this, there was also a little selfish motive in Lin Yan. Only if she married Lu Boyan, would the group corporation stop its divestment from the Lin Corporation.
Only then could the crisis facing the Lin Corporation truly be over.
"Marriage?" Just as this thought appeared in her heart, Lu Boyan's demeanor turned a bit colder. So in this woman's heart, any emotion could be used as a bargaining chip for family interest.
His faint expectation for her disappeared into thin air as he laughed, "heh..."
Was she resorting to such a lame reason just to be able to marry him?
Did she think that by mentioning his grandmother, he would willingly marry her?
He turned around, staring at her from several meters away. The words that came out of his thin lips were like knives, leaving Lin Yan covered in metaphorical wounds.
"Miss Lin, have you misunderstood something? Last night was nothing more than a game for adults. Why would I marry you?"
"......!!”
Upon hearing these heart-piercing words, the last trace of blood drained from Lin Yan’s face. She tightly clung onto the silken quilt that shrouded her body, staring blankly at him.
In his eyes, was last night just a game?
"Boyan, what do you mean by this?!"
She couldn't understand why the man who had been so tender towards her in bed last night had completely changed his demeanor this morning.
Could it truly be that the adage "Fickle as love led by lust" was right?
"Do you really think I didn't know there was something wrong with that glass of wine, hmm?" The cold gaze he fixated upon her was as if he were watching a fool bumbling about, taking pleasure in the gradual loss of color from her face.
He then lowered his head, expertly untying the sleeve cuffs of his shirt, "The only reason I didn't expose it was to revel in Miss Lin's performance a little longer and at the same time to…"
He paused, gazing at her, "fulfil my physical needs."
As he finished, Lu Boyan took a glance at his watch, "I have important matters to attend to. I don’t want to see you here when I return."
Having said that, he flung the bedroom door open and left coldly.
The door slammed shut heavily, making Lin Yan's ears ring. The blood coursing through her veins seemed to freeze and she felt cold all over.
She began to doubt if she was having ear problems.
Lu Boyan said the only reason he slept with her was to satisfy his physical needs?
So, he was merely watching her performance coldly, and their intimate relationship was just to carry on with this game.
He wouldn't take responsibility for her and certainly wouldn’t consider marrying her for the Lin family!
Everything was over!
Overwhelmed with sorrow, Lin Yan covered her face. Right at that moment, her phone on the bedside table vibrated, accompanied by the melodious ringtone.
It was her mother, calling to inquire about the progress of the plan.
She took a deep breath, trying hard to suppress her despair, and managed to utter with difficulty, "Mom, I let you down!"
Waiting for a response, she could only hear sobbing from the other end. Lin Yan anxiously asked, "Mom, what's wrong?"