Jin Zhou.
Inside the luxurious suite of the Fuhai Hotel.
The room filled with the aroma of liquor, man's shirts and woman's lingerie were strewn together.
A man and a woman slumbered on the bed.
The girl was pretty young, having an oval face, willow leaf-shaped eyebrows, an elegant nose, and adorable lips, she was truly a budding Oriental beauty.
Her slender and delicate shoulders were exposed outside the quilt, with a few suspicious red marks faintly visible on them.
Her eyelashes, akin to butterfly wings, fluttered slightly as Li Fei slowly awoke.
Heavy!
Li Fei found it difficult to breathe.
Upon lowering her eyes, she noticed a strong and slender arm across her supple white chest.
Her gaze followed the arm upwards and when it landed on the man sleeping next to her...
Li Fei's pupils constricted drastically as she suppressed the scream that had burgeoned in her throat.
Last night, she, with him...
Somewhat blurry images of the night before flashed across her mind, Li Fei momentarily blanked out before hastily dressing up.
As her hand reached out for the doorknob, she looked back at the bed.
It was too dark last night, I didn't see clearly.
The boy slept on his side, with profound and firm contours. The dimples at the corners of his mouth added a touch of softness. Some strands of hair covered his prominent eyebrows, and his long, dense eyelashes cast a faint shadow beneath his eyes. His nose was high and straight; his sleeping figure resembled an exquisite and elegant boy from manga.
However, last night when he held her down in the darkness, his eyes were deep and chilling, with wild ruthlessness.
As he opened the door, Li Fei withdrew his clenched fist.
A glint of light flashed between his fingers.s, dazzlingly bright.
It was his cufflink.
Crafted with fine black diamonds, its symbolized nobility and respect of his status.
Li Fei went home right after leaving the hotel.
It was definitely Jiang Yingying's doing last night!
Jiang Yingying is her half-sister with the same father. Two years ago, when she returned to the Jiang family with Jiang Cheng, she was unwelcome by Jiang Yingying and her mother.
Jiang Yingying always bullied her, but she endured!
But she didn't expect that Jiang Yingying would steal her necklace and threaten her to come to the hotel, otherwise, she'd throw the necklace away.
The necklace was given to her by her mother and she must retrieve it at all costs.
As soon as she entered, she was covered by a towel over her mouth and nose.
In her daze, she heard Jiang Yingying mention something like "I've taken care of her, you can come now", she knew something was wrong. She took advantage of the moment Jiang Yingying left the room, and she ran out with a trace of consciousness.
Yet, due to his weakness, he stumbled into a room filled with the smell of alcohol.
And then…
It was all Jiang Yingying!
Li Fei clenched his fists and went off to settle accounts with Jiang Yingying,"Jiang Yingying, you—"
Click, click!
Shocked by the sudden brightness before his eyes, Li Fei hastily raised his hand to shield them.
Jiang Yingying seized the opportunity to yank open Li Fei's collar, zooming in on the few red marks thereon.
"What are you doing?"
Li Fei shook off Jiang Yingying vigorously and instinctively tried to snatch the camera.
But Jiang Yingying had anticipated this and stepped back several steps, triumphantly holding up her camera.“I am going to show these to Senior Song Cheng of course. After he sees how low the girl he likes can stoop, I bet he won't like you anymore.”
Show it to Song Cheng?
Song Cheng was in the same class as him, and because Jiang Yingying liked him, she asked for his help to deliver a love letter. Without her need, he wouldn't even know Song Cheng's name, let alone the fact that he liked her.
"Are you out of your mind? I've never even spoken to him."
Li Fei was fuming to the point of trembling all over!
Staring at this half-sister of his from a different mother.
She treated her like a family member, but she was treated like an enemy in return.
Staring at Li Fei, who was simply attired but more attractive and poised as compared to herself, a twinge of jealousy flashed in Jiang Yingying’s eyes. "Who allows you to be prettier and smarter than me? I detest you. There can only be one daughter in the Jiang family. Tomorrow, I will make your photos public in school. You still have dreams to go to college? Wait till you get penalized!"
What?!
So tarnishing her reputation wasn't enough, she also wanted to ruin her future?!
Li Fei's fists clenched tightly as they made crackling sounds.
"So what, you want to hit me? Go ahead!"
Thinking that she wouldn't dare to strike, was she?
Jiang Yingying provoked, lifting her chin and moving her face closer.
Li Fei smacked her across the face!
Jiang Yingying incredulously covered her face, "Mom, come look, Li Fei hit me!"
The sound of high-heels tapping grew louder behind.
On turning around, Li Fei saw Ni Yanli's hand raised high.
Slap!
Li Fei’s face was sharply knocked to the side.
Her ears rang as if echoing with the sound of the slap.
Looking at the delighted Jiang Yingying, Li Fei forcefully shut her eyes, her nails digging painfully into her palms.
Isn't it her fate as mother and daughter?
Looking at the beautiful face of Li Fei, Ni Yanli was reminded of a similar one, her eyes filled with hatred in an instant, "You and your mother are both vixens, destroying families and even daring to slander Yingying!"
Her mother ruined others' families?
"Mrs. Ni, I'm older than Yingying. Who ruins whose family?”
Just as Ni Yanli was about to rebut, Li Fei cut her off, "It's actually your daughter who resorts to dirty tricks to steal a man despite her young age. I am going to reveal last night's incident to our father right now, let's see what he has to say!"
In this household, only Jiang Cheng could stand up for her!
"Go tell him then!"
Seeing the fearless demeanor of Ni Yanli and her daughter, fear crept into Li Fei's heart. Could it be...
All she saw was Ni Yanli, arms crossed, smirking, "He just left for a business trip today, he won't be back for two to three months!"
Oh no!
Without giving it much thought, Li Fei lunged to snatch the camera from Jiang Yingying. Taken by surprise, Jiang Yingying lost her grip on the camera.
As Li Fei crushed the camera's memory card under her foot, Jiang Yingying lifted up her mobile phone triumphantly, "I recorded it with my phone too. Try taking it from me!"
Filled with rage, Li Fei charged forward, but the household staff held her back firmly.
Watching Li Fei in her frantic yet restrained fury, like a trapped beast, Jiang Yingying patted her face mockingly, "What now? Once at school tomorrow, you'll surely be drowned in their contempt. Can you wait till father returns? I'd advise you to scurry back to your downtrodden hometown, instead of embarrassing yourself here."
Ni Yanli angrily threw a bag over, "Take your stuff and get out of the Jiang family!"
Bang!
Her luggage and school bag were thrown right in front of her, items like her pencil case and toothbrush rolling out.
Such a mess!
Sure enough, it was them, mother and daughter, who had schemed against her, wanting to drive her away while Jiang Cheng was on a business trip!
Faced with hostile glances from mother and daughter Jiang Yingying and the maidservants, Li Fei's nose stung.
She knew her sudden arrival at the Jiang's would certainly not be welcomed, so she had striven from the start to earn their acceptance.
"Look at this necklace, so low-class! You expect me to wear it?"
The necklace she had painstakingly made for Jiang Yingying was openly mocked at school.
"Who wants to eat the stuff you make, it's filthy!"
The cake she made for Ni Yanli was discarded straight into the trash bin.
She treated them like family, but how did they treat her?
They were meticulously plotting to drive her away.
Li Fei felt a chill in her heart.
She gritted her teeth and stood up, nonchalantly dusting off her clothes, "Fine, I'll go. But Dad will eventually come back. I wonder how you'll explain this to him?"
Jin Zhou at night is like this, so cold.
Li Fei had no relatives or friends in Jin Zhou. She used the money she usually earned from doing homework for her classmates to buy a ticket back to He River County to find her mother.
After getting on the bus, she felt panic in her heart.
Did her mother want to see her?
Her mother hated her!
When she was a child, she was loved. At that time, her mother always held her tenderly and said that she looked just like her father. As she grew up, her mother's affection for her father was all ground away over the course of more than a decade of waiting.
Her feelings for her also became a tangle of love and hate.
Looking at her, her mother often stared blankly, then vented her anger on her by gripping her shoulder tightly, "Why hasn't he come yet? He said he would come for me. Why hasn't he come yet?"
Scared, she could only hide in the wardrobe, shivering in fright.
At that time, she always thought that everything would be better when her father came to look for them.
Waiting and waiting, Jiang Cheng came, but he was married and had a child.