Zhang Fei accepted the melon seeds without ceremony, said "thank you" to Shen Mengya, and started eating.

Lu Zhengting took it, but then put it aside, showing no intention of eating it.

Seeing that Lu Zhengting was still like this, Shen Mengya began to suspect that he already knew about her plan, which was why he wouldn't touch the things she gave him.

Lu Zhengting glanced at her out of the corner of his eye and said indifferently, "Mengya, it's getting late, you should go to sleep."

"I... okay, I'm going to sleep."

Shen Mengya stood up in distress. Before leaving, she glanced at the water glass next to Lu Zhengting, hoping that Lu Zhengting would drink the water quickly. She would go back inside and wait. If the drug took effect, there would be some noise, and then she could go over.

She went back inside and sat on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) for almost an hour, but didn't hear any noise outside. She got up and went outside, only to find that the lights were off in the living room and Lu Zhengting's room.

She wondered when Zhang Fei left. She hadn't slept in the room and hadn't heard any noise outside. If Zhang Fei was leaving, he would have exchanged a few words with Lu Zhengting, and Lu Zhengting would have come out to see him off. There would have been a sound when Zhang Fei opened and closed the door.

She went to the gate and saw that it was bolted shut, and the door had already been locked from the inside.

The courtyard was completely silent.

She subconsciously turned her head to look into Lu Zhengting's room. What was Lu Zhengting doing alone in the room?

She tried to push the main door, but it was bolted from the inside. She tried several times but couldn't open it. She pressed her ear against the door and listened for any sounds inside, but couldn't hear anything.

She felt that Lu Zhengting probably hadn't drunk that water. If he had, there would definitely have been a reaction. Once the drug took effect, even if he could resist contacting her, he would have made some other noise in the room. It was impossible for him to be so quiet.

What should she do?

Just seduce him with your body.

But now she can't get into the house, so she can't go to Lu Zhengting, let alone do anything with him.

She thought for a while and decided that she had to seize the opportunity tonight no matter what. Since Lin Qingyan wasn't there, she would take the initiative to invite Lu Zhengting, and perhaps Lu Zhengting would lose control of himself?

Men often have one face in public and another in private. Even someone as aloof and self-possessed as Lu Zhengting may be just like any other man at heart.

She raised her hand and knocked on the door, calling out, "Brother Zhengting, Brother Zhengting."

There was silence inside, and no one answered her.

Unwilling to give up, she raised her voice and called out twice more, "Brother Zhengting, Brother Zhengting, it's me, Mengya. Open the door for me, I need to talk to you."

But there was still no sound coming from inside, and no one came to open the door for her.

"Sleeping so soundly?!" she complained angrily.

In an attempt to wake Lu Zhengting, she shook the two wooden doors violently, causing them to creak and groan.

After a while, she finally heard some noise inside, like footsteps. She was overjoyed; it must be Lu Zhengting coming out.

However, what she heard next was Lu Zhengting's cold and stern rebuke: "Shen Mengya, what are you doing in the middle of the night? Don't you let people get any sleep?"

Shen Mengya finally heard his voice. She was happy that he scolded her, at least he had come out.

"Brother Zhengting, Brother Zhengting, you're finally out."

"Why aren't you going to sleep? What are you going to do?"

"I, I." She gritted her teeth and said the shameless thing: "Brother Zhengting, I, I want to ask you, your wife is not home, it's the middle of the night, aren't you lonely all alone? Brother Zhengting, I can come in and keep you company."

Lu Zhengting was disgusted by her words and angrily rebuked her, "Shen Mengya, you really have no shame. You can say anything. Don't stay outside my door. Get back to your room and go back to Beijing first thing tomorrow morning."

"Brother Zhengting, do you really not want me at all? I'm a virgin, and you're the person I've always wanted to marry. But you've already married your wife, and I don't want to ruin your relationship with her. I just want to give myself to you, Brother Zhengting, please take me. If I can give you my first time, I'll have no regrets in this life."

"Shen Mengya, you really have no shame. Listen to me, I feel disgusted just looking at you. You'd better stay far away from me."

"Brother Zhengting, Brother Zhengting."

There was silence again.

Shen Mengya couldn't open the door and couldn't go in. Otherwise, she would have just stripped naked in front of Lu Zhengting and seen if he could resist.

But now Lu Zhengting won't open the door for her, and she's completely helpless.

No, she can't just let it go like this.

Alright, she's finally resorting to her last resort. If all else fails, she'll destroy Lu Zhengting if she can't have him.

Brother Zhengting, once you have a stain on your record, will Lin Qingyan still like you?

You forced me to do this; you all forced me to do this.

She reached up and ripped off a button from her clothes, then unbuttoned two more, exposing one shoulder. She messed up her hair, then pinched her arms and chest hard, creating red marks to make it look like she had been bullied.

After doing all that, she yelled at the top of her lungs in the yard, "No! Zheng Ting, don't do this to me! My sister-in-law isn't home, you can't bully me! No, no, ahhh!"

As she shouted, she kept looking at the door of the main room. If Lu Zhengting came out to confront her now, and the two of them appeared in the courtyard, it would confirm that he was bullying her.

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