Liu Rumeng's stiff body softened instantly, and she responded like a willow.
The longing, worry, grievance, and exhaustion of enduring alone under tremendous pressure that had accumulated over countless days and nights, all transformed into the most intense and direct demands and deliveries in this interdependence.
Their breaths intertwined, their lips and tongues intertwined, they clung to each other, as if they wanted to devour each other's souls.
I don't know when the tears quietly fell, with a salty and bitter taste, but sweet as honey.
An unknown amount of time passed until both of them were a little breathless before they separated slightly. Liu Rumeng nestled softly in Lin Huowang's arms, her pretty face flushed, her eyes blurred. Listening to her lover's equally rapid heartbeat beside her, she felt the long-lost sense of security and comfort.
After a passionate yet incredibly comfortable long French kiss, Lin Huowang lowered his head, gently wiping away the tears from Liu Rumeng's eyes with his fingers. He murmured helplessly yet lovingly in her ear, "Mengmeng, you can't have sex right now. The treatment requires rest... I know. But... you put on this 'Four Beauties at the Banquet' for me... aren't you... deliberately trying to kill me?"
His voice was low and magnetic, full of masculine charm and a hint of suppressed passion.
Liu Rumeng raised her head, her eyes still gleaming with emotion, but she tried to remain sober. Her tone was filled with heartache yet firm compensation, and she whispered:
"Awang, don't worry so much. They..."
She raised her chin slightly towards the presidential suite and lowered her voice even more, with a kind of stubbornness that seemed to be arranging things for her husband:
"Shi Jiayi is a student, so her mind might be a little simpler. But the other three—Zhu Lingling, Yu Qixia, and Lu Ruirong—who are they? They're all so smart and capable of making a name for themselves in the Miss Hong Kong pageant! Do you think they don't understand?"
Liu Rumeng's eyes swept across the carved door leading to the suite, and her tone was calm and insightful:
"From the moment I invited them, they were already enlightened! In the dead of night, being brought to a top-tier hotel and drinking wine worth a fortune... If they didn't have the slightest thought of climbing up the social ladder, would they really think that the girls selected from our Miss Hong Kong training camp were all naive little white rabbits?"
She took a deep breath, and the stubbornness in her voice became clearer, even carrying a certain unquestionable sense of responsibility:
"This isn't taking advantage of someone's misfortune, Awang. This is Hong Kong Island! Not our mainland.
The air here is permeated with the rules of capital, and women's destiny and choices have long been distorted by the reality here.
"Who among their families doesn't hope to change their social status by marrying into a wealthy family? Isn't this what their parents are hoping for when they send them to participate in beauty pageants?"
Liu Rumeng's words were like a thin layer of ice, revealing the worldly core beneath the seemingly glitz and glamour:
"If they're willing to come, they naturally have some feelings in their hearts. If you don't show any sign of it, they'll think you're not interested, and they'll feel resentful and even feel humiliated.
If you accept one or more of them, it would be nothing more than a simple favor to you, giving them a sense of security and prosperity."
She looked deeply at Lin Huowang, her eyes filled with heartache, determination, and a strong desire for compensation.
"This is a win-win situation! More importantly... it's for me!"
Liu Rumeng's voice trembled slightly, filled with the deepest guilt:
"I can't bear children for you... This is a huge regret. Now I'm trying my best to make up for this regret, but it means I can't even fulfill the most basic obligations of a wife... Awang, do you know how painful it is for me every time I see you enduring it? I want to make it up to you... But what can I do? I can only find a way to make sure you have more people around you who can replace me... At least so that you don't suffer so much..."
Lin Huowang looked at the bottomless self-blame and almost paranoid persistence in his wife's eyes, and felt bitter and helpless.
He held Liu Rumeng's hand, which felt cool to the touch, in stark contrast to the warmth in his palm.
He extended his hand very naturally, and to others, the action looked like the intimacy between lovers, with a sense of comfort and doting. He refuted in a low voice that only Liu Rumeng could hear clearly, with a hint of fatigue in his voice:
"Mengmeng, stop talking about 'Hong Kong Island's rules'. It's only been a few months...how could you...be so stained by this muddy water here?"
He shook his head slightly, his gaze falling on their clasped hands. His voice was so soft it sounded like a sigh: "No matter how beautiful they are, or how much they conform to the so-called 'Hong Kong rules', to me, they mean less than a glance from you. I only want you...really, I only want you to be with me."
"You..." Liu Rumeng didn't expect him to reject her so bluntly again. Her eyes instantly turned red again, and her heart was filled with both sweetness and bitterness. The huge emotion and the pain of her own "incompetence" tore her apart fiercely. She suddenly pulled her hand back, a flash of determination in her eyes!
Without waiting for Lin Huowang's reaction, Liu Rumeng stood up with undeniable agility. She stopped looking at Lin Huowang and walked straight to the door leading to the king-sized bedroom.
“Crack!”
The crisp and decisive sound of the door being locked was particularly abrupt in the quiet restaurant. Liu Rumeng stood outside the door, looking through the heavy door panel. She took one last look at the stunned Lin Huowang inside, and her tone was unprecedentedly firm and unyielding:
"Mr. Kobayashi Tenno! I've already arranged everything. The hotel staff will definitely not come in to disturb you. If you don't finish your business today, don't even think about leaving this door!"
"Mengmeng! You..." Lin Huowang's voice was filled with astonishment and helplessness, and was instantly isolated behind the door.
Outside, Liu Rumeng leaned against the cold door, her chest heaving violently as she listened to the faint sigh of helplessness coming from inside.
Looking at the magnificent yet empty corridor of the revolving restaurant in front of her, she closed her eyes, and a hot tear slipped down quietly, silently soaking into the expensive carpet, leaving only a dark mark.
She has already made this move, and no matter what her husband's final choice is, she cannot turn back.
With great sadness and self-satisfied "virtue", she quickly left the rooftop restaurant, completely leaving behind the luxury, drunkenness and the spring scene in the room that she had forced on her husband.
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