Perhaps because the changes were too drastic, Sun Xiaoxiao was unsure of the man's intentions and made no move.
After a moment of silence, Li Hao sighed.
"Put it on. I know what you're thinking. I won't touch you. Stay here with me for two hours, and then you can leave."
His words made Sun Xiaoxiao feel embarrassed, as if she had been seen through.
A warm sensation belatedly crept onto her face as she quickly picked up the mesh jacket that had fallen to the ground and put it back on.
Li Hao didn't say anything, he just exhaled puffs of cigarette smoke.
The room, which should have been filled with the scent of love, was now filled with the smell of nicotine.
Sun Xiaoxiao sat upright on the edge of the bed, staring at the man in front of her. She felt that this man was very different.
But it was still racing through my mind.
Until the cigarette in his hand burned out and he extinguished it on the windowsill.
Li Hao turned around and found Sun Xiaoxiao staring at him. A slight smile appeared on his lips. "What?"
The man's voice was low and hoarse from the smoke.
Sun Xiaoxiao immediately spoke up, "I..."
Thinking the woman in front of him was worried about being punished, Li Hao strode over and sat down next to her.
"I won't say anything. If your goal is just to please me so that our cooperation will go more smoothly, I have no interest in this kind of thing, so you can rest assured."
Sun Xiaoxiao knew he had misunderstood her.
In fact, in Sun Jiming's eyes, she felt that she was not that useful. She was just like a dog who would be rewarded with more meat if she did well, and could be kicked away if she did not do well.
I'm just a dog who spends more time by her side.
She lowered her head and remained silent, taking it as an admission of his words.
Li Hao looked down at the woman in front of him and noticed that she seemed to be in a bad mood.
There's a hint of emotion in my voice right now.
What's your name?
"Huh?" Caught off guard by his unexpected question, she blurted out, "Smile."
"Hmm, your name is quite different from your personality; you don't seem to smile much."
Li Hao's words kept the room quiet for a while.
The two of them sat inside the house, waiting for the time to come.
Li Hao reached out and wrapped the tie around his hand a few times, making it look slightly messy.
He left the room.
Sun Xiaoxiao then made the bed look like it had been through a "battle" before tidying herself up and leaving.
Sun Jiming's situation had ended, and he was sitting in Zheng Zhonglai's office when he saw the visitor and stood up.
Zheng Zhonglai obsequiously closed the door.
"How about that Li Hao?"
Sun Xiaoxiao pinched her fingers, lowered her head, hesitated for a moment, nodded, and didn't say anything.
The man standing in front of Sun Xiaoxiao had a more gratified expression on his face. His rough fingers pinched the woman's chin. "I knew I hadn't raised you for nothing. Alright, take a few days off. I didn't expect you could handle someone like him."
Li Hao was known for being uninterested in women, but he had seen Sun Xiaoxiao's methods before, and he never expected that she could even win over Li Hao.
He was somewhat excited.
Although Li Hao is not famous, he has connections with the Fu family. If he cooperates with me, then Fu Siming and Tiansheng would be going against the Fu family.
He wanted to see how long Fu Siming could keep up his pretense of righteousness...
"Alright, get some rest these next few days and don't take any more guests. Wait for my orders."
The woman in front of him nodded timidly, and Sun Jiming walked out satisfied.
After he left, Sun Xiaoxiao opened her palm.
The cold sweat and fingernail marks concealed her guilt and unease.
Actually, the two of them didn't do or say anything inside the house just now.
Sun Xiaoxiao didn't dare say such things. She just improvised based on Li Hao's words, but she didn't expect it to make Sun Jiming so happy.
Remembering Li Hao's words, "You can rest assured," she actually believed such a man.
Perhaps it was because he was different from other men; he wasn't as ruthless as a wolf.
He seemed to be from a completely different world than her, which is why she chose to go along with what he was saying.
After that day, Zheng Zhonglai listened to Sun Jiming's advice and did not arrange any guests for himself.
She knew what the girls in the dormitory would experience after they left. She closed the pen, opened the box in the wardrobe compartment, and put the notebook back.
I just closed the wardrobe.
A noise came from outside the door.
She opened the door and peeked out, seeing a girl on a stretcher being carried in with an IV drip attached.
Her heart tightened.
However, no injuries were found on the girl's body or face.
She walked to the door.
She recognized the two young men who were carrying the person in, so Sun Xiaoxiao grabbed one of them.
"What... happened to her?"
"Sigh... I suddenly started bleeding while entertaining guests, which startled them. Luckily, the boss didn't know, or he would have been furious."
The young man shook his head, and without daring to linger, quickly left; he was hungry.
There was only a female doctor taking care of her inside, and Sun Xiaoxiao waited for her to come out.
"Doctor, how is she?"
The doctor glanced at the person inside, shook his head, and walked to the side. He hadn't originally planned to say anything, but he couldn't bear to, considering how young the girl was.
"It's not good. There's still blood in the abdominal cavity that hasn't been treated. The equipment here is basic, so we can't do any examinations. We can only relieve the pain and stop the bleeding."
Sun Xiaoxiao fell silent. They were people who couldn't be brought into the light. The price of death was much lower than the price of being cured. Many of them didn't even have identities. It was too easy for them to disappear from this world.
She looked past the doctor and saw the girl in the room.
"Thank you, doctor. I understand. May I go in and see her?"
"Okay, go ahead. She shouldn't wake up until the painkillers wear off."
She went inside and finally saw the girl lying on the bed. Her face was as white as paper, and she looked unfamiliar, probably because she had just arrived recently.
She was only fourteen or fifteen years old.
A once vibrant life lies here so fragilely.
Sun Xiaoxiao remembered the day she first came here.
She had just been seen off by Mrs. Yang when the car circled around to this place.
Back then, the house didn't have so many rooms; there were only a few girls. Some were obedient, while others were disobedient and were beaten unconscious on the spot.
I was so scared that I didn't dare close my eyes when I slept at night.
If anyone tries to escape, everyone is arrested and not allowed to rest.
She and a few other girls saw through the window that the woman who was about to run away had taken the drug and was kneeling at the man's crotch, begging like a little dog.
They're soft and cuddly, and very obedient.
After that day, the girl disappeared. She knew it was a lesson, a lesson that even punishment could cost her her life.
More and more people came, some strangers and some familiar faces. She became the oldest among them and stayed there for six years.
Sun Jiming trusted her and gave her his surname.
It was as if she had been given an extra bone, so others, even Zheng Zhonglai, would occasionally call her Sister Xiaoxiao, bypassing her surname.
It wasn't just because of her age, but because of the privilege of having a man's surname.
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