She blinked, her long eyelashes fluttering like butterfly wings, as if judging the truth of my words. After a moment, she finally spoke, her voice as light as a feather, but every word was clear, with a kind of desperate determination: "Then... the purpose of sending me to you, do you really know nothing?" She stared at my face, not letting go of any slight changes.
The air seemed to be taut with a string. I leaned against the sofa, not avoiding her gaze, and said frankly: "You know a thing or two. The most important thing is, do you want to place a pair of eyes next to me and watch my every move?" I broke the window paper that was tacitly understood.
She was obviously relieved, her tense shoulders slumped slightly, and she nodded, but then a deeper embarrassment and humiliation surfaced on her cheeks, and her voice became even lower, with difficulty in speaking: "Yes... it's not just the eyes. You want me... to be your woman." She uttered the last few words with difficulty, "In this way... I can have a deeper grasp of you, every minute and every second."
Although this answer was expected, it still made me feel cold and disgusted when she said it so bluntly. I raised my eyebrows, and my confusion became even stronger: "Then bringing you to my home doesn't seem to conflict with our dirty purpose? It might even be more convenient?" I tried to understand the logical contradiction.
"There's a conflict!" She shook her head violently, a trace of fear and determination passing across her face. "Our original plan was to let me live in the house you rented outside, and then... then lead you over there." She took a deep breath, as if to muster up the courage to say the most embarrassing part. "That way, you can... install cameras in the room and take... take evidence of us being together!" Her voice was almost inaudible at the end, her cheeks flushed, and her fingers unconsciously twisted the corners of her clothes.
After listening to her, I sneered in a mocking way. The sense of absurdity overwhelmed my anger: "Oh," I shook my head, my eyes swept across her ashamed face, and looked at the dark night outside the window, "My handle? Aren't there enough in your hands? Is it necessary to do this... unnecessary and go to such lengths?"
"It's the same." Xiao Min hurriedly took a step forward, her tone filled with fatigue and fear that came from someone who had seen through the other party's methods. "When we do things, we always strive to be absolutely sure! One more rope to restrain you is not too much. We can only feel at ease if we hold them tightly!" She paused, her eyes flashing with complex emotions, as if there were words stuck in her throat, and she seemed to be hesitant to speak.
I keenly sensed her hesitation, my heart sank, and I spoke for her: "Besides... you guys also want to catch hold of you, right? Use my 'evidence' to completely tie you to this boat, so that you can never turn back, and can't... resist?"
She raised her head suddenly, her eyes filled with panic and deep sorrow at being exposed. She nodded heavily, her lips trembling slightly: "In the more than one year at Longting Club... they... they wanted to force me to accompany those officials..." The humiliating memories made her voice choke, and her eyes instantly reddened, "I have been resisting, fighting desperately... they only... temporarily let me go for the sake of my sister... my sister." She raised her hand and quickly wiped the corner of her eyes, "But in their eyes, a person who is willing to obey must have something that can be grasped tightly! Either the safety of her loved ones, or... a handle that can completely destroy her! Only in this way can people... feel the style of the people..."
The last few words fell lightly, but they were like a heavy block hitting the silent living room and our hearts. The air was filled with coldness and despair.
"Could it be..." A sinister thought instantly seized me, and my voice rose involuntarily, with fear and trepidation, "Could it be that your sister... also has such a handle in our hands?"
Xiao Min nodded heavily, her lower lip bitten white by her, almost bleeding. Pain and helplessness surged in her eyes: "They installed more than one camera in Longting Club." Her voice was dry and hoarse, "They took a lot of... a lot of things that are not worth seeing, all of which are of my sister and... and those people. Yue Mingyuan collected these, firstly to blackmail those officials in the future, and secondly... to hold my sister's life tightly in his hands! Let her... never stand up again!"
This naked truth was like a poisoned ice spike, piercing my heart. I asked in disbelief: "Your sister... is she that scared? So resigned to her fate?"
"Afraid?" Xiao Min sneered briefly and bitterly, but her eyes were filled with sad tears. "That's because you don't understand her! She is more ambitious than anyone else! She always thought that after being admitted to university and studying, she could earn a clean future with her own ability and completely get out of the quagmire..." She raised her hand and wiped her eyes with her hands, her voice trembling, "But she is too naive! How can she escape the web woven by Yue Mingyuan and his gang? Her innocence is gone, all her hopes... all her pride, is shattered! She... has accepted her fate now, but there is still a little bit of luck in her heart, always thinking... relying on the little 'favor' given by Yue Mingyuan to climb up, fantasizing that if she climbs high enough, she can... can jump out of this pit!" Her words were full of heartache for her sister's "failure to live up to her expectations", and were mixed with deep indifference.
"The heart is higher than the sky, the life is thinner than paper..." I murmured this old saying, and the heavy sigh was particularly clear in the silent living room.
Peng Xiaomin's sorrow was instantly replaced by a monstrous hatred. She raised her head abruptly, her eyes like hardened meat, fiercely piercing into the void: "I hate it! I hate all the men here! They are all disguised as human beings, but they are hypocritical! Deep down, all they think about is how to squeeze out the last bit of value from us women!" Her chest rose and fell violently, "My sister and I were sponsored by you back then, and we were so grateful to you that we really thought we had met a living Bodhisattva, the kindest man in the world! Ha... In the end, I realized that you were just raising tools! You used a little favor to fatten up the pawns who worked hard for your ambitions!"
Her surging hatred almost drowned me. I pulled the corners of my mouth, revealing a helpless and self-deprecating smile: "In your eyes, I... am also such a man, right? No different from you guys?"
This question was like pressing the pause button. Peng Xiaomin's surging hatred suddenly froze for a moment. She looked at me steadily, and the ice blade in her eyes seemed to melt a little, revealing a complex scrutiny. She curled her lips, and her tone was actually a little teasing: "Do you think you are a good thing?" Then, she subtly changed the subject, "I know... Since Yue Mingyuan has tried so hard to guard against you and calculate you, I think... you and you are a little bit the same." She paused, as if recalling, "That day at the Longting Club, my sister hid and cried... I heard about your temper. At that time, I thought, okay, let me meet this 'gentleman', vent my sister's anger, and by the way... teach you a lesson!" She glanced at me with a little pride afterwards, "I didn't expect... When I gave you a massage, you were really well-behaved and didn't touch me."
"I see!" I suddenly realized that the mystery of Longting Club had been solved. "I was wondering, how did Xiaohui become a living person in the blink of an eye?"
She nodded, a trace of contempt for Yue Mingyuan flashing across her face: "This matter made Yue Mingyuan very happy. The original plan was to let my sister come in person, as long as she led you over... she could record the 'ironclad evidence'. In the end, my sister took the initiative and brought a bunch of girls over, which made you furious and directly ruined your plan."
I couldn't help but ask, "So your sister... is she comfortable letting you come? She's afraid that I might... do you..."
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