0048 Night Rose - CTL - AY, Night.48 "Besides your hands, are you injured anywhere else? Why did you fall off the bike out of nowhere?"
Ruan Mei raised her slightly rough palms and turned them over under the light to see if the fine sand had been cleaned up and if there were any tiny, invisible wounds.
The fabric sofa provided by the landlord was too soft and too low. Sitting on it was like sinking into the custard cream melted in the puff pastry, and the sweet wrinkles that flowed out wrapped them up.
The light tubes that were unpacked in the afternoon were placed quietly on the low table, and the ceiling light was shining white light.
The shadow that appears faint when standing alone becomes a little darker after being superimposed with the shadow of another person, and is no longer so dull and lonely.
Chen Shanye turned his palms over and held her hands in his, like thick black soil covering the white snow. His smile grew wider. "There was a takeout guy on a bike looking at his phone. The bike came towards me, and I accidentally fell when I tried to avoid it. I think I hit my shoulder when I landed. Can you help me take a look?"
"Are there any broken bones?"
Her cheeks felt slightly hot, so she took the opportunity to pull her hands out, but the backs and palms of her hands seemed to be covered with Chen Shanye's warmth and the faint smell of disinfectant.
She knelt on the sofa, her knee joints feeling like they were wrapped in soft cream.
His fingertips lightly hooked the hem of his clothes, lifted a small corner, and just revealed a bit of dark abdominal muscles, then quickly let go: "Take off your clothes, let me see."
Chen Shanye quickly took off his reflective vest and T-shirt and turned his back.
There was no wound on his broad right shoulder, just a small red and swollen area, which was not particularly obvious because of his skin color.
"There's no bleeding. Wait a minute. I'll rub the oil on you."
"good."
There was no air conditioning in the living room of the rental house. A fan stood on the ground, shaking mechanically from side to side. When they first moved in, the fan blades and iron frame were covered with thick dust. Chen Shanye took apart the fan blades and washed them clean during the general cleaning the next day.
But the room was too stuffy, and the wind that blew out was filled with sticky heat and a strong smell of medicinal oil, filling every corner of the air.
It's like a mysterious massage parlor that only turns on the lights late at night.
Ruan Mei used the warmth of her palms to warm the amber-colored relaxing medicinal oil and rubbed it, then massaged it into the wheat-colored skin little by little until it penetrated into the blood and bones.
"How much do you still owe?" Chen Shanye asked.
"What about the 200,000 yuan loan? Well, it's divided into 24 installments, so it will be paid off in about half a year."
"What did he do before? He owes so much money." Thinking of the unwillingness that flashed across Huang Mingyan's eyes before he left, Chen Shanye's heart sank silently.
Ruan Mei straightened her back and exerted a little force with her forearms, hoping to penetrate the oil more deeply. "He's into prostitution, gambling, and drugs. First, he lost money on investments, then borrowed a large sum of money to go to Macau and try to make a comeback. But when he couldn't, he ran away. What about you? Do you gamble? Play mahjong, Landlord, or anything like that?"
Seeing the back of his head, which was slightly flattened by the helmet and was shaking desperately, Ruan Mei smiled lightly: "Chen Shanye, you are such a good person."
He didn't want to accept the good guy card. Chen Shanye coughed lightly and said, "So he stole your ID card to borrow money from a loan shark?"
Ruan Mei pressed and rubbed the red and swollen area with her palm, sometimes lightly and sometimes heavily. "It wasn't really theft. We were living together at the time, and we kept our IDs in the same drawer unless we went out. I don't know when he took it..."
"That means stealing." Chen Shanye interrupted her in a firm tone.
Ruan Mei chuckled and continued to recall those chaotic days: "Well, when he disappeared, I called the police. I was worried that the loan sharks would tie him up with rocks and sink him to the bottom of the Pearl River. Oh, what a foolish worry... Later, the debt collectors came to make trouble every one or two days. Calling the police was of no use. They could always find a way to waste all your time and energy.
"The landlord kept urging me to deal with this matter as soon as possible because the filth thrown by those people directly affected the neighbors and the apartment next door. The neighbors complained a lot and put pressure on the management to move out quickly. But even if they didn't evict me, I couldn't afford to continue renting there.
"I've asked a lawyer for advice, but because the debt is in my name, I can only repay it and then pursue it through litigation. Anyway, my life and work have been disrupted at the same time, so I just can't spare the energy to look for him."
Just like dominoes collapsing one by one, all she could do at that time was to stop the loss in time and fill the black hole as soon as possible before the usurious interest rate snowballed.
"Hey, do you remember the first time we met?" Ruan Mei leaned her neck towards his left shoulder, her breath fanning behind his ear, causing the ends of his slightly prickly hair to sway slightly.
"I remember." He answered, suppressing the itch on the side of his neck.
How could I not remember?
After being a vegetarian for so many years, I suddenly started eating meat again. Even if it hurts me because of the condom, I will still remember the fragrant smell of meat.
"After that night, I moved into the shop. Six years of hard work went down the drain. I had no savings and was in debt. I sold my old car and bought a used Fit because I needed a car to go to the wholesale market..."
Her voice was like the sound of deer hooves hitting a gravel path in the foggy night. Chen Shanye did not interrupt her again, but just listened quietly to her telling the story bit by bit.
In order to break away from her family and achieve financial independence as soon as possible, Ruan Mei started her own business in her sophomore year. She studied e-commerce, so naturally she started with an online store.
However, the first start-up capital was provided by Huang Mingyan, who already had a considerable income at the time. It was not a large amount, but for Ruan Mei at that time, Huang Mingyan handed her a life-saving straw.
Various wholesale markets are flourishing in Guangzhou. She chose to start with affordable girls' underwear, and later gradually transformed it into sexy underwear with huge potential market and higher profits.
She quickly paid back double the money Huang Mingyan gave her. After graduation, Ruan Mei began to dabble in the sex toy industry and began to expand into other product lines.
She not only produces sex toys that can be used in bed and sexy lingerie that can arouse the desires of couples, but later she expanded into fragrances, jewelry, etc., and currently represents related products of several independent studios.
In her mind, "sexual interest" between lovers does not only happen next to the pillow in bed.
The faint fragrance of hair tucked behind the ears, the scented candle with dancing flames on the bedside table, the little finger with a pinky ring hooked across the other's fingertips, every moment that can stimulate the vibration of nerve endings is a part of pleasure.
She began to think about owning a brick-and-mortar store, wanting a private space where customers could sit down and freely discuss sex and share stories.
Just when the physical store was halfway through its renovation, the digital sand tower she had accumulated over the years to settle down in this city was flattened by huge waves overnight, and she was burdened with new debts.
She sold many of her belongings just to keep the remaining payment for the store renovation and a small amount of short-term working capital.
You can earn money again if you lose it, but you can never lose your "Rose Slave".
This was the child she had been nurturing for many years. Even if she was at the end of her rope, she would grit her teeth and sell her blood rather than let this store die before it even opened.
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