Gan Qiongying was like a stuck cassette tape; she turned and stared at Li Hua for a long time, unable to utter a word.
Perhaps because she had been silent for too long, the little courage that Li Hua had finally mustered quickly dissipated with a "pop" as the lamp blazed open.
He slowly released his grip on Gan Qiongying's clothes, pulled his arm back, then rolled over on the bed, continuing to face away from the inside of the bed, and closed his eyes in extreme shame.
In the business world, Li Hua rarely makes a mistake. He knows all kinds of goods like the back of his hand and has an exceptionally keen sense for new and interesting things from all over the world. No matter what comes into his hands, he can figure out the most suitable way to sell it in less than two hours.
He also has countless ways to sell ordinary things at high prices.
But he knows so many things. He can package an ordinary product into something unattainable. He can combine useless things with excellent goods and sell them at the same price. He knows so many sales techniques.
But he couldn't sell himself.
When he was young, he traveled all over the country with caravans. He was very young at the time, and the old nanny who had adopted him from the palace dared not leave him in the capital of Jinchuan.
Back then, there were no elaborate human skin masks like those available now for him to use, so Li Hua always covered his face, pasting ugly scars on his face to disguise himself as a person whose appearance had been burned.
Some people, curious about his appearance, pulled down his face covering and were shocked and disgusted when they saw the ugly scars on his face.
Over the years, even Li Hua herself began to think of herself as an ugly monster.
He became more and more unfamiliar with his true appearance each year. He was frightened by himself. His confidence was destroyed by himself over the years, even now that he has a human skin mask and can disguise himself as anything.
The confidence buried in the past can never be retrieved.
His inferiority complex was ingrained in his bones, and the difficulty for him to take a step closer to someone was unimaginable to others.
Even if the person he walks towards is his rightful wife.
Even though he had already repeated this request countless times in his mind and imagined countless possible outcomes.
He was still affected by Gan Qiongying's silence, like a piece of soft flesh peeking out of a clam shell, he quickly retracted and closed the shell tightly.
Li Hua even began to regret why he had suddenly said those inexplicable things.
He knew that if he simply turned his back to Gan Qiongying and waited a little while, she would fall asleep and then hug him.
He didn't need to say anything to get her hug.
Now that she said it, her serious expression and silent demeanor frightened Li Hua.
Will she think she's being incredibly reckless?
Li Hua was so confused that he even forgot that Princess Duanrong was known for her promiscuity and had more than a hundred male lovers in her harem.
What does a hug mean to her?
Perhaps it was because Gan Qiongying had been so attentive to Li Hua in front of so many people at the birthday banquet that Li Hua felt he could rightfully stand by Gan Qiongying's side and could naturally... be like a normal married couple with her.
Li Hua knew he was unwilling to accept this; his heart had already leaned towards Gan Qiongying, and the scales in his heart had long since given him the answer.
He wanted to find some courage from Gan Qiongying when he went to keep his appointment with Zhong Lizheng that night.
Find something that would give him the courage to risk being slaughtered by the Jin Chuan royal family and to deal with Zhong Lizhen, providing him with false information.
Li Hua now has two lists, one real and one fake, hidden in his sleeve. He stands at the crossroads of decision, facing the bed, his fingers tightly gripping the two slips of paper, his closed eyes trembling like a dragonfly whose wings have been shaken.
Gan Qiongying had no idea that all it took was a hug to bring Li Hua into her camp.
She sat on the edge of the bed for a moment, scratched her head, and her face slowly turned red.
She never doubted Li Hua's behavior, nor did she consider that he was asking for a hug. To Gan Qiongying, Li Hua was complaining that she was restless in her sleep.
Gan Qiongying also felt very ashamed because she knew what kind of person she slept in. She had always been like this; she had to hold something in her arms and keep her legs together when she slept.
Therefore, her bed is always filled with various plush toys, which must be life-sized.
There were too many things to do after the time travel. Before Gan Qiongying slept with Li Hua, she would hug the blanket at night. Later, when the two of them slept together, she thought she would still hug the blanket.
Moreover, since she was properly covered with the quilt every morning, Gan Qiongying thought that she had dressed like Duanrong and perhaps, just like her tastes had changed, she had also changed her bad habit of sleeping with something between her legs.
But when I looked at her today, I realized she hadn't changed at all; in fact, she'd gotten even worse.
From sleeping with an inanimate object between his legs, he's now cuddling a living person!
Gan Qiongying still remembers that when she first brought Li Hua back, Li Hua suspected that she was lustful and wanted to do something to him, so he bit his tongue and committed suicide on her bed.
After finally managing to coax someone into sleeping with her, Gan Qiongying never crossed any lines, partly to keep her "god of wealth" by her side and partly to avoid those so-called male lovers.
At first, she was genuinely afraid that one day a stranger would suddenly appear in her bed. In order to maintain her persona, she had to grit her teeth and sleep with him, which is why she kept sleeping with Li Hua.
Later, she got used to it as she slept, and Gan Qiongying even thought that Li Hua's sleeping posture was particularly good, and the bed was big enough, so it was easy to develop feelings for each other when they spent every day together.
When relationships are good, money naturally follows...
I never expected this.
Some people appear refined and polite on the surface, but they close their eyes and do nothing.
She's so utterly depraved!
During the day, she was incredibly gentle with Li Hua, pretending to be a kind, gentle, and virtuous wife. But at night, she became a beast and kept embracing him!
Ever since Li Hua bit his tongue and committed suicide, he has been sleeping with her all this time. He has endured it for so long... without exploding. Li Hua is such a good person!
Li Hua has gotten so used to being hugged by her that she can't fall asleep without being held.
What's going on here?
Gan Qiongying felt incredibly guilty, realizing she was the bastard who got drunk, did this and that to someone, and then didn't even remember it the next day.
She scratched her head again, glanced back at Li Hua, climbed onto the bed, moved behind Li Hua, and patted his shoulder.
Li Hua was startled by her slap.
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