Chapter 49
With a creaky sound, the door was pushed open from the outside, and footsteps were heard in the well-soundproof room.
Lin Wan held her breath, not daring to move. The sound of high heels approached from afar. The person seemed unsteady on their feet, stumbling and bumping into things along the way.
"Hmm?" The question came with a heavy nasal tone, but the voice was strangely familiar.
The blanket was thrown carelessly onto the sofa, and the chain made a crisp sound when it hit the ground. The footsteps stopped beside Lin Wan, as if surprised that there was another person in his bed.
The next moment, the gauze on his face was pulled off by a warm hand.
After several hours, Lin Wan's eyes regained sight again. The dazzling light shone directly into her eyes, and tears welled up in her eyes. She couldn't help but squint her eyes.
The hotel's suites are luxuriously furnished and have dim and ambiguous lighting.
Her eyes looked sideways.
The person standing next to him, lifting her hair with one hand and standing casually and freely, is a woman with an extremely beautiful appearance.
She was wearing a tightly-cut black dress, revealing a large expanse of skin on her arms and chest, her skin radiating white. She seemed to have drunk too much; her expression was a little hazy, and the corners of her eyes were red.
"Hmm? Lin Wan?" She murmured Lin Wan's name.
Lin Wan realized it later and felt her scalp tingling. How could she know her? Could she be a pervert?
Tang Wanlin, she did a really good job, without even mentioning the slightest bit of grandparent-grandchild affection.
Even while lying here, Lin Wan could think of the reasons why she did these things. At best, it was just power, wealth, or something like that.
In order to get these, Tang Wanlin pushed Lin Zhen to give up Jiang Yuexing, and now sent Lin Wan to a woman's bed.
She thought of Tang Wanlin's always gentle and soft face again, and wished she could tear off the hypocritical mask with her bare hands to see what kind of dark and turbid soul was hidden behind the shell.
"She's really trustworthy. She sent you here just like that." The woman's long nails scratched Lin Wan's skin, causing a stinging sensation.
Lin Wan couldn't move his body, even his eyelids seemed extremely heavy. He could only blink slowly, using all his strength to describe the appearance of the woman in front of him.
Her vision was blurred as if covered by a thick layer of oil, and every outline was shaking and blurring. She tried hard to keep her eyes open, blinking slowly, each opening and closing of her eyelids expending immense energy, as if these were not fragile eyelids but a thousand-pound gate.
The woman in front of him looked at Lin Wan with great interest, as if she was extremely curious about the current situation.
"Don't be nervous, let's sit outside and talk."
The woman curled her red lips and smiled, gently lifting Lin Wan's chin with her fingertips.
Lin Wan stared at the woman's eyes, wishing his gaze could turn into a sword and cut off the woman's beautiful skin.
Did she really not know, or was she teasing herself on purpose?
Lin Wan moved her lips and said in a voice even hoarseer than a breath: "Let me go. If you don't, I will make you regret it."
The woman laughed, a very wanton laugh. Under the influence of alcohol, she laughed so hard that she staggered from side to side. Her every move was full of charm, like a bewitching enchantress.
"Tang Wanlin is really cruel. She actually drugged you. This is going to be difficult." Although she said it was difficult, there was no regret in the woman's eyes, only excitement.
"Chen Yu must be mad at me." The woman's soft and delicate fingers touched Lin Wan's chin and rubbed it slowly.
Like a poisonous snake, it sprang out from the grass on a hot summer afternoon and tightly hooked around people's ankles.
This matter was also related to Chen Yu. Lin Wan's throat tightened and he stared at the woman in front of him with wide eyes.
"Oh, by the way, you don't know me yet." The woman pretended to pull Lin Wan's weak hand and shook it.
"Hello, Gu Zhu."
She casually brushed away the long curly hair that fell in front of her eyes and continued, "Chen Yu's sister."
After Gu Zhu finished speaking, Lin Wan felt that the sounds in his ears were completely quiet for two seconds. Even the air purifier that had been rumbling non-stop since the beginning fell silent.
Oh, it turns out that she is Gu Zhu, Chen Yu’s sister.
Then who am I?
She is just Lin Wan, and has nothing to do with the name Chen Yu.
So, what was Gu Zhu's purpose in doing this? To make a deal in exchange for Chen Yu giving up on her.
Or is it that the person pushing this matter was not even Gu Zhu, but someone behind the scenes?
Lin Wan knew that she had been pushing Chen Yu away. The feeling of their skin touching was so real, and the happiness in her heart was as full as water and almost overflowing.
But she was still afraid and couldn't unravel her fear.
"Then I'll give you my room. Go get another one." Gu Zhu stretched and walked out the door.
"If I had known it would really be delivered, I would have told him Chen Yu's room number." Gu Zhu muttered, the alcohol still in her throat.
The sound of high heels faded away, the door was closed, and the room fell silent again.
The feeling of humiliation, like the snow-white veins on an orange tangerine, enveloped Lin Wan layer by layer at this moment.
So, what is she?
What was all her hard work over the years worth?
Lin Wan didn't know that from childhood to adulthood, she seemed to have never gained anything and was always losing.
Until now, she didn't know what was left around her.
When she was a child, she was always fascinated by colorful words like eternity and forever.
She thought her life would go on like that forever, just like the endless cycle of the four seasons, just like drinking orange soda in the summer.
But it always came to an abrupt end, at those moments when she thought it was closest to eternity.
In this case, it would be better to just pretend that you have never had such an imagination and just move forward with your eyes closed.
Lin Wan kept telling herself this: set ambitious goals for herself, and then run for them desperately. She would feel a sense of relief in the process of running.
But she would also get tired. Lin Wan gradually began to hate doing nothing, and she would become anxious once she stopped.
But she had to stop again. Her body ran a long way forward, but her soul remained where it was, lazy and loose.
Lin Wan knew that with this self-deceiving way of working, even though she had obtained an offer that others envied and achieved many academic achievements, there was still a certain area in her heart that was empty.
She hopes for unconditional love, but knows that everything has its price. So she lives blindly and contradictorily—a flawed life.
Lin Wan thought: I don’t even fully understand what it means to like someone, let alone love them.
All she had now was an instinct: the instinct to get closer, the instinct to hug, and even the instinct to kiss.
So, is this... love?
She suddenly remembered a sentence from the beginning of a controversial book:
My love, the fire of desire, my sin, my soul.
The door was pushed open again, and a man walked in hurriedly, with the smell of tobacco and a faint smell of alcohol.
Lin Wan knew it was him.
When Chen Yu learned that Lin Wan had been injected with drugs and fell on the bed unable to move, he was extremely anxious.
Chen Yu was forced to attend this party by Gu Zhu's mother, who is also his fifth mother and the current wife of the person in charge of Xiwu Pharmaceutical.
The old man in his family had five marriages and had eight children, a total of eleven children. Because the old man said that he was a kind person, so kind that he was willing to raise the children brought by the third and fourth mothers.
Chen Yu didn't like that home. It felt so cold and indifferent that it was almost icy. Living there was like wearing thin clothes on a winter's day with heavy snow approaching.
This is an extremely emotional way of expression. Before meeting Lin Wan, Chen Yu rarely used this way of expression.
The most important thing in his life is data, and his mother is determined to give her only child more stock rights.
She was the old man's second wife. Chen Yu hadn't seen her for nearly ten years, and no one dared to mention her name around him.
"sister."
Chen Yu stopped his anxious steps and stood in front of Lin Wan's bed with his head down.
The girl who usually pretended to be extremely strong was now sunk in the soft bed, like a porcelain-skinned doll, exuding an abnormal, frightening softness and powerlessness.
Smooth, delicate white skin and shadows.
He was not mistaken last night, she had lost a lot of weight.
Her long hair spread out in a mess, her bloodless lips parted, exhaling a faint, warm breath. Her eyelashes, damp with tiny beads of sweat, drooped limply, casting a small, fragile shadow beneath her eyes.
——A damaged, fragile beauty.
Chen Yu looked at Lin Wan like this.
The continuous arrival of these people gave Lin Wan the illusion that she was a patient and the people standing in front of her were visiting her.
"Yeah." Lin Wan responded.
"I was wrong." Chen Yu's voice was very low, and his drooping hair covered his eyebrows.
His mistake was that he shouldn't have shown his emotions so openly and wasn't careful enough, which led to Lin Wan falling into this vortex.
Lin Wan didn't know why he suddenly admitted his mistake, but the moment she saw Chen Yu, the heart that had been hanging in her chest finally relaxed a little.
She would not doubt Chen Yu, she was sure that Chen Yu would not use these means.
"I called a private doctor, and he's on his way."
Chen Yu sat down next to Lin Wan and reached out to stroke the hair by her ear, as if the many years of separation had never happened.
"Who did it?" Lin Wan asked, her words unclear as her lips were completely numb.
The person on the other end didn't reply.
Lin Wan looked at Chen Yu through her drooping eyelashes.
A few strands of black hair, stained with moisture, fell from his forehead, brushing against his deep brows. His lips were pressed tightly into a straight line, restrained and forbearing.
He was wearing a black shirt today, with two buttons undone, revealing the undulating lines of his collarbone. A drop of water was rolling down his clear jawline, passing by his Adam's apple, and finally disappearing under the collar of his shirt.
Lin Wan felt that he was about to go crazy. He actually thought of some meaningless things at this time.
She was thinking: If I take the initiative, it wouldn't be impossible.
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