Chapter 229 Vanessa
Vanessa seemed not to notice Lu Qian's attitude. She still held the teacup in her hand and sipped it slowly and elegantly.
Lu Qian was a little impatient. She had no interest in Vanessa in the first place. At most, she didn't dislike her. Naturally, she had no interest in drinking tea with her face to face.
"Miss Vanessa, didn't you want to talk to me?"
It was not until she heard Lu Qian's unspoken displeasure that Vanessa silently put down the cup in her hand.
"Do you think he loves you very much?"
When Lu Qian heard Vanessa's words, he couldn't help but frowned, "What do you mean by asking this?"
This sentence came out of nowhere, but Lu Qian could sense a strange provocation in it.
Hearing these words from a woman, especially a woman who is very close to the man she loves, I'm sure no one would remain calm.
Vanessa blinked twice, her fair skin, a racial advantage, dazzled people in the moonlight, and her expression and posture were extremely sexy and charming.
She looked at Lu Qian with a serious expression.
"Has he ever admitted in person that he loves you?"
Lu Qian's face was cold, and he immediately shook his head, "No."
It was an indisputable fact that Cheng Yi had never said those three words to her, but it was not that he did not want to make a promise. Rather, Lu Qian felt that the weight of these words was too heavy, at least for her now, she could not fully bear it.
Vanessa got the answer she wanted, snorted, and lowered her head. "Ms. Lu, you are already an excellent woman, but you are not qualified to be a match for Cheng Yi."
Lu Qian resisted the urge to roll his eyes and pursed his lips gently, "Oh, and then?"
Women's intuition has always been unreasonably accurate, especially when it comes to love.
Vanessa actually called Cheng Yi by his name instead of calling him the boss. This woman's mind is indeed not just about being Cheng Yi's subordinate.
Besides, she knew better than anyone whether she was worthy of Cheng Yi, and she didn't need the woman in front of her to judge whether she was excellent or not.
"You are smarter than I thought. He may like you very much, so he allows you to point fingers at his affairs."
Vanessa looked at Lu Qian with a serious expression, "But I want to advise you that the matter of Tavia and Cheng Yi is not as simple as you think."
After hearing this, Lu Qian finally understood why Vanessa came to see her.
She smiled faintly and narrowed her eyes to look at Vanessa, "So? Miss Vanessa means that I have no right to interfere?"
Vanessa did not deny it. She raised her hand and casually adjusted her skirt. Her relaxed posture really made her look like a hostess entertaining guests.
"I won't judge whether Miss Lu is qualified or not. I think you will make the decision yourself."
Lu Qian glanced away indifferently, too lazy to argue with Vanessa.
"I don't understand, just tell me."
Vanessa's mouth twitched, her eyes filled with disdain. "Are you running away from something?"
Lu Qian doesn't like playing dumb, especially with someone like Vanessa.
She slowly picked up the teacup, took a sip, and did not answer.
Vanessa took out a box of cigarettes and a lighter from her pocket and pushed them in front of Lu Qian.
"Want to take one?"
Lu Qian glanced at the cigarette box. It was the kind Cheng Yi often smoked. She looked away and shook her head, "I don't smoke."
Vanessa smiled softly, took back the cigarette box, knocked out a cigarette and held it between her fingers.
"I didn't smoke before, and I really hate the smell of cigarettes. Not to mention smoking, even the smell makes me sick."
She lit the cigarette with a snap, slightly opened her red lips, and held it in her mouth.
"But seven years ago, I met that man."
She took two puffs of the cigarette and exhaled the smoke slowly, her face filled with tenderness and a feeling of nostalgia.
“I used to be a noble, received an elite education, and was so arrogant that I looked down on everyone.
But things don't go as planned. My family was uprooted in the struggle among the nobles, and all the survivors were sold. The men were sold into dueling arenas and became slaves, while the women became playthings of the powerful.
Lu Qian stirred the spoon in the cup, lowered his eyes, and listened silently to Vanessa's narration.
“The first time I met him was in an underground casino.
At that time, all my brothers and sisters were sold out and lost. I listened to their wailing day and night, everyone's wailing, and waited in agony for my dark future.
Until that day, I was dressed up exquisitely and beautifully, just to be worth a better price."
"That was a huge bet. I don't know what happened beforehand, but when they took me out, I heard the stakes had already reached three billion.
And I am the final prize of this gamble."
"I'm terrified. Everyone who comes here to gamble is a devil. No matter who gets me, I'll be dead.
And they will definitely try their best to get the three billion reward back from me no matter what."
"I was so scared that my legs went limp and I couldn't walk at all, so they dragged me to the gambling table.
The dim light shone on the gambling table, and the man was covered with a layer of light like a god, his golden brown eyes dazzling under the flashing of chips.
I've never seen anyone so strange and alluring, almost too real to be real."
"He smiled at me tenderly and told me not to be afraid and to come over and light his cigarette.
I didn't dare to resist and walked to him despite my weak legs.
Although I have never lit a cigarette, I don't know if what I did was right.
But he turned around, smiled and said to me that I was very quick and that he needed someone to light a cigarette, and asked if I would like to go with him.
I was stunned. His gentle eyes were like a warm and clear lake, wrapping me up.
Yes, of course I do.
But the person on the other side is the undefeated gambling king, so that man has no chance of winning.
Then he gave me a defiant smile and asked me again if I was willing to go with him.
Just that one glance and I was completely captured by him.
I nodded and said yes, absolutely yes."
Vanessa crushed the last bit of cigarette and turned the smoke in her mouth into smoke rings and exhaled them little by little.
"I didn't expect that man to win completely, overwhelmingly and without any doubt.
He walked down from the gambling table, his back to the light, like a god walking down from Mount Olympus.
He extended his hand towards me, without saying a word, but his smile became even more charming.
Vanessa's expression became increasingly obsessed.
"From that day on, I slowly learned to smoke."
“But I can’t smoke any other cigarettes, only this brand can.
I'm not a heavy smoker and rarely carry cigarettes with me, so I usually ask him for two and he never refuses.
So much so that later on, smoking a pack of cigarettes with him seemed to become a habit.
Even when he smokes, he always asks me to light it for him."
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