10 PM, Imperial View Villa.
"Mmm, I can't take it anymore, it feels so good!"
"No, don't touch there."
"Hmm? Don't you want me to touch that area? I thought you'd enjoy it."
"Or, you can get down and I'll take your place?"
"No, you're too tired, let me do it."
"puff!"
Bai Shiya, who was having a late-night snack with Mo Lan on the first floor, burst out laughing when she heard the noise coming from upstairs.
Pointing towards the second floor, the door was only half closed. He turned to look at Mo Lan, who had a calm expression.
"No, do they never carry people on their backs? Can you stand listening to this noise every day?"
Mo Lan picked up the cup, took a sip of her drink, and then poured another cup for Bai Shiya.
"You'll be spending a lot of time with Chen Luo from now on, so you'll have to get used to it gradually."
"Huh? You guys can adapt to this deadly place??"
Bai Shiya felt like her head was about to explode. The two people upstairs didn't seem to care about others at all, and their conversation was getting more and more outrageous.
"Ouch, that hurts! Wan'er, can you slow down?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not very strong, I didn't control myself well just now. Your waist is so strong."
"Or I'll do it. Look at you, you're all wet."
"It's okay, let's continue. I want to stay up here a little longer today."
"Bang!"
Bai Shiya couldn't take it anymore; she simply couldn't adapt.
"Mo Lan, I'm full. I'm going for a walk to digest my food."
Bai Shiya stood up and strode out of the villa. She really couldn't take it anymore. "You guys play first, I'm leaving, okay?"
Mo Lan couldn't help but smile wryly and followed her out. After all, Bai Shiya's identity was rather sensitive, so it was better to protect her.
Meanwhile, on the second-floor bed, Chen Luo was lying face down, with Wen Wan straddling his back, gently massaging him with her hands.
The conversation just now was actually just about the pressure applied during the massage.
"Wan'er, your technique is quite professional. When did you learn this skill?"
"I learned it when I was a child, for my mother."
Upon hearing this, Chen Luo could clearly detect a slight tremor in Wen Wan's gentle tone.
Mother? Right, it's been so long, and I've never heard Wen Wan mention her mother.
Chen Luo turned around and looked at Wen Wan's gentle face.
"Did you used to sit for long periods of time? Do you have some back problems?"
"No, it's just that when I was little, I wanted to please my mother, but it didn't seem to work."
Wenwan lowered her head, a look of pain in her eyes.
Slowly rising, Chen Luo reached out and gently embraced her, patting Wen Wan's back softly with his right hand.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm here, I'm here."
Perhaps it was Chen Luo's embrace that gave her a sense of security, and her gentle hands lightly grasped his clothes.
“My mother was not my father’s only woman. My father had one legal wife and four other illegitimate wives.”
"This is common in large families, in order to allow the direct descendants of the current head of the family to better expand their lineage."
"And in the grand mansion, the power struggles in the inner quarters were what my mother was most passionate about."
Through gentle narration, some of the secrets of the Wen family in contemporary times are slowly revealed.
It turns out that the current head of the family, Wen Tao, is an extremely rational person, but he seems to lack normal human emotions.
He seeks women solely for the purpose of having offspring, thus disregarding all emotions and considering only factors such as a woman's appearance, upbringing, and intelligence.
The wife he married was the eldest daughter of the Shangguan family, one of the ten great families, and was Wen Shao's mother.
However, after giving birth to Wen Shao, the eldest daughter of the Shangguan family had difficulty conceiving again. In order to ensure the development of the direct line, Wen Tao found four more women outside the family.
Under Wen Tao's absolute control, his legal wife could only silently accept this outcome.
But what woman would allow someone else to share her husband?
Thus began the power struggle within the Wen family's inner quarters, which continues to this day.
Wenwan's mother was the youngest woman, and they called her the Fifth Madam. She was also the only one who could compete with the First Madam at the time.
It wasn't because of her amazing family background, but because of her extraordinary abilities and high intelligence. Even the powerful First Madam suffered losses at her hands many times.
However, this fifth wife seems to be too rational, just like Wen Tao, to the point that she has lost even the most basic maternal love.
As Wen Wan explained, all Chen Luo saw in her eyes was endless loneliness and pain.
"Do you know? From as far back as I can remember, even though my mother and I lived in the same courtyard, I never saw her for more than an hour each day."
"And during that hour, she wasn't playing with me, but testing my homework."
"She can't lose to her other brothers and sisters; this is something she says several times a day."
"This made me feel like I wasn't her daughter, but rather a tool she used to compete with others."
"How I long for her to hug me, even if it's just for a few minutes."
“My mother sits for too long. Once she said her back hurt, so I asked a maid to teach me how to massage it.”
"After that, my mother came, and I told her that I had learned massage and wanted to give her a massage."
“My mother flew into a rage, saying that I was useless and wasting my study time on such boring things, and she didn’t come to see me for three whole days after that.”
"I... I really just wanted to do something for her."
Wen Wan gripped Chen Luo's clothes tightly, her hands trembling slightly as she exerted force.
"Slap~ Slap~!"
Gently patting her back, Chen Luo felt that his understanding of Wen Wan had deepened.
An extremely rational couple raised Wenwan using almost emotionless parenting methods.
This approach meant that Wen Wan grew up in an environment of extreme loneliness and a severe lack of love.
That's why she had such severe childhood trauma and depression, and why she developed such a contradictory personality, a mix of ruthlessness and yandere.
"Wan'er, don't think about the past. You have me now."
“You are no longer living alone, nor are you a little girl who is unloved.”
"Now and in the future, I love you."
Upon hearing this, Wen Wan immediately stopped crying and burst into laughter, desperately burying herself in Chen Luo's arms.
Yes, I have you now.
“Baby, I feel at ease as long as you are here.”
Chen Luo reached out and pulled her up from his arms, gently helping her lie face down on the bed.
"Alright, it's my turn to serve you. I'll be on top from now on."
Two large hands were placed on her shoulders, and a gentle massage began.
Wenwan felt the warmth from those hands and squinted her eyes in enjoyment.
"Okay, work harder and serve me well. If you serve me well, I will reward you handsomely."
These words were spoken so loudly that Bai Shiya and Mo Lan, who had just stepped into the villa, immediately stopped in their tracks.
"Holy crap! It's not over yet? How long has it been?! Is Chen Luo really that strong?"
Bai Shiya looked at Mo Lan with a look of utter disbelief, while Mo Lan simply shrugged.
"You'll get used to it, you'll get used to it."
"Damn it! I can't take it anymore! Mo Lan, get me a car and have someone take me to the company!"
What are you going to the company for?
"I'm going to work overtime! I'll help them get that live stream done!"
"I'd rather work all night at the company than sit here listening to dog food on the floor!"
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