"Who do you want to go back and see, huh?"
In the room filled with a gentle fragrance.
Meng Ruochao was pressed against the soft big bed, half of her face buried in the pillow.
The exposed chin was round and delicate, with skin as white as porcelain.
Hearing the man's words, her heart trembled slightly, and she quickly shook her head.
"Nothing. I just want to go back and take a look."
Pei Jiangmu's eyes narrowed slightly. He leaned down gently, and his well - defined fingers slipped under her nightgown.
He had practiced shooting for many years when he was young. Although he only went to the club occasionally after taking over the family business, there were still some thin calluses on his palms.
The hem of her nightgown was lifted up by him, no longer able to cover her charm.
Her slender and straight legs were revealed inch by inch, as smooth as coagulated fat, even smoother than the silk bedsheet beneath her.
"Really?"
The man's voice was gentle, but his eyes suddenly turned cold.
On normal days, Meng Ruochao would surely notice that he was angry.
But today, she was a bit absent - minded.
Moreover, his hands were igniting fires everywhere, and all her willpower was used to resist the uncontrollable tremors.
She bit her lip and didn't say a word. In the man's eyes, it was an admission.
He concealed the chill in his eyes, grabbed her waist, and pressed her whole body into his embrace.
"Say something nice. If you make me happy, maybe I'll let you get what you want."
In bed, he always dominated everything, and Meng Ruochao was always the one being controlled.
She was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to make him happy - she had always lacked talent in this regard.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have ended up in this situation.
She and Pei Jiangmu were childhood sweethearts. Her adoptive parents both worked for the Pei family.
Since childhood, Pei Jiangmu had treated her differently. She thought it was the care of an elder brother for a younger sister.
But when she was pinned down on the bed by him at the age of nineteen, she realized that his constant presence wasn't care.
It was because he regarded her as his private property.
She was like a servant girl born into a wealthy family in ancient times, destined to become the young master's concubine when she grew up.
It had nothing to do with love; she was just a tool.
In the past three years, on the surface, she had been studying in France.
In fact, she had become his secret canary.
He didn't stay in France for long, but he could still control her everywhere.
He had a schedule specially made for her.
It detailed her daily dressing, where to eat, when to go out, when to go home...
Especially restricting her from making friends.
As long as she had the slightest contact with a male, he would be like a time - bomb, ready to blow her to pieces.
So, in the three years of studying in France, she didn't even have a same - sex friend, let alone an opposite - sex friend.
The servants at home were all there to monitor her and wouldn't even talk to her much.
At school, at first, the classmates thought she must come from a noble family because of her dressing and wanted to make friends with her.
In some aspects, she was well - protected by Pei Jiangmu and could be said to be innocent.
So when people casually inquired about her family background, she didn't think much and honestly said that her parents were ordinary people.
As a result, later, everyone's looks at her changed.
Because she always wore valuable jewelry and the latest dresses, and was picked up and dropped off by a special car when going to and from school.
How could an ordinary family afford that?
In addition, she said she had a boyfriend, but no one had ever seen her so - called boyfriend.
Even the car and the driver that picked her up were not always the same.
So rumors spread. Some said she was kept by an old man, and some said she was involved with many men...
The "righteous people" automatically distanced themselves from her and isolated her, saying that people like her were a disgrace to the Chinese.
Those who came up to her had bad intentions.
Some even sent her messages asking how much she charged for a night.
She was extremely panicked and asked Pei Jiangmu if she could stop wearing those clothes and having those jewels.
But Pei Jiangmu said that her attention shouldn't be divided even the slightest bit on those trash.
Later, she didn't know what Pei Jiangmu had done, but those people really didn't dare to talk about her anymore, but they also completely stopped having any contact with her.
Occasionally, when an uninformed boy chatted her up, someone would immediately come out to sneer and "warn" the boy.
"Don't you know who you're trying to mess with?"
She didn't know how to change all this. Although she was living among people, she often felt like a ghost.
But Pei Jiangmu said that he was the only one who needed to have an intimate relationship with her.
There was no need for others between them. He could be her lover, friend, and family...
Under his air - tight control, there was really nothing left in her world except him.
She was trapped in this golden cage filled with countless cameras, surrounded by anxiety and restraint.
To be fair, he treated her very well and was never stingy with spending money on her. He especially loved to buy her expensive jewelry.
But he didn't know that those jewels around her neck were more like shackles that made it hard for her to breathe.
She knew this was wrong, but she felt powerless.
Gradually, when she was with him, she was highly nervous both physically and mentally.
She couldn't break free and could only brainwash herself over and over again: Pei Jiangmu did all this because he loved her too much.
In this repeated self - deception, she allowed herself to sink deeper and deeper.
It wasn't until she heard about Pei Jiangmu's arranged marriage that she realized that by denying the truth to avoid pain, the pain wouldn't disappear.
Today, after class, on a sudden whim, she went to Pei's French branch to find him.
Since she was going to find him, the driver didn't report in advance.
Outside the slightly ajar office door, she heard the voice of Pei Jiangmu's friend, Gu Yang.
"I didn't expect that in the end, your Pei family would choose the Cui family for you to marry into. Everyone knows that Miss Cui is extremely ambitious."
"If she finds out about your relationship with Meng Ruochao, she won't swallow this humiliation. How do you plan to deal with it?"
She stopped in her tracks.
As a top - tier financial family, the marriage of Pei Jiangmu, the prospective heir, was naturally of great importance.
She had long known that there was no future for her and Pei Jiangmu, but suddenly hearing about the "arranged marriage", her heart still felt empty.
There was a moment of silence in the office, and she held her breath, waiting.
After a long time, she heard Pei Jiangmu speak calmly.
"I chose it myself."
Both Gu Yang inside the room and Meng Ruochao outside were stunned.
It turned out that it wasn't the family that chose his fiancée for him, but he himself.
Before the pain welled up in her heart, there was a sour feeling - so he liked ambitious girls.
But he had always kept her like a useless person.
He surrounded her with fine clothes and delicious food, nourishing her into a delicate flower with his great wealth.
But he didn't allow her to socialize, didn't allow her to have her own thoughts.
Even, he didn't allow her to have the ability to support herself. She could only rely on him to live, and even her major was chosen by him.
But actually, she was both academically and morally excellent and should have had a better future.
Meng Ruochao didn't go in. She turned around and left the company.
She finally woke up. She couldn't deceive herself anymore. She had to stay far away from Pei Jiangmu.
She was going to run!