Huo Yichen, picking his eyebrows, saysin a subtlevoice, “Do you hope that I will not come back?”

It is the first time that Huo Yichen talks to her with such a light tone. However, Gu Yanxi feels a chill on her back and goose bumps on her arms.

“No.” Gu Yanxi says against her will, “You have been away for more than a week. I wait for youevery day, looking forward to getting you back.”

“At home?Looking forward to getting me back?” Huo Yichen, with a chill flashing in his eyes, stresses the twowords- at home.

Gu Yanxi, grasping her handbag with her hands, says calmly, “I feel bored at home, so I find a job in the club.”

A shadow flashes in front of Gu Yanxi and one big hand picks up her chin without any signs at all, “Feel bored at home?Are you blaming me for not giving you anycompany?”

Plainly, it is an ambiguous motion.However, she feels blocked in her throat.

Gu Yanxi’s pretended calm is cracking little by little. “No…No. You are very busy. I am not a little woman whosolicits a man’s company.” she falters.

Huo Yichen is continuously swallows his anger. Gu Yanxi doesn’t stand in a white sheet at once after getting hack. Nor did she seek forgiveness.Instead, she is beating around the bush.

Huo Yichen slips his hands, which are holding her chin, to her neck suddenly, “Gu Yanxi, you don’t need me.Instead, you solicit other men’s company. Are you punching me in the face on purpose?”

Gu Yanxi, whose breath is abruptly cut off, grapes his hand by instinct, “I…I don’t want to serveMr. Qin. I had no choice.”

Huo Yichen, with the sharper light in hiseyes,exerts more efforts on his hands and says, grinding his teeth, “Gu Yanxi, you can beg me for money. I will give you money as long as you beg me and work hard to please me on the bed.”

Gu Yanxi, compressing her mouth, doesn’t want to say anything.

She doesn’t want to beg others, especially Huo Yichen.

Marriage is proposed by Huo Yichen. She pays for her father’s medical expense through selling her body. But this sort of “exchange” is to stamp her dignity on the ground. She’d rather die for only one“exchange”. She doesn’t want it any moreor continue with itevery time she is out of money.

Surely, she is Huo Yichen’s wife. She eats well, dresses well and lives well, but she has no money inher pocket, just likea pauper. She needs money, and she earns money by means of neither stealingnor robbing. She did no wrong.

Gu Yanxi staresat Huo Yichen without a single word.As a result, his anger erupts, as if the volcano erupted. He throws her away, turning a blind eye toher being hurtor not.

Gu Yanxi falls on the sofa heavily, and rolls on the ground. With the oxygen in her lungs compressed extremely, she breathes heavily suddenly, and herlungs are suffused withair. The sudden pain in her lungs drivesher to curl upon her body tight, which is a hundred times insufferablethan that caused by her fall.

Cook Sister Zhang, who is working in the kitchen, seeing that Huo get angry with Gu Yanxi, comes to them in haste and tries to sort it out. However,Huo Yichen doesn’t give her a chance to stop the fighting, and snaps at her, “Get out!”

On his words, Cook Sister Zhang, trembling with fear, turns round. Shegoes out of the villa and closes the door.

Huo Yichen bends downtothrow her on the sofa and crouches on one knee beside her. He stretches out his hands to tear her clothes, “You want money? OK, RMB 10,000 for one night. I’ll see whether you can be millionaire through selling your body!”

Gu Yanxi, curling up in a ball, erupts her anger all of a sudden and scratches on Huo Yichen’s neck, just likean irritated female leopard, “I am Gu Yanxi of Gu Family, not a prostitute! ”

Huo Yichen stretches out his hand to touch his neck. What he sees is a trace of blood winding in his palm.

Anger spreadsfastandmurderous look appears in his eyes, “You went to serveMr. Qin forRMB 50,000. The reason that you turn your back on me is my lower payment? ”

Gu Yanxi, shivering as she is, roars ina firm and clear voice once again, “I have told you. I am not a prostitute.”

“All right. Since you are so cheap, I will sleep with you for free. I can save RMB 10,000.”

Huo Yichen seems to lose his head, as if he got a Qigong deviation. He rapes Gu Yanxi on the sofa directly. Without anygentleness, he resemblesa piece of mechanism.

Itis a lose-lose sexual intercourse. After that, Huo Yichen leaves without even looking back.

Gu Yanxi uses all her strength to pick up her rags on the ground, and tries to cover her body in vain. With her bruised arm and the teeth marks on herbody, she resembles a broken doll.

She should have thought that she would end like this, shouldn’t she? Huo Yichen is a sanctimonious hypocrite, whohas no other skills expect these dirty means.

She doesn’t know when Cook Sister Zhang comes in and takes a blanket to cover her body. Zhang says with her red eyes, “Madam, Mister just wants to hear your apologies. You would not suffer if you apologized to him.”

Gu Yanxi, with a wooden face, shakes her head.Then, tears rundown from the corner of her eyes.

“I did no wrong. Why do I apologize to him? I did no wrong. I did no wrong…”

She cannot go towork in the club due to the bruise and teeth marks on her body. The fall yesterday was too heavy, which hurt her lungs in each breath, as if her lungs werecracked.

Seeing that Gu Yanxi doesn’t go downstairs for lunch, Cook Sister Zhang worries and goes upstairs to check. Sheknocks at the door, butthere is no response at all.Then, she enters the room.

“Madam, Madam, wakes up.” Cook Sister Zhang goes to the bed and pushes Gu Yanxi gently. However,Gu Yanxi doesn’t move. Hereyes are closed and her face is liver-colored, which is abnormal. Shebreathes heavily, as if she ran out of life to breathe every time.

Cook Sister Zhang touches Gu Yanxi’s head. Her forehead is just like a hot iron.

“Madam, Madam, you are sick! You have a high fever. I need to call Mister.” Cook Sister Zhang takes her phone out of apron and is about to call Huo Yichen.

Gu Yanxi, in a daze, opens her eyes, and catches Cook Sister Zhang’s hand, “Don’t call him. Don’t. I…I will be fine after some sleep.”

“No. You have a high fever. It’s too dangerous to have a high fever.” Cook Sister Zhang worries.

“I am fine.” Gu Yanxi says.

Gu Yanxi pushes Cook Sister Zhang away and lies on the bed again. She cannot help coughing. She, aching as she is, grasps the quilt under her body due to afew coughs, with cold sweats all over her body.

Cook Sister Zhang is scared, and then she runs to downstairs to call Huo Yichen.

Gu Yanxi finds thatshe is in the hospital, whenshe wakes up.

She is lying in the hospital, surrounded by white views. The odor of disinfectant stings her nostrils, and the infusion needle is in the back of her hand. She is very thirsty, so thirsty that it seems as if her throat is on fire. Her chest hurts when she breathes each time, but she feels better now.

Gu Yanxi thoughtthatshe would die when she fell into darkness. To her surprise, she is still alive.

After a few minutes, anurse comes to change dressings. Shejust says “You are awake”, and then leaves away.

After anotherminutes, Cook Sister Zhang, holdinga insulation bucket in her hand, enters the ward, “Madam, you are awake? Are you thirsty? Let’s meget acup of water for you, OK?”

Gu Yanxi takes a big gulp when she sees the water, as if a dying man saw a spring in the oasis. She chocks due to the haste drinking, and as a resulther chest starts to throb painfully. She, as if pieced by a knife, curling up her whole body, resembles a hedgehog.

The door is pushed open.

Huo Yichen, having changed his clothes, takes big strides towardthe bed.

Cook Sister Zhang, staring at Huo Yichen’s sullen face, says anxiously with shivers, “Mister, Madam…Madam chocks while drinking.”

Huo Yichen, with vague emotions rolling overin his eyes, intendsto reach out his hands. However, hekeeps his hands in the pockets in the end.