Night. Luo City. Meise High-End Club.
Su Wanqing lifted her eyes and looked out the window, slowly blowing out a ring of smoke. “What a beautiful starry sky. What a filthy night view.”
“Su Wanqing, Brother Long is here. He specifically asked for you to go keep him company…”
“Not going.”
Su Wanqing pulled her gaze back from the window and coldly spat out two words, instantly drawing the dissatisfaction of the other “colleagues.”
“Tch, everyone’s here for money. Why pretend to be so high and mighty!”
“Some people really think they’re some rich young lady, but once you end up in a place like this, at best you’re just a ‘miss’.”
The heavily made-up women threw out one sarcastic remark after another, their tones sour as if someone had knocked over a jar of old vinegar.
Su Wanqing lowered her eyes and gave a mocking smile—at herself.
Hadn’t she once been exactly that? An untouchable rich young lady from a powerful family. And yet in the end, she had still fallen into that man’s hands.
Su Wanqing suddenly clenched her fists and turned to leave. The sharp “tap tap tap” of her high heels against the floor made even the hazy lights around her seem to fall silent.
Just then, the voices from a nearby private room suddenly made her stop in her tracks.
“The top courtesan here… her name is Su Wanqing?”
The man’s voice was low and cold. The powerful aura of someone used to being in charge made people’s hearts tremble.
Su Wanqing’s eyes slowly widened.
It was… him. Jian Ou!
Why would this man be here?!
Her steps froze in place, as if her feet had been filled with lead. She couldn’t move another inch.
“Mr. Jian wants to see her? I’ll call her over right away.”
“No need. Send Su Wanqing to Long Wu’s suite…”
Su Wanqing felt as if a thunderbolt had exploded inside her chest. Her whole body collapsed onto the floor. She bit her lip hard as tears instantly surged down her face.
Jian Ou, you’re really ruthless! After three years, you’re still arranging for someone else to ruin me!
Footsteps suddenly approached. Su Wanqing snapped back to her senses and quickly slipped into the empty private room beside her.
Only after the footsteps completely disappeared did she step out again.
Looking at the empty corridor, Su Wanqing fiercely wiped away the tears at the corner of her eyes.
“Jian Ou, I lost the game three years ago. But three years later, I will never let you humiliate me again! Let’s see who gets the last laugh!”
She straightened her back. In just a moment, she arrived at the private room at the end of the corridor and pushed the door open.
“Oh, Brother Long, Su Wanqing is here!”
The teasing voice was filled with a strange kind of provocation. Su Wanqing felt like a dish that had just been served onto the table.
The man sitting right in the center of the booth was Brother Long. He stood up with a loud laugh. “Meise’s top courtesan, Su Wanqing. Your reputation truly lives up to its name.”
“You flatter me, Brother Long.” Su Wanqing hid the darkness in her eyes and kept a faint smile on her lips as she played along politely.
Looking at the stunningly beautiful woman in front of him, Brother Long only felt a surge of heat rise in his chest. He suddenly pulled Su Wanqing into his arms.
“Miss Su, you’d better behave tonight. A very important person will be coming soon. Serve him well, and the benefits for you won’t be small.”
An important person? Jian Ou?
Just thinking about him made the resentment in Su Wanqing’s heart grow stronger and stronger.
Suppressing the disgust churning in her chest, Su Wanqing forced a charming smile onto her face. “For someone who can make even you take it so seriously, Brother Long, that must really be a big figure!”
Jian Ou, don’t you want to see me serve another man?
But what if I’m the one doing it willingly?
With your pride, I wonder if that cold, hypocritical mask of yours can still hold.
A trace of malicious satisfaction appeared in Su Wanqing’s eyes. Just then, she heard a “click”—the door opened.
“Oh, Mr. Jian is here.”
Brother Long looked delighted. With his arm still around Su Wanqing, he stepped forward to greet him, the smile on his face instantly becoming much warmer.
The next moment, the man spoke.
“Su Wanqing. So it really is you. Haven’t seen you for years. Changed careers?”
Su Wanqing slowly tightened her hand. The sharp pain of her nails digging into her palm made her mind even clearer.
She lifted her head and stared coldly at Jian Ou. She didn’t speak—she only smiled coldly.
The man had strikingly handsome features. His sharp, sculpted face carried an untouchable arrogance. In his lion-like eyes, there was nothing but frozen coldness.
How many times had this face appeared in her dreams?
“Oh? Su Wanqing knows Mr. Jian?” Brother Long looked surprised, his gaze moving back and forth between them.
“Not familiar.”
With a provocative smile, Su Wanqing casually poured two glasses of wine. Her crimson lips coldly spit out those two words, as if she truly didn’t care.
“What a ‘not familiar.’” No one noticed the faint chill that flashed across Jian Ou’s unreadable eyes.
“Haha, strangers become friends after meeting a couple of times. Wanqing, have a drink with Mr. Jian on my behalf.”
Jian Ou lifted the corner of his lips and raised a hand to take the wine glass, his eyes fixed on Su Wanqing the whole time.
“You’re pretty skilled at seducing men.”
Su Wanqing felt a sharp pain in her chest. The intense humiliation stuck in her throat like a bone.
She finished the alcohol in her hand in one go and said word by word, “Mr. Jian, you flatter me. My little skill can’t compare to how ruthless you are.”
“Alright, alright…” Seeing the atmosphere getting more and more tense, Brother Long quickly stepped in to stop them.
Su Wanqing curved her lips into a smile. Pretending to be drunk on purpose, she stumbled straight into Brother Long’s arms.
Her gaze lifted in open provocation toward Jian Ou, but the words were meant for Long Wu.
“Brother Long, look at Mr. Jian. So fierce. Brother Long is much more considerate.”
Brother Long froze for a second, then suddenly burst into loud laughter.
He wrapped an arm around Su Wanqing’s waist and gave her an improper squeeze, teasing her in a suggestive tone. “If you go to **, your Brother Long will be even more considerate. I guarantee you’ll feel so good you won’t know whether you’re alive or dead!”
Su Wanqing’s body stiffened slightly. A wave of disgust surged up from the bottom of her heart.
Her first instinct was to struggle free from Brother Long’s arms. But the moment she noticed the gaze of the man across from her falling onto her, she forced herself to stop. Instead, the smile on her face became even more dazzling and seductive.
The dark color gathering in Jian Ou’s eyes cracked in an instant.
“Su Wanqing, are you really this shameless?! Can any man get on you?”