After ninety-nine online romances, I finally met my ex in person when school started.

Nan Xiang forcefully slammed the fire escape door shut from the inside, the heavy fire door shutting out the noise from outside.

In the dark and cramped corner, only a low-wattage emergency light emitted a ghastly green glow.

With a "plop".

Nan Xiang's legs went weak, and she completely forgot about the expensive bright red toasting dress she was wearing, and collapsed onto the cold, icy marble floor.

She reached out her hands, clad in white lace gloves, and tightly clutched the hem of Zhu Xun Chuan's bespoke suit. Tears streamed down her face like a burst dam, instantly ruining her meticulously applied makeup.

"Brother Chuan... Xun Chuan, I'm begging you..."

Nan Xiang raised her head, her voice trembling and breaking into fragments. Gone was the haughty, pure young lady she had been in the hall just moments before. "Don't tell Ruoyun! Please, don't tell anyone! I'm begging you, if this falls through, my family will kill me..."

Zhu Xun Chuan looked down at her calmly.

The contrast is truly ironic. Just minutes ago, her older cousin was bragging outside that she "had never even held a boy's hand," but now, this pure and innocent sister-in-law is like a piece of chewing gum stuck to the sole of a shoe, humbled to the point of being in the dust.

"What are you doing? Your cousin is still inside waiting for you to toast him." Zhu Xun Chuan's tone was lazy, even with a hint of nonchalant teasing. "If you get your clothes dirty, it'll be hard to smooth things over later."

Upon hearing this, a hint of madness flashed in Nan Xiang's eyes.

As if grasping at a last straw, she suddenly stood up, panting heavily, and reached behind her back for the invisible zipper.

"Sizzle—"

The zipper was violently pulled open all the way. The bright red toast dress slid down her smooth shoulders to her elbows in an instant, exposed to the dim light.

Even more jarring were the dark red bruises on her fair collarbone and chest, still visible from the night before, left on the large round bed in Mansion No. 8.

The bright red dress, combined with the snow-white skin and mottled marks, exudes an intense and irrepressible sense of immorality.

"Brother Chuan, you like this, right?" Nan Xiang pleaded incoherently, even moving closer to Zhu Xun Chuan. Her voice, trembling with tears, held a morbid allure. "As long as you don't tell anyone today, I can come out and be with you anytime after I get married. Ruo Yun is often away at construction sites, so I'll do whatever you want. I'm willing to learn any position..."

She tried to use her most primal physical assets to shut the man in front of her up.

Just as her lips, painted with a killer red lipstick, were about to come closer...

A warm yet powerful hand precisely gripped her chin.

Zhu Xun Chuan pinched Nan Xiang's jawbone with one hand, the force was not great, but it conveyed an absolute sense of control.

He used a little force to push her back half a step.

"Sister-in-law, it's broad daylight, isn't it a bit inappropriate for you to be so promiscuous?"

Zhu Xun Chuan gently stroked her chin with his fingertips, a nonchalant smile playing on his lips. "Besides, I've already tried everything last night. To be honest, this equipment of yours is nothing new to me. I have a big appetite now; I have no interest in eating the leftovers from other people's bowls."

These words were blunt and vulgar, like a resounding slap across Nan Xiang's face.

Nan Xiang's face was deathly pale, tears clinging to her eyelashes as she stared blankly at him.

"Alright, stop putting on this melodramatic act." Zhu Xun Chuan withdrew his hand, pulled a tissue from his suit pocket, and slowly wiped the fingers that had just pinched her. "I don't have time to point this out; it would be too much of a waste of my breath. You'd better watch yourself and not bother me again."

It doesn't really matter to him if this gets out, but his parents will definitely be caught in the crossfire and gossiped about. The reason is simple: the older generation can't stand these kinds of ethical dramas.

Otherwise, he would have taught his cousin's family a lesson, to make them remember it. He really didn't bother to lower himself to his cousin's level now.

He'd already slept with someone's fiancée, what more could he want? Besides, it was his fiancée who took the initiative, so you can't blame Brother Chuan.

He paused, his eyes turning icy cold: "I gave you a choice last night, and you didn't want it. You chose this path, and you have to walk it to the end, even if you have to crawl."

These resolute words, however, produced an extremely strange chemical reaction in Nan Xiang's ears.

He didn't expose me! He didn't call me out in public!

Nanxiang's chaotic, love-struck mind begins a frantic self-conquest.

Does he still care about me? Is he just angry with me for wanting to marry someone else? Is he possessive of me?

A twisted ecstasy instantly overcame the fear.

"I understand... Brother Chuan, I understand!" Nan Xiang felt as if she had been granted a pardon, collapsing onto the door panel, laughing and crying at the same time. Her once delicate features now appeared somewhat manic. "You still care about me, right? I'm not getting married! I'll go and make things clear to him right now, I'm not marrying him! Brother Chuan, I'll go with you. I said yesterday that I would give myself to you cleanly and completely, I will only belong to you from now on!"

She hastily pulled up the shoulder straps of her toasting dress, turned around and was about to walk into the hall, as if she were going to perform a martyrdom ceremony.

"stop."

Zhu Xun Chuan's voice came from behind, cold and devoid of any warmth.

Nanxiang turned around in surprise.

"You are free not to marry him, that's your own prerogative." Zhu Xun Chuan casually tossed the tissue he had used to wipe his hands into the nearby trash can. "But that has absolutely nothing to do with me. We're even a long time from now."

After saying that, Zhu Xun Chuan put his hands in his pockets, didn't even look at her again, and strode out of the emergency exit without looking back.

"Brother Chuan! Looking for Chuan!"

Nan Xiang rushed to the door, only to catch a glimpse of a resolute and upright figure, and a lingering trace of expensive, cold woody fragrance in the air.

I walked to the parking spot, opened the car door, and got in.

"These women are all crazy." Zhu Xun Chuan rolled down the car window, letting the cold wind rush into the car and dispel the smell of the banquet on his body. A casual smile appeared on his lips.

Having money and a system—this perspective of being in a position of power is so exhilarating it's almost unbearable.

Meanwhile, the lobby of the Hyatt Hotel was in complete chaos.

Nan Xiang straightened her disheveled toasting dress and walked back to the hall with an icy expression. Tears streamed down her face, but her eyes revealed a resolute determination to go all in.

She walked to the head table and, to the astonishment of all her relatives, grabbed the microphone from the table.

"I'm not going through with this marriage. Let's break up."

Nan Xiang's voice resounded throughout the hall through the speakers without the slightest hesitation.

The entire room was deathly silent. Guests at the thirty-odd tables could hear even the sound of chopsticks falling to the ground.

Liu Ruoyun stood there dumbfounded, her fat face twitched suddenly, and the wine glass in her hand smashed to pieces on the ground with a "crack".

"Honey, what are you talking about? You can't just say things like that when you have low blood sugar!" Liu Ruoyun panicked and rushed over to grab her hand.

"Don't touch me!" Nan Xiang disgustedly shook him off, as if he were a pile of trash. "Who's your wife? Liu Ruoyun, take your broken bricks and go get over there yourself. I don't even want you!"

After saying that, Nan Xiang took off the diamond ring from her hand and smashed it hard into Liu Ruoyun's face. She then turned around, lifted her skirt, and strode towards the hotel entrance without looking back.

"Xiangxiang! Xiangxiang, don't go!" Liu Ruoyun completely broke down. The grand project, the title of rich girl, the pride of the entire village—all gone! His legs gave way, and with a "thud," he knelt down in front of all his relatives, scrambling and crawling after her. "Please, don't go! Did I do something wrong? I'll change! I'll kowtow and apologize to you!"

The aunt, who had just been showing off, was now ashen-faced. Seeing her son kneeling on the ground and kowtowing like a dog, she felt like the sky had fallen.

"Ruoyun! You good-for-nothing!" Aunt rushed up in a fit of rage, grabbed Liu Ruoyun by the collar, and slapped her hard across the face.

"Snapped!"

The slap was so hard that blood seeped from the corner of Liu Ruoyun's mouth.

"What did you do to upset her?! Did you secretly meet another woman and get caught? How could I have given birth to such a jinx!" The aunt was trembling with anger, pointing her finger at her son's nose and cursing him, completely losing her usual arrogance.

Liu Ruoyun covered her face, looking utterly bewildered and desperate: "I didn't, Mom! I didn't even dare hold her hand more than a few times, I didn't do anything!"

The entire hall was in chaos, with onlookers laughing and pointing fingers, making the relatives the laughingstock. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, their cousin, whom they considered a "poor student," had already driven his Panamera onto the highway.

......

Nanxiang was on the high-speed train back to Kyoto.

She gazed at the scenery rushing past the window, her fingers gently stroking the red spot on her neck, her eyes gradually becoming intense and obsessive.

"Brother Chuan, you rejected me because you're disgusted by the fact that I accepted someone else's marriage proposal before, right?"

"Now I'm clean. I dumped him."

"I will definitely win you back. You are mine."

P.S.: Is this approach acceptable? I won't let Brother Chuan suffer any losses. This story is just a transition. My main point is to express that the goddess that others love but cannot have is easily obtained by Brother Chuan, and he doesn't even care about her. Brother Chuan is very picky.