“I’m married. I have two kids.”
She laid the knife across her lap first.
“I saw.” His gaze rested on her ring, his voice tense. “I’m not asking whether you’ll get a divorce. I’m asking you: do you want me to leave tonight?”
An Qi said nothing. Instead, as if grabbing a lifeline, she reached out and clutched the hem of his robe.
The kiss was fiercer than the one in Nanjing all those years ago. No pomelo wine, no polite distance between two rooms. His callused fingers closed around her waist. Her yukata slipped aside, and her whole waist fit in his palm. Her back pressed against the door as he bent down and bit her shoulder, so lightly she trembled. They had gone ten years without touching, and one touch was like completing a circuit.
“Apprentice...” “Call me Big Sis...” she panted, cheeks flushed, then regretted the words as soon as they left her mouth.
[Factory Heir x Gaming Streamer x Younger First Love] [Corporate Drone x White Moonlight Returned from Abroad]
The woman has other men, but the man is pure. A reunion after a long separation, with stolen pleasures at every turn.
Ten years ago, they met in person after becoming romantic partners in Jian Wang 3. The gulf between their real lives tore them apart in a hasty ending. He remained fixated on her for ten years, never marrying and never forgetting. She was already a married woman.
She had meant to indulge in one brief night of pleasure and sever the lovesick attachment of ten years. But as their feelings deepened, they crossed the line again and again, sinking further with every step.
The old dream clung too tightly. One brief night of pleasure was never enough.
For a happy ending, read the alternate timeline in
