Luring Her into Surrender

Years later, I ran into Lou Jisheng.

He sneered at me. "Lu Xinrou, I really underestimated you. One man after another, huh?"

I shamelessly replied, "I'm only after money. How about you pay me, Mr. Lou? I'll keep you company, too."

Lou Jisheng looked me over and scoffed. "Do you know what you look like?"

I didn't care. "A slut, I guess."

He pointed to a stray dog nearby, wagging its tail and begging for scraps, and casually corrected me. "See that? You look like it!"

His words were like blades, slicing through the mask of pride I wore, leaving me utterly humiliated.

-

Before I turned nineteen, I was a pure and noble winter orchid. The only time I ever lowered my head was for Lou Jisheng.

After I turned nineteen, I became a poppy: dazzlingly beautiful, yet vile and tainted.

I thought Lou Jisheng hated me to the core, but love and hatred had long been tangled in his heart, and I had already dragged him into the world of passion.

He wasn't a saint who had renounced desire. He was an ordinary man with bottomless appetites.

I was the one who destroyed him, and he was the one who redeemed me.