Chapter 8: What it means to pay the price of voyeurism

She has to climb the ladder well.

One word from him could take her from the ranks of international stars. Besides, with such a heavenly handsome face, she could not wait for more subterfuge.

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The air was slightly chilly, and the wet stickiness and sharp pain between her legs made Gu Xiaoyi sit down with her back against the barbed wire.

She was, today, raped by a strange man.

How could she have gotten herself into such a situation, just for a piece of gossip, was it worth it?

Shoulders shaking uncontrollably, tears finally fell.

With her slender hands clutching the collar of her chest, Gu Xiaoyi lost her voice and cried out in pain.

Tying her jumper off around her waist to block her super-short skirt and hide her embarrassed hips, Gu Xiaoyi just barely made it back to her small quadrangle home, her uncle's home to be exact.

"Ai, you ran off to keep watch last night, how did it go, did you get any shots of the mysterious creature?" Uncle Ye Yongcheng asked as he came out of the house with his briefcase and bumped into her, a forty-eight year old man with a shedding and a beer belly.

But he was not a successful businessman, and he had a magazine that always looked like it was on the verge of collapse.

Gu Xiaoyai gave a bitter laugh, "No."

She was supposed to sneak in something bigger, something that would have brought the whole magazine back to life, but now, unfortunately, she has even lost herself.

"Forget it if you don't, I'll go to work first." My uncle patted her shoulder good-naturedly and headed out the door.

Auntie's harsh and mean voice came from inside the house, "This is no way to live! Ye Yongcheng, other people are men and you are a man too. Other people move to the city with their families and their houses get bigger and bigger, but you are a loser who has achieved nothing and brought a dragging bottle to live in for nine years!"

She, Gu Xiaoyi, is the drag queen.

Nine years ago, when she was just a first-year student, her father's company was declared bankrupt and he was jailed, and her mother jumped to her death.

She went from being a starry-eyed little princess overnight ... to a calamity that everyone avoided.

Luckily, she had an uncle who adopted her and let her come and help out at the magazine.

The water in her house had never been particularly warm, it was always half warm but not cold.

In the mirror, there are several red bruises on the snow-white skin that have been pinched up and look alarming.

Everything about that man's domination of her came back vividly.