Chapter 1

There is a smoking pipe on the bedside table. The smoking pipe is partially extinguished, thin small trail of smoke still rises, through the opened window disappearing into the wisps of cloud.

Another smoking pipe is held in the hands of Mei Xiang, this one more intricately designed that the other one. She leans herself on a chair facing the window as she smokes it. Her body fully naked and in the dimly lit room, Su Nian can make out the ridges of her spine. Its not as if Su Nian has never seen her naked, he preferred her like this. They already had sex not even an hour passed. In a brothel room, high up where no one would able to recognize him.

It has already passed midnight.

Mei Xiang takes a long drag from her smoking pipe. She holds her breath in for a second before letting the inhaled smoke pass through her lips. Her lips forming an 'o' the smoke swirling into different patterns before disappearing into the air.

None of them have spoken not that Su Nian minds. He likes this silence that falls between them in these moments. It gets him time to think, to gather his thoughts straight. Time to figure out exactly why he is doing this.

This isn't the first time that he and Mei xiang had sex in brothel rooms and it probably wouldn't be the last time.

Su Nian isn't heartless.

He knows he is not.

He loves his wife.... Han Mei Lin

Mei Lin must never know this.

The first time happened to be on accident...or it is what he is trying to convince himself was....

He was stressed and he had a fight with Mei Lin. He doesn't remember what it was that made them fight. It was three months ago.

He stormed out from their home, and before he realized it himself, he was completely drunk in one of those drinking houses. The details were vague to him. It doesn't matter to him anymore.

Mei Xiang was there as well.

Mei Xiang had been...beautiful.....mysterious, a deadly poison calling out to him...everything Mei Lin wasn't.

Mei Xiang was confusing.....she had been.... since the first time he laid eyes on her.

Around closing time Mei Xiang asked him if he wanted to come with after she was unable to make him say where he lived so that she could send him home.

Su Nian had said yes. He doesn't know what prompted him to agree....

They had slept together for the first time that night.....it had been so awkward, so strange yet also so.....

He had thought that that night was a mistake...it was a mistake after all. Just a one time thing. Just.....one...

He had met her a week later at the Capital City. He was there to deliver a message when he met her. They spent the night together.

He called her again after two weeks....

He steals a glance at Mei Xiang still smoking her pipe casually looking out through the window. Her dark hair which seemed to blend in with the darkness of the room. He remembers his fingers running through it, grasping it, caressing it....

Black curls that framed a pale face with sharp edges, high cheeks and pouty lips.

Once again she inhales the smoke her lips forming a small a loose and carefree 'o'. Su Nian's dick twitches in response beneath the sheets as he watches in silence.

He doesn't know what he is doing here.

Again....

He is loyal.

This...

This is just to let of some steam

Nothing more

This...

It doesn't mean anything.

It doesnt.....

It really doesn't.

There is not a lot he knows about Mei Xiang. He knows damn well she can do a good job to sate his desires. He knows how it feels to thrust inside her, how her naked marred skin feelis underneath his grapsing hands. How her back would arch, and how her legs would squeeze his waist. How her lashes flutters and how her brown eyes dilates.

Mei Xiang turned around and gave Su Nian an indescribable gaze. Nothing could be shown in it. It made Su Nian feel exposed, somehow bare than he already was. Although the situation is nothing new he suddenly finds the silence in the dark room....somewhat oppresive. His hand twitches. He has to say something. Anything.

"You know smoking is bad for you," he says.

"There are a lot lf things that are bad for me," Mei Xiang says and she gives him the same indescribable look, her blank face not betraying anything.

Embarassed, Su Nian casts his eyes down words. The statement ringing loud in his ears itching them. Once again he is reminded that he knows nothing about the woman in front of him.

He knows nothing except that they have illicit relationship with each other. They meet to have sex, whenever Su Nian feels angry.....stressed...or maybe a combination both, he will send a message to Wei Xiang and they meet at a brothel and they have sex.

There is Nothing.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Su Nian has a wife

Everytime they meet, Wei Xiang looks indifferent as if bored.

Su Nian is nothing to her.

Su Nian is someone....something she uses to pass her time.

He wanted to know...anything about her that would not make him feel so cheap. Maybe...whatever he has been feeling lately would fade away.

"Do you have anyone to call a family?"

Mei Xiang raises an eyebrow, "Do you want to get a threesome out of it?"

Su Nian chocked, his eyes wide and panicked.

Mei Xiang laughed, that sweet rich lyrical laughter makes Su Nian's throat go dry. His lungs constrict.

"Do not fret, those words were merely jokes," she says taking a drag from her smoking pipe. Her face clouded as she releases the smoke from her mouth.

Su Nian finds himself speechless.

Mei Xiang always seems to be at ease. So sure of herself. So regal.....

His thoughts run wild. He wonders if she does this with other men too.....if that's the reason why she doesn't appear all that bothered. However, the thought of some other man touching her...kissing her.....making her moan the way Su Nian does when he angles it and snaps his hips right.....Su Nian's stomach squeezes.

He feels that he has to know.

He has to.

His fingers twitch and become restless. He grabs the sheets in his clenching hands. The sheets smell of sex...smells of them.

He doesn't know how to ask this awkward question. After all, they were just people who came together to satisfy their carnal desires.

"Have you followed people in to brothels like this?" Unknowing to him his voice carried out a sharp edge.

Mei Xiang looks at him with a sharp glace, her emotionless face once again devoid of human emotion. However, there was a ripple in that gaze, a small ripple and before Su Nian's mind could comprehend it, it was gone.

"Out of the two of us," Mei Xiang drawls, "You are the one with the most experience."

Mei Lin.

Of course she came to know about his wife.

Did she know it from the start?

Know when they started this ordeal?

But why should he care.

They just have sex.

That's all they do.

More often than not....

Only occasionally.

Only when he needs it.

When he.....

There was no need to be jealous

Why should he be jealous?

He is not jealous.

He isn't.

He has a wife.

This is just...just a way to vent.

Mei Xiang looks at him and Su Nian blurts out, "I am sorry."

He doesn't understand why he is apologizing.

Mei Xiang gives him a smile...but it looks sad?

She looks away an a silence ensues, a colder, darker and heavier silence.

They are things that should be said.

Things that none of them are willing to say.

The silence contains enough words.

The silence that follows them in every brothel room.

A new brothel everytime, a new room, a new bed.

"I don't have a family," a whisper comes out.

"Oh?"

Su Nian doesn't know what else to say. The words took flight and ran away.

Mei Xiang made a move to relight the almost extinguished pipe that she had already put aside.

"Don't smoke," Su Nian says.

Mei Xiang lifts up her eyes and on her lips was a seductive smile, "Then give me something else to do."

The pipe finds its way on the bedside table, Mei Xiang underneath him. The sheets are tangled around their legs. Mei Xiang's pale but marred skin are tense as she wraps her legs around Su Nian's waist as Su Nian thrusts into her.

Mei Xiang moans as Su Nian brought her legs to his shoulder and angled his hips hitting that spot inside her repeatedly.

Her moan is breathy and dragged.....utterly seductive and intoxicating.

This is wrong.

This is.....

This

Su Nian should not think. He needs to stop.

He thrusts further almost becoming violent.

Mei Xiang moan and her hands find his back and claws at it, making him grunt. The markings could be seen by Mei Lin and she would probably question him about it.

Su Nian spreads her legs wider and brings her knees to her chest and Mei Xiang's eyes open wide at this and she responds with a low moan.

Her lips are wet glistening parted

Her hair sticking on her forehead and face.

This.

Inside Mei Xiang feels warm, soft and tight as if not willing to let him go. Not that he was willing leave either way.

He needs to stop thinking.

If only Wei Xiang wasn't so.....

If only he....

If she wasn't making those noises...

If they both.....together.....

Su Nian let out a grunt and violently came inside her. His mind was blank, he couldn't think of anything else.