Chapter 2: Is an apology enough?

Heavy gasps gradually rose and echoed throughout the spacious, luxurious suite.

Interspersed with them were the light moans and cries of a woman.

Time passed, and eventually, the panting and moaning stopped, the bed ceased rocking, and the whole bedroom fell into an ominous silence.

Han Yu carefully covered the woman with the silk bedspread, then put on his shirt with the torn buttons and sat on the edge of the bed.

He took a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, drew one out and lit it.

As he looked at the deep red rose on the bedsheets, Han Yu exhaled a ring of smoke and gave a bitter smile, his expression filled with a mix of guilt and confusion.

He could never have dreamed that as a man who came simply to interview for a bodyguard position, he would end up in bed with his employer, Miss Lin, through a series of coincidences.

Although it was she who initiated it, he too was under the influence of an aphrodisiac and thus lost his reason.

The most crucial point was, it was Miss Lin's first time!

"Han Yu, oh Han Yu! How foolish you are!"

Han Yu shook his head, a sense of indescribable oppression in his heart.

He felt that he had let down Miss Lin, and even more so, his girlfriend, Li Mengting.

"Ding-ling-ling!"

Just then, his phone rang in his pocket.

Checking the number, it was as if calling up what he feared most; it was indeed his girlfriend, Li Mengting calling.

Han Yu quickly took his cellphone into the bathroom, closed the door to the room, and answered the call.

"Hello, Han Yu, my mom is asking when exactly you can come up with the remaining two hundred thousand for the house payment?"

An icy voice came through the phone, laced with a hint of reproach.

"Ting… Tingting."

Han Yu turned on the tap and spoke into the phone, "Just give me a little more time, one year, at most one year, and I will definitely come up with the two hundred thousand."

"One year? You want me to wait another year?"

Li Mengting laughed coldly, "Don't you know what the price of housing in Jinling is now?"

"I won't say much nonsense, just one thing, you either come up with two hundred thousand this month, and we continue our discussion!"

"If you can't come up with it, it's over between us! The previous five hundred thousand, consider it as your payment for my lost years!"

"Snap!"

The phone was hung up, and Han Yu watched his reflection in the bathroom mirror with a complex expression.

Today was already the 16th; with half a month to come up with two hundred thousand, where could he possibly find such money!

"Mm~~"

Just at that moment, a murmuring voice came from the woman on the bed in the suite.

Lin Qingya felt like she had had a dream, a dream so delightful yet so shy.

In the dream, she seemed to become someone else, ferocious like floodwaters, like a wild beast, yet that blurry figure was very gentle…

She wriggled her body under the covers, feeling something amiss.

Suddenly!!

Lin Qingya woke up abruptly from the dream, and the first thing she did was pull back the covers to look at her body, her face instantly turning pale.

She had lost her virginity!

The purity she had treasured for twenty-three years had been defiled!!!

"Wuu wuu wuu…"

Lin Qingya covered her face with her hands and wept bitterly.

"I'm sorry."

A gentle voice tinged with self-reproach came from the bathroom.

In her line of sight, a man around twenty-eight or twenty-nine years old, with a melancholic beard and deep eyes, slowly stepped out.

The man walked to the bedside, his head lowered, his lips slightly moving before he finally said, "My name is Han Yu. Two hours ago, I came here for a bodyguard interview."

"I had just knocked when Miss Lin pulled me into the room…"

"Shut your mouth!"

Before Han Yu could finish, Lin Qingya roared like a tiger, "Get out! Just get out!"

"Miss Lin, I'm sorry, please let me finish," Han Yu lifted his head, looking earnestly at Lin Qingya and spoke seriously. "I've checked just now, and there was something wrong with that bottle of fragrance on your table. Someone mixed aphrodisiac powder from rosemary and Fairy Powder into the fragrance oil."

"To put it simply, you were drugged!"

He gave a bitter smile, "I was careless and didn't realize it in time, and I was accidentally affected too, leading to those unpleasant events…"

"Unpleasant?"

Lin Qingya clenched her lips, her eyes fiercely glaring at Han Yu as if she wanted to tear him to pieces, "Do you dare to swear on your conscience that it was unpleasant?"

This…

Han Yu truly didn't know how to respond.

To say it was unpleasant would be false, but to say it was pleasant would only be provoking Miss Lin.

"Well… I'm sorry."

Having no other choice, Han Yu could only bow his head deeply, apologizing sincerely.

After doing so, he turned to leave the room.

"Bastard! Get back here!"

Lin Qingya shouted angrily, "A simple sorry, and you think this is over?"

Upon hearing this, Han Yu froze in place as if under a Freeze Spell.

Taking advantage of the moment, Lin Qingya wrapped herself in a nightgown and got out of bed.

She walked up to Han Yu, wound up her arm, and delivered a harsh slap to his cheek.

Slap!

Han Yu's cheek instantly bore five vivid red marks.

Perhaps one slap was not enough to quell Lin Qingya's rage, she reversed her hand and smacked the other cheek, reddening it too.

Slap! Slap! Slap!

She alternated slaps, tears unceasingly falling down her cheeks as she did.

"Bastard! You animal!"

"Do you know what you've done!"

"Do you even know who I am!"

"You've ruined me! Ruined me..."

Han Yu accepted that he was at fault, standing motionless, letting her slap his face repeatedly, as if by doing so, Lin Qingya's pain could be lessened, and his own sense of guilt might diminish somewhat.

"Get out! Just get out!"

After about ten minutes of hitting, Lin Qingya's hands were swollen, but she violently pushed Han Yu out, sobbing, "Never let me see you again, or I'll kill you!"