Chapter 101
"What did you say?"
Chenyang was so stunned his voice jumped an octave.
Lin Xiaowei quickly tugged on his sleeve. "Keep your voice down! Are you afraid Li Qiang’s mother won’t hear you? Besides, it’s not like this is the first time you’ve slept with me. Do you have to make such a big deal about it?"
Chenyang threw up his hands. "You can’t blame me. What you just said was so abrupt it completely caught me off guard.
"Before, you’d resist so strongly if I so much as touched you at home, let alone sleeping with me in front of Li Qiang.
"But now, not only are you not resisting, you’re the one taking the initiative. How am I supposed to not be shocked and completely baffled by that?"
Lin Xiaowei knew her request was incredibly bold.
Even when the thought had first occurred to her, she’d felt it was crazy, utterly ridiculous!
But now that she had calmed down and thought it through, she was still determined to go through with it.
"I don’t care if you’re surprised or not. All I want to know right now is if you’ll do it. If you won’t, I’ll go find someone else."
Chenyang frowned. "Can I at least know why?"
"I don’t want to talk about it."
"You have to tell me, whether you want to or not. For all I know, you could be using me to get something, and I’d end up getting screwed over worse than in a honey trap."
Lin Xiaowei let out a breath. "Do you remember Luo Xiaoyu?"
"Of course. She was an upperclassman, and everyone considered her the other beauty of our medical school, right up there with you. What about her?"
"I ran into her at dinner today. She didn’t know I had married Li Qiang. We were just chatting when she casually mentioned him. She started by talking about the trouble his family’s gotten into, and then she told me... back on my birthday during our junior year, that bastard Li Qiang came on a cake and gave it to me."
Chenyang thought for a moment and suddenly recalled that day. It was Lin Xiaowei’s birthday in their junior year. The two of them had gone out to eat, and as he was walking her back to her dorm, Li Qiang had indeed shown up with a cake.
"But you threw that cake away, didn’t you? You totally humiliated Li Qiang in front of everyone. He got so pissed off he even threatened us."
"Yes. And thank God I did. Otherwise, I would have eaten that disgusting filth."
Chenyang winced. "That’s infuriating, for sure, but you didn’t eat it. And it was so many years ago. It doesn’t seem like enough to make you this angry."
"He’s done things like that many times. What’s even more infuriating is that he actually paid someone to make a doll."
"A doll?"
"A sex doll. And it had my face."
"How would Luo Xiaoyu know something that private?"
"Her brother told her. He and Li Qiang used to be close. Apparently, at a few parties, Li Qiang brought the doll out and let his whole group of scumbag friends take turns with it."
Lin Xiaowei grew angrier as she spoke, her fists clenched tightly. "I know it was just a fake doll that looked like me, but that is just so disgusting, so utterly infuriating."
Hearing this, Chenyang instantly understood why Lin Xiaowei was so furious.
’Even though it was in the past.’
’And even though it was just a fake doll made from her picture.’
’But the nature of the act was absolutely vile.’
’Besides, if it had just been Li Qiang secretly using the doll to fantasize about her, that would have been one thing.’
’But the bastard just had to take it out and let a whole group of guys take turns with it.’
’It was no different from making Lin Xiaowei feel like she had been violated by all of them, a kind of mental gang-rape.’
’No woman could ever tolerate something like that.’
At this thought, Chenyang gently patted her leg. "Try to calm down first. This whole thing..."
"I can’t calm down."
Lin Xiaowei said indignantly, "After I finished talking with Luo Xiaoyu, I went back to our private room. I suppressed my anger, planning to wait until we got home to confront Li Qiang.
"But do you have any idea what that bastard did during the meal?"
"In his condition? What could he possibly do? I doubt he could even manage to grope your hand."
"If it were just my hand, I wouldn’t even be talking about it," Lin Xiaowei said angrily. "During dinner, to keep up appearances for his mother, I did my best to act like Li Qiang and I were a loving couple.
"That guy can barely move, but in front of all those people, he used what little strength he has to pull my hand down there and make me rub him. Liu Yun, Su Qianqian, and all those other young wives saw it. Do you have any idea how mortified I was?"
The corner of Chenyang’s mouth twitched. "That bastard... even in his state, he’s still got the mind to take advantage of you."
"That’s not all. He deliberately fell into my lap and started rubbing his face all over my chest. I was wearing a white blouse.
"He got grease stains all over it, and on top of that, the bastard used his teeth to bite open several buttons, completely exposing me."
"Holy shit." Chenyang couldn’t help but swear. ’A small part of him was almost impressed, wanting to give Li Qiang a thumbs-up for his sheer audacity.’