Chapter 102
Source: https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=1363950 This translation was originally posted on https://love4baihe.blogspot.com
Yan Ruowen entered Li Xin's home. This was an upscale apartment near the hospital that Li Yuandong bought for Li Xin. She couldn't help but feel a bit awkward thinking that she would be living here with Li Xin in the future. It felt unnatural to her. She found it absurd to think that she would become Li Xin's mistress, but the absurd yet serious situation unfolded.
"Why, don't you like it here?" Li Xin asked. The place where one hides their beauty must satisfy the beauty. Li Xin was extremely happy when she thought that she could spend time with Yan Ruowen day and night in the future.
Yan Ruowen shook her head. She didn't have high demands for living conditions; as long as it was neat and clean, it was fine, and Li Xin maintained it well in this aspect.
"Shaowen will drive over to deliver my personal belongings later," Yan Ruowen mentioned.
"Is there anything important?" Li Xin asked.
"Not really, just some personal items," Yan Ruowen replied. They were things that she didn't need at the Qian family's place, so when Shaowen offered to deliver them, Yan Ruowen didn't refuse.
"Tell him not to bother and just throw them away," Li Xin said. She didn't want Qian Shaowen to have an excuse to visit Yan Ruowen. Besides, she wanted to take care of her own woman herself. After all, she was a prominent doctor and also the daughter of a hospital director. No matter how you looked at it, she was quite well-off. However, Li Xin herself didn't know how much money she had on her card. She had a very relaxed attitude towards money; she didn't even know how much her dad paid her, but it was definitely not low.
"It's too wasteful, since he wants to deliver them, just let him," Yan Ruowen said. Although she had been Madame Qian for many years, she was always very planned in her spending, never spending extra money or wasting anything. Yan Ruowen used to think that the most extravagant thing she did was to support Li Xin, who was very good at spending money.
"Oh," Li Xin said with a drawn-out tone, showing that she wasn't very pleased.
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"I just realized now that you have so few belongings, it's like you could leave at any moment." Qian Shaowen had the things moved in, just one box, so few that it made him feel a bit nostalgic as if it was a foreshadowing of his and Yan Ruowen's ending.
"I've never liked buying things unnecessarily, so I've always had few belongings," Yan Ruowen explained.
"Ruowen, I'll accompany you for shopping tomorrow," Li Xin interrupted. She would buy Yan Ruowen a lot of things, enough to make it feel like a long-term stay.
"Can I speak privately with Ruowen for a moment?" Qian Shaowen asked Li Xin.
"Why can't you say it in front of me?" Li Xin asked in return.
Li Xin's hostile attitude towards Qian Shaowen made Yan Ruowen furrow her brow slightly.
"Just five minutes!" Li Xin saw Yan Ruowen frowning at her and felt she should have some grace. After all, she had snatched Yan Ruowen away from Qian Shaowen, so she needed to maintain the demeanor of a victor. Li Xin secretly encouraged herself. Sometimes Li Xin was like an immature child, wanting to tightly hold onto her beloved toy and adopting a hostile attitude towards anyone who tried to peek at it.
"She's very anxious about you," Qian Shaowen said with a faint smile. He had felt Li Xin's hostility towards him for a long time, but back then, he didn't understand why.
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Yan Ruowen saw Li Xin obediently returning to the bedroom, and her brow relaxed slightly, but she didn't respond to Qian Shaowen's words.
"Ruowen, sometimes I wonder if you don't really like her, but she's using my surgery as leverage to be with you..." Qian Shaowen still couldn't bear to let go of Yan Ruowen.
"That's not true. I really do like her, otherwise, I wouldn't have been with her for so many years," Yan Ruowen interrupted Qian Shaowen's words. She didn't want Qian Shaowen to hold on, as their fate was already over. In fact, the divorce from Qian Shaowen wasn't entirely forced upon her; she felt much lighter in her heart now.
Qian Shaowen smiled bitterly. It seemed that Yan Ruowen had only been with him in the beginning out of gratitude; he couldn't be selfish anymore.
"This is the transfer document of the shares under my name. You deserve this," Qian Shaowen handed Yan Ruowen the document. After all the years of hard work she had put in for the Qian family, she deserved this, and he also wanted to leave her something after dragging her down for so many years.
"I won't sign it. You know my personality, I always stick to my decisions," Yan Ruowen refused to accept the Qian family's shares under Qian Shaowen's name. What she decided on, she wouldn't easily change.
"Ruowen..." Qian Shaowen was just too familiar with Yan Ruowen's stubborn personality, so he felt helpless towards her.
"You've always been family to me. Can we not measure things with money?" Yan Ruowen looked at Qian Shaowen and asked in return.
"You've always been that stubborn little girl from back then. I really can't do anything about you," Qian Shaowen said. Meeting Ruowen was probably the luckiest thing that had happened to him in his life. Although there were some regrets in his heart, Qian Shaowen knew he had to let go.
"Are you two done talking?" Li Xin was getting restless alone in the bedroom. She couldn't hold it in any longer and came out. She just didn't want Qian Shaowen to be alone with Yan Ruowen.
"We're done. I'll go back first," Qian Shaowen said, knowing that Li Xin didn't like him and taking the initiative to leave.
"Do you resent me for using underhanded means to keep you by my side?" After Qian Shaowen left, Li Xin hugged Yan Ruowen from behind. She didn't know if Yan Ruowen would blame her for breaking her up with Qian Shaowen. Li Xin was actually quite afraid; she was afraid that Yan Ruowen was only with her out of obligation to fulfill a promise, and that she resented her deep down.
"I don't resent you," Yan Ruowen said. She felt that Li Xin wasn't obligated to help Qian Shaowen with the surgery. Everything had its price, and she felt that this was a fair trade. She was also grateful that she could afford to pay that price. In fact, although she had always harbored some prejudice against Li Xin, she wasn't very averse to her. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been entangled with her for so many years. It's just that she didn't know if she could respond to Li Xin's desire for affection.
"Will you ever fall in love with me?" Li Xin turned Yan Ruowen towards herself, making Yan Ruowen face her.
"I don't know." Yan Ruowen didn't have an answer to this question either.
"I don't care. Even if you can't love me, I won't let you leave me," Li Xin said firmly.
"I promised to be your mistress, so I will keep my word. I won't break it," Yan Ruowen frowned. She didn't like that Li Xin kept dwelling on this matter. Was her word not trustworthy?
Once again, the term "mistress." It really was just a task. Li Xin suddenly felt some resentment towards the word "mistress."
"Do you know what the most important duty of a mistress is?" Since Yan Ruowen wanted to fulfill the task, Li Xin decided to teach her how to be a competent mistress and fight for her own benefit.
“Mm?" Yan Ruowen naturally knew that the main purpose of a mistress was in the bedroom, but she couldn't bring herself to say such words, so she pretended to be stupid.
Yan Ruowen's expression was somewhat unnatural. Even someone as conservative as Yan Ruowen was pretending to be stupid, which Li Xin found particularly amusing.
"Let me be satisfied both physically and mentally," Li Xin said. After saying this, she suddenly felt a bit curious about how Yan Ruowen would fulfill the task. After all, in the past, Yan Ruowen had been extremely passive in bed, she was even too lazy to take on the role of the receiver. Li Xin had to be the attacker with tears in her eyes. The most hateful thing was that even if she was an attacker, it depended on whether Yan Ruowen was in the mood to receive. It made her feel sad. Li Xin thought that she would be able to do whatever she wanted in bed in the future. She could attack when she wanted to attack and receive when she wanted to receive. Suddenly, she felt like a slave turning over and becoming a master. Hmph, isn't this a task? If you can't complete the task, you will have to do it all over.
Author's Note:
The next few chapters are all about Li Yan. Let Zuo Qin take a break.
