After a wealthy woman went bankrupt, her live-in husband became her sugar daddy.

I deliberately avoided Jiang Yichen's gaze, but a sliver of anticipation still unconsciously rose in my heart.

He pinched my chin, stared into my eyes, and smiled, saying, "Be my lover."

Snapped--

My heart broke, broke very softly, almost without a sound.

I don't know what I'm expecting, but I still stubbornly ask, "Lover? Bed partner?"

"if not?"

Jiang Yichen released my chin, his gaze as calm as a bottomless pool. "Is there anything else I can take from you?"

I stared at the deep pool, as if I could see the Jiang Yichen of the past drifting away from me, eventually turning into a bubble in the water. I breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at him, "I don't care at all, but I wonder what Miss Lin Nan thinks?"

"None of your business."

Jiang Yichen spoke with a cold and arrogant demeanor, radiating a sense of oppression that even I, in the past, would have had to bow my head if I stood here.

I bowed my head as a matter of course. If this is Jiang Yichen's way of getting revenge on me, then I deserve it.

I obediently lowered my head, just as he had done to me before.

I vaguely sensed a complex emotion flashing in his gaze, but I was too preoccupied to discern it.

Jiang Yichen had the driver take me home to say goodbye to my family. My parents thought that Jiang Yichen had changed his mind and that I was going to live a good life, so they were happy for me.

My brother, unusually, didn't say a word, staring out the window, lost in thought.

Just before leaving, he suddenly blurted out, "Useless thing, just hang in there for a few more years. When I have money, I'll back you up."

Hearing this, my nose tingled with tears. To be honest, back when I married in such a grand way, I never experienced the pain of leaving home...

Now that time has passed and things have changed, returning to the place evokes mixed feelings.

I got into the Maserati that took me back to the villa. When I opened the door, I felt like I was in another world. Even though all the furniture and furnishings behind the door were the same, and the servants were the same, I knew in my heart that this was no longer my home.

I consciously headed towards the nanny's room where Jiang Yichen had slept, but I was stopped.

"President Jiang told you to wash up and wait for him in the master bedroom."

The butler who used to fawn over me now only shows politeness and indifference when facing me.

Oh right, I'm here to be a lover, not a nanny.

I suppressed my heartache, washed myself clean as Jiang Yichen had asked, and lay down on the bed.

Perhaps I was too tired these days, or perhaps it was because I hadn't slept in this familiar bed for too long, I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

In my dazed state, I suddenly felt someone hug me around the waist, their hot breath brushing against my neck.

I instinctively slapped him, but someone grabbed my wrist.

With a little force, Jiang Yichen caused my silk nightgown to slip off and fall to the foot of the bed.

His rough hands caressed my body rather gently, his eyes filled with an inscrutable darkness.

"Jiang Yichen..."

The words that were about to come out were stuck in his throat, and then he was turned over.

I leaned over and braced myself against Jiang Yichen's chest; the vibration of his heartbeat in my palm brought me back to my senses.

Jiang Yichen leaned against the bed, his hands naturally placed on my waist, and said in a deep voice, "Since you're here to be my lover, shouldn't you be the one serving me?"

My heart jumped into my throat.

The room lights were off, but light shone faintly through the floor-to-ceiling windows, allowing me to clearly see the differences between myself and Jiang Yichen.

I was completely naked, while he was impeccably dressed.

"I won't."

This is true.

When I married Jiang Yichen, we never had any physical relationship after the marriage, and I was even less willing to do something as shameful as cheating.

All our experience was just our first night.

Jiang Yichen seemed to have noticed something, and a smile quickly flashed in the depths of his eyes.

He raised his hand and stroked my back, making me tremble involuntarily, my fingertips tightening unconsciously as I tensed up.

He said casually, "If you don't know how now, you can learn. There's nothing in this world that you can't learn."

As I listened, it seemed like he had something else in mind.

Before I could think it through, he placed his hand on my neck, pressed me down to kiss him, and I slowly surrendered all control.

The noise in the room didn't stop until three hours later.

I lay in bed, too lazy to move a single finger, my body drenched in sweat, feeling utterly uncomfortable.

"I'll have someone transfer five million over first."

Jiang Yichen stood by the bed. He had changed into a suit and put it on. He then picked up the watch strap from the bedside table and put it on, saying in a deep voice, "How you get money from me from now on is up to you."

I was stunned. How come this is different from what we agreed on?

Does it offer installment payment options?

"Jiang Yichen! That's not what you said before!"

I glared at him angrily, my tone displeased, "You clearly said before that if I became your mistress, you would give my parents fifty million! You broke your promise!"

“Those who are collecting debts know that you can’t pay up all at once.”

Jiang Yichen gently pulled away my fingers that were gripping his clothes, one by one, and said slowly, "If we give them five million at once, they will accept it. I don't want anyone else to know about us."

There are no secrets in this circle.

If my parents suddenly come up with 50 million to pay off all my debts, they can find out what deal I made with Jiang Yichen just by investigating.

And my relationship with him was something he didn't want Lin Nan to know.

For some inexplicable reason, I felt a little sad.

"Don't cause me any trouble."

Seeing that I had calmed down, Jiang Yichen reached out and pinched my cheek. "As long as you listen to me and be a perfect lover, I will take care of your parents."

I could only nod in agreement.

Now that things have developed to this point, I have no other choice but to trust Jiang Yichen.

After I transferred five million, my parents called me again, concerned about my relationship with Jiang Yichen, and even wanted me to have Jiang Yichen's child.

They're just being delusional.

Jiang Yichen has a fiancée. If I get pregnant and give birth to the child, wouldn't that be an illegitimate child?

I would never do that.

……

Aside from that one day when Jiang Yichen appeared in front of me, I didn't see him for the next few days.

Gu Bai, however, used the pretext of delivering packages to come in and see me several times.

At that time, I really thought he was my good younger brother.

I had nothing to do in the villa. On the first day Jiang Yichen left, I wanted to see what it was like after my parents and I left. But I wasn't stopped by anyone shortly after I left.

The way they looked at me back then seemed like they were afraid I would steal some of Jiang Yichen's information.

I don't have that ability.

As I sat on the sofa lost in thought, the door was pushed open from the outside, and Jiang Yichen walked in.

He saw me on the sofa, paused for a moment, and then pulled me over by my tie.

Why are you sitting here?

I watched him sit down next to me, skillfully taking out a cigarette and holding it between his fingers. The swirling smoke brushed against my face, and I couldn't help but cough.

I didn't expect him to put out the cigarette now, after all, compared to all the torment I had done before, what he was doing now was nothing.

I'll arrange a job for you in a couple of days.

Jiang Yichen stared at me for two seconds, his eyes flickered slightly, and he used this as an excuse to stub out his cigarette in the ashtray.

"Don't let Lin Nan know about our current relationship."