Volume 1, Chapter 35: Baby, I Want You

At these words, Fu Yunzhen felt a surge of heat. He turned to his side and unbuckled her seatbelt. Reaching out, he gripped her chin, his gaze meeting hers with a deep, ambiguous intensity. "You're the only one who understands me."

"..."

"You know how it is—I have significant needs. Why don't you keep me company tonight?" Fu Yunzhen narrowed his eyes, smiling as he stared into her beautiful ones.

"I have no idea what you're talking about," Qiao Nian'an replied coldly, shaking her head.

Fu Yunzhen leaned in, the distance between them now no more than the thickness of a sheet of paper. A sudden, electric tingle made Qiao Nian'an’s body shudder involuntarily. She quickly sat upright, eyeing him with wariness. "Fu Yunzhen, can you stop trying to be a rogue every single second?"

Fu Yunzhen stared at her and said, "You were the one who started it. Why else would you ask a man such questions? I thought you were extending an invitation, offering to help me satisfy those needs..." He continued to tease her, "I only meant to ask you to accompany me to a banquet. I didn't expect you to try and seduce me into bed..."

Qiao Nian'an frowned. "I did no such thing!" Who would want to seduce him? It was all his own wild imagination!

"I did," Fu Yunzhen said, making no attempt to hide his intentions. Six years had passed, but he could not forget her.

Ever since seeing her again, his possessiveness had only grown heavier. In this lifetime, he would have no one but her. Besides, he was allergic to other women—only she was the exception. In fact, she was the only one who could cure his skin hunger.

"Don't you want to?" Fu Yunzhen looked at her, his voice a lure. "Given your current situation, the most important thing is to find a powerful backer. I’m offering myself up to you; do you really have no thoughts on this? To possess me is to possess the entire world..."

Qiao Nian'an pushed him away with a cold face. "I don't!" She shouldn't have let her tongue run away with her. She pushed the car door open and hurried away.

Fu Yunzhen was in no rush to get out. He sat in the car, watching her retreating figure, the corners of his lips curling upward. His darling was slowly beginning to lower her defenses against him. She even knew how to start seducing him now. Back in college, she had been just like this, slowly luring him into her trap. Watching a prim and proper girl act like a little vixen to entice him had always made his heart race. Beneath that demure, innocent face lay such deep, hidden desires—it was exactly what struck a chord in his heart. She had a real talent for secret seduction.

And he was the only one who fell for it—the arrogance and the temptation of the young lady.

After Qiao Nian'an entered the company, Shen Niwu walked up to her, grinning mischievously. "Nian'an, did you and President Fu get up to some mischief last night?"

"Why would you ask that?" Qiao Nian'an felt a chill crawl down her spine at Shen Niwu's smile.

"Well, right before I went to sleep last night, I happened to see your matching profile pictures, though you changed yours just minutes later," Shen Niwu said. "Those were a couple's set—don't tell me that had nothing to do with President Fu..."

Qiao Nian'an felt a headache coming on. The sky was falling. It was too embarrassing. Fu Yunzhen had been the one to change her profile picture, and now someone had actually seen it.

"That's not what happened. You saw it wrong," Qiao Nian'an denied.

"Oh, I knew you'd deny it, but I took a screenshot the moment I saw it. Take a look—aren't those still a matching set?" Shen Niwu laughed. "Besides, I saw you getting out of his car. I don't believe for a second that you two didn't spend the night together."

They were former lovers, after all. Reuniting after so many years, with all the beautiful memories of their first love rushing back, she simply couldn't believe they could keep their hands off each other.