The moment Liu Renzhi's lips pressed against hers, Lin Wanyi's heart skipped a beat.
She pushed hard to get him away, but the harder she pushed, the fiercer Liu Renzhi's kisses became.
It was as if he wanted to break through all the restraint and forbearance he had held onto for so many years.
Only when she could no longer breathe did Liu Renzhi finally let her go.
Lin Wanyi shed weak tears and wiped her lips fiercely:
"You, you kissed the wrong person. Secretary Zhou..."
Without letting her continue, Liu Renzhi grew even more frantic this time.
Looking as though he wanted to devour Lin Wanyi whole.
Hearing the heavy breathing from inside the room, Zhou Chenyu, who was standing outside, was so anxious she was about to explode.
She banged on the door hard:
"Big brother, Liu Renzhi, open the door.
"What are you and Lin Wanyi doing? What on earth are you doing?"
Her voice was so loud that everyone heard her.
Su Jing chuckled secretly in her room and put a small gold bracelet on Wang Keke's wrist:
"Keke, this is something Grandma Su prepared for her grandchild a long time ago. Today, Grandma is giving it to you."
Wang Keke didn't dare to accept it: "Grandma Su, I have to ask my mom."
Su Jing quickly held her back: "Don't be in a hurry. You can go find your mom later."
Liu Siyue and Chen Hui were gossiping in their room:
"Siyue, did you notice that Big Brother Liu likes Big Sister?"
"Of course I noticed. I even told my mom about it."
"But."
Chen Hui looked a bit troubled: "I don't think Big Sister feels the same way."
Liu Siyue's face also fell:
"I feel like Sister Wanyi doesn't dislike my brother. She's probably just been so deeply hurt by her past marriage that she doesn't dare to enter another one."
"That's possible. But, Siyue, what is your mom's attitude? After all, my sister really is divorced, and most mothers-in-law would have some reservations."
"No way, my mom really likes Sister Wanyi. You don't know this, but my brother is thirty-five and has never been in a relationship.
"My mom has been worried sick. If Sister Wanyi can melt my brother, this thousand-year-old iceberg, she would be absolutely thrilled."
Lin Jiajun was sitting on the sofa, and he also heard Zhou Chenyu's screams.
He wanted to go over and see what was happening, but then he noticed that no one else was coming out of their rooms.
He silently sat back down on the sofa.
In his heart, he truly wanted Lin Wanyi to start over.
There was nothing to fault about Liu Renzhi.
Everyone in the entire villa was waiting for things to take their natural course; only Zhou Chenyu was stomping around in a panic.
And then there was Lin Wanyi, who was panicking and at a loss for what to do in the room.
Her face was so hot you could boil an egg on it.
When Liu Renzhi had finally kissed her enough, she took advantage of his distraction to yank the door open.
Outside the door, Zhou Chenyu almost stumbled and fell right in front of Liu Renzhi.
"Big brother, Renzhi, are you okay? Lin Wanyi didn't do anything to you, did she?"
While Liu Renzhi was tangled up with Zhou Chenyu, Lin Wanyi kept her head down and quickly slipped away.
Passing through the living room, she told Lin Jiajun:
"Jiajun, you and Huizi bring Keke back later, okay? I'm leaving first."
She fled like a fugitive.
Even after getting into a taxi, her heart was still pounding wildly.
Crazy, this is crazy.
She was crazy, and Liu Renzhi was even crazier.
She rolled down the window, trying to let the cold wind sober her up. The driver looked at her strangely:
"Miss, it's so cold. Doesn't the wind make you uncomfortable?"
No, she needed the wind. She needed to calm down.
Liu Renzhi was drunk, truly drunk.
But she wasn't drunk; she was very sober.
Everything Liu Renzhi did tonight didn't count. He had no idea what he was doing.
Maybe he thought she was Zhou Chenyu.
Meanwhile, Zhou Chenyu was crying brokenheartedly:
"Renzhi, do you really like Lin Wanyi?
"Why? She's older and uglier than me, and she's divorced and has a child.
"She probably even has stretch marks all over her stomach.
"What exactly do you like about her?"
Liu Renzhi pushed Zhou Chenyu out of the room:
"Chenyu, you are really losing your sense of boundaries. I am your big brother.
"You must always call me big brother. You cannot call me by my name.
"I won't hold it against you today, but if there is a next time, you will never be allowed in my house again."
"No!"
Zhou Chenyu tightly grabbed Liu Renzhi's sleeve:
"I won't call you big brother. I like you. I've always liked you.
"I don't want to just be your sister forever.
"Renzhi, it's not fair. There are so many young, beautiful women with great figures and good family backgrounds, and you don't care for any of them.
"Why did you fall for a divorced woman like Lin Wanyi?
"Losing to her, I just can't accept it."
"If you can't accept it, deal with it!"
Liu Renzhi didn't hide anything from her:
"I do like Lin Wanyi. As for why, I don't know either.
"You're right. She's not as pretty or as young as you, and she even has a child.
"But I just can't help liking her, and I just don't like you.
"Zhou Chenyu, if you can't figure out your place, I won't see you again."
Zhou Chenyu went crying to Su Jing:
"Auntie, are you really going to let big brother get together with an old, divorced woman with a child?
"Are you really okay with this? He is so outstanding; what kind of woman couldn't he get?
"Auntie, that Lin Wanyi must have given big brother some kind of magic potion. Otherwise, he wouldn't be acting like this.
"Auntie, you have to talk some sense into him. I know he has always listened to you the most since he was little.
"As long as you say the word, he definitely won't think about Lin Wanyi anymore."
Su Jing's usually kind face was now completely dark:
"Chenyu, what Renzhi just said is right. You need to clearly recognize your status.
"When it comes to marriage, he has his own ideas.
"If he liked you, I wouldn't stop him.
"But after all these years, don't you know how he feels about you?
"Don't bring this up again in the future, and stop causing trouble for Renzhi, understand?"
Zhou Chenyu never expected that Su Jing wouldn't intervene.
She was actually going to just watch Liu Renzhi and Lin Wanyi get together.
It was ridiculous.
What was Lin Wanyi anyway? How did she have the right to be with Liu Renzhi?
She turned to look at Liu Jiannan:
"Uncle, Lin Wanyi already has a daughter. If she really gets together with big brother, she won't have any more children.
"Are you willing to let the Liu family line end? Are you willing to let generations of your family's legacy ultimately go to an outsider?"
Liu Jiannan looked at her expressionlessly:
"Zhou Chenyu, you are just a nanny's daughter. Think about how much we have nurtured and invested in you over the years.
"Does our family seem like the kind of people who only care about bloodlines?
"If we were, we would never have let you stay in our home."
Zhou Chenyu felt as if she had been struck by lightning.
For so many years, she had attended aristocratic schools with Liu Renzhi and taken all sorts of extracurricular classes.
She learned painting, piano, violin, and even various social etiquettes and dances.
She frequented high-end venues and knew people from the same social circle as the Liu family.
Many people even mentioned her in the same breath as Liu Siyue.
Calling her the eldest miss of the Liu family, and Liu Siyue the second miss.
In her heart, she had long considered herself a young lady of high society.
But she had forgotten.
She was, in fact, just a nanny's daughter.
She had absolutely no relation to the Liu family at all.
