13Half a year later, my work was finally on the right track, and I became Samuel's editor.The communication between an editor and the author was nothing more than a manuscript receiving and discussion. There would not be too much private contact, but probably because Samuel and I shared mutual interests, we gradually started chatting like old friends.It was late that day when he asked for my location through a phone call breathlessly."I'm at home," I said. It was 11 p.m., and I was about to go to bed."Oh." He panted heavily and hung up the phone not long after I answered.I was confused.While I hesitated whether to call him back, my phone lit up with his name on the screen again the next moment."Hello? What's wrong?" I picked up the call faster this time."I forgot to ask." He swallowed. "Where is your home?"Half an hour later, he came to my residential area and asked if it was inconvenient for me to go downstairs. He wanted to talk to me face to face."Mr. Lawrence,
Author: Ling Yu Fu Shu My boyfriend went bankrupt and wanted to break up with me.I disagreed.He said, "Do you dare to get a marriage certificate with me then?"1Bennett Lennox and I got married officially.After coming out of the City Hall, my hands were shaking.Did I just marry like this?The other party was effectively an older man who had just gone bankrupt and only dated me seven times."Are you regretting it?" Bennett Lennox raised his eyebrows when he saw me looking absent-minded.As I hesitated over how to answer this tricky question, my mom called."Yvonne Scott! I heard from your dad that Mr. Arthur Lennox's company went bankrupt and is heavily in debt. You and his son didn't have sex yet, did you?"I blushed and looked at the man in front of me, then I whispered, "No.""That's good. Break up with him now, you hear me?""Yes." Suddenly, I didn't dare to take him home."By the way, if he asks you for money, don't lend him anything!" My mom didn't notice
6After dinner, I hid in the bedroom.His gaze was too intense, and I couldn't sit still while eating.He would occasionally pick up food for me and tell me to eat more, and sometimes, he would use his hand to wipe the imaginary vegetables off my mouth.He was really going all out to seduce me!I picked up a book and sat on the balcony of the bedroom, flipping through a few pages. But the noise from the kitchen was getting to me, and I felt a bit overheated.So, I decided to open the window to let some fresh air in. Just as I opened the window, Bennett pushed the door open and walked in.I was stunned immediately."Go take a shower," he said to me calmly, as if this was his own home.I swallowed nervously and declined his offer, "After you... You go first."He took a quick glance at me and then headed into the bathroom.My bedroom had an attached bathroom with a semi-transparent glass door, and his figure was visible but obscured. I felt both curious and embarrassed and coul
11For the next few days, I was absent-minded.Considering the pressure of future repayments, I started to live frugally.Despite the debt issue that made me a little anxious, every day felt like a honeymoon since I had married him over a month ago."Honey, do you want to find a job?" On the weekend, I lay on the couch, watching him mop the floor. I couldn't help but ask him that.He turned around and looked at me while saying lightly, "I'll find a job after I pay off the debt.""You don't even have a job. How are you going to pay off the debt?" Was he just going to rely on the hard-earned money I gave him every now and then?In that case, we could only finish paying it all off when our great-great-great-great-grandchildren were born.I told him my thoughts, and he sighed while scratching my nose. "Do you think you're trying to move mountains? We're not paying off debt for generations to come.""I'm just worried." I held his hand and looked into his eyes seriously. "Bennett, d
16On the way back home, my mind was blank.But no matter how blank my mind was, I still remembered Bennett's mom easily transferring 450 thousand dollars just like that."Honesty is the best policy!"As soon as we got home, Bennett pinned me against the wall and leaned in to kiss me.He was trying to use his charm to lower my guard.I pushed him away and looked serious."Honesty about what?" Bennett's breath was on my earlobe."Weren't your bank accounts frozen?" Don't pretend to be clueless!"Honey, have you been keeping up with the news?" Bennett picked me up and placed me on the dining table in the entryway."Isn't your family bankrupt?" The Lennox family's bankruptcy was the biggest news in our area recently. How could I be mistaken? Besides, he himself said they were in debt of more than 450 million dollars."I am bankrupt, not my family." Bennett rubbed my nose indulgently. "As soon as I came back from abroad, my dad transferred all the company's shares to me."What
21When we got home that night, I slept on the couch with my blanket and pillow for the first time instead of sleeping with Bennett.Bennett didn't stop me and let me sleep on the couch all night.My back hurt badly.It was the weekend, and my mom called me about the wedding photos. She said the wedding was in two months, and we needed to take the photos soon.I thought about how Bennett had betrayed me so badly, and I wasn't in the mood for the wedding anymore.But, at the same time, I was reluctant to break up or get divorced over this.Bennett made breakfast and called me to eat.I took a few bites, and then my sadness broke like a dam, the tears I had been holding back all night falling like rain.He just watched me quietly and didn't try to console me.I cried for a while, then went back to our bedroom and cried some more with my face down on the bed.After a while, Bennett finally came in, opened the closet, and took out a wad of cash from the pocket of the suit I boug
Author: Mo Wang Sang Sang I felt someone sleeping beside me on the bed at midnight.In the moonlight, the man who was only in his boxers appeared on my bed again.1It was going to drive me crazy.I had been dreaming about the man every night since my mother prayed to the God of Love in an unknown temple to find me a nice husband.But every time I got sleep paralysis. I couldn't move as I watched the man take away my quilt, take over my big bed, and kick me to the floor.At first, I assumed it was a ruse devised by my mother to push me to get a boyfriend.However, when I slept over at my best friend Sarah Freeman's house, I had a dream at midnight that Sarah, who slept next to me, became that man again.What a dream!On the second day, I looked up at the sky with a sad face.Sarah patted me on the shoulder and sincerely suggested, "If you can't prevent it, enjoy it."I was rendered speechless.At night, I dreamed about that man again.I felt helpless as I lay stiffl
6I woke up from my dream.My mom knocked on the door and shouted, "You're going to be late!"It was almost 9 a.m. again.I had been sleeping soundly since the day when Roland appeared in my dream. I couldn't even hear the alarm clock at all.I didn't have time to have breakfast, so I grabbed a carton of milk and some bread and ran out of the house.On the way to work, I kept repeating in my head Roland's words, "After all, you stepped on my feet twice and I didn't feel a thing."My heart beat fast. I wondered if Roland had already recognized me in reality as well.Roland hadn't arrived at the company yet when I arrived. Thinking of my work report, I turned on the computer to start writing it.Dorothy leaned over and teased me, "You work so hard!"I took a bite of the bread and replied, "Mr. Lawson asked me to rewrite a detailed work report."At this moment, a slender figure walked past us.I stopped in my movements stiffly."What's wrong?" Dorothy asked.The door of the