Chapter 1: Unrequited love

The morning sunlight slowly penetrates through the windowpane. Qin Zhiai is still on the bed. She is still half asleep when Gu Yusheng enters the room. Gu Yusheng sits beside her on the bed. Qin Zhiai is shocked to see his sudden presence and unconsciously gets up.

“Yusheng….you’ve returned home”.

Anxiety begins to creep in her body when she sees Gu Yusheng starts to unbutton his work shirt, one by one. Those pairs of eyes are burning with fierce. What have I done last night? He pushes her to the bed ruthlessly.

“Ahhh—“.

That sudden force hit the old wound on her back, leaving her an indescribable pain. Qin Zhiai tries to push him back, but her strength is not enough to push his firm and muscular body.

“Please stop….I don’t want this!”, she said while her tears begin to craw down her cheeks. He grabs her hands and pins them above her head using his right hand.

He chuckles and says, “Are you pretending? You try to get into my house. When I go to work, you find another guy and say I leave you alone in this room. If this is true, do you think I still have the guts to sleep with you?”.

He pinches her cheeks strongly. He lifts the thin blanket that is used to cover her body. “Why? Afraid I’ll find out if you sleep with him last night? I can give you more than what he can give you”.

He pins her legs and starts to touch her face.

“No….No….Please stop….It’s not like what you think….”, Qin Zhiai tries to plead. However, her voice is so soft that the ruthless Gu Yusheng acts as if it’s totally inaudible.

She cries but he still does what he wants to do. He starts to kiss her from her face, lips and down to her neck while her hands are still pinned above her head. He starts to tear her nightgown and pull off her remaining undergarments.

“I’ll give you what you want, as promised”, he whispers.

“Ahhhh---------!”.

The morning seems to be the judge on how cruel he is toward her.

“Call my name and say how much you love me compared to him”, he said.

“Gu Yusheng, I love you so much. You’re the only one that I love”, she says while crying. Qin Zhiai knows that means nothing to him. But, indeed she meant it.

He removes the tie in her hands and gets up, heading toward the bathroom. She walks toward the veranda while covering her body using the blanket. She cries and cries until she falls asleep.

The next morning, she looks at her side. “He is not here. I’m here in this room for 5 days and he does the same thing every day. Yusheng, I really love you, but you don’t believe me. You only think of me as a bad person to be by your side”.

Her eyes start to become watery. She stops crying and wipe the remaining traces of tears on her cheeks.

* to be continued*

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