Chapter 6: It’s Your Trea (1/2)

Lu Chenzhou’s face remained expressionless, but Cheng Xi saw goosebumps rapidly climb up his neck.

Cheng Xi laughed. In the bathroom, she had seen the many bruises on her body, including an especially large one on her thigh. For a couple minutes, she had really thought that she had experienced a wild night with Lu Chenzhou. But seeing his reaction now, she could silently breathe a sigh of relief.

Given his germophobic nature that wouldn’t allow anyone to even touch him, how could he let a stranger like her climb into his bed?

She didn’t want to expose him. Although she didn’t know what his intentions were, it was clear that he didn’t want to have a regular doctor-patient relationship with her and needed such a veneer to cover up their relationship. Cheng Xi would reluctantly accommodate his whims, as long as she didn’t suffer any losses from doing so.

But some retaliation was surely necessary. Just as Lu Chenzhou was reaching the limits of his endurance, Cheng Xi let him off the hook. She turned around to pick up her handbag from the floor, took out her wallet, and asked, without raising her head, “How much money do I owe you?”

“What?”

Cheng Xi turned around and laughed. With her one-sided dimple half-showing, her visage was unexpectedly beautiful. “Thanks for your ‘patronage’ last night. What I mean is, including the taxi fee and lodgings, how much do I owe you?”

Lu Chenzhou finally understood. “You’re treating me like a prostitute?”

“I didn’t say that.” Of course, whatever he thought was up to him.

Cheng Xi took out all the cash from her wallet that she had just withdrawn yesterday and left it on the table, 2,000 yuan in total. “If this isn’t enough, you can call me.” She lowered her head, wrote her phone number down on the message pad on the table, and summarily turned around to leave.

“Hey!” the man called after her. He kicked off the blankets, revealing a fair and slender chest, coupled with faintly showing abs.

Cheng Xi stopped, her gaze landing by the bedsheets next to his feet.

“Don’t you think that this is rather cold of you?” he spoke in a robotic tone. Even as he looked at her, it was as if he were reciting lines from a script. “At the very least, we were a couple for a single night.”

Cheng Xi almost wanted to laugh, as a way of letting him know that he shouldn’t try to pick up girls if he didn’t have the skill for it, as doing so made his actions seemed ludicrous. Sighing, she said, “Mr. Lu, perhaps you’ve forgotten that I’m a doctor.”

He paused. “What do you mean?”

“Meaning, I can examine my body to understand what I’ve experienced.”