183 I Was Too Late (2/2)

Lu Shen chuckled. ”You must find all of this funny.”

”I heard...” Hui Yin tried to speak through her laughter, ”I heard that you cheated on your wife with Nian Zhen. She heard Nian Zhen calling your name in the master bedroom.”

Lu Shen snorted. ”She tried drugging me with an aphrodisiac. She waited in the master bedroom for half an hour without wearing any clothes, so how could I disappoint her? I fed it to one of her bodyguards and sent him there to satisfy her.”

”She didn't discover that it wasn't you?”

”She turned off the lights so she could pretend that she was my wife.”

Hui Yin giggled again. ”Such an idiot...”

She was such an idiot. She was laughing because if she didn't laugh, she would not be able to resist crying. Inevitably, tears still rolled down her cheeks. Hui Yin covered her mouth with her hand to suppress the sound of her sobs.

Lu Shen didn't ask why a maid like her was crying. He didn't try to comfort her either. When she finally recovered her ability to speak, she choked out, ”Too late.”

There was a beat of silence, and Lu Shen finally smiled. But his eyes were full of pain and devoid of any hope.

”...yes, Xiao Yin, I was too late.”