Chapter 90, Chapter 088: Within a Dream

In the darkness, Ye Chen seemed to pass through a veil of mist. When he emerged from it, he was standing on a cliff. He looked around in confusion. It was a desolate, uninhabited place. Suddenly, a group of men in black came running toward him in great haste. Ahead of them was a familiar figure being pursued. Ye Chen froze, then blanched. “Damn, isn’t that me?”

Unknowingly, Ye Chen had slipped back into that dream again. He watched with his own eyes as he was being hunted down inside the dream. He took a step forward, but those people simply passed through his body. He had no power at all to stop their pursuit.

Among that group of men in black, Ye Chen could not make out a single face. But the woman was different. Her exquisite beauty never changed. One glance was enough to draw any eye to her. Ye Chen looked at her and felt an uncanny familiarity, as though he had seen her before.

“Today you kill me, Ye Chen. In my next life, I will repay this tenfold!”

He watched himself standing on the cliff, drenched in blood from head to toe, glaring at the crowd before him. Then he hurled himself straight over the edge. The men in black rushed forward at once. Beneath the cliff lay rolling clouds, and Ye Chen’s shadow vanished from sight.

Then, as if something had yanked at him, Ye Chen suddenly fell from the cliff.

Thud.

He landed heavily on the floor and instantly opened his eyes. Looking around at the familiar room, he shook his head helplessly. “Sigh, that dream again. Why is it always this same endless dream?”

He scrambled to his feet and rubbed his painfully sore nose. The fall had been direct and humiliating, face first into the ground. After getting up, he felt his bladder aching badly. He had drunk far too much last night, and when he woke up that morning, he was bursting to go. On top of that, he had morning wood, which only made him even more desperate to relieve himself. Habitually, he headed for the bathroom.

Half-awake and groggy, he did not hear the rustling sound coming from inside. So he pushed the bathroom door open almost without resistance.

There was no toilet in Ye Chen’s place. Apartments like this all had squat toilets. The moment he opened the door, he froze.

Inside, a goddess-like beauty was squatting there. She had pulled up her towel and was facing the door, and the woman’s most private place was laid bare before Ye Chen’s eyes.

Li Ruo had also woken up early and felt terribly full in the stomach. She had rushed out of bed, seen that Ye Chen was still asleep, and hurried into the bathroom. Because she was in such a rush, and because Ye Chen was asleep, she had not bothered to close the door. She was used to sitting on a toilet, and at first she simply could not bring herself to urinate in a squat pan like this. So she had no choice but to keep holding it in...

Just as she was gathering herself, the bathroom door was suddenly pushed open. Startled, Li Ruo looked up to see Ye Chen stumbling in half-dazed, one hand still fumbling down inside his trousers. From within, he pulled out a monstrously huge, pitch-black thing, baring its fierce and terrifying shape straight at her.

Li Ruo went completely blank. And in that instant, she suddenly lost control. Urine spilled from beneath her at once.

Sss...

Ye Chen’s eyes flew wide open. He stared in shock at Li Ruo. She was wrapped in nothing but a bath towel. Her twin peaks were pressed together by her thighs, forming two tender, snow-white buns that were impossible not to want to bite into. And lower down, Ye Chen nearly had a nosebleed. It was a flat expanse, a sparse little thicket, and beyond that, the most irresistibly tempting place in the world to a man.

“My God, what a gorgeous pink little flower...” Ye Chen could not help blurting out.

“Aahh!”

Li Ruo finally came to herself. She let out a shriek so piercing it seemed to split heaven and earth.

Ye Chen hurriedly clapped his hands over his ears and retreated, not even having time to escort the thing in his trousers back to its nest. He rushed out in a panic, quickly washed his face in the bathroom sink, then looked at himself in the mirror, still startled and bewildered. He slapped his own cheeks and said in disbelief, “Damn... was that just a dream?”

Stiffly, he walked to the sofa and sat down. The scene from moments ago replayed in his mind, especially the posture Li Ruo had been in, so alluring and so helplessly provocative. That patch of light-brown hair, the faint cleft beneath it... A surge of wicked fire rose in Ye Chen’s abdomen, and in that instant the thing in his trousers stood up again.

He patted both sides of his face and muttered, “Damn, am I dreaming some kind of filthy spring dream?”

Ye Chen could not believe it, nor dare believe that what he had just seen was real. Just as he was about to head back to the bathroom, Li Ruo came out from inside. She was wrapped tightly in her towel, her face utterly miserable, the faint blush of embarrassment spreading over her skin. She did not look at Ye Chen. Instead, she walked straight into the bedroom.

Ye Chen hurriedly called out, “Li... Li Ruo!”

Li Ruo paused slightly and turned to look at him. Her eyes were flooded with tears, and behind those tears was boundless hatred. That tangible resentment almost seemed capable of strangling Ye Chen on the spot.

She glared at him and said, “Are you satisfied now?”

“I... I didn’t mean it,” Ye Chen said awkwardly.

“Is that your answer to me?” Li Ruo said coldly. “Maybe in a man’s heart, there is only ever a woman’s body. You come near women only for our bodies. What you seek is nothing more than that instant of release within a woman.”

Her words left Ye Chen rooted to the spot, stunned and unmoving. Li Ruo’s expression, her eyes, and those heartbreaking tears all told him that this woman must have a miserable story hidden behind her. In that instant, Ye Chen suddenly felt as if his heart had been gripped shut. He clutched at his chest in pain, his face turning deathly pale, cold beads of sweat sliding down from his forehead and hitting the floor.

Li Ruo turned and went back into the bedroom. A little later, she changed into the clothes she had worn the night before, tidied herself up briefly, and came back out.

“Where are you going?” Ye Chen asked quickly.

“To work.” Li Ruo gave him a cold look, then turned and headed for the door. Just before leaving, she fixed him with an icy stare and said, “If you dare tell anyone what happened today, I won’t let you off.”

With that, she slammed the door shut.

The sound rang out like a crisp crack, as if a pane of glass had fallen and shattered. Li Ruo’s heart seemed to break just like that fragile glass bead. For some reason, a trace of hatred had actually taken root in her heart toward Ye Chen. Perhaps it was because he had seen everything there was to see, leaving nothing hidden between them from this point on. That bastard had stripped her bare with his eyes, and what was even more humiliating was that he had seen her shameful place too. Thinking of this, Li Ruo’s grievance turned into drops of tears. She got into her Ferrari, pressed the ignition with one touch, and slammed down hard on the accelerator. The car shot out like an arrow released from a bow, disappearing in the blink of an eye from Xinhai Apartments.

Ye Chen sat on the sofa, staring straight ahead, as though some distant future held something he longed for with all his heart.

“Ha... a woman’s heart is impossible to fathom,” he sighed helplessly.

Then he washed up briefly, changed his clothes, and figured there was no way he could go to the company now. Li Ruo already hated him to the bone. He would find time later to show up at the office, hand in a resignation letter, and leave this damned place once and for all. He had been hunted again and again. It was time to go.

Ye Chen went downstairs, bought five meat buns, devoured them in a frenzy, and then drove straight to Hot Pot City.

The renovations there were still in full swing. The younger brothers were all busy as bees, exhausted but willing, every one of them working with enthusiasm. Jiang Wei had already become quite friendly with Feng Zhi Xiao. In truth, Jiang Wei was a good kid at heart. It was only that his relationship with his family was poor. Adolescents were rebellious by nature, all of them eager to prove themselves yet unable to find a proper chance to do so, which made them easy to use.

This time, when he heard that Ye Chen was opening a casino, Jiang Wei naturally felt that his chance to prove himself had finally arrived. So long as he could make a pile of money, his parents would surely stop nagging him about being good for nothing. Because of that, Jiang Wei had put a great deal of emotion into this casino as well.

After several days of renovation, things were almost finished. These people had been working overtime alongside the Tianya Group’s renovation crew. When the Tianya crew knocked off for the day, Feng Zhi Xiao and the others were still in there hustling with their men, simply so the casino could open sooner.

“Brother Chen, you’re here?” Feng Zhi Xiao was wearing old work clothes and a construction helmet, his body already splattered with white plaster. When he saw Ye Chen come in, he quickly set down his brush, tossed it into a bucket beside him, then pulled a pack of Furong King cigarettes from his pocket and handed one to Ye Chen. “Brother Chen, why aren’t you at work today?”

“Work my ass, I’m quitting,” Ye Chen said, taking the cigarette and sniffing it. Then he asked curiously, “Hey, you brat, the casino isn’t even open yet, and you’ve already started smoking Furong King?”

“How could I afford that? Jiang Wei gave it to me,” Feng Zhi Xiao said with a grin.

“Where is Jiang Wei?” Ye Chen asked, momentarily stunned.