“You can’t escape from me.” Xu Liao came over and grasped her hand, then held her slender wrist. His deliberately lowered voice sounded particularly creepy. “Now everyone is participating in various activities at the banquet. And there are many more exciting activities after the swimming competition. No one will save you even if you manage to escape. If you obey me, I can be gentle with you.”
“Let go of me!” Shen Qi managed to withdraw her hand and took a few steps back.
She wondered why she could not feel the strength in her body.
Shen Qi looked at her trembling fingers, her fair face getting redder.
She could feel a stream of heat rising from her abdomen, and she found this feeling familiar. It was the same as when she was taken away by Lu Xunchang and locked in a room. Could it be that she was drugged again?
As soon as this thought came up, Shen Qi felt despondent.
“Shen, I told you to be with me before, but you disagreed. So I have no choice but to do this to you. You have to know that I still like you very much. As long as you’re obedient today, I promise no one will dare to bully you in the department. How about that?”
Shen Qi leant against the cold wall as she pinched her thigh forcefully in an attempt to stay awake.
Then, she saw that Xu Liao was moving toward her and unbuttoning his shirt at the same time. His eyes beamed with an obscene glare, like the glare of a beast in this dimly lit room.
No…
She could not lose her modesty here.
If her modesty was really violated by Xu Liao, then in the future Ye Moxuan would be even more contemptuous of her, and would deem her to be dirty.
No! No way!
Before Xu Liao could come near, Shen Qi gathered all her energy and pushed him away.
“If you dare to touch even a strand of my hair, I will haunt you even in death!”
Xu Liao had thought she was weak and powerless when he was pushed away. With a thud, he collapsed onto the floor.
“What? Has the drug not gotten in your blood yet? How come you still have so much strength?”
“So it’s you who drugged me!” Shen Qi snarled.
“Shen. Don’t blame me. It’s because you’re too stubborn, so I have to use some tricks.”
“How despicable!” Shen Qi bit her lip. In her remaining consciousness, she said, “Don’t you know that I’m with Ye Moxuan?”
“Who? Young Master Ye?”
“Did you think that I was demoted because he didn’t want me anymore?” Shen Qi leant against the wall, panting and staring angrily at him. “If he really didn’t want me anymore, why was I demoted instead of being expelled directly?”
Xu Liao was stunned by what she said and could not give any response for a while.
“What do you mean by that? Are you really with Young Master Ye?”
“That’s right!”
Shen Qi was doing all she could to save herself. She bit her lip and said, “He’s just mad at me. He demoted me just to vent his anger. If he really didn’t want to see me anymore, he wouldn’t keep me here. He did that because one day he would want me back at his side!”
Shen Qi did not even believe in what she was saying, but she had no other choices. Everyone was at the banquet now and she was in this ruin, no one would come to rescue her no matter how hard she shouted.
“Is it true?” Xu Liao was dumbfounded. If Shen Qi was right, then he would not dare to touch her.
He would lose his job if he laid a hand on her.
“If you let me go now, I can pretend that nothing ever happened and I won’t expose you. We’ll still be colleagues as before. But if you dare to touch me… I swear, even in death, I will pull you down from that position. Manager Xu, you won’t do this kind of thing that doesn’t pay off, right?”
Xu Liao became silent with his eyes shut, thinking.
“Xu Liao, don’t be fooled by her. She’s been transferred to our department for a long time already. If Young Master Ye really misses her, she wouldn’t have been sent to your department in the first place.” A voice was heard from outside. It was Cui Minli, who was here to guard the place.
She heard clearly what was going on inside.
She was afraid that Xu Liao would be fooled, so she immediately warned him.
Xu Liao was taken aback for a moment. “Yeah, if Young Master Ye really missed you, how come he wouldn’t even take a look at you? How dare you lie to me!”
“I’m not lying to you!” Shen Qi snarled. “I have made my point clear. Think it over! Do you want your career or me?”
“Xu Liao, you don’t have to choose. You can have both. Don’t forget that we have Qiang Wei; she’ll help you. You won’t lose your job.”
“Who’s Qiang Wei?” Shen Qi sneered. “Is she more powerful than Ye Moxuan?”
Xu Liao was at a loss.
But Shen Qi could no longer wait. She could feel the stream of heat coming from her abdomen and it was overcoming her. If she dragged on any longer, she was afraid that she could not stay conscious anymore.
Damn it!
Shen Qi raised her hand and bit her fingers to keep herself awake.
She slowly walked toward the door as she said, “With your position, you can have any woman you want… don’t suffer a setback because of me. Come here and open the door.”
“Xu Liao, don’t listen to her! It’s the one and only chance that you have longed for. If you miss this chance, you would never have another! Xu Liao!”
With her reminder, Xu Liao came to his senses.
Yeah… I have longed for this woman for a long time. It’s until this anniversary party that I finally have a chance. If I let her go now…
“And, if you sleep with her now, she’ll be nothing more than a loose woman. Even if she really had something with Young Master Ye, he’d never want a loose woman anymore. So you don’t have to be afraid of her.”
Shen Qi’s face turned pale. She lunged toward the door in an attempt to open it. Xu Liao came around and pounced on her, hugging her and laughing grossly.
“That’s right. If you dare to spread it, I’ll tell everyone you seduced me, and Young Master Ye won’t blame me.”
“Argh! Let go of me!” Shen Qi raised her hand and hit backward. Xu Liao snorted, then grasped her shoulders and tore off her tulle shawl, exposing a large area of her chest.
In that instant, Xu Liao was mesmerized by what he saw.
“Shen…” Xu Liao swallowed hard, as though he was possessed. “As long as you listen to me, I promise I will give you anything you want!”
The door could not be opened, so Shen Qi could only run inwards and went to the other side of the table. “Don’t come near me.”
Hearing the noises inside, Cui Minli’s lips curled into a wicked smile.
On the other hand, the activities at the banquet were going on as usual.
Yan was halfway through the swimming competition when she noticed that Shen Qi was not around. She became absent-minded and without her noticing, Han Xueyou surpassed her and won the competition.
“Didn’t you say you’d win? Why did you become so slow? Were you running out of energy?”
Upon hearing that, Yan gave her a cold gaze and said, “Don’t overestimate yourself. Didn’t you notice that your friend is missing?”
Han Xueyou was stunned. Her gaze swept across the place; she really couldn’t find Shen Qi.
