Chapter 1
Xia Mao soaked in the bathtub for what could have been an hour, then carefully applied body lotion to her body under the watchful eye of the maids, before being led into a small room by the maids in a thin robe.
"Madam has ordered you to watch TV here first, learn some moves from the people in there, don't be like a log at night, you have to take the initiative." The maid's voice was cold and full of sarcasm.
Let her take the initiative?
Xia Mao nodded in understanding, and then sat down on the sofa opposite the TV.
To her surprise, the TV was showing a film like that!
The simple, rough and direct nature of the naked man and woman dazzled Summer.
Curious and feeling ...... sick to her stomach at the same time, she closed her eyes with a red face, but the sound squeezed into her ears again so pervasively that she couldn't hide from it.
"Turn it off!" She tilted her head sideways and said with some embarrassment to the unblinking servant beside her.
"Madame said you have to take the initiative at night." The servant had a wooden face, staring at her like a robot.
Xia Mao's body shuddered, making her act like a woman in a film?
How was that possible?
The maid sitting next to her was like a prison guard watching a felon, as if she was ready to rush forward at any moment and pull her head back and open her eyes.
Xia Mao was forced to watch the TV until she watched it twice before the door was pushed open from outside.
"Madam said it's okay to go over."
Like a puppet, Xia Mao was taken to the door of a room.
"Remember! You have to take the initiative!" The maid handed her a pill as she opened the door, reminding her again, "Take this, it has to be done tonight!"
Then with a push behind her back, she was pushed into the room.
The room was dark with a thick blackout cloth drawn over it, and there was not even a night light.
Summer stood in the doorway for a moment before biting her lower lip and feeling her way forward step by step.
Finally, trembling, she reached the bed, then followed the edge of the bed and carefully climbed up, and further on, she felt a hot body, naked and not wearing anything.
Summer retracted her hand as if she had been electrocuted, but when she thought of the million dollars, she had to reach out again and run her hand down his waist...
She was relieved to find that the man was not moving at all, not reacting at all, and it seemed that he had either fainted or fallen asleep.
She gritted her teeth and, with the idea of early death and early reincarnation, followed the pattern of the women on TV and put her small hand on the spot in front of his body.
The dazed man, caught off guard by her grip, was instantly awake and couldn't help but curse out, "Holy shit!"
With one long arm, he brought the woman in front of him into his arms and proceeded to crush her beneath him.
Lips full of the scent of wine were jammed unerringly on her cherry lips, muffling all her cries of alarm.
By instinct, the man removed the layer of robe from her body, then took it upon himself to touch the plump Ying in front of her body, feeling it change into different shapes in his hands.
How could the innocent and simple Summer end up being tantalised like this?
It didn't take long for the drugs in her body to take effect, her slender arms wrapped around the man's shoulders and she kept rubbing her body against his with some eagerness, wanting more, but not knowing exactly what she wanted.
The man teased the corners of his lips and gave her a light kiss on the top of her head, before he started straight into Maejo, and when he hit that barrier, his form paused slightly and he whispered, "Good girl, baby!"
Then he buried himself deep inside her ......
"Ah-" Xia Mao shrieked out in pain, she felt a tearing pain, and she realized with a moment of clarity: she was finished!
"You let go of me!" Like a dying fish, Xia Mao suddenly developed a strong desire to live, she pushed hard against the man on top of her, "You let go of me!"
"Good girl! It'll only take a moment! Do as you're told!" The man was like a delirious patient, firmly in control of her body, just kept repeating the words, "It won't hurt anymore, be good!"
Xia Mao twisted her body hard, kicking and punching her legs, trying to get rid of the man pressed against her.
But ...... her squirming did not shake the man in the slightest, but made him enter even more thoroughly ......
With the man's movements, Xia Mao slowly stopped resisting, this is the price of a million, how can she forget it?
The drug in her body slowly took effect again, and she reached out and wrapped her arms around his neck, two tears flowing silently from the corners of her closed eyes.
The man was like a crazed beast, tirelessly venting his valley of desire on her body, over and over again, and although she had also taken the stimulant, and indeed felt the deadly pleasure, she passed out after her first experience ......
The man who had given half a night's vent retired from her, and after resting on his back for a few minutes, opened his clear eyes, a coldness flashed in them, and reached out to push the woman beside him away without pity, and the woman was pushed aside unresponsively.
He stood up and pulled the bed curtain open a crack in his bare feet.
Smiling coldly, he put on his own clothes and walked out of the room without even looking at the woman on the bed.
In the living room, he saw his wife, Lu Wanru, sitting gently and virtuously on the sofa.
"Up?" Lu Wanru smiled at the man, sweeping the corner of her eye at the maid at the stairway and seeing her quickly walking up the stairs before asking in a soft voice, "Are you eating here, or are you going out?"
"I ate too much last night, I'm not hungry!" The man grunted and brushed past her, stopping again as his hand would press on the door handle and said, "Since I promised you, I won't go back on my promise, and please don't drug me again, you don't want to give birth to a child that is stupid, do you?"
Lu Wanru stood in front of the window, watching him stride out of the small courtyard, slightly red-eyed.
"Madam, why are you suffering?" Next to her, Wu Ma poured her a cup of warm water with some heartache, "Sir still has feelings for you."
"Wu Ma, that woman is back, she won't be able to tolerate me," Lu Wanru picked up the glass of water and took a sip, "If I let her have the baby first, I will really have done my job as Madam Leng."
Wu's mother, who was well aware of the problems involved, could only give a silent sigh.
"Don't give that Xia Mao any more medicine, and don't give any more medicine to sir," Lu Wanru let out a long breath, "This child is very important, there can't be any slip-ups."
"Then let her and sir meet each other, in case ......" Wu Ma asked with some concern as she remembered Xia Mao's innocent and delicate little face.
"If he does fall for Xia Mao, it's just the right time to piss that woman off! It's just a pity that your husband's heart is steadfast." Lu Wanru laughed coldly twice, but thinking that she still wanted a child, she changed her tone and said, "Blindfold Xia Mao, so that she doesn't pester her husband and make him sick of the child because of her."
Chapter 2
Ten days ago, L city.
It was a cold November evening, and all the pedestrians on the road were in a hurry to get back to their warm homes.
Xia Mao, on the other hand, was carrying her school bag and walking downstairs to her house in three steps.
Just as she reached the corner of the stairs to her flat, she heard the sound of "ping pong" coming from upstairs.
Her body shuddered, but she ran upstairs as fast as she could.
The door to her house was wide open and the sounds of cursing men and crying women kept coming from inside.
"Daddy!" Xia Mao stood in the doorway with tears in her eyes, looking at the messy home, her parents who were writhing together with their grey heads and faces, her heart clenched together.
Xia Zhixiong's angry curses stopped abruptly and his hand, still gripping his wife's hair, loosened at the same time.
Ma Yi was also busy straightening up and wiping the tears off her face with her hands.
Both looked towards the doorway at the same time and saw their eighteen year old daughter.
"I'll go first."
Xia Zhixiong glanced at his daughter with chagrin, picked up a plastic bag on the floor and was about to leave.
But Ma Yi jumped up as if she had been stabbed by a needle and went to grab the bag from her husband's hand, "Give me the money!"
Xia Zhixiong was obviously on guard against Ma Yi, and as she leapt up, he was already one step ahead of her, raising his hand and swinging a slap at her.
"With a loud snap, Mai screamed out with the sound and then fell backwards into the corner.
Like a bloodstained doll, her head drooped lifelessly.
"Mummy!" Summer was shocked and ran crying to Mai's side, picking up her mother and seeing the bright red smear of blood on the wall, she reached out and touched the back of Mai's head, immediately stunned, she cried out and looked to her father.
But in the room, where else was her father?
Summer ended up hugging her mother's body and crying out ......
The sound of pulling and footsteps came from the stairs, then an older young boy came running in, looking at the two sitting on the floor and calling out urgently, "Xia Mao? What's wrong?"
"Third brother ...... my mother ......," Xia Mao was like seeing a life-saving straw and clung to his hand, "my mother is hurt. "
Only then did Song Jia Nan see the blood on the wall and the blood on Xia Mao's hand, and as soon as he bent down, he picked up Ma Yi and then said to Xia Mao next to him, "Take your mother to the hospital first."
Xia Mao stood up and went to rummage through her mother's bag, which only had about fifty yuan, and she went to rummage through her mother's coat ......
"Don't look for it, take it from my mum first." Song Jia Nan was a bit anxious and took a few steps out of the room first, Xia Mo hesitated and ran downstairs after him as well.
At the door of the first floor, Song Jia Nan kicked twice at the door of his own room, Song's mother opened the door from inside with an anxious head and white face, "You still know to go back to ......"
"Mom, first get me five hundred yuan." Song Jia Nan said sharply.
Song mother's mouth opened, originally wanted to scold her son a few sentences, but looking at Ma Yi's head as if it was still dripping blood, only to pick up a piece of clothing from the door and put it on, then first step down the stairs, said, "I'll go call a car."
Xia Mao followed behind, weeping non-stop the whole time.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Xia Mao helped her mother, whose head was wrapped in gauze, to walk in front of her, and Song Jia Nan helped Song's mother to walk behind her, and several people walked into the door of the flat together.
When they reached the Song family on the first floor, Ma Yi stopped and looked back at Song's mother in embarrassment and said, "Thank you so much for today, the money ...... I will pay you back in a few days."
"There is no rush, when you have it, when you can talk about it." Song mother waved her hand, "You and Mamoru should also go home and rest quickly."
"Mom, you go home first, I'll ......"
Song Jia Nan thought of the mess at Xia Mao's house and wanted to go up to help clean it up, but his arm was tightly held by her mother.
"What time is it? You haven't finished your homework yet, do you know that?"
Song's mother reached out with a stern face and knocked on the door of her own house, saying sternly, "If you run around again, your father will break your legs!"
Ma Yi pulled her daughter's hand down awkwardly, and Xia Mao's eyes looked at Song Jia Nan twice before following her mother's lead and going upstairs in a soft voice.
Xia Mao stood at the door of her house and watched as the sensor lights downstairs went out and the corridor returned to its previous calm before she lifted her feet and stepped into the door of her house.
When Mai returned home, she closed the door behind her, then started to pack her daughter's things, then took out a packet of sanitary napkins from the bottom of a cupboard and walked to Xia Mao who was still standing in front of the door.
"Daughter, take this, hurry up and leave, never come back again, don't go to school yet either, find a place to hide and don't contact your mother again, wait for a while, no, after a year and a half, you can contact your mother again!"
Ma Yi said and cried sadly, "Why don't you go to D city, find your Aunt Heng, maybe go to her, no one will be able to find you."
"Mum, what's wrong?" Xia Mao froze, then took her mother's hand and cried along with her, "What's wrong? Where's my dad?"
As soon as she heard her daughter mention that man, the man she once thought she was relying on, Mai could no longer hold back her tears, "Your father ran away! He borrowed money from a loan shark and left us both behind, he took the family's valuable things and ran away alone!"
"Loan shark? Ran away?" Xia Mao seemed to hear a bolt from the blue, she stepped back and slid against the wall to the ground, what she had been worried about every day, what she had always feared had really happened, all her dreams had been shattered at this moment.
Her family was finished, she was finished, her dreams, her future, everything was finished ......
Before Mai could finish crying, the loan sharks came to the door.
Three tall, black-clad men, looking at the shivering mother and daughter, threatened in a fairly civilized manner, "Tell Xia Zhixiong not to play tricks, hurry up and pay me back the money, otherwise, you two will ...... just wait to receive clients to pay off your debts!"
A few people like hungry wolves, the eyes on Xia Mao's body hit a circle, finished and left.
The mother and daughter were terrified, Ma Yi forced Xia Mao out the door, "You first go to your Aunt Heng's at the address mum gave you, I'll think of a way to find your father, I'll get a divorce with him, and then mum will also go to you."
"Mum-" Xia Mao took her mother's hand and shook her head, refusing to go.
"Listen to your mother, go now, I'll find a public phone to call your Aunt Heng tomorrow night, be good, don't make your mother anxious," Ma Yi held back her tears and coaxed, "I'm here by myself, I'll be fine, don't be afraid, be good, go quickly, there's a thousand yuan in that sanitary napkin bag, you Be careful, don't lose it."
Xia Mao was still standing in the doorway shaking her head, refusing to go alone.
"Do you want me to get down on my knees and beg you? How can Mum leave if you don't go first?" Ma Yi's eyes were red with anxiety as she said, "We can't leave if we both go together, Mamoru, listen to your mother and go first!"
Xia Mao looked at the tears in her mother's eyes and finally went downstairs one step at a time, then held her backpack and ran towards the train station.
But when she reached the train station, looking at the empty square, her steps stopped again.
No! She couldn't leave her mother here alone!
She hesitated for a moment and then ran in the other opposite direction.
Chapter 3
At the entrance of the Star River Bar, Xia Mao clutched the school bag in her hand tightly to her chest, looking at the people coming in and out, in all shapes and sizes, and her heart tightened up.
It was the first time she had ever been to a place like this, but she still had the guts to walk in.
The bar was not as dark as she thought it would be, but was elegantly decorated in the dim light, and looked very warm and romantic.
She followed the sound of the music and walked towards the stage in the middle and saw Mona in a backless dress, heavily painted with smoky make-up, singing with her eyes closed in deep emotion, "...... embracing the fragrance of the night, kissing the fragrance of the night, the fragrance of the night I sing for you, the fragrance of the night I think about you ......"
What a beautiful song!
If it wasn't for the fact that her heart was scratching like a cat, Natsume would really like to stand here and listen to it all the time.
She had always known that Mona's singing was good, but she didn't know that it would be so good that it would make you feel like you were really in Shanghai in the 1930s.
When the song ended, Mona bowed to the stage and saw Xia Mao standing at the edge of the stage, standing out unusually.
She smiled and walked over to her and took Xia Mao's arm, saying, "Yo, you're a rare guest, what brings you here?"
She said as her eyes circled the school uniform she was wearing, "Our highly talented student, you're not skipping class, are you?"
"Nana, I'm looking for you in a hurry," said Summer's End, looking at her eagerly, "Do you have time to talk to me for a few minutes?"
"What's the matter, giving you such a rush?" Mona pulled her right up to the bar, sat down on a high chair and asked the bartender to make herself a cocktail while she asked for a glass of milk for Natsumo.
"Say, what is it?" Mona asked with a smile.
"Something's happened to my family." Summer ended up red-eyed before she opened her mouth.
Mona was busy standing up, pulling her down the corridor to the left of the bar and walking to the female staff changing room, pushing the door open and walking in before asking softly, "Don't cry yet, tell me, what's wrong?"
Summer ended up holding back her tears and told Mona about what had happened at home.
"Your father is a bastard!" Mona scolded, "Leaving you and your mother behind, he just pats himself on the back and runs away, is he still a human being?"
Xia Mo couldn't hold back any longer at this point, and with her head bowed, she whimpered and cried.
"What are you crying for?" Mona said angrily, "How much money does your dad owe?"
"My mum said it might have to be over a million ......"
"Over a million ...... million?" Mona almost jumped up, "Your dad's on white powder, right?"
"He lost his money speculating in stocks and borrowed from loan sharks." Xia Mao bit her lower lip and looked at Mona, saying with some sadness, "I can't go by myself, what about my mother if I go? That the newspapers and the internet say that loan sharks are vicious, what if they take my mother ......?"
"So what now?" Mo Na walked around the room and said with some annoyance, "I only have fifty thousand dollars in my hand, even if I go to borrow with my head arched, there is no way I can borrow more than a million ah?"
Summer's face flushed, "Nana, I don't want to borrow money from you, I just want to ask if there is a place where I can hire someone. I'd like to find a job, preferably one that makes quick money, is there one?"
"Fast money? Not unless you go into prostitution!" After saying that, Mona thought she had gone too far and said, "What, you're not going to school?"
"What's the point of going to school? My mother is afraid that the loan sharks will find me, so I have to hide somewhere else." Summer's face was full of misery as she walked over to the window and looked out at the bright lights, her voice low and ebullient like a sob, "I just want to save my mother now."
The first thing you need to do is to get the best out of it.
"Come on, I'll take you to see someone." Mona's eyes lit up and she suddenly thought of someone, and was busy pulling Xia Mao towards the door.
Holding her school bag that almost fell on the floor, Xia Mao asked in a suspicious voice, "Who are you taking me to see?"
"Just come with me!" Mona looked back at the schoolbag she was holding, "You don't even want to go to school anymore, why are you still holding that schoolbag?"
"It's got tampons in it from my mum ......"
"A bag of tampons?" Mona looked at her school bag twice more curiously, "What brand?"
"In the sanitary napkins, my mum hid a thousand dollars." Xia Mo said in a small voice.
The corners of Mona's eyes heated up and she almost didn't drop a tear.
Xia Mao, who was a year younger than herself, still acted like a child, and in her heart a thousand dollars was already quite a lot, but her family owed over a million!
"You two are going to sign a fifteen-year contract with the Star River Bar and then borrow a million from me?" Sister Qiu looked at Mona as if she had heard a fantasy from heaven, "Fifteen years from now, I don't even know if this bar will be there anymore, so I'll let you two come to my house and sing to me then?"
"How can that be? We're going to be immortalised in the Star River Bar, she and I sing beautifully, just sign us both up at my current salary and we'll sing at your place for fifteen years." Mona begged with a smile on her face, "We're really in trouble, Sister Qiu, just help us out!"
"How old is she?" Sister Qiu's heart looked in amusement at Xia Mao who was cowering behind her, "Still a student?"
"She's just turned eighteen," Mona said busily, "She's top of the year in her school exams every year, she's also pretty, she's the school flower of our school, and she sings well too, she's also pretty ......"
"Oh?" The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the market.
"Her family owes over a million dollars and she has no choice." Mo Na scoffed and skimmed her lips, "What's studying in front of money?"
Xia Mao listened from the back, her heart seemed to be dripping with blood.
No one knew how painful it was for her to be kept out of school, to be kept out of university!
She had studied so hard for so many years, dreaming of getting into a good university and becoming a university student, but at the last moment, it just came to an abrupt end, and no one knew how sad and unhappy she felt.
But what could she do otherwise?
"Over a million, that's a lot." Sister Qiu's eyes circled and suddenly remembered something, "I do know a method, it won't take ten years, just one year, to make you more than a million."
"What method?" Mona frowned and asked sharply first.
Xia Mao also looked at Sister Qiu with an expectant face.