Chapter 17 Perverse Punishment

Love is like foam, so fragile that the slightest touch will shatter it.

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Xue Zuining watched the figure fading in the rearview mirror, her tear-soaked eyes finally closing in pain. Chen Sang, farewell...

Lu Huaining’s cold, furious gaze swept over the figure curled up in the corner. Watching her trembling, convulsing shoulders, his grip on the steering wheel tightened unconsciously. He pressed down on the accelerator, and the speeding sports car shot toward the foot of the mountain like an arrow loosed from its bow. Not every station is the first to publish romance novels—search and you’ll know.

“Whoosh—”

The screeching brakes left a long mark on the ground. Xue Zuining lifted her gaze from the crook of her arm, realizing that in just ten minutes she had arrived at the mountain’s base. But before she could turn around, the man behind her seized her chin, forcing her to face him.

“Smile for me!” Lu Huaining’s cold sneer glinted in his eyes as his hands pinched her cheeks, compelling her to produce a twisted smile. “Did you hear me? Smile! Smile for me!”

Xue Zuining felt as if her face were nothing more than dough being kneaded at will in the man’s palms. She forced herself to ignore, to disregard—but the structure of the human body made her acutely aware of the pain. She shook her head desperately, trying to break free, but the ring on his finger scraped her skin. In agony, she opened her mouth, and as her teeth grazed his finger, he