Evan Lin was stunned, his gaze growing deeper and more contemplative. But when he looked up at Lily Zhong standing before him, he was momentarily taken aback.
Lily Zhong bit her lip, her expression complicated as she gazed at Evan, a chill glint in her eyes.
"Does it look good?" Lily Zhong asked Evan.
"Uh..." Evan really didn’t know how to answer that.
But what surprised Evan even more was that Lily Zhong walked a few steps toward the door, made sure to lock it, then turned around and took off her black trench coat, revealing the brown shirt underneath.
The brown shirt was rather tight and its neckline was low. Without the protection of the trench coat, Lily’s alluring figure was instantly exposed.
She strode forward in two steps and stood right in front of Evan.
Evan could smell a faint fragrance wafting from Lily’s body, a scent as pleasant as a flower just in bloom.
"Ms. Zhong, what are you doing?" Evan was confused, trying to make his tone sound as natural as possible.
"Isn’t this what you’ve always wanted? Ever since you came to my house for tutoring you’ve been staring at me. Are all men just bad news?" Lily glared at Evan, her face flushed but her voice icy cold.
Her eyes were filled with disgust and disdain as she stared at Evan, and Evan stared right back at her.
Seeing Lily Zhong so different from her usual self, Evan’s mind went blank for a moment. His body reacted, but his rationality held firm.
"What do you mean by that?" Evan took a deep breath, trying to steady himself.
Unexpectedly, Lily Zhong grabbed Evan’s left hand and pressed it to her chest.
A soft, delicate sensation spread across Evan’s palm, and at the same time, streams of spiritual qi began to flow like gentle currents.
That spiritual qi gathered from Lily’s chest and poured into Evan’s left hand.
Evan’s mind instantly cleared. The spiritual qi wasn’t vast or overwhelming, nor was it abundant, but it was pure enough.
Evan looked at Lily Zhong in front of him. Lily had closed her eyes, biting her lip hard, looking as if she was offering herself up. But that unwilling expression stirred something in Evan’s heart.
Lily kept her eyes shut and didn’t notice the change in Evan’s expression. All she felt was a warm current moving inside her body, and wherever it passed, her skin trembled uncontrollably.
Pleasure.
The feeling of pleasure almost made Lily Zhong cry out loud for a moment.
But she felt a deep unwillingness—unwilling to give herself away before meeting someone she truly loved.
Maybe this is just fate.
Evan had saved her more than once, and now, because of her, he’d gotten into big trouble with the Xiao family. If the Xiao family came after Evan, Lily resolved that she would never let Shawn Young have his way.
If worst came to worst, she’d go to Shawn Young herself—but she refused to let that beast take her untouched body.
With her mind made up, Lily Zhong forced herself to endure her shame and anger.
But the hand resting on her chest didn’t move any further.
Sigh.
Lily Zhong heard the sound of a sigh.
Right after, Evan’s hand left her chest.
For some reason, in that instant, Lily Zhong suddenly felt a pang of disappointment in her heart.
Evan bent down, picked up the trench coat from the floor, and draped it over Lily’s shoulders. Then he turned and walked toward the door.
"It’s late, Ms. Zhong. We should head back to school."
Evan’s voice was utterly emotionless. Hearing it, Lily Zhong opened her eyes and saw Evan standing at the door, his face blank, and her heart trembled.
"If you really see me as just another guy who only wants you, then I have nothing more to say." Evan shook his head.
What interested him most was the spiritual qi in Lily Zhong, not her body. This whole thing had just been a misunderstanding.
"I..."
Lily wanted to explain, but seeing Evan’s emotionless face, she suddenly couldn’t say a word.
Her heart filled with grievance.
But this grievance, she had no one to tell.
Evan walked ahead, while Lily Zhong hung her head and followed behind him like a child who’d done something wrong, leaving Imperial Grand.
Lily felt a bit of regret, but she didn’t know how to apologize.
In the van outside Imperial Grand, Jace was already getting impatient. When he saw Evan and Lily, his eyes narrowed.
"Big Tank! They’re out—it’s them!"
Jace was thrilled: "I never thought Ms. Zhong would come to Imperial Grand just to meet her student."
None of them had seen Evan go in, so they naturally assumed he’d been inside all along, and that Lily had taken a cab here just to meet him.
"Damn, that bitch! Pretends to be pure at school, but behind the scenes she’s really doing this kind of thing with her student!" Jack Zhang, his face flushed, cursed from the back seat.
"All that effort I put in trying to win her over—movies, dinners—and she turns out to be this kind of woman!"
Jack remembered running into Evan at Lily Zhong’s house before, and now he was convinced they’d been hooking up since then.
A man and a woman alone in a room—what else could they be doing?
Thinking about all this, Jack Zhang got angrier and angrily slapped his thigh.
But instead of hitting his own leg, his hand landed on Big Tank’s massive thigh, which took up half the van thanks to his size.
Smack!
The slap rang out clearly.
"You damn bastard, you dare hit me!" Big Tank sucked in a breath, then punched Jack Zhang in the face, slamming him against the window.
"Out of the van! I’ve been pissed off all day. You guys take care of that punk, and as for the woman—I’m the boss, I go first!" Big Tank yanked open the van door and leapt out, his mountain-like figure followed by his underlings, all strutting aggressively.
Jack Zhang quickly scrambled out after them—he wouldn’t miss a chance to show off.
Seeing these guys, Lily Zhong’s face turned pale.
"Lily Zhong, Evan Lin, we meet again!"
Jack Zhang shouted at Evan and Lily from a distance, his tone sinister.
"This is Big Tank from next to Peaceview District. Evan Lin, you’re dead meat!" Jack Zhang yelled. Just Big Tank’s mountain-like build was enough to intimidate anyone.
Big Tank glanced at Evan, then looked at Lily, his eyes full of satisfaction and lust.
"Not bad, a real beauty—long legs, great ass, round boobs. I like it! Haha!" Big Tank didn’t even bother to acknowledge Evan.
A skinny kid like that—one fart and he’d be squashed flat.
Evan glanced coldly at the group, but before he could say anything, Charlie Liang rushed out from the doors of Imperial Grand KTV.