Chapter 1 He’s Just Pretending to Be Drunk

“For the first step, I’ll disguise myself and slip into Derie Club, and make Khalid Marsh drunk before bringing him to the hotel. That will do it.” Fern Woods read out this sentence and then put down a tick at the end of the first sentence in her simple plan. “For the next step, I’ll strip him naked and then sleep with him!” When she was formulating the plan, she was in high spirits, hence she had added a few exclamation mark behind this sentence. Now that she was reading out loud, she felt strangely invigorated. Just when she had just finished reading this sentence, she looked into the mirror and her eyes fell on the big bed in the room. She could make out the slender figure of a man lying on the bed, and slight fear gripped her heart. “Uh… I should just skip this step, let’s see what’s after this.” She was talking to reflection in the mirror. This was her little habit. Whenever she was lacking in confidence, she would cheer for herself by talking to herself through the mirror. “The third step will be informing those reporters that know this, and let them come to the hotel to intercept us. They would report our lustful meeting to the world.” When she was saying this, a smug appeared on her delicate face, “I need to let Cleo Woods how does it feel like when her beloved person has slept with another woman!” Fern started to imagine how furious Cleo would be and she was delighted at what appeared in her mind. She then snapped back her attention towards her plan. “Ok, back to the second step, how should I sleep with him? He’s too drunk now, he won’t be able to actually sleep with me. How can I lead him to believe that we’ve have sex with each other?” Fern knitted her eyebrows as she gave it a hard thought. When she was buried in her thoughts, she didn’t notice the person who should remain motionless to slightly shift around on the big bed. Because he had been keeping a posture for too long, Khalid was a little tired, he wanted to change into a more comfortable posture. Fern really thought that he was drunk, but in actuality he was never drunk from the beginning. He was just pretending to be drunk. The reason for this had to be understood from what happened an hour ago. Just as Fern had been planning all along, she had disguised herself as a hostess in Derie Club. She had carried some liquor into Khalid’s private room where he was invited by a few persons in charge of their merger company. There didn’t maintain any secrecy about this meeting so it was not hard to get hold of this piece of news. What’s difficult was that Fern was actually courageous enough to break through his security and served him beer by herself. Alright, it was an overstatement to say that she had broken through the heavy security since that there were rarely any people around him at that time. People who knew him was familiar with his rules, that no one could be near him within a one meter radius with him as the center. He actually loathed having any physical contact with anyone, especially with someone of the opposite sex. Those who defied him would be doomed. But in this respect, not only Fern was a member of the opposite sex, she was also an outlier! When Khalid saw her coming in through the door and stumbled into his embrace, in just a span of a few seconds, he was not able to react. When he came to his senses, not only was Fern already buried in his arms, she was actually molesting him! His natural reaction would be to knock her away, but he had restrained himself, because although Fern was in close contact with him, he discovered that he did not loathe this sensation. He thought that this was just an illusion, but he had confirmed this after letting her trace him all over his body. He really did not hate Fern’s touch. “Sir, I’m sorry, as an apology I’ll greet you with this glass of wine, is that okay?” Fern saw that things had panned out according to her plan and it was going smooth, she quickly poured a glass of wine and presented it in front of Khalid. Fern had been too focused on Khalid alone that she didn’t notice the awkward silence that had enveloped the atmosphere. The initially noisy room was instantly devoid of any sound the moment she had thrown herself into his arms. The people were waiting with bated breath to see what terrible fate would befall Fern! But to their surprise, Khalid just stared at Fern seriously, although his aura was creating an immense pressure on the people around him, but he didn’t get infuriated. Instead, he just accepted the glass of wine and gulped down the wine in one go. Fern saw that he had accepted the wine, so she immediately gave him a second glass. The petrified onlookers slowly relaxed as they looked at Fern feeling extremely impressed. She had dared to offend Khalid, that was really insane! Fern sent glasses of wine over and over again to Khalid in the next moments. Although he could see that she had some ulterior motive, and it would take a stupid person not to realize that, but he didn’t protest as he continued drinking the win. After that, as if he was following a script, he had become drunken beyond help. Khalid was very handsome, and his family background was superior and impressive. All of these would cause a frenzy among women in City A. Therefore, it was no surprise that people who wanted to sleep with him or seduced him were countless. But among these woman, Fern was definitely the bravest. From the beginning when she started her plan to get him drunk, she was full of opening. If he had really wanted to punish her, she would have been dead a hundred times. Perhaps it had been too long a time when he used to be in close proximity with another person, and it had made him forget about the warmth stemming from such encounter. He wanted to experience all of these again, so he didn’t stop Fern from taking him to a hotel. But she was just all words and no action so far as Khalid peeked at Fern who was encouraging herself by talking to her reflection in the mirror. It had been a while but nothing had happened so far, because she looked like she was finally scared of actually doing it. Fern was blabbering to herself non-stop in front of the mirror, much like someone with schizophrenia. “Fern Woods, look at me now, there’s a gorgeous guy in front of you, you can’t back off now. If you retreat, all your efforts would be wasted, and you can’t slap Cleo in the face anymore. Think about it, Cleo was so despicable, and your chance to pay back to her is right in front of you. If you missed it there would be no second chance!” Fern was staying true to her roles, she was even shaking her own shoulders while she was saying this. Khalid felt ridiculous looking at what she was doing and he was on the brink of laughing out loud. He immediately took out his phone and sent a message to his assistant. “Alright!” Fern shouted at the mirror, “In order to take down Cleo, I will do anything that it takes!” After saying that, she marched vehemently towards the bed. She was too sudden in walking towards him, he was almost not able to return his phone back to his pocket. “Mr. Marsh? Can you hear me?” Fern poked Khalid’s arm while probing him. The latter didn’t show any response, he’s playing his role as a drunkard very well. “If you can’t give any response, then don’t blame me for what is going to happen!” She rubbed her hands and sunk into a dilemma, “How should I start this?” Was she treating him like a dumpling right now? Khalid was very speechless. Fern was walking back and forth beside the bed, and in the face of Khalid’s mesmerizing face, she found herself unable to act according to her plan. If this was anybody else who was drunk, they would look miserable and pathetic. But Khalid was different, not only his handsomeness didn’t fall off, he looked like he was not drunk at all, dozing off like a normal person. When he closed his eyes like this, he didn’t give off an immense aura like he normally would. He looked like an ominous statue which was holy and undeniable. Fern breathed in and out several times, and by the time she wanted to lay her hands on the buttons of his shirt, she retrieved her hand out of fear at the last second. Just as she was repeating the same movement for the fifth time, the “drunk” Khalid finally couldn’t hold it in anymore, he directly lashed out and grabbed her onto the bed, then pinning her underneath his body. “Ah!” Fern felt that everything around her was spinning as she shouted suddenly.