"Spare Yaxing, and I will agree to your terms." She stood in front of Third Young Master Jun, coldly looking at him.

Third Young Master Jun sat in a large chair, his slender eyes looking condescendingly at her, scoffing, "I told you, you would come begging me personally! Since you are begging for mercy, do you think your defiant stance is appropriate? I don’t like your reluctant expression."

Ye Lu was seething with anger, desperate to slap this smirking face.

He did such despicable things to force her to comply, and then shamelessly uttered these words.

"I am not begging for mercy. You may force me to submit temporarily, but you cannot make me truly submit. Provoking innocent workers and leveraging their life-and-death situation to threaten me, your methods are beyond contempt. Third Young Master Jun, I have overestimated you."

She believed him to be at least a man of principle, but he turned out to be so underhanded.

"Incite the workers?" Third Young Master Jun furrowed his brows, "It wasn’t me."

"Do you think I would believe you?" Ye Lu sneered, who else could do such a thing to Yaxing other than this man without a bottom line, willing to resort to any means to achieve his goals?

Third Young Master Jun, smoldering with anger, responded, "I don’t care if you believe me or not, I only need you to obey me. From your body to your heart, submitting one step at a time."

"Over my dead body." Ye Lu responded through gritted teeth.

Third Young Master Jun arrogantly picked up a cigarette, took a puff, exhaled a faint smoke ring, regained his confident expression, and looked at her with an even more mocking gaze.

"If you’re so unwilling, you can leave. The door is behind you and no one’s stopping you. Don’t pretend as if I’m threatening you with a knife at your neck. With your attitude, you’re only enraging me and making things worse, which does no good. Do you want Yaxing’s situation to worsen even more?" 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Ye Lu’s face became pale, she was momentarily lost for words.

She came here today to resolve the crisis Yaxing was facing, but she was unable to control her own anger. If she genuinely angered this deranged man, and he made Yaxing’s situation worse in a fit of madness, then the situation would become truly unmanageable.

This damned jerk, he had hit her weak spot straight away. This bastard really knew how to play psychological warfare.

She would endure him for now. Some day, she would give him payback and strike him down.

"Fine, I yield. What do you want, Young Master Jun, before you let Yaxing go?"

Ye Lu softened her tone slightly, she felt this man was simply not willing to lose face and wanted to humiliate her.

The only thing he wanted was her body, to vent his frustrations, to salvage his lost face. Whether it was for one night or two, there was no difference anymore. If she could trade that for the livelihoods of so many workers, it would have been worth it.

"One time, two times, three times... or more, name your price!" Even though she was mentally prepared, discussing such intimate transactions with a man still made her feel quite embarrassed. She forced herself to maintain composure, pretending to be indifferent.

"You’re quite bold, it seems you don’t care about this type of thing at all." Behind the hazy ring of smoke, Third Young Master Jun’s face was dark as water.

"Ha, we’re all adults here, it’s not like we’ve never done this before. One more man, just another addition to the experience, perhaps in the end, I might even thank you."

Her wrist was suddenly grabbed and pulled forcefully, she found herself thrown against his sturdy body.

Ye Lu’s heart trembled. She was face-to-face with his imposing, cold countenance. The intensity of his icy aura was palpable, and his deep-set eyes were filled with a towering rage.