Chapter 238: We Could Have Been a Couple

When Chen Feng woke up, it was almost seven o’clock. His biological clock was very punctual now.

It was already dawn, but the light in the room was very dim. The blackout curtains in this hotel were quite good.

With the faint light from his phone, Chen Feng glanced at Liu Ying, who was sleeping soundly next to him, and gently lifted the quilt to get out of bed.

He first went to relieve himself, then took a shower and washed up. After he was done, he came out wrapped in a bath towel and saw that Liu Ying was also awake. She was lying in bed looking at her phone. Seeing Chen Feng come out of the bathroom, Liu Ying put away her phone, and her face was suddenly unclear, only a blurry outline could be seen.

“You’re awake too? Why don’t you sleep a little longer?”

Chen Feng walked over and stood in front of the bed, asking with some concern.

Liu Ying said in an inexplicable tone, “Without you lying next to me, I woke up very quickly.”

Chen Feng sat down on the head of the bed and chuckled, “You can’t be like this. In the future, if I’m not sleeping next to you, won’t you have insomnia?”

“Yes, since my divorce, I’ve often had insomnia. Many times I can’t fall asleep until two or three in the morning, and then my sleep is very light. I’ll wake up at the slightest sound. Although I also went to bed at two or three last night, it was the best sleep I’ve had in a long time.”

“You can’t be like this. Have you been to the hospital?”

“I’ve been there. A doctor prescribed me sleeping pills, but I’m afraid of the side effects, so I’ve never taken them.”

“For insomnia, I think it’s better to see a Chinese medicine doctor. Especially for women, Chinese medicine is more effective in treating insomnia, and the side effects of taking Chinese medicine should be smaller. You can go and see a Chinese medicine doctor another day. Isn’t there a very famous Huichun Hall in Xiuzhou? The doctors there should be quite skilled.”

“You know a lot. Alright then, I’ll go and have a look in a few days.”

Liu Ying was also very receptive. She always had insomnia and couldn’t sleep well, so she definitely wanted to be cured.

“I’ll sleep with you for a while longer.”

Chen Feng said as he naturally untied his bath towel and got back into the bed. He stretched out an arm and passed it behind her neck, holding her body.

Liu Ying felt a sense of strangeness, and of course, at the same time, a sense of novelty, and even some enjoyment.

Her head naturally rested on his arm, and one side of her face was pressed against his chest. The sound of his heartbeat was very clear.

Neither of them spoke at first, just quietly feeling the quiet atmosphere, and their bodies did not move.

After about ten minutes, Liu Ying finally spoke slowly, “Are we officially dating now?”

“Of course.” Chen Feng answered with certainty, then asked back, “I’m actually quite satisfied with you. I just don’t know if you’re satisfied with me?”

Liu Ying’s heart couldn’t help but feel hot. Of course, she was very satisfied with Chen Feng now.

In university, if she had put down her ridiculous reserve and accepted Chen Feng’s pursuit, or if she had taken the initiative to apologize to him after knowing that she had wronged him, she would have enjoyed the simple happiness and joy of a woman long ago. Not to mention, she would have long since been living with Chen Feng and formed a happy family.

Thinking of this, she hated Cao Jun even more. It was because of his villainous behavior that he had not only framed Chen Feng, but also ruined the originally beautiful marriage between her and Chen Feng.

It even indirectly led to her experiencing a very failed transnational marriage.

In her mind, all of this was Cao Jun’s fault.

Fortunately, heaven was still kind to her. It let her meet Chen Feng again and gave her another chance to renew their old love.

She secretly swore in her heart that she must firmly grasp this opportunity that she had lost and regained.

After a moment of silence, Liu Ying said very directly, “I’m very satisfied. I really regret it now. I regret not accepting your pursuit in university.”

It had already come to this. She had already given her body, which she thought was the capital that could move Chen Feng the most. It was considered an all-in. It just depended on whether she could win.

“It’s useless to regret now. Everything still has to look forward.”

Chen Feng didn’t have much emotion. Even though he had slept with his dream lover from his freshman year, the class beauty he had pursued bitterly but failed to get, it was actually just that. There was no special excitement, and no special sense of accomplishment.

The most likely reason was that she had wronged him back then and had not apologized to him afterwards. He had already given up on her at that time, so of course, he had no admiration for her.

Without that kind of admiration for her, and having not seen her for so many years, seeing her again didn’t have much emotion. He just treated her as a familiar stranger, or a strange acquaintance, or simply a woman.

To be honest, her figure was not as good as Guo Mengyao’s, and her appearance was not as good as Wu Mengting’s.

Of course, if Chen Feng were to give a score, the comprehensive score would be about the same as Guo Mengyao’s.

“Then… am I your girlfriend now?” Liu Ying struck while the iron was hot and asked.

Chen Feng chuckled, “If there are outsiders, you can say you’re my girlfriend. I won’t deny it. But you should know that we haven’t seen each other for so many years, and we just met for the first time last night. We don’t have a deep understanding of each other’s personalities and lives. I think we should take it slow. At least, after we have a real understanding of each other, we can consider the next step.”

Hearing this, Liu Ying was very angry. She immediately broke free from his embrace, and her tone turned cold. She said with dissatisfaction, “Although we haven’t seen each other for many years, we were classmates for four years in university. Don’t we know each other after four years of being in the same class in university?”

Chen Feng said very calmly, “We were classmates for four years in university. We only talked a little in our freshman year. In the following three years, we had almost zero communication. Do you think we really know each other?”

Liu Ying was suddenly speechless. What Chen Feng said was the truth, and she couldn’t deny it.

This was also the reason why she regretted it now. Although they had been classmates for four years in university, their communication was really not much, especially after their freshman year. Sometimes, even when they met face to face, they didn’t even say hello, which was no different from being strangers.

This couldn’t be blamed on Chen Feng, but only on herself, and even more on that Cao Jun who had ruined their relationship.

“But we’re like this now. Don’t you… plan to be responsible?”

Liu Ying was unwilling to be dismissed by Chen Feng so casually.

But her words sounded a little ridiculous to Chen Feng. You’re a thirty-year-old woman who has given birth and divorced, and you willingly came to open a room with me. After it’s over, you want me to be responsible for you? What kind of responsibility?

Besides, Chen Feng had told her from the beginning that even if they had slept together, it didn’t mean that they had officially established a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.

“My class beauty, you and I are both thirty years old. Don’t say such childish words,” Chen Feng responded unceremoniously.

Hearing this, Liu Ying’s eyes immediately turned red, and she said with a choked voice, “Then are we just going to leave it at that? You just wanted to sleep with me, and you never thought of making me your girlfriend?”

“Alright.” Chen Feng said with some impatience, “I’ve already told you. We’ve just met after so many years, and we don’t know each other very well. Why are you in such a hurry? Aren’t you afraid that I’m a scumbag, and that this relationship of yours will fail again?”

Liu Ying immediately stopped talking. She thought that Chen Feng didn’t know that she knew about his real net worth. This was also her biggest reliance on making Chen Feng rekindle his old feelings for her, because her current persona was that feelings came first and money came second.

Otherwise, if he knew that she was after his money, the possibility of success in the future would definitely be greatly discounted.

“Of course I’m in a hurry. I didn’t know you… you were so… outstanding before, but I knew last night. Besides, you yourself said that you have a god-sister and a live-in female companion. How can I not be in a hurry?”

This was said with great skill. Even though Chen Feng knew she was flattering him, he was still very pleased.

So, Chen Feng softened his tone and said, “Don’t worry. I’m not a heartless person, and we’re old classmates. In this way, I’ll give you 30,000 yuan a month for pocket money until you find another suitable man.”

“What do you mean by that? Are you planning to keep me as a canary?” Liu Ying was suddenly very angry. “What do you take me for?”

She didn’t want a few tens of thousands a month, but Chen Feng’s big house, a rich and comfortable life as a rich wife. The 30,000 yuan a month Chen Feng gave was far from enough.

“I don’t mean anything else. I just treat you as my woman. We’re like this now, and I have some money now, so I can afford it. And you don’t have a job or a way to make money now. You can’t just live off your savings or your parents, right?”

“Are you very rich now?” Liu Ying asked, pretending to be confused.

If the light in the room wasn’t too dim, you could see that her expression was very on point and very real. She looked as if she didn’t know he was rich at all.

“I guess I have some money. I’ve made some from stock trading,” Chen Feng said with some reserve.

“Then I’d rather not. I’m not your girlfriend now. What’s the point of spending your money? If I take your money now, what will our relationship become?”

“This is nothing. It’s just because you’re my woman now, so I’m giving you some financial assistance. There are no major restrictions on you. You can still go on blind dates openly and find a man who is more suitable for you.”

“…If I really go and find another man, can you accept it?” Liu Ying clenched her right hand tightly.

Chen Feng sighed lightly and said in a reasonable tone, “I’ll definitely feel a little uncomfortable in my heart, but I’m not your boyfriend yet, so I have no right to ask anything of you. You have every right to find someone better, and you deserve someone better.”

Liu Ying immediately relaxed, and her clenched right hand loosened. She said in a gentle and firm tone, “Don’t worry. Before I completely give up on you, I won’t go and find other men.”

Chen Feng was suddenly speechless and also very helpless. He had no intention of developing a long-term relationship with Liu Ying from the beginning. He had money now. If he really wanted to find someone again, why would he find someone like her who was divorced, had a child, and was the same age as him?

Besides, the two of them had had that misunderstanding and scar from their freshman year. He had long since had no emotional foundation for her.

Wu Mengting, Sun Xiaorui, and even Lin Yujiao and Xiao Ya were all younger and more energetic than Liu Ying, and they were also more suitable for him to marry. At least they were more real and not hypocritical than her.

Not to mention that they had not left him with any emotional trauma before.

“You don’t have to be like this. To put it bluntly, you’re not young anymore. While you’re still not too old and still beautiful, you should find a suitable one as soon as possible. And I’m just a prodigal son now, and I have no plans to get married in the next two or three years. If you hang yourself on this tree of mine, I will feel very guilty,” Chen Feng said, pretending to be very sorry.

“If you feel guilty, then you should accept me as soon as possible. I don’t think I’m ugly, and we were classmates for four years in university. You pursued me back then. I’m more suitable for you than other women. And you’re also very suitable for me.

“I’ve often thought of you these past few years, thinking of what would have happened if we hadn’t missed each other in university. Especially after experiencing my first unhappy marriage, I often think like this.

“So, I tried every means to contact you, wanting to make up for the regret of the past and renew our old love. We could have been a happy couple, couldn’t we?”

Liu Ying said very emotionally. This passage was the result of her countless drafts in her mind.

If it were an ordinary man, he might have been moved by her words. Unfortunately, Chen Feng had seen through her “hypocrisy” and her materialism from the beginning. From the beginning, she had “ill intentions” towards him and wanted to trap him.

And Chen Feng had gone with the flow and accepted her, but he had not given her any possibility of trapping him at all.

“I’ve said it before. It’s useless to regret. Everything has to look forward. As for making up for regrets and renewing old love, it ultimately depends on our future interactions. We don’t really know each other very well now. Let’s talk about it later.”

Chen Feng’s plain response made Liu Ying stunned for a long while, and she was extremely disappointed in her heart. She had a feeling that “all her calculations had come to nothing,” and she suddenly felt very tired.

“Alright. I’ll give you 30,000 a month for pocket money. Don’t refuse. If you refuse, it will make me feel that you want more,” Chen Feng said in a firm tone.

“I don’t,” Liu Ying said with a hesitant look.

“If you don’t, then accept the pocket money I give you,” Chen Feng said with a tough attitude.

“…Alright then. If you insist on giving it, I can’t do anything about it,” Liu Ying said with a very helpless and wronged look.

Since she couldn’t win him over at once, Liu Ying could only plan for a long-term battle. It was better to take this money than not. Taking it would make Chen Feng recognize her as his woman even more. Besides, she also knew that Chen Feng was not short of money, so there was really no need to save money for him.

Of course, the most important thing was that she was really a little short of money now. The money she had received from her divorce had been spent almost completely after she returned to the country.

“That’s more like it. I’ll transfer the money to you now.”

Chen Feng said as he took out his phone and operated it. Soon, Liu Ying received a message that the money had arrived.

“You transferred 50,000 to me,” Liu Ying reminded.

“The extra 20,000 is for you to go to the mall and buy some things. It’s a gift from me. I have something to do today, so I can’t go with you.”

Liu Ying felt much better after receiving the money, but hearing him say this, she felt a little disappointed in her heart. Didn’t he even have time to go shopping with her?

But since she had received 50,000 yuan from Chen Feng, it was not good for her to say anything resentful at this time, lest she arouse his disgust. She could only say, “Alright then. When I was shopping in the mall before, I saw a bag that cost more than 10,000 yuan. I liked it very much. I’ll go and buy it this time.”

“Okay, as long as you like it, go and buy it,” Chen Feng said casually.

“You’re so good to me.” Liu Ying was happy and kissed him.

She took the initiative to pull his arm and let herself rest in his arms.

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