2024-08-21 09:42:07A woman woke up with a pounding headache, her body feeling heavy and sluggish.
As she shifted slightly, she was shocked to find a naked stranger lying next to her.
WTF?!
She jolted awake, freezing in place.
Panic started to rise as she tried desperately to remember how she ended up in a stranger's bed.
Then, a terrifying realization hit her—she was naked and no longer a virgin.
Just then, the man stirred, his dark eyes fluttering open and locking onto hers.
“Wow, last night was incredible. Want to keep going?”
He sat up casually, completely at ease, his flawless body on full display.
He grabbed a bottle of water from the bedside table and offered it to her.
“Here, drink this. You must be thirsty. We can pick up where we left off if you’re up for it.”
Unable to contain her fear and anger any longer, the woman’s hand moved on its own, slapping him hard across the face.
“Who are you? How did I end up here? What have you done to me?”
The man, Alexander Leonhart, blinked, his cheek stinging from the slap.
He looked at the woman in front of him—a mesmerizing beauty with silky hair and a body that radiated perfection.
Her face was a storm of anger and panic, but her very presence made his desire stir once again.
“You!” The woman, Sophia Lancaster, screamed as she saw something rising on the man. “You better tell me who you are!”
“Calm down!” Alex stared at her.
“You ran to me and asked me to sleep with you. Don’t you remember?”
“Impossible,” Sophia denied, shaking her head vehemently.
It was impossible that she would chase after a man, especially a stranger.
“You must have done something to me!”
She felt the rough texture of the blanket against her bare skin.
Confusion and fear swirled in her mind as she looked around the room, her eyes darting frantically.
The man’s old military backpack and plain clothes caught her attention—nothing in this hotel room indicated wealth.
The smartphone on the nightstand was a cheap one with a cracked screen.
With one glance, Sophia realized the man she had slept with was far from wealthy, just an ordinary man who struggled daily to make ends meet.
"Watch your accusations," Alex said calmly.
"I'm a gentleman, and I would never force anyone. You were the one who came to me, hugged me, kissed me, and begged me to sleep with you."
Sophia’s eyes wide opened.
“Liar!”
“This is my hotel room. You can check the CCTV if you want—see if you came here or if I kidnapped you.”
Sophia didn’t believe a word the man was saying, but suddenly, a memory flashed before her eyes.
She was supposed to have a meeting with Calvin Lecter, the CEO of a rival company, to discuss the ongoing price war that was causing her business to suffer.
She had thought they were meeting to find a solution, but it turned out Calvin had nasty intentions from the start.
He had drugged her, hoping to take advantage of her.
She remembered managing to escape with the help of his bodyguard, but as she ran from them, she stumbled across a man opening a door.
Desperate, she had hoped to hide in his room for a while.
But the drug Calvin had given her was a potent aphrodisiac, which made her desires flare uncontrollably.
A sudden sharp headache hit Sophia as the memories flooded back.
"Oh no! How could this happen?"
"Do you remember now?" Alex smirked. "You were the one begging."
“Shut up!” Sophia’s face turned bright red with shame and fury.
Under the drug’s influence, everything had seemed to make sense at the time, but now, everything felt so wrong. “Damn it!”
“Listen, I’m a gentleman,” Alex offered sincerely, trying to make amends. “I took your virginity. I’ll marry you. How about that?”
Sophia scoffed, her disbelief mixing with disgust.
“You want to marry me? Do you even know who I am?”
She was one of the top beauties in Vancouver, with a rising career as a young CEO.
Wealthy men were something she’d never run out of, and yet here was this poor man, trying to use this situation to bind her with marriage.
He was clearly just another parasite, hoping to latch onto a wealthy woman like her and live off her success.
“Well, I just arrived in Vancouver this afternoon, so I don’t know anyone here yet,” Alex said earnestly.
“But I can assure you, you won’t need to worry about anything for the rest of your life if you marry me.”
Sophia scoffed again, her disdain clear.
“With your old military backpack? And those scars on your body? I guess you’re some low-rank soldier, just returned from a warzone. Your one month’s salary wouldn’t even cover my expenses for a single day.
And you dare ask to marry me?!”Sophia was furious!
How shameless this man was!
“Believe me,” Alex said, his voice low and firm, “I’m not what you think. I’m more powerful than any man you’ve ever met.”
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Chapter 666
The war room in Liang Province’s capital stank of old wine, sweat, and the iron tang of too many armed men in one place.Torches guttered along the stone walls, throwing long shadows across the scarred oak table where four warlords sat like wolves around a fresh kill.They had stopped killing each other for one reason only: the enemy had taken Liu Wei. The real emperor. That single blow had landed harder than any army. It had forced the truce no one wanted.Dong Zhuo had once commanded the largest army in Xia—two hundred thousand soldiers.His four generals each held fifty thousand men under their banners.The endless conflicts between them served only to weaken all parties. In the end, they chose to set aside their grudges and form a temporary truce to consolidate their strength—so that they might later divide Xia between themselves.Li Jue leaned over the map, thick finger dragging across the faded lines. “Zhang Ji takes fifty thousand east. Yan and Qing provinces. You kill Bai Xiao
Chapter 665
The emperor was escorted to the grand harem mansion.Inside the bathroom, steam rose from a wooden tub. Clean linen towels waited on a bench. The four women who had carried him across half of Xia had already changed into simple but elegant robes—soft blues and creams that moved like water when they walked.They helped him out of the filthy servant’s clothes without a word of command, their hands gentle and practiced. One tested the water temperature with her wrist. Another poured warm oil into the bath that smelled faintly of pine and something clean.They washed the grime and smoke from his skin and hair with the same quiet efficiency they had used to spirit him out of a burning palace.He ate afterward at a low table—rice porridge first, then thin slices of tender pork, steamed greens, and a clear broth that didn’t sit heavy in his starved stomach. The women served him without hovering. One kept the bowl warm with her hands. Another refilled his cup of weak tea the moment it emptied
Chapter 664
One year ago.The lantern light in the governor’s private study had burned low. Changyi’s night sounds drifted up from the streets below—distant laughter from a tavern, the creak of a night watchman’s boots.Alex stood at the tall window, hands clasped behind his back, watching the city.Zhuge Liang spoke. “My Lord. Dong Zhuo holds the Emperor like a trophy. Yuan Shao and the other warlords circle the capital, each one dreaming of the dragon throne. Every ambitious man in Xia wants to be king.” He paused. “Don’t you?”Alex turned. The cold smile that touched his mouth did not reach his eyes.“A man has to dare to dream big,” he said. “But a man also has to know the difference between an opportunity and the kind of temptation that burns everything he’s built to ash.”He stepped away from the window and began to pace.“If I reach for the throne now, every warlord from here to Luoyang will mark Yan and Qing as the next battlefield. We cannot hold off attacks from one side, let alone two
Chapter 663
Chen Hao drove the shovel into the packed earth once more, the blade biting deep with a dull scrape. His shoulders burned.Sweat stung his eyes and ran in dirty tracks down the dust on his face. For a few heartbeats the rhythm felt almost right again—the old, simple rhythm of a man and the land.Then the Gaia voice came, sliding straight into his skull.“Chen Hao. Your scheduled instruction period begins now. Report to the training platform.”He froze mid-lift. The shovel stayed buried in the dirt.“I hate training,” he muttered.The words came out rough, almost childish. He was no scholar. Never had been. Before the rebellion he had been nothing but a dirt-poor farmer.Now these machines wanted to turn him into something else.The Wudang sect and whatever sorcery they had brought with them had given the governor power no man in Xia had ever held, and Chen Hao wanted no part of it.He wanted his hands on a hoe. He wanted the honest ache of muscle and callus. He did not want to learn h
Chapter 662
Zhang Hu woke to the taste of mud and blood.His head pounded like a war drum. Pain burned in his neck and thigh where the needles had struck.For a long moment he lay still, listening. No shouts. No clash of steel. No crackle of torches. Only the wind moving through dry grass and the distant croak of frogs.He pushed himself up on one elbow. The field stretched empty in every direction. The ten thousand men who had marched with him were gone. No bodies. No abandoned weapons.The ground where they had stood was trampled flat, but the rebels themselves had vanished as if the earth had swallowed them whole.Zhang Hu staggered to his feet, sword still clutched in one numb hand. "My men!" His voice cracked across the empty plain. "To me! Form ranks!"Nothing answered him but the wind.He searched for an hour, moving in widening circles, qi flaring from his Core Formation senses. He found only a single dropped sickle and a torn strip of rebel cloth caught on a thorn bush.No tracks led awa
Chapter 661
The moon hid behind thick clouds, leaving the borderlands in absolute blackness. A perfect night for thieves and rebels.Thousands of Yellow Turbans moved like a dark tide across the dry fields outside Willowbrook, the outermost town in Yan Province.Most of the rebels were peasants—gaunt, hollow-cheeked, and half-starved. They marched with little more than rusty sickles, crude spears fashioned from farming poles, and a handful of stolen swords.That was why they moved so slowly.At their head rode their leader, the wiry cultivator Zhang Hu, perched atop a gaunt horse. Torchlight danced across his face as he raised the flame high, his eyes blazing with years of accumulated fury.“Burn everything in this village and the next!” he snarled, glancing back at his ragged army. “Take what you can carry. Leave the rest in ashes. All the way to Changyi—we burn them all!”A savage cheer rose from the mob. They had done this before. Villages fell easily when the central government was rotten and
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