However, fantasies are just fantasies, and real life can’t always go as one wishes.
Guan Longji, far away in the capital of the southern island nation, was completely unaware of what he had missed.
Shui Jing returned after traveling for a month, or more precisely, four weeks.
Besides bringing back a good mood, she also brought back the fruitful spoils of her enthusiastic shopping, including cosmetics, limited edition cherry blossom perfume, and scarves for her aunt and Yilin; children’s kimonos and dolls for Zhihui’s kids; a new Sony digital camera for Xiaomei… and countless other miscellaneous items.
As for the big financial backer Guan Longji, he pitifully received only a small Japanese doll paperweight with squinty eyes, which was better than nothing.
But it was obvious that everyone could see Shuijing’s mood had improved significantly, and she was less cold towards Guan Longji.
Although the sky in Taipei was overcast and the temperature was gradually dropping, the gloom on Guan Longji’s face was also gradually disappearing, slowly revealing a calm and peaceful expression.
Shuijing was slowly understanding the ways in which his life differed from that of ordinary people.
From childhood, he had no interactions with peers, was accustomed to traveling between international cities and negotiating with adults, his life was about numbers and statistics, meetings and reports, and his words were instructions and commands.
In the Guan family enterprise, he was the emperor.
From a leader’s perspective, having received “imperial education” from childhood, he was a successful ruler; but from a “human” perspective, his personality development was far from satisfactory!
Once, Shuijing couldn’t help but question him about that disgusting memory of attempted rape.
The humiliation of being “bought” with money, villas, and jewelry, and the nauseating feeling of bodily violation, had always been a knot of resentment in her heart.
Guan Longji’s response almost made her curse out loud.
“I… asked Tang Assistant, what do women like?” Guan Longji said with a confused expression: “He said diamonds, houses…”
So he gave villas and jewelry.
“I didn’t mean to humiliate you, really!”
Regarding women, he had little common sense. Those models and actresses who came automatically all had a price tag. Giving flowers was not as good as giving jewelry, and giving jewelry was not as good as giving a mansion…
Pleasing women was about material conditions!
