Crisis Of Lust

"1201,1202,1203......"

At night, the lights in the corridor of the hotel finally dimmed down. A woman in heels was swaying left and right as she stumbled across the corridor. She pointed at every sign as she narrowed her eyes.

She staggered to the door of room 1203 and placed her room card on the handle. Soon enough, the door swung open. After entering the room, she threw herself onto the bed. "Lucas, I miss you so much!" she slurred out.

Who?

Chason Jiang was lying on the bed with a severe headache. He glanced at the uninvited guest who suddenly pounced onto him.

His mouth was dry and his throat was scratchy. He glared at her irritably and wanted to push her away. However, he had no strength to do so seeing as he had just woken up.

The woman struggled, groaning. "Have you turned on the air conditioner? It's so hot!"

Chason Jiang squinted his eyes and turned over to press her down.

'Now that you're here, I'll just do what you wish.'

He spent the whole night pounding into her.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

When Claire Lin heard her alarm clock, she couldn't open her eyes. It was probably because of the long night she had.

She felt a sharp pain course through her body. She couldn't help but turn over.

However, when her arm brushed against something hard, she immediately retracted. What the hell did she put on her bed?

Oh right. It could only be her boyfriend - Lucas Xu.

Claire Lin remembered that she tried looking for her boyfriend who had just returned, but when she found the room to be strangely dark, she couldn't see a thing. She reached out to turn on the lights, but she couldn't find it. After looking around, the room was finally lit up.

When she turned around, her eyes widened. Immediately, she shrieked.

The man lying next to her was not her boyfriend Lucas Xu. Instead, it was a strange man.

Chason Jiang was awakened by the sudden scream. He squinted his eyes. "Shut up!"

"You-- who are you? Why are you in my room?" Claire Lin screamed out as she pulled the comforter to cover herself.

Chason Jiang finally came to his senses. His eyes widened as he stared at the woman right beside him.

What happened last night? He frowned.

Was it because he hadn't touched a woman for a long time that he actually let her stay with him the whole night?

Claire Lin's mind was a complete mess. She couldn't remember what happened at all. However, when she saw the blood stains on the sheet, she paled.

She had sex with the man beside her. It was her first time! Her first time was what she cherished the most, but now it had gone.

Chason Jiang tried to recall what happened last night. He remembered suffering from a headache when he woke up, probably because of the amount of alcohol that he had drunk.

He had been talking with the H Group last night. However, when he came into his room, he felt as if something was wrong with his body. He thought that it was because of the alcohol.

Later in the evening, a woman climbed into his bed.

In the end, he wasn't able to control himself because he was drugged.

He raised his head and saw the blood staining the sheet. He was set up.

His gaze darkened. Someone actually dared to trick him!

"What's your purpose?" Chason Jiang said coldly.

Claire Lin furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. "What did you say? I don't understand."

Sure enough, the woman was far more manipulative than he had thought. In J City, there were countless women who wanted to sleep with him. It wasn't the first time that he'd been jumped by a woman.

Yet, it wasn't easy for them to get on his bed.

With a sneer, he quickly climbed out of bed and put on his clothes.

Claire Lin stared. She had to admit that the man had a very good figure, even better than the supermodels that she'd seen on the magazines. However, it was just too shameful to see him dress in front of her. She quickly averted her gaze.

Chason snorted at the sight.

She was really good at acting.

"Stop pretending. You weren't like that in bed last night," he snapped. He quickly wore his suit and tightened his tie under his collar.

Claire Lin trembled. "Shut up! Last night, what happened?"

"You don't remember? How about we review what happened?" Chason placed a hand behind Claire's back and pinched her chin with the other.

What a plain woman! His face darkened.

She broke free from his tight grip. "Let me go!"

The man in front of her took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his hands. "I don't want to waste my time on you. I'll give you three minutes. Put on your clothes and get out."

What the hell? After all that he had done to her, he was just sending her out?

Although she had finally calmed down, she still couldn't figure out who the man was. Why was she here? She had come to see her boyfriend! Where the hell was he?

She finally came to her senses.

Last night was her twenty-fourth birthday, and she was supposed to celebrate it with him. Her younger sister smiled at her last night, singing, "Sister! I have good news. My brother-in-law is back! He didn't tell you to surprise you. He's waiting for you in the hotel now. Here's the room key. Go get him!"

At that time, Claire had been so immersed by this surprise that she went in without thinking. She didn't know what happened after that.

"Where is Lucas? Where is he?" Claire put on her dress and jumped off the bed.

'Lucas?' Chason frowned.

Seeing that he didn't reply, she grabbed his wrist anxiously. "Do you know where he is?"

He gazed at her in disgust and shook her off. "What the hell?"

She lost her balance and stumbled to the ground.

"Please tell me where he is!" She clenched her fists. It wasn't possible! She came to see her boyfriend last night! She hadn't seen him for a year. Before he went abroad, she was already waiting for their wedding day when she could finally give herself to him.

She didn't expect that she would sleep with another man on the same day that her boyfriend had returned!

What the hell was going on?

Chason couldn't take it anymore. He didn't want to get entangled with the woman's drama. He took out his pen and cheque from his coat and wrote down a figure.

He threw it at her. "Is that enough?"

'That asshole!'

Claire clenched her fists. Who the hell did he think she was? A prostitute?

"That's not enough!" She stood up abruptly and threw the check at the man.

Sure enough, she was greedy. Chason snorted. "Then tell me how much you want."

"Only the ones I love deserve to touch me. As for you, no matter how rich you are, you can't afford me." Claire crossed her arms.

Chason glared. He didn't expect that the woman would talk to him like that. "Do you think I want to touch you?" He snorted.

"You- Then what the hell did last night mean?" She clenched her fists.

'Forget it. I don't have the time to argue with him. I have to figure out what happened.'

Thinking of this, Claire dialed her sister's number hurriedly. She couldn't bring herself to tell her boyfriend.

Besides, as the saying went, "Sister knows best."

However, no matter how much she tried, her call wouldn't get through.

She stared blankly at Chason, only to find his face contorted in mockery. Was she really in a wrong room? She glanced at the door.

It was 1203. She stared at her room key. It was here. She got in the right room.

'This woman!' He sneered. "Look, just take the check and go. Three million isn't a bad deal."

Three million?

Seeing her take the money, he scoffed. He didn't care if the woman had gone into his room by accident. That still didn't change the fact that she was a greedy woman.

Money could solve almost everything in the world.

However, in the next second, she quickly tore the check into pieces. In turn, she took out two hundred RMB from her bag and placed them on the table beside her. "I may be unlucky, but I never take advantage of other people. This is for your service." Seeing his face grow pale, she rolled her eyes. "You won't be able to afford me, but for you, on the other hand, this is all you're worth."

Without another word, she picked up her bag and walked out. She didn't want to be entangled with this man even for a minute. The only thing she needed to do was to find Lucas Xu.

The thought of her boyfriend only made her heart ache. How the hell would she tell him about this?

That she cheated on him?

"Stop!" Chason roared, slamming his hand on the desk. He had been humiliated.

However, she didn't even turn back.

"Click!" Chason crumpled the two bills and chucked them to the ground. In the whole city, he had seen countless women try their best to get into his bed. This woman had not only succeeded in bedding him, but she also had the nerve to humiliate him.

At the thought, he gritted his teeth.

"Check what happened to the woman who had entered my room last night!" he commanded his secretary once she had answered her call.

Larry Lin had just woken up when he got that phone call from his boss. Hearing his words, his eyes widened in shock.

Woman? Larry Lin didn't wait for a second as he rushed into Chason's room holding a handful of files. He had made a few calls along the way, making sure that he had gotten every detail of last night's happenings.

When Larry Lin arrived, his boss was still in rage.

"Mr. Chason, I've checked the woman who came in here last night. Someone bought off the hotel staff and got a room card," he said cautiously. "From my data results, it seemed that someone else had also tampered with your wine."

Chason sneered, trying to restrain his anger. "Do you think the woman is sent by the H Group?"

The H Group was the company that Chason had negotiated orders with. What if they wanted to win the bid by using a trap?

"Well, we can't rule them out. They were the ones who had decided on the venue," Larry Lin mused.

Something flashed in Chason's eyes. "Are they really that stupid to do such a thing?"

In the past few years when he just came back to take over his company, many competitors or business partners tried to send their select beauties into his bed hundreds of times.

They all came to miserable ends. After countless missteps, no one dared to make such a mistake again.

There were just so many holes in this situation.

"Investigate it. You know what I want to do." Chason rubbed his forehead. The effects of wine still hadn't faded completely.

If they actually set him up, then he would let them have it.

Chason Lin swallowed. "I haven't found out the identity of the woman. I tried checking the surveillance video, but someone had tampered with it. I couldn't see her face clearly."

"Forget it. There's no need to look into her." Chason crossed his arms.

Seeing as the woman didn't take his money, it would mean that she wanted something more from this arrangement. They would meet again soon.

When that time came, he would let her have it.

"Mr. Chason, here is a phone." Larry Lin picked it up and handed it to him.

Chason glanced at the screen and saw an intimate picture of Claire with another man. Was that the 'Lucas' she had been calling out?

Pursing his lips, he turned to Larry. "Put it on the front desk. If she comes back for it, we'll know who she is."

However, Claire didn't know that.

When she came out of the hotel, she was still in a daze. It was as if she was living in a nightmare, and she was just waiting to wake up.

She quickly rushed to the front desk. "Please help me check which room Lucas is in."

When she was in that room, she couldn't get through her sister. Now, she just needed to find him all by herself. Although she didn't know how to explain this situation to her boyfriend, he was the only person she wanted to see the most.

"We can't reveal information of our guests," the receptionist said, bowing her head.

"I'm his fiancee! Please make an exception."

However, the receptionist refused Claire firmly and asked her to call Lucas herself.

She had thought of calling him, but after the events that had transpired last night, it was obviously not as simple as her entering the wrong room or having the wrong key card. Something was off. Someone was setting her up. She furrowed her eyebrows. Did her sister, Fiona Lin, have anything to do with this?

However, Claire quickly shook her head and let that thought go. After all, Fiona Lin was her sister. She wouldn't do that to her.

Therefore, the most important thing she needed to do now was to confirm whether Lucas was actually in this hotel. She didn't want to call him, not wanting to expose herself so readily.

It wasn't that she wanted to hide it from him, but she just didn't know how to say it. After all, this was her first time – the first time that she had promised to Lucas when they were still together.

She sighed, frustrated at the situation she had just placed herself in.

Claire stood there, arguing with the receptionist, but it was still to no avail. Seeing as she had no other choice, she decided to call Lucas and ask him herself.

However, when she reached for her handbag, her eyes widened when she realized that her phone wasn't there.

Where was her phone?

Did she leave it in the hotel room?

A part of her wanted to go and get it, but after imagining the look on Chason's face when she would come barging in was enough for her to leave the hotel at once.

Seeing that it was useless to ask the receptionist now, she decided against asking the hotel staff for help. Without another word, she left the hotel dejectedly.

Claire didn't know how long she had walked aimlessly along the streets. She felt as if she still needed a few minutes to actually 'wake up' from her nightmare as her memories started to build.

Yesterday was her birthday. Although her father was too busy to come back, her stepmother prepared a table of food in her name, saying that she needed to celebrate.

Her half-sister then alerted her of Lucas's arrival. She even toasted to her birthday.

At the thought of her boyfriend's arrival, Claire didn't think much into it as she drank the glass in one gulp.

Although she was a lightweight, it was just a glass of red wine. She wouldn't have gotten drunk from that. In fact, she wouldn't have gone and slept with a wrong guy.

There was something sketchy about that glass of wine.

The events of last night slowly came back to Claire. After she drank a glass, she rushed to the hotel room. That was when she had entered his room and...

She found herself feeling something that she had never felt before. It was at that point when she had finally given up her virginity for a man she didn't even know.

Fiona?

Claire clenched her fists. Was she really behind all of this then? But why would she do that to her? Although they were only half-sisters, they had a good relationship.

How the hell would she face Lucas now?

Lucas had always wanted to be intimate with her when he was still in China, but after seeing her resistance to the activity as well as her insistence in waiting till marriage, he had never forced her again. Even as he kissed her, he had always done it with great care and respect.

"Don't you mind?" was something she'd always ask him.

He would roll his eyes and gaze at her affectionately before replying, "Silly girl, I'm willing to wait for you till the ends of the earth."

He had respected her so much... and now she blew it!

Claire had been sitting on the park bench for about an hour now as she tried to piece everything together. She didn't return to her home until the afternoon. Besides, escaping wouldn't solve anything. She needed to find out who was behind this.

When Claire opened the door, she saw that Fiona and her stepmother, Mia Fu, were the only ones present. They were making dumplings. Although they had seen her walk into the household, they continued making dumplings as if they hadn't seen her.

"Fiona, what happened last night?" Claire didn't bother to beat around the bush anymore as she confronted her sister.

A ferocious look flashed in Fiona's eyes. She had always been the more good-looking sibling. In fact, she had always dressed the part. Ever since she was a kid, people would praise her every move and word. Claire would always dress casually ever since she was a child. Even if she was good-looking in her own way, she was always shadowed by Fiona's beauty.

Fiona was fine with that until her sister actually snagged someone from a rich family. Although there were many men who tried running after Fiona, none of them were as rich as Lucas.

Ever since the two of them got together, she couldn't swallow her anger and bitterness.

After five years had passed, her opportunity finally came.

Fiona chuckled. "How did the man feel last night, sister? Since I never had my first time yet, do you mind telling me more?"

Claire's head was buzzing with thoughts. She knew what Fiona meant. On her way home, she had doubts that it was Fiona behind this.

But now, she confirmed that Fiona was the one who had arranged everything.

That bitch! Claire raised her head. She was about to say something when her stepmother slapped her on the face.

"How dare you return?" Mia Fu roared.

The smack came so heavily that it left a mark on Claire's cheek. She stared at her stepmother in disbelief. "What did I do wrong? Why can't I come back?"

"What did you do wrong? You have the nerve to ask me that? After messing around with other men, you think you could come back into this household? No matter how hard I teach you, it still does nothing to you! You're still a shameless woman." Mia Fu's eyes were filled with disdain. She had pretended to be a 'kind and loving' mother for so many years. Now, it was time to unleash her true feelings.

Claire blinked in shock.

"So it turns out you've never treated me as a daughter, huh? All of those years....all of those times you told me you loved me was a lie!" Claire had always looked at her as a mother figure, but now, she knew that it was all just an act.

Mia Fu snorted. "I only have one daughter, and that's Fiona. You? You're just a bastard. After staying in the Lin Family for so many years, it's time for you to get the hell out!"

"Mia Fu!" she called out her stepmother's name. After everything that had happened, Claire finally lost control of herself. "It's your daughter who's shameless. She's the one who framed me. If she hadn't told me that Lucas wanted to celebrate my birthday, why would I have gone to that hotel? Besides, my mother's a legal wife. I'm not a bastard. You think you can drive me away that easily?"

"Really?" Fiona sneered, patting the flour on her hands. "Our father's a very traditional man. If he knew that you slept with someone else last night, what do you think he'll do? Cherish you forever? How about we'll bring it up to him, shall we?" Fiona's eyes glinted arrogantly. This time, she knew she had won.