Chapter 2737 - 2799: I’m Different

"Hahaha!" Li Yifei couldn’t help but laugh, shook his head, and said, "Even if I end up with you and find that you’re indeed a virgin, and give you the money, you’d just run away. I’m definitely not brave enough to cause a scene at your school, wouldn’t you agree?"

"Why not? This kind of thing at school... it’s me who should be embarrassed!" The girl whispered and then said, "Sir, my name is Li Minjia, I’m in the School of Western Languages, majoring in English Education, Class Three in Year Three. Here’s my student ID!"

Li Yifei took it, glanced at the student ID, and found that her name was indeed Li Minjia. The writing on it was delicate, and the photo on the student ID was very pure and youthful. It seemed to be taken one or two years ago, but her hairstyle was the same, making it easy to recognize. The girl didn’t wear any makeup today, and she still looked natural. Well, after all, straight men often can’t differentiate between light makeup and a bare face.

Li Yifei returned the student ID to the girl and said, "Have you really decided to sell your body for twenty thousand yuan?"

"I... my parents divorced when I was young, and my mother raised me. Now I’ve finally gotten into college and am about to graduate. I’m capable of repaying her, but she has fallen ill. I want her to live a few more years, at least enjoy some blessings, but I still have no other way. I’ve been working hard at part-time jobs and tutoring, but it’s only enough for my living expenses, only enough for my tuition. I’ve saved fifteen thousand over two years, but there’s still a big gap for the medical expenses, and this is just the initial treatment cost. I know this is very difficult, like a sky-high price for me, even though I believe that in the future, I won’t only earn this little money, and I will earn a lot of money. But right now, I really only have this little money, only this little ability. Perhaps the only thing of value I have is this body. If I’m reluctant to part with even that, how could I live up to my mother’s nurturing grace?" The girl spoke as tears fell down, she didn’t wipe them away. The pain on her face had faded a lot, as if the hardships she had experienced over the years had long diluted this pain.

Li Yifei said, "If your mother knows that you sold your body for a bit of money and got pressed underneath a filthy man, being ravaged and played with at will, wouldn’t she disagree with the treatment? Wouldn’t she be very angry, even wishing she were dead?"

"I..." Li Minjia was at a loss for words. She hadn’t thought about these questions, and Li Yifei’s words indeed highlighted a very serious issue. Her mother’s education was very successful, instilling in her from a young age the kind of things girls should pay attention to, thus developing a good personality and qualities. But if her mother knew she did such things for money, she might never forgive her even until her dying day, might scold her to death.

"Think it over carefully. I have less than an hour left, you can consider it and let me know once you’ve made a decision!" Li Yifei said.

The girl nodded, clasping her hands together, and fell into a struggle—a self-struggle, as Li Yifei stated. Once she sold herself, she might become another person, someone she wouldn’t recognize anymore, possibly even someone she despises. What should she do when that time comes? Moreover, the initial treatment already costs fifty thousand; what about later? Would she have to keep selling herself? Thinking about this made the girl a bit sad, but she couldn’t cry any more. She needed to make a decision. The man beside her didn’t look ugly, in fact, he appeared quite spirited, with a good physique, and a stable demeanor. Li Minjia didn’t dislike him. If asked whether she would be willing to give herself to such a man, Li Minjia couldn’t give a negative answer. At least he looked much more pleasing than those before.

While the girl was thinking, Li Yifei softly said, "At that time, she was too young to understand that all gifts from fate have already been secretly marked with a price tag." This line was from Stefan Zweig’s "Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman." When Li Yifei recited it, the girl paused, looked up at him, and then Li Yifei said it again in English, enunciating clearly, which further deepened the girl’s struggle.

A few seconds later, the girl raised her head, with some resolve in her expression, and said, "Sir, if you’re willing to pay me twenty thousand yuan, and pay it all at once, I’m willing... to be with you for half a month, no, even a month. It’s just that if my period comes, it will be six or seven days when I can’t, please be understanding then."

Li Yifei wasn’t surprised; he had long seen the girl’s determination. His recitation was just a moment of sentimentality. How many girls in this school have sacrificed their bodies for so-called vanity and money? But is this sacrifice truly without cost? How many boys are the same? And not only wealthy men fancy young girls, wealthy women also like fresh meat, with youth and vigor... how many young men and women are heedlessly engaging in sex under the guise of love?

Li Yifei couldn’t say these things; he was merely lamenting. Hearing the girl’s decision, Li Yifei wasn’t surprised at all. He just smiled and asked, "No regrets?"

"There will be regrets, but not now, not this month." The girl replied with firm determination.

Li Yifei didn’t ask further; he gently nodded, turned, and said, "Your home is in the provincial capital, right?"

"Yes... are you planning to..."

"Do you know how to get there?" Li Yifei asked.

Just as the girl was about to say she knew, she immediately became alert and said, "What are you planning to do? Sir, if I do this, my mother absolutely cannot know, otherwise she would really be devastated. I beg you, if you agree, we can go to the inn now, oh no, to the hotel. I need to wash."

"Don’t be silly, I’m too old to ruin a young flower like you. Keep blooming at the most beautiful age!" Li Yifei lightly smiled, saying, "Take me to your home, if what you said is true, I’ll help you find a way to treat your mother’s illness! Of course, provided the illness is real and very serious!"

"Ah?" The girl seemed not to have heard clearly. She widened her eyes, mouth agape, staring stiffly at Li Yifei, and after a while asked: "Sir, are you saying... you want... to help me?"

"You probably didn’t misunderstand, and no need to sell your body, save it for the man you truly love. Then you can start enjoying sexual life." After speaking, Li Yifei glanced at the time to find it was already past nine-twenty and said, "I have something to do shortly; you only have forty to fifty minutes, so make your own decision!"

"I, I, I..." The girl was already feeling dizzy due to immense surprise, but she still thought she couldn’t just get something for nothing. Stammering for a while, excitedly wanting to grab Li Yifei’s hand but dared not do so, she said, "Sir, I can’t do that. There’s no relation between us, buying me is already helping me. If you were to freely give me money, I... simply can’t understand."

"Can’t understand? Think I have money with nowhere to spend?" Li Yifei asked.

The girl nodded, then quickly shook her head, saying, "It’s not that I can’t understand, I’m ready to give, otherwise it’s hard to repay this debt."

"Give me your hand!" Li Yifei said, also reaching out his hand. The girl hesitated for a moment, slowly raised her hand, and placed it atop Li Yifei’s. Li Yifei held it, feeling softness and comfort in his grasp, but perhaps due to the girl’s tension, her palm was sweaty, feeling wet and cool. As soon as he grasped it, the girl wanted to nervously withdraw her hand; Li Yifei gently held it for a moment and then released it, though the girl was already prepared for more, even if Li Yifei were to touch any other part of her body, she was ready.

But Li Yifei let go, being dispassionate and not wanting to tarnish her. He simply held her hand briefly and released it, while saying, "You’ve already given something, good. I’m not someone who lusts for beauty, such an excellent girl that most men want to touch, but wanting and doing are not the same thing. Just like when you were outside the car door, I might have been wondering about your figure, whether certain parts are pretty, but that’s just thinking, as some things cannot be done. Do you understand what I’m saying?"

"I understand... but don’t quite get it!" The girl said.

Li Yifei gestured towards his head, saying, "It’s because it’s beautiful, so I can’t bear to see you tarnished. I don’t want other men to tarnish you either. Think about a pig pressing down on your youthful body; you might even have to accompany him for a month, half a month, swallow his organ, ****, sleep together, do you think you can accept that?"

"No, but for money, I can endure!" The girl’s eyes reddened again; she understood Li Yifei’s meaning, but couldn’t believe she’d encounter such a nice man; this was completely different from what those female classmates said. Actually, the idea of selling her body and making money was suggested by those girls, perhaps they were well-intentioned, as it is indeed difficult to raise so much money quickly.

Yet selling one’s body seemed like a rather good path, but... that path is a path of no personality. To put it bluntly, a prostitute. Whatever the client tells you, you have to do, if asked to eat a **** you have to eat, if asked to pose a certain way you have to pose, often students who do it freelance, meaning there’s no sufficient safety guarantee, clients often book the lodging themselves and have them go there, never mind the sanitation, the security is low, what if you encounter a pervert? Who can guarantee there are no perverts? On the contrary, frequenting call girls, the abnormality rate is probably high.

Li Minjia still found it hard to believe she’d encounter such a good person; she originally thought Li Yifei stopping here was just like others, waiting for a female student to approach with ’work contact,’ so she summoned her courage to walk up."