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“Bai Shuijin, when are you paying your costume fee? The deadline is tomorrow at 8 a.m.”
Bai Shuijin stood in the bathroom holding his phone, scratching his hair in frustration and anxiety as he read the message. “I’ll definitely pay it before tomorrow morning.”
The message was from their class monitor.
Bai Shuijin was twenty years old this year, the typical age for university students, and he was indeed a full-fledged college student, currently in his sophomore year. But he was different from the others.
While others experienced the joys of university life, he spent all his time outside of class living the exhausting life of a working mule.
He studied International Ballroom Dance. It had taken him a lot of effort and determination to get into the university. He had no parents or family. His tuition and living expenses had always relied on government subsidies, scholarships, and part-time work.
But art majors were expensive, and ballroom dancing was even more so. Not only were the tuition fees high, but the costumes, accessories, and equipment required for learning also cost a lot.
This only added to the burden of his already poor situation.
It was now the middle of winter in December, and the end of the semester was near. For their department, the final exam was a dance performance. This exam was different from past ones. A well-known dance troupe will personally attend the exams to observe the students.
If they spotted a promising talent, they would recruit them on the spot.
The dance troupe had just wrapped up their national tour earlier this year and is well-known in the circle.
Everyone was preparing intensely for this final. They got up at five in the morning to practice, and were still in the dance studio late at night.
Meanwhile, Bai Shuijin was carrying trays at five in the morning, and scrubbing dishes late at night. While others were working hard for the final exams, he hadn’t even secured the money for his performance costume.
To ensure fairness in the final exam and test only the students’ dance foundation, the rules required all students to wear identical outfits, both for boys and for girls, and no one was allowed to have any crooked ideas like altering their costume.
But someone with more courage than brains suggested they all buy new ones together. Since most students studying arts came from wealthy families, the suggestion was quickly approved.
That same night, the link for the boys’ ballroom costume was shared in the class group chat.
Bai Shuijin clicked it and his vision went dark.
Five thousand…
It was the middle of winter, and he felt chilled straight to the bone.
“Don’t forget,” the class monitor messaged again. “If you don’t pay, I can’t put your name on the purchase list.”
“If your costume is different when the time comes, you won’t be allowed to take the exam.”
Bai Shuijin’s heart skipped a beat when he saw this. “I’ll pay, I’ll definitely pay!”
The class monitor didn’t respond after reading his reply.
A roommate asked, “So? Did he pay?”
“That broke guy? What’s he going to pay with?”
“Pfft hahaha, I knew he was poor, but not this poor, he can’t even come up with five thousand yuan.”
“If he can’t pay, then he can’t pay. Honestly, I kind of hope he doesn’t.”
The roommate laughed. “You’re so bad.”
“Be honest. You don’t want him to be able to pay either. He’s always ranked first or second in our major. If he takes the final exam, he’ll definitely get picked.”
“Don’t worry. I asked his roommate, he doesn’t have a single coin in his pocket. Unless he goes and sells himself tonight, he won’t be able to get the money.”
There was a knock on the door of the bathroom stall. “Bai Shuijin, are you in there?”
Bai Shuijin quickly put away his phone. “Yes, yes.”
He opened the door and walked out.
“I’ve been looking for you for so long. Why are you hiding here?”
“I had a message to reply to.” Bai Shuijin looked at the bartender, who was sweating profusely. “Chen-ge, what’s the matter?”
Zhang Chen rubbed his hands together. “I just got a big order and sold a lot of wine. They’re sending extra waitstaff to that private room to serve drinks. Apparently, it’s some rich young master. They don’t want clumsy hands spilling anything, so I’m looking for a few steady ones.”
Bai Shuijin: “So you came to me?”
He rubbed his neck, something felt off. It didn’t seem like a good thing, but Zhang Chen talked like it was a pie in the sky. But if it was really a pie in the sky, someone else would’ve grabbed it already. Why come to him?
“Chen-ge, I think I’ll pass.”
“Come on, it’s a good deal. Everyone going gets a tip. This much per person.”
Zhang Chen held up one hand.
“Five hundred yuan?” Bai Shuijin guessed.
“Five thousand yuan.”
!
Bai Shuijin’s eyes widened. So much? Five thousand was enough to cover his performance costume.
Seeing he was tempted, Zhang Chen didn’t give him more time to think and emphasized repeatedly, “It’s just serving drinks. Same as usual.”
Bai Shuijin was shoved all the way to the private room. The booming music inside was deafening. Serving drinks for a five-thousand tip. If he got this five thousand years, he could afford to take his exam.
Even though he was uneasy, Bai Shuijin still went in. At first, it was exactly like Zhang Chen said, he just served drinks and then stood to the side.
The room was filled with flashing lights and loud music, and it was dim and disorienting. Colored lights made it hard to see faces. Bai Shuijin didn’t want to look anyway, he focused on rehearsing his dance steps in his mind.
Thinking about how to move with his partner during the exam.
“Shuijin…your name’s Bai Shuijin, right?”
Hearing someone calling him, Bai Shuijin quickly stepped forward. “That’s me.”
A man in a suit pointed at his glass. “I’m out of wine. Pour me some.”
“Yes, sir. One moment.”
Bai Shuijin was wearing the standard server’s uniform, a white shirt with a black vest, showing off his figure perfectly.
When pouring the wine, he leaned forward. He originally studied dancing, so his waist was flexible, which could be seen from his movements.
Once he was done, he stepped back.
The man asked, “How long have you been doing this?”
“Just half a month.”
“Really? So what’s the best wine here?”
He had no clue. The alcohol here was ridiculously expensive. Bai Shuijin didn’t drink, and had never tasted any of it.
He forced himself to answer, “They’re all pretty good.”
The man pointed to two bottles beside him. “Which of these two is better?”
Bai Shuijin was speechless for a moment.
Then the man poured a glass from each bottle and pushed them toward him. “If you don’t know, try both.”
“No, sir. Waitstaff aren’t allowed to drink customers’ alcohol.”
“It’s fine, think of it as me treating you. Just pretend you’re not working right now.”
Bai Shuijin refused again and again, but in the end, he was forced to drink. Two shots of hard liquor went down, and his whole body started burning.
Very soon, he realized something was wrong. There was something dirty in those drinks.
His body was heating up fast, and his vision was blurring. He’d been drugged. He soon felt hands sliding to his waist.
A feeling of nausea surged up, and Bai Shuijin bit his tongue hard to stay conscious.
“I noticed you the moment you walked in. You look so slutty, you must have done this many times before. I’ll make you feel good tonight.”
‘Feel good? Feel good, your damn mother!’
With sheer willpower, Bai Shuijin jumped up and grabbed a bottle from the coffee table, smashing it over the man’s head.
“What the…!!!!!!”
“Ahhhh!!!!”
Screams filled the private room.
“Fuck!” The man’s head was bleeding. He grabbed the nearby ice bucket and slammed it into Bai Shuijin’s head.
Bai Shuijin, delicate as he was, collapsed to the floor. The man soon also fell to the ground, unconscious.
Right before losing consciousness, Bai Shuijin felt like he’d won. He lay still, waiting to be rescued. But as time passed, he started feeling like he was losing too much blood. Like he might not survive. He weakly fished out his phone from his pocket and deleted the pornographic comics website he’d been sneaking peeks at.
There. Let his name be clean in the human world.
And he tightened his belt for good measure.
When he woke up again, he was lying on a king-sized bed, tangled up with another body like a game of stack-the-blocks.
Bai Shuijin only felt himself being pushed and pulled, like he was on a rocking boat.
When he finally got a clear look…good guy, it wasn’t a boat. It was a bed.
Had he not been rescued? Had that man who drugged him taken him away and violated him?!
His brain crashed. His chastity had not remained intact in the human world after all.
Wang Huanxiu looked at the effeminate looking young man on top of him who had been trying to kiss him but suddenly froze halfway. With a single lift of his hand, he flung him off with disgust onto the bed.
Bai Shuijin fell onto the mattress like a rag doll.
Dear heavens. He was no longer pure.
Wang Huanxiu didn’t bother with him. He hadn’t married him out of love anyway. After the wedding today, he’d brought the person home and arranged a room for him. However, he showed up in his room that night.
Without saying a word, he just started trying to kiss him and tugging at his clothes.
“Have you had enough laying down? If you have, hurry up and roll!”
Bai Shuijin’s fury exploded like a volcano. This scumbag! This criminal!
His chastity had been reserved for a handsome guy with a big d\*ck, and yet…yet…AHHHHHHHHH!
He jumped up from the bed and launched himself at Wang Huanxiu. “You beast! I’m going to beat you up!”
‘I’m going beat you to death today!’
Wang Huanxiu was caught off guard by the pounce and he shouted coldly, “What are you doing?!”
Bai Shuijin: ‘You dare to sleep with someone and then act innocent afterward?!’
‘I’m going to sue you! But before that, I’ll beat you half to death!
Even now, Bai Shuijin hadn’t seen the man’s face clearly. It was dark in the private room earlier and he couldn’t see clearly. Now he wanted to take a good look at this beast’s face!
Seeing the man raise his arm to block him, Bai Shuijin threw all his weight onto him.
He grabbed the man’s arm in one swift motion and his gaze fell on him like a judge’s gavel.
When he got a clear look at the man in front of him, Bai Shuijin’s eyes went wide.
The man’s features were deep and three-dimensional, and his face was even more stunning than an AI-generated model. It was striking at first glance and impossible to forget. His nose bridge was sharp, and his lips were neither thin nor thick, perfectly complementing his classic domineering CEO face.
The black shirt he wore had two buttons undone at the collar, revealing two red scratch marks on his neck. His black hair had been slicked back neatly, but due to the previous scuffle, a few strands had fallen over his forehead, although they still couldn’t overshadow his eyebrows like mountain peaks.
Bai Shuijin was stunned, then licked his lips stupidly. “Damn, you look this sexy?”
