Chapter 540

Chapter 540 The Flame Beneath the Iceberg!

Happy birthday.

　　A simple, understated phrase, yet how much emotion it carries.

　　Gazing at the flowers before her, breathing in their faint fragrance, Lin Aoxue’s heart — once as hard and cold as an iceberg — finally melted completely, and her tears came flooding out like a broken dam!

　　The eldest young lady of the Lin family held the vase in her hands, tilting her face slightly upward, eyes closed, as tears streamed down her cheeks one after another!

　　Su Rui’s earlier words kept echoing in her ears.

　　You’ve only ever seen her withered — you’ve never seen her in full bloom…

　　”Silly girl, what are you crying for?”

　　Su Rui reached out and wiped the tears from Lin Aoxue’s face.

　　But the more he wiped, the more tears came.

　　”Stop crying — you won’t look pretty if you keep this up.”

　　Su Rui pulled out a tissue and carefully dabbed away her tears.

　　Honestly, he hadn’t expected to move Lin Aoxue this deeply. He had once thought this girl wouldn’t be touched by anything!

　　”Su Rui, let’s get in the car.”

　　Lin Aoxue wiped away her tears, a look of resolve filling her eyes. She took a deep breath, her tone carrying a note of command — she wasn’t asking Su Rui, she was telling him.

　　”Get in the car? Where are we going?”

　　With Wang Yuan absent, Su Rui naturally took the driver’s seat.

　　”The Ritz Hotel.” Lin Aoxue sat in the passenger seat, clutching the crystal vase tightly in her arms.

　　”The Ritz Hotel?” Su Rui was startled. “It’s already midnight — aren’t we going home?”

　　”No.” With that, Lin Aoxue closed her eyes.

　　Her expression looked somewhat cool and detached, but the increasingly rapid rise and fall of her chest betrayed the turmoil within her.

　　Going to a hotel in the middle of the night — what for?

　　Su Rui suddenly had a very… very promising feeling about this!

　　He turned to glance at the eldest Lin miss and asked tentatively, “What are we going to the hotel for?”

　　Lin Aoxue couldn’t be bothered to answer such an obvious question.

　　The Ritz Hotel was very close to Jinlong Lake — barely a five-minute drive — which meant Su Rui didn’t have to wait long in anticipation.

　　Walking up to the front desk, Su Rui said to the receptionist, “Could we get a room, please.”

　　The receptionist asked, “How many rooms would you like?”

　　Lin Aoxue said softly, “One.”

　　As she said it, there was no nervousness or shyness in her at all — her gaze was utterly resolute.

　　Su Rui, on the other hand, gave a slight shiver.

　　”Would you prefer a twin room with two beds, or a room with a king-size bed?” The front desk attendant seemed very thoughtful and attentive.

　　Su Rui looked toward Lin Aoxue again.

　　”The… the second one.”

　　Lin Aoxue ultimately couldn’t bring herself to say the words “king-size bed room.”

　　”Of course, room 718.”

　　Hearing the receptionist say that, Lin Aoxue immediately headed toward the elevator.

　　Su Rui seemed to have already realized what was about to happen and quickly followed behind her.

　　For some reason, watching Lin Aoxue’s retreating figure, his heart felt like it was about to leap out of his chest.

　　She wouldn’t… she wouldn’t actually be planning to push him down, would she!

　　Even though the answer was about to be revealed, Su Rui standing in the elevator still found it very hard to stay calm.

　　He glanced at Lin Aoxue’s expressionless face, then placed his right hand over his chest, trying to soothe a heart that was practically jumping up into his throat!

　　All the way until they swiped the card and entered the room, neither of them had exchanged much of anything.

　　Lin Aoxue took a deep breath and said, “I’ll shower first.”

　　”Okay.”

　　Su Rui very conscientiously retreated to the balcony and pulled the curtains shut behind him.

　　At that moment, he noticed his hands and feet had gone cold… damn, that was a sign his blood pressure was rising!

　　Lin Aoxue gently undid the shoulder clasp of her long dress, her fingers seeming to tremble slightly.

　　The deep blue gown fell to the floor, and the figure beneath it — one that would make even the world’s top supermodels feel ashamed of themselves — was laid bare.

　　Su Rui turned his face at that very moment, and through the gap in the curtains, he happened to catch a glimpse of Lin Aoxue’s silhouette. His fists clenched tight instantly, the veins on his arms standing out sharply.

　　He had to use this method to keep his inner desires in check!

　　No one knew what was going through Lin Aoxue’s mind at that moment. She showered very slowly and very thoroughly — it was well over half an hour before she finally stepped out of the bathroom.

　　She had simply wrapped a bath towel around herself. Her snow-white shoulders and bare legs were fully exposed, and the eldest Lin miss walked barefoot to the balcony door and knocked on the glass.

　　Su Rui had been gazing up at the night sky at a forty-five-degree angle, lost in contemplation of life’s great questions, when he finally heard the knock. He nearly jumped up with excitement.

　　Lin Aoxue didn’t look at him. She turned and walked toward the bed: “Your turn to shower.”

　　”Uh… okay.”

　　Su Rui took one look at Lin Aoxue’s alluring figure, swallowed hard to moisten his parched throat, and shuffled sheepishly toward the bathroom.

　　When he spotted the lingerie Lin Aoxue had washed and hung up in the bathroom, an overwhelming urge to get a nosebleed surged through him.

　　This feeling was absolutely lethal!

　　By the time Su Rui had rinsed himself off and was about to dry himself, the bathroom door was suddenly pushed open.

　　Su Rui knew what was about to happen. He didn’t turn around — his whole body went rigid.

　　He was completely bare right now, and if he turned around, things would be on full display.

　　Lin Aoxue was barefoot, her steps light. The moment she caught sight of Su Rui’s back, two blooms of red instantly rose on her cheeks.

　　Even though she had long since prepared herself, even though she had long since made up her mind, now that the moment had truly arrived, the eldest Lin miss — with no experience whatsoever — still couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed with shyness.

　　”I’m here.” Lin Aoxue said softly.

　　”I know.” Su Rui said softly. He was doing his best to tell himself to stay calm and composed, but he still felt like his entire body was burning!

　　Lin Aoxue knew — this was the path she had chosen. If she wanted to back out, there was still time to turn around now.

　　But she wouldn’t.

　　She reached out a slender hand and gave the bath towel a gentle tug. Lin Aoxue’s exquisitely beautiful figure was now exposed to the open air.

　　Su Rui heard the distinct sound of the bath towel hitting the floor. His body tensed even further, and it felt as though something deep inside him was about to explode!

　　”Turn around.” Lin Aoxue said, her tone still carrying that commanding edge.

　　In truth, only heaven knew how nervous she was right now!

　　Su Rui understood — some things must ultimately be faced, some steps must ultimately be taken, and some people are ultimately meant to be yours… no matter how hard you try to push them away.

　　Su Rui turned around, only to find that Lin Aoxue had already closed her eyes.

　　His gaze swept once over her flawlessly perfect figure, and he felt the bomb at the bottom of his heart detonate on the spot!

　　There was nothing more that needed to be said. He could clearly sense Lin Aoxue’s feelings, and once the emotions were truly there, so many things fell naturally into place!

　　He pulled that perfect body into his arms, and Su Rui had already parted Lin Aoxue’s lips.

　　Even without any experience, acting on pure instinct, Lin Aoxue knew exactly what to do in that moment!

　　Beneath her icy exterior burned a flame that only grew fiercer — in fact, a dormant volcano had long been lying in wait there, ready to erupt at any moment!

　　And now, that volcano had finally reached its breaking point!

　　The two of them breathed heavily, and the bathroom was filled with the warmth of spring!

　　The iceberg had melted completely!

　　…………

　　An hour later, from the bathroom to the bedroom, from the tiles to the floor, traces of the two of them were left everywhere.

　　In all of Lin Aoxue’s twenty-some years of life, she had never experienced anything like this. Tonight, having gone through it for the very first time, once the initial pain had passed, she began to actively savor wave after wave of pleasure.

　　Lin Aoxue was now lying against Su Rui’s chest, still feeling the lingering afterwaves of what had just passed.

　　Su Rui was drenched in sweat. He looked at the girl in his arms with tender affection and said, “How do you feel right now?”

　　”Very good.”

　　Lin Aoxue’s answer was nothing if not concise. But the fact that she was willing to say “very good” meant she was already more than satisfied.

　　”I did pretty well, didn’t I?” Su Rui looked at Lin Aoxue, who lay there completely spent, and gave a certain area a squeeze with his large hand.

　　”Passable.” The moment Su Rui grabbed her like that, certain sensations in Lin Aoxue’s body began to stir once more.

　　Su Rui still felt like this wasn’t quite real — the number one beauty in Ninghai’s business world, the one so many men had pursued desperately and failed to win, had been conquered by him just like that. Honestly, the experience just now had been absolutely wonderful, and Su Rui was just as reluctant for it to end.

　　”Just passable?”

　　Thanks to years of consistent exercise, Su Rui was quite confident in his abilities in certain respects… Men need to run more, sweat more, and do more push-ups — the third point being especially important, of course. Do enough push-ups, and you’ll know how to satisfy a woman.

　　”I have no idea what other men are like, so I have nothing to compare it to.” Lin Aoxue shot Su Rui a sideways glance.

　　That look — somewhere between a pout and a reproach — reignited the flame in Su Rui’s heart!

　　He looked down at that irresistibly tempting body, soft as a lamb, let out a low growl, and pressed his lips against hers without any further ceremony!

　　”Again!” Su Rui looked at Lin Aoxue with fierce intensity.

　　”Hmph.” Lin Aoxue let out a cold snort, looking utterly disdainful.

　　That snort provoked Su Rui… of course, as a man, encountering a woman like that would provoke him to some degree or another!

　　”I won’t stop until I’ve got you completely tamed today! Begging for mercy won’t do you any good by then!”

　　With that, Su Rui brought his large hand down hard on Lin Aoxue’s backside with a sharp smack!

　　He hadn’t held back at all — five vivid red fingerprints appeared instantly on the eldest Lin miss’s snow-white skin!

　　The feel of it was absolutely incredible!

　　Back when they had faced off against the Yuanwei Gang at the midnight cinema, Su Rui had done the same thing to Lin Aoxue in a moment of recklessness — but the feeling then and the feeling now were completely and utterly different!

　　The pleasure that came through his palm now was dozens of times greater than it had been back then!

　　”That hurt.”

　　Even as Lin Aoxue said those words, her eyes still held that look — somewhere between a pout and a reproach — the kind that made any man who saw it want to devour her on the spot!

　　Su Rui let out a low growl and lunged forward again, pinning Lin Aoxue firmly beneath him!

　　”Don’t press down on me.” Lin Aoxue said.

　　”Hm?” Su Rui didn’t quite understand what Lin Aoxue meant at first, but he didn’t think too much of it. After going ahead and doing what needed to be done, he said, “You don’t get a say in this.”

　　”Don’t move.”

　　Lin Aoxue said through gritted teeth, “This time, I’ll take the lead.”

　　Su Rui instantly understood what she meant, and let out a pleased chuckle. “If you’re not afraid of wearing yourself out, then go right ahead.”

　　With that, he simply lay back and watched as Lin Aoxue carefully shifted herself on top of him.

　　Hands folded behind his head, gazing at the breathtaking sight before him and savoring the sensations in certain places, Su Rui felt that tonight, he was the happiest man in all of Ninghai.