24 Chapter 52: Win or Lose? Afraid I Won’t Pay Up? Part 2

**[Cold Black Swan · Lawyer] X [Gentle Invader · Police]**

**Blurb:**

After reuniting, Ren Sanliu did two things—

“Forcing Xiang Yu to get back together.”

“And sleeping with Xiang Yu.”

1. On the first day of living together, Ren Sanliu bought a box of finger cots and placed it right in the bedside drawer.

Xiang Yu had been injured during a capture operation. Ren Sanliu, leveraging her status as family, cared for Xiang Yu all the way until her discharge—and with that, forcibly kicked off their cohabitation life.

From the moment Xiang Yu moved into her home, Ren Sanliu's eyes never left her body. Xiang Yu always felt that the woman's gaze burned scorching hot against her spine, leaving her deeply unsettled, as if she were about to be devoured at any moment.

Xiang Yu thought Ren Sanliu had lost her mind.

Where was any trace of the old Ren Sanliu? Back then, she had been cold and aloof, her distant gaze never dropping its guard for anyone. But Xiang Yu refused to believe it. She dove in headfirst, convinced she could melt that icy heart. In the end, though? After they tangled and clashed, exhausting every possible act, all she got were Ren Sanliu's words as she dressed: “No one can stop me from leaving Huaqing—not even you, Xiang Yu.”

Then she walked away without a backward glance.

Now, the esteemed Lawyer Ren not only covered all of Xiang Yu's food, clothes, housing, and daily needs, personally tending to her every whim, but even stooped to sweet-talking her.

*When someone acts out of character, there's always a catch.* Xiang Yu didn't dare make a move.

2. Until that night—when Ren Sanliu, fueled by alcohol, pinned her down on the bed.

She straddled Xiang Yu's body, sliding her fingers between hers and interlocking them tightly. Nose to nose, her alcohol-tinged breath mingled with heat, casting aside all former restraint and chill. She teased to the extreme, her scorching, wet whispers coiling around Xiang Yu's ear—

“Don't go back to the guest room tonight... Sleep here...”

“Stay...”

When Xiang Yu flipped them over and took control, she realized *she* had gone mad too.

*When you think you're the one proactively exploring something, you might already be her target.*

This was the game Ren Sanliu had meticulously plotted—and Xiang Yu had been ready to play along from the very start.

A wild tale of two women with starkly different personalities but the same untamed core.