Chapter 18 Intimacy

　　It was deep in the night. The moon hung in the sky.

　　Shu Huan sat in front of the dressing table and looked at the delicate handmade gold bracelet in her hand.

　　She used to think that jewelries made of gold was tacky. But the light that came from this pair of bracelets under the light would obviously make people exclaim in admiration. To the present her, whether a jewelry was beautiful or not wasn't the most important thing. The most important thing was its value. This pair of golden bracelets was heavy in her palm. It gave her a lot of security.

　　Presumably most of her future would depend on them!

　　Shu Huan sighed and put the pair of golden bracelets in a rosewood jewelry box. Then, she picked up that jade annulus that symbolizes good fortune and looked at it.

　　Just then, behind her came the sound of the curtain being lifted. She panicked and quickly put the jade in the jewelry box. Then, she closed the lid.

　　The one who came in was Gu Xiran. She could hear the laughter in his voice, "You looked at them the whole night. Is it still not enough?"

　　It seemed that she had long been discovered by him!

　　"Not enough!" Shu Huan's face reddened and she still pretended that nothing was the matter, "I came from a poor family and am short-sighted. I've never seen such valuable things. Naturally, I have to look longer at them."

　　Gu Xiran revealed a profound smile, "When women like money, usually it's because they lack sense of security."

　　Shu Huan wanted to refute. She opened her mouth but found out that she couldn't refute him.

　　His words were somewhat reasonable. At least, that was the case for her.

　　Yi Shu said in her book "Loving Jewel": I have a lot of love. If there's no love, then I have a lot of money. If neither is available then, health was also great.

• Yi Shu is a popular Hong Kong writer.

　　In the past, she possessed many loves from her parents, families and friends. These loves made her life worry-free.

　　Now, she only had health left. Although, she didn't lack food and clothing for the time being, but those were given by others. She had to exchange self-respect and freedom for them. If one day, the other party doesn't want to give anymore, he could retract it any moment. He didn't even have to give her a reason and explanation. Then, aside from acc.u.mulating a bit of valuable things for herself to leave a way out for her, what else could she do?

　　After all, she didn't have a long-lasting sense of security.

　　It happened that hard work and relying on oneself was useless for the women of this age. It made it impossible for her to even find a sense of security in a career.

　　Shu Huan's enthusiasm came to an end. She pushed the jewelry box onto the end of the dressing table and stood up.

　　"Come here." Gu Xiran leaned against the bed rail and beckoned at her with his index finger.

　　Shu Huan lowered her eyes and walked obediently to him. "Does second young master want to drink tea?"

　　Gu Xiran shook his head and looked at her for a moment. Suddenly, he grabbed one of her hands and pulled her into his arms.

　　This was too unexpected!

　　When she was pulled into his arms, Shu Huan smelled a faint smell of medicine. She didn't recover her senses yet, when his chin came close to her ear. He used a very low voice to slowly say, "When two people are together, would you feel more sense of security being like this?"