Atlas Studios

  Atlas Studios

  There was a gardener who was tending to the massive garden. Upon seeing Li Muyang come in with a guest, he stopped doing what he was doing and bowed respectfully to Li Muyang, then packed up and left.

  On the right-hand side was an escalator. Li Muyang smiled at Lin Nuan and asked, “Want to go down and have a look?”


  Lin Nuan nodded.

  Li Muyang reached out a hand to Lin Nuan. “I’ll support you!”


  She avoided Li Muyang’s large and chilly hand as she grabbed the handrail on the escalator and revealed a pale smile. “I’m not so weak and delicate.”


  Looking at the pale smile on Lin Nuan’s fair, palm-sized face, the little bit of displeasure from being rejected dissipated. Li Muyang didn’t insist, following behind Lin Nuan and stepping onto the escalator instead.

  Lin Nuan’s back view appeared rather thin, though it wasn’t clear whether it was because she had to look pretty on camera due to her special identity or because she had led a tough life.

  Li Muyang couldn’t help but take one step down the escalator, such that he was closer to Lin Nuan now. He then blatantly stared at Lin Nuan’s cold and exquisite side profile…


  With his position, it wasn’t as if no one had sent him women all these years.

  Li Muyang had seen women more stunningly beautiful than Lin Nuan, but he had never met a girl like her, who, despite her cold aura, had this alluring fire about her when she smiled at Fu Huai’an!

  Li Muyang wished to possess a fire like that too…


  It seemed that only such a fire could manage to warm up his cold heart.

  Li Muyang’s nostrils appeared to sense the lovely scent from her body, albeit vaguely…


  He was looking at Lin Nuan’s neck, which was tender and appeared all the fairer in contrast with her long black hair. It made her entire being look clean and transparent, causing one’s heart flutter and yearn to get closer and closer to her!

  The man’s deep eyes grew increasingly dark, and for some reason, he had the urge to grab her slender body from behind…


  Despite knowing that with his body, he couldn’t indulge in merry with women, Li Muyang still wanted to give it a try with the woman in front of him, even if it might cost him his life.

  Lin Nuan could feel Li Muyang’s scorching gaze. She tightened her hold on the handrail, her fingernails digging into the rubber. However, she still managed to pretend that she was unaware of that attention, calmly lowering her gaze.

  As the urge to get closer to Lin Nuan heightened to its max within his body, they reached the end of the escalator.

  Lin Nuan stepped off the escalator first, a thin layer of sweat already formed on her back.

  Lin Nuan felt steady walking on the cobblestone pavement. Perhaps because a stranger had just entered, the group of flamingos in the pond looked in Lin Nuan’s direction, then, as if nothing had happened, took several steps inwards…


  Lin Nuan hadn’t felt it on the escalator, but now that she stepped off of it, Lin Nuan realized how intimidatingly huge the Glass Garden that Li Muyang mentioned truly was. It was as if she were in a tropical forest, and she was a frighteningly tiny presence.

  “Follow me, lest you get lost…” Li Muyang said to Lin Nuan after calming his heart rate and desire.

  Lin Nuan nodded, then followed by Li Muyang’s side submissively.

  Sun shone in through the windows with a spherical top and through layers of large tree leaves, speckling bits of golden on the cobblestone, as if weaving countless pieces of golden silk fabric on this quiet pavement…


  Li Muyang and Lin Nuan walked slowly on the pavement while listening to the sound of flowing water and the chirping of birds, easing their spirits.

  “Actually, after I rescued you, I deliberately informed your husband only after I brought you to America!” Li Muyang suddenly said to Lin Nuan, a smile in his eyes.

  Lin Nuan halted in her steps and looked at Li Muyang, who turned his body sideways and smiled at her before walking forward again. Lin Nuan was astonished at this sudden confession.

  “I only… wanted the chance to spend some time with you!”


  It was as if a layer of mist had been removed from Li Muyang’s deep eyes. Even though he was smiling, the smile on his face only made others feel that it had a demonic quality. If it weren’t for the clarity and honesty in Li Muyang’s eyes, Lin Nuan likely would have shifted her gaze away and refused to talk with Li Muyang.

  “Mr. Li…”


  “Do you think I’m despicable?” Li Muyang raised an eyebrow and asked, seemingly nonchalant.

  “Thank you for rescuing me!” Lin Nuan remained frozen to that spot, while butterflies danced all around her.

  She watched Li Muyang’s smile broaden and calmly spoke, “Frankly speaking, Mr. Li, if you were just an ordinary person who rescued me, I’d be very willing to become friends with you! But with your status and identity, you’re like a person from another world to me, very distant. I respect and fear you from the bottom of my heart, but I’d also like to keep my distance from a person from another world.”


  Li Muyang’s gaze gradually dimmed, but the smile on his lips remained. His heart felt nothing as he quietly listened to Lin Nuan speak those words of rejection amidst this flora and fauna.

  “I guess Mr. Li must have checked on me. I’m a simple person who can’t get any simpler. The most out-of-line thing I’ve done in this lifetime was going to Iraq in search of someone. Because I’ve personally experienced this, I’m most unwilling to have any associations with dangerous characters. I’m also unwilling to associate with people on a different level and in a different world…”


  She smiled at Li Muyang.

  “Mr. Li, it is indeed unconscionable of me to talk like this. After all, you’ve saved me. However, I’m very sorry, but please understand my desire to lead a peaceful life after experiencing life and death! My gratitude to you for saving me, and if there are any material means by which I can repay you, my husband and I would be willing to do so, but I hope we have no more interaction before my husband arrives!”


  Lin Nuan’s voice was calm and pleasant sounding; even if the words she spoke weren’t amenable to reason, it made one feel comfortable listening to her.

  Yes, Lin Nuan didn’t lie…


  Li Muyang’s world was too foreign to her!

  Such as this extravagant Glass Garden, such as his castle-like home, such as his identity, such as his line of work.

  In Haicheng, because Lin Nuan had grown up in the Lins household, she had associated with people from the upper society.

  Top billionaires, top businessmen, and influential and immensely wealthy families, Lin Nuan had come into contact with them during her time with the Lins.

  But a person like Li Muyang, such a family, and such a business, were all foreign to Lin Nuan. Even when she saw such things in movies, she had felt they were fictional and dared not even think about them!

  For a character that could very well have walked straight out of the movies to have suddenly appeared in her life, it didn’t give Lin Nuan a sense of thrill but made her feel a chill on her back.

  She had always been a proper and timid little woman; even when she was simply watching movies and reading novels, she didn’t dare imagine she would be the person who associated with people from the underworld—much less a man like Matt De Niro, who stood at the top of that dark world.

  If it were another man, Lin Nuan could graciously say, we can still be friends…