The CEO Bought the Villa With the Ghost Cultivator Inside novel · Chapter 8 of 24

Chapter 8: Rosewood Bed

"Close your eyes," Bai Ling said, "and do not let go of my hand."

They stood in front of the bronze mirror in the master bedroom at midnight on Saturday.

Meiyin closed her eyes.

Cold slid over her face.

Her stomach dropped.

Then warm air touched her skin, smelling of sandalwood and plum blossom.

"Open."

Meiyin opened her eyes.

She stood in a bedchamber she had never seen.

The ceiling was dark carved wood.

Red paper lanterns hung from the beams, glowing, though no flame burned in them.

A screen painted with plum branches stood against one wall.

In the middle of the room was a huge rosewood bed with red silk curtains tied back to the posts.

A quilt embroidered with gold cranes lay across it.

Behind her, the mirror's surface shimmered.

"This is your room," Meiyin said.

"It was our room.

It is only mine now."

Bai Ling let go of her hand.

For the first time Meiyin saw her in her own place.

She stood straighter here.

Her robe seemed whiter, and her black hair moved without any wind, and her eyes were calm and very old.

On the far wall hung a long scroll, rolled and hung with its painted side turned toward the plaster.

Meiyin looked at it.

"What is that?"

"Nothing you need see tonight."

"Bai Ling..."

"Tonight," Bai Ling said, "I would like to be the one who gives the orders."

Meiyin turned her head.

Bai Ling had gone quiet and still.

Her hands were folded in her sleeves.

Meiyin felt her pulse jump.

"All week I have knelt for you," Bai Ling said.

"I have loved every moment of it.

But I think you do not know how to be given to.

I think you do not know how to be told."

Meiyin opened her mouth.

She closed it.

"I run four hundred people," she said finally.

"I know."

"I tell everyone what to do."

"Yes.

And no one has ever told you to put it down."

The words hit Meiyin.

She stood very still.

The red lanterns glowed.

"Take off your clothes, Meiyin," Bai Ling said.

It was not loud.

It was not a request.

Meiyin's fingers went to the buttons of her shirt.

She heard her breath catch.

She undid them one at a time and took off the shirt, then the trousers, then the lace.

She stood in the lamplight with the old wood floor cool under her feet.

Bai Ling circled her slowly.

She did it.

When she was behind Meiyin she stopped, and her breath touched the back of Meiyin's neck.

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