"I'll admit, Amy, you do have a certain attraction to me, but now you don't have the charm to leave my girlfriend who is pregnant with my child to come to you. Lin Yilong said, "In other words, you don't have it yet." ”

Amy didn't understand what Lin Yilong meant, since Lin Yilong didn't brush his sleeves away, nor did he comfort him softly without emotion, he just explained coldly beside him. Amy could only guess that either he was a little too arrogant—but that kind of arrogance didn't qualify Amy—or that he had other arrangements.

"The problem at this stage is very clear, obviously Amy, you can't pay off your education cost with your salary in the future, if I sponsor you to continue your studies, basically from an economic point of view, Amy can't pay it off. Lin Yilong explained, "I think you also understand this, as for other aspects, there are a lot of beauties around me, and what you can provide to me now, they provide them better, so you might as well think about how far you can go to convince me to pay you this money." ”

Amy's long-awaited "pay back when you go to work" rhetoric was nipped in the bud. She already had some enlightenment when she came here, but just like the saying: "Don't seduce men with beauty, and don't tempt women with money." Amy knows what the capital she can come up with, but the problem is how much Amy's capital, who can take the initiative in bargaining power, can only be at his mercy in the eyes of Lin Yilong.

"I promise to do better than them. "Amy's grief faded and she regained her pride a little," I swear. ”

"Then remember what you said. Lin Yilong sighed.

"Now, should I ......" Amy, who felt that she had been saved, looked at Lin Yilong, not knowing what further requests he had.

"I'll take you to buy a new set of clothes, I'll catch a cold." Lin Yilong persuaded, "If there is any arrangement, I will contact you later." ”

"Then my tuition ......," Amy apprehensively said of her main purpose.

"I'll write a payment confirmation, and you take it back to your school finance office, and you keep a copy for yourself. Lin Yilong said that when he paid the tuition fees for the Yeang sisters, he did the same, "This holiday, you can accept tutoring from your school with peace of mind." In terms of finances, as long as it is the cost of the school, you don't have to worry. ”

Hearing this assurance, Amy slowly regained her previous reserve, hugging Lin Yilong tightly and trying to pull her arm until she entered the nearest hotel.

Because it was morning, the hostess of the hotel was surprised.

"What can I do for you?" asked the chubby innkeeper with a flushed face.

"That's it, we came here to quarrel and my girlfriend got wet in the rain and wanted a room to take a shower. Lin Yilong said, "Of course, I will pay the money." ”

It is difficult for Westerners to judge age from the faces of Asians, but Amy's childishness is still obvious. The hostess of the hotel looked at Lin Yilong's clean-shaven and wrinkle-free face, considered the 34 pounds in cash in front of her, and gave them the key to the room.

Lin Yilong didn't enter the room, he got Amy's size and went to the store to buy a thick sweater and denim dress, and went back to the room to wait for Amy to come out after bathing.

The warm hot water calmed Amy from the intense emotional conflict a little, and after going out of the bathroom, she inadvertently opened the bath towel wrapped around her body, allowing Lin Yilong to see the back of the dancer with a muscular texture. However, this kind of trick is really not on the stage for Lin Yilong, who is immersed in Gentle Township every day. Lin Yilong looked at Amy intently, which made her feel a little ashamed.

"Changing clothes, I didn't want to keep the hostel owner waiting too long. Lin Yilong said.

Amy changed her clothes, took her and her new protector's hand, and went to a nearby restaurant, where they took their seats and the two made a formal introduction.

“... So, I studied ballet in my hometown, but our ballet education there was not very good, and if you wanted to learn well, you had to go abroad, and between Moscow, Paris, London, and New York, I chose London. Amy began to recount some of the past.

"Then, you didn't expect that the road that those predecessors had walked was so difficult and tortuous?" Lin Yilong asked.

"I thought about it, but most of the seniors I know ended up 'marrying' well—at the beginning, including my parents, they also wanted me to train in this area. In addition to the effect of shaping and beautifying the body, the temperament bonus of the so-called 'elegant art' is very popular with the rich people in their hometown. Amy said very honestly, "I don't think I look bad, and if I had accepted this arrangement, I just didn't expect the process to be so difficult." ”

"Then can I think that your dream is actually made up? Lin Yilong asked rhetorically.

"It's not a lie, maybe my ultimate goal is just to 'get married', but I do love ballet, and it's my dream to be on stage or even to participate in ballet competitions, and there is no conflict between the two. Seeing that Lin Yilong had some doubts about her, Amy hurriedly explained.

"Please continue. Lin Yilong gestured with his eyes.

"If I can be guaranteed for my future, I can't get away from my goals at the beginning. Amy concluded, "When I called, it was already ........"

"What if I say no?" Lin Yilong asked, "We meet in Pingshui, and there is a high chance that we will reject you." ”

"I really don't have any other acquaintances, my worth in my hometown is all because of the concept of "going abroad to study ballet", if I just go back to China, if I am lucky, I will make my debut as an actor, if I am unlucky, I can only find a home in a nightclub, not much different from those wandering warblers or something. "At least for me, the worst-case scenario can't be worse anyway, and I want to take that opportunity." ”

"It doesn't matter if you lose everything but your dreams. Lin Yilong asked, he didn't understand what kind of self-satisfaction this vanity could bring to Amy—of course, it had nothing to do with him.

After lunch, getting a letter of guarantee for the payment of tuition fees, Amy got on the train back to London at night, and the dilemma of starting her journey in Wales was gone, replaced by a mixture of feelings such as a small sense of luck in getting out of trouble, complacent about this "bold decision", a little bit of confusion in life and the struggle for the future that was bound by it.

Lin Yilong actually has little interest in Amy, who has just turned 17 and is still an adult, as he said before, everything he needs can be met from the Yeon sisters and Katie. It's just that when he heard Amy's predicament, what came to mind was the scene that Father Lin had mentioned a few days ago, that Uncle Yingjie's family was trembling in a winter night in Edmonton. Lin Yilong, who was a little appreciative, agreed to Amy's request, which had nothing to do with him. But he Lin Yilong is not a philanthropist, and even if he is, Amy's meager income is difficult to achieve the vital charitable purpose of "giving back to society". In the end, Lin Yilong still succumbed to his instinct of "needing to recover his investment", and when Lin Yilong came back to his senses, the future fate of Amy, a young girl, had been irretrievably changed by him.

"What a sin. On the return journey on a motorcycle, Lin Yilong muttered to himself.