Serina sat on the bed with her head down, silent.
“I’ve already calculated it for you.”
Derek took off his coat and unbuttoned his shirt. “The car is worth fifteen million. It costs tens of thousands to spend a night with a top prostitute. And I suppose it costs 100, 000 to sleep with you. Fifteen million divided by ten thousand is one hundred and fifty. It means that you need to sleep with me a hundred and fifty times.”
Serina suddenly raised her head, “You are my husband. You can compensate it for me!”
“But aren’t you going to get a divorce? Then I’m not your husband anymore.” Derek bent down and pinched Serina’s chin.
Serina was angry. “No! This is your car, so it should be our common property. I don’t need to compensate. It’s my own car.”
“I’m sorry. But it’s not our common property but my pre-marital property. If I don’t notarize it, it will never belong to you.”
Serina looked up and cried loudly, “You can’t bully me like this, Derek! What a bully you are!”
Derek was amused by Serina. He sat beside the bed. “There’s nothing serious. It won’t take long to do it. You just need to lie down.”
“I quit! I have never seen a man like you before! I lose to you every time!”
Serina looked at Derek. She had played tricks on others since she was in kindergarten but had never failed like this before!
“Can you let me win once?” Serina pulled Derek’s sleeve and asked coquettishly.
Derek looked down at Serina’s small hands, “OK. What’s your plan?”
“I want…”
What’s the point of that?
Serina burst into tears again, “You are so sly. How can I win? I hit my foot today, and it still hurts now! I give up!”
“Your foot was hurt? Let me see.” Derek sat at the end of the bed and picked up one of Serina’s feet.
“Not this one. It’s the other one.” Serina lifted her other foot in front of Derek.
Derek looked down and saw a purple patch.
“Why were you so careless?”
“I’m injured. Could you please not have sex with me tonight?”
Serina pleaded miserably with a sad face.
These days, Derek did that several times a day. Serina couldn’t even get up in the morning!
“No!”
“Life is too hard for me!”
“Didn’t you enjoy yourself these days?”
“How can I enjoy myself?” Serina immediately stopped howling and asked seriously.
“No? You screamed so loud. Didn’t it mean that you enjoyed it?” Derek raised his eyebrows, “You are still so dishonest.”
“No, I didn’t!”
“Then you will enjoy it tonight,” Derek said and wanted to take off Serina’s pajamas.
Serina rolled to the other side.
“You called me husband and said the car was common property. Don’t tell me that you only want to enjoy the rights and evade the obligations of our marriage?”
“What obligation?”
“It is the duty of a wife to sleep with her husband.”
“Can I slack off once?”
“No!”
Derek still slept with Serina. But this time, he controlled himself and was gentler.
Serina fell asleep. Derek ordered the servant to bring a salve and gently put it on Serina. The salve can soothe bruises.
Deep into the night, Derek walked out of the bedroom in his pajamas.
He sat on the sofa in the living room. Henry immediately ordered the servant to bring a glass of red wine.
Derek shook the wine glass in his hand.
Henry stood beside Derek, “Mr. Derek, we almost finished dealing with the Nathan Group. They lost more than a billion these days. Now the major shareholders have withdrawn. Only the Nathans haven’t given up.”
Hearing Henry’s report, Derek smiled.
“Maybe the Nathans will look for a new partner. After all, the withdrawal of the shareholders has led to the breakage of the capital chain. Mr. Derek, what are you going to do next?”
“What about the Norrises?”
“The Norrises didn’t have enough capital. After we scrapped the contract, their capital chain broke apart. They will go bankrupt soon.”
“Great.”
“Clara is without a job now. But because of the Nathan Group, there weren’t many scandals about her. Starlight International has not decided to end her career.”
Derek took a sip of red wine and said, “Let’s wait and see what else the Nathan Group can do. As for the Norrises, we don’t need to do anything to them. They will beg me one day.”
“Yes.”
“Arrange a vacation for me on Water Cloud Island.”
“OK.”
The Nathan Group got into such big trouble. They would surely take many actions. If Serina knew it, all of the efforts would be in vain.
The next morning, Derek brought Serina to Water Cloud Island on a private yacht.
Water Cloud Island was a newly developed tourist island. With its fantastic natural scenery, it looked like a place in a fairy tale and enjoyed great popularity these years. The white beaches looked beautiful with the sea, whose color often changed.
Many celebrities chose to hold their wedding ceremony here.
Getting off the yacht, Serina saw a flock of white doves.
“Wow!” Serina rushed towards the white doves. Some doves flapped their wings gracefully and flew.
You could see many white doves and all kinds of seabirds here.
Before the island was exploited, many seabirds gathered here. The exploiters came and found that the seabirds weren’t afraid of humans. So they didn’t drive them away and preserved the original characteristics.
Later, the exploiters raised a flock of white doves. The doves and seabirds got along very well, and the seabirds got closer to humans.
This was the first time Serina had seen such a scene. Since she was a teenager, it had been her dream to spend a holiday at the seaside.
Derek made a sign to the servants and then a bag of bird food was handed to Serina.
Serina became more excited. She put the bird food in her hand and the white doves came to peck. It was itchy.
Soon, the bird food was eaten up.
“Mr. Henry, is there any more bird food?”
Henry was about to answer, but Derek glanced at him. Derek walked to Serina and said, “If you want them to live a few more years, don’t feed them anymore.”
“All right.” Serina stood up and clapped her hands.
“Do you want to see the place we live?”
“We? We are going to live together?”
“Or?”
Derek held Serina’s hand and walked towards the row of villas.
When Serina and Derek arrived at Water Cloud Island, a piece of big news broke out.