Kiss me tender

In a tea room with smoke curling, a few young girls dressed in red cheongsam were kneeling at the table to make tea and
making tea. Their white hands looked elegant in posture. They made tea according to their action standard. They were as
elegant and professional as the official ladies from ancient times.
Fannie was sitting on a wooden chair to take a rest. Someone was massaging her legs. Every day when she felt tired, she would
like to come to this place to have a rest. She liked the Chinese style, especially tea. She used to drink coffee to refresh herself
when she was young, but now she only liked tea when she was a little older. Therefore, she was quite familiar with the Tin
Teahouse.
She was in her fifties, but her skin was as smooth like a lady in her early forties. She had always been a coquettish girl in her
youth, but now she was well preserved with appropriately exquisite make-up and high-end clothes. So she looked like a queen,
completely different from her previous coquettish style that was looked down upon by others.
No one in the entertainment circle dared to defy her. Her husband, Gilbert, was ninety years old and paralyzed with old age. He
could only lie on the bed, waiting for his death. He could do nothing with anything and the business of the Ling family had fallen
into her hands completely. The ex-wives and other children of Gilbert, who were not able to deal with her, could be controlled by
her, as if she could easily deal with an ant.
After hearing Candy's report, Fannie raised her hand gracefully. The big diamond and emerald bracelet on her hand glittered in
the light, which immediately attracted Candy's attention. Candy stopped talking and just looked at Fannie, who closed her eyes
meditatively.
Fannie waved her hand and asked the waiter to leave. Then she sat up slowly and said, "I got it. You mean that the woman
began to break up with Colin, right?"
Candy nodded and said, "Yes. That woman ran out after Mr. Colin scolded her that night. She looked very sad and Mr. Colin was
very angry, so he didn't chase her out. Therefore, I guess they will not have any relationship in the future, right?"
Fannie took the small tea cup the waitress served, smelt the fragrant taste of the tea, and then slowly drank the tea, saying,
"Well done."
Hearing that, Candy smiled fawningly and said, "It's all because of you. You are so brilliant. First, you gave words to Melissa's
parents to irritate them. Then, you parted Colin and Melissa by taking advantage of Melissa's parents. Finally, you provoked Mr.
Colin with the belongings of Avril and Mr. Colin said harsh words to Melissa. So, both of them finally hated each other." "From
now on, they will be strangers."

Fannie put down the tea cup gracefully and sneered, "You are too naive. If you let it go, Colin won't be my son!"
"What do you mean, madam?" Candy said with puzzlement.
Then, Fannie took the second cup of tea to taste slowly. She said, "Since you have said that Mr. Colin's attitude towards that
woman is different and that woman also was kept staying with Colin for five years as well as even Colin brought her home.
Apparently, that woman has a place in Colin's heart" "According to Colin's character, can he easily give up her?"
"Madam, do you mean that......" Mr. Colin has fallen in love with that woman. What can we do? "It's not easy for him to give up!"
Candy was a little scared.
Slowly, Fannie raised her head and glanced at Candy with her eyes glistening with coldness. She said slowly, "That depends on
that woman. It's okay if she is not greedy, but if this time she just chooses to be separated from Colin, that's all." If she acts like
Avril and she continued to have an affair with Colin, Then....... "Then......" Fannie lowered her head and adjusted the super big
diamond ring on her middle finger. She said slowly, "I don't mind to deal with her in the same way as I dealt with Avril in the past.
If she dare to covet Colin, I will let her disappear in the world inexplicably!" She raised her hand gracefully to show her diamond
ring in the sunlight and then smiled with satisfaction.
But Candy's face turned pale with fright. How terrible madam dealt with Avril and the way she killed Avril was bad! It was too
cruel! Candy couldn't help shivering.
Melissa slept for a long time, so that she thought she would never wake up. She had many nightmares, she dreamed that
everyone in the world abandoned her, and her parents despised her as well. They didn't even raise their hands to help her when
they saw her fall into hell. They just stood on top of her, coldly watching her fall into the hell.
Then Colin was the demon who tried to drag her to the place she didn't want to go. No matter how hard she struggled and
roared, he dragged her into the sea of fire, turning her into ashes.
She screamed and shouted at her parents, asking them not to leave her or telling Colin not to be with her again. She pleaded for
mercy and finally when she was so helpless, she grabbed a hand, which was so strong, holding her tightly. There was a man
yelling, "Melissa......" "Melissa......"
All of a sudden, Melissa's nerves were at ease. Holding his hand tightly, she felt that it was warm and secure. She was not afraid
of falling into hell without her parents' help. She held his hand tightly until her nightmare was gone and she fell asleep gradually.

When she woke up, it was already morning. The sunshine dazzled her. Melissa opened her eyes and saw herself lying on the
hospital bed in white with the smell of disinfectant. She was put on a drip, but she still felt weak and heavy. It seemed as if she
had been carrying something weighing thousands of pounds, which was hard for her to move.
Then she turned her head and saw a man sleeping next to her bed. He was very tall, so he didn't seem to be very comfortable in
his sleep. His posture was very restrained, but he clasped her hand tightly, without loosening it at all.
Melissa tried her best to recall what had happened last night. Then she remembered that she had received a call from Eric
before she had been in a coma and had asked him for help weakly. Was he Eric? Did she get rid of the cold rainy night and the
abductors?
Melissa moved her fingers and called out lightly, "Eric..."
Eric woke up at once. He might be a light sleeper, so if there was any noise coming from outside, he would be awake at once.
He raised his head to look at her. His eyes lit up at the sight of her awake. With a big grin, he said cheerfully, "Melissa, are you
awake?" How do you feel now? "Do you feel better now?"
He stood up and asked her kindly. It was not until then that Melissa noticed that his clothes were still in a mess. It seemed that
he was still wet in the rain and there were a lot of stains on it. And his hair was a bit messy, which was not like him who was
usually clean and tidy. He looked haggard and perhaps because he didn't get enough sleep. And there were dark circles under
his eyes and his chin was growing with some beard. In short, he was not like the clean and handsome Eric in usual.
Melissa asked, "Are you always awake?" "What time is it now?"
Eric checked his watch and answered, "It's almost noon. You had a long sleep. You had a fever last night. Did you have a lot of
nightmares?"
Melissa looked at him gratefully, "Thank you. Thank you so much. But I don't know what to do without you last night, so thank
you!"
She was so weak that she was on the verge of having a nervous breakdown last night. If Eric hadn't shown up, perhaps she had
died in Dream Garden and even nobody knew it. However, that time she would rather die than be abandoned by others so that
she felt so sad.
Eric reached out to stroke Melissa's forehead and then let out a sigh of relief. His uneasiness was finally relieved. He smiled and
said, "The fever has been brought down. When I sent you to the hospital yesterday, you had a high fever and the wound on your

head has been inflamed. The doctor said that it was very dangerous. It would be troublesome if you couldn't wake up this
morning. Fortunately, you finally wake up. The fever was gone. You must have passed the crisis."
Noticing that there were tears in Melissa's eyes, Eric asked with concern, "Yesterday......" What happened to you last night?
Why were you in such a mess? When I found you yesterday, I saw you leaning in an empty corner, unconscious, embarrassing,
with no shoes and your feet are bleeding. What's wrong with you? Why did they come to the suburb? "What happened?"
His words saddened Melissa again. Tears came down from her eyes and dropped on the pillow. She couldn't help but sob and
she was really sad.
Eric grabbed her hand tightly and asked coldly with a frown, "Is it related to Colin? Or your parents......" You kept calling their
names when you had nightmares last night. What did they do to you? "And especially Colin? What did he do to you?"
Speaking of Colin, Eric was still angry. That night in a five-star hotel, he had a quarrel with Colin. He never found that there was
such a bad man in the world. And that man was so mean to a woman. It seemed that he had tortured Melissa for many years.
Otherwise, how could she become like this as she was such a good star and an innocent woman? But he didn't expect that
Melissa and Colin had a hidden relationship. They were from two different worlds. Melissa was an innocent woman. Why would
Melissa be with Colin later?
Melissa cried for a while and she held back her tears with saying, "It's all over now. I won't get involved in Colin from now on."
"And I don't want to talk about him either."
Seeing that she didn't want to talk about it, Eric thought that she might have been hurt by those things. Although he was very
worried, it was not appropriate to reveal her wound since she didn't want to. So he lowered his head and stopped asking. After a
while, he asked with concern, "What are you going to do in the future?"
Melissa stared blankly at the ceiling, thought for a while, and then gritted her teeth and said, "I want to show them that I'm
successful. Although I've left the entertainment circle for a long time, it doesn't mean that I'll be down in the world for the rest of
my life." "I will stand from where I stepped down. I don't want to be bullied by those who bully me one more time! I, known as
Melissa, want to fight against them!"