Shi Youxi stared intently at the girl on the bed.

The blurry face that had tormented him for the past few years finally appeared clearly before him.

Vivid, lively.

Just like when I first met her more than a decade ago, the girl's appearance hasn't changed at all.

He had thought about what he would do and where he would do it after seeing Mu Yiran again, and he even specially prepared this room that was exactly the same as it was 4 years ago.

But now, at this moment,

There is only one thing he wants to do most.

Shi Youxi half-knelt in front of her, reverently kissing the girl's locked instep. He looked up and asked with a smile, "Sister, I missed you so much. How about you? Did you miss me?"

The brief coma relieved the effects of the drug, and Mu Yiran is now awake, but she would rather have passed out and become a corpse!

Sitting on the bed, looking so weak and helpless, she was actually inwardly roaring like a mad dragon.

Help!

Is there no one who can do anything about this?!

The yandere little girl I raised in a time-traveling adventure has appeared in the real world—how surreal!

She's about to be forcibly sexually assaulted again by the yandere male lead she raised! What should she do?

Or you could use a locksmith's phone number!

I need help urgently!!

A sudden pain shot through my ankle.

Mu Yiran looked down and saw Shi Youxi sticking out his tongue and licking the teeth marks in his mouth. He looked up at her with his narrow phoenix eyes and asked, "Did you miss me?"

This dog's behavior of biting anyone it sees and leaving marks on them hasn't changed at all.

She was internally cursing, but on the outside she was all smiles, and she said ingratiatingly, "You mean... that, right?"

Shi Youxi laughed, released her foot, and his cool, slender fingers traced the soft flesh of Mu Yiran's calf and thigh.

Inch by inch...

Her body, which had briefly ceased its restlessness, was reignited, and a fierce surge of passion erupted within her, making Mu Yiran feel as if she were on fire.

Shi Youxi looked calmly at Mu Yiran, who was suffering in pain in front of him, inserted his five fingers into her hair, and pulled hard.

"ah!"

"Then why is my sister leaving? Hmm?"

Mu Yiran looked up at him in pain, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Wasn't I good to my sister? Didn't she promise me she'd always be with me? Why did she run away...?"

Shi Youxi grabbed her chin, his face beaming with a bright smile, yet it made Mu Yiran's heart pound.

Mu Yiran felt terribly unwell; her legs were weak and sore, and she was being crushed by a mad dog.

It really is...

Mu Yiran raised her hand and slapped the man across the face. She opened her eyes, panting heavily. "Shut up first, and let me explain... no, I mean, my explanation."

"Okay, go ahead."

Mu Yiran was taken aback, not expecting her to actually say it. She stammered, "I mean, I didn't mean to leave..."

"Forget it, I don't want to hear it anymore." Shi Youxi interrupted her irritably. "Anyway, you're just going to lie to me."

Then what the hell are you asking me to say!

Another wave surged in, and Mu Yiran couldn't resist rubbing against the man's hard chest.

This time, Shi Youxi no longer looked at her indifferently; he leaned in and pressed down on her.

He pulled out a belt and tied her hands to the headboard.

The warm tip of my tongue licked away the tears.

"My sister doesn't smell like me anymore."

As if remembering something, he looked up at Mu Yiran's flushed face and smiled gently. "That's right, my sister has been gone for five years."

Shi Youxi bit his index finger, and warm, bright red liquid flowed out. He then rubbed his fingers against her lips and collarbone...

Mu Yiran felt a faint smell of rust all over her body.

"Now I've got it." Shi Youxi smiled with satisfaction.

Mu Yiran slowly opened her eyes after hearing these words.

So, five years have already passed in his timeline?

But for Mu Yiran, only two months had passed.

"Is it uncomfortable? I'll make you feel better right away." He withdrew his fingers from Mu Yiran's mouth.

Shi Youxi grabbed her chin, his face beaming with a smile, but his eyes seemed to hold endless pain.

He laughed heavily, "This time, my sister can't run away anymore."

From now on, any separation will be a matter of dying together; he wants to keep this light forever by his side.

“...”

Mu Yiran clung to him, like a puppet, at Shi Youxi's mercy. She felt as if her flesh and blood were being devoured and her bones were being crushed, and she felt excruciating pain.

Before I passed out, I was still optimistically thinking: What can I do? It's better than dying anyway.

It doesn't matter. I'm a little tired, but I'll face it again after a good night's sleep. It's not a big deal.

However.

Imagination is always beautiful, reality is always turbulent.

————

"—Get married?"

Mu Yiran slapped away Shi Youxi's hand, which was holding a spoon and about to feed her, and grabbed the man's collar.

Mu Yiran woke up at 2 p.m. the next day, when Shi Youxi unlocked the iron chains on her feet. She was sitting on the man's lap eating brunch.

"Yes, that's right. We'll go get our marriage certificate after you've eaten. I've arranged a stylist, so don't worry, sister."

Shi Youxi ignored the soup spoon that had fallen to the ground, hugged her waist, and his phoenix eyes were overflowing with joy.

What kind of certificate? Is it for depression?

Mu Yiran was still fantasizing until she woke up, perhaps she was dreaming, but when she opened her eyes and saw Shi Youxi's face, and her bare wrist without the bracelet, she realized that she was dreaming.

Reality repeatedly slapped her in the face, telling her that this is reality.

Alright, Mu Yiran accepted.

But now Shi Youxi is telling herself, marriage? Getting a marriage certificate?

She can't accept it! She can't accept it at all!

Mu Yiran took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down. "I won't marry you. I'll skip dinner. Can we give each other some time?"

After saying that, Mu Yiran was about to jump off Shi Youxi's legs.

I couldn't jump; I couldn't even move.

Shi Youxi pinched her, still smiling. He picked up his fork and tapped his plate, then said to the middle-aged woman standing guard at the restaurant entrance, "Sister, you're not satisfied with this lunch? I'm sorry, we can't cooperate anymore."

Shi Youxi waved his hand, and the woman was immediately asked to leave, her pleas echoing throughout the restaurant.

Mu Yiran: "What...what did you do?"

The man smiled, as if he had endless indulgence towards her unreasonable behavior.

"She owes a lot of money to loan sharks, and her son is about to have surgery. I'm in a real dilemma. Sister, what do you suggest we do?"

"......."

"Shi Youxi, why are you still like this... what exactly do you want?" Mu Yiran asked hoarsely.

"Let's eat. Once we're full, we'll go get our marriage certificate. Be a good girl, sister."

"Even so, I will not marry you. Don't even think about it—" She looked at what the man took out of the file folder next to him, her pupils contracting.

"What's this?"

Shi Youxi rested his chin on her shoulder and pointed to each item with his finger, "This is your household registration book, this is the contract for Shi's acquisition of Wen's Group, and this is the equity transfer document for your maternal grandmother's restaurant, Qinheyu."

"The ownership of all your parents' estate..."

His lips brushed against the girl's earlobe, his deep voice like a devil's pronouncement, "Don't you understand, sister? The Wen family sold you to me long ago."

"You have no choice."

"......"

Mu Yiran was stunned by the overwhelming amount of information.

No wonder Shi Youxi appeared at the Wen family's residence.

It turns out that the "master" who made the deal with the Wen family was this guy.

Shi Youxi's tone was gentle, without a hint of threat.

“Your uncle entered into a betting agreement, and now the Wen family is no longer enough for him to lose.”

"But if you marry me, all of these will become yours."

“...”

Faced with such conditions, Mu Yiran wouldn't be able to refuse without suffering from cerebral palsy for at least ten years.

She had lost all affection for the Wen family, but these things belonged to her mother and grandmother, and Mu Yiran had to have them.

Furthermore, regardless of who she was going to sleep with, the fact remains that the Wen family drugged her and betrayed her. It would be truly insane for her not to avenge this.

So it seems that marrying that lunatic Shi Youxi wasn't all bad.

and…

"What if I just don't agree to marry you?" Mu Yiran asked hesitantly.

Shi Youxi nuzzled against her neck, licking and kissing her earlobe as he chuckled, "Then I'll lock you up and fuck you until you get pregnant."

"..."

In any case, I won't let Mu Yiran escape.

Pregnancy and marriage are both bad options, one is bad and the other is even worse. It's better to go along with Shi Youxi's wishes for now and find another opportunity to run away later.

“Fine…” Mu Yiran gritted her teeth and agreed to this humiliating treaty.

Even as she sat in the car on her way to the Civil Affairs Bureau, Mu Yiran was still in a daze.

The car stopped at a red light. The man sitting next to her had been on the phone since he got in, but that didn't stop him from seeking validation from Mu Yiran.

Mu Yiran couldn't bear it any longer and turned around, her clasped hands sliding under Shi Youxi's clothes.

I must have owed him something in my past life.

Through those captivating phoenix eyes, Mu Yiran saw the building behind him: the East Asia International Bank.

It all started from here, didn't it? The gears of fate began to rust from here.

…………

Six months ago, Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

On the day that 22 years were about to end, Mu Yiran squeezed out her lunch break to run from school to the nearby East Asia International Bank.

The bank manager had been waiting for a long time. After verifying her identity information, the manager respectfully led her into the secret vault where the safe was stored.

"Miss Mu, this is the cabinet." The manager handed her the key and turned to step outside the secret vault door.

Yesterday, the bank called her and said that her mother, Wenqie, had items stored in a safe that were about to expire, and asked if she wanted to continue storing them.

Mu Yiran's parents have been dead for nearly ten years, and their belongings have been carefully kept in their villa in Haishi.

There's no way they should have appeared in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, which are thousands of miles apart.

Looking at the safe, which was neither too big nor too small, Mu Yiran couldn't figure out what Ms. Wen had put inside.

Could it be a rare, out-of-print Cardcaptor Sakura Clow Cards? Or perhaps an old VCD of Detective Conan?

No, this kind of "motherly love and filial piety" scene is impossible.

Thinking back to how her eccentric parents usually enjoyed teasing her, most of the teasing was probably a record of Mu Yiran's embarrassing moments from her childhood.

The memories of her dead suddenly began to assault her. Mu Yiran nervously touched the necklace pendant on her collarbone and moved closer to the safe.

After iris recognition, she inserted the key and opened the cabinet.

Unexpectedly...

It turned out to be just a few unremarkable property certificates and a sandalwood box about the size of a fist.

She held a stack of certificates and unlocked the box.

Inside the box was a jade bracelet.