Chapter 142 My Lawfully Married Husband

In the villa's study, a man's fingertips hovered above the laptop's touchpad, but his eyes were unfocused.

The screen was split in two; the left side was filled with densely packed important business data charts, but he didn't even bother to press the zoom button.

The window on the right is the search engine interface, with history records above the search box, all of which are random questions.

What should I do if my wife doesn't want to go back to China?

How can I gain my wife's trust?

How can a wife fall in love with her husband?

"48 ways to make your wife feel good..."

The top one still bears fresh search traces.

"My wife's stomach keeps rumbling, but she's also refusing to eat. What should I do?"

Shen Xun propped his forehead up with one hand, his eyebrows furrowed so deeply they could trap a fly, his knuckles tapping incessantly on the table, his mind filled with the image of that angry figure.

Just as I came to my senses and my fingertips were about to land on the keyboard to type a new question, a high-pitched, slightly affected scream entered the open study.

"Here we go again," the man cursed under his breath, knowing without a doubt who was causing the trouble.

He slammed his large hand down on the laptop, closing it with a loud "smack," and immediately took a step forward, rushing out.

Even though the boy had cried "wolf!" more than three times, no matter how many times he cried out, he would rush over as fast as he could.

Because this wasn't a lamb, but his beloved fiancée.

The man walked to the tightly closed door, and with a gentle push of his hand, the door opened.

He didn't intend to lock Ruan Yi up. The villa was full of his people, and even the mistress of the house couldn't escape. There was no need to lock the door and provoke her.

Besides, he specifically searched for it online.

Online sources say that only mistresses who are unrecognized and have no official status would resort to such tactics as imprisonment.

Who is he? He's going to be Ruan Yiming's lawfully wedded husband! She's going to spend her life with him, why resort to such despicable tactics?

"Bondage and stuff... there will be plenty of opportunities to try it as a husband at night when the door is closed."

"What is it now, my lady?"

Shen Xun pushed open the door, his tone not very friendly, but when his gaze fell on the girl's raised wrist, his face instantly darkened.

On that fair and delicate wrist, several bloody red marks glistened with moisture. The girl was sobbing with her head down, her intermittent cries of "It hurts so much, it hurts so much" drifting into his ears.

But there seemed to be something wrong with the voice.

"Ruan Yi! How could you hurt yourself like this!"

Chen Xun's heart clenched suddenly. He rushed over, his voice trembling, and was about to desperately ask, "You! You really don't want to be with me..."

As I was questioning them, a sweet fragrance suddenly wafted into my nose. It wasn't the smell of blood, but a sweet scent with a fruity aroma.

Shen Xun frowned, his head involuntarily moving closer to Ruan Yi's lips, his nose gently sniffing.

As a result, Ruan Yi slapped his face away. Of course, he didn't give up. He followed the sweet smell and sniffed downwards. The fruity scent finally settled on the "wound" on her wrist.

I was blinded by worry just now, but now that I look closely, those terrible bloodstains are clearly made of strawberry jam.

The man was so angry that his eyelids twitched. He lowered his head and bit the tender white wrist that was smeared with strawberry jam. He gently bit down, which made the girl flinch. Then he turned to licking it carefully, cleaning the sweet jam little by little.

"You... let go!" Ruan Yi realized that she had shot herself in the foot again. She tried to pull her hand away, but the man held it firmly in his palm.

The strawberry jam had long been licked clean, but the man still hadn't let go. His canine teeth gently rubbed against the soft skin of her wrist, with a punishing force that made her feel both itchy and numb.

Ruan Yi panicked and started screaming again, pretending to cry, "It hurts so much! Let me go! The dog bit me!"

Forced by the howling and screaming, Shen Xun let go, his fingertips still gently caressing her reddened wrist.

When he looked up again, the helplessness and anger in his eyes had vanished, replaced by an intense, overwhelming lust, as if he wanted to devour everyone in front of him.

Ruan Yi's feigned pain expression froze on her face. Was she a human aphrodisiac in the eyes of this mentally ill person?

She instinctively stepped back, silently counting down the seconds until she turned and tried to escape, but then she heard the man chuckle and stretch out his long arm, effortlessly pulling her back.

Before the girl could react, the man had already bent down and taken her lips into his mouth, licking and biting them as if he were treating her like a piece of bread.

"Damn it! Are you a relative or a cannibal?!" Ruan Yi pushed him away with all her might.

The man didn't approach any closer, but licked his lips as if he hadn't had enough. "You still had something on your lips. You didn't want to starve yourself? You're not stupid. If you're really hungry, you'll go to the kitchen to find something to eat."

"Shut up!" Ruan Yi said confidently, but as soon as she finished speaking, she subconsciously lowered her arm to cover her lower abdomen.

After all, she regretted it the very next second after announcing her hunger strike, because the feeling of being hungry was really unpleasant.

He then secretly slipped downstairs and ate a huge meal, stuffing himself with strawberry jam bread, cream soup, and fruit salad before returning to his room.

At this moment, the cute little puff out curves were barely concealed beneath the close-fitting loungewear.

The man's gaze landed precisely on her hands, which were covering her face, and his eyes slowly moved down to her slightly undulating abdomen. His Adam's apple bobbed involuntarily.

The emotions in his eyes were instantly replaced by a deeper darkness, and his mind was already churning with images so intense they couldn't be displayed at all.

But when he spoke, both his tone and the content remained sharp, carrying undisguised sarcasm.

"You really don't know how to treat yourself. You eat like crazy when you're hungry, and when your husband isn't around, you just... find a lover?"

With a sharp crack, Ruan Yi slapped the man across the face, her eyes instantly turning red.

"You're really saying awful things! And how many times do I have to tell you, I don't have a husband! You're just a fiancé in name only, who won't accept the annulment!"

These words clearly stung Shen Xun, but they also stung her. The other person's harsh tone was exactly the same as when he had said it in public in high school.

The girl's chest was instantly filled with feelings of grievance.

Shen Xun didn't dodge; his face stung, but he didn't care. He just stared blankly at the girl's reddened eyes and nose, panicking terribly.

He almost instinctively stepped forward, reaching out to cup her face in his hands. "Ruan Yi, I'm not..."

"Let me go!" Ruan Yi struggled desperately, but the man's strength was ridiculously great. After struggling for a long time, he lifted her up by her buttocks.

In the midst of her struggle, she was stunned when she looked up at Chen Xun, who also had red eyes.

This made Ruan Yi even angrier. She stopped struggling and questioned him with red eyes.

"Shen Xun, what are you complaining about? You're the one who always says such hurtful things!"

"I didn't say it wasn't me." The man's voice was hoarse and strained, and he tightened his grip on her arms.

"And you... do you speak nicely?"

"You already know that what happened before was a misunderstanding, and that I was framed by Gu Zhi! And now? You hit me, you scold me, I'll accept it all."

"Ruan Yi, you're not even acknowledging my identity now, you're completely denying our relationship! On what grounds! On what grounds our previous agreements are null and void?"

Before their falling out in high school, every day, although the two never explicitly stated that they were in a relationship, their interactions and feelings had already been accepted by everyone as proof of their relationship.

"If I hadn't mistaken my love rival for my brother-in-law... how could she still be my fiancée!"

The two argued until their faces turned red, neither willing to give in an inch. But Ruan Yi was held tightly in the man's arms. The more he argued, the tighter his arms became, and the two were so close they could almost feel each other's heartbeats.

This noisy and sticky scene has an indescribable eeriness to it.

Ruan Yi was not moved by his words at all. With red eyes, she looked up at him and glared at him, her voice both angry and anxious.

"Now? Now you're a pervert! Besides saying nasty things and forcibly kissing me all the time, what else can you do when you see me! How are you like a normal person?"

"I'm a pervert?" Shen Xun's forehead throbbed with anger, but he didn't loosen his grip on her at all.

"It's all because I like you! If I didn't like you, why would I always want to kiss you!"

"It was wrong of me to say hurtful things, but has it nothing to do with you? You never give me a chance! I've sent you so many messages trying to gain sympathy, and you never even reply!"

"Playing the victim?" Ruan Yi felt like laughing in anger.

"Your commanding tone is just a plea for sympathy? Chen Xun, are you missing a screw in your head? You don't know how to speak properly at all!"

"How could I not understand? You just don't want to listen!" The man retorted, his neck stiff, while he had already pulled Ruan Yi to sit on the edge of the bed.

The two argued fiercely about whether it counted as playing the victim, their sharp and sarcastic remarks resembling a world war.

Ruan Yi was so angry that her mouth was dry. Just as she was about to catch her breath, a glass of water was handed to her lips, and the man awkwardly turned his face away.

"Don't die of thirst, no one will argue with me now."

Ruan Yi subconsciously took two sips, and when she came to her senses, she realized that he had been holding her and nagging her for almost half an hour.

Now that's it, his voice is hoarse and he's exhausted. He doesn't even have the strength to lift his hand to push him anymore, and all that's left is the slight heave of breath in his chest.

Seeing that Ruan Yi was exhausted, Shen Xun instantly calmed down the tense atmosphere in the room.

The man loosened his grip on her arms and gently placed his hand on her back, patting her back to help her catch her breath.

Once Ruan Yi recovered, she turned around, intending to mock his feigned kindness, but when her gaze fell on his face, she froze.

There was no trace of anger from the argument in the man's eyes; instead, he seemed unable to hide his relief and...excitement.

After all, only the man himself knows how precious those half-hour arguments were to him.

After the misunderstanding, and before today, Ruan Yi only spoke to him sarcastically and verbally, rarely replying to his messages, and when they met, she would only call him a "pervert" or a "mentally ill person," never willing to say another word.

But just now, the girl told him all her grievances, the first time she had ever been willing to reveal all the details of her dissatisfaction, allowing him to see her grievances and her concern.

"Finally, I know how to change it..."

"What are you laughing at?" Ruan Yi felt uneasy under his gaze. "Weren't you arguing quite fiercely just now?"

The man composed himself, his tone suddenly becoming unusually serious. He gripped her hand, his eyes burning with urgency.

"Ruan Yi, I can never break off our engagement, never." His voice was deep and firm, carrying an undeniable seriousness.

"But everything I said was true. I said I wouldn't force you, I said I like you, I love you, not a single word of it was a lie."

"From the first moment I saw you, from when we couldn't even speak properly, I liked you! I came to the Ruan family earlier than Gu Zhi, and earlier than anyone else who might have had feelings for you."

His fingertips trembled slightly, and his tone was tinged with grievance, "I accepted that Gu Zhi was my rival in love, but why... why do I still have your boss now?"

"And that masked man from that day, who... is he to you?"

His voice trembled at the thought of the men surrounding Ruan Yi, and he only calmed down a little by pressing his burning cheek against her cool skin.

The girl didn't respond, and her silence made him uneasy. He could only hold her tighter and keep murmuring to himself.

“You said when you were little that you wanted to marry me.”

"Ruan Yi, you can't go back on your word, you absolutely can't..."