Sunlight streamed warmly through the window, casting a hazy glow on Xia Linyin. She wore a light blue dress, sat on the sofa, and had a thick, historically significant book on her lap.
After wiping the mud and dust off his shoes on the doormat, Arthur walked into the living room, carrying a bamboo basket full of fresh wild vegetables in one hand and a large bunch of colorful wildflowers in the other.
"Arthur, you're back?" Xia Linyin closed her book and put it aside. She quickly got up and walked towards Arthur, took the wildflowers from his hands, and carried them to the dining table.
After removing the somewhat wilted flowers from the vase and replacing them with clean water, Xia Linyin arranged the wildflowers that Arthur had just picked into the vase, matching their lengths and colors. After arranging the flowers, Xia Linyin looked at the vase from side to side for a while, then clapped her hands and laughed, "All done."
She turned around and saw Arthur standing in the middle of the living room, looking at her with a shopping basket in his hand. Xia Linyin asked in confusion, "What's wrong, Arthur?"
A somewhat sarcastic smile suddenly appeared on Arthur's usually expressionless face, and he muttered to himself, "No wonder she's been so well-behaved these past few days."
Xia Linyin didn't hear Arthur's muttered words clearly, but she saw the smile on Arthur's face. In addition to being shocked, she also felt a strange and eerie feeling.
Arthur's ever-sleepy blue eyes, coupled with the smile that suddenly appeared on his face, made it seem as if someone had put a mask on his face, revealing an expression that didn't belong to him.
"Arthur, what's wrong?"
Unexpectedly, Arthur ignored Xia Linyin. His face returned to its blank expression, as if he were talking to someone else, or as if he were telling himself. He opened and closed his lips and said, "She betrayed her promise."
Arthur slowly raised his eyes and opened them, which had been slightly closed. His pupils were as blue as the deep sea, and his eyes had a certain charm, flowing with a certain light, like a dangerous sea surging.
Wisps of black mist emanated from Arthur's body, and those wisps of black mist, like long, thin black snakes, attacked "Charlene".
"Arthur, what are you doing—" The scream abruptly stopped as black mist completely enveloped "Charlene's Voice".
Arthur stretched out his hand, and the black mist swirled back. When the black mist dissipated, a half-new doll appeared in Arthur's hand. Looking at the doll whose face resembled Xia Linyin's, Arthur clenched his fist and strode towards the outside.
Meanwhile, Xia Linyin was desperately running towards the location of the white light, but for some reason, the white light, which seemed to be not far away, could not be reached no matter what she did, just like a mirage.
"Almost there, almost there," Xia Linyin comforted herself, constantly encouraging herself. She gritted her teeth and quickened her pace, her heavy legs bearing the weight of her weight.
Just as Xia Linyin truly saw hope, with the exit within reach, a rope, like a snake, attacked from behind, wrapped around her body, and then pulled her sharply backward.
Xia Linyin's body rose into the air, traced an arc in the air, and landed on Arthur's outstretched arms.
Still shaken, Xia Linyin looked up and met Arthur's scarlet eyes. His eyes, which were originally as blue as the sea, had turned blood red, a bewitching red, a terrifying red, like the bottomless blood in the River of Oblivion in hell.
With a "gulp," Xia Linyin swallowed hard. Arthur's eyes changed, and the aura he exuded changed too, becoming...
How terrifying!
The aura surrounding Arthur seemed to solidify and press down on her relentlessly, making her wish she could faint immediately.
Arthur was terrifying when he was chasing people, but more than that, it was the imposing presence of his tall stature that made him seem like he was trapped in a box, only faintly revealing the aura of a demon.
Now, the box is completely open, the demon imprisoned inside has been released, and its terrifying aura has been fully unleashed.
Looking at Arthur like this, Xia Linyin had only one thought in her mind, and that was—
It’s over!
Xia Linyin thought she was going to die, but to her surprise, after Arthur carried her home, he didn't do anything to her. Instead, he put her on the sofa in the living room, picked up a thick history book and placed it on her lap, and then, as if nothing had happened, tied on an apron and went to the kitchen to make lunch.
None of the imagined beatings, abuse, or even the way Chad was strangled to death happened!
As usual, the food was prepared and served. Arthur sat at the table without saying anything. He ate in silence, seemingly unchanged from before. But Xia Linyin knew that something was different.
I nervously accompanied Arthur to lunch, and sure enough, after lunch, Arthur behaved differently than usual.
He somehow got hold of a punching bag, hung it in the yard, took off his shirt, wrapped bandages around his hands, and started boxing.
Under the sunlight, the man's skin, which was usually covered by a cloak and never exposed, was dazzlingly white, but not in a thin and sickly way. Instead, it had a healthy glow, covering a layer of firm muscles, like the finest, flawless white jade.
His physique was good enough to walk the runway of any top model. His abdominal muscles were firm and smooth, his sexy V-line was tucked into his pants, and the muscles on his arms were bulging but not overly exaggerated, bursting with powerful force with every punch he threw.
Sweat soaked his messy black hair, and glistening beads of sweat slid down his handsome face in the sunlight.
Beneath his messy bangs, his thick, dark eyebrows appeared wild and untamed, and his eyes were deep and dark, as captivating as the deep sea, and as mysterious as the deep sea, making it impossible to explore all its colors.
Xia Linyin had never seen Arthur so unabashedly displaying his masculine side. After standing at the door for a while, she felt her cheeks getting hot, turning as red as a ripe apple.
Her gaze darted over Arthur before quickly averting, her fingers nervously twisting together. She wanted to turn around and go back inside, or even run upstairs to her room and crawl into bed to cool her face on the smooth pillow. She was afraid that if she looked any longer, she would get two nosebleeds.
Having gotten used to seeing Arthur covered up completely, suddenly seeing this sexy side of him, it felt like the air was filled with a strong scent of male hormones, making one's toes curl up in embarrassment.
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