006 - Responsible to the End

Bai Yixuan watched the two of them so intimately together, feeling neglected for quite some time. She pouted and said, "Yichen, don't forget, I'm your official fiancée. Aren't you afraid I'll get jealous, openly holding another woman like this?"

Lu Yichen didn't even raise his eyelids. "Bai Yixuan, shut up!"

"So you can do it, but I can't say it? Overbearing!" Bai Yixuan was furious. Though they'd agreed to a contractual engagement, she still had her pride, didn't she?

"Say one more word and you can get out of the house and sleep on the streets!" Lu Yichen replied.

Bai Yixuan tilted her head, made a contemptuous face at him, but, indeed, fell silent.

From their blunt exchange, Xia Yuwei sensed a kind of uninhibited intimacy. If she'd only suspected before, now it was confirmed by their own words—Lu Yichen had a fiancée, and she seemed to be a beautiful young woman of seventeen or eighteen, lovely, poised, charming, righteous, and, most importantly, young. The two were already living together. What else could she say?

She jumped down from Lu Yichen's embrace, covering her face with only her almond-shaped eyes showing. The rash on her face was fading as her allergic reaction subsided, but she wasn't sure and didn't want to frighten anyone. "Thank you both for coming to my rescue. No need to quarrel over me; let's just go our separate ways from here on." She acted as though she barely knew them, hoping never to cross paths again.

"Xia Yuwei, have you lost your memory? I went through so much trouble to save you—bled and sweated, body and soul both wounded. You think a simple thank you means we part ways? You owe me for life, you understand?" Lu Yichen said, shameless and domineering. Her feigned indifference annoyed him.

Sweat dripped.

What bleeding and sweating, body and soul wounded, demanding she owe him for life... That was classic rogue behavior!

He actually accused her of amnesia?

Of course, she wrote novels herself; wasn't this trick a frequent plot device? Since he accused her of memory loss, she might as well play along.

"Well then, let me treat you both to this meal as my thanks. It's rare to meet such kind people for the first time." Xia Yuwei ignored Lu Yichen's shamelessness, striving to appear sincere as she addressed them. Though the food here was so expensive it pained her, and the two wealthy types would surely pick the priciest dishes, it would be worth it if she never had to see him again.

"Xia Yuwei, I see you’ve grown up in the years since we last met," Lu Yichen ground his teeth, forcing out the words through clenched jaws, his whole demeanor chilling and sinister, making Xia Yuwei shudder. Had she awakened the devil in him?