Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Seeing her awkwardness and embarrassment, as well as her resemblance to an angry kitten with raised hackles, he was in a strangely good mood. Curving his lips, he got up and left the bed, “My name is Gu Junzhu, and I’m the owner of this place.”
His sudden movements off the bed revealed a tall, sturdy back and straight, lightly muscled legs to Ye Xingbei’s eyes unexpectedly.
Sucking in a mouthful of cool air, Ye Xingbei raised her arm rapidly to cover her eyes as she barked angrily, “Are you a pervert? Exhibitionist! Shameless!”
Casually putting on a bathrobe, Gu Junzhu snorted coldly, “You’re the shameless pervert who climbed up my bed while I was defenseless!”
“Nonsense!” Ye Xingbei was so angry that she wanted to kill someone. “I just returned from overseas. After getting into Jiang Siyou’s car, she said that she was sending me home to see Grandpa for one final time. Why did she send me here? What kind of vile deal do you have with her?”
Picking up the glass of water, Gu Junzhu drank a mouthful before turning his head back to look at her. “Although I’m also a victim, I have a brain and can analyze instead of interrogating others for every single thing. So, let me tell you. Congratulations, you have been married to a sickly person who’s about to die by your family—you’re going to become a widow!”
“Me? Married who?” Spreading her hands open, Ye Xingbei looked at him blankly, “You? Are you dying soon?”
At a glance, this man looked like a scourge. A scourge who could live for a millennium. He was hopping around this energetically, so which part of him looked like he was going to die?
“That’s right, it’s me,” Gu Junzhu curled his lips. “Not only do you lack brains, is your hearing bad too? It can’t be that you never heard before about how ever since Gu family’s fifth son—Gu Junzhu—went missing and returned from overseas a year ago, he has been bedridden and sick beyond cure. Left with just one last breath and about to be buried soon?”
Ye Xingbei raised her face to look at the dazzling man standing in front of her.
At least 1.85 meters tall, she had already seen for herself how fantastic his figure was, cloaked beneath the bathrobe.
He had peerlessly handsome facial features, especially that profound and pitch-black pair of eyes which carried an indescribable charm, as though they could suck in a person’s soul.
Although his complexion was slightly pale in a sickly manner—compared to what he had said about being “sick beyond cure”—there was no relation whatsoever with whoever was left with just one last breath.
If he was “deathly sick and left with just one breath”, then who was the one with the ferocious vitality last night? Causing her to ache like her bones were going to scatter apart?
Was it a ghost?
Glaring furiously, she accused angrily, “Liar! You’re the same as Jiang Siyou. Both of you are shameless liars!”
The girl was simply too pleasing to look at—a small, fair and exquisite face without any blemish, as well as soft and delicate skin that seemed like it would break easily by blowing on it. Even if one treated her as a mere decoration, looking at her pretty face would turn anyone’s moods for the better and they would adore her.
Her ranting appearance looked even more spirited. Her large, black and lively eyes glared like round balls, making the people watching feel restless with the desire to hug her onto their thighs and smooth her fur.
Gu Junzhu felt that she was interesting and chuckled lowly. Just as he was about to open his mouth to speak, a knocking sound echoed from the door, “Young Master, breakfast is ready. The chairman is waiting for you and Young Madam to eat breakfast.”
“Got it.” Gu Junzhu leisurely threw the glass of water to one side, “I’ll be right there.”
Ye Xingbei’s eyes widened and she pointed at Gu Junzhu, “Young Master?”
Conversely, she pointed at herself, “Young Madam?”
“Finally, your head is clever for once,” Gu Junzhu turned around to walk towards the bathroom. “But you still look very silly!”
Ye Xingbei, “…”
The anger forced Ye Xingbei into a short daze, before she returned to her senses. “Gu Junzhu, come back and explain it clearly to me! How in the world did I become some Young Madam?!”
*
Half an hour later.
Wearing the new clothes that the Gu family had prepared for her, Ye Xingbei sat in the dining hall downstairs.
She had never thought that besides Gu Junzhu’s grandfather in the Gu family’s dining room, she would also see a formerly familiar person… Bai Mengluan.
That woman who had wanted to buy an ovum from her and was rejected. Then, a year later, she forcibly stuffed a child onto her, making vilifying claims saying that she was having an affair with a man, causing her to be chased out of the Jiang family.
Bai Mengluan also never expected that Gu Junzhu’s newly-married wife was actually the Ye Xingbei who had gone missing for more than five years!
Recalling everything she had done to Ye Xingbei that year, she was so frightened that her complexion turned pale.
The Old Master Gu laughed benevolently to greet Ye Xingbei, “Bei Bei, sit quickly. Uncle asked your parents about what your favorites are and specially ordered the kitchen to make these for you. See if you like them.”
“Uncle Gu, sorry for troubling you.” Ye Xingbei looked at Old Master Gu with a polite yet distant attitude, “But, my parents do not know what I like to eat so I’m afraid that you’ve asked in vain.”
Gu Junzhu, who was sitting in the wheelchair, suddenly laughed out loud with a snort.
It was the first time in his life that he saw someone—other than himself—force his father to admit defeat.
Interesting!
She was really too interesting!
Somewhat unable to retain his calm expression, Old Master Gu glared at him, “What are you laughing about? Aren’t you going to take care of Bei Bei’s meal?”
Gu Junzhu glanced at Ye Xingbei, “She’s called Bei Bei, not Baby. Are you trying to say that she still needs to be fed by someone else before she can eat?”
“Who needs to be fed by you?” Ye Xingbei glared at him angrily, “Fraudster! Hypocrite!”
This man was originally fast on his feet in the bedroom; a man resembling the wind. But after leaving the bedroom, he actually sat in a wheelchair and pretended to be on the brink of death.
He was faking it so realistically too!
If she hadn’t seen his vigor and sharp gaze with her own eyes, she might have believed it too
This fraudster!
Ultra horrible swindler!
“Dad, look.” With a face of helplessness, Gu Junzhu looked towards Old Master Gu, “I’ve said this early on. I’m someone about to die so, who would be willing to marry me? But you just had to force someone to marry me and that someone just can’t wait for me to die right now. Who knows how she’s cursing me out in her heart? Whatever is this for?”