NOVPUB"Just so you know, this product has no refund and no return policy; you're stuck with me for life, darling."
Yue Ran rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say."
The smile in her eyes deepened when she stared straight into his eyes. She cupped his face with both hands and kissed him on the lips in return.
"I like you," she suddenly said.
Mu Chen was startled.
He opened his eyes wide, his breath catching in his throat.
Yue Ran had never once voiced her feelings for him before. Even after she had accepted to date him just a few moments ago, he was still not sure if she would ever tell him that she liked him.
He never expected any of this, so he was surprised.
Very much so.
"Mu Chen's favorability +1"
"Mu Chen's current favorability is 98"
"What did you say?" Only a question slipped out of his lips. 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘱𝘶𝑏.𝑐𝘰𝑚
The disbelief on his face was obvious.
"I said, I like you," she repeated slowly. "I like you, Mu Chen." She smiled softly. "Do you like me, too?"
"Like," he replied hoarsely. "I like you so much."
"Really?" she asked.
"Hmm," he hummed. "Really."
Yue Ran couldn't help laughing; her eyes were curved into a beautiful crescent shape. "Then can you like me a little bit more?"
"I can," he answered readily.
"Mu Chen's favorability +1"
"Mu Chen's current favorability is 99"
The system notifications sounded, but Yue Ran was still not satisfied.
"A little bit more." She pinched his face.
It's just one more point away from a hundred.
"I did." Mu Chen said it a little aggrievedly.
Yue Ran raised her chin arrogantly and snorted, "Still not enough."
Mu Chen wrapped his hands around her waist tightly. "How about I show you how much I like you?"
He inched his face close to hers, but Yue Ran immediately held up a hand and stuck it to his lower face to stop him from continuing his actions.
"No," she said.
He blinked, meaning: Do you really not want to kiss me?
"No," she said again.
He blinked again, meaning: Are you sure?
"Yes, I am sure."
Then he licked her hand.
Yue Ran immediately pulled away the hand that was licked with a disgusted expression, then repeatedly rubbed the palm that was licked on Mu Chen's coat.
Mu Chen chuckled. He caught the hand on his coat and said, "Don't hate my saliva, darling."
"I don't hate it."
His eyes brightened with her response.
"Oh right, I saw a girl running away from inside the room before; what happened?"
"What, are you interested in her?" Yue Ran narrowed her eyes dangerously at the man.
"No, of course not." Mu Chen raised both of his hands in surrender. "I would never, when I have you."
To be honest, he couldn't even remember the woman's face.
"Hmm," she hummed suspiciously. "I'll let you go for now."
He sighed in relief.
"But if I catch you with her, you will wish that you were not alive."
"I understand, wife."
"Who's your wife?" Yue Ran pushed the man's face away from hers. "And stop getting so close to me."
"Never, but do you not like her?" He asked a little curiously.
There are many people that his girlfriend doesn't like, but this one seemed a little different.
"Close, but not completely right."
Mu Chen: ?
"I hate her, I despise her, and I wish she would live a life worse than death," Yue Ran said slowly, her red lips arched into a breathtaking smile.
She was not an innocent little girl. Mu Chen already knew that from the start.
But her wickedness only drew him in.
So beautiful.
When her gaze shifted to him, he noticed the deep affection in her eyes.
"You shouldn't do anything to hurt me, you know," she said. "You shouldn't break my heart."
His heart was beating wildly, and a huge smile spread across his face.
"Never," he said.
"Then I'll trust you."
"I will never break your trust."
"Okay."
Then she'll just break his.
A dark light flickered past her eyes.
The man in front of her was not so innocent after all.
When the original body was oppressed by the three male protagonists' power here and there, Mu Chen, the villain in the plot, actually added to her pain and suffering!
The original body had no choice but to die by suicide to escape all the harm done to her because she was suffering a living hell on earth.
When Jin Yao sold her original body to a village in the mountains that used women as birthing tools for men, she considered fleeing.
Many, many times, in fact.
And she did actually successfully escape the village.
But why did she commit suicide?
It was all because every time she had successfully escaped this inhumane village, despite the handicapped situation created by both Yang Chi and Jiang Yi, she was always found out by Mu Chen's subordinates.
Every escape was difficult for her. She was either discovered by the villagers and beaten for not being obedient to them, or she was discovered by one of Mu Chen's men, who then returned her to the village for more beatings.
She was always left with only a few breaths left in her.
But the fire in her heart kept her breathing and kept her surviving.
Unfortunately, even fire could be extinguished by the continuous waves and waves of icy cold water hurled at her.
One day, she just gave up and committed suicide herself.
There was no longer any spark of hope in her to keep her going.
Mu Chen was the last straw that broke the original owner.
She was devastated.
She was alone.
She was broken.
And no one was there to help her pick up the pieces.
The already cracked inner pieces of the original owner finally shattered into nothingness.
The Yue family ended up badly, and only the female protagonist and her men had their happy ending.
The smile on her face turned more and more sweet, following her darker thoughts.
