“Hey, you bastard, who the hell are you? Why did you kidnap me?”
Meng Xiaoyu, who had initially decided to ignore the scarred boy, asked again after a moment of silence, repeating the question she had been asking for days.
“Sigh! I already told you I’m your husband, and I didn’t kidnap you. Why do you keep asking the same question?”
The scarred boy sighed and said seriously.
“I’m being serious here, can you stop joking around?”
Meng Xiaoyu was displeased.
“I’m also being serious!”
Ignoring Meng Xiaoyu’s displeased expression, the boy continued to smile.
“If you’re not joking, then tell me who you really are? What’s your name? And why did you bring me here?”
Meng Xiaoyu was thoroughly angry, having been brought to this strange place for no reason.
And the person always had a joking expression while talking to her, which Meng Xiaoyu couldn’t stand anymore.
She missed her sister Rubing and her sister Rushuang so much.
“Are you crying?”
Hearing Meng Xiaoyu’s loud questioning, the boy didn’t care much at first, as it wasn’t the first time the girl had yelled at him like that.
But when he turned to look at her with a nonchalant expression, he was stunned.
What did he see?
The girl’s once bright and spirited eyes were now filled with tears, and there was a deep sense of disgust in her gaze.
Seeing this, the boy’s heart ached slightly.
The nonchalant expression was gone, replaced by a somewhat uncomfortable look due to the disgust in the girl’s eyes.
He didn’t like the strong dislike in her eyes when she looked at him.
So, the boy’s pained expression lasted less than a minute before he adopted a serious expression the girl hadn’t seen in the days she’d known him, gently pulling the crying girl who disliked him into his thin embrace.
“Don’t cry, I’ll tell you whatever you want to know.”
A clear and gentle voice, not matching the boy’s usual hoarse tone, slowly drifted into Meng Xiaoyu’s ears.
Then, that clear and gentle voice began to narrate slowly , “My real name is Ling Yuer, and as for what I do, you should know by now! As for why I brought you here, it’s because I like you. You might not believe it, but it’s true.”
Seeing the girl look up at him in surprise, Ling Yuer gently pressed her head back into his embrace and continued, “From the moment I saw you on the street, I liked you. You were holding a candied hawthorn in one hand and a sugar figurine in the other, looking so happy and content. I wondered if those treats were really that good. If not, why did you look so satisfied and happy?”
Ling Yuer glanced down at the person in his arms and continued, “Later, to verify if the candied hawthorn and sugar figurine were really that good, I went to the stalls where you bought them and tried them myself. But after tasting them, I found they were no different from those sold at other stalls, just sweet and sour. At that moment, I felt something different for you, who smiled so happily and contentedly over ordinary treats. The next time I saw you was two days later, but I wasn’t as happy because you seemed different from the first time I saw you, though I couldn’t pinpoint what was different. So that day, I deliberately bumped into you and took something from you.”
Ling Yuer took out a small crystal fox pendant from around his neck, with a small character engraved on its back.
Seeing the crystal fox, Meng Xiaoyu was shocked.
Wasn’t that the pendant she lost a while ago?
She had been upset about losing it for quite some time!
Now she knew why she couldn’t find it after searching every corner of the inn room—it had been stolen by this bastard.
Thinking of this, Meng Xiaoyu angrily tried to snatch her pendant back, but Ling Yuer dodged her attempt.
Then she saw Ling Yuer put the pendant back into his clothes and continue, “The third time I saw you was at the ‘Wu Chun Pavilion.’ You were wearing a pink floral dress, looking stunning. And the way you danced on stage, I couldn’t take my eyes off you.”
Ling Yuer lightly pecked Meng Xiaoyu’s cheek, and as she was about to get angry again, he continued, “At that time, I thought we were really destined to meet. I decided that if I saw you again, I would keep you by my side forever. Sure enough, at the Hero Conference, I met you again…”
“So you knocked me out and brought me here when I was alone?”
Meng Xiaoyu interrupted Ling Yuer before he could continue.
Then, seeing Ling Yuer nod with a shameless smile, she exploded, “Are you kidding me? Just because we met a few times in a short period, you knocked me out and kidnapped me? Did you ever consider my feelings? You’re too much!”
Meng Xiaoyu shook Ling Yuer’s neck vigorously while shouting at him.
“Cough, cough, wife, take it easy, you’re choking me.”
Seeing Meng Xiaoyu regain her energy, Ling Yuer returned to his shameless rogue demeanor.
Hearing Ling Yuer’s words, Meng Xiaoyu released her grip on his neck but continued to glare at him.
“Alright, wife, I’ve told you everything you wanted to know. Can we continue on our journey now?”
Ling Yuer said, about to whip the horse to move forward, but Meng Xiaoyu stopped him.
“Wait, you said you like me, is that true or false?”
Meng Xiaoyu asked, hoping he would say, “I’m just joking, how could I like you?”
But reality disappointed her, as she saw Ling Yuer, with a very serious expression, say, “I don’t joke about my feelings. I really like you, though I don’t know when it started, but I do like you.”
After saying this, Ling Yuer turned around, ready to whip the horse again, but Meng Xiaoyu stopped him once more.
“Wait, you can’t like me,” Meng Xiaoyu said seriously.
“Oh? Why not?”
Ling Yuer’s eyes briefly showed hurt but quickly returned to normal.
“Because I don’t like you!”
Meng Xiaoyu said, fiddling with her fingers.
“No problem, I’ll make you like me,” Ling Yuer said with determination.
“But I already like someone else,” Meng Xiaoyu thought this would make him give up.
Sure enough, she saw Ling Yuer’s face turn pale upon hearing she liked someone else.
But to her surprise, Ling Yuer quickly recovered and said nonchalantly, “No problem, I’ll make you fall for me instead.”
“…”
Meng Xiaoyu was speechless at Ling Yuer’s words.
Then, as if making a big decision, she said, “But I like girls, not boys!”
Meng Xiaoyu thought this would leave him with no options.
But she saw Ling Yuer, still with a nonchalant expression, say, “No problem, I’m a girl.”
