Chapter 3  –  Misunderstanding, Wife Runs Away, Goes Crazy

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When Xia Yuan heard the name Ouyang Jing, she was momentarily dazed.

Ouyang Jing is the female protagonist of *The Mad Male Lead Falls for Me*. She wants both the insane and devilish Qin Mohuai and the gentle and refined Gu Xiuzhe, hoping for all three to live a good life together. But then the novel’s characters and plot fell apart.

Qin Mohuai and Ouyang Jing first clashed at a political and business event.

The tycoon Boss Huang, set his sights on the eighteen-year-old waitress, asking her to serve him food and pour wine, taking the opportunity to make advances.

The prominent figures present noticed, but with their discussions focused on multi-million or billion-dollar projects, no one cared about the fate of a minor character.

Ouyang Jing did care. She stopped Boss Huang from harassing the waitress, and her straightforwardness caught Qin Mohuai’s attention.

When Xia Yuan arrived, the male and female leads had not yet met, so she managed to successfully win the male lead for herself.

Since Xia Yuan and Qin Mohuai established their relationship, Qin Mohuai rarely attended gatherings. Whenever he came home late, he would call her to report.

As long as the female lead wasn’t at the gathering, it didn’t matter if Qin Mohuai came home with lipstick marks on his shirt. Men generally don’t like women who get jealous. If she questioned Qin Mohuai about the lipstick mark, it might even decrease his affection for her.

However, Xia Yuan’s laid-back behavior greatly displeased Qin Mohuai. He initially thought she was silently jealous. At one gathering, Qin Mohuai applied lipstick to his buddy and pressed a 1.9-meter-tall muscular man to kiss his shirt.

When they got home, Xia Yuan kissed Qin Mohuai’s face, ignoring the lipstick marks on his shirt collar, and lay on the bed with sparkling eyes, showing no signs of jealousy and this made even drove Qin Mohuai a bit crazy.

They had already adjusted well, but that night Qin Mohuai still covered Xia Yuan’s mouth, ignoring her struggles and pleas. He forced her to inhale from a black bottle a few times and went wild, pinching her soft waist.

This was her punishment.

Afterward, when Qin Mohuai held Xia Yuan in the shower, her body marked with traces of his lips, Xia Yuan closed her eyes and refused to look at him. For the madman who adored his wife, this was a fatal blow.

It was also the first time Xia Yuan learned that Qin Mohuai could cry. His bloodshot and sorrowful eyes were moist, hiding a sickly possessiveness, as he carefully kissed her face, his voice choked with low sobs begging for forgiveness, as if he would die without his wife.

She had lost her parents at a young age and was raised by her grandmother, developing a gentle and patient nature. Seeing Qin Mohuai cry made all her anger dissipate, and she ended up comforting him.

Even if Qin Mohuai went mad or cried, although Xia Yuan’s soft heart couldn’t withstand his tears, she would no longer comfort him!

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( The novel describes Qin Mohuai as someone who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. If he is attracted to the female lead and wants to be with her, Xia Yuan believes he has the capability to handle her cleanly—no trace left, alive or dead. )

**System:** “I’ve got you covered! Be bold!”

**Xia Yuan:** “Can you stop Qin Mohuai’s evil deeds?”

**System:** “…At least for a year, I can protect you from ending up dead in the streets!”

**Xia Yuan:** “Wow, that’s impressive huh.” She said sarcastically.

She promised Xia Yuze that she would return to the Sheng Hai next week.

Sheng Hai is the private residence where Qin Mohuai has lived. When she first visited, Butler Wang told her: “You are the first woman the young master has brought home!”

But if the separation continues, Butler Wang might start reciting lines to Ouyang Jing: “You are the second woman the young master has brought home!”

Xia Yuan took a coat and left Yunxiang Mansion in Xia Yuze’s chauffeur-driven car.

Manager: “There’s a car following us, probably paparazzi.”

Xia Yuze frowned, he had never exposed his family to the public eye and didn’t plan to in the future.

“Shake off the paparazzi and find a secluded place for my sister to get out.”

Standing at 1.8 meters with a clear jawline, Xia Yuze looked youthful due to his excess collagen, giving him a boyish charm between a wolf and a dog. This appearance helped him gain ten million fans in just two years.

Xia Yuan patted her younger brother’s curly hair. The manager, about to admonish her for touching the ‘little deity’s’ meticulously styled hair, reconsidered. The powerful figure behind Xia Yuan could easily acquire his media company, so he swallowed his words.

After Xia Yuan got out of the car, she wandered through some alleys looking for inspiration. At Sheng Hai, she could play the piano and hum lyrics, and had an expensive recording setup. But after moving to the foreign house, she wouldn’t have such luxuries.

Qin Mohuai is meticulous but can also be small-minded. Moving her equipment was a simple matter of him saying the word, but he hasn’t mentioned it at all.

Passing by a luxuriously decorated vintage store, Xia Yuan was attracted by a black tail ring in the window. She imagined Qin Mohuai wearing the black tail ring, looking noble, arrogant, and domineering, fitting his temperament perfectly.

“How much is this black tail ring?”

The elegant shopkeeper with a silk scarf smiled gracefully. “Madam, you have a keen eye. This black dragon-head tail ring costs six hundred thousand.”

Qin Mohuai transfers a hundred thousand to Xia Yuan’s account every month for pocket money. If she wants to buy something more expensive, there’s a stack of black cards in the bedside drawer for her to splurge on.

Xia Yuan only takes the black card when she goes out with Qin Mohuai; normally, she uses her own bank card for expenses, which isn’t a problem.

She isn’t a materialistic person. When she caught her ex cheating, he offered her twenty million as a hush money.

She wanted to ask her ex what the years of mutual struggle and growth meant to him, but she ultimately didn’t voice it. She values affection over wealth, but her ex clearly didn’t share this view; he was lost in the entertainment industry’s fame and fortune.

Finding a perfectly matched soulmate is a lifelong quest for everyone.

Unfortunately, she hasn’t found hers yet.

The weather in Xiangzhou has been unpredictable lately, even harder to gauge than Qin Mohuai’s moods. Just as Xia Yuan was about to leave the vintage store, it started pouring rain outside.

She took shelter in the store until the rain lightened before heading out.

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The house where Xia Yuan lives is only four stories high, with one unit per floor.

She knocked off the rainwater from her clothes and stomped the muddy leaves stuck to her shoes before using her fingerprint to get inside. If it had been before, she would have casually handled the rotten leaves, but over the past six months, Qin Mohuai had spoiled her a bit, and she had picked up his cleanliness obsession.

The sky was overcast, and the room was pitch black. Just as Xia Yuan was about to fumble for the light switch, someone grabbed her hands, and a series of cold, harsh kisses fell on her face and collarbone…

“Ah—Get off!”

Xia Yuan’s face turned pale with fear. Who was kissing her? Who had broken in?

A deep, magnetic breath sounded in her ear.

Huh?

It was Qin Mohuai.

The moment Qin Mohuai couldn’t find Xia Yuan in the house, he was so enraged that his whole body trembled. He couldn’t help but laugh, his eyes dark and vicious, locking onto her. He shouldn’t have agreed to her moving out and should never have softened his stance and removed the bodyguards monitoring her. The madman, feeling insecure, calmly and crazily cried, “Yuan, I’m going to lock you up.”