Chapter 16: Enemy, Yet Lovers (16)

【Main storyline progress: 60%!】

【Main mission: Congratulations to the host for achieving the hidden branch ending of “Hatred to the Bone.”

Mission completion: 60%

Mission rating: Pass】

As the mission settlement rang in Xin Ling’s mind, she was being pulled by Cen Yuyan to meet his family. The entire table of elders treated her with unusual warmth, even beginning to discuss the wedding date and detailed arrangements.

With how heated their discussion was, Xin Ling even felt as if they wished to hold the wedding tomorrow.

“Bored?”

A soft whisper came at her ear. Cen Yuyan leaned in secretly toward the slightly absent-minded girl. “Do you want me to take you to see something?”

“…What thing?”

Xin Ling snapped back to herself, belatedly asking, “If we leave, then what about here?”

“Matters like this, let them discuss. We only need to check the final result.” Cen Yuyan openly took her hand and led her outside.

“Right, you still haven’t told me. What are we going to see?”

“To check the results. That demon has come.”

Results? Demon?

Hmm…

Right!

He had that demon cut Tang Yue’s wings!

Realizing this, Xin Ling recalled the settlement that had just been broadcast in her mind.

Hatred to the bone…

Tang Yue had originally been the guardian angel sent by Heaven to conceal Cen Yuyan’s identity as the young master of the Cen family. But Cen Yuyan, rebellious and defiant, refused her outright, directly choosing to return her at once.

Unexpectedly, Tang Yue was unwilling to leave. By coincidence, she set her sights on Ouyang Shaojing, who already had a guardian angel.

Thus, she disguised her identity and colluded with demons, intending to eliminate Ouyang Shaojing’s angel.

But Xin Ling’s life was hard to snuff out—she didn’t die.

And now, not only had she survived, but Cen Yuyan had also summoned that demon who cut her wings. He not only exposed Tang Yue’s deeds but even severed her wings.

…

“Don’t think too much. You’ll know when we arrive.” Cen Yuyan wrapped his arm around the girl’s slender waist, his thumb rubbing the soft flesh beneath her clothes.

His words pulled Xin Ling back to herself.

She nodded, allowing him to hold her as they walked to the underground parking lot.

To speed up the family’s wedding discussion, Cen Yuyan had specially booked a private room at a large restaurant.

The dishes here also suited Xin Ling’s taste.

Just as the two were about to take the elevator down, the doors opened—and in the next second, they saw an unexpected person inside.

It was Ouyang Shaojing.

But his state looked terrible.

There wasn’t a single part of him intact. His bloodstained legs were wrapped in white bandages, and he was being pushed out in a wheelchair.

He naturally also saw Xin Ling. His eyes lit up with desperate brilliance as he locked onto her.

“Lingling…”

“It’s you, Lingling, it really is you!” Ouyang Shaojing even tried to reach out to grab Xin Ling’s clothes. “Where have you been? I’ve been searching for you so long…”

“Why did you block me? You’re my guardian angel—why did you abandon me so cruelly, why won’t you care about me?”

Before Xin Ling could react, Cen Yuyan swiftly pulled her aside.

“I must ask this gentleman not to randomly bite and claim someone else’s wife. Otherwise, I’ll have the boss here politely escort you out.”

Cen Yuyan’s eyes were filled with loathing as he spoke his threat coldly.

“It’s you… it was you who stole her away! Give her back to me!”

Ouyang Shaojing glared angrily at Cen Yuyan, even trying to stand up to confront him—but no matter how he tried, he couldn’t.

“Ouyang Shaojing, from the moment you drove me away, I was no longer your guardian angel.”

The girl’s expression was calm as she looked at him. All her past affection seemed to have melted away. Her gaze at him was as if toward a stranger.

“Don’t you already have a new one? Wasn’t Tang Yue supposed to care for and protect you?”

“No, she’s unworthy! She’s nothing but a wretch!”

Panic flickered in Ouyang Shaojing’s heart. His face twisted as he shouted, “She even pushed me into danger to save herself. My legs were crippled because of her!”

“But it’s just as well—her wings were cut off too…”

“Lingling, I was wrong, I was blind. I shouldn’t have treated you like that. Come back, come back to me, will you?”

“You liked me, didn’t you? I like you too. We can be together.”

Cen Yuyan’s face was tense, his fist clenched tighter and tighter. If this man said another word, he really wouldn’t be able to stop himself from beating him right here.

“You—”

His aura grew darker and darker. Xin Ling hurriedly hugged him, patting his chest to calm him, preventing him from losing control.

She interrupted him and spoke herself:

“You’re dreaming. I don’t want someone like you.”

Xin Ling looked at Ouyang Shaojing with disdain, tearing apart his façade. “You never liked me. You just coveted the way I gave you all of my heart.”

“Now that Tang Yue is gone, you remember me? Do you really think you’re some prize dish, that after others have had their pick, you still deserve more?”

“You’re overestimating yourself!”

“Lingling…” Ouyang Shaojing looked at her in disbelief, hurt flashing across his expression. “How can you, how could you…”

Before he could stammer out another word, Xin Ling pulled Cen Yuyan away. Her lips curved deliberately to provoke as she called out:

“Husband, let’s go home~”

Hearing this, Ouyang Shaojing was struck as if by lightning. His pupils shook violently, stunned and unable to recover.

Until the elevator doors closed fully in front of him.

Inside, the atmosphere was heavy. Cen Yuyan said nothing. Xin Ling glanced at him in puzzlement. “Are you angry?”

Silence. She lifted her gaze again.

Finally, Cen Yuyan exhaled heavily, lowering his head to look at her. His eyes were deep and black, as if they might draw her in completely.

The mood, indescribable and charged, thickened between them. Suddenly, without warning, the man seized her chin and kissed her.

Biting and gasping, amidst her dazed consciousness, Xin Ling heard his voice at her ear:

“Baby, what did you just call me? Say it again, won’t you?”

“…”

“That’s fine, if not now. We’ll say it at home…”

“…In bed.”

…

Pitiful was Xin Ling’s throat, worn hoarse by dozens of repetitions that night—“husband,” “brother”—one after another, until by morning her voice was gone.

She strongly suspected he was jealous of Ouyang Shaojing and was taking revenge on her!

But she had no proof…

She wanted to get angry and hit him, but feared he’d only tease her more. So for the next few days, Xin Ling shrank timidly away, fleeing at the sight of him like a mouse before a cat.

But cats chasing mice—it’s instinct.

And there’s no escape.

【Ding! The world mission has been completed!】