“Come closer.”
Shen Qi took a small step forward while asking, “Young Master Ye?”
Ye Moxuan stared at the woman who was seven to eight steps away from him, and he smirked even wider. “I am giving you another five seconds, and you had better be right in front of me.”
“Five.”
“Four.”
Shen Qi looked up at Ye Moxuan in shock, for she did not expect him to start counting. After a moment of hesitation, Shen Qi finally walked right to his front before he counted to the last digit.
Silence followed, and Ye Moxuan emitted an intimidating and cold aura around him. “Damn it, Miss Second-marriage, how dare you make me wait?”
Shen Qi’s expression soured slightly. “Young Master Ye, I—Ah!”
Before she could complete her sentence, he gripped her wrist violently, and the next thing she knew, Ye Moxuan had yanked her down into his arms. He held her chin steady and started kissing her passionately.
“Uh…” Shen Qi was leaning against him while seated on his lap, and she was shrouded by Ye Moxuan’s dominance and masculinity.
He attacked her mouth with his tongue and lips mercilessly. Ye Moxuan’s kiss was aggressive, and he seemed to be determined to mark her as his. He was inhaling her sweet scent greedily while making her breath hitch.
She wanted to struggle, but she could barely move an inch, and so she had no choice but to surrender to him.
After several minutes, Ye Moxuan retreated suddenly. Then, he pinched her chin while staring ferociously at her ruby red lips.
“Are you forgetting who you are just because I haven’t done anything to you lately?”
Although he kissed her hard, Shen Qi did not lose her rationality. Perhaps it was a very short kiss, and that was why she was still clearheaded.
Shen Qi met Ye Moxuan’s gaze; his eyes were as deep and captivating as the ocean, his anger the rolling waves in the sea. Shen Qi blinked several times before she whispered, “I know who I am, of course.”
“In that case, tell me—who are you?”
Shen Qi chuckled softly before replying to him, “Young Master Ye, why don’t you ask yourself the question you just directed at me? From your point of view, I am whoever you claim I am.”
Ye Moxuan was rendered speechless by her response.
Damn it.
I vented my frustration at her, but how dare she act so casually?
“Miss Second-marriage, are you forcing me to lose my temper at you?” Ye Moxuan raised his voice while tightening his grip around her shoulders. He squeezed even harder, making Shen Qi frown in pain. Her pink lips fluttered, as though she was about to cry out in pain.
Ye Moxuan glared at her unwaveringly. “What, now? Are you planning to look as if you are being tortured right now?”
Shen Qi snapped back to her senses. He is trying to provoke me, but unfortunately, I’ve made up my mind. She answered calmly with her eyes closed, “Young Master Ye, if you’re done venting, can you please let me go?”
After a long silence, Ye Moxuan lost his cool and yelled, “Let you go? That will never happen in this lifetime.”
With that, he lifted her up by her collar using his large hand, and his violent movements scared Shen Qi to her core. Shen Qi held onto his hand while asking him in fear, “What are you doing?”
Ye Moxuan stared at Shen Qi, who was right in front of him, and he noticed that she finally had a panicked expression etched across her fair face. “Are you finally afraid now? Weren’t you not bothered earlier? I thought you wouldn’t mind anything I do to you,” he spat.
Shen Qi pondered while panting lightly. She held onto his hand to stop him from moving before breaking the silence again. “Young Master Ye, I still have a lot of work to attend to. I—”
“Stop bringing that up.” Ye Moxuan increased his strength, as if he wanted to rip her clothes off by force. Shen Qi cried aloud in panic, “Ye Moxuan!”
Ye Moxuan finally stopped moving, and he burst out laughing. “Repeat that again.”
Shen Qi remained silent, but her lips were twitching uncontrollably. Naturally, she didn’t obey his orders, and so Ye Moxuan’s hands continued to move while his eyes flashed menacingly. “Are you dead-set on going against me? Will you be repeating that or not?”
Shen Qi shuddered involuntarily and called out for him again. “Ye Moxuan… what are you trying to do?”
“Oh, I am enforcing the obligations of a husband and wife.”
His warm hand was just like a scorching metal while it roamed around her skin, branding her, and she couldn’t help herself from quivering. However, Shen Qi suppressed her racing heartbeat while presenting a cool and calm façade superficially.
“I’ve told you previously that I am still pregnant now, so I can’t… I can’t…”
Ye Moxuan’s movements came to a halt, and he squinted at her.
I almost forgot that she is pregnant.
He stopped moving after Shen Qi’s sudden announcement. Hence, Shen Qi thought that he would let go of her, but his wandering hand landed on her belly unexpectedly.
Some time had passed since Shen Qi found out that she was pregnant, and there was a small baby-bump around her belly. She was shocked when Ye Moxuan’s hand slithered downward. He couldn’t be thinking of harming my unborn child, could he?
After a while, Ye Moxuan’s large and warm palm covered her belly without doing anything else.
After a while, he asked with a hoarse voice, “Are you sure you don’t regret giving birth to the child of a man like that?”
Shen Qi was at a loss for words.
How could I possibly explain to him that the child does not belong to Jiang Lin? Shen Qi lowered her eyes, and her eyelashes fluttered slightly.
“You don’t understand.”
“Ha! Why wouldn’t I understand?”
“You are a man, and you can’t get pregnant, so you wouldn’t understand… the feeling of a mother.”
Ye Moxuan thought of his late mother suddenly when he saw her expression. His gaze darkened the moment he recalled his mother on her deathbed, and he buried his face against the crook of Shen Qi’s neck.
Previously, before his mother’s death, she insisted for Ye Moxuan to return to the Ye family, but he was filled with hatred and resentment at that time. That man brought his mistress into the family and chased his legal wife out of the Ye family. Why did mom give birth to a child for such a horrible man?
At that time, his mother held his hand while gazing into his eyes.
“Silly Moxuan, I gave birth to you not for his sake; it was for your sake.”
At that instant, Ye Moxuan was shocked to his core. How could she be doing this for me? He squinted at her and asked, “For my sake?”
Song An, who was nearby, sighed when she heard that. “That’s right, Moxuan. Do you truly think that your mother gave birth to you for your jerk of a father? What role do you think he played, anyway? You were the main reason, and you should remember that your mother was pregnant with you for ten months before giving birth to you. Although that jerk’s blood flows in your veins, you have to bear in mind that half of it came from your mother as well. Besides, the two of you shared a body when your mother was pregnant with you. A mother… can never be so cruel as to abort her unborn child.”
Ye Moxuan did not have a comeback for that.
Song Xin was Ye Moxuan’s mother, who was also Song An’s sister.
Not long after Song Xin got married to Ye Moxuan’s father, he had an affair. In fact, he brought the mistress back to the Ye family, and Song Xin was so angry that she left the Ye family after divorcing her husband. However, she soon realized that she was pregnant, and at that time, Song An did advise her to abort the unborn child. Nevertheless, she was adamant on keeping her child.
That was why Ye Moxuan was born into the world..
Technically, Shen Qi was going through something similar to Song Xin. However, Song Xin was different from her, because Song Xin did not remarry. On the contrary, she brought Ye Moxuan up all by herself, whereas Shen Qi married Ye Moxuan.
In the beginning, this was also the reason Ye Moxian could not accept Shen Qi. Apart from the fact that he did not want to be the father of another man’s child, he thought that Shen Qi was a fool to bear the child of a jerk.
However, she was insistent on protecting her unborn child, and that reminded Ye Moxuan of his own mother. There was also the fact that… Shen Qi’s body was not suited to have an abortion, and all that resulted in her keeping the unborn child up until now.
