“Open the box and have a look,” Ye Moxuan instructed, seeing as she finally responded. Ye Moxuan smiled involuntarily, and his voice sounded husky and alluring. Maybe Xiao Su is right; she’ll be happy if I give her the present earlier.
I suppose it’s true that girls like this stuff.
If I had known that it takes so little to coax her, I would have bought more gifts for her from the beginning.
I shall give Xiao Su a raise tomorrow, Ye Moxuan thought to himself.
Shen Qi opened the small box slowly under his scrutiny. However, her expression and movements didn’t seem right, because she looked almost robot-like when she gradually opened the small box.
A pair of pink earrings appeared right before her eyes.
Shen Qi thought her eyes were playing tricks on her when she saw the pink earrings. However, she noticed that these were different from the previous pair when she looked again.
The previous pair of earrings were small, smooth, and spherical, but this pair was much more intricate, and it had an exceptional design.
She could tell that he must have put in effort to choose this pair of earrings for her. Nevertheless… when she saw this pair of earrings, Shen Qi immediately thought of the shy look Han Xueyou had while wearing those stud earrings.
Rage boiled in Shen Qi’s chest.
Ye Moxuan noticed that Shen Qi was staring unblinkingly at the pair of earrings, and a ghost of a smile seemed etched across her face. Hence, he approached her while asking in a deep and husky voice, “Do you like it?”
After that, he reached out reflexively to push away a strand of hair from her forehead while asking her in a tender voice, “Shall we apply some medication now?”
Thud!
Shen Qi, who was sitting in silence all along, burst out in a sudden wave of anger and courage. She threw the earrings and its box away aggressively.
Her actions were too fast, and Ye Moxuan was stunned to silence.
He only registered the fact that she stood up abruptly before throwing the box far away. Then, the box smashed against the wall with a loud thud before falling onto the ground. The earrings rolled out of the box while making a series of clinking sounds.
The smile across Ye Moxuan’s face stiffened, and his gaze turned steely as well. After that, he stared at Shen Qi unblinkingly while emitting an intimidating aura.
“Do you know what you’ve just done?”
Shen Qi had lost control of her emotions; in fact, she had barely vented her pent-up anger even after throwing the box across the room. On the contrary, she got even angrier, and she smirked at Ye Moxuan while staring at him.
“Ye Moxuan, do you think I would care for the things you give me?”
Ye Moxuan scowled at her while regarding her with a stern gaze.
“You don’t care for it?”
Shen Qi laughed mirthlessly. “That’s right, I don’t care for it. You should go ahead and give it to other women because I do not want them!”
The earrings were the last straw for Shen Qi, and it set her off. What was he thinking? He gave someone else the pair of earrings I liked, and now, he managed to find a similar pair for me?
This is absurd! It’s ridiculous!
Shen Qi had countless self-deprecating comments swirling in her mind. This must be the most absurd thing in the world!
She finally blurted out her long-suppressed thought. “Ye Moxuan, let’s get an early divorce.”
Ye Moxuan’s pupils constricted in that instant before dilating dangerously again.
He grabbed onto Shen Qi’s wrists and tightened his grip while ordering her, “Repeat yourself.”
Shen Qi clenched her teeth in pain, and she tried yanking her arm back. “I want a divorce—I want to get an early divorce! Let go of me, Ye Moxuan. We are not going through with the contract anymore. After all, you hate me very much, and I shall grant you your wish by disappearing from your sight.”
Ye Moxuan frowned in displeasure when he heard that. What is wrong with this woman? Why is she acting so odd?
“Who gave you those ridiculous ideas? Could you tell me what is going on in that mind of yours?”
“Let go of me!” Shen Qi tried shaking off his hand violently, but Ye Moxuan held onto her firmly. Shen Qi panicked, and she lowered her head and bit his hand hard. Ye Moxuan was about to let go of her hand reflexively due the pain, but when he recalled her wish to divorce him, he endured the sharp pain of her bite without letting go of her hand.
Shen Qi tasted a salty and metallic scent in her mouth because she bit really hard. It wasn’t too hard for her to imagine just how painful it was for him, and she didn’t expect Ye Moxuan to hold onto her stubbornly. Blood started trickling from the corner of her lips, and that was when Shen Qi snapped back to her senses and realized what she had done.
She pulled away and saw the deep bite mark across Ye Moxuan’s hand. It was so deep that it was a mushy and bloodied mess; blood kept oozing out of the wound.
Shen Qi started trembling uncontrollably when she saw the fresh blood flowing from the wound.
“Why did you stop?” Ye Moxuan asked in a hoarse voice. His forehead was beaded with cold sweat after enduring the pain. “Are you scared? Or does your heart ache for me?”
Shen Qi snapped back to her senses when she heard that, and she shoved his hand away aggressively.
“Ye Moxuan, it’s your fault that you didn’t pull your hand away!”
“That’s right, I did it willingly,” replied Ye Moxuan while staring at her unwaveringly. Suddenly, he used his wounded hand to grab her and pull her into his arms, and his blood trickled on her clothes during that process.
“I deserved that, alright?” Ye Moxuan narrowed his eyes while staring at her menacingly, but his tone sounded helpless. “Can you tell me now what’s up with your sudden change in personality?”
She tossed his gift away, but he didn’t lose his temper on her, and it was only then that he realized he was helpless when faced with her tantrums. He knew that scolding would only worsen matters, and hitting her was not a choice, and so he resorted to coaxing her.
“You should give him a chance to explain himself; you might have misunderstood him.”
Yan’s words echoed in Shen Qi’s mind, and she stared at Ye Moxuan, who did not scold her despite bleeding profusely after her vicious bite. A thought flashed across her mind. Should I give him a chance to explain?
Shen Qi bit her lower lip when she thought of that, and she met his gaze determinedly.
“Do you care about the reason behind my sudden change in personality?”
Ye Moxuan’s eyes glinted menacingly at her, and he pursed his lips. “What do you think?”
He did not ignore her question this time; on the contrary, he posed her a question. It was Shen Qi’s turn to be stunned to silence, for she wasn’t anticipating that.
After a while, she chuckled coldly while uttering, “You claim that I’ve had a sudden change in personality, so why don’t you take a look at what you’ve done?”
Ye Moxuan pondered for a while, and his expression soured slightly before he asked her, “What do you mean by that?”
“Why don’t you ask yourself? Ye Moxuan, divorcing you would be my blessing for the two of you.”
Ye Moxuan’s frown deepened immediately. She sounds as if she knows about something. But… how did she learn about it?
“Although I married into the Ye family in place of my younger sister, I still have my dignity. If you and another woman are in love with each other, you just have to tell me about it, and I will leave immediately. There is no need to cause so much trouble and make things ugly.”
Shen Qi laughed self-deprecatingly after saying that. “I’ve already experienced a failed marriage, and I have no intentions of going through another one. Hence… let me be the one to say it this time.”
“I don’t want to live life while feeling abandoned, and neither do I want to be ignored. That includes your poisonous sharp tongue—I don’t want to endure that anymore. Let’s end the contract early, and I will leave the Ye family willingly; I will have nothing to do with you in the future.”
Ye Moxuan’s breath quickened when he heard that, and he cut her off. “Who gave you permission to decide this by yourself?”
