Chapter 81
Shen Yao Xing stayed at the inn for two days, and also pondered calmly for two days.
During this time, she barely left her room. She was waiting, waiting for Jiang Ming Yue to admit his mistake, apologize, and replant the tree.
But after two days, no one came to find her. Jiang Ming Yue couldn’t possibly not know where she was. The only explanation was that he still didn’t realize his own mistake, or perhaps he didn’t think he had done anything wrong at all.
It seemed that all of this was taken for granted by him.
He was proud, from the very beginning. Not to mention that he didn’t think he was wrong, even if he truly knew he was wrong, given his personality, he wouldn’t take the initiative to lower his head to others.
Shen Yao Xing couldn’t help but reflect. Although she knew he had an eccentric personality before they got married, he hadn’t shown such possessiveness.
Was he too good at pretending?
Or was it because after they got married, she hadn’t fulfilled her responsibilities as a partner, making him feel insecure, thus developing this mentality?
Thinking about it, Shen Yao Xing felt a headache coming on. She began to consider another question: if neither of them compromised, would they be unable to continue living together?
Lying down, Shen Yao Xing suddenly slapped the bed, kicking her feet twice in frustration.
Turning over on the bed, Shen Yao Xing frowned deeply, closing her eyes to consider various possibilities and solutions.
Just as she was about to doze off in thought, there was a sudden knock on the door.
Shen Yao Xing immediately opened her eyes, alert. She was about to get up to open the door, but then seemed to think of something and lay back down. Pillowing her head with her hand, she turned to look at the door and asked, “Who is it?”
“Miss, it’s me.” It was Bai Sha’s voice.
Somewhat disappointed that it wasn’t him personally, Shen Yao Xing sat up on the bed and told her to come in.
As soon as Bai Sha entered, she saw her young miss with a rosy complexion, and couldn’t help but feel suspicious.
Although young master Ming Yue had a bit of a temper, his appearance and figure were top-notch, not to mention the power behind him. Moreover, as a man, he had given himself completely to the young miss, yet now the young miss was abandoning him over a tree. It seemed quite excessive.
Though unaware of the details, upon seeing the unexplained disappearance of the fluffy flower tree and the young miss running away from home, Bai Sha had already imagined a grand emotional drama between the tree and a person.
And Shen Yao Xing was the heartless woman in the play who abandoned her “husband in humble circumstances”.
Almost all of what Bai Sha was thinking showed on her face. Shen Yao Xing’s eyelid twitched a few times as she glared at her, “What business do you have with me?”
Bai Sha lowered her head respectfully and replied, “The madam asks you to return home soon, and not to play outside for too long.”
Play?
Did she look like she was playing?
Shen Yao Xing gave her a complex look, “Did mother send you here?”
“Yes.”
Shen Yao Xing lay back on the bed like a salted fish, waving her hand at Bai Sha, “Then there’s nothing else. You can go back.”
Bai Sha didn’t move from where she stood, seeming to want to say something but hesitating.
“Young miss… you should go back soon. Although young master Ming Yue’s temper is a bit odd, he is still the one you officially married and brought home. Whatever the issue is, you should sit down and talk it out properly. There’s always a solution.”
This persuasive speech made Shen Yao Xing vaguely feel that something was amiss. She frowned and asked, “What’s wrong with Jiang Ming Yue?”
Bai Sha wasn’t sure if she should say more about this matter. After thinking for a moment, she still said, “Young master Ming Yue hasn’t eaten for two days.”
Oh, so it was a ploy for sympathy.
Shen Yao Xing gave a cold laugh, turning to face the inner side of the bed, “Go back and tell him that from today on, I won’t eat either. Let’s see who can hold out longer.”
After saying this, Shen Yao Xing didn’t eat that afternoon’s meal, which led to her stomach being so hungry that night that she could barely sleep.
She couldn’t help but sigh. What was all this about? Wasn’t it good to eat and drink well? Why did they have to torment themselves like this?
After tossing and turning, she finally fell asleep. In the middle of the night, Shen Yao Xing vaguely felt someone by her bed. That familiar presence made her want to wake up, but her eyelids seemed to be glued shut, impossible to open no matter how she tried.
Her body was asleep, but her consciousness was very clear.
The person stood silently by the bed, not moving at all, just looking at her. That resentful aura seemed to invade her every pore, accusing her of being heartless.
By the time Shen Yao Xing finally managed to open her eyes, the room was quiet, with no trace of anyone else’s presence. It was as if that familiar feeling from earlier had been just her imagination.
Shen Yao Xing sat up, rubbing her eyes and letting out an almost imperceptible sigh.
The next day, she didn’t eat breakfast. Her stomach growled with hunger. Sitting at the tea table, she rested her chin on her hand and thought for a long while. Finally, she decided to go back and take a look.
It had been three days in total. Surely this person wasn’t really foolish enough to starve himself for three days? She could barely stand being hungry for one day.
But then again, thinking about it, it wasn’t strange for someone with his personality to do this. To make her compromise first, he didn’t care what would happen to his own body.
As if certain that she would soften her heart, tsk.
When she arrived outside the Shen mansion, Shen Yao Xing didn’t enter through the main gate. Instead, she used her lightness skill to leap over to the kitchen house inside the mansion, asking the cook to prepare some food for her, and also to make a bowl of hot porridge.
Once everything was ready, Shen Yao Xing carried the meal towards her own courtyard.
The courtyard, which she hadn’t stepped into for just two days, now seemed particularly desolate. It had lost some of its liveliness and sound. The place where the fluffy flower tree had been planted was now bare, making one feel uncomfortable.
Shen Yao Xing stepped into the room. At this time, the young man was still wearing a snow-white robe. He was holding some kind of book in his hand, reading. His lips were pale, probably due to not drinking water for a long time, and were dry and slightly chapped.
When Shen Yao Xing came in, he didn’t move at all, not even lifting his eyelids, as if he hadn’t noticed her at all.
Shen Yao Xing didn’t intend to go up and talk to him. She also acted as if she hadn’t seen him, putting the delicious food on the table and started eating with relish.
“Mmm, it’s so fragrant and delicious.”
As she ate, she couldn’t help but glance towards the young man. She had to admire him; his self-control was definitely the best she had ever seen. After starving for several days, smelling such fragrant food, yet he didn’t have any reaction at all, not even his Adam’s apple moved.
Shen Yao Xing picked up a crispy-skinned, tender chicken leg, eating while glaring at him.
After finishing, she wiped her hands clean and picked up the bowl of hot porridge. She walked over to him with a sour expression, scooped up a small spoon of porridge and brought it to his mouth, commanding, “Open your mouth.”
Jiang Ming Yue turned his face away, his eyes not leaving the book, his eyelids half-lowered coldly.
“You’d better not push your luck before I lose my temper.”
Shen Yao Xing wasn’t about to give him a good attitude.
Jiang Ming Yue’s expression remained unchanged, but the hand holding the book tensed slightly.
“Bang!” Shen Yao Xing forcefully put the porridge bowl on the nearby tea table, looking at him with a cold smile, “Fine then, if you want to starve yourself to death, I won’t force you. If you’re not willing to let me feed you, then I’ll go find another man to feed.”
The person reading the book suddenly looked up, his eyes fierce, “You dare!”
Shen Yao Xing showed no fear, “Watch me dare.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she turned to walk out. Before her foot could step over the threshold, she heard the young man’s cold voice, full of murderous intent.
“If you really dare to do so, I’ll make that person wish he were dead.”
Shen Yao Xing’s footsteps stopped. She turned back, raising her fist, “You think I’m a pushover?”
Jiang Ming Yue stared at her with bloodshot eyes, his fingers gripping the book so hard it seemed like he would crush it.
Shen Yao Xing averted her gaze, lifting her foot as if about to walk out. But she saw the young man’s figure waver, and in the next moment, he was already by her side, his long fingers grasping her sleeve.
“Don’t go…” His voice was slightly hoarse, his tone so light as if he had suffered a great injustice, “Don’t treat me like this…”
Shen Yao Xing didn’t shake off his hand. After a moment of silence, she looked up at him, “Do you know what you did wrong?”
The hand grasping her sleeve gradually tightened. Jiang Ming Yue lowered his eyes and remained silent.
Trying to make this person admit his mistake was as difficult as ascending to heaven, especially when he didn’t think he had done anything wrong. Shen Yao Xing sighed for the umpteenth time today. Since getting married, the number of times she sighed had skyrocketed.
She turned her hand to grasp the young man’s wrist, pulling him to sit at the dining table. She picked up the bowl of porridge again and brought it to his mouth, “Open your mouth.” Her tone was hard and not at all gentle.
Shen Yao Xing wasn’t sure if it was her imagination, but she seemed to see the young man’s mouth pout slightly in a wronged manner. Then he obediently opened his mouth and drank the now somewhat cold porridge. The whole process was so docile that it softened one’s heart.
After feeding him the entire bowl of porridge, Shen Yao Xing took a clean handkerchief and roughly wiped his mouth, restoring some color to those pale lips.
Jiang Ming Yue pursed his lips, turning his face slightly away.
“If you do this again in the future, I won’t come back,” Shen Yao Xing threatened.
Those long, thick eyelashes, like butterfly wings, trembled slightly. He looked up at her with resentful eyes. Although he maintained a stubborn attitude about what he had done, he didn’t dare to contradict her now.
Jiang Ming Yue suddenly grabbed her hand and stood up, silently leading her outside.
“Hey, what are you doing?”
“Just come with me.”
Jiang Ming Yue led her on a winding path through the Shen mansion, going increasingly off the beaten path, until they stopped outside a small, cluttered courtyard. Even Shen Yao Xing didn’t remember that her family had such a remote place, overgrown with weeds, where sunlight could barely penetrate.
And that fluffy flower tree that should have been in her courtyard was now standing right there in that cluttered courtyard, with all the withered leaves already fallen from its branches.
The already desolate place seemed even more desolate with the addition of this bare tree.
“So you didn’t throw the tree away after all.” Would the tree even survive being moved like this?
Jiang Ming Yue swept a cold glance over the tree’s trunk, saying indifferently, “If you really care about it so much, you can move it back.”
Shen Yao Xing turned her head to look at him in surprise. She saw that although the young man said this, his eyes looked as if he wanted to burn the tree to ashes right away.
She had no doubt that if the tree were really moved back, this person would definitely still harbor ill intentions. One day the tree might suddenly catch fire, the kind of fire that couldn’t be extinguished.
“Forget it, just let it stay here.” Anyway, she had already made another decision. Whether the tree went back or not wasn’t important.
Shen Yao Xing turned to face him, her expression unusually serious, “Let’s move out and live somewhere else.”
The reason he was acting like this might be because there were too many people and things around her, making him feel insecure, which exacerbated his “condition”. But if they changed their environment, it might suppress his “illness”. As for what came after, they could deal with it later.
This was the solution Shen Yao Xing had been considering for several days.
Jiang Ming Yue’s expression was slightly stunned, “Move out…”
After a moment of surprise, he grasped the key point, “Just the two of us…?” Before Shen Yao Xing could nod and say yes, he raised the corners of his pale lips, seamlessly continuing his previous sentence, “Alright.” This “alright” came extremely quickly, as if he was afraid she would change her mind.
Sigh, although this person had a bit of a temper and an eccentric nature, he was indeed quite easy to please.
Such a small thing made him happy.
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If you’re like me…
Too tired of reading stories where the female lead is often foolish, weak, feeble both physically and mentally, usually in a subservient and oppressed role in society such as a maid, secretary, concubine… or to put it bluntly, typically the one who has to serve and please the male lead, always needing protection and rescue from male leads, while the male lead is often described as talented, strikingly handsome, powerful,…
Then please continue reading.
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*Spotlight on Finished Novel Translations*
The Male Lead’s Obsessive (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: She is his lifelong obsession, to the point where he was willing to be a third wheel, scorned by society, just to wedge his way into her relationship with her fiancé.
Synopsis:
Cold-hearted and indifferent female lead + Scheming and subservient CEO male lead
Summary:
Rong Xiu’s biggest regret in life was missing out on Fan Xia.
He secretly loved Fan Xia for 7 years.
Watched her go public with her boyfriend.
Watched her kiss her boyfriend at their wedding.
Until that man blissfully nestled in Fan Xia’s arms, obtaining everything he could only dream of.
The crazy jealousy stripped away his hidden secret love, layer by layer, burning like wildfire.
Fan Xia, how can I have you!
【Reading and Trigger Warning Guide】
1. Female dominant, male submissive, male pregnancy
2. Male lead schemes his way to the top, male competition
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