Chapter 54


    Mu Tongrui was forced to lift her tear-stricken face to look into that handsome face. His lips were


    unexpectedly tender. She froze on the spot. Though that kiss was not particrly passionate, it was


    enough to set her heart racing.


    Until Fu Lingye let go of her and looked at her who was still in a daze, with his deep- set eyes. Smiling,


    he asked, “So, would you be quiet now?”


    Mu Tongrui hadshed out at Fu Lingye in a moment of rage. Now, she was at a loss of words after


    that kiss and even her anger had dissipated. With her face flushed, she bit her lips and looked down at


    the ground, hoping it would swallow her up.


    He asked with a hint of amusement in his voice, “So you really do not want the vi?”


    “....”


    Mu Tongrui''s mind was in a mess. Determinedly, she smiled at Fu Lingye through her tears, “I.... I was


    only saying things in a moment of anger. Mr. Fu, please do not hold it against me. Just treat it like I


    have never say such things.”


    He nced at her supposedly charming smile and frowned, “Such an ugly smile.”


    “...”


    With his hands in his pockets and an air of disapproval, he turned around.


    Unconsciously, she touched her lips which are still warm from the kissing and thought to herself, why


    did he kiss her just now if she is that ugly?


    “Where is the bathroom?”


    He zed across the hall. Mu Tongrui quickly removed her hand from her lips, worried that he might


    mistake her gesture as reminiscing about the kiss earlier.


    “Bath... bathroom? Bathroom is upstairs.”


    Seeing that he was about to go upstairs as if he was in thefort of his own home, Mu Tongrui


    quickly called up to him, “There is a washroom downstairs, you can wash...”


    Before she could finish, Fu Lingye cut her off while heading upstairs, “I want to bathe.”


    Bathe? Why does he want to bathe in broad daylight?


    Mu Tongrui caught up with him in an attempt to hold him off, “You can bathe when you return to Fu


    Family. It is not convenient here. I do not have your bathing gel etc...”


    Staring into Fu Lingye''s cold, sharp gaze, her voice gradually trailed off as she somehow felt guiltier by


    the minute. His eyes seemed to be conveying the message, Continue uttering nonsense.


    Fu Lingye looked at her disdainfully out of the corner of his eyes, “Where is the bathroom?”


    She pointed towards her bedroom and offered reluctantly, “In my room...”


    Fu Lingye always liked cleanliness. He had sweated a little when he punched Jian Zhe just now, but


    what he could not stand most is Jian Zhe''s overpowering cologne that had got onto his clothes. In Fu


    Lingye''s eyes, suchmon cologne was low-ss and pungent. He could not stand it for one more


    second.


    Mu Tongrui was mumbling to herself when she heard the sound of running water, “What a fussy man


    he is to be bothered to bathe in the daytime.”


    Suddenly, a metal box on the study desk caught her eye. She had found it in her drawer when she was


    doing some cleaning a few days ago.


    In it were the gifts that that scoundrel, Jian Zhe gave herst time.


    There was a Christmas card which wrote, “My dear Rui, I hope to be with you forever, and spend every


    Christmas with you. Merry Christmas.”


    Those mushy words have led her to cry foolishlyst time. Thinking back of Jian Zhe''s disgusting


    behavior, she felt as if she was given a tight p to wake from her delusion and to see Jian Zhe''s true


    color.


    In the corner of that metal box sat a gold ring.


    Right, this ring was given by Jian Zhe as her birthday gift. He said that he would not marry anyone but


    her in this lifetime. He ended up having an affair with Shen Wanyue and helped that pair of mother and


    daughter to abscond with that 10million dors, driving her father tomit suicide.


    She could crush the ring with her hatred.


    Three years ago, when she had nowhere to go, she was filled with disappointment due to the betrayals


    from Jian Zhe, Shen Qiu and Shen Wanyue. Skeptical of rtionships, she had purposely kept her


    distance from her admirers in Paris until they subsequently caught the hint and gave up.


    In this world, how many rtionships are reliable and trustworthy?


    As she was thinking about the past, Fu Lingye came out from the bathroom, refreshed. She turned her


    head back and caught him observing her. Bare-chested and with only a towel covering his lower part,


    he came out bare-footed. Her heart skipped a beat and she quickly turned her head back, not daring to


    face him.


    But he did not seem to have a shred of embarrassment and walked over to join her in his usual


    confident self. His eyes darkened at the sight of that gold ring and pulled a long face. Just when Mu


    Tongrui had not figured out what he was up to, he had grabbed the ring in her hand and threw it out of


    the window.


    Mu Tongrui was stunned, “Why are you throwing my stuff?”


    “What, do you still like that man who almost raped you?”


    Jian Zhe was nothing but a low-ss organism in the eyes of Fu Lingye.


    Mu Tongrui does not care about that ring, but she retorted, “That was my stuff nevertheless. Who are


    you to throw away my stuff without my permission?”


    She had grown to understand how autocratic Fu Lingye was, thus she purposely put on a show of


    displeasure, “Fu Lingye, although you are Party A and I am Party B, you have no right to decide for me.


    We are only pretending to be married after all!”


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    He narrowed his eyes at her and stretched out his long arm to hug her around her waist, pulling her


    close in an embrace.


    “I forbid my woman to keep rings from other men.”


    Instinctively, Mu Tongrui protested softly, “I am not your woman...”


    “Soon to be.”


    She lifted her head and saw the frown on his face. He was looking at her intently. She could smell the


    fragrance on his body. He had used her shower gel.


    Mu Tongrui swallowed hard and pushed him away in his chest in a defensive stance, “What... what do


    you want?”


    He took a few steps towards her with a dangerous, oppressive aura, causing Mu Tongrui to take a few


    steps back until she leaned against the wall. Fu Lingye stretched out his long, well-defined arms to


    caress her face. He leaned over and caught the awful smell of Jian Zhe''s cologne that was still on her


    body.


    He whispered into her ears, “I really do not like that pungent smell on you. I spare you 10 minutes to


    take a bath, is that enough?” Perhaps it was because he just came out of a hot shower, his breath was


    warm and it was very seductive to feel his breathing in her ears.


    “...”


    Mu Tongrui almost choked. Could he be wanting her to bathe so that he could bed her afterwards?