QT: Against My Will (Volume 2)

5.79 - Separation - The Sleepless's Elite's Wife

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Edited by Psycho S.

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Xuan Mu, who was about to pull out the pity card, and sleep on the floor by her bedside, was pulled back to reality when she requested him to leave the country right now. He just moved into her home. Their relationship just went to the public— why did this have to happen?

Bing Shi closed the door to her bedroom and locked herself in the bathroom, "I love me. I love me. I love me."

She filled up the bathtub, chanting under her breath, "I love me. I love me..."

She fed herself with self-love, to dilute the concern she had for him. He was giving her doubts that the problems he was currently going through were just something to keep her locked in constant worry, to take advantage of her love, manipulating her... intentionally or not, she forgave him too many times.

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Hearing the loud knocking, Xuan Mu, who had his back resting against the bathroom, walked towards the entrance to open the door.

"Where is he?!" Silika's mother rushed inside the apartment outrageously, "I will never allow a bastard's son to marry my lovely daughter! Whoever that Lukas is, immediately divorce my daughter!"

Bumping into something hard, Silika's mother felt a small throb in her heart when his muscular scent hit her nostrils. Looking down, his legs were long and straight. Looking up, his posture was very well-formed. All in all, he was extremely fit and lithe and she felt her legs getting weak.

Xuan Mu cornered the elderly woman against the wall. He should have known that Bing Shi agreeing to her mother's return was only to find an excuse to throw him out of the house. (Bing Shi let the whole world know about their relationship to deal with his insecurity, but at the same time, she needed some distance from him. It was her way of showing that she cared about him a lot despite wanting some space.)

Silika's mother hit the hard floor of the narrow hallway and screamed out in pain. This alarmed her father who was carrying the luggage up the staircase.

Bing Shi stepped out of the bathroom, crossing her arms. Unable to look him in the eyes or else she would burst out in tears, she tilted her gaze to her right, "My father would never forgive us if she got a heart attack because of you. You should leave."

Biting his bottom lip, Xuan Mu walked out of the apartment building to help her father with the luggage, and only after that did he leave. She needed time to calm down. None of them could be apart for long. Tomorrow, he would apologize again and she would hopefully forgive him.

Bing Shi crouched before her fallen mother, pressing her pointer before her lips in a silent gesture, "You dismissed my threat once and it ended with a simple divorce." She retreated her finger and flicked her mother's forehead, "I don't know what father told you, but you lost the right to order me around."

Her mother shuddered in fear. She divorced her husband to avoid the debts her daughter had accumulated. After experiencing loneliness and social isolation, she felt more helpless and vulnerable. Her beauty was still here, but it became harder to find a man who was willing to support her. Her living standards pushed her into poverty. When she saw the fame and riches she could obtain through Silika, she returned and decided to put some sense into her daughter! Why did Silika give away her riches and choose a flower boy instead of all the CEOs that were not only wealthy but also handsome?!

Unfortunately, the previous queen couldn't take over the reign and now had the lowest standing in the family. Her daughter, the new head of the family, made her do all the house chores like a servant. Not only that, she had to fight a widow upstairs for her ex-husband's affection.