12
I propped myself up with my sore back and kicked Pei Zhi Lin’s abs: “Take it off for me!”
Unexpectedly, Pei Zhi Lin turned over and started to rub me again.
I have cursed, I have begged, but in the end, I still did not gain my freedom.
With my swollen lips, I pointed at the bathroom and tried one last time:
“I need to use the bathroom, can you let me go first?”
Pei Zhi Lin shook his head with a smile: “No, baby still wants to run away.”
I became anxious: “How am I supposed to go to the bathroom then?”
He lifted the blanket and stood by the bed, slowly pulling out the extended chain hidden under the bed.
I was stunned, no wonder I didn’t feel any pulling sensation last night, it turns out there was such a long section underneath.
I looked in disbelief for a moment, but Pei Zhi Lin carried me into the bathroom.
The length of this chain is enough for me to move around freely in this room.
What a forced love drama, I am completely dumbfounded.
Something is very wrong, really wrong, I don’t understand, what gave Pei Zhi Lin the illusion to do this.
Back on the bed, I took the initiative to wrap my arms around Pei Zhi Lin’s neck: “Brother Zhi Lin, tell me the truth.”
His restrained expression indeed confirmed my guess.
I persisted in whispering in his ear until he finally spoke:
“You used to really like being close to Wang Jia Jia.”
The details that I had ignored, hidden in the memories, came rushing back.
On the eve of the transmigration, I was always forced to follow the plot, until Wang Jia Jia refused to marry me, and only then was I able to escape everything.
But in Pei Zhi Lin’s eyes, those were the signs of him being unchosen.
13
I pulled away from his embrace and walked to the window on my own, pulling the blackout curtains tight to prevent any light from leaking in.
Then I returned to his side, turned off the lights, and pleased Pei Zhi Lin in the darkness.
During the process of my soul trembling, I confessed my identity, which led Pei Zhi Lin to embrace me tightly.
I no longer know what day or night is.
When I woke up again, only a red mark remained on my ankle, and Pei Zhi Lin was no longer by my side.
I followed the scent of food to the living room. Pei Zhi Lin was carrying breakfast out.
I didn’t hesitate to hug him.
But before the delicious food reached my mouth, I received a threatening call from my high and mighty father:
“Ling Yi, you think you’re grown up now? Do you know if it weren’t for me, you would have died who knows where? I gave birth to you and raised you, and you’re here to piss me off?”
“Now, either I stop your card and you fend for yourself, or let the Pei family invest ten billion in us. You’re so good at pleasing Young Master Pei, why don’t you beg him in bed? Did you hear me?”
“If you don’t obey, I’ll scatter your mom’s ashes!”
I knew it, he’d always been self-serving, and never found me unless he wanted to suck Pei family’s blood.
But he didn’t know that before deciding to elope, I was fully prepared.
Mom’s ashes were moved to a safe place long ago, and his so-called stopping my allowance was nothing to me.
But before I retorted, Pei Zhi Lin was already furious: “Ling Yi is my lover, keep your mouth clean, or I don’t mind withdrawing several projects from the Ling family.”
I stared wide-eyed at Pei Zhi Lin.
When did Pei Zhi Lin give projects to the Ling family?
He helplessly mouthed to me: “Elopement.”
So it was to appease the Ling family.
I sighed and took over the phone: “Stop my card if you want, I don’t rely on you anymore, and you won’t find my mom’s ashes. I’ll return all the money you used on me to you, and we’ll be even from then on.”
A trash man who cheated during his wife’s pregnancy and let the mistress bully the legitimate child, I didn’t recognize him either.
Ignoring the roaring on the phone, I hung up and said to Pei Zhi Lin:
“Take back the projects, don’t let the Ling family benefit!”
Who knew Pei Zhi Lin suddenly made a bitter face: “But I told my parents, that’s your dowry.”
I suddenly recalled the day he was beaten:
“It’s not because you helped me elope, but because of the dowry?”
No matter how I asked, it felt strange. What was going on?
Pei Zhi Lin saw me clueless and finally kindly explained, though looking a bit uneasy.
He said: “Neither, getting beaten was because they said I laid hands on you. You know, Aunt Lu and my mom are bestie, you’re the little cabbage they watched grow up…”
Oh, and their pig dug up the cabbage.
Wait, I belatedly reacted. So Pei Zhi Lin was really tricking me at that time?
I gritted my teeth and hit him:
“Pei Zhi Lin, you’re shameless!”
But what could I do? I still had to adapt, I still have to walk with him until the end of my life.Â
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