Si Yanli sat diagonally in front of Tang Wu. After sitting down, his long, elegant legs were crossed, his slender, well-defined fingers resting lightly on his knees. On his cold, pale wrist, he wore an understated but luxurious watch.
How should she put it?
Si Yanli's looks had always been exactly to Tang Wu's taste.
His handsome, aloof face and noble, refined temperament, combined with the gold-rimmed glasses resting on his high nose bridge, made him look gentle yet ascetic.
But she knew very well in her heart that a man like him had no worldly desires; he was cold-blooded and ruthless.
Anyone who fell in love with him was bound to end up badly bruised.
Fortunately, Tang Wu had always known her place. She and him were merely in a marriage of convenience.
For the first few months of their flash marriage, she had thought about doing her duty as Mrs. Si.
When he left without a word on the second day of their marriage, she didn't get mad at him and even took the initiative to text him.
The result was that he completely ignored her.
Two years had passed, and she felt there was no need for this marriage to continue.
As long as he willingly signed the divorce papers, the Tang family probably wouldn't say anything more.
Si Yanli had been on a call the whole time. His pure French accent tickled Tang Wu's heart.
She took out her phone, secretly snapped a picture of the man's profile, and sent it to her best friend, Xia Zhiwan.
Tang Wu: "The dog of a man is back. He actually didn't recognize me when he walked past me. Have I gotten ugly?"
Xia Zhiwan quickly replied:
"Girl, if you're ugly, there are no beautiful women left in this world! I suspect your dog of a man has an eye disease. You'd better let your sister-in-law treat him."
"That bastard Si Yanli is indeed easy on the eyes, but he's not acting like a human being, leaving you alone in an empty room for two years. Any woman with blood in her veins wouldn't be able to stand it. However, it's understandable since he's impotent. Don't be sad, girl. When you get back to Yecheng, I'll take you out to pick up some muscular hunks."
Xia Zhiwan's second reply was a voice message. Tang Wu originally wanted to convert it to text, but accidentally tapped to play it. Her heart panicked, and she tried to turn it off, but someone walking past from behind accidentally bumped into her phone.
The phone flew out of her hand, and the voice message continued playing.
Tang Wu's proud and beautiful little face instantly flushed bright red.
Social death, a massive social death!
Suddenly hearing his own name, Si Yanli turned his head and looked diagonally backward.
The bright white light of the train carriage fell on the woman's dazzlingly bright face.
The woman's slightly flickering peach blossom eyes met his cold and indifferent phoenix eyes for a few seconds.
Looking at the woman's face, Si Yanli found it somewhat familiar. "Do we know each other?"
Boom!
Tang Wu's mind instantly buzzed.
This dog of a man's words were even more lethal than when he had walked past her earlier without a sideways glance!
Tang Wu crouched down and picked up her phone.
When she looked up and saw the man still staring at her, she curled her lips slightly into a bright and reckless smile. "We've slept together, how could we not know each other?"
A layer of frost condensed on Si Yanli's handsome, refined face.
Before he had time to say anything, he saw the woman's long eyelashes flutter as she said in a soft, delicate, and aggrieved tone, "You slept with me, yet you say you don't know me. You are just a beast in human clothing!"
Many passengers around them turned to look at Si Yanli.
Beneath his glasses, Si Yanli's slender phoenix eyes narrowed unfathomably.
Ignoring the disdainful and probing gazes of the others, he pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose bridge with a slender finger and asked in a low, cold voice, "Are you Tang Wu?"
He couldn't entirely be blamed for not recognizing Tang Wu. Back then, their marriage was arranged, and they were forced by their parents to get the marriage certificate.
After taking the photo for the marriage certificate, Si Yanli had left in a hurry. He hadn't taken a good look at Tang Wu at the time, so his impression of her wasn't deep.
On the afternoon they got their certificate, Tang Wu went out with friends wearing heavy smokey makeup. In the evening, her father called and told her to return to their new home. Before she even had time to remove her makeup, Si Yanli had pinned her to the bed.
They consummated their wedding night in a daze, and both of them were quite unhappy that night.
Although it was a marriage of convenience with no feelings between them, her imagined wedding night was never supposed to be so hasty and rough.
Afterwards, she scolded him for having terrible skills and lasting a short time.
He, however, coldly accused her of being scheming and said that even though he married her, he would never have feelings for her.
It was only after he had been gone for a while that she learned the truth: on the evening of their wedding night, her father had the nanny drug his soup.
He had only touched her because he was forced to.
No wonder he had said she was scheming.
After learning the truth about him being drugged on their wedding night, she immediately sent him a WeChat message to explain.
But he never replied to her.
"I will give you the divorce agreement after I sign it," the man's voice was clear and cold.
Tang Wu's mood completely soured.
Although she was the one who sent him the divorce agreement, his willingness to sign it without any hesitation made it hard for her not to doubt her own charm.
She closed her eyes and kept telling herself inwardly not to get angry, not to get angry.
He was all looks and no use. Once they divorced, she could find someone better!
Ah Cai had witnessed the entire confrontation between Tang Wu and Si Yanli. Hearing that Si Yanli wanted a divorce, Ah Cai said with righteous indignation, "Sister Wuwu, your impotent husband is truly blind. He actually has the heart to divorce a beautiful fairy like you!"
Impotent?
Was she referring to him?
Thinking of that terrible night two years ago, a layer of dark, cold frost gathered between Si Yanli's handsome and refined brows.
A few hours later, the high-speed train arrived in Yecheng.
By the time Tang Wu and Ah Cai walked out, Si Yanli was already sitting in a high-end commercial vehicle.
He had the driver pull the car up next to them, rolled down the window, and said in a clear, cold voice, "Grandpa wants us to go back to the old residence."
"Ah Cai is going to find sister-in-law, can she ride with us?" During their two years of marriage, although Si Yanli hadn't been much of a husband, the rest of the Si family had treated Tang Wu very well. When Old Master Si asked them to return to the old residence, Tang Wu generally wouldn't refuse.
"Yes, sister-in-law happens to be at the old residence too."
Si Yanli hadn't been back in two years. When the Si family saw him, they showed no enthusiasm at all; instead, they all glared at him resentfully.
Especially Old Master Si. He called him into the study and gave him a severe scolding.
"Do you understand what marital duties are? You left Wuwu alone in an empty room for two years. Are you even a man? So what if your skills are a bit terrible and you last a bit short, did you have to run away to a foreign country and hide for two years? Now everyone in our Si family knows you can't get it up! If you keep slacking off, from now on I'll call you Eunuch Yan!"
Si Yanli's handsome, aloof face darkened completely.
"Eunuch Yan, you and Wuwu are staying at the old residence tonight. If you're a man, wipe out your past humiliation and properly prove yourself!"
...
Tang Wu finished her shower and walked out of the bathroom wearing a nightgown.
Her waist-length hair, carrying misty water vapor, fell over her shoulders. Her neck was slender, and her skin was a translucent white.
Just as she was preparing to do her skincare routine, Si Yanli pushed the door open and walked in.
Tang Wu lifted her rippling peach blossom eyes to look at him. Seeing his cold and indifferent expression, she could figure out with her toes that he had definitely been scolded by the Old Master.
Tang Wu spoke with a lazy expression, "You sleep on the sofa tonight, and I'll sleep on the bed. Don't worry, I won't complain to Grandpa tomorrow."
Si Yanli did not say a word. He took his pajamas from his suitcase and headed into the bathroom.
After finishing her skincare routine, Tang Wu lay in bed to read a novel.
As she read, her eyelids grew heavy.
She was not sure how much time had passed when she heard the sound of the bathroom door opening, but she was too sleepy to care.
Anyway, she and Si Yanli would be getting a divorce soon. He was a perfect gentleman and would never try anything with her.
Just as Tang Wu was on the verge of falling completely asleep, the mattress behind her suddenly dipped. A crisp, clean, yet aggressive masculine scent enveloped her from behind.
Before she could even react, her slender frame was pulled against a firm, broad chest.
The man's slightly cool, long fingers slipped under the hem of her dress. Tang Wu was so startled that her drowsiness vanished in an instant. "What are you doing?"
His fingers gripped her soft, narrow waist and flipped her entire body over to face him. He looked down at her, his deep, dark eyes—now devoid of his usual glasses—smoldering with a fathomless intensity. "Fulfilling my duties as a husband."
