55
Life seemed to have returned to normal, but a certain someone started acting like a top-tier male escort.
Doing seductive, brothel-like antics all day long.
He insisted on having Ning Ye buy cheap items, but wouldn't let her use her own money. Through various explicit and implicit gazes and body language, he coaxed her into using that future black card to pay—
The CEO was highly amused by this, though he couldn't explain why.
After the two cards began to merge, a relative substitution occurred. Now, when she swiped the future black card, she could see the bill inflated by ten thousand times.
For Bian Xun, this was the first strong connection that happened between them; it was the beginning of his side of the story. Thinking back to when he mobilized an entire team to strictly investigate who was fraudulently swiping his card, and how he frantically rushed everywhere to pay the bill first—
The CEO smiled faintly: the storm had finally passed.
But he was incredibly wicked, absolutely malicious, and deliberately wanted to share this secret with her.
After all, that money could have become their joint marital property.
Now, as husband and wife, they should share the heartbreak over it.
Ning Ye just thought he was being an absolute tease.
The weather was getting hotter now. After taking a shower, he would often just loosely wrap a towel around himself, shamelessly flaunting his waistline, abs, and V-line as if they were free. He wouldn't even dry off the water drops, just letting them trail down his body.
Such a show-off...!
Ning Ye adopted an attitude of keeping her eyes strictly forward, ignoring his well-trained physique, and silently drew a conclusion in her heart.
He was just digging a hole for himself like this—a new breed of psycho.
After work today, Bian Xun stood in front of the shelves, carefully selecting a box of condoms, and insisted she go pay for it.
Ning Ye really wanted to beat him to death.
Not wanting to hear him say anything provocative in public, she closed her eyes and finished the purchase.
This man was standing in front of the car outside the convenience store. The streamlined Maybach made his suit-clad figure look incredibly noble. She had to admit, if a male escort were of this caliber, he would indeed be very, very expensive.
The very, very expensive man had deep dark eyes, waiting with hidden encouragement for her to check her phone bill.
However, Ning Ye just threw the box at his face and got into the car.
They couldn't even use it right now, what was he being so thirsty for?
Bian Xun caught it leisurely. He wasn't in a rush for her to discover the bill. Instead, he lowered his eyes and openly checked the texture and flavor. Then, he unhurriedly opened the car door and placed it in the glove compartment in front of her passenger seat, his tone matter-of-fact.
"Then let's keep it here for use."
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Ning Ye looked around at the narrow confines of the car interior, a wave of confined sexual innuendo splashing right over her face.
But Bian Xun wasn't done yet. As if he wouldn't rest until he achieved his goal, he lay on the sofa after getting home and casually picked an item on her Taobao page.
Ning Ye was already certain he had some sort of ulterior motive. She looked expressionlessly at the randomly recommended silver choker on the page. "Are you sure you want this?"
Bian Xun hadn't actually looked closely at what he was asking for; the item itself wasn't important anyway. But when he lowered his eyes and saw that choker—a thin chain that looked very easy to entangle—a certain someone actually developed a bit of interest. His voice was magnetic. "Yes."
His dark eyes carried amusement, his side profile aloof and profound, yet he had already thought up multiple application scenarios.
He thought about it so much he had to go take a shower.
After coming out, the man, enveloped in steam, raised his eyes and looked at her with a half-smile. "How much was it? Is it expensive?"
The bill.
Ning Ye: ? Still provoking me.
She thought the man was asking if he himself was expensive, and she finally couldn't help but raise her eyes to take a glance.
She had to say, he really trained well...
His muscle lines at this time were actually much more beautiful than during his student days. Completely scientific and moderate exercise allowed him to strike the perfect balance between lean and muscular. His smooth muscle lines were covered by a layer of skin as coldly white as frost and snow, looking both ascetic and aloof, yet richly alluring.
Ning Ye admired it for a moment and admitted, "Indeed, not cheap."
Bian Xun raised an eyebrow, chuckled lightly, and sat down next to her. The mattress sank, and the man's voice was low and clear. "Do you need any other services?"
Ning Ye didn't know where his recent bout of thirstiness came from, but he acted as if he wanted to stimulate domestic consumption, harboring some highly enthusiastic goal.
"None of it is expensive." Bian Xun leaned close to her, stars hidden in his dark eyes.
"I'm one dollar a time."
Ning Ye covered her ears in a breakdown. "You don't have to be that cheap!!"
Outside, everyone said he was the most expensive-looking young CEO, but at home, he was selling himself this cheaply—
Bian Xun held back his laughter. If converted to ten thousand a time, would she still think it was cheap?
"Five dollars is fine too."
"No more than ten at most."
Ning Ye couldn't take it anymore. She decided to give him a hundred bucks and let him go be thirsty by himself.
Just as she turned on her screen, the billing text message for the necklace was still resting on the home screen. As it lit up, Ning Ye finally took a moment to glance at it.
The CEO stopped being a tease.
The man looked like he had finally gotten his wish, leaning to the side with a leisurely and very wicked expression, waiting for her to make a judgment on their joint marital property.
Ning Ye's first glance didn't catch any issues.
Right now, she just wanted Bian Xun, this thirsty flirt, to act a bit more normal.
But just as she was about to exit, she suddenly felt something was wrong.
Why wasn't the single digit followed by ".00", but rather by several zeros?
Ning Ye finally took a serious look.
Then suddenly, she sat up, staring wide-eyed as she counted the numbers on the screen.
This wasn't right, why were there so many zeros?
Bian Xun suppressed the smile in his dark eyes, watching her like a little bunny bravely navigating a maze.
She was so smart; she should be able to figure it out very soon.
Ning Ye snapped her head up, only then realizing that Bian Xun had been waiting for her to discover this.
Her gaze darted back and forth between his face and the screen. What on earth was going on?
Ning Ye carefully checked the previous few bills and found that every single one was an exact multiple. They were the actual prices of the things she bought, inflated by many times.
They instantly became massive amounts.
Looking at the man's relaxed, completely unsurprised expression, she realized what was happening and hastily grabbed his sleeve. "Did you tamper with this? Why are you fraudulently swiping your own future money—"
Bian Xun's lips curled up. Listen to that, talk about putting the blame on the victim.
He didn't need to explain; Ning Ye herself had already sensed something was wrong.
Various unusual details from before began to swirl in her mind.
For instance, when she was about to spend ten thousand dollars to sign Taotao up for tutoring classes, why did Bian Xun rush over to fight to pay for it? And when she fronted the money for the company dinner, he had sprinted all the way there, which was incredibly rare. There were also times when he inexplicably carried a pretentious aura as if he had spent a fortune...
Now, since these two black cards could merge with each other, was it possible that they had always been interconnected?
Ning Ye cautiously asked the man in front of her: "When I swipe the future black card, does your money decrease too?"
Bian Xun couldn't answer, but the smile in his eyes already proved everything.
Yes, baby.
Ning Ye's eyes looked dazed for a moment. Her lips parted, and then she asked carefully, stammering, "Then the bills on your end... haven't always been... ten thousand times the amount, have they?"
The CEO's lips curved upward, carrying an aura of someone who had weathered the storm and now looked upon the past with a breezy calmness.
Ning Ye's clear almond eyes stared blankly for a moment before she suddenly lunged at him. "Oh my god, how much money was that—"
It was all wasted!
Couldn't he have given her a heads-up?
Bian Xun spread his legs to let her lunge into his arms. With one hand propped behind him and the other holding her waist, he couldn't hold back his laughter anymore. His chest vibrated as he chuckled, "My money is your money. Let's observe a moment of silence for our joint marital assets."
Ning Ye cried, "Ahhh, stop talking!"
She would feel a heartache even if it was a stranger's money going down the drain like this!
Let alone the fact that she couldn't help but think about how great it would be if this money had been saved for Taotao. They wouldn't have had to worry about education costs at all. Thinking about this made Ning Ye's heart ache even more.
Bian Xun supported her crumbling frame, laughing uncontrollably.
He really was too wicked.
But he truly, absolutely loved seeing her like this.
She looked exactly like the lady of the house.
Ning Ye couldn't help but start recalling what she had bought with the black card. It was mostly stuff for the kid, but adding it all up, it had to be around a hundred thousand yuan, right?
Then did that convert into a billion?
Ning Ye's world collapsed.
What couldn't they have done with all that extra money? Ning Ye's heart hurt so much she could barely breathe.
She used to secretly curse Bian Xun for being a ruthless capitalist. Well, look at him now—was there anyone in the world more generous than him? How could he still be laughing?
Bian Xun observed Ning Ye's expression and decided it was best to take the secret of the 135.8 billion loss with him to the grave.
After her initial shock, Ning Ye began to wilt.
She felt a sense of guilt, like she had just wasted precious food, and she also felt a faint worry about the merging of the black cards.
If the black card from the future could merge into the present one...
What about the Taotao from the future?
She didn't dare to think too deeply about it, only subconsciously gripping Bian Xun's shirt tighter.
But on second thought, Ning Ye realized that while the existence of the black cards lacked an inevitable cause-and-effect logic, the logic of Taotao's existence had already been firmly established by her and Bian Xun. She shouldn't let her imagination run wild.
The lost money was still far more terrifying.
Seeing her eyes fill with deep sorrow, Bian Xun immediately reined in his smile. He bent his long legs, lifting her up slightly, and gave the soft flesh at her waist a gentle squeeze. "Don't worry, we can earn it all back."
With her intelligence, it probably wouldn't take her long to figure out how to use this rule in reverse to make money.
As for today, Bian Xun had long stopped caring about that vanished ten-thousand-fold difference.
He had made massive fortunes, and he had suffered losses that nearly bankrupted him. Having experienced the great ups and downs of life, he knew exactly what was truly most precious.
It took Ning Ye a long time to recover before she finally nodded.
She also understood that, in some unseen way, this might be a reminder—it was the future Bian Xun sparing no effort to pull them closer together, to face everything in the present side by side.
"Anyway, I'm very glad that you feel heartache over your money," Bian Xun said, the corners of his lips curling up.
Ning Ye wouldn't let him continue and reached out to cover his mouth.
She couldn't bear such a massive loss!
It was better to let the capitalist bear it himself.
But the man held her, tilting his head back, his words unstoppable. "Everything of mine is yours. The money, the houses, the company, me... everything is yours."
The fingers Ning Ye used to cover his mouth curled slightly, tickled by the warm breath brushing past his thin lips.
"So, can you accept the ring now?"
That diamond was still sitting in his drawer.
Even though he wasn't the richest man in the world anymore, could he at least be a high-quality, reasonably priced husband?
Ning Ye's eyelashes fluttered as she looked into his eyes.
In a daze, countless gazes from their school days to this very moment overlapped.
The man's dark eyes were clear and profound. As he held her up above him, for a fleeting moment, his reflection looked almost devout.
The end of the story's plot is not our finish line.
From now on, you officially share everything I have.
Ning Ye's heart grew warm. Holding his shoulders from above, her face also heated up. After a long moment, she pursed her lips and smiled, revealing a shallow dimple.
She thought about how she had been able to tolerate him being so crazy, caustic, and insufferably cocky, yet still let this man become the father of her child.
She must really, really like him too.
So she lowered her eyes and nodded. "Okay."
Bian Xun's lips curled into a deep smile. He craned his neck to reach the corner of her lips, and amidst their mingling breaths, he whispered to her.
"Just think of all that lost money as buying a ticket for a ship."
"To let Taotao ride a spaceship right to our side."
"And then she will become one of the few children in this world who gets to attend her parents' wedding."
As he gently bit her lip, Ning Ye's heart swelled with a tender, sweet ache, and she finally couldn't help but smile.
