The children’s bedroom and the adult’s bedroom were linked through a door. Ye Sichen locked the door to keep the kids in a sound sleep.

  Xia Nuan wanted to get up, but she was embraced by him.

  “Can you just clam down? Don’t you feel tired?” Xia Nuan was forced to press her body to him and couldn’t escape.

  “Both of you want me to be the meat on your chopping block? I won’t accept it.” She looked into his collar. It was his wheat color and strong chest. And the scars left on it made him sexier.

  “Take the word ‘both’ out. There is no us. Don’t associate me with her. Maybe we have a deep misunderstanding over this issue.” He said.

  “You love Luo Lan. That’s a fact.” She muttered sadly.

  Ye Sichen was so focused on his apology that he missed her murmur. His forehead was against hers. Seeing her lowering her eyes all the time, he frowned, “Xia Nuan, I’m sorry. I blamed you wrongly. I didn’t know that woman was a fake one until Wuyou and Nianci told me the truth.” They told him that the woman was ordered by Ye Enchen to ruin his reputation and got him accused.

  “That woman pretended to be you and even wanted to hurt the kids. Wuyou perceived it and fled with Nianci and Ansheng. But unexpectedly, they were caught by Yuezhao Organization.” Ye Sichen fondled her face, “I confounded black and white and wronged you without knowing the truth. That hurt you a lot. I deeply regret that I didn’t listen to your explanation. I’m sorry. Could you please forgive me?”


  Xia Nuan moved his hands in tears, “Actually, I don’t mind these.”


  Ye Sichen unwrinkled his eyebrows and hugged her tight, “Baby, I hope you can hit me a few times to relieve me a little bit. I should have known you wouldn’t be so ruthless to me. If I inquired that woman, I wouldn’t wrong you.” Saying this, he took her hands to beat his face.

  Xia Nuan pulled her hands away, “Don’t do that. I forgive you.”


  A big smile appeared on Ye Sichen’s face after he heard this. He kissed her lips, stroking her soft hair with his palm, “Don’t leave me, please.”


  “How about Luo Lan? Won’t you be responsible to her?” She asked with depression.

  He thought for a while, “No, but I want you as well.”


  He owed Luo Lan a favor, so he would pay it back. But Luo Lan was different with Xia Nuan. They varied in his eyes.

  After hearing this, Xia Nuan was slightly miffed, but it disappeared quickly. She looked at Ye Sichen and said drily, “But I don’t love you, I love Ye Enchen. He was badly injured for saving us. I can’t betray him.”


  In her view, Ye Sichen was saying he would marry Luo Lan.

  Since he would marry Luo Lan, she had no reason to continue this mess. The best choice for her was to cut off this relationship with Ye Sichen.

  He stared at her. The pleasure in his face disappeared. He held her face, “Don’t be silly. There is no chance that you love him.”


  “I’m serious.” Xia Nuan answered.

  “Do you misunderstand Luo Lan and me? I admit I used to have a hazy feeling with her, but that was in the past.” He explained to her softly.

  “Now she has come back, maybe I should quit from the love triangle. What do you want me to do? Be a delivery machine of yours?” Xia Nuan said angrily.

  “I’ve never thought in that way. The relationship between Luo Lan and I is not what you think. I love you.” He said out the deepest words in his heart.

  Looking at his sincere and affectionate eyes, Xia Nuan was a little absent. After a while, she regained herself back from the deep love, then looked away, “If Luo Lan heard these, she would be sad.”


  “Don’t worry. I had explained to her clearly. She wouldn’t get hurt for this.” Ye Sichen said confidently.

  “You said you love me instead of her. During my pregnancy, did you sleep with her?” Xia Nuan didn’t want to ask this, but the photos that they embraced together always appeared in her mind, which made her feel uncomfortable.

  Ye Sichen kept silent, and he felt a little ashamed.

  Xia Nuan’s attitude changed from expectation to depression.

  Ye Sichen grasped her hands to touch his lips, “Listen to me, I was fainted that day, and I had no awareness……”


  “Ye Sichen, don’t deceive yourself. You love Luo Lan all the time.” She pulled her hands back and turned her back to him.

  Ye Sichen embraced her from behind, “You know it. I only have libido to you……”


  He kissed her earlobe as he said this.

  Xia Nuan closed her eyes slowly. She bit her lips to keep silent and tried her best to resist his temptation.

  “Nuan, I swear, even if I stayed with her on the same bed, I wouldn’t do anything to her. Don’t you know me?” He kept explaining.

  But she still remained silent. His rough hands reached into her clothes, then petted her skin, and his breath got heavier, “I love you, Xia Nuan. You are the one I love.”


  She stopped his restless hands, “I’m going to sleep.”


  Her tone was softer than before, with a little wheeze. He knew she was turned on, so he kissed her lips and continued.

  “Baby, do you want me core my heart to show my innocence?” He took off his black robe, and then turned her shoulder to make her face him.

  Xia Nuan became more and more affectionate. Suddenly, she circled his neck.

  Ye Sichen kissed her lips gingerly and cautiously.

  They stopped with no satisfaction. Their hearts beat faster as they stared at each other, as if they had experienced something horrible.

  “Don’t leave me. I need you, so do the kids.” Ye Sichen said.

  Her heart softened. She lay on his arms like a meek sheep.

  He covered her with a quilt, holding her tighter.

  Outside the window, a shadow appeared and then vanished from sight quickly.

  *

  “Xia Nuan is with Ye Sichen, and it seems that they are quite affectionate.” A man in black stood in the dark. He was speaking on the phone in a low voice.

  “Tomorrow, do as I said.” A cold low voice sounded on the other side of the phone.

  “OK.”


  The man hung up the phone. Then he vanished from the end of the garden.

  When Xia Nuan woke up, Ye Sichen had already gotten up. Seeing her trying to get up, he stopped her, “Mi Ke’er said you need more rest. If you feel tired, don’t get up. Continue to rest.”


  “I’m not tired. I want to get up. Have the kids gotten up? I need to prepare breakfast for them.”


  “I have done that, and even if I haven’t done it, we have chefs. Don’t worry.” He showed a gentle smile and touched her face.

  She felt shy, “I still need to get up.”


  He embraced her, then helped her to dress, “I am not going to work today. I want to spend the whole day with you and the kids.”


  “I don’t need you to accompany me. Go ahead with your work. Yuezhao Organization is still in need to deal with.” She straightened his collar, then thought about Ye Enchen, “How about Ye Enchen’s injury? Did you visit him?”


  “Hum, he is much better.” He answered perfunctorily but paid attention to her reaction. Seeing her frowned, he raised her chin, “Are you worried that he might do something extreme if you stay here too long?”


  “Not exactly. After all, I haven’t divorced him right now. And, I want to know something from him, like who is the woman disguised in my image. And something about the kidnapping in Zhongshan City. I want to investigate all of these clearly.”


  Xia Nuan sighed.

  “Don’t worry about it. I will figure it out. And I think the person who impersonated you is Xia Yan.” Ye Sichen said, “No one could imitate your voice except her. You are sisters. You share similar voices as well as figures.”


  “Xia Yan?” Xia Nuan realized suddenly.

  Right. Ye Sichen was right. Xia Yan was very suspicious, and no one had heard from her for a long time.

  After having a breakfast with the children, Ye Sichen got a call.

  After the call, he said to Xia Nuan, “Your mother has come to Modu City. For her security, I will pick her up myself so that she will not meet Ye Enchen.”


  He picked the clothes up from the hanger and put it on.

  Xia Nuan wanted to go with him, but finally she decided to stay with the children, “Be careful.”


  Ye Sichen was surely under the surveillance of Yuezhao Organization, so it was dangerous to go outside. She was worried about him.

  “I will.” Ye Sichen put his hands around her waist and held her in his arms with a slight kiss.

  She thought about it and asked, “Shen An……”


  “He has been released.” Ye Sichen pecked at her lips.

  Xia Nuan was relieved. When Ye Sichen turned around, the three kids were watching them in a line.

  “I want kisses!”


  The kids said together. Ansheng couldn’t articulate clearer than his brother and sister, but now his pronunciation was much better than before.

  Ye Sichen had to pick Ansheng up lovingly and kissed his puppy-fat face. And Ansheng kissed him back. He put Ansheng down and then kissed Wuyou and Nianci.

  “Dad, come back early. Be safe.” Nianci told him.

  “Daddy will keep it in mind. I will come back home early and be safe.” Ye Sichen rubbed her head.

  Seeing Ye Sichen off, Xia Nuan came back to the living room.

  Ye Sichen got on a car towards the airport.

  Ken and Paul were following him. And Di Luoke stayed at the villa in Feicheng City to protect Xia Nuan and the children.

  Everyday Di Luoke and his subordinates would detect whether there were detonators nearby. He was a kind of relieved when there’s nothing abnormal.

  Zeng Guihua was brought to Feicheng City in the middle of night. However, Ye Sichen and Ken were gone.

  Zeng Guihua asked Xia Nuan as she came in, “Where is your sister? I didn’t see her for a long time. She said she is in Modu City, but where is she now? Why did Ye Sichen ask his men to take me here? What does he want to do?”