When Fang Chi woke up, he got disoriented by the darkness that was surrounding him. Why - why was his room filled with so much darkness? Wasn't today his wedding day? His room should have been lit with sunlight after all the first rays of the sun were considered fortunate for a bridegroom. So, why was his entire being shrouded in darkness? He looked to his left and then to his right, trying to blink away the blurry vision. However, as soon as he tried to sit up straight, he realised one thing- he couldn't move, when he tried to tug free his hands, a horrifying realisation dawned on him -his hands were tied!

  That cleared his mind and Fang Chi whose head was pounding like someone has hammered him in the back of his head sobered up in an instant. What? What was this? He tried to move his legs but they were tied as well, what the hell was going on? At first, he couldn't wrap his head around the things that were happening to him and only after a while later when the memories from the morning came into his mind did he realise what just happened.

  He was kidnapped, by whom …… he didn't know the identity of the person who kidnapped him but he did know that whoever it was- they certainly didn't have any good thing planned for him. His heart thudded in his chest as he tried to shout file help but after a while, he realised that he couldn't speak!

  Dread filled his stomach as he opened his mouth and no sound came out of it. Why? Why was this happening to him?

  Today was his wedding the most beautiful day in the life of a mer and yet everything was going to be destroyed for him now. He lifted his head to take a good look at his surroundings and realised that the place where he was brought to, was the abandoned shack outside the village and it was decorated with red candles and flower petals, immediately a sense of foreboding raised in his heart and Fang Chi tried to pry his hands from the headboard of the bed even more frantically. He needed to get out of here, fast or else-

  " Oh my, you are still trying to fight. Aren't you cute?" A silky, sweet voice travelled over to him but unlike Yu Dong's sweet voice that caused him to melt in appreciation, this voice made the small hair on the back of his hair rise. This was - This couldn't be happening to him!

  Why was she here? Didn't Yu Dong break her legs?

  Mu Yuxi understood the shock and horror that was etched on Fang Chi's face and her smile widened even further. " Are you thinking about how I got out of bed?"

  Fang Chi didn't respond, heck even if he wanted to respond there was no way he could say anything! Mu Yuxi, this crazy woman has drugged him!

  " Don't worry, the muting drug is temporary. In an hour or two, you will be able to speak again. I can't let a disable serve me, can I? It would be such an embarrassment." said Mu Yuxi with such a casual air, that one would have thought that she was actually discussing the weather. She limped over to Fang Chi's side with the cane in her hand and set down on the edge of the bed to which Fang Chi was tied to, " anyway, Yu Dong did a real good job when she broke my legs. But she forgot that I have my connections too, even though I am yet to fully recover, the doctor I hired helped me get off from my bed, I mean after she humiliated me like this, do you expect me to let her get married with all the drums and crackers?"

  Fang Chi stared at Mu Yuxi in horror as she raised her hand and cupped his cheek. He tried to pull away but then a stinging slap made him stiffen as his eyes returned to Mu Yuxi who was coldly looking at him. Even though he couldn't speak, Fang Chi still tried to mouth what he wanted to say.

  He watched Mu Yuxi's brows getting scrunched up before she laughed. " Are you asking me why I am doing this?"

  Fang Chi nodded his head. Even though he wanted to escape, he couldn't just get past Mu Yuxi while his hands were tied, he needed to delay whatever Mu Yuxi had in her sick head and wait for someone to realise that he was missing. He was the groom, surely someone would come to look for him, right?

  " Isn't it obvious?" asked Mu Yuxi like he was the one who was being stupid here. She stared at him with those pitch-black eyes that were filled with contempt and anger before she reached out her hand and pinched his cheek- a bit too hard… actually so hard that he winced. " You have always known that I have always been bad at sharing my things with others, my toys were mine and my parents were mine too, everything that I touched belonged to me! And you did too! Who do you think spread the rumour about you and me? Who do you think intercepted those matchmakers? Who do you think made those women who came to propose marriage back off? Me! It has always been me! I and I alone had my rights on you!"

  Fang Chi glared at her in disbelief, he could hardly believe it. Everything that happened to him was linked to Mu Yuxi? Was she always like this- how did he miss it? Why didn't he know that Mu Yuxi was such a psychopath? Before today, he never would have thought that Mu Yuxi was the one who ruined everything for him.

  " You hate me right?" asked Mu Yuxi with an unbothered smile, she didn't even flinch under his glare much less look guilty. She tapped his cheek and sighed, " Well, it's great I hate you too. You were supposed to stay put and wait for me like a good little mer but then you went ahead and got engaged to that Yu Dong!" Her eyes which were calm just a second ago spurned and started to spew the fire that Mu Yuxi has been controlling. " in this entire village you only got Yu Dong to get engaged to? She is disrespectful and a hussy with three husbands by her side, how is she supposed to care for you? Wasn't this the reason you rejected to get married to me? Because I married someone else? Well, if you were so against this then you were supposed to stay alone throughout your life. You were supposed to die under my shadow! But yet you-" she squeezed his throat until he started to turn purple, " were thinking of marrying someone else and that someone else was no one other than the woman who humiliated me? How can you betray me like that?"