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After getting home, I sincerely apologized to the restaurant owner and paid double the deposit as
compensation.
Noah looked around and asked, “Where’s the housekeeper?”
I replied a bit awkwardly: “I had originally booked a restaurant for dinner, so I let her go home early. But I didn’t expect the restaurant reservation to be cancelled…”
“It’s fine,” I smiled and opened a food delivery app, “Let’s order takeout. What do you want to eat?”
Noah: “Takeout isn’t healthy. What do you want to eat? I can cook.”
“Alright then, how about sweet and sour fish?”
Noah paused for a moment.
I thought I had requested something too difficult and was about to suggest a simpler dish like scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
The man nodded after a slight delay: “Okay, there’s fish in the fridge. Watch some TV, I’ll be done
soon.”
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“Oh.”
Noah helped me turn on my favorite variety show channel before heading to the kitchen.
During a commercial break, with nothing else to do, I wandered over to the kitchen door.
Through the gap, I saw Noah bring the right hand I had held earlier to his lips, reverently kissing it.
Only then did he start washing his hands and preparing the ingredients.
Pop-up comment:
“I’m not afraid of psychos dying as perverts, I’m afraid of psychos falling into pure love. Don’t our poor second male lead and villainess deserve a happy ending?! Author, I’m going to send you some knife emojis.’
“Suddenly I don’t want to see the villainous couple forced to do hateful things anymore. I feel like if they could just live happily like this, making love often would be pretty nice too.””
“No way around it, the female lead’s halo is there. The second male lead is bound to betray the villainess for Tina eventually. That’s just how the plot goes, it can’t be defied!”
Similar comments had appeared before. My heart sank and I could no longer focus on the TV show.
Fortunately, Noah’s sweet and sour fish was ready by then.
I eagerly took a few big bites and looked at the man sitting formally beside me:
“That sweet and sour fish the housekeeper brought when Tina and I fell into the sea and I got a 104°F fever – you actually made it, didn’t you?”
“No,” Noah reminded me, “Don’t talk while eating.”
Unfortunately, the word “obedient” doesn’t exist in my dictionary. I pressed on:
“Did you also get people to delete those hateful comments? Someone said I’m your true love. When
you start liking me? Did we know each other before?”
did
“Lily…”
This was the first time Noah had called me by name.
I pouted, “Fine, if you say it wasn’t you then it wasn’t. I’m full now. I’m going to call Ethan and ask if he got home okay.”
I left the table, pretending to pick up my phone and dial.
Suddenly I heard the sound of a knife falling to the floor.
I turned around to see Noah pinching his bleeding fingertip, looking away with his thick eyelashes fluttering: “It’s nothing, don’t worry about me.”
I put down my phone, took out band-aids and gauze from the first aid kit, and sat back down in front of Noah. “How can it be nothing when you’re bleeding? Does it hurt? Give me your hand.”
Pop-up comment:
“Good good good, now I understand why some guys can’t spot green tea bitches. That little look is enough for me to study for a lifetime.”
“Villainess, don’t keep teasing the second male lead like this. He’s not normal, he can’t take teasing.
If you push him too far, dark room warning!”
“Noah, bro, start a class. I’ll learn on my knees.”
“All done.” I tied a cute little bow with the gauze.
“Thank you.” A hoarse reply, his breathing growing hotter and heavier.
But this time Noah clearly had more experience: “I’m going to the study for a bit.”
“Wait,” I pushed him back into the chair, “I read online that taking too much of that medicine is bad
for your body. It can make you… impotent.”
For the first time, Noah explained quickly: “There are some side effects, but not what they’re saying.”
As our skin touched, the patterns on the man’s body emerged again. He grabbed his coat wanting to put it on, but I stopped him.
I straddled the man’s leg, caressing the faintly visible incubus mark on his collarbone:
“It looks pretty nice.”
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I praised sincerely.
“Lily, do you know what you’re doing? Get off.” Noah practically gritted out each word.
“No,” I rocked my hips back and forth, putting on a seductive expression and speaking coyly:
“Hubby, we’re legally married. You can do anything you want to me.”
Noah’s tail wrapped around my body, his hot breath tickling my ear: “Lily Chen, don’t do this. You’ll
regret it.”
“I won’t. I told you, I’m willing.”
Pop-up comment: “Noah, you say ‘don’t do this’ but your tail is very honest. You’re not giving the villainess any chance to escape either, bro.”
“Villainess, you’re my goddess! Repressed lovers need love like a home invasion. As long as you don’t do it to death, do it as much as you can!”
My lips were forcefully sealed.
Noah picked me up by the waist and placed me on the bedroom bed.
He grabbed my restless hands and held them above my head.
The scene before my eyes gradually blurred. The man gently kissed away the tears at the corners of my eyes, whispering remorsefully:
“I’m sorry, I’ve still defiled you…”
I weakly pushed against the chest of the man above me, passively accepting again and again:
“Noah, stop, it’s too hot… Not there, you can’t…”
“Lily be good, call out to me a few more times. It’ll be over soon.”
I obediently called out softly: “Noah, hubby, big brother Noah…”
“Such a good girl…”
Liar, big liar.
How is “soon” three hours later?!
