The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

But whatever it was,  "There is no excuse! Li Xiyan, you are a murderer! You shameless woman, I'm going to expose you!" 

"Oh no, you don't." The woman pulled Xia Luna and tackled her to the ground. 

"What are you doing?" 

The woman grabbed a fruit knife. "Ending you little b*tch. So you can accompany your dumb sister." 

The next thing Xia Luna saw was the knife heading towards her chest. She didn't know what she did until she heard the sound of steel slicing into flesh… and it was not her who had been stabbed but Li Xiyan. She had stabbed Li Xiyan. She didn't know when it happened either. 

"Ahhhhh!" A shrill scream broke the silence. 

Xia Luna was horrified when she saw a little maid standing by the doorway. Several servants were rushing over to check what was going on too. 

Xia Luna, who still had the bloodstained knife in her hand, trembled. "She tried to kill me. It was self-defense." She tried to explain nervously, but no one listened to her everyone started to call her a murderer

….

The present. 

Xia Luna still felt disgusted and sad when she remembered the events that followed. 

"No one believed me. Usually, I was cold and unfriendly, thanks to how much that woman had tortured me in my childhood. 

I didn't even spare the servants an extra glance. I didn't know it made them assume I'm a bad person until that moment. 

The maid who screamed, Wanwan, must have seen more than she claimed to have seen. However, she insisted that all she saw was me stabbing my stepmother. She even swore that I had a bad personality and would resort to violence when things didn't go my way. Li Xiyan, on the other hand, was too kind even to hurt a fly.  All the evidences were against me.

My father's heart condition acted up when he heard the news and was hospitalized. So, I was all on my own." 

Jiang Xingyu swallowed, feeling like the most useless prick under the sun. His Xia had suffered so much, yet he had not been there for her. And moreover, while she was suffering silently with no one to rely on, he had blamed her and even hated her. 

Without trying to understand the reason behind her actions, he had kidnapped her friend's brother and forcefully locked her up to force the truth out of her mouth. 

He regretted until his intestines turned green. Ji Xiehan had been right. His stupor had indeed made him do deplorable things. 

He looked at her and took her hand, almost unable to look at her. "Xia, you don't have to tell me if it hurts." 

"It doesn't make a difference Jiang Xingyu. Besides, if I don't talk about this today, I will not be able to talk about it again." She bit the bullet and continued.

"So they called the police and reported me as a murderer. I somehow ran off from the house and hid somewhere safe.

While that woman was in the hospital, I obtained evidence of her contacting Ji Feifei, a guy called Yang Su and some notorious goons."

Jiang Xingyu had the umpteenth shock of the day. "Hold on. Ji Feifei was involved too?" 

"Yes, and when I found out, I was more shocked than you are. I already knew that Ji Feifei was a fake friend of Lanni's, but I didn't know she would go to the extent of teaming up with other people to kill her. 

Jiang Xingyu remained silent with surprise. No wonder in the past, Xia Luna had said that Ji Feifei was the Ji family's future downfall. Even he hadn't expected that the innocent-looking little girl would have it in her to be an accomplice to murder. 

But that was not the most surprising thing. He remembered that Ji Xiehan had investigated the matter before and found no leads. How come he and Ji Xiehan didn't find anything while Xia Luna did?

Xia Luna continued to narrate what happened as though it did not happen to her but to some characters in a movie. "I did find evidence of their communication. There were no voice call recordings, but I somehow retrieved their deleted text messages and presented them to the police.

However, as soon as Li Xiyan saw the light again, she refuted all the evidence. She told the police that I  was a proficient hacker and that I could hack into her phone and edit anything into incriminating texts." 

Before that moment, Xia Luna had never hated her skills so much before. The witch had totally used it against her. 

"Well, there was nothing to prove that the texts were fake, but there was nothing to prove that they were real either, so it was dispelled. That was the only thing that could prove that Li Xiyan had a motive to hurt me. How infuriating!

And there was an issue regarding inheriting my father's legacy. My father's health had been deteriorating. If he died and Lanni and I died too, all his wealth would evidently go to his wife. It wouldn't be a surprise if she greedily eliminated anyone who could compete with her for the wealth. However, I couldn't point this out because she would cry and declare her love in front of the police—that, and the fact that it was mere speculation, not conclusive evidence. 

So I was under arrest. But I couldn't let myself be arrested. 

I knew that if I was jailed, that woman could create any means possible to eliminate me while in jail. I couldn't die before avenging Lanni and making sure no one would hurt my mother. So I ran away, hoping that I would find evidence somewhere. 

So here I am, yet I haven't found anything in the past year."

What Xia Luna didn't mention was that in the past year, she had trained hard and learned more fighting and survival techniques so she would be able to protect her mother and sister if the need arose. She was also planning to talk Li Lanni into training. Li Lanni's physical strength had decreased a lot, and Xia Luna was not even sure that Li Lanni could swat a fly if it came her way. 

A thought struck her mind, and she sprang to her feet. "I found a link among everyone that I discovered to have been involved in that accident. It's an odd coincidence that even I didn't know was possible. 

Li Xiyan, Ji Feifei, Yang Su, and the few other minions were all people Lanni had investigated before. I don't know why she would do such things, honestly. 

They have odd similarities too. For one thing, Yang Su and Ji Feifei both pretended to be Lanni's friends at some point. Then there's their smooth collaboration. Something must have been tying them together, and it is not just money. 

I hypothesize that they knew each other before Lanni came about. Perhaps they were doing the same illegal thing together?

That was why I kidnapped Ji Feifei out of jail and tried to make her talk…"

Jiang Xingyu's jaw almost dropped to the floor. 

How many bombs were his Xia planning to drop? 

Everything she said made him question his knowledge of life. He had heard about Ji Feifei being arrested and all the crimes she had committed. He had also heard that Ji Feifei had broken out of jail but was soon captured. At that time, he was bewildered and speculated how she was able to break from prison.

Now Xia Luna was saying that she was the one who broke Ji Feifei out? 

What kind of movie had his life turned into? 

Xia Luna didn't know the turmoil she had just created in his mind and continued speaking to no one in particular. "Ji Feifei said her boss's name was P… She didn't complete the statement before the police interrupted us. P must be the first letter. 

But what the hell is the whole name? 

Plum? Pumpkin? 

Uhm… not food, I guess. Proud? Prudence? Even more unlikely. 

Philip? Paul? 

I guess I'm becoming stupid." 

She was so lost in thought that she almost knocked her foot on the foot of the bed. Jiang Xingyu grabbed her and made her sit beside him, wrapping her in a warm hug. "Calm down, will you? Take it slow. For now, stop thinking about it." 

Xia Luna didn't try to leave his arms. "No, I cannot. This is important. I have to make that woman pay for hurting my sister. Her and whoever else worked with her or sent her." 

"Yes. But think about that later. For now, think about me for a second, can you?" 

He looked into the depth of her eyes that looked unsettled. He kissed her forehead in an attempt to calm her down. "Xia, I will keep my promise. I will not turn you in. But from now on, could you not hide things from me? I want to be part of your life. I want to join in your battles and fight for you. I regret that I was not with you during the past year. But now, could you let me walk with you?" 

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