The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

XX Hotel. 

Room 1204

"Madam, I got the information you asked for. Li Lanni was discharged from hospital in January after being in a long coma. The woman from last night's banquet must be her. Miss Xia Luna's whereabouts are still unknown." Li Xiyan's assistant 

"What did you just say?!" Li Xiyan flung the files at her assistant angrily. 

The assistant who had been shouted at for doing nothing wrong was on the verge of tears. She trembled as she repeated the message. "That woman is indeed Li Lanni." 

"That bîtch!" Li Xiyan grabbed everything that was movable in sight and threw it to the floor. 

Why was she alive?! How could it be...

Why? 

She thought she had gotten rid of both of the troublesome twin flies. She had used up so much effort. Now Li Lanni was suddenly alive? Why was everything going wrong?

The previous day, she had gone to Li Yuming's charity banquet to see it fail and watch Li Yuming become a laughing stock. After all, Li Yuming was a loser no matter how many years passed. 

Of course, the banquet was a huge success and that was one huge wound to Li Xiyan's heart. Her attempts to embarass Li Yuming failed miserably too. Never mind that there were even people willing to give hundreds of millions for that woman's lousy paintings! It was for charity but it was still a huge deal. 

She had been sulky until she suddenly saw the girl she thought was Xia Luna. 

What huge news! 

When she heard people calling her Li Lanni, she thought that Xia Luna was impersonating her sister. Her assumption was that Li Yuming had been saddened by the death of her precious daughter, and since her other daughter was a wanted criminal, she had made the latter impersonate the former in public. So she sent her assistant to investigate and find clues of  Li Lanni being a fake. As long as there was the slightest piece of evidence, she would report both of them and have them rot in jail; one for her crimes and the other for hiding a criminal. What a happy ending, right? 

And now, this dumb assistant was saying that not only had Li Lanni survived, she had even been discharged from hospital many months ago?! 

"You dumb woman! Get out of my sight!" She hollered. 

"Yes." The assistant scurried away. 

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At the same time, Goldenwing Apartments. 

"Wait, what?" Xia Luna was shocked as she looked at Cheng Yu. 

Cheng Yu relaxed her shoulders. "I swear Luna, it had to be her." 

Xia Luna held her chin in doubt. Cheng Yu had just said that she seemed to have seen Li Xiyan at Li Yuming's charity banquet the previous night. But… why would Li Xiyan be there? Wasn't she in a different city? 

Even if she had coincidentally come to B City, why would she attend Li Yuming's banquet? She hated Li Yuming to the core! "You don't know her that well. Perhaps you saw the wrong person? Maybe there's someone who looks so much like her."

Cheng Yu saw the doubt in Xia Luna's eyes and slapped her forehead. "No way. I don't need to know a venomous snake that well to be able to recognize it. I will surely know to cower away when I see one. That woman is definitely the most venomous kind. 

No one hates Aunty Li as much as that woman does. Even when she greeted Aunty Li like the other guests did, there was malice hidden in the depth of her eyes." 

Cheng Yu hated the fact that Li Yuming didn't seem to care about Li Xiyan. Shouldn't she be guarded at the very least? That woman was evil! 

"Not just that. When she turned away from Aunty Li, she let out this weird smile. You know, the kind that villains usually reveal when they are just about to start scheming." [1]

Xia Luna had been with Li Xiyan for long enough to know what Cheng Yu was talking about. Something in her eyes dimmed. She was about to speak when Cheng Yu recalled something with a start. 

"Right. I saw how strangely she reacted when she saw Lanni too. It was as though she had seen a ghost with her own eyes! She was so shocked that she almost stumbled to the floor in those high heels -- how I wish she did but oh well, villains never suffer much. It was not sure what she thought about but after a while, she suddenly snickered and flipped her hair."

"You must have studied her all night to know everything she did. You have worked so hard." Xia Luna laughed. 

Cheng Yu couldn't believe Xia Luna was in the mood to laugh. This was a serious matter they were talking about, and it might even involve life and death! 

Xia Luna stared into space, finally thinking things through. "I didn't foresee this. That woman must know Lanni's whereabouts now." 

"What… what will we do? We definitely cannot let her hurt Lanni." 

Xia Luna relaxed back onto her backrest. "What are you talking about? Of course no one's going to get hurt. 

Scratch that. Someone is going to get hurt. But that person is not Lanni. Neither is it going to be anyone else on our side. It is going to be that woman." 

She was just about to come up with a strategy with Cheng Yu when the doorbell rang. 

Xia Luna and Cheng Yu exchanged puzzled looks. 

"Did you order anything?" Xia Luna asked in a hushed tone. 

"No. Did you?" 

"No." 

Since it was not a delivery, who could it be?No one knew their address. Could someone have found out? Xia Luna hurriedly disappeared into her bedroom as Cheng Yu went to check who the newcomer was. 

"Lanni, it's you! Come on in." Cheng Yu was relieved when she opened the door.

"Did you just say Lanni?" Xia Luna came back in relief. The news of Li Xiyan had spooked her so much that the first thing she thought was that someone had found out her whereabouts. They had even been too shocked to think of checking the monitor.

"You girls don't look happy." Li Lanni commented after some small talk. The atmosphere was evidently tense. 

"It's nothing. We were just talking about some random gloomy things. Xiao Yu was telling me about a dog she kept when she was a kid, but the dog suddenly disappeared and she never saw it again." 

Cheng Yu raised an eyebrow. Just how good was Xia Luna at making up stories? 

Li Lanni smiled with an "oh", making herself comfortable before shrugging. "If both of you don't want to tell me what's going on, you can just say so…" she then looked at her puzzled sister. "That's obviously a lie?" 

Xia Luna couldn't deny it. But she couldn't help asking, "How is it obvious?" Her statement was flawless, right? She had also made it up on the spot without even batting an eyelid. Besides, if she was not able to lie so effortlessly, she would long be dead. How could Li Lanni discern it so easily? 

Apparently, Li Lanni knew what she was thinking so she laughed. "I don't know either. It just felt like you were lying." 

Xia Luna shrugged while Cheng Yu giggled. Was telepathy starting to happen again?