The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

Xiehan's lips twitched when she cursed. She had just blurted out the name of the person he also thought must be behind this. Since they both thought of him, it must really be him. What did he want? Because if he was thinking of trying to drive a wedge between him and Lanni… 

Xiehan suddenly wanted to grab someone by his ponytail and fling him across the street. 

"What did you guys talk about?" He changed the topic before he could really look for him and break his hands or give him a black eye. 

Lanni didn't want to talk about what happened either. "He urged me to investigate Li Xiyan. He thinks the same as us—that Li Xiyan blackmailed Luna. I don't know why he cares but..." Xiehan turned to raise an eyebrow as she continued, "I think he has a point. But how do I even go about doing such a suicidal task?" 

Xiehan's chest vibrated from his slight silent laugh and Lanni realized what she had just said. "Fine. I agree, I was courting death in the past when I agreed to investigate her. But how should I go and court death for a second time?" 

Xiehan pulled up into Li Yuming's compound. After stopping the car, he turned to face her and took her hand into his. "Honey, you will be courting trouble if you do it on your own. But if we do it together, we will bring her down." 

"How can you be so confident when… ow!" She frowned and yelped when Xiehan suddenly flicked her forehead. 

"Honey, are you doubting your man's abilities?" 

"Of course not. I know what you can do better than anyone. However, Xiehan…" Lanni felt her head hurt just from thinking about it. "This woman managed to do everything sneakily. We were all working together—all five of us. But she still managed to do everything sneakily and have her way while we didn't even know what happened until it was too late." 

Xiehan couldn't refute her point, but he couldn't agree either. "That's why we should work harder this time. I refuse to believe that one woman could beat all of our combined effort a second time." 

Lanni said nothing, but she still thought they might not be able to beat Li Xiyan. 

She sat still in the shotgun seat and started playing with her phone. 

Xiehan didn't say anything to rush her out of the car and reclined the seat to relax next to her. 

"Xiehan this…" Lanni suddenly held a hand over her mouth. 

"What is it?" Xiehan sat straight and looked over. A piece of news had just popped up on Lanni's screen. Xiehan facepalmed. "I don't know how we didn't but we should have expected this." 

"That's not the main point." Lanni pushed her phone aside in frustration. "This news should have broken out several days ago when the verdict was passed. Why only now?" 

That was right. 

Lanni had just seen news regarding her sister being convicted of murder. The whole world was now talking about Xia Luna.

However, it had been several days already. How come the news only got to the media now? 

"It's as though… the media already knew. Even so, they only let the enws out now. Moreover, this infuriating headline…" Lanni paused and wanted to kill someone. [DANGEROUS WANTED CRIMINAL FINALLY CONVICTED.]? Who the hell was a dangerous criminal? 

"This is obviously meant to infuriate us. It's as if they were being instructed…" 

In fact, this was a familiar situation. 

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Lanni looked at Xiehan.

"That Li Xiyan is controlling the media? I'm thinking that way too." 

"You were right!" Lanni suddenly exclaimed when realization dawned on her. "Not about Li Xiyan controlling the media. I mean, that too… but you were right when you said that one woman couldn't possibly be able to beat all five of us combined." 

"What are you insinuating?" Xiehan asked, even though he could already what she was thinking. 

"She must have someone behind her." Lanni hypothesized, shocked by her own conclusion. But the facts were right in front of her. "One woman cannot do everything that Li Xiyan does all on her own. Besides, everything just feels too meticulously planned. 

Just what kind of influence does that woman have behind her? Just who is she?" 

_ 

Meanwhile, Cheng Yu wasn't having it any better. 

It was already bad enough that she had missed many of her classes with no explanation. It had taken Jiang Xingyu's word to stop her from being expelled from Star Art International altogether. 

Now that she was back and all caught up with everything she had missed, something else came up. News about Xia Luna was suddenly everywhere. 

The worst part was that not many people knew that Lanni had a twin. 

When they saw the news about Xia Luna being convicted with murder, some of them thought that it was Lanni. Some even insinuated that Lanni had lied about her identity and that she was Xia Luna, only under an alias. It was hectic just hearing their chatter. She couldn't possibly explain to everyone who asked about Lanni that Lanni and Luna were two different people. One one hand, they wouldn't believe a word of it. On the other hand, that would be indirectly admitting that Luna was guilty. 

She had let it be, but the headlines irked her. What the hell was [Dangerous wanted criminal finally convicted]? 

Since when was Luna a dangerous wanted criminal? "Whoever wrote this headline should just die!" She cursed. 

"Easy, tigress. You are too irritable these days. Girls shouldn't curse people to die." Someone plastered himself next to her. 

Cheng Yu rolled her eyes and ignored him. She had thought this guy would mind his business and stop bugging her. However, it seemed like she had a permanent parasite by her side. 

Cedric didn't mind being ignored and moved even closer to her with a smile, as though he didn't know just how much that was angering her. "Why are you so angry anyway?" 

Cheng Yu pursed her lips and was prepared to tell him off as usual. 

He sprung his shoulders into a shrug and continued rambling, "just take it as you're writing in a diary." 

"And how do you compare to a diary?" Cheng Yu was annoyed. What kind of sick comparison was that? 

"Just like a diary, I will not tell anyone whatever you tell me. I will take it to the grave with me." 

Cheng Yu looked him up and down and realized that he looked serious. Even so, she huffed and took out her painting tools to ignore him and do her own work. 

Cedric let out a smile and took her paint brush from her hand. "Your mood reflects your art. Don't you know? You're in a bad mood and we are drawing such a happy volume in the comics. You will not do it right with this kind of mood." 

"Cedric Han, what do you want from me? Will you just disappear?!" She yelled at him. 

"Unfortunately, I do not have magic." He said, earning a murderous glare from her. He ran a hand through his hair and continued nagging incessantly. "How about we take a short walk around? We still have thirty whole minutes before the class starts." 

Cheng Yu harrumphed and tried to grab back her brush. However, he held it higher up and she couldn't reach it no matter how she tried to stretch. Seeing that he was taking advantage of their height difference to bully her, Cheng Yu was on the verge of exploding. "Give back my brush! I came here early today so I would be able to do something meaningful before the lesson." 

"But I came early today to spend time with you, and I want to do so by taking a walk with you." 

Cheng Yu sighed and sat back down, opened her bag and took out another brush. However, Cedric must have anticipated it, because as soon as she took it out, it was snatched away by him. When she looked up at him, he had a silly smirk plastered across his face. 

"What will it take for you to stop bothering me?" 

"One walk. Just one walk and I wilk get off your hair." He still maintained his hand high above her head lest she caught him offguard and grabbed the brush from him. 

"Fine." Cheng Yu could only resign to her fate. Cedric gladly grabbed her hand and dragged her out of the studio and into the elevator. 

To avoid disturbing the people from other departments, Cedric led her out of Star Art International so they would have the so-called walk along the street. 

Since she was unwilling to talk about why she was angry—paired with the fact that he could guess anyway—he did not ask. They merely walked silently. 

Even so, Cedric's heart was filled with joy. Being able to walk with her like this was something he didn't imagine possible before. 

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