The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

For the next few days, Cheng Yu avoided Cedric like the plague. It was nothing out of the ordinary since she had always avoided him anyway… aside from the fact that he was avoiding her as well. If she went right, he would go left even if that was not where he was intending to go. 

If she entered the room he was in, he would make a random excuse and leave. The only exception was the conference rooms whenever all the authors had a meeting with her and Luna. He couldn't walk away, but he would avoid her gaze as though repulsed by her. 

On Thursday, in her office, Cheng Yu let out a sigh. This was the outcome she had wanted. Why, then, did she feel so hurt about it? 

"I knew you had something bothering you." Luna spoke, jolting her from her deep thoughts. She didn't know when the latter had walked in. 

"Luna, you should have called me over. Why did you have to come all the way?" She immediately stood up and helped Luna onto a chair, leaving her speechless. 

"Xiao Yu, you too?" Luna didn't know whether to be happy or sad. A few days ago, news of Luna being engaged and being expectant had filled the city. Everyone was happy for her, but after knowing about her pregnancy, they all started treating her like she was a delicate egg that could break at the slightest tug. 

Let's not even get started about how Madam Jiang and her family had made sure that every nook and cranny of the Jiang Mansion was padded. Xingyu was currently doing the same for L&X Villa, and they would move in when the work was done.

Cheng Yu laughed at her friend's helplessness. "Everyone wants to take care of you and ensure you and my future little godchild are in perfect health." 

Luna rubbed her stomach happily, then got back to the main point. "What's going on with you? Is your family bothering you again?" 

Cheng Yu shook her head with a troubled look. Her family had, of course, not completely ceased to bother her. They would try to look for her and create trouble once in a while but after she threatened to sue them and permanently take her brother away from them, they had stopped trying to find trouble. That was the least of her worries now. 

Luna had guessed as much. "It's not your parents? Let me guess, is it possible in any way that it could be related to a comic artist called cedric Han?" 

Cheng Yu clicked her tongue. "Why does everyone think I could be troubled because of him?" 

Luna laughed as she crossed her arms. "Oh? Who else thinks so?" this proved that she really was bothered because of him, right? 

Cheng Yu realized that it didn't make much of a difference. After all, Lanni and Luna would often think the same way, so it didn't really count as many people thinking that way, right? Anyway, "I couldn't care less about him. As if he would influence my emotions." 

"Is that so? If my observation is correct, your mood started getting explosive as soon as he started ignoring you, and this happened the day after both of you had dinner at Goldenwing Apartments." Luna analyzed with the expression of a detective. "May I know what happened that night? Did something trigger you to repel each other?" 

"You are so gossipy!" Cheng Yu was helpless. Knowing that she would not be able to brush it off, she leaned against the desk, facing Luna. "Nothing much. I asked him to stay away from me. If I enter a room, he should leave and if I go left, he should go right." 

Luna almost found it comical. "Which is what he has been doing, but it hurts your feelings that you cannot be together?" 

Cheng Yu thought hard about it, then dismissed it. "Luna, some things were just not meant to be." It didn't matter how hard her friends tried to make it work between her and cedric. As long as they were not meant to be together, all their efforts would be fruitless. 

Luna knew this, but she still didn't think that Cheng Yu and Cedric were not meant to be. She spoke out of her own experience. "You may think that you and him are not of the same world or that his family may reject you, but what if it is different from reality?" Even she had thought that her past was too dirty for her to deserve Xingyu but in the end, she was the only one that Xingyu wanted and his family appreciated her as well. 

Cheng Yu was thinking about the same thing, but their circ.u.mstances were too different. "His sister already expressed his disapproval." 

"What?" Luna frowned. 

Cheng Yu nodded, then explained the incident from that night when Cedric followed her to Goldenwing Apartments. "It is rumored that Cedric listens to his sister more than anyone else. He loves her even more than he loves his parents. As long as she says the word, he will do whatever she wants him to do." 

"So, you think he will also reject you merely because she does not approve of you" Luna finally understood what the latter was thinking. When Cheng Yu nodded, she added, "But not everything works that way, Xiao Yu. Just because you love someone and listen to them doesn't mean you will let them control everything including your love life. How will you find your happiness if it's always about someone else?" 

"I don't know, Luna." Cheng Yu still looked troubled. 

Luna thought about it and said, "How about I check into this Han Xiaoli? I will find out why she called you treacherous, it couldn't be for no reason." her implication was that the other woman could have mistaken her for someone else or misunderstood her. If they found out what really happened and cleared the misunderstanding with the other party, perhaps she would not dislike Cheng Yu anymore. 

Cheng Yu nodded to the suggestion. "Thanks, Luna." 

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Meanwhile, Tian Yu Media. 

Lanni sat in her chair in her office, holding the latest issue of the weekly magazine in her hands. She had gone through all the featured articles before they were published so of course, there wasn't anything new… except a huge reveal in the business section. 

She had not approved of this, because it was a piece of fabricated news about a businessman. According to the news article, the businessman had been caught up in a scandalous case of corruption, and there was evidence to prove him guilty. Of course, the so-called evidence was mere words, since the whole thing was false to begin with. 

Just as she chuckled about it, an email was forwarded to her. The said businessman had decided to sue Tian Yu Media for libel. 

However, in reaction to the news and the alert she had just received, she could only laugh at a certain someone's stupidity. They had done themselves in this time… because the said businessman was someone she was quite familiar with. 

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AN: Make a guess, lol...well, two guesses. 

Who is the said businessman? 

Who is the person Lanni thinks has done themselves in?

A reward awaits the first person to get both correct answers within 24 hours