The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

Xia Hanchen took a glance at his son who was currently grinning at him with spite written all over his face, and his own face eased into a smile. "I must say, I saw this coming."

"Yet you still walked into the devil's den. Should I call you naive or stupid?" Flynn taunted, not in a hurry to lock Xia Hanchen down as he knew that the latter couldn't leave even if he wanted to.

"Call yourself overconfident." Xia Hanchen burst into laughter at the naive children in front of him.

He turned to look at Lanni with a raise of his brows. "Lanni, you too? I didn't think it would be so easy for someone to brainwash you and make you go against your own father."

"Cut the crap. We all know the truth." Lanni was on the verge of beating him up. She had stepped away from him and to Flynn's side just in case the former went berserk and tried to harm her or use her as leverage.

The man was unfazed despite being trapped. He even laughed.

"You did not disappoint your father, I must say." He praised through a snicker. "Though you forget that I'm the one who taught you everything you know."

As soon as he finished speaking, he walked towards the large magnetic doors that had been tightly locked and tried to hack the pass code.

Lanni was almost awed when she saw how fast he was doing it. She finally knew where Luna and Flynn got their talent at programming from. Despite his speed and skill, all that happened was his hand feeling like it had been electrocuted.

Flynn snickered. "You also forget that aside from everything you taught me, I have learnt more from the world. The student surpassed his master, to be precise."

Xia Hanchen did not believe that a measly trap of two kids decades younger than him could prevent him from leaving. He kept tapping his phone and the pass code lock on the door and a minute later, the lock on the door clicked open.

"I would have loved to stay and humor you for a little longer but I have to go." He flashed a smile.

The doors slid open but what was revealed was not a passageway but a series of criss-crossed swords waiting to slice through his skin if he made a step to go out. He thought it was an illusion until he touched one of the swords and the sharp tip sliced into his finger, making huge drops of his blood fall onto the ground.

"Let's talk about leaving when I have torn all your limbs." Flynn chortled at the man's failed attempt at leaving.

"You and what army Flynn?" Xia Hanchen brought his bleeding finger to his mouth to stop the bleeding and the pain.

Flynn looked down at him like he was an ant. "Me and the whole of Galaxis."

"Do you think you can really turn the agency against me?" Xia Hanchen laughed like he had heard the most ridiculous joke.

"I mean, I can turn you against you." Flynn laughed. "I was wondering how I would manage to poison you but you saved me the trouble by touching the poisoned swords on your own. You even sped up the process by licking your poisoned blood. Why don't you watch and see whether or not the others are willing to go against their falling tyrant king whom they hate?"

He had destroyed innumerable lives, so it was easy to bring together everyone who wanted him dead.

"You are trying to buy time to let the poison work." He frowned and closed in on Flynn to launch a punch to his head.

Flynn dodged it with ease and laughed. "You are so naive. How did you even manage to stay alive for so long? The poison isn't going to act up right now. It will be slow and tortuous, and you will wish for death to come to you sooner but I will not let that happen too easily."

When he was done speaking, he swung on his heel and kicked Xia Hanchen in the stomach, making Lanni close her eyes when she heard the sound of what she guessed to be ribs cracking.

Xia Hanchen coughed up blood but recovered immediately and punched Flynn's chest, this time using much more force.

The man swayed for a few seconds but soon steadied and retaliated with a succession of punches and kicks, most of which Xia Hanchen dodged. Within a few seconds, Flynn was on the losing end.

"You were holding back." He snickered when Xia Hanchen grabbed his neck and pushed him against the wall.

"You should learn to be filial." Xia Hanchen applied more pressure on his hand that was tightly around his son's neck.

The young man's face was starting to pale from lack of air but he still had a smile on his lips, rendering Xia Hanchen confused. What was so good about dying that he was happy about it?

"You…"

Just as he spoke, he felt a pain in his back, shooting through his whole body. His fingers unconsciously let go of Flynn's neck and he turned to the source of the pain, to find Lanni holding a gun behind him.

"Get your stinky claws off my brother!" She ordered, shooting yet another bullet into his stomach.

His lips pursed as though he was in disbelief, as Lanni shot through both of his legs one at a time. She was deliberately shooting him in parts that would bring him immense pain but at the same time not kill him, because they couldn't let him die so easily after all they had been through because of him.

"Lanni, my cute Lanni. You have grown up better than I thought." He laughed through his bloody mouth. He was losing a lot of blood and thanks to the bullets, his steps were faltering by the second.

Lanni shot through his left arm, looking like she was getting addicted to it. "I have to thank you for that."

"You are just like your stupid mother. I should have killed you when you were little." He laughed, making Lanni frown.

"That s.l.u.t, she pretended to be in love with me yet spread her legs for the whole city and neighbouring towns."

"How dare you!" Lanni exploded.

Xia Hanchen laughed like a maniac. "That bitch, she was getting f.u.c.k.i.e.d by Ji Huifen, yet here you are dating his son. Gross, isn't it?"

Lanni pointed the gun at his chest as her chest heaved. Her finger started to apply pressure on the trigger.

"Lanni, don't! He's trying to make you kill him!" Flynn tried to talk some sense into Lanni, whose eyes were full of bloodthirst.

"He knows that we plan to torture him. He is trying to take the easier route by provoking you to kill him faster." He explained, and Lanni's eyes finally regained some rationality.

She thought he made sense. What she hated most was anyone talking trash about her mother, so Xia Hanchen must have grabbed onto this fact to push her on edge. She pulled the trigger once again but shot his hand so it was nothing but flesh and blood left.

"Sparrow." Flynn called, and a young man appeared from another room.

He rushed to Lanni as soon as he saw her. "Sister!"

"Get lost." Lanni shooed him off, not wanting anything to do with Galaxis.

"Get our guest of honor to the room we prepared specially for him." Flynn instructed, and the young man named Sparrow took Xia Hanchen who was on the verge of fainting from blood loss into the room he had just exited.

"I will take good care of him." Flynn promised Lanni, and the latter nodded.

"Get me a video. I'm certain that mother will enjoy the view." She smiled just thinking about it. Watching the man who had tortured her for most of her life getting tortured to his death, there isn't anything that could make Li Yuming happier than this would.

" She isn't like that." Flynn stated, and Lanni looked at him in confusion.

"What?"

"Your mother." He explained. "I did my research on her long ago. She isn't the kind of woman that old fart was making her out to be."

"I know." She smiled. Of course she trusted her mother.

If Li Yuming was a promiscuous woman, how could she have been alone for all these years with no man in her life? Instead, the promiscuous one was Xia Hanchen. Flynn was much older than her and Luna, which went to say that he had met Flynn's mother long before he met Li Yuming. Even so, he did not marry Flynn's mother, and even after getting together with Li Yuming and having babies together, he still cheated on her with Li Xiyan. The answer was eat as day.

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When Lanni left the building, she felt as though she had left another realm and was finally back into the human world. She felt empty when she thought about how her father was going to be tortured but she did not regret anything. He deserved it.