The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

Lanni drove to Feng Ji International and by the time she arrived, he was already waiting for her.

"Are you done with work?" She asked when she got into his office, to find him packing up and arranging his desk.

"I was waiting for you." He paused what he was doing and pulled her into his arms. "I missed you so much, even though it's only been a day."

She rested her head against his c.h.e.s.t, feeling the same way. "I couldn't wait to finish work so I would get a chance to see you again."

He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her lips gently. "Do you want to have dinner out, or at my place? We can watch a movie or two afterwards." He suggested.

"Can we go to your place?" She preferred having a homemade meal today, not to mention that she had missed eating his specially cooked food.

He immediately knew what she was thinking about, and he was willing to cook whatever she wanted. "Of course my love. We can get the ingredients on our way."

"I want to cook for you tonight." She suggested, thinking about what she should cook for him.

"That's alright too. We can cook each other's dinner." He thought it was a good idea, so he finished up packing and took her hand.

…

While she drove, she noticed his gaze on her ring finger. She glanced up at him with a smile. "Doesn't my hand look more beautiful now?"

"It does." He took it up to plant a soft kiss on it, rejoicing when he remembered that she was his soon-to-be wife.

She eyed her ring and finally understand why Luna could barely keep her eyes off her ring. It was so overwhelming that she couldn't keep her eyes off hers either.

Soon after they arrived home, they were about to enter the kitchen when she noticed the news on the television, which had been tuned to a celebrity gossip channel.

"I didn't know you were into celebrity gossip?" She asked him curiously, not paying attention to the headlines.

"Ruby was here today." He explained, implying that it was Ruby who was interested in celebrities. He, on the other hand, only had his attention on his work, his family and most importantly, his Lanni.

"What's the breaking news? My phone is about to explode." He realized that he had been receiving too many notifications at the same time, so much that he almost couldn't use his phone. They were all from Oracle Magazine's website, which he had subscribed to as a way of supporting Lin Media Group for the sake of Lin Jian. If he knew that he was going to get so many notifications in a row, he would have definitely ignored it in the past.

"It's Qiao Linyou." Lanni explained with a slight chuckle as she led him to the kitchen to start preparing dinner. She would have been curious about what was going on but she wasn't because she already knew the entire thing.

"I'll tell you all about it." She promised jovially, and he found aprons to wear while cooking. He helped her into one of them and wore the other himself, then opened the bags of ingredients that they had bought.

"Honey, what would you like me to cook you?" He questioned as he sorted the ingredients.

"Anything is fine." She smiled, looking forward to whatever he was going to cook. "I'm going to cook a random dish, but I'm sure that you will love it." She promised and rolled her sleeves to start working.

"I look forward to it." He grinned and looked forward at her. She kept the main meal mysterious and merely washed and chopped the vegetables, keeping him guessing.

…

While Lanni and Xiehan had fun in the kitchen, the world was turning upside down for Qiao Linyou. She was surrounded by reporters before she could notice it, and they kept firing questions at her even though she had stated that she was not ready for an interview.

She had no way out, and it seemed like her bodyguards were tired of their job. They were slacking off! How could they not be here at such a moment, to shoo these dumb reporters off?!

"Youyou, is it true that you were involved with James, a drug lord?" A young woman with spectacles asked, and to Qiao Linyou's chagrin, she had the badge of Lin Media Group on her c.h.e.s.t. How could Lin Jian's underling treat her this way?

"I don't know what you're talking about." She denied the claim with a straight face while wondering when her bodyguards would be here.

"How could that be? Your agent was caught and there was sufficient evidence. It has been proven that she had a deal with James, and James' illegal business have been uncovered. What do you have to say about this?"

Qiao Linyou saw this coming, so she gave the answer she had already prepared in case such a situation popped up. She was an actress after all, and she had to be on the lookout in case her career was suddenly at stake." It's up to my agent to live her life as she pleases. I have no right to control her, but that doesn't mean I advocate for such behaviour. She has already been fired and handed over to the police."

Her response was precise and to the point, answering all their questions. Not only had she cleared her name of all claims of her involvement with the dark market, she had also thrown Ms. Ming under the bus.

Her response was flawless, and her fans should have cheered her for being such a honest person. On the contrary, the reporters looked at her with disgust written all over their faces. Just as she wondered what was wrong with them, one of the older female reporters sneered at her.

"You ungrateful woman! Is that how you treat your mother after all these years she took care of you, is this how your repay her? By having her pay for all your mistakes?"

Her heart skipped a beat at the mention of her mother. "I don't know what you mean." At the same time, she tried to leave the crowd, only to be pushed back into the centre of it by the insane reporters.

"It has been revealed that Ms. Ming is your biological mother. What do you have to say about this?" A young man asked pointedly, shoving his microphone almost to her mouth.

She tried to remain calm. "First off, it's my decision whether or not I would like to introduce my family members to the media. It's up to them whether or not they would like to be in the limelight, and not up to you, reporters, who want nothing but gossip to talk about. Secondly, no she isn't my mother."

"What a heartless bitch!" The middle-aged female reporter found Qiao Linyou's mother too pitiful. "Not only did she give in to your every whim and impulse, she also did everything to help you advance through your career. She even lowered herself to be your agent. How can you employ your own mother? How heartless!

Not only did you disrespect her at many instances, you have also made her pay for too many of your crimes. What kind of role model are you trying to be to the younger generation that looks up to you?!"

…

In the kitchen of Xiehan's mansion, Xiehan and Lanni could overhear the chatter of the maids who were watching the broadcast and whispering to each other curiously. He couldn't help wanting to know.

" Is she really her mother?"

Lanni nodded with a mischievous grin on her face.

"I noticed their resemblance the last time I met both of them but I didn't think too much of it. However, I later realized the peculiarity and pinned the pieces together." She explained.

It didn't make sense for Ms. Ming to be so close to Qiao Linyou that she was more loyal than a dog. Forget about the fact that Qiao Linyou was not respectful to her, she had also bullied her quite a number of times.

At first, Lanni thought that Qiao Linyou might have a stain against Ms. Ming, which allowed her to control the older woman as she pleased and the latter had nothing to do about it.. However, the more she searched, the more she found it peculiar. There was no stain against Ms. Ming except… the woman herself was Qiao Linyou's stain.

With Lin Jian's help, she had uncovered that shockingly, the two of them were mother and daughter.

"She brought this upon herself." She shrugged as she imagined what was going to happen to Qiao Linyou now. "I was going to let her off. She would at most be an ordinary actress with no more support. However, she just had to threaten me. How could I let her off? I'm not going to free a snake so it bites me. Wouldn't I be crazy if I did that?"