The early spring wind seeped in through the window crack, gently lifting the corners of their clothes. At this moment, Huo Jun looked at Yin Weiyue with a complex expression.
The latter was looking at him just the same, except compared to Huo Jun’s complex gaze, Yin Weiyue’s was much simpler. She directly raised her eyes and swept a look over, her eyes clearly writing out four characters: I want to kill.
Heh~ One-way pain perception.
Which was to say, if she were in agony or dying, Huo Jun would not feel a thing. But if Huo Jun so much as broke a sliver of skin, she would have to suffer the pain right alongside him. If Huo Jun accidentally got killed during this time, she would follow him to the grave the very next second.
Wasn’t this equivalent to being a lifelong free bodyguard, but having to be prepared to be buried with the employer at any moment, while frequently experiencing the employer’s physical pain along the way?
Who could tell her where Huo Jun got such a thick skin? This “toxic side effect” of transmigrating into a book was far too lethal.
At the thought of this, Yin Weiyue’s gaze looking at the man involuntarily turned a bit darker and gloomier.
Huo Jun completely ignored Yin Weiyue’s hostile gaze, lowering his head to continue writing his divorce letter. Finding that the blood at the cut on his finger had already clotted and wouldn’t come out no matter how hard he squeezed, he had no choice but to put it back into his mouth and bite down hard again.
At the exact same time, sharp pain struck Yin Weiyue’s index finger once more. Flames of anger burned straight from her heart up to the crown of her head, and the veins at her temple throbbed uncontrollably twice.
Thus, just as the man managed to finish writing a single blood-red character, the strip of cloth was snatched away by Yin Weiyue rushing over. What a joke! Her pain perception was already bound to this fragile piece of glass; just thinking about the storm of blood and rain he was about to face in the future gave her a headache.
If they divorced now, wouldn’t that be tantamount to sending her to her death?
Yin Weiyue’s action of snatching the cloth strip was slightly rough, accidentally yanking Huo Jun’s sleeve. Because she had practiced mixed martial arts with her Eldest Sister in the deep mountains for fifteen years, her force was instinctively a bit strong.
Huo Jun subsequently lost his balance and subconsciously lurched toward her. This directly caused her outward force to lose its point of leverage, resulting in the two of them rapidly tumbling backward together in Yin Weiyue’s direction.
They tumbled backward for more than ten steps until thankfully there was a wall behind them, or else the two of them would have fallen flat on the ground.
This was just like Party A and Party B in a tug-of-war match: both sides exerted full strength ready for a showdown, but Party A’s foot slipped and he suddenly let go, while Party B, who was pulling the rope tightly, was completely off guard, resulting in a large group unfortunately falling backward into a heap.
The principle was the same, so the result was naturally similar, except tug-of-war was the failure of a crowd, whereas now it was the embarrassment of two people.
Inside the room, a dropped pin could be heard.
Yin Weiyue’s back was pressed against the wall. Huo Jun’s arms were propped on either side of her, a hair’s breadth away. The breathing of both involuntarily became a bit disordered, their breaths entangling in confusion.
Everything was too sudden, but Huo Jun was stunned for only a brief moment before regaining his senses. The panic that had suddenly gathered between his brows quickly smoothed out and dissipated.
Huo Jun was very tall, so Yin Weiyue had to raise her head slightly. His hair was half-bound and half-draped. Although he was emaciated with no flesh on his cheekbones, his face remained as exquisitely carved as if by a knife and axe. Looking at his brows and eyes again, they were as deep as the vast galaxy, seeming to contain an ancient, tranquil, and bottomless spring.
Seeing him up close at this time was far more shocking to Yin Weiyue than looking from afar earlier.
In the first ten chapters, she only knew that the male lead, Huo Kai, was incomparably handsome with a face like fine jade, a peerless young man of the Great Sheng Kingdom. She had not known that Huo Jun, whose appearance in the opening chapters was described with merely a few strokes of ink, could actually be this ethereal.
Having lived to thirty-one in her past life, Yin Weiyue had never been intimately close with a man. But after all, she was a psychologically and physiologically healthy adult woman. Such close contact between the two instantly awakened her long-dormant hormones.
Yin Weiyue’s gaze involuntarily fell upon his eyes and brows, then slowly moved downward, from the bridge of his nose to his lips, along his resolute jawline, and finally fixed upon that immensely tempting Adam’s apple.
The air was a bit hot; she swallowed her saliva.
Of course, it was impossible for Yin Weiyue to forcefully pull Huo Jun to do anything at this moment. After all, this man was the root of her pain.
Besides, he was too skinny and weak, wasting such tall stature for nothing. Clearly, when she snatched the divorce letter just now, she had really, really, really only used a tiny bit of force. Who could have expected this fragile glass to be as useless as a weak willow in the wind, falling straight toward her?
Although she was hungry, she was still picky about her food.
So she took the initiative to push him away and moved a large step to the side.
Huo Jun felt uncomfortable under that slightly invasive gaze, but perhaps because he truly had no feelings for the original owner, he didn’t even bother to display embarrassment on his face. His expression remained as indifferent as ever as he turned his head slightly and also took a large step back.
“I will not divorce,” Yin Weiyue broke the silence first, getting straight to the point. As she spoke, she casually tore the bloody cloth strip in her hand, together with the two pieces on the table, into shreds.
Looking at the fragments of the divorce letter scattered all over the floor, and hearing the crisp and neat refusal, a streak of impatience finally appeared in Huo Jun’s eyes. “Since you love someone else, why bother entangling with me?”
“Because, playing the cheating wife—” Yin Weiyue glanced at him, her red lips pausing slightly as she said mockingly, “—is quite entertaining.”
Huo Jun: “…”
“Why stay behind then? Throwing yourself at his door to be a concubine for nothing yielded no result. Does the legitimate daughter of the Yin family still want to strip naked and stick herself onto him?” These words were truly malicious; Huo Jun either didn’t speak, or every word he uttered was meant to pierce the heart.
Yin Weiyue frowned slightly. When had she ever tried to throw herself at someone’s door for nothing to be a concubine?
Wait, she hadn’t, but the original owner indeed had, and just moments ago!
Yin Weiyue worriedly recalled the plot; this was truly a long story.
Master Yin Jianzhang and his wife doted on the original owner immensely. Two years ago, as soon as trouble befell the Huo family, he petitioned the Emperor for permission for the original owner to divorce Huo Jun and leave. Hindered by pressure and the balance among the prominent families, the Emperor ultimately agreed, making an exception to permit Yin Weiyue to divorce and leave the residence.
Yet, though the Yin family secretly sent people several times to urge the divorce, the original owner refused to leave no matter what.
For no other reason than being a complete love-brain.
Although the main courtyard of the Marquis Residence and the Third Branch were separated by several courtyards, the house arrest only forbade the Huo family members from leaving the residence; they could still move about freely inside. In order to see Huo Kai, the original owner went to the Third Branch every day to pay respects to the Third Lady. But once divorced, seeing him again would be a pipe dream.
Remaining in the Huo residence, the original owner watched Huo Kai and Zhang Yulin eat and sleep together day after day. Her jealousy grew with each passing day until she could finally endure it no longer. Knowing that Huo Kai would definitely practice boxing in the back garden every afternoon during the申-酉 period (around 3 to 5 PM), she secretly ran to find him.
Discarding all etiquette, teachings, morality, self-respect, and face, she poured out all the admiration hidden in her heart to Huo Kai at once. She even said that her body was still pure and she was willing to yield her body to be his concubine after divorcing.
The result could well be imagined.
Huo Kai was the male lead, and upright values were his basic setup; how could he possibly commit such an improper act? Thus, in front of everyone in the Third Branch, he reprimanded his younger brother’s wife without mercy and ordered his mother—the Third Lady, Lady Chen—to send the original owner back to the First Branch.
Lady Chen originally treated Yin Weiyue quite amiably because Yin Weiyue had a father who was a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, thinking that if something really happened to the Huo family in the future, he certainly wouldn’t stand by with folded arms.
But learning today that the original owner actually harbored such filthy intentions, she was extremely furious. If he took his younger brother’s wife as a concubine during their confinement, even if the Huo family were proven innocent in the end, Huo Kai’s reputation and career path would be completely ruined.
The Third Branch was in the right. Lady Chen, who was naturally protective of her own, scolded the original owner from head to toe, leaving not an ounce of face. Anyway, they were under house arrest now and everyone inside was part of the Huo family, so there was no domestic shame that needed to be kept from outsiders. Instead, it was equivalent to grasping a weakness of the First Branch.
After such a loud fuss made by Lady Chen, it became known to everyone in the Huo family. Only then did everyone find out that the original owner and Huo Jun had not consummated their marriage to this day.
It turned out it wasn’t that Huo Jun was blinded by lust and harassed the original owner, but that the person the original owner loved and plotted against from the very beginning was Huo Kai. It was just that a mishap occurred halfway through and she got the wrong person, so Huo Jun took the blame for it.
The original owner completely lost all face today. After Lady Chen noisily dragged her back, she collapsed on the bed, covered herself with the quilt, and cried bitterly.
When the Grand Dowager learned of this, she was so angry that she slapped the table.
Hearing that his grandmother had been disturbed, Huo Jun, whose temperament was usually indifferent, finally flared up with real anger, leading to the scene of proposing divorce at the beginning.
At that time, the original owner was heartbroken by Huo Kai and signed the divorce letter neatly, so in the book, Huo Jun naturally had no chance to say the words “throw yourself at his door for nothing, strip naked, and stick yourself onto him.”
However, after Yin Weiyue transmigrated, she refused to divorce, which Huo Jun could not tolerate.
She hadn’t expected that this man, who looked as indifferent as a mountain, actually had no shortage of foul words in his belly. Although he was fragile as glass in the early stage without much murderfulness of a big villain, the potential was still there.
The original owner would definitely be overwhelmed with shame upon hearing these words, but Yin Weiyue was not the original owner. She wasn’t the one who did those improper and shameful things, so she had no time to feel embarrassed on someone else’s behalf.
Before the zombie outbreak, Yin Weiyue was only a first-year in high school and knew nothing about love. After the zombie outbreak, her view on love was deeply influenced by her Eldest Sister.
Eldest Sister told her that although love is very important, a person’s life is long. Besides love, there are many other important things.
Such as family affection, friendship, career…
Eldest Sister also said that when two adults decide to love each other, they should be cautious. If they are unhappy after being together due to one reason or another, then they must immediately sever ties, let go, and walk away. After that, pick up their mood and start the next relationship, never clinging to a lover who brings negative energy.
Yin Weiyue was a good student. She did not merely stick to theory on paper, but also seriously summarized her insights from Eldest Sister’s words, which were:
Men in the world are numbered in the millions,
If one isn’t good to us, we just switch for another;
Learn to spot the vile, evil, scum, and mediocre,
Why revolve around just one?
Therefore, she found it very difficult to understand the original owner’s behavior of disregarding everything for the sake of love. Thus, Yin Weiyue stared directly into Huo Jun’s eyes, and finally gave a faint smile, revealing eight bright white teeth.
“Stripping naked and then sticking myself onto him—this idea isn’t bad. Since Husband doesn’t mind a green hat on his head, you should have suggested this to me earlier.”
Yin Weiyue’s voice rang out crisp like a clear spring striking stones. As she spoke, she even used her hand to lightly stroke the stray hairs at her temple. Her eyes held a mixture of casualness, mockery, composure, and indifference, but lacked shame alone.
Huo Jun stared at the face in front of him that was smiling in a somewhat punchable manner, his eyes darkening.
Yin Weiyue naturally stared back without backing down.
Men weren’t the only ones who knew how to make dirty jokes; women did too. Especially on nights in the lonely mountains, Eldest Sister would often bring up her past ex-boyfriends she had broken up with.
She said every love affair of hers had one requisite benefit, which was the intimate bedroom pleasures every night that allowed her to enjoy herself to the fullest.
Bit by bit, from the outside to the inside, she explained the affairs between men and women thoroughly. At first, Yin Weiyue would still blush, but over time she got used to it, and sometimes could even chime in with a line or two.
With zombies outside and trapped in the deep mountains and old forests inside, not even knowing how long they could survive, speaking a few coarse words occasionally to pass the time didn’t seem so uncultured anymore.
However, for Huo Jun, who was familiar with the original owner’s combat ability, this was the first time he was stumped.
He obviously hadn’t expected Yin Weiyue to say such shameless words. Today’s Lady Yin was far too different from before. A few cracks finally appeared on his usually calm and rippleless face, whether out of embarrassment or anger.
He merely assumed she had changed her nature after being rejected by Huo Kai. After a long silence, he choked out a single sentence: “Since you refuse a divorce by mutual agreement, then accept a letter of repudiation!”
Oho, quite the hard backbone.
Yin Weiyue shrugged her shoulders: “Doesn’t matter, as long as you think this letter of repudiation works on me.”