When the butler came back, he ran into Qu Jiahan who was rushing out the door in panic, while over by the dining table next to the French windows, Ning Sui was calmly holding his knife and fork, elegantly eating dinner.
The butler looked at Ning Sui in utter shock.
That Miss Qu wasn’t the type to back down easily, so how did she just leave like that?
Ning Sui wore an innocent expression, composedly greeting him:
“Uncle Butler, could you get me that Miss Qu’s information?”
Qu Jiahan didn’t look like someone who would give up so easily. If he could get the “love rival’s” details in advance, he could prepare accordingly.
The butler froze for a moment, then said: “Alright, I’ll have the assistant deliver it to you tomorrow.”
Originally, he thought this young madam was unwilling and resentful about marrying into the family. After all, who would willingly marry a man in a vegetative state?
But now it doesn’t look like that at all.
He seemed to care a great deal about the young master. Not only did he take the initiative to read books to him and help him bathe, but he was also openly hostile toward Miss Qu who might take the young master away…
But wasn’t this “caring” a bit too much?
He even got so furious that he crushed a glass in his hand!
Carrying the vacuum cleaner to sweep the broken porcelain shards from under the sofa, the butler couldn’t help but shiver.
After finishing his dinner, Ning Sui went upstairs with two professional books in his hands and walked into Ji Yucheng’s room.
The moment he entered, 009 grew uneasy.
He didn’t know why, but whenever he faced Ji Yucheng’s little spouse, he always felt a kind of suppression, a crushing weight that forced him to bow and crawl, unable to even stand upright.
And the longer the contact, the stronger that suffocating feeling became. By all logic, a system and a human were completely different species.
As a defective product, he might be suppressed by a flawless, superior system, but there was no reason whatsoever to feel suffocated in front of a mere human!
After thinking it over and still finding no explanation, 009 could only conclude that this little spouse of Ji Yucheng’s must be a pervert!
“He clearly has his own study provided by the old master, yet he insists on coming into your room to read! Is he here to read books, or to look at you?!”
Ji Yucheng also heard the door open and Ning Sui’s footsteps entering.
For 009’s endless chatter, he felt a bit irritated: “My bedroom has a desk as well, with better lighting. Stop casually speculating about my wife’s thoughts.”
Sure enough, Ning Sui sat down at the desk not far away, opened his book, picked up his pen, and began to prepare next week’s lessons.
The distance reduced the oppressive feeling, and 009 finally exhaled in relief.
But after only a few minutes, Ning Sui suddenly lifted his head and looked toward Ji Yucheng lying on the bed.
009: “…” Not good.
After a moment’s thought, Ning Sui carried his book over to his comatose husband’s side, lifted the quilt, and climbed into the bed.
Carefully, without pressing down on him, he bent one leg, while his other leg gently pressed against Ji Yucheng’s thigh.
After doing this, he took Ji Yucheng’s hand and tucked it into his own embrace, only then satisfied enough to continue reading.
009: “…I knew it! I said he wouldn’t be able to resist ending up in your bed!”
“If you keep talking, I’ll mute you.” Ji Yucheng snapped in both anger and embarrassment.
“What my wife wants to do to me, is it any of your business?”
The burning heat radiating from the body beside him made his heartbeat, which had just calmed down, start pounding wildly again.
What was with this little spouse? Did he really not want to be apart from him even for a moment?
Even studying had to be done clinging tightly to his side…
Wasn’t this being overly clingy?
Ning Sui’s eyes were on the book, but in reality his mind was elsewhere.
Before marrying Ji Yucheng, during that whole period, he had been terrified something would go wrong.
Someone would ruin his plans, so he had kept up the act of being downcast and depressed.
After the wedding, he finally let out a long sigh of relief. What he wanted was finally in his hands. There was no longer any need to pretend.
But today, Qu Jiahan’s appearance had sounded an alarm in his heart.
Even if his husband was in a vegetative state, he was still very desirable!
What if, in a year or two, Old Master Ji realized the whole “marriage to dispel bad luck” thing was nonsense that even though his birth chart matched, there was no sign of Ji Yucheng waking up? Wouldn’t he then toss Ning Sui aside?
Aside from that, Ning Sui had another fear.
His gaze lingered on his husband’s closed eyes and stunningly handsome face:
“If you ever wake up, you’ll definitely ask for a divorce, won’t you? And after the divorce, you’ll probably go and marry Miss Qu instead.”
If that happened, wouldn’t all his efforts be wasted? He might as well have taken Qu Jiahan’s money instead!
At the thought, Ning Sui tightened his grip on Ji Yucheng’s hand, his warm palm pressing harder, clinging with a suffocating intensity.
He had to earn enough before his husband woke up!
Listening to all of this, Ji Yucheng suddenly recalled the very first time Ning Sui came to his bedside, when he had whispered
Don’t wake up too soon, okay…
At the time, Ji Yucheng had thought it was some vicious curse. But now, all of a sudden, he realized what it actually meant.
So his little spouse was afraid that once he woke up, he wouldn’t want him anymore?
A strange, indescribable feeling welled up in Ji Yucheng’s heart.
Before this, he had indeed planned that if he ever woke up one day, he would immediately divorce Ning Sui.
After all, this marriage was forced on him, without his consent.
And what he hated most was being manipulated by others.
But now, seeing those ten fingers desperately interlaced with his own, as though tomorrow was the end of the world and they were about to be torn apart…
Even though he couldn’t see his little spouse’s expression, Ji Yucheng could still feel the suffocatingly heavy possessiveness pouring off him.
For the first time, his resolve began to waver.
If they really divorced, Ning Sui would definitely cry.
He had been an orphan since childhood, with an extreme lack of security.
After finally gaining a husband and working so hard to drive away his rivals, his husband would wake up only to divorce him.
…Then he might as well not divorce at all.
Young Master Ji clenched his teeth as he thought. Feelings could be cultivated. As a man, even if he had to endure humiliation and bear the weight, he should still take responsibility for his little spouse.
……….
Completely unaware of what ridiculous thoughts his comatose husband was entertaining, Ning Sui suddenly thought of another problem.
He had to attend classes during the day, only at home in the evenings and weekends. What if Qu Jiahán had been scared off this time, but next time she snuck over while he was gone to “raid the tower”?
His eyes fell on his husband’s pale wrist, and Ning Sui pondered for a moment.
Then, he slipped off the red cord bracelet from his own wrist and carefully tied it onto Ji Yucheng’s.
Qu Jiahan had probably seen him wearing this bracelet earlier, so she would know it was his.
In the future, if she came to secretly visit Ji Yucheng while he wasn’t home, and saw the bracelet tied around Ji Yucheng’s wrist, she would at least hesitate.
The bright red string stood out strikingly against Ji Yucheng’s skin, pale as porcelain from years of no sunlight.
009 shivered. “Th-this… this is like leaving his own mark on you!”
“…Distorted love often produces sick, twisted psychology. Once a person like this develops an obsession with someone, they’ll stop at nothing to possess them, including leaving their scent and their marks on that person’s body. Ning Sui fits every single one of these signs!”
Recently, being touched every day, his body really was covered with Ning Sui’s scent.
Ji Yucheng inhaled the faint herbal fragrance lingering on Ning Sui’s body, exactly the same as on his own and for some reason, he suddenly felt a little shy.
He had never imagined what kind of person his future other half would be. Who would have thought it would turn out to be such a little thing, jealous, shockingly possessive, and clingy.
After tying the bracelet on, Ning Sui hopped off the bed and opened the wardrobe.
Ji Yucheng could hear the noise but couldn’t tell what he was doing, so he couldn’t help but ask: “What is he doing?”
“He’s… he’s putting your suit jackets one by one over his own shirts.”
009 was so frightened his teeth were chattering as he stammered: “Your little spouse has gone even crazier! Before, he only wanted constant physical contact with you, but now he even wants to wear your scent on himself! Could it be that Miss Qu triggered him into this state?!”
“…”
Ji Yucheng was silent for a moment.
Then suddenly, his face burned scarlet.
009: “…” Master! Please wake up!
Previously, Ning Sui had neatly put away all of his own clothes into the empty wardrobe. Now, one by one, he pulled them out and stuffed them inside Ji Yucheng’s large coats and suit jackets.
During the day, when he couldn’t have physical contact, scent contact would still earn him a little money.
Even a mosquito’s leg was still meat, after all.
Ning Sui was terrified that someday Old Master Ji would kick him out of the house or that Ji Yucheng would wake up and divorce him, so he had to make some profits in advance while he still could.
After finishing, he glanced at the slight increase in his experience points and smiled in delight.
009: “…”
That smile, paired with him casually licking the knife and fork like he was eating a bloody steak, made it impossible not to think of the obsessive maniacs in TV dramas.
Even though Ning Sui hadn’t said a word, 009 had already mentally filled in his lines: “You’ve always been mine, only mine.”
009 trembled all over, steam nearly coming out of his head, and finally just ran away.
Ji Yucheng: “…”
Look at this coward.
Ning Sui was just a little insecure, that’s all.
Where was the “perversion” in that? Clearly, it was very cute.
…
Meanwhile, the car that Ning’s mother had sent over was rejected and returned.
She had gone through the trouble of registering it under Ning Sui’s name, but when she called, Ning Sui directly refused to accept it.
Finally, she realized something was wrong.
After questioning the driver when she got home, she learned that before the car was even delivered to Ning Sui, it had already been taken out for a joyride by Ning Yuanming’s friend!
If it had been in the past, Ning’s mother wouldn’t have thought anything of it.
After all, Ning Yuanming had been the one she spoiled for twenty-one years. Anything good that came into the house always went to Ning Yuanming first.
But this time was different. This car was meant as compensation, to make up for the fact that Ning Sui had married that man in a vegetative state in his younger brother’s place!
And the gift, before even reaching him, had already been used by someone else? Who could possibly be happy with that?
“How could Xiaoming be so thoughtless?”
Ning’s mother couldn’t help blaming him, but the matter had already happened. Complaining was useless, and she didn’t confront Ning Yuanming over it either.
After all, he was sensitive by nature and tended to overthink things.
Still, unease gnawed at her heart. Ning Sui hadn’t been home for over half a month now. Not only had he not come back, but he hadn’t even called once.
This had never happened before, and it made her increasingly uneasy.
Unable to discuss it with Ning Yuanming, when her eldest son returned, she brought it up with him.
Inside the study….
Ning Chen’s face was full of shock. “He refused it?”
That car was worth several million. Mother had really bled herself dry for this, she even let him take some of her private savings to cover part of the cost.
Driving it to school would have made him look impressive in front of classmates, and even if he didn’t like it, he could’ve pawned it for three million.
And yet Ning Sui actually turned it down?
Ning Chen frowned deeply. “Could it be that he doesn’t know how much the car is worth?”
Ning’s mother scolded, frowning: “How can you say that about your brother? Three years ago, when he first came to the city, he might not have known the brand, but by now, he’s completely changed.”
“Then it really doesn’t make sense.”
Ning’s mother sat heavily onto the sofa, anxious. “He must still be angry, very angry that we married him off to the Ji family for profit, angry that we sacrificed him for Xiaoming’s sake.”
Of course, being angry was natural.
But to cut ties with the Ning family just out of anger? That was simply foolish, wasn’t it?
If he maintained a good relationship with the Ning family, then in the future he could inherit part of the Ning estate.
Even though his identity hadn’t been fully made public for Ning Yuanming’s sake, they had already registered him legally the day they found him.
Ning Sui would be entitled to a share.
Yet now, staying in the Ji family, with a husband who was a vegetable, he had no support at all.
He himself was from an orphanage, with no background whatsoever.
Without the Ning family, what could he possibly rely on for the rest of his life?
And yet he chose this moment to stay angry for so long?
“Does he think three million isn’t enough?” Ning Chen asked.
There was no way Ning Sui didn’t need money.
In this circle, money was everything. Even if he had married into the Ji family, Ji Yucheng wasn’t going to speak up for him. He must’ve suffered plenty of ridicule.
If he wanted to gain a foothold in this world, he needed the ability to spend lavishly.
Ning’s mother was so angry at her businesslike eldest son that her chest hurt. “Don’t always talk about money, money, money! Ning Sui is just angry we’ve ignored him, so he’s throwing a tantrum.”
Ning Chen asked helplessly: “Then what do you want to do? We already sent him the car as a way out. If he won’t take it, what else can I do?”
Ning’s mother recalled how, when Ning Sui had first returned, he had always been so attentive.
One winter, he even knitted her a scarf by hand. Among her three sons, only he had cared about her blood pressure, often taking her for check-ups
How could she believe that her own flesh and blood son had truly cut her off completely?
She rubbed her aching temples, then suddenly thought of an idea.
“Hurry and arrange for me to be admitted to the hospital! Then call Ning Sui, tell him I’m gravely ill.”
Ning Chen rubbed his temples in exasperation. “Mother, it’s midnight right now…”
She refused to back down. “Then call him tomorrow! No matter what, we must make him come!”
If Ning Sui heard she was sick, surely he wouldn’t refuse to come.
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ChaptersChapter 1 · The WeddingChapter 2 · New Target!Chapter 3 · Moved OnChapter 4 · Personal Information of Ji YuchengChapter 5 · Liked Ji Yucheng for 3 Years?!Chapter 6 · Love Rival?!Chapter 7 · Domineering PossessivenessChapter 8 · Obviously Very CuteChapter 9 Part 1 · Can’t be SeperatedChapter 9 Part 2 · Can’t be SeperatedChapter 10 · A blonde Guy…Chapter 11 · Dangerously Close to love?Chapter 12 · Confrontation with Ji ZhilinChapter 13 · Accidental DiscoveryChapter 14 · System 009 upgradedChapter 15 · Battery charging!Chapter 16 · Young Master was MiserableChapter 17 · Did Ning Sui treat you like this before?Chapter 18 · Was this what happened last night before you went to bed?Chapter 19 · He really got to the bottom of thisChapter 20 Part 1 · Don’t look at him, he was shocked too!Chapter 20 Part 2 · Don’t look at him, he was shocked too!Chapter 21 · Because I like it so muchChapter 22 Part 1 · Pull up your pantsChapter 22 Part 2 · Pull up your pantsChapter 23 · Why does it sound like he’s jealousChapter 24 Part 1 · I will protect himChapter 24 Part 2 · I will protect himChapter 25 · He’s quite gentleChapter 26 · Young Master Ji suddenly started to stutterChapter 27 · Ning Sui’s timeChapter 28 Part 1 · They ran away as soon as they were scaredChapter 28 Part 2 · They ran away as soon as they were scaredChapter 29 Part 1 · Are you looking for death?Chapter 29 Part 2 · Are you looking for death?Chapter 30 · Hurry up and say your last wordsChapter 31 · Ji Yucheng collapsed into his armsChapter 32 · Mr. Ji, I never expected you to be such a good person.Chapter 33 · He’s so well-behaved when He sleeps…Chapter 34 · His expression was incredibly varied in an instantChapter 35 · How could it be Ning Sui?Chapter 36 · Does the young wife only like people in a vegetative state?Chapter 37 · State-based controlChapter 38 · The young master was so happy he dropped his phoneChapter 39 · You were 37 minutes lateChapter 40 · I don’t plan to get a divorce.Chapter 41 · Otherwise, would it be your turn?Chapter 42 · Both perverted and cuteChapter 43 · If they sneak away again, I’ll hold them even tighterChapter 44 · I sprained my ankle tooChapter 45 · A cat jumping on a lion’s head to play with fire.Chapter 46 · Your young master has fainted!Chapter 47 · Sui Sui, come downChapter 48 · Are you going to lock me in there?Chapter 49 Part 1 · I love you, Ning SuiChapter 49 Part 2 · I love you, Ning SuiChapter 50 · Give the snowman a heartChapter 51 · Miss you.Chapter 52 · To hold in one’s mouthChapter 53 · You are in the cloudsChapter 54 · Ning Sui hugged him for the first timeChapter 55 · Can you sit on my lap?Chapter 56 · It’s either you or it’s not.Chapter 57 · From this moment on, I am your vegetableChapter 58 · Young Ji YuchengChapter 59 · They kiss tirelessly.Chapter 60 · RipplingChapter 61 · You want to compare this?!Chapter 62 · It’s 001!Chapter 63 · I like everything about it.Chapter 64 · It seems to have been filled up a little more.Chapter 65 · Wedding rings should be exchanged between the couple.Chapter 66 · Love-struckChapter 67 · Why can’t we even be apart for a day?Chapter 68 · PerfectChapter 69 · A lifelong contract was madeChapter 70 · Extra 1Chapter 71 · Extra 2Chapter 72 · Extra 3Chapter 73 · Extra 4Chapter 74 · Extra 5Chapter 75 · Extra 6Chapter 76 · Extra 7Chapter 77 · Extra 8Chapter 78 · Extra 9Chapter 79 · Extra 10Chapter 80 · Extra 11Chapter 81 · Extra 12Chapter 82 · Extra 13Chapter 83 · Extra 14