Yun Zhi and Xie Huaijin had a marriage that was as fake as it could get.
Xie Huaijin was a rising star in the business world, while Yun Zhi was a Miss Yun who had been taken back home halfway through life. The two were married through an arranged union, having only met once before the wedding.
Originally, Yun Zhi thought that since they were married, she could try to develop feelings after the wedding—after all, Xie Huaijin was handsome.
But who would have known that right after moving into the wedding home, Xie Huaijin insisted on sleeping in separate rooms.
Xie Huaijin was also often away on business trips, appearing and disappearing mysteriously, and the two rarely communicated.
Even when they occasionally sat together for a meal, Xie Huaijin would always stay silent, staring at her with that gloomy look, probably very dissatisfied with this arranged marriage.
At the very least, she was a great beauty, so Yun Zhi wouldn't stoop to chasing after him. She gave up on the idea of becoming a loving couple with him.
But even if they weren't familiar, Yun Zhi could be sure that this "husband" in front of her looked exactly like Xie Huaijin.
Was Xie Huaijin really alive? Or was this an illusion created by the instance based on her memories?
While Yun Zhi was thinking, her husband had already naturally walked into the house, casually closing the door behind him as he walked toward her.
"Wife, what are you thinking about?"
Yun Zhi snapped back to reality and found that her husband had somehow already walked right up to her, bending down to carefully examine her face.
They were very close, the tips of their noses almost touching. It was because of this that Yun Zhi could clearly feel that her husband's breath was ice-cold when he spoke.
As if a certain kind of snake-like creature was staring intently at its prey, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
This distance also allowed Yun Zhi to observe her "husband's" appearance more clearly—deep eyes, a high nose bridge, and a sharp, chiseled silhouette.
Sure enough, every part was no different from Xie Huaijin. The only difference was that this "husband" in front of her had paler skin, an inorganic white like jade, which added a touch of ghoul to Xie Huaijin's handsome face.
"Wife?" He called out softly again.
"Husband!" Yun Zhi decisively pounced into the man's arms.
Whether it was Xie Huaijin or not, for now he was her "husband."
Yun Zhi clearly remembered that when she entered the instance, it had already hinted that she loved her "husband" very much, and her "husband" loved her very much too.
Leaning against her husband's ice-cold chest, Yun Zhi's voice was soft and coaxing: "Husband, you're finally back. I've already prepared dinner—let's go eat together~"
Her husband curled the corners of his mouth, picked her up with one hand, and intimately and naturally kissed the corner of her mouth: "Hard work, wife."
【Huh? Are you two just going to hug and kiss like that? That's a ghoul!】
【She and he are together like this, as if they really have become a couple~】
【Zhi Zhi is really mentally strong. If I knew the person beside me was a man-eating ghoul, I wouldn't dare to kiss no matter how handsome he is.】
【That's not right, shouldn't the husband scare the player a bit, then the player cries bitterly, and the husband has his real dinner? I saw another instance do that.】
【Is it just me who thinks the wife's acting cute is super adorable? I want to hug her too.】
【Why did the one ahead just start calling her wife?】
【Laughing to death. Even the ghoul inside the instance has kissed her, so why can't I call her wife? Go for it, wife! Clear the instance!】
Yun Zhi was also startled by her husband's sudden kiss.
But now she could be sure that the ghoul in front of her was definitely not Xie Huaijin.
After all, Xie Huaijin would only stare at her gloomily without saying a word.
She had never been this close to Xie Huaijin in real life, yet after entering this sinister game, she was already locking lips with him.
If that wasn't a kind of substitute literature, what was?
A few steps later, they reached the dining table, but her husband didn't put Yun Zhi down. Instead, he let her sit naturally on his lap.
Yun Zhi took the opportunity to lean against him: "Husband, look, I prepared all this food with my own hands. What do you think? Aren't I amazing?"
As she said this, Yun Zhi's expression was smug, her beautiful eyes blinking, looking utterly adorable.
Xie Huaijin glanced at the three dishes and one soup on the table, and suddenly furrowed his brow.
【Here it comes, here it comes. I feel like the ghoul's expression is starting to get a bit gloomy.】
【Don't eat my wife! I don't dare to watch!】
【I told you it was stupid to cook for a ghoul. Ghouls only eat human flesh—no amount of pleasing will help. You should just hide.】
【Can anyone save her?】
Amid the tension of the bullet comments, Xie Huaijin finally spoke: "Didn't I tell you, wife? You don't have to cook yourself."
【Huh?】
"Cooking is so much trouble. Didn't I give you the black card, wife? You can have the restaurant deliver meals. Let me see your hands."
Her husband held her hand and lifted it before his eyes, his furrowed brows filled with concern.
"Are your hands hurt?"
【Is this right? This can't be right, can it?】
【?????】
"No." Yun Zhi shook her head obediently. Somehow, she remembered that just after she married Xie Huaijin, she had also cooked once.
At that time, Xie Huaijin had also looked at her with a cold face, though he hadn't said much. Then the next day, an auntie started coming to their house every day to cook.
Yun Zhi had thought at the time that Xie Huaijin disliked her cooking.
Could it be...
Yun Zhi glanced imperceptibly at her husband, who was still carefully checking every corner of her fingers.
"Husband, you said you gave me a black card?" Yun Zhi pulled out the bank card from the Heaven and Earth Bank in her pocket. "Is this what you mean?"
Her husband nodded: "Yes."
But this was clearly the inheritance Xie Huaijin had left for Yun Zhi.
Suddenly thinking of something, Yun Zhi changed the subject and asked him: "Husband, how did we get married?"
"It was love at first sight, of course, and then we went straight to get the marriage certificate. Have you forgotten that too, wife? Don't you love me anymore?" As he said this, her husband's tone suddenly paused.
His tone became somewhat deep and mysterious, and his originally gentle eyes turned investigative and ghoul: "Could it be that you've fallen for someone else?"
"He must have seduced you. Tell me who it is—I'll go kill him..."
At this moment, her husband finally seemed like the twisted, man-eating monster from the instance, rather than an ordinary husband.
Seeing that the topic was suddenly going off track, Yun Zhi quickly hugged him: "How could that be? I only love you, husband."
As she spoke, she proactively leaned in and, imitating his earlier gesture, kissed the corner of his mouth.
【You love your husband very much】, Yun Zhi remembered this firmly and absolutely could not let the ghoul doubt her "love."
But after this little test, Yun Zhi was now certain that her husband in front of her didn't have Xie Huaijin's memories. She just didn't know why he would treat the inheritance Xie Huaijin had left as something he had given.
If it really was Xie Huaijin, how could he have become what he was now?
Hiss, she couldn't figure it out.
Well then, she wouldn't think about it for now.
And after Yun Zhi kissed him, the cold aura around her husband instantly dissipated.
He helped Yun Zhi put the black card she had taken out back into her pocket: "Wife, don't worry about money—spend it freely. Your husband earns money just to give it to you. Have you forgotten the password? It's your birthday."
【I'm crying. Even the ghoul in the instance knows that if you love your wife, you give her money to spend, but some people just don't get it.】
【So what's the use of this ghoul's black card?】
【As far as I know, you need at least one hundred million underworld coins to get a black card from the Heaven and Earth Bank.】
【Whatever it's used for, I'm calling him husband first. That black card looks really sharp!】
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