Yun Zhi turned her head, meeting her husband's pitch-black pupils. They were not as gentle as usual.
Instead, they were cold, sharp, as if suppressing some dark emotion, ready to devour her in the next moment.
He had appeared there silently, without a sound.
"Wife, tell me, what did you see?" The husband's handsome face was expressionless.
Under the incandescent lamp, his face showed a pallid, bloodless white.
Even up close, Yun Zhi couldn't feel his body heat, making him seem like a real corpse.
Yun Zhi could swear that even when her real husband, Xie Huaijin, died, his corpse wasn't this pale.
【Almost forgot, it's time for the eerie husband to come home from work】
【Scared the hell out of me, first time I think a handsome guy's face isn't that worth looking at】
【Back off, back off, back off, back off, is the streamer about to break some taboo】
【No way, my favorite streamer, please don't die】
Having watched her stream for days, and since she was a real person, the bullet comments didn't want to see Yun Zhi get killed right before their eyes either.
But there was nothing they could do outside the screen, so they could only wait for the streamer to act.
Yun Zhi wasn't as scared as the bullet comments imagined.
Hilarious, it was this very same deadpan face of Xie Huaijin that she had personally carried into the funeral home back then.
"Husband, I didn't see anything." She looked at her husband obediently, as if completely unaware of his current abnormal state.
The key point was that Yun Zhi wasn't lying. She really hadn't had time to see what was inside.
Seeing that he didn't say whether he believed her or not, Yun Zhi continued to explain: "I was just cleaning the study and accidentally bumped it open from inside."
"Husband, is there something inside?" Finally, she blinked innocently.
The husband's cold, large palm tightly gripped the back of Yun Zhi's head. At that moment, the corner of his mouth curled upward: "Wife, do you want to see?"
His tone carried a hint of coaxing.
Yun Zhi's expression was innocent and naive. She shook her head: "No, I don't want to see. Husband, you must have your reasons for hiding this place. I don't want to know what's inside at all."
That dead man, he blocked her head so tightly—wasn't that just because he didn't want her to look? What was he pretending for?
In her heart, she thought this, but on the surface, Yun Zhi acted like she fully believed in her eerie husband.
She firmly remembered the true essence of a happy housewife: love her husband~
The husband seemed not to have expected her to say that. His gaze fixed on her as he observed her expression, finally showing a satisfied smile.
"Good girl." The husband leaned down and, as a reward, kissed her on the lips.
Just as Yun Zhi thought this matter would be brushed off, the bookshelf slowly closed. In the movement, a letter drifted down from the top of the bookshelf, landing between the person and the ghoul.
Then it floated down to their feet.
Although they didn't know what was written on the letter, the fact that it was hidden in such a secluded place meant it was definitely not simple.
Somehow, Yun Zhi had a bad feeling about this.
She reacted almost immediately, bending down to pick it up, but the moment she bent over, a long, bloodless, pale hand cut past hers, grabbing the letter first.
"Did my wife drop something? Let me see what it is." The eerie husband's voice sounded faintly by Yun Zhi's ear.
He picked up the letter to examine it. At the same time, Yun Zhi also saw its contents.
Almost instantly, Yun Zhi felt her mental state shatter.
【Dear Zhi Zhi
After meeting you, I realized that there actually exists such a beautiful and kind woman in this world.
I can see your unhappiness. It's because you didn't know who you were dealing with, ending up with that kind of man.
I've heard about your situation and feel sad for you. If you're willing, I can take you away.
The one who truly loves you】
"The one who truly loves you?" The eerie husband repeated the contents of the letter slowly, his cold tone dripping with danger. "Tell me, wife, who is the one who truly loves you, hmm?"
【Holy crap, what's the difference between this and being caught cheating on the spot?】
【Shocking, so she's a housewife who can't stand loneliness?】
【I want to call for help for the streamer; how could it be so coincidental? Now her loving-husband persona is completely shattered】
【Who can save my streamer? She looks like she's about to break】
Yun Zhi felt she wasn't about to break—she was already kind of dead.
Who would have thought that "she" really did cheat?
In her mind, the man who kept knocking on the door on the second day after entering the instance appeared.
Yun Zhi had thought it was just a trap to lure her out and break a taboo. Turned out it was "her" real lover.
Yun Zhi kind of wanted to curse this instance for being so tricky. She had been diligently playing the role of a husband-loving housewife these days, and now it screws her over like this?
But her eerie husband kept staring at her with those dark, dangerous eyes, as if he would swallow her whole if she answered wrong.
Yun Zhi immediately hugged his waist: "Husband, the one who loves me the most is definitely you!"
"Then what about this letter?"
"This must be from some shameless suitor of mine!" Yun Zhi said righteously, "After all, for someone as beautiful as me, having suitors is normal, right?"
The eerie husband smiled: "Hmm?"
Yun Zhi smiled obediently and ingratiatingly at him: "Of course, with you as my husband, I definitely wouldn't care about those men. And for them to be so shameless as to write me a love letter, trying to destroy our family, it's simply unforgivable. Don't you think so, husband?"
"Then what about the contents?" The eerie husband raised an eyebrow.
Enough, hasn't this gone on long enough!
Yun Zhi was practically cursing in her heart, but she still lifted her little face to look at the eerie husband with focus and sincerity, acting like she was madly in love with him as she explained: "It's all nonsense. What 'I'm not happy'? I am clearly the happiest woman."
Fortunately, the eerie husband had the exact same handsome face as Xie Huaijin; otherwise, she really might not have been able to act so naturally.
The eerie husband just lowered his eyes, one hand stroking Yun Zhi's face as she spoke, but he remained silent for a long time, not responding.
Yun Zhi blinked twice again, looking innocent and pitiful.
The eerie husband slowly caressed behind her ear: "Wife, of course I believe you. So you must never disappoint me."
"Don't try to leave me, okay?"
The icy coldness of his hand sent shivers through Yun Zhi's skin.
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