The next morning, Li Si woke up to find herself lying in her own large bed.
Recalling what happened last night—she and Lu Wenxi had bathed together, he had bitten her ear, and then she had fainted.
She had no memory of what happened after that.
[Ahhh, I can’t look at the Male Lead the same way anymore. What did he do to the female supporting character?!]
[Why is there censoring? If it were just the private parts being blurred, fine, but what’s with the mosaic covering the entire screen?!]
[He must have done something that can’t be shown to people!]
[And the sounds he made last night, those little moans were so seductive, I got a nosebleed just listening!]
[Darn it, I already took my pants off and all they show me is a mosaic!]
The bullet chat grumbled and cursed, and even after watching to the end, Li Si still didn’t know what exactly had happened between them.
But her body felt fine, so it seemed Lu Wenxi hadn’t done anything to her that would have made the bullet chat lose their minds.
It was precisely because Lu Wenxi did nothing to her that she felt even more anxious, always afraid of being abandoned by him.
She rubbed her eyes and sat up, then turned her head to find Lu Wenxi sitting at the edge of the bed, watching her—she didn’t know how long he’d been watching.
“Wenxi?”
When Li Si saw his face, she remembered what happened last night and still felt shy, blushing as she looked away, not daring to meet his eyes.
Only then did she notice that a shackle had been fastened around her ankle, the other end of the golden chain locked to the foot of the bed.
When her foot moved, it made the clattering sound of metal colliding.
The chain was long enough to let her move freely around the room, and the ring around her ankle was made of leather, soft enough that it wouldn’t chafe her skin.
“Wenxi, what is this?”
“Who told you not to listen to me and run around everywhere? I had no choice. It’s all to protect you. The outside is full of viruses, so just stay home obediently.”
There was a kind of crazed obsession in Lu Wenxi’s eyes.
Locking her up at home was already the lightest punishment.
After Li Si fainted last night, he hadn’t touched her. He simply finished bathing her, dried her off, dressed her, and carried her back to bed.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to do anything—it was that he knew her body couldn’t handle it.
He had been truly angry yesterday, thinking he might as well throw away all reservations and just make her his own, but at the last moment, he softened.
If he accidentally killed her, how was he supposed to live the rest of his days?
Of course, saying he did nothing at all wasn’t quite accurate either—he touched a little, rubbed a little, just to satisfy his craving.
Living day and night alongside such a beauty he could only look at but not touch, Lu Wenxi was already showing remarkable restraint.
But the anger in his heart still hadn’t faded.
Might as well lock her up!
That way, he wouldn’t have to worry about her sneaking out again in the future.
[Hahaha, the female supporting character got locked up. She can’t even go outside anymore.]
[Is the Male Lead a yandere? Locking her in a dark room at the slightest disagreement?]
[Whose fault is it for secretly following the Male Lead?]
[She brought it on herself!]
The bullet chat began gloating again, but Li Si didn’t feel scared about being locked up.
She had never wanted to go out in the first place and had no social needs. If it weren’t for the fear of Lu Wenxi being stolen away by someone else, she wouldn’t go out at all!
But the thought that Lu Wenxi would soon become classmates with the Female Lead—something she had no way of stopping, and the two would inevitably cross paths sooner or later— made her a little dejected.
To Lu Wenxi, this reaction looked just like someone unwilling to be locked up.
“Why aren’t you talking? Are you throwing a tantrum?”
Li Si shook her head. “No, as long as you’re not mad at me, it doesn’t matter how long I stay locked up.”
“That’s more like it. Be a good girl and listen to me from now on!”
As usual, Lu Wenxi washed Li Si’s face, brushed her teeth, and did her hair and makeup.
He picked a red silk dress from the wardrobe, with a deep V backless design.
The vivid red formed a striking contrast with her snow-white, flawless skin, and the silk fabric outlined her curvaceous figure—very alluring.
Lu Wenxi loved dressing her up, like a child playing dress-up with a doll—except his doll was a real person, more exquisite and beautiful than any doll.
To put it bluntly, dressing her up was for his own enjoyment. No one else could dream of ever laying eyes on her.
He also pinned a red rose hairpin in her hair, just above her ear.
The fresh, dewy flower actually looked somewhat dull in comparison to her beauty.
“So beautiful.”
Pleased with today’s look, Lu Wenxi brought the meal into the room and had her sit on his lap while he fed her.
The young master of the prestigious Lu Group was waiting on her hand and foot like a nanny.
This was Lu Wenxi’s pleasure—he loved doing it.
As reluctant as he was to leave her, he still had to go to school for classes.
The moment Lu Wenxi arrived at school, the three of them dragged him into the lounge and surrounded him for interrogation.
Si Yueying asked, “Wenxi, don’t you have anything you’d like to explain to us?”
Lu Wenxi acted as if nothing had happened, countering, “Explain what?”
“That stray cat of yours!”
Shen Xingye, a blunt sort of person, got straight to the point: “The girl yesterday was that stray cat you mentioned, wasn’t she? You’ve really got some nerve, hiding this from us for so long!”
Lu Wenxi made excuses. “Oh, I only called her a stray cat as a figure of speech. Who knew you’d actually think she was a cat?”
“Well, now we know she isn’t. Why not bring her along and introduce her to us?”
“She’s very frail. When I found her, she was nearly dead, and she still hasn’t fully recovered. It’s not convenient for her to go out.”
Lu Wenxi had absolutely no intention of bringing her to school or introducing her to them.
This really annoyed Shen Xingye, who snapped, “Do you have to be so stingy? She’s just a woman—do you really need to hide her at home like some treasure?”
Tang Yi stepped in to smooth things over. “Come on, Wenxi has his own reasons. Let’s not push him.”
But while he said this, his eyes were full of scheming.
Somehow, word of this reached Lu Wenxi’s older brother—the eldest young master of the Lu Family, Lu Zhiyan.
The story was that his younger brother was hiding a vixen at home, a woman who had him so bewitched that he was constantly skipping classes and neglecting his studies.
He called the school and learned that Lu Wenxi had a record of skipped classes over the past several months.
Lu Zhiyan certainly couldn’t tolerate this. He immediately dropped what he was doing and headed for the villa where Lu Wenxi lived.
It was already afternoon. Seeing that the time was right, Li Si pulled her old trick again, asking the housekeeper to call Lu Wenxi for her.
But she was locked in and couldn’t leave the room, so she could only shout toward the door: “Housekeeper, I’m feeling a bit unwell. Could you call Wenxi for me again?”
Lu Zhiyan caught her red-handed the moment he walked in.
So that’s how that woman bewitched his younger brother?!
He silenced the butler and strode toward the master bedroom, his face livid with rage.