Mei felt an unspeakable fear. She realized she didn’t understand this man at all. When he previously acted as her husband, he was reticent, yet polite and gentle towards her, leading her to believe that he was a good-tempered person.

Now, she discovered how wrong she was. He had merely masked his bloodthirsty nature, which was more frightening than those murder-ridden patrol teams she had seen.

Yet, amidst the fear, she mustered the courage to desperately cling to something.

"If you don’t agree to me, your woman will never leave Su City."

Her voice trembled as she forcefully threatened.

"I’ve already notified my cousin in the patrol team. They will hold onto their applications tomorrow and prevent them from leaving the city. Even by just denouncing her as a spy, she will be shot immediately."

As her words fell, Third Young Master Jun’s eyes, like a cold abyss, became permeated with the frost of a thousand years.

"You dare—"

An extreme, chilling bloodlust bubbled in his eyes like boiling rapids, with boundless murderous intent surging out from a seemingly calm surface, making one’s heart tremble and shudder with fear.

Mei felt her almost-crushed jaw being released, yet she didn’t have time to breathe a sigh of relief.

In the next second, she was horrified to realize his chilling fingers were tightly clenching her throat.

"Ah..." She let out a terrified scream, feeling as if her windpipe were nearly crushed, struggling to breathe desperately, but unable to escape from his grasp, filled with immense strength.

"Let... let me go, it hurts..." Her intermittent, difficult wails were filled with agony, and in her eyes lay utter disbelief.

How could he be so cruel and terrifying? She had lived with him for so many days, he was always so gentle to her, never losing his temper or raising his voice, like a kind and steady good man, filling her with fantasies.

But in an instant, now, he showed a horrifying Asura-like demeanor, wanting to kill her without any care for the past, making her feel scared and sorrowful.

Just yesterday, he was gentle and considerate to that woman, with endless tenderness in his eyes, as if he were the gentlest man in the world.

Yet all his gentleness was given to that woman, while in front of her, he was a devil.

"I hate most when others endanger me, and even more when they use her to threaten me!"

Third Young Master Jun’s merciless fingers tightened inch by inch, his face expressionless and cold as he stared at her.

"If I kill you now, can you still go and tip them off?"

Mei shivered all over. She saw real murderous intent in his cold, heartless eyes, not a scare tactic, nor a threat.

But a genuine desire to kill her.

"How can you kill me."

"I don’t need any reason to kill you." He had never been softhearted, and wouldn’t hesitate to act because of a few days’ acquaintance. As long as Ye Lu’s existence was threatened, he would be ruthless.

"I... I am your current wife." Mei almost cried out, for this had been the reason giving her illusion.

Third Young Master Jun’s face was covered with a thin layer of frost: "Just because of what you said, you deserve to die ten thousand times. I have only one wife, don’t sully the word."

Mei’s face turned pale, finally understanding that this man had absolutely no feelings for her, and she had to save herself. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

She clenched her teeth: "If you kill me now, you’ll expose your identity, and you won’t be able to escape from here, right?"

Mei wasn’t entirely foolish; she knew his purpose for hiding here and understood that in his moment of peril, this was his Achilles’ heel.

Now she knew even more the significance of that woman to him. In his eyes, nothing could compare to that woman’s life.