Saving the Heartthrob Frenemy-Chapter 456: Cross dressing bride

He had drifted off to sleep his body pressed against his wife’s body. Qie Xieling wanted to relax into Luo Muchen’s warm embrace but he couldn’t. He tried his best to stay up and not fall asleep. He even seeked advice from Jolie to keep him wide awake.

Jolie was quick to infiltrate Prodigy’s system and found him a catalogue of movies to watch. They all had interesting plots that would keep a person awake but Qie Xieling had seriously underestimated how exhausted he was. After watching for thirty minutes he passed out.

What he didn’t realise was that an entire group of women were outside their window eavesdropping on them. They even poked holes so they could see through but they barely saw anything. If it weren’t for Bo Ailun chasing them away they would have continued peering their eyes through the hole and risked losing their eyes from Luo Muchen stabbing his blade through those holes.

After chasing them all away like chickens he took a stool and sat down before stuffing cotton balls in his ear. From where he was sitting he could still hear faint sounds but it was barely audible. He just couldn’t believe the young master actually married this ratchet woman who dared to flirt with her lover on her way to her wedding. Even worse the young master consummated their marriage. It was simply unbelievable.

It made him wonder if the young master had met her before and had fallen in love with her. That was the only thing that would make it make sense. He sighed deeply trying to get the young master’s affairs out of his mind.

***

Qie Xieling was having the most restful sleep of his life when Jolie started yelling in his mind trying to wake him up.

He was too exhausted after having not rested well ever since he stepped foot into this world. To make matters worse the bed was so comfortable that he slept like a log.

’Lin Lin! Wake up you idiot,’ said Jolie but he mumbled incoherently in his sleep refusing to wake up.

Jolie knew that if Luo Muchen woke up before Qie Xieling then all hell would break loose. She was very persistent, her voice echoing within his consciousness. ’Do you want Luo Muchen to find out that he married a cross-dressing bride with a third leg the moment he wakes up?"

That was enough to scare Qie Xieling to wake up. His eyelids fluttered, and he sat up in bed, rubbing his eyes groggily. As he glanced down he found that his veil now lay discarded on the floor. Confusion filled his mind, but before he could fully comprehend the situation, his attention was drawn to Luo Muchen, still asleep beside him.

To his dismay, he noticed that Luo Muchen’s hand had found its way to his groin, as though searching for something. Panic surged within him, fearing that his secret would be exposed right then and there. He imagined Luo Muchen waking up while stroking his member up and down. Wouldn’t that be an interesting sight to see? Acting swiftly, he carefully pulled Luo Muchen’s hand away, his heart pounding in his chest.

With a deep sigh, Qie Xieling walked away from the bed and asked Jolie in his mind, ’Shit what am I going to do now?’

’I thought you had a plan last night. You had an entire night to sleep on it... So wait, last night you went to tie Bi Yu on a scratching pole but you didn’t have a plan?’ asked Jolie.

’I was going with the floor plus she pissed me off. I couldn’t control myself... should I go and untie her before anyone finds her?’

Jolie who very much enjoyed watching drama said,

’Nah, it’s too late when it clearly wasn’t. My advice is that you should appeal to his better nature. Serve your husband like most wives in this era. Prepare his water for bathing, cook him breakfast or strip naked and slip in between the sheets to divert his attention.’

Qie Xieling, ’...’

The first two advices seemed realistic though he couldn’t cook. The last one though would act like a catalyst and get him chopped down faster.

He surveyed the room and found the trunk filled with garments from the dowry. He opened it but as expected it was full of women’s clothes.

Reluctantly, he resigned himself to the unfortunate reality. He had no other option but to put the clothes on. He adjusted to the unfamiliar garments which he wasn’t wearing properly.

’What do I do now?’ he asked and Jolie was more than eager to make Qie Xieling into the perfect wife.

’Your husband rarely has servants around him so what if you prepare warm water for him to wash his face in the morning,’ she said as Qie Xieling opened the bedroom door. Its soft creak caused Luo Muchen to look up but the wine and the activities last night tired him out and he quickly fell back on the bed but he wasn’t asleep.

A few steps Qie Xieling saw a young girl about the age of fifteen standing nearby. She waved frantically and he knew that must have been Jolie. The girl looked dishevelled like she had been through something traumatic.

"What happened to you?" he whispered checking the young girl from head to toe. She was covered in dirt and there was blood seeping through her clothes at the elbows and knees and there was a gush on her forehead.

"She saw something she shouldn’t have and someone pushed her off the cliff," explained Jolie.

"Do you need to see a doctor maybe?" he asked seeming very concerned. He couldn’t even fathom the ordeal the young girl went through.

"Nah, I healed her but I need a change of clothes and need to wash the blood off of me," she said as she walked towards the outside kitchen to get some hot water.

When they arrived at the kitchen the fire was already burning and there was a massive pot of water. Qie Xieling poured out some for Jolie and she carried her small bucket to who knows where. He didn’t bother asking because Jolie was more aware of the layout of this mansion than himself.