Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 165 - 166: Reporting to Blade Edge

This time she was too afraid to respond, her fingers nervously clutching the bedding.

Her cowering demeanor made him inexplicably angry: "Speak." It was because it was her; if it were any Blade Group employee, he could fire them in minutes just for this attitude. He had been patient enough with her, why didn’t she appreciate it?

Su Xingyu was about to cry, scared by his fierce expression and managed to hold back. Nodding or shaking her head wouldn’t do; lost and confused, she shrunk at the head of the bed, wishing she could shrink smaller and smaller until she was out of his sight.

He said, "Su Xingyu, I’ll give you three seconds to answer my question. Or else, carry on as this from now on. Three, two..."

She lifted her head with difficulty, a tiny glimmer of hope in her eyes: "If, if I say it’s very difficult, can it change?"

"Tell me."

Then she took a deep breath and gathered her courage: "I don’t want... I don’t want to be behind the curtains at the party, by you, by you like that." Her fingers gripped the bedding even tighter, her joints turning white.

Lu Shifeng raised an eyebrow: "You ran out, just for that thing?"

"Isn’t that thing enough?" Her tears fell again, even though there were many other grievances, but just that one thing was enough to make her collapse, "In front of so many people, I can’t do it! I can’t do it obediently with you... like that, Lu Shifeng, I’m very scared, do you know how scared I am?"

But he said, "It wasn’t in front of so many people." The room was quiet; his indifferent voice echoed in the slightly tobacco-scented air, pointing out the facts, "There was a curtain between us; no one could see what we were doing. Even if I stripped you bare and pinned you against the wall three or four times, no one would come to disturb us."

Three or four times!

Her face turned red instantly, quickly fading to pale, humiliation, anger, and fear... all sorts of emotions chaotically surged forth like a rushing tide. If she hadn’t slapped him and run away, would he have truly stripped her naked like a woman without dignity and made her endure it all?

"You’re not human!" She cursed with all her might, but her voice was as weak as a kitten’s meow.

Lu Shifeng coldly said: "I’m your husband; I want you, is that a problem?"

"No, it’s not like that..." She shook her head violently, tears welling up, "It’s not..."

He was agitated again: "Then what is it? Su Xingyu, if you’re worried about safety, let me assure you there’s nothing to worry about. There were bodyguards secretly following us at the party; when they saw me drag you in, do you think they’d be indiscreet enough to let anyone disturb us?"

Su Xingyu trembled again; so, what happened last night was not unseen!

At least, his bodyguards—all of them, had seen everything!

"You, you are shameless!" She cursed, trembling.

Lu Shifeng’s gaze grew colder: "I don’t like unreasonable women; your concerns are completely redundant, and I’ve explained it very clearly. Su Xingyu, if my orders have issues, I’ll change them, but it’s obvious now you have issues of your own, and you must learn to change. Do you know what wish I made on my birthday? To have a son. I hope you’d better be rational and not pass those emotional genes to our son; he is the future heir of Blade Group, and there’s no need for them."

After saying that, he stood up: "Now, get dressed and come back with me. I’ll wait for you outside for three minutes; if you don’t come out, I’ll make sure the photography industry forgets Ling Weilong ever existed."

"You!!"

The door to the guest room slammed shut, leaving her pale and collapsed on the bed, unable to stop shaking.

She... 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

What kind of man did she marry...

What kind of devil?

She kept shaking, not knowing how she managed to get dressed and out of bed, her ankle still vaguely aching from the twist last night, as if every cell was screaming not to go out with him. But, recalling his ominous threat, she had no choice but to grit her teeth, open the door, and walk submissively to his side.

He glanced at her with satisfaction and led her through Ouyang Yi’s castle.

The lavishly decorated castle felt unusually tense today, in a corner of the opulent hall, a few black-clad bodyguards stood expressionless, with two men tied up at their feet, their mouths stuffed with white cloth strips—Ouyang Yi and Ling Weilong.

Seeing her, the two men struggled desperately, their mouths making muffled sounds.

Su Xingyu summoned the courage to stop: "Lu Shifeng, release them."

"Be obedient, and they’ll be fine. If you’re not," Lu Shifeng’s voice was as if from a cold hell, "new and old scores will be settled together."

She didn’t dare to say anything more or look at Ouyang Yi again, and followed Lu Shifeng out.

Back home, he said, "Report to Blade Group tomorrow."

"What?" She didn’t hear clearly.

"Tomorrow go to Blade Group," Lu Shifeng repeated, restraining his temper, "go to HR to complete the employment procedures. From now on, you should honestly be a photographer at Blade Group; forget about Cloud, forget about Ouyang Yi and Ling Weilong."

Last night she ran off crying, and he intended to chase after her but was held up by a guest he had business with. He thought she wouldn’t get far, but after dealing with business and coming out, he couldn’t find her anywhere. He asked the bodyguards, and they said the young madam ran down the mountain road and, having encountered no major danger, adhered to their principle of remaining hidden and did not appear.

Lu Shifeng learned she was taken away by Ouyang Yi in the car.

Overwhelming anger made him want to rip that man to shreds, along with her.

However, when he went overnight to Ouyang Yi’s mansion, controlled everyone, and sat by the bed watching her exhausted sleeping face, his intense anger gradually turned into tenderness. She was so weak; he thought that unless forced, she wouldn’t have slapped him. It was the first time ever someone had slapped him; even when he was young and faced family discipline, no one ever dared strike his face.

She must have gathered significant courage, right?

Why?

Lu Shifeng stayed with her all night, pondering all night, unable to figure out where things went wrong.

So, when she woke up, he asked her those questions, attempted to find where it went wrong and resolve it. He indeed found the problem; turns out she was afraid the intimacy behind the curtain would be seen by others, so he assured her everything was safe. But for some reason, she seemed to become more distressed and angry...

He couldn’t understand.

Could it be that Ouyang Yi intentionally instilled something in her?

Then let her come to Blade Group. Let him properly keep an eye on her under his watch, to see how she could still secretly interact with people like Ouyang Yi and be instilled with inexplicable ideas!