The body was trembling slightly, seeming a bit nervous.

He raised his thin lips with amused interest: "Beth asked me to come, just to watch you sleep?"

Hearing the sound of his footsteps, she was afraid he might leave impatiently, and suddenly panicked, turning to sit up: "Wait a moment."

She then realized he hadn’t left but had only taken a few steps by the bed, her face flushed instantly, overwhelmed and not knowing what to do.

Damn it.

Clearly, before he arrived, she had mentally prepared herself and told herself what to do first, what to do second...

Yet when he appeared before her, it was as if she was under a petrifying curse, unable to move her hands and feet.

Si Yuheng glanced diagonally downward, his gaze locked on her, his breathing intensified.

In her rush to get up, the lavender chiffon dress slipped off slightly, revealing half of her snow-white shoulder, paired with her black long curly hair, which was playful yet charming.

Suddenly, he leaned forward, lifting a knee onto the bed, surrounding her body, pressing her down tightly.

This man... always so rough!

She bit her teeth hard but didn’t resist.

Fine.

Him taking the initiative was better than her figuring out how to seduce him.

Seduce? She bit her lip harder. Does it really have to be this way?

But what other choice is there besides this?

She doesn’t want to be separated from her daughter, doesn’t want her daughter to be raised by another woman.

Not even for one day.

Then she could only do as Beth said, make him happy, do things that please him.

After making up her mind, she tried to relax her body, like a delicious fish ready for slaughter.

He was like a beast starving for a long time.

Now the prey had delivered itself, how could he not feast.

Until she was kissed into a feverish state, soft-bodied, arched like a cat, nervously prepared at any moment, yet she found his deep kisses ceased, her earlobe warmed, suddenly cooled by a voice: "If there’s something, say it."

He wouldn’t be so naïve to think she would please him for no reason, and could roughly guess her purpose.

She was startled and had to say: "... Beg you, return Xiaoxiao to me."

As expected.

He sat up abruptly, his body’s heat cooling down, then stood up, tidied his messy collar, and turned to walk towards the door.

Seeing he seemed to want to leave, she hurriedly got out of bed, accidentally stepping on the sheet, stumbling onto the carpet, not caring about her awkwardness:

"Si Yuheng! I’ve done this, and you still can’t give Xiaoxiao back to me?!"

He paused, turned back, anger written all over his side-profile: "This? I don’t like this about you at all."

Don’t like it? How could that be?

This man has always been pestering her like this before, hasn’t he?

Liang Anya bit her lip: "Then what do you want? Just say it! As long as you’re happy, I’ll do anything!" 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

The more she did this, the angrier Si Yuheng’s handsome face became!

She only lowered herself for the sake of getting the baby back; it wasn’t genuine.

Not only was it insincere, but maybe when her flushed face lay beneath him, she was cursing him in her heart.

She just treated him as a piece of lifeless flesh to please!

"Don’t use this method again, or I’ll consider letting Vivi raise Xiaoxiao permanently." As soon as he finished, he stepped out, long legs pointing outside the bedroom.

Unexpectedly, this method backfired, making him angrier! She was stunned, despairingly blurted out:

"Si Yuheng, you bastard! How dare you let someone else raise my daughter! I want to return to the country, I’m not joking this time, it’s not a temper, I want to go back to the country! You let me and Xiaoxiao go back to the country—"

With a "bang," the door slammed shut, interrupting her scream, as if giving a silent answer, shaking her body to recoil.

She slid down onto the carpet, tears flowing continuously.

***

In the days that followed, compared to before, life was even more difficult for Liang Anya.

She didn’t know what went wrong that night; she had clearly tried her best to please him, but why did it only anger him...

Anyway, she further offended Si Yuheng.

This meant Xiaoxiao didn’t know when she could come back anymore.

This day, Beth saw her, like the previous days, sitting by the bay window hugging her knees, gazing outside with a gloomy look, and advised:

"Miss Liang, you’ve been in your room for several days now, why not go downstairs and breathe some fresh air, it might lighten your mood."

Xiaoxiao wouldn’t be by her side for one day, not even breathing fresh air would lighten her mood, not even breathing gold air.

She shook her head, "Beth, go get today’s newspaper."

Since that night she expressed wanting to return to China, he didn’t even allow her to go online, pulling out her room’s internet cable.

That man, his defenses were truly impenetrable!

Beth was relieved, seeing her finally willing to do something, quickly went to get the past few days’ newspapers.

Liang Anya leaned against the small tatami by the bay window, absent-mindedly flipping through the English newspaper of A Country.

No major news, basically trivial matters.

Flipping through, she felt a bit sleepy, yawned, was ready to put the newspaper aside, but her gaze fixed on the front page of one newspaper.

This was yesterday’s local daily paper, the headline news prominently displayed:

Southern Tycoon of China to conduct a marine energy regeneration plan inspection domestically, arriving this morning at the Capital airport, the visit expected to last a month.

China—Southern Tycoon?

In the south of China, how many could be called tycoons?

Liang Anya no longer felt sleepy, quickly grabbed the newspaper, reading the content word by word.

As expected, it was the Huo Group!

The visiting Chinese businessman in A Country was Huo Shao!

If Huo Shao came, maybe Xiaoyi would come too?

For a moment, she almost cried with joy, feeling like her gloomy mood was showered with sunshine, brightening considerably.

*

Perhaps seeing someone from the Huo Group, her mood throughout the day lightened considerably compared to previous days.

It felt like being alone fighting in a foreign land, finally having a companion, adding some sense of security.

At night.

Beth routinely went to Vivi’s place to check on Xiaoxiao’s situation that day, and Liang Anya waited for Beth’s response.

Previously, she could never believe she could be so worried about a little baby.

After becoming a mommy, she realized, without her child under her watch for a day, she couldn’t sleep, needing to know Xiaoxiao’s situation every day to rest peacefully.

Today, less than ten minutes passed before Beth returned, a bit dejected.

"What’s wrong, Beth, didn’t you meet any of Vivi’s maids today?" Liang Anya felt a strong sense of unease.

"Miss Vivi likely heard I was asking the maids about Xiaoxiao every day and instructed them not to speak to me. When I went over, none of the maids paid any attention to me."