The Birth Of A Villainess

Qu Xing Xu almost drew back his breath. He blinked his eyes once then, twice. When it wasn't enough to cover up his surprise, he did it a few more times.

Instead of trying to look for an excuse to save his head from rolling on the ground and appease her anger, Qu Xing Xu chose this moment to laugh heartily.

His body shook as he laughed along with the bed underneath them shaking with his outburst.

On the other hand, Lin Xiaofei stared at him as if he grew another head on top of his shoulders. What was funny about what she said? She clearly didn't say a joke or anything that could make him or anyone laugh at all.

And yet, this insufferable man just laughed her anger off.

"What's so funny?" Lin Xiaofei said with gritted teeth.

"Nothing." Qu Xing Xu managed to say while he continued to laugh while gaining her glares of daggers.

Lin Xiaofei took a breath in. Calming her nerves and anger was difficult to do when she was clearly played by Qu Xing Xu.

She abruptly stood up and said, "Since you're so happy, It's better if I return to my room and wait for you to bleed out here."

She intended to walk away but it didn't even taker her to walk five steps away when a rough and familiar hand clasped around her wrist and pulled her to turn around.

Forced to face him, Lin Xiaofei lashed out and raised her hand to slap him. She was seething with anger. Her emotions were now unrestrained unlike how she tried to keep it bottled in. Perhaps, it has something to do with meeting Yu Fangzhu and killing someone using her own hands.

And most importantly, the fact that she had to be cornered by Qu Xing Xu's ploy and forced her to accept this engagement. All these things somehow ended up into a bowl of whirlpool where it combined and made her lose control of herself.

There were only inches apart between her hand and his face. Just inches for her to hurt him and retaliate for what he had done.

And yet, the contact that both of them were expecting didn't happen.

Lin Xiaofei's hand was in mid-air and stayed there for a bit longer. Qu Xing Xu didn't even dare to block it as he intended to face it and accept it wholeheartedly as if a slap was enough for her to ease her anger at him. However, he doubted that would be the end of it.

"Why did you do it?" Lin Xiaofei asked after taking a long breath, calming her nerves. Her hand that was raised fell on her side.

"You're smart. I think you already guessed the reason why." Qu Xing Xu replied vaguely. However, Lin Xiaofei knew what he meant but refused to acknowledge it.

"I don't believe it." She shook her head a few seconds later. She refused to believe that Qu Xing Xu has fallen for her.

It was too impossible. But then again, his actions were enough evidence to prove that nothing was impossible. Not when it comes to him anyway.

Besides, she already had her suspicions ever since he pulled her to that unattended part of the garden in the Palace. However, that wasn't enough to prove anything at all. In the end, she decided to forget that silly thought and forced it to hide underneath her locked Pandora box.

"Believe what you wish to believe." Intently staring at her face before falling to her lips, he continued, "I, for one, won't stop and continue this farce until it becomes real."

When his gaze stayed a bit too long on her lips, Qu Xing Xu reluctantly looked away and turned. He sat back down to the bed and pat the part where she was seated earlier. "Come, now. Let's continue where we left off." He raised the wet cloth to her, "You don't want your future husband's wound to fester."

Seeing her not moving an inch from where she stood, Qu Xing Xu said earnestly, "Please, Wife."

Lin Xiaofei's attention was dragged back to him and she openly glared at him. Hearing him call her his wife didn't make her feel better instead, it made her feel confused and… lost. Nevertheless, she surprisingly and obediently complied with him and sat back down on the bed before taking the wet cloth from him.

If Qu Xing Xu was shocked by her sudden obedience, he didn't show it on his face too much and covered it with an intoxicating smile.

Slapping the wet cloth to his chest earned a wince from him. Lin Xiaofei rubbed the cloth to his chest harshly as if not to clean his wound but that worsen it.

Much to her dismay, the sinuous man who just confessed his thought about her didn't even try to stop her and continued to smile as if the pain wasn't there.

As much as Lin Xiaofei wanted to choke the life out of him, Qu Xing Xu served great importance to her goals. She was not an idiot to let herself be taken by her emotions again and risk everything she worked on since the time she got inside this body.

A small sacrifice on her part won't hurt if it means she could take down her enemies.

Qu Xing Xu was by far the most powerful man in the entire empire and untouchable. He had the means to burn down the empire to the ground along with the filthy people living in it.

And if offering herself to him was enough for him to let her use him, Lin Xiaofei wouldn't bat an eye to do just that.

Unfortunately, she wasn't confident with that thought.

Not when the tips of her fingers felt like it was on fire when it touched his skin and with the familiar sound of her heart beating so loudly in her ears.

"Stop staring at me like that, wife. I might assume you want to eat me whole." Qu Xing Xu made her snap from her thoughts and she glared at him.

Nope. The reason why her heart was beating hard was due to her rising anger and hatred for him and definitely not because she was slightly attracted to him.