QT: Against My Will

297 5.41 – Ghost – The Sleepless Elite’s Wife

+— Author’s note —-+

Edited by Psycho S.

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Much to Mo Luwei’s bewilderment, when his eyes closed, black dots would form up into a silhouette of a curled baby.

He deliberately overlooked the dots forming what could have been his baby. That was, until he woke up later in the same night, to a notebook covered in childish scribbles. Mo Luwei growled and finally snapped. He was going to pay a visit to Su Min tomorrow.

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When Mo Luwei did indeed visit Su Min the next day. Su Min had accepted his visit with a dead hope and a bitter smile. Despite all the suffering that Su Min had gone through, she could never find it in herself to push Mo Luwei away even if, -now that the rose-coloured filter of him had gone off- he only visited because of some despicable plan.

“Mo Luwei,” Su Min greeted the man who watched her from underneath the doorway. She took note of the mocking glare that graced his face as well as the taunting smirk that decorated his lips as she asked him, “What are you doing here?”

Mo Luwei chuckled, finding what she said funny. Instantly, Su Min felt a bad feeling in her stomach as he leaned against the door frame, crossed his arms, and replied, “I’m only here to tell you the good news.”

.....

Here, Mo Luwei paused. He was waiting for Su Min to prompt him to carry on.

Su Min, with nervousness, quietly asked Mo Luwei what the good news was.

“In two days, I’ll be married to Su Luqin, ” Mo Luwei dropped this painful bomb onto Su Min, and he watched with delight as her face paled to a frightening degree.

With a laugh that wasn’t quite a laugh, Mo Luwei told Su Min, “You better not come to the wedding and ruin my mood!”

Su Min grabbed a pillow and threw it at Mo Luwei out of anger. Since the pillow was not that heavy, it had landed on the ground before it could hope to touch Mo Luwei’s leather-polished shoes.

Su Min rightfully glared at the laughing man and wished that at that moment, the pillow was full of bricks that she could throw at Mo Luwei!

This bastard! He would never change! He’d make fun of her even when she was at the lowest point of her life. First, her pride was lost, then her child, and now this man wanted to make fun of her own choice in loving him! What! A! True! Scum! Man!

Mo Luwei was getting ready to leave Su Min’s ward after cackling away at Su Min’s anger. But before he left, he told her something that made her beyond confused, “Tell that thing to disappear from my sight! That thing is already dead. Let me sleep!”

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Bing Shi thought that Su Min’s short time intervals of loading herself with self-pity and hating on Mo Luwei wouldn’t last long. She bet that in no time, Su Min would subject herself to physical and verbal abuse by Mo Luwei in an impression that the man would eventually love her.

Su Min could do whatever she wanted, Bing Shi didn’t care as long as the child inside Su Min’s stomach received good care, and that meant changing Mo Luwei’s temperament.

Bing Shi would occasionally send Xiao Pu to disturb Mo Luwei’s mental state before his sleeping time. Sometimes, she would take action herself and leave some haunting objects in his place.

‘Mo Luwei doesn’t seem to feel guilty about his child.’

She recollected how he called over some of the most famous exorcists.

‘Fear?’

‘Of what?’

‘Ghosts?’

‘Probably.’

The first thing she did before confronting him was to look up his past life.

‘This egocentric man didn’t suffer great injustice in his childhood.’

There weren’t any indications of childhood trauma, which made her think that he was born with this nature.

‘An adult, a dom at that.’

‘Likes to show off his authority.’

‘Has huge anger issues, but also knows how to control himself at a sight of a worthy opponent. He never lunged at Li Jie.’

‘Enough EQ to know how to treat Su Luqin like a treasure.’

Bing Shi believed that he was a manipulative man that knew exactly what he was doing. He was someone like her. Which gave him...

‘No excuses.’

‘Pure bully spotted.’

‘Off with his head!’

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The next day, after Mo Luwei’s decidedly one-sided, one-man show against Su Min, Li Jie had the incredible delight to meet up with Silika’s husband. It was not that Li Jie willingly came to visit Silika’s husband. If Li Jie had the choice, personally, he would prefer never to meet the man that hooked in his crazy fan.

Of course, the universe took great joy in tormenting him; Silika’s husband had presented Li Jie with a personal visit. How did he know that this man was married to Silika? Well, he just had to look at Lu Kai’s ring to know immediately that this was the man Silika liked to brag about. Lu Kai’s ring matched Silika in a sickeningly cute way that made Li Jie uncomfortably aware of how he felt about unintentionally being the third wheel of someone’s relationship. Let’s not even mention Lu Kai’s face.

In addition to the delightful visit, before they got into talks about business, that man made it almost impossible for Li Jie to avoid the topic of Silika in multiple ways for 10 long, arduous minutes. Lu Kai didn’t bother hiding the fact that he only chose to collaborate with Li Jie’s tech company, over Mo Luwei’s, because of personal matters.

This collaboration would help Li Jie’s company reach new heights. After successfully manufacturing the fusion reactor, Lu Kai disclosed information regarding one of Binfinity’s projects. It would take two years to implement on a large scale. Say bye to low battery on phones. If this project was a success, no one would need portable power banks and wall sockets. By using a specific battery manufactured by the Binifinity company, the phone could be charged by Bifinity towers and satellites.

Li Jie’s company had the job to incorporate this battery within their software and devices. (And to think, this project was underway simply because Lu Kai had a problem with Bing Shi’s phone dying out during one of their phone calls...)

“I almost forgot,” Lu Kai stood up, about to leave, “I scheduled a press conference. I want you to clear up the relationship you have with my wife.”

“O-of course... Does she know about your real identity? Or else, why won’t she ask for your help?” Li Jie stood up for a handshake before Li Jie could leave.

As he waited for the handshake to be returned, he observed the man who was a beast on the scientific field with the hint of a smile ghosting his lips. While his facial expression was professional and gentle his insides were in a messy turmoil.

‘Silika Lin! You made me look like an idiot! Why did you make me think your husband is only a young scientist?! He only visits when he’s out of lunchboxes, huh?!’ Li Jie complained loudly in his thoughts as Lu Kai chuckled and accepted the handshake.

Lu Kai retrieved his hand from the short handshake as he told Li Jie, “She knows about my identity but... well, compared to me she is...”

Lu Kai paused as he tried to formulate a sentence that didn’t seem like Bing Shi didn’t take over his business from another lifetime for two years. In summary, he tried to make what he said seem less suspicious.

“Well, how should I describe it? She is more... cost-efficient.” Lu Kai nodded in satisfaction. Yes, that was a good reply. Time to leave!

Lu Kai leisurely left behind the stunned Li Jie. Inwardly, Lu Kai patted himself on the shoulder: good job me, well done!

“....” When Lu Kai left, Li Jie did his best to find everything he could about that man. While it pained his bruised hand, he did find some information after what felt like an eternity. When he found sufficient information, he immediately called Bing Shi, “You two live on the opposite side of the world. How on earth did you two meet each other?!”

Bing Shi pursed her lips as she told Li Jie, “Being single isn’t a sin, you know? Embrace it. Why are you so obsessed with knowing about my husband and me, ah?”

Bing Shi didn’t feel like explaining how Lu kai and she had met. She tried to switch the subject of the conversation: her poor attempt at trying to subtly change the flow of the conversation didn’t impress Li Jie, “For being such a caring man that always comes to a poor maiden’s rescue, you deserve more than unrequited love.”

Cue to Li Jie’s subtle wince of pain, Bing Shi continued, “You also deserve more than crazy fans. Anyways, if you don’t start to see yourself as a priority, you’re just going to keep hurting yourself.”