Words I Was Afraid To Hear 160 A Cold, Desperate Woman

She and Xiu Jin bid the couple goodbye while flashing their meaningful smiles.

Midori almost could not help herself but worry too much.

She pumped out enough milk for the weekend away for her son to consume.

After waving goodbye to her parents and baby for the nth time, Midori stood grounded on her spot in a daze long after the car had disappeared.

"Wanna drive?" Dan's voice snapped her out of her thoughts.

To her surprise, he tossed the car key to her. Her good reflexes caught it.

When she looked at her hand, she saw the familiar key. It was her car, and it was already out of the garage, parked behind her.

She giddily opened the fold up doors and sat on the driver's seat.

She sighed as she caressed the steering wheel. This was her first baby.

As if remembering something, she frowned. "Where are we going?"

"You'll know." He flashed a mischievous smile. "I'll tell you when to turn."

"Okay!" She had a bright smile as she stepped on the accelerator.

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"I'd like to remind everyone that Xiu Jin is my husband. Failure to accomplish any task from him and you'll have to answer to me!" With that, Aoi Xiu went out of the study, taking her sleeping grandson, and leaving 5 men who were facing her husband.

"Hai!" they said in chorus as they bowed at her retreating figure.

"Thank you...for coming in such a short notice. I believe that my men alone could not handle such merciless opponents..." Xiu Jin started his agenda.

When the matter regarding Masaichi Xiu was mentioned, all the 5 men clenched theirs fists tightly as if on cue. Veins started to become prominent, and the knuckles turned white.

"Any questions?" Xiu Jin asked after elaborating his orders.

The man with a snake tattoo that looked to be slithering around his neck looked up slowly. "You don't want instant death for them, but torture. Am I right?" His eyes had a murderous glint in them, but his other facial muscles kept his face looking indifferent.

"Hai." Xiu Jin's face turned dangerous as well, as if he himself would like to do the torture.

"Give us a week to gather them all." The man replied with certainty as he stood up.

"Hmmn." Xiu Jin nodded.

"If there is nothing else, we will start with the work now." The man bowed politely, followed by the four others.

Xiu Jin kept looking at the direction of the door long after it was shut after the men had gone.

His fingers kept tapping the wooden desk as if he was playing a piano piece.

Thoughts came flooding through his mind.

He still does not get why Wong Xiaoyu would do such things to his family. She was the one who did not wait for him to come back and married another guy. Why did she cling to him back then as if she had been wronged. She even dared to show her face and bring her baby to his wife.

He had known her as a beautiful lady, with a pleasing personality and a good heart, yet his absence of several months changed her into a cold, desperate woman.

He turned his tapping fingers into a fist as he recalled how they almost lost Midori due to that crazy woman's claim that he had cheated on his wife.

True, he had loved Wong Xiaoyu. She was the first woman he truly loved after playing around while thinking that he would be married off to a stranger anyway. However, she was also his first heartbreak.

Aoi Xiu healed him just in time, as his gesture comforted her in her time of need when they were young. He truly believes that fate brought them back together. When he promised to be loyal to her on their wedding day, he meant it. So when Ming Xiaoyu came into their home to make him responsible for a baby he had nothing to do with, he was mortified. He was dam* scared of how his wife will take it, not because he was afraid that he will be labeled a cheater. He was afraid that she would be hurt, and that it would be enough for her to leave him.

That was why he took everything within his power to prove his innocence...but he knew that even though the truth was out, his relationship with his wife was already tainted.

It was the reason why his doting became excessive. He was too afraid to hear her say that she had enough of everything about him.

He might go crazy if she asks for a divorce.