QT: Against My Will

336 5.80 – Separation – The Sleepless’s Elite’s Wife

+— Author’s note —-+

*FANGIRL MODE ACTIVATES*

E.Y.R. Got me a new cover, and I’m totally swooned by BS’s and XM’s expressions. The scene reminds me BS and XM meeting for the second time in BS’s rented apartment.

Edited by Psycho S.

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Xuan Mu, who was about to pull out the pity card, and sleep on the floor by her bedside, was pulled back to reality when she requested him to leave the country right now. He just moved into her home. Their relationship just went to the public- why did this have to happen?

Bing Shi closed the door to her bedroom and locked herself in the bathroom, “I love me. I love me. I love me.”

She filled up the bathtub, chanting under her breath, “I love me. I love me...”

She fed herself with self-love, to dilute the concern she had for him. He was giving her doubts that the problems he was currently going through were just something to keep her locked in constant worry, to take advantage of her love, manipulating her... intentionally or not, she forgave him too many times.

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Hearing the loud knocking, Xuan Mu, who had his back resting against the bathroom, walked towards the entrance to open the door.

“Where is he?!” Silika’s mother rushed inside the apartment outrageously, “I will never allow a bastard’s son to marry my lovely daughter! Whoever that Lukas is, immediately divorce my daughter!”

Bumping into something hard, Silika’s mother felt a small throb in her heart when his muscular scent hit her nostrils. Looking down, his legs were long and straight. Looking up, his posture was very well-formed. All in all, he was extremely fit and lithe and she felt her legs getting weak.

Xuan Mu cornered the elderly woman against the wall. He should have known that Bing Shi agreeing to her mother’s return was only to find an excuse to throw him out of the house. (Bing Shi let the whole world know about their relationship to deal with his insecurity, but at the same time, she needed some distance from him. It was her way of showing that she cared about him a lot despite wanting some space.)

Silika’s mother hit the hard floor of the narrow hallway and screamed out in pain. This alarmed her father who was carrying the luggage up the staircase.

Bing Shi stepped out of the bathroom, crossing her arms. Unable to look him in the eyes or else she would burst out in tears, she tilted her gaze to her right, “My father would never forgive us if she got a heart attack because of you. You should leave.”

Biting his bottom lip, Xuan Mu walked out of the apartment building to help her father with the luggage, and only after that did he leave. She needed time to calm down. None of them could be apart for long. Tomorrow, he would apologize again and she would hopefully forgive him.

Bing Shi crouched before her fallen mother, pressing her pointer before her lips in a silent gesture, “You dismissed my threat once and it ended with a simple divorce.” She retreated her finger and flicked her mother’s forehead, “I don’t know what father told you, but you lost the right to order me around.”

Her mother shuddered in fear. She divorced her husband to avoid the debts her daughter had accumulated. After experiencing loneliness and social isolation, she felt more helpless and vulnerable. Her beauty was still here, but it became harder to find a man who was willing to support her. Her living standards pushed her into poverty. When she saw the fame and riches she could obtain through Silika, she returned and decided to put some sense into her daughter! Why did Silika give away her riches and choose a flower boy instead of all the CEOs that were not only wealthy but also handsome?!

Unfortunately, the previous queen couldn’t take over the reign and now had the lowest standing in the family. Her daughter, the new head of the family, made her do all the house chores like a servant. Not only that, she had to fight a widow upstairs for her ex-husband’s affection.

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For the next practical lesson, the student’s handsome teacher didn’t show up. He resigned out of nowhere, together with some other teachers and classmates. Rumours said that a foreign company was branching into their country, and was recruiting new people. Maybe he was among them?

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One month after their separation...

Goosebumps covered Lu Kai’s assistant as he left the meeting room with his boss. After the ‘self-improvement break’, that man returned, crazier than before. Lu Kai was about to disrupt the $9.5 trillion energy industry and sustain a carbon-zero economy. (He didn’t know that Lu Kai was no longer just ‘Lu Kai’.)

The largest investors were the major power plants, oil, coal, and gas corporations. The resources were getting scarce, everyone knew that. This man would ensure those corporations’ dominance in the energy sector for the foreseeable future.

The price of the entry was trifling; turn Binfinity into their main supplier. As the only manufacturer that could produce the complex parts and components for the new plants, it would take some time before a worthy opponent appeared. Until then, Binfinity would continue being a monopoly that hurt competition and consumers altogether, giving them not much of a choice but to accept.

The assistant couldn’t recognize his boss at first.

Lu Kai changed his whole visage as if trying to be the opposite of his past image, his messy bed hair was now neatly styled, his blue eyes were veiled by black contact lenses, and instead of the simple T-shirt and pants, he wore a custom-tailored suit. There were many people with the same name, and there was yet someone to connect him with the nerdy Lukas Schiffer... Silika Lin’s husband.

Xuan Mu’s mind was in tangles, about to snap any seconds, he walked with his assistant to the airport. She loved him too much to cut all contact with him. At the same time, she didn’t want to be anywhere near him. His power was totally useless when it came to gaining her trust, it only seemed to worsen everything.

They didn’t mind the long distance, nor the lack of communication, it was due to how they split on bad terms that caused so much devastation.

Lifting his wrist, he checked her heartbeat through a long-distance relationship bracelet. It was the only thing she gave him when he broke down before her feet after three agonizing days.

She disabled the function where one could send a vibration with a tab. The only function it had now was to check on their life, whether they were still breathing or not, nothing more, nothing less.

Who knew that simply seeing her heartbeat, would be able to calm him to such a degree. Now he could do the basic things such as waking up and brushing his teeth without having a mental breakdown.

Waiting at the airport lobby, the assistant looked strangely at his boss who took a silky blue scarf out of his inner pocket.

Xuan Mu sat at the armchair and placed the scarf over his face, inhaling his wife’s scent while listening to her rearranged song.

Her singing... In the beginning, she sang similarly to the American Idol shows where participants sounded like clones produced in a factory, easily forgettable. Now that she was developing her own sense of identity and technique, she was bringing a whole other dimension to her enchanting style.

? Walking on the cold days,

we wish to be stronger,

we hate to see our scars,

our hearts are getting black and blue,

and we feel like we’re losing it,

what’s gonna take us to get through this,

when it’s not fun, when it’s not easy. ?

He was depressed... He didn’t know how to cope with their separation. He busied himself with Binfinity and his job as a Proxy. Nothing seemed to work except hoping she would call him the next second and ask him to return. Her smokey voice hit at his notes and the silk scarf slowly soaked with his tears.

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For a period drama, Bing Shi had to fly over to Lu Kai’s home country.

There was a saying: two people, who depend deeply on one another, would always be able to find each other time and time again. No matter what situation they end up in or how far apart they become – they’d end up back together again.

Those were the people who had a little thing called fate on their side. It’s almost like the world was saying ‘Stop separating, you are meant to be together.’

What was the chance of Bing Shi and Xuan Mu meeting without knowing each other’s schedules? The chance was incredibly small.