Entwined by Dawn: The CEO's Relentless Obsession

Chapter 1040: Avarice Knows No Bounds (Part 2)

When Li Mu left with a blank face, I really couldn’t hold it in and burst out laughing.

"A Yao, are you sure Li Mu actually likes female soldiers?"

Bai Chenyao tightened his grip on my hand just a bit, and I was directly pulled into his arms. At my ear was his warm breath and that low, sexy voice of his.

"You care about him way too much!"

I: "..."

I just asked a single question, okay? I just feel like Li Mu doesn’t have a girlfriend and he seems pretty lonely!

How did it suddenly change flavor once it got to Bai Chenyao?

"A Yao, I—"

"You’re not allowed to bring him up again!"

Bai Chenyao’s voice was low and authoritative, leaving no room for refusal.

I: "..."

Fine, then I won’t mention him. I really don’t want to have just gotten the marriage certificate with Bai Chenyao and immediately have the two of us fall out over Li Mu.

Besides, finding a girlfriend is Li Mu’s private business. I was just saying it casually today. Whether he finds one or not, what kind of girl he finds, that’s up to Li Mu himself.

"Got it, okay okay, hurry upstairs and go change your clothes!"

Home isn’t like being outside; it’s really warm inside. If we keep wearing coats and sweaters and all that, we’ll start feeling hot soon enough.

In the kitchen, where the soup was simmering, Nanny Zhang heard sir and madam’s voices. She poked her head out to take a look and, seeing sir getting jealous because madam mentioned Li Mu’s private matters, couldn’t help but smile.

Jealous is still better than being cold and unfeeling like before!

Even though... the way sir shows his jealousy is just... way too domineering and unreasonable!

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In the bedroom, after I changed my clothes, I sat on the sofa watching Bai Chenyao changing. While fiddling with the fountain pen beside me, I frowned and asked him.

"A Yao, you seemed to have known all along that I wasn’t pregnant!"

Back when he forced me into marriage, that is not what he said.

Before Bai Chenyao could speak, I quickly said what was on my mind.

"I remember you saying back then, ’What, are you planning to get married with a big belly?’"

With a tone that sure of himself, wasn’t he basically saying I would definitely get pregnant?

And that time I got drunk, whatever exactly went on between the two of us, even though I blacked out, judging from how exhausted my body felt the next day, I knew it wasn’t mild.

So when Bai Chenyao said I would get pregnant, I believed him without a shadow of a doubt.

As he was taking off his suit jacket, Bai Chenyao listened, the dark depths of his eyes unfathomable, his voice even lower than usual.

"I said it, and you believed it."

I: "..."

I blinked my big dark eyes, completely lost. What kind of answer is that supposed to be?

He hung his suit jacket on the coat rack next to him, then turned around, his gaze fixed on me, those eyes dark and deep.

"Otherwise, would you have agreed that fast?"

I: "..."

I had to admit, the moment he said that, I pretty much understood instantly!

So all that certainty back then—him saying, "What, are you planning to get married with a big belly?"—he was lying to me?

I was so stunned my head was spinning. I stared blankly at the expressionless Bai Chenyao, watching him calmly start unbuttoning the understated yet luxurious cufflinks on his dress shirt.

"You misled me on purpose?"

It took quite a while before I managed to squeeze that sentence out.

With his shirt buttons already undone, Bai Chenyao lifted his eyes slightly. His pitch-black gaze quietly locked onto me, taking in the disbelief in my eyes and the way my cheeks puffed up slightly from anger. The corners of his lips lifted a little, revealing a faint smile.