?26: Chapter 23 Who’s Worried About You!

    26: Chapter 23 Who’s Worried About You!

    Back in the room of the villa, only Aunt Wang was at home; Lin Yi had not returned yet.

    “Aunt Wang, watching TV?” Li Chen said with a smile.

    “Yes, Miss hasn’t come back yet, and this old lady can only pass the time,” Aunt Wang said with a slight smile, “Why didn’t you come back with the Miss?

    Nothing’s wrong, I hope?”

    It was only a little past 8 p.m.

    now, and dealing with the Axe Gang had been a matter of minutes for Li Chen, not a significant waste of time.

    “I left the company earlier, took a stroll outside before coming back.

    Lin Yi should probably be back soon,” Li Chen tensed up, that last comment from Aunt Wang was not just an offhand question.

    Could she have noticed something?

    “As long as everything’s alright,” Aunt Wang nodded.

    Seeing Aunt Wang continue to watch TV, Li Chen held an even higher regard for her insight.

    As he went upstairs, Aunt Wang muttered to herself, “Such a strong smell of blood.”

    If Li Chen knew his scent had given him away, he probably would have taken a shower before coming back.

    As the events from earlier lingered in his mind, Li Chen was trying to sort through his thoughts when his face suddenly changed, his expression appearing twisted, breathing heavily through his nose.

    Damn, having first purged Lin Yi of poison today, and then the big fight at the Axe Gang’s place, he had inadvertently stirred his internal True Qi, and his injury was becoming hard to suppress.

    Li Chen felt like there was a whirlpool inside his body, like all his organs were tangling together, feeling the Energy within raging wildly, threatening to destroy all the functions inside him!

    “Ah!”

    Li Chen was in so much pain that he rolled on the floor, his entire body instantly breaking out in sweat, his eyes turning bright red.

    “It won’t do, if this goes on, I might not make it through the night,” Li Chen endured the rampage of Energy inside him.

    He then took out the Silver Needles, sat down cross-legged, and began to stick them in himself.

    His hands trembled as he inserted several Silver Needles into his acupoints, then he immediately closed his eyes to regulate his breathing.

    His face puffed and then sunk in repeatedly, looking as if something was about to burst out, which was extremely terrifying.

    After a while, Li Chen slowly opened his eyes, looking like he had been fished out of a pond, his eyes heavy with exhaustion.

    Packing up the Silver Needles, Li Chen felt the True Qi inside him depleted, having consumed a significant amount to suppress his injury.

    He exhaled a long turbid breath and, thinking about everything that had happened since he returned to Linchuan, felt an extreme headache.

    He still didn’t know who was targeting him, why the Ghost King would betray him.

    Could all these events really be just coincidences?

    Moreover, he had felt a severe throbbing in his forehead recently, as if something major were about to happen.

    It hadn’t seemed like much before but now, the feeling was not only persisting but growing stronger.

    After a long while, Li Chen said to himself, “Looks like it’s time to go back, I must ask those old men for help.”

    After making up his mind, Li Chen took a shower.

    When he came out, he saw it was already past nine o’clock in the evening; he had actually spent over an hour suppressing the Energy in his body.

    Suddenly, his stomach growled loudly.

    Li Chen felt embarrassed; with the Energy inside him exhausted, it was time to replenish with some food.

    Heading downstairs, Aunt Wang was nowhere to be seen, but there was Lin Yi bending over to mop the floor in a short skirt.

    Li Chen couldn’t help but have a mischievous smile on his face at the sight of Lin Yi’s outfit.

    However, Lin Yi quickly moved to mop another area, and Li Chen had to descend from the staircase.

    “Good evening, beautiful wife,” Li Chen greeted her as he walked over.

    Just as Lin Yi was about to reply, she felt herself being patted several times and realized that Li Chen was taking liberties with her.

    “You scoundrel!” Lin Yi turned around and saw Li Chen blissfully smelling his hand, which made her face turn even redder.

    “What’s the matter with this?” Li Chen grinned cheekily, “Beautiful wife, what’s our relationship?

    We are husband and wife, legally protected.

    Isn’t it perfectly natural for a husband to touch his wife?”

    Lin Yi looked at his face, remembered how Li Chen had touched her chest under the pretense of expelling poison in the office, and couldn’t help feeling angry, “Don’t forget we’re only husband and wife in name!

    We’ll divorce in three months.”

    “Really?” Li Chen approached her with a smile on his face, “Dear wife, could you really bear to part?”

    Lin Yi snorted heavily, “You’re nothing but a scoundrel, what do I have to miss about you?”

    “Really?”

    “Of course it’s true.”

    “Then I won’t be polite anymore.”

    Seeing a sly smile suddenly appear on Li Chen’s face, Lin Yi instantly felt a pang of anxiety.

    “What are you going to do?”

    “What do you think I’m going to do, beautiful wife?” Li Chen spread his arms wide, looking every bit the big bad wolf to Lin Yi’s little white rabbit.

    “You—you stay away from me.” Lin Yi was panicked, “If you dare come any closer, if you dare, I’ll scream for help.”

    “Go ahead and scream, even if you shout yourself hoarse, no one will come to save you.” Li Chen laughed ‘hehe’.

    “You bastard, stay away from me.” Lin Yi backed away, only to abruptly hit a wall and find herself unable to retreat any further.

    “Haha, let’s see where you can run now.” Li Chen’s heart was set on teasing her deliberately, “Today I’m going to do what a scoundrel should.”

    Clutching a mop, Lin Yi suddenly shouted: “Aunt Wang, Wan—”

    She had just cried out for Aunt Wang when Li Chen got a fright—he knew it would be bad if his joke actually brought Aunt Wang over.

    He lunged forward, intent on silencing her, but didn’t anticipate stepping on the mop.

    His foot slipped, and Li Chen’s mouth hurtled straight toward Lin Yi’s.

    “Hm?!” Lin Yi’s remaining words were pushed back into her throat, her eyes wide with shock, and Li Chen’s eyes were just as wide.

    The two stared at each other, frozen, with only their lips touching.

    “Ah, the young people nowadays, calling me, an old lady, for this sort of thing—really marks the decline of manners,” Aunt Wang appeared out of nowhere, then shook her head and disappeared into the hall.

    After a long while, Lin Yi fiercely pushed Li Chen away.

    Li Chen, savoring the softness of Lin Yi’s lips, couldn’t help but smirk, “Such soft lips!”

    Lin Yi felt like she was going to cry from frustration—was her first kiss really just stolen by this jerk?

    Tears were spinning in her eyes.

    Seeing Lin Yi about to cry, Li Chen panicked and quickly said in a serious tone, “Beautiful wife, don’t cry, it was really just an accident.

    I didn’t mean to do that, it was your mop that was too slippery.”

    Seeing no reaction from Lin Yi, Li Chen said, “Or, you can hit me if you want.”

    Before he finished speaking, Lin Yi stomped hard on Li Chen’s foot.

    “Ouch.” Li Chen almost leaped up.

    “You told me to step on it,” Lin Yi huffed, turning her head to leave with an utterly triumphant expression, as if she had just won a battle against Li Chen.

    “Who would have thought that I, the great King of the Netherworld, could be outwitted by a woman,” Li Chen gave a wry smile, “well, let’s call it even this time.”

    “By the way, beautiful wife,” Li Chen started speaking, “I need to leave for a few days.”

    Lin Yi was startled, unaccustomedly asking, “Where are you going?”

    “Back home, to see a few people,” Li Chen thought of those old geezers and couldn’t help but smile faintly.

    Lin Yi was also somewhat puzzled; truth be told, she hadn’t really gotten to know the man in front of her.

    “Don’t worry, I will be back in a few days, so don’t worry about me, okay, darling wife,” Li Chen said with a smile.

    “Who’s worried about you?

    It’s fine even if you don’t come back,” Lin Yi turned her head and walked away.

    Not come back?

    How could that be acceptable?

    At the very least, I still have five hundred thousand in your hands.

    Moreover, once it’s a done deal, besides the five hundred thousand, I have a beauty, so how can I not come back?

    If Lin Yi knew what Li Chen was thinking, she would definitely chase after him with the mop to hit him.