The Overnight Chosen Wife: darling, kiss me deeper

"What do you mean?" Lanni asked in shock.

"She drugged me. I found out about it but it was too late." Xia Hanchen explained. "All my health problems are caused by her."

Luna was confused. "What about the tumor?"

"I doubt there was any tumor. I wouldn’t be surprised if she bribed the doctors to lie about there being one. Screening results can be faked using someone else’s after all." Xia Hanchen laughed in self-ridicule. He should never have allowed that snake into his house.

"The thought of it is scary." Lanni sighed. How could such an evil person exist? Was she even a person to begin with?

"She will not hurt us anymore." Lanni said. They were going to destroy her and make her pay for everything she had done.

After chatting with their father for a while longer, the girls left the hospital. They were going to meet up with Lin Jian and the others.

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Plum restaurant, at lunch hour.

As soon as everyone arrived, they ordered their food and discussed as they planned out the next moves.

"Why do I think this would be going to easy on her?" Lanni massaged her temples.

"Haven’t you always wanted to do things in a legal way?" Xiehan held her hand and rubbed it under the table.

"Yeah, but I still think that there is no legal way of giving her the kind of ending she deserves."

"I also think we are going too easy on her." Luna seconded.

"I will make sure the police don’t give her an easy time. How about that?" Jiang Xingyu suggested, reaching under the table to hold Luna’s hand. When she swatted his hand away, he retreated as though nothing had happened.

"That would not be enough." Luna clenched her fist.

"Then what do you want to do to her?" Jiang Xingyu asked.

"I want to peel her skin off inch by inch." Luna’s expression was serious, she really meant what she was saying.

"I want to chop off all the parts of her body one by one." Lanni spoke up. "Or we could peel off her skin then chop her body parts."

"Uh..." Jiang Xingyu no longer knew what to say.

Xiehan was even more speechless.

It took a while for Lin Jian to pick up his dropped jaw and when he did, his face was filled with horror as he looked at his friends. "I didn’t know your tastes were so... horrifying. By dating such scary women, aren’t you scared they may get mad at you one day and chop you to death?"

"My Lanni wouldn’t do that." Xiehan quickly defended.

"Luna wouldn’t harm a single hair on my head. Besides, even if I were to die under her knife, I would still be happy as a ghost." Jiang Xingyu retorted at the same time.

Lin Jian quickly shuffled away from him. This guy’s taste was scary.

When they were done coming up with a strategy, which was the unsatisfactory legal way, they all left the restaurant so everyone could go about with his business.

Just as Luna stepped out of the door, Jiang Xingyu grabbed her hand and pulled her away.

Luna was taken aback. But when she looked into Jiang Xingyu’s eyes, she was no longer as irritable as she usually was. Instead, she willingly held his hand, making Jiang Xingyu look at her in a mixture of shock and ecstasy. "I’ve been meaning to thank you properly."

A smile crept onto Jiang Xingyu’s lips. A single ’thank you’ from her was enough to make up for all his effort and erase all the agony he felt while she was away. "How about you thank me by having dinner with me tonight?" He boldly tried his luck.

To his surprise, she agreed readily, and that too with a sweet smile on her face.

Luna rarely smiled and when she did, it always made his heart race. He couldn’t resist planting a kiss on her cheek when she was least expecting it.

"Those two will be an item in the blink of an eye." Lanni, who was watching them from some distance, couldn’t help commenting. They had made so much progress already. All that was left was taking the bold step and they would he a couple.

"Ow!" Lanni felt a sting on her waist at the same time that a palm hovered over her eyes.

"Why did you pinch me?" She glared at the culprit who was currently towering in front of her and blocking her view.

"You are not allowed to look at other couples." Xiehan grinned mischievously.

"Can you not be so childish?" Lanni chuckled. "What are you still doing here anyway? Shouldn’t you go back to work?"

"I will in a second. Are you free tonight? Let’s have dinner together. We can also spend some time together tonight. I miss you these past days."

Lanni frowned as she looked at him. "You miss me?" Was he being serious? Even so, she agreed to have dinner with him.

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While the guys went back to work, Lanni and Luna went to Stat Art International then informed Cheng Yu that they were waiting for her.

When Cheng Yu received the message, she dashed over, almost tripping a few times.

"Luna! You are really back." She hugged Luna as soon as she saw her, her eyes tearing up.

"There there, don’t cry. I’m really back."

"You are so mean." Cheng Yu complained as she broke the hug. "How could you reject visits from everyone? I wanted to visit you on several occasions but I couldn’t even see you from afar. I didn’t even know how you were doing."

"I didn’t want everyone to drown me with questions. But am I not here now?"

"You’re the worst friend in the world." Cheng Yu accused.

Because they were in a public place, Lanni and Luna did not explain what exactly had happened. They left after having some small talk and promising to see her again.

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The next morning.

Since she woke up, Lanni couldn’t tear her eyes off her phone. She kept refreshing the feed impatiently, her stomach a pit of nervousness.

"It’s finally here!" She exclaimed when she saw the headline she had been waiting for.