The Overnight Chosen Wife: darling, kiss me deeper

"How could you even think of such an idea?" Lanni scolded when she recovered from her shock.

Luna looked helpless. "What else am I supposed to do, send you to that place? You haven’t even completely recovered your memory yet!" Even with her memory of the past, it was dangerous to be there. With the current circumstances, it was several times more dangerous. But for Luna, it was slightly less dangerous since she was skilled in combat and would be able to protect herself more than Lanni could.

Lanni massaged her temples when she heard that explanation. "I don’t want to go either." But this was about her father’s life—she would go to hell of she had to. Besides, "Perhaps there are not many people who know about us being twins, but Flynn does. What if he discovers that you are impersonating me?"

"He wouldn’t find out but even if he did, he would be on our side." Luna was firm. Everything he had done so far was to help them����� except this.

"Why would he be on our side? Are you listening to yourself?" Lanni was on the verge of breaking down.

Luna finally shut up and started thinking of another solution.

As Lanni’s boyfriend, Xiehan felt useless for not being able to do much to help his own girlfriend. However, there was no way he was going to give up without trying. He didn’t believe that the organization was as invincible as they made it sound. "What’s this organization anyway? You have never mentioned its name before." He probed.

Lanni contemplated for a moment before mumbling as though she didn’t believe it herself. "Galaxis..."

"Huh?" Xiehan was taken aback. This name..."Isn’t that a news outlet?"

"Yes." Lanni was in disbelief too, as she remembered the details. "It’s just a normal news outlet on the surface but in real sense, it’s a secret organization of undercover journalists and underground investigators. Galaxis Academy... that school actually exists."

"The one where Flynn got a fake student identity card for Luna? I thought it was a nonexistent school that Flynn made up to deceive your father." No matter how he searched he had not found anything related to the school.

"That’s where I was being trained to become an undercover journalist. Flynn was my trainer and all those missions were merely assessment tests, most of which I failed." Lanni explained.

"If an assessment test puts your life in danger, what will happen when you undertake real missions?" Luna shook her head at the thought of it. Why did they want her back if she failed her assessment tests and was even in danger? Logically, they should think of her as weak and incompetent, right?"

Lanni naturally knew what her sister was thinking and could not blame her for that. She was wondering about the same thing too. Was it perhaps...because the big boss had found out that she failed all those tests because Flynn deliberately sabotaged her?

She thought back to what Flynn said and decided not to mention it. If she did, Luna would surely insist on going with her. SHe would rather be in danger alone—if there was any danger awaiting her—that drag her sister along with her.

She sighed and speculated, "Perhaps they don’t need me to complete actual missions. Maybe it’s some other reason."

"Flynn said they wanted you to restore your identity as Phoenix." Luna reminded.

"She will not go." Xiehan said for the umpteenth time. This time, he was sure of what to do.

"What do you have in mind?" Lanni asked curiously.

He stretched his hand to pat her head. "Go and take a nap while I make arrangements. I will explain everything once I’m done."

Since he said so with so much certainty, Lanni trusted him and nodded.

"You should rest too. I will call you once I’ve handled everything." He said to Luna, and she nodded and went downstairs.

...

Li Yuming was curious when she saw Xiehan enter the house anxiously a while ago. She wanted to ask what was going on but didn’t want to bother him at the moment. Hence, she sat in the living room and waited.

A long while later, she finally heard footsteps heading downstairs but when she lifted her head, she saw that it was Luna instead. As soon as their gazes collided, all those words from earlier flooded back into her mind and her lips twitched.

Luna walked over to her and sat on the couch next to her.

Li Yuming didn’t know what to say. Honestly, she was tired of fighting with her daughters—especially Luna. She hoped the latter would leave her alone so they would not start arguing all over again.

"Mum," Luna started, her voice slightly nervous. Li Yuming turned to look at her in surprise and she smiled awkwardly then continued, "Regarding all those words I said earlier I would like to apologise."

Li Yuming was slightly taken aback. She smiled slightly and said, "You don’t need to. I’m the one who should apologise." ’For not fighting harder in the past.’ she added mentally. If she had fought harder and gotten custody of Luna, she would have brought her up. Then, she would never have to worry about her character.

Luna pursed her lips and stood up. "You are not to blame for anything. Just... try to let go of your past grudges, will you? They will not do you any good."

"Why did Xiehan come?" She tried to change the topic. Grudges? They were not merely grudges.

Luna was unsurprised by the question. "We found our dad. We know where he is now." She studied Li Yuming’s expression and when she saw that it didn’t change in the slightest, she smiled. "We don’t have the ability to bring him back yet, but at least we are now hopeful."

"Anything I can do to help?" She offered out of the blue. When she realized how startling it was, she coughed. "For Lanni. I know how worried she can get and if he is not found soon, she might run around and cause trouble."

Luna held her chin while deep in thought. As expected. "No thanks. I’m sure Lanni, my brother-in-law and I can handle it so we do not have to trouble you. Anyways, thanks for offering to help, mum."

Li Yuming was at a loss. No matter how sincere she was in offering her help, it would sound fake as long as Xia Hanchen was involved. In truth, she would never have wanted to help him either.

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Lanni was unable to fall asleep and kept tossing in bed. After some time, she decided to get up and grabbed her phone. She made a call and just when she hung up, she got a text message from Flynn.

"Damned bastard!" She cursed when she read the content of the message.

She got out of bed and freshened up then gave Xiehan a call to ask where he was. He had already gone back to his mansion, so she decided to talk about it the following day.

...

The next day.

Lanni was not the only one who went to Xiehan’s mansion. Jiang Xingyu, Lin Jian and Luna were there too, and they looked like a team seated together around the table. Several bodyguards stood at the side and Xiehan was explaining their role.

"This is my special team and each one of them is highly skilled. I have divided them into three teams and given them each their roles." He stated. "We will use the same pln we used to get evidence from Li XIyan’s study, only more sophisticated this time.

The first team will get Uncle Xia’s location while the second team causes a distraction. If all goes well, then these two teams will manage to get him out. If anything goes wrong, the third team will step in."

"What if there are booby traps?" Lin Jian asked.

"They are highly skilled." Xiehan restated, to assure Lin Jian and everyone else that there was nothing to worry about.

"The rest of us, together with a few investigators from Lin Jian’s side, will find Li XIyan."

Lanni had almost forgotten about that woman. Hearing Xiehan’s plan, she knew that it was fool-proof. He would not have promised anything if there was less than 100 percent chance of success.

However, it only made her feel worse.

"What’s wrong?" Xiehan was the first to notice that she didn’t seem alright.

Lanni wanted to say that it was nothing but Xiehan was planning to send the team off as soon as possible. This was the only chance to stop them. "This... all this is not necessary."

"What are you saying? He is my future father-in-law and this is the least I can do to ensure his safety." Xiehan cupped her face, thinking that she was worried about him troubling himself.

Lanni held his wrist with her shaky hand. "It’s just... not required." she stuttered. "I want to go to Galaxis."