The Overnight Chosen Wife: darling, kiss me deeper

When Xiehan returned, Lanni had just taken a cup of sobering tea and was no longer feeling as drunk as she was earlier. She looked excited when she saw him. "How did it go?"

In response, he opened his palm to her. She was excited when she saw the strands of red hair in his hand.

Actually, there were many ways in which they could have gotten Ruby’s DNA sample but since they didn’t want the latter or anyone else to know for now, this was the best way.

Securing the hair in a lock bag, Lanni also took the glass that Ruby was using a while ago. There was no harm in having two samples.

She then tiptoed and tried to pluck a strand of Xiehan’s hair.

The man chuckled and leaned over to accommodate her height. "So casual? Aren’t you going to distract me with a hug before you pluck my hair?"

Giggling at his excuse of asking for hugs, she kissed his lips. "Is this okay?"

He nodded, then saw that she had plucked two strands of his hair and shook his head immediately. "It’s not okay. You only compensated for one strand."

Lanni was helpless at his childishness. "Such a profiteer. You won’t even let go of this little benefit?"

"Nope." He grabbed her waist and kissed her deeply. He only let go when he felt her pushing him.

"We should hurry up and find a doctor as soon as possible." She urged and kept his sample in another lock bag.

"Don’t worry about that. I already contacted a reliable friend of mine, we can give him the samples as soon as we go back to B City. Don’t worry, he wouldn’t betray me even at gun point."

"So effecient?" Lanni was awed by his speed. While she was running around like a headless chicken and battling time and thinking of what hospital would be most trustworthy, her man had already found one?

While they talked, she couldn’t help asking, "What do you wish for the truth to be? Do you hope that she is really your sister?"

When he heard her question, his eyebrows formed a slight frown. He didn’t think he needed a sister, especially considering the short part of his childhood that he had spent with Ji Feifei.

That girl was fond of destroying anything he liked and lying to their parents just to get him into trouble. Of course, he was not going to forget about how she had tried to hurt his girlfriend and boldly made a move on him.

But then again, it was probably because she knew from the start that she was not a member of the Ji family and that her only purpose of being there was to sow discord among everyone in that family.

At last, his expression remained indifferent. "I honestly don’t care whether she is my sister or not. I just want to make sure that my family will not be taken advantage of.

Although that was what he said, a thin ray of hope lingered in his heart. If Ji Feifei was not really his sister, how nice that would be...

"Yo, Xiehan, we are waiting for you guys!" Lin Jian yelled through a window.

Lanni quickly kept away the seal bags and beamed. "Let’s go."

In the living room, Lin Jian was frantically searching for a movie to watch while everyone stated their preferences.

After searching for about an hour, he wiped a bead of sweat from his forehead. "Why are you all so difficult? It’s impossible to find a suitable movie for all of you!"

"What’s wrong?" Lanni looked at the complaining man curiously.

As though he had seen a saviour, he flew over to her. "All these useless people have different preferances! Cheng Yu likes musical movies while Cedric likes action, Xingyu likes Sci-fi, I like fantasy... Right. Then there’s Xiehan. Is there any particular genre he likes?"

"Horror." Lanni said through a laugh. "But although he likes horror, my darling will love whatever I want to watch and I will love whatever he wants to watch."

Lin Jian gave her a mean look then glanced at Luna. "You both love idol and teen romance, right?"

When Luna and Lanni both nodded, he looked momentarily relieved. "Finally a pair with similar interests. Why Don’t you all pair into sets of twins? This will make work easier. Right, where is Ruby?"

Lanni was about to say that Ruby had fallen asleep when footsteps resounded from upstairs. Ruby had woken up and she walked downstairs, rubbing her eyes. She looked around and found that there was an empty space between Xiehan and Cheng Yu. She so badly wanted to sit next to her brother... But she shook her head, recalling all the misunderstandings that had arisen when she tried to get close to him before. Hence, she walked over to Lin Jian’s side.

The man seemed to remember something. "You were drinking with Lanni a moment ago... You fell asleep? How are you awake so soon?"

"Bad dream." She responded with two words and curled into Lin Jian’s embrace like a scared child. She had actually dreamed that Ji Feifei and the people behind her had found out that she told Xiehan the truth, so they killed him for revenge.

Seeing this cingy side of Ruby, Lin Jian couldn’t help patting her head comfortingly. If this was in the past, he would have used this chance to kiss her or flirt with her. However, he knew that such actions would only pass off as him playing around and not being serious about her so he restrained himself.

"Ahem..."

Everyone averted their gaze and tried not to distract this huge display of affection.

...

After searching for much longer, Lin Jian finally found a movie that everyone could watch.

It was a young adult-themed movie with a few elements of fiction and fantasy.

"I used up my brain juices to come up with this." Lin Jian declared. ’everyone, praise me’ was written all over his face.

Cheng Yu, who had been drawing a comic on her tablet all this while, was the first to face-palm. "What’s the huge deal? We could have just watched a random movie and those who don’t like it would go to watch something else on their own."

"What do you know? It’s multiple times more fun if it’s all of us watching the same movie and enjoying it." Lin Jian shrugged.

Laughing, she glanced over at Ruby. "Your taste... Is quite unique."

Lanni and Luna joined in the fun of teasing Ruby but she merely shrugged with a laugh. "Well, as long as I ignore his endless nonsense, it’s okay. Though sometimes I think his nonsense is too much to be ignored."

"What did you say?" Lin Jian looked at her like she was a heartless bandit who broke his heart. Even then, he was secretly celebrating. Ruby’s words implied that she could be with him!

Happier than him was Ruby herself. After shunning her for ages, this was the first time that the people close to Lanni were taking the initiative to converse with her. They were even teasing her! She wondered whether it was because it was becoming more obvious that she liked Lin Jian.

The movie started out quite well but halfway through, the screen started to fill with horrific scenes.

"Ah! Monster!" Cheng Yu was so terrified that she leapt onto Cedric for protection, and she did not even realize it.

Similarly, Lanni buried her face in Xiehan’s chest and only peeked at the screen through the slits of her fingers, while Ruby clung onto Lin Jian in tandem.

Luna looked at her friends speechlessly. "What are they so scared of?"

The screen was suddenly awash with bloody scenes. The men were still indifferent, while the girls were terrified. They even felt their bile build up, except Luna.

Xingyu glanced at her curiously. "You are not scared of such scenes?" 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

"Nope," She knew that they were fake, no matter how realistic they looked. Of course, everyone knew they were fake. But for her, what was so scary about it? The scenes she had witnessed in real life were miltiple times scarier. In fact, whatever was on the screen was no different from child’s play to her.

While Xiehan held Lanni in his arms to protect her and Lin Jian patted Ruby, the most joyous man in the room was definitely Cedric.

Cheng Yu was shrieking while glueing herself onto him so tightly that they almost morphed into one. Even when the scene changed to a calm one, she didn’t let go.

When she returned to her senses, she couldn’t help aplogozing in embarrassment. "I’m so sorry!"

Cedric patted her with a gentle smile. "It’s my job to protect you."

Cheng Yu’s heart skipped a beat. When did Cedric learn to say such flirty and easily misunderstood words?

When she caught Lin Jian secretly giving him a thumbs-up, she finally understood. It must be that playboy’s infl uence. Indeed, one is marked by the company one keeps.