The Overnight Chosen Wife: darling, kiss me deeper

When Lanni arrived at Li Yuming’s villa, Xiehan, Xingyu, Luna and Li Yuming were waiting for her while on the edge of their seats.

She had given them a call a few minutes ago to report that she had successfully delivered Xia Hanchen into the hands of Flynn and that they no longer needed to protect her. Even so, they were still anxious and waited for her return while sitting on pins and needles.

"Xia Hanchen is dead." She reported the good news, and everyone sighed in relief.

"I must be the only child who is happy to hear about my father’s death." Luna blinked as soon as her happy dance ended.

"You are not. I am too and so is Flynn." Lanni reassured her with a pat.

"He deserves it. It’s already good enough that he still has a family so he will not die without a burial place. He should be happy about this." Xingyu commented, frustrated by the fact that he had to watch by the sidelines as the man who tried to kill his fiancée got tortured by someone else. Even so, he would still undergo pain and die in an agonizing way so it didn’t matter too much.

"Is it too early to celebrate?" Luna asked as she rested her head against Li Yuming’s arm.

"Nope," In turn, Li Yuming tapped her nose.

"You have grown quite close in the last few days." Lanni observed, relieved that they were no longer on each other’s necks.

Li Yuming looked at her like she was an idiot. "What are you spouting about? Luna is my daughter after all. Besides, we are both mothers so we have a lot to talk about."

"Are you trying to rub in my face that I don’t have a baby yet?" Lanni pretended to sulk, making the two women along with Xingyu tease her and Xiehan endlessly.

"I feel it!" Luna exclaimed as her hand flew to her tummy. She rubbed it slowly as though she was waiting for something then sighed in disappointment.

"What is it?" Li Yuming asked, while the others dipped their heads wondering what she was waiting for.

"I thought I felt the baby kick." Luna’s voice was a mixture of anticipation and disappointment, and as soon as she spoke, she felt a jab in her stomach.

"There!" she placed a hand on her belly and almost cried from how happy she felt.

It was already a great feeling to be a mother, to know that there was a life growing inside her. But feeling her baby move about and kick, it was so magical that she so badly wished to stop time so she could feel it forever. At the same time, she wanted the days to fly so she would be able to see her little bundle of joy.

Xingyu placed his hand on Luna’s tummy, almost losing control of his emotions when he felt the little kick beneath his palm.

He placed his lips on the protruding belly. "Baby, can you hear me? I’m your daddy."

"He can’t hear you, Xingyu." Li Yuming facepalmed.

Xiehan laughed at his friend’s antics. "Don’t blame him. It’s his first time being a dad so he knows close to nothing."

Luna didn’t want her man to be made fun of so she raised an eyebrow. "How many times have you been a dad, Xiehan?"

"At least I know my facts. Besides, I will in future and I will be the best dad in the world." Xiehan bragged like he was certain about it. With his personality, no one could deny that he would make the best dad. Even so, Luna could not accept defeat. "That’s only possible if you go to another world because in this world, the best father is Xingyu."

"Ssh." Lanni suddenly hushed them and they all turned to look at her.

"Is everything alright, my love?" Xiehan asked her.

"How can we be joking around at such a time?" Her gaze ran through all of them as she scolded them in disbelief. "Xia Hanchen is dead. Do you know what that means?"

"Less problems on our plate. Isn’t that what it means?" Xingyu raised an eyebrow at her and did not comprehend why the death of the villain seemed to distress her.

"It means more problems on our plate!" Lanni corrected him with a stern glare. It was hard to believe that anyone could be so forgetful. Had all of their brains been eaten by dogs? "Have you all forgotten what lurks in the shadows? That man had a family. There is the Xia family and perhaps, the Guan family might just rise from the ashes along with the Li family. Tell me, how are you even in the mood to joke around?

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Lakeside City.

"I cannot get any news of Hanchen." Xia Yuguang reported to his aunt who was sipping on tea in the living room.

"Then spend more effort looking for him. Why would he suddenly go silent on us?" Asked the old lady. No matter what explanation anyone tried to come up with, she did not believe that Xia Hanchen could have deliberately decided to hide away.

Xia Yuguang continued making phone calls in vain and when all his channels failed to retrieve any significant news, he sat down opposite his mother with a sigh. "The last time there was news about him, he was with that trouble-seeking daughter of his."

"The one who doesn’t know how to keep her nose where it belongs even when she is pregnant?" The elderly woman sneered.

Xia Yuguang shook his head. "The other one. Lanni. I don’t know where they were going because the car seems to have disappeared off the road at a roundabout. There isn’t any trace of it after that but much later, it reappeared and the only occupant was that girl. She returned on her own and looked distressed.

"Everything about that girl is so strange. What did she do to Hanchen?" Old Mrs. Xia had goosebumps just thinking about it.

"She couldn’t have done anything." Retorted Xia Yuguang. "If a girl could do anything to Hanchen, then he would be long dead. Don’t think too much of a silly girl with barely any ability to keep herself sane."

Old Mrs. Xia didn’t know what to think of it.

Xia Yuguang frowned as he thought aloud, "What if he used this opportunity to disappear back to where he belongs? Perhaps he went to find his real family. He isn’t a Xia after all."

"Don’t say such nonsense in future." Old Mrs. Xia berated her son sternly, but she also wondered if it was possible. No matter what, there was no way she would believe that a frail girl like Lanni could do anything to Xia Hanchen on her own. Even if she possessed some abilities that no one knew about, she couldn’t do much and would have needed a lot of help.

"Keep an eye on those two girls and their boyfriends." She instructed.

"Right. Ji Xiehan. How could I forget?" Xia Yuguang looked like he had made a huge discovery.

"What about him?" Asked the elderly madam, twirling the last two small sips of her tea.

"There are things about him that don’t quite add up." Xia Yuguang explained while deep in thought. "How come his girlfriend just happens to be Lanni? Is it a coincidence that he happened to fall in love with Xia Hanchen’s daughter, whose mother is Li Yuming?"

"What do you think?" She was in thought.

"Do you think it’s possible that he already knew who she was?" He speculated.

She thought about it and thought back to the information she had gathered about all of them when they visited. "He knew who she was but not for the reason you’re thinking. He was close to Li Yuming when he was a child."

"That makes sense." He felt as though all the information he knew had reset to nothing.

....

"I set a trap for the Xias. We can deal with the Guans and the Lis later." Luna laughed out of the blue.

"What do you mean?" Lanni asked with a frown.

"Take a look at this." Luna took the laptop that was on the coffee table onto her lap and turned it on. After entering a series of codes, a video started playing. It looked like it had been taken from a traffic surveillance camera.

Lanni realized that the car she had been in had appeared on the screen but frowned when she saw the routes it took. "We didn’t go that way."

She was even more surprised when she saw herself leave Xia Hanchen’s car much later while he was nowhere to be found. "I didn’t come back in that man’s car."

"Of course not." Luna smiled evilly. "I set this trap for the Xias. Say, do you want to accompany me to watch then fall into the ditch like idiots?"

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