My Crazy Omega Wife Insists I Mark Her [Transmigration Into a Book] - Chapter 5

Ruan Chenye’s first reaction was to think that the housekeeper was lying to her, but she could not figure out what reason the housekeeper would have to lie. This kind of lie would be far too easy to expose. The housekeeper had followed the original owner for so long; she could not possibly be unaware of what the consequences of betrayal were.

Since it was not the housekeeper lying to her, then could Feng Xiao really have taken things too hard?

Could it be the butterfly effect? Had her appearance changed the direction of the story?

Thinking that Feng Xiao might die because of her, Ruan Chenye instantly could not stay calm. No longer caring whether others would suspect her or not, she pushed past the housekeeper and rushed into the bedroom.

Watching how anxious Ruan Chenye looked, the housekeeper grew even more certain that her guess was correct. Thoughtfully, she closed the bedroom door and escorted Dr. Liu out of the villa.

“Feng Xiao, are you all right?”

The moment Feng Xiao saw Ruan Chenye rush in, her expression instantly turned cold. Her dark eyes looked over icily, but when she saw the seemingly genuine concern in Ruan Chenye’s eyes, Feng Xiao could not help feeling lost.

Why was this lifetime’s Ruan Chenye so different from the Ruan Chenye of her previous life?

But she would absolutely never mistake this face, nor those gray-blue eyes with a color that was very difficult for others to imitate. None of these things could be faked.

Feng Xiao recalled what Ruan Chenye had said earlier when soothing her. The concern in those words, and the naturalness in her tone—those were all very difficult to fake. She did not think Ruan Chenye’s acting skills could be that good, but she also could not explain why Ruan Chenye’s personality was so different between these two lifetimes.

After all, tonight, Ruan Chenye had still wanted to forcibly mark her.

However, Feng Xiao discovered a key point. It seemed that all the changes had begun after she knocked Ruan Chenye unconscious. This made the way Feng Xiao looked at Ruan Chenye become unfathomable.

When Ruan Chenye saw Feng Xiao standing before her safe and sound, the heart hanging high in her chest finally fell back into place. It was good as long as nothing had happened to her.

Then the question was, how was she supposed to explain her behavior just now to Feng Xiao? She could not say it was because she cared about her, right? Feng Xiao definitely would not believe that.

Stupid brain, hurry up and think of an excuse!

The corner of Ruan Chenye’s mouth twitched. Seeing the increasingly strange look Feng Xiao was giving her, Ruan Chenye’s heart rose into her throat again.

Feng Xiao noticed the flash of guilt that crossed Ruan Chenye’s face.

Got it!

Ruan Chenye stuffed one hand into her pocket and walked up to Feng Xiao, looking down at her from above. With a faint smile that was not quite a smile, she said, “I heard from the housekeeper that you were going to kill yourself. You couldn’t naively think that dying would let you escape me, could you? Let me tell you, alive, you’re mine; dead, you’re my ghost. Since you married me, you belong to me for the rest of your life. Even if you die, your corpse is still mine. When the time comes, I can do whatever I want. Thinking about it that way, doesn’t it sound even more exciting?”

These words were truly asking for a beating. After Ruan Chenye finished saying them, even she wanted to punch herself. She did not even dare look at Feng Xiao’s expression, so she lowered her gaze and stared instead at Feng Xiao’s medicated wrists.

“I won’t kill myself. You can rest assured.”

Feng Xiao was already suspicious that something was wrong with Ruan Chenye. From the moment Ruan Chenye entered, Feng Xiao had been watching every expression on her face. Seeing that after saying those words, Ruan Chenye seemed to avoid looking at her, Feng Xiao became even more certain that Ruan Chenye was definitely hiding something.

She had been injured by Feng Xiao, yet she did not punish her. She clearly wanted to mark her, yet she took the initiative to give her a suppressant. She clearly did not care whether Feng Xiao lived or died, yet she was afraid Feng Xiao would kill herself. Her mouth spoke threatening words, but her eyes were full of guilt.

Contradictory.

This was far too contradictory.

No matter how Feng Xiao looked at the things she had just listed, none of them seemed like something Ruan Chenye would do.

Could it be that she was not Ruan Chenye?

Feng Xiao pondered the changes that had occurred in Ruan Chenye, growing increasingly suspicious that the Ruan Chenye before her had already been replaced by someone else. But then came another question: when had the person been replaced?

She had personally knocked Ruan Chenye unconscious, and she had personally watched her wake up. There had been no time to switch people at all.

This question made Feng Xiao fall silent again. Countless doubts surged into her mind like waves, making her head begin to ache.

“Remember what you said.”

Hearing Feng Xiao’s answer, Ruan Chenye let out a breath of relief in her heart. She looked at how late it had already gotten, then felt the wound on her forehead growing more and more painful. Her tightly strung nerves instantly relaxed, and she could not hold back a yawn.

Too many things had happened tonight. In just two short hours, her body and mind had suffered an enormous shock. Right now, she did not want to think about anything. She only wanted to rest properly.

But how was she supposed to sleep tonight?

The original owner had just tried to force herself on Feng Xiao. Right now, Feng Xiao definitely did not want to sleep in the same room as her. Besides, she had no intention of following the plot at all. For the sake of her sleep quality, and also for Feng Xiao’s sake, it was better for them to sleep separately.

“It’s late. You sleep here. I’m warning you one last time: remember your identity. Since you married me, you are a member of the Ruan family. Don’t think about running away or killing yourself. You won’t want to bear my anger.”

Ruan Chenye curled her toes awkwardly as she copied the original owner’s tone. After speaking, she immediately turned and left, not wanting to stay there even one second longer.

She left the bedroom to Feng Xiao and decided to find a guest room to make do for the night. Tomorrow, she would have the housekeeper arrange a room for Feng Xiao.

Fortunately, the point in time she had transmigrated into was the very beginning of the story. Feng Xiao’s impression of her only remained on the surface. Everything could still be changed in time.

Feng Xiao narrowed her eyes and watched Ruan Chenye’s departing back, the expression on her face becoming increasingly grave.

She was definitely not Ruan Chenye.

This time, Feng Xiao could draw a definite conclusion. She had been imprisoned by Ruan Chenye for five long years. Although she did not want to admit it, if there was anyone in this world who understood Ruan Chenye best, it had to be her.

Ruan Chenye was selfish and arrogant. She had always considered herself supreme. Anything she set her eyes on, she would seize by any means necessary. If anyone else touched even a little of it, that was a provocation to her.

At the beginning, the only thing that had confused Feng Xiao was why, when Ruan Chenye clearly liked Feng Ling, she insisted on entangling herself with Feng Xiao. Later, she stopped dwelling on it. She did not want to know what Ruan Chenye’s motives were anymore. She only wanted this lunatic dead.

Could Ruan Chenye have been reborn too?

The moment this thought emerged, Feng Xiao crushed it.

Absolutely impossible.

She believed that no matter how many times Ruan Chenye was reborn, she could never change her original personality. At the very least, those gray-blue eyes would absolutely never be so clean and clear.

And if Ruan Chenye had truly been reborn, she would absolutely not let Feng Xiao off. After all, Feng Xiao had personally driven that knife into Ruan Chenye’s chest. Before she died, Ruan Chenye had still been cursing her viciously. If she had been reborn, how could she possibly let her go?

But if it was not rebirth, then what was the reason for the changes in Ruan Chenye?

Feng Xiao sank into deep thought.

She had confirmed one question, only to discover even more questions.

Feng Xiao rubbed her slightly swollen brow. Fatigue gradually surged through her body as well. Dense, prickling pain spread through her entire body, while drowsiness came in waves from her brain.

Her current body was not as durable as it would be five years later. Feng Xiao decided to rest first.

She locked the bedroom door from the inside. After washing up briefly, Feng Xiao lay down on the bed in a hurry and soon fell asleep.

On the other side.

After leaving the bedroom, Ruan Chenye walked down to the second floor and casually pushed open a guest room door, preparing to rest.

She took off the silver-gray suit that made her feel restrained. After thinking about it, she decided not to trouble anyone else and simply use the shirt she was wearing as sleepwear for the night.

The guest room had a separate bathroom. Disposable toothbrushes and toothpaste were piled on the sink for guests to use.

After washing up simply, Ruan Chenye threw herself onto the soft bed and gradually stared blankly at the ceiling.

“I never thought I’d manage to catch up with the trend of transmigrating into books in my lifetime. It would’ve been nice if I hadn’t become the villain, though. But it doesn’t matter. When the time comes, I’ll work hard and strive to join the protagonist’s team.” As Ruan Chenye spoke, she laughed out loud.

She stretched out a hand across her eyes, blocking the light shining down from the chandelier, and her mood sank again.

“I wonder if I can still go back.”

She actually quite liked her job as a psychology teacher. Every day, she listened to those kids talk to her about what was on their minds, and occasionally they would even share gossip with her. Being among those kids made her feel as though her whole person had become a lot younger.

She wondered what her original-world self was like now. Was she dead, or had the original owner transmigrated over?

Thinking of the original owner transmigrating into her body, seeing luxury cars and mansions turn into a monthly-rent-two-thousand-five-hundred apartment and a subway worth hundreds of millions, Ruan Chenye could not help shivering. She could not resist mocking herself. “I don’t even know which one of us is more miserable.”

At that thought, Ruan Chenye amused herself by imagining a fallen domineering CEO squeezed into the subway. She laughed and laughed, then sighed again.

“Sigh. Fine. Whether you died or transmigrated into my body, in any case, this time, live properly and be a law-abiding good citizen. Don’t harm people anymore. My world isn’t like yours. Over there, we have police.”

Ruan Chenye turned over and lay on her side. Looking at the enormous moon outside the window, she slowly closed her eyelids. Her voice grew smaller and smaller.

“I have to live properly too. Live…”

She knew that her greatest strength was her big heart. In the principal’s words, she was like wild grass that could not be trampled to death. Wherever she was, she could survive.

Beep, beep—

The instant the phone alarm rang, Ruan Chenye instinctively opened her eyes. Although the sleepiness in her gaze had nearly turned tangible, a habit maintained for several years could not be changed all at once.

Ruan Chenye lay on the bed and stretched lazily, then slowly sat up. Her head drooped, nodding bit by bit. Clearly, she was still not fully awake.

Her phone rang again. This time, it was not the alarm, but a call.

“President Ruan, where are you right now? Are you still coming to today’s meeting?” The woman’s voice carried a trace of soft charm. In one sentence, she paused to breathe three times, as if she were blowing air beside Ruan Chenye’s ear. Ruan Chenye instantly woke up and moved the phone away in disgust.

“I’m coming. Go prepare.”

Ruan Chenye hung up and raised a brow at the note on the call screen.

Xu Zhiqing. So it was her.

In the novel, this Xu Zhiqing always deliberately created an ambiguous atmosphere with the original owner, causing many people in the company to misunderstand that there was some shameful relationship between the two of them. Later, in order to humiliate Feng Xiao, the original owner deliberately forced and marked Feng Xiao in the office, only for Xu Zhiqing to walk in and catch them red-handed.

Then Xu Zhiqing believed that Feng Xiao had stolen her happy future, and began deliberately targeting Feng Xiao, spreading rumors that she was a mistress who had climbed into power, and even provoking her to her face.

And that lunatic original owner, in order to punish Feng Xiao for being disobedient, even let Xu Zhiqing bully Feng Xiao.

In any case, when Ruan Chenye had read that part of the plot, she had wanted to charge in and punch the original owner twice first, then give Xu Zhiqing two solid punches too. A pair of lunatics. Her Feng Xiao was truly pitiful.

Hmph. This time, she absolutely would not let this Xu Zhiqing bully her Feng Xiao again.

This time, Ruan Chenye truly woke up completely. She subconsciously reached out to rub her face, only to forget about the wound on her head.

“Hiss—so painful.” Ruan Chenye sucked in a breath of cold air. “What is this?”

Looking at the gauze she had ruthlessly yanked off, Ruan Chenye’s vision went black.

The wound that had originally begun to heal a little had been messed with by her like this. Great. Now it had split open again.

Ruan Chenye threw the gauze into the trash can and sighed helplessly.

“Forget it. I’ll reapply medicine later.”

Ruan Chenye buttoned up her wide-open shirt, picked up her suit jacket, and walked out of the guest room.

In the hallway, the maid who was cleaning had her head lowered as she worked. When she saw Ruan Chenye come out of the guest room, it was as if she had seen a ghost, and she nearly cried out.

“P-President Ruan, why did you sleep here last night?”

The corner of Ruan Chenye’s mouth twitched. She had not expected to run into someone the moment she came out. She did not know how to answer this question, so she simply did not answer it. Instead, she asked, “Is Feng Xiao awake?”

“Madam is awake. She just went downstairs,” the maid quickly answered.

Ruan Chenye’s brow jumped. This group of people adapted quite well, didn’t they? They called her Madam with every other sentence. If they kept calling her that for a few more days, even she was going to get used to the fact that she had married a woman.

Ignoring the startled gaze behind her, Ruan Chenye turned around and went upstairs, returning to the bedroom.

After returning to the bedroom, Ruan Chenye planned to take a shower first. She walked into the bathroom, and when she saw the bathtub big enough to fit four or five people, she could not help letting out a “wow.” Her eyes shone. She thought that if the timing were not wrong, she would want to enjoy it right now.

Unfortunately, the timing was wrong. Ruan Chenye shook her head regretfully.

After a quick shower, Ruan Chenye walked out of the bathroom in a bathrobe, wiping her hair while thinking about what to wear. When she raised her eyes, they met Feng Xiao’s dark, heavy gaze dead-on.

Ruan Chenye’s pupils shrank, and a rich tea fragrance instantly filled the entire space.