Chapter 227: The first step to fight
Chapter 227: The first step to fight
Jinhai was waiting for Nana to come back from her bath. She came out, drying her hair.
“Nana-“
But she didn’t glance at Jinhai and avoided him. She sat on the bed, and Jinhai hugged her from behind. “Nana, don’t be mad at me, please. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt you. I was only worried that you are working too hard.”
Nana lowered her head and said nothing.
“Please?”
Nana touched his hand. Jinhai got happy that she was not angry anymore.
But, she pulled his arms away and freed her from his embrace.
He froze.
“Nana…”
She didn’t look at him and said indifferently, “Can we go to sleep now? It’s really late. Good night.”
She quickly changed into her nightgown and went to bed.
Jinhai was now panicking. This was the first time Nana was behaving so indifferently towards him.
Did I go too far? May be my tone was a little more stern than necessary. I shouldn’t have talked to her like that.
He didn’t want to end the day with such tension in between them. He tried to resolve their differences, but Nana was not in the mood.
He reluctantly let it go. He laid on the bed beside her and hugged from the back, her waist wrapped in his long arm.
Nana’s eyelashes trembled.
‘I’m sorry Jinhai, I’m really sorry…”
—
The next morning, Nana woke up to find the other side empty. She felt depressed after what happened last night. She could hardly sleep.
Is there really no way to beat this blackmailer?
She wanted to oppose, she didn’t want to bear all this and make Jinhai suffer either, but the threat to Jinhai’s life terrified her.
She could tolerate anything, but not any harm to Jinhai’s life.
Just as she was lost in her thoughts, her phone buzzed. It was the same unknown number.
‘Your husband has prepared a lovely breakfast for you. Tsk. Such a thoughtful man. But, remember that you don’t have to let the fight end there, okay?’
The door opened, and Jinhai came in holding a breakfast tray.
“You are up.” He smiled at her affectionately. He laid the tray on the bed and said, “I have specially made this breakfast for you. Quickly eat it before it gets cold.”
Nana looked at him and saw his expectant gaze. She knew it was an apology for last night.
She clutched the bedsheet under the blanket. “I-I am not hungry.”
“It’s alright if you don’t want to eat the whole thing, but just a little?”
“No! Why are you forcing me, Jinhai? I said that I don’t want to eat!” She raised her voice a bit. She was on the verge of crying.
Jinhai held her hands and tried to calm her down. “I’m sorry! I’m not forcing you. It’s okay if you don’t want to eat.”
But Nana got up and was about to leave the room.
“Ouch!” Jinhai softly groaned in pain.
Nana stopped and looked back. She saw that his hand was bleeding. She couldn’t think about anything else and dashed towards him. She took his hand in hers and frantically asked, “What happened? Why is your hand bleeding?”
He saw the worry evident on her face, and faintly smiled. Jinhai tried to act pitiful. “It’s nothing.” He withdrew his hand, but Nana didn’t let him.
“What nothing!? Can’t you see that it is bleeding! Now tell me how you got hurt.” She was checking how deep those bruises were.
He pursed his lips. “It’s just some minor cuts and burns. I was making breakfast and got hurt.”
“You…” She had no words to say. “You need to be careful while working in the kitchen. Thankfully it’s nothing major. I will not let you enter the kitchen until you thoroughly get to know everything about it.”
She thought that it was another attempt by that blackmailer to hurt Jinhai.
Nana brought the first aid and cleaned his wounds. Her heart ached to see the cuts on his fingers. He worked so hard on making the breakfast, and she rudely cast it aside.
She put the band-aid on the last cut and asked, “Does it hurt now?”
“A little…” He was acting like a spoiled child.
She quickly blew air on it. “Now?”
“It still hurts. If you kiss it, then it wouldn’t hurt anymore.”
Nana glared at him. Here she was so worried about him, and he was joking with her. Jinhai pulled her to his side and softly said, “Don’t be mad anymore.”
He nuzzled his nose against her white neckline. His breath tickled her skin, and soon he was flicking his tongue over it.
“L-let go.” She tried to get up, but he tightened his hold around her waist. He peppered kisses, lingering his lips on her skin. If he didn’t stop, then she feared that she would give in to his seduction.
She got up and said, trying to sound cold. “I have to go early to Natsukashi today. You will make me late. Sorry for the breakfast, but I’m really not hungry.”
Silence.
“…Okay.”
She trembled a little when she detected a trace of sadness in his voice.
Forgive me, Jinhai. Up until now, you have always protected me.
Now, it’s my turn.
—
Nana was about to leave the villa when a voice came from behind.
“Good that you didn’t fell into his charms.”
Nana stopped.
The maid smiled. “Just keep on increasing the distance from him. At one point, I thought you would really give in.”
She looked coldly at the maid.
“But I must say you have quite the willpower. My master will be pleased. Threat to someone’s life can do wonders, isn’t it?”
Nana said, “How much money has your master bribed you with? I’m Lady Liu. I can pay you much, much more than that.”
The maid smirked. “Don’t bother trying to buy me. Only my master can give me what I want. Stop trying to outsmart my master. You will never win.”
Nana smiled. “Well, I had to try at least once, right?”
Nana’s calm smile, even in such a dire situation, irked the maid.
“And no matter how much you or your master plays such despicable tricks, in the end, the only thing that prevails is the truth. The evil always has to lose.”
“Not this time.” The maid sneered.
“Says the villain every time.”
She gritted her teeth in annoyance. “Stop talking, or I can try to harm your husband any time I want.”
The smile on Nana’s face vanished, and her expression darkened. She threateningly stepped forward. If anybody who knew Nana saw her menacing gaze right now, they would definitely mistake her for another woman, as her usual kind and gentle aura had turned into something dangerous and fierce.
The maid involuntarily shuddered. She was astonished seeing the change in her.
In a low voice, Nana said, which carried a hint of a storm bubbling, “Your master and I have already decided that as long as I do what he says, he will not harm Jinhai. I am not obligated to talk nicely to you. So, if you dare take any step towards my husband, then you better be ready to answer your master. And I’m pretty sure your punishment won’t be a nice sight to see.”
The maid looked at her in utter hatred. She does remember how her master has said not to take any unnecessary steps on her own, or there will be consequences.
“So throw away any such thoughts from your head.”
The maid snorted and left.
Nana said, “Since you are a maid, you might as well do some work that you are actually paid for here. The porridge that Jinhai brought for me is spilled some of it on the sheets. Wash it and put a new one.”
The maid glared at her and quickly left.
‘Let’s see how long can you order me around.’
—
A group of four young teenagers came hustling in Natsukashi. They were laughing and teasing and joyfully took their seats. From the looks of it, it was clear that they had skipped classes and enjoying their time fooling around.
One of them exclaimed. “Finally, we skipped that old geezer’s lecture. His classes are so boring!”
Another scoffed. “Seriousl,y dude. I would have literally fallen asleep in his class. So yeah anywa,y he would have kicked me out. It was better that we took the initiative ourselves.”
A third teenager whistled. “What were you so busy in, Tian Han? I bet you must be talking lovey-dovey stuff with your girlfriend the whole night.”
The other three teasingly laughed.
“Obviousl,y why would he get any sleep?”
Tian Han rolled his eyes. “Shut up. It is related to her, but I wasn’t talking to her.”
“So?”
“Well, I finally completed the device I was working on. Remember, I told you that one day she discovered that she was spied upon in the trial room while changing with a hidden camera?”
His friends nodded.
“So, I have created a device that will help her find out such things. It is handy, and she can easily take it anywhere with her.”
“That’s cool.”
“As expected of our science geek.”
Then they saw a beautiful woman approach their table.
“Hello, welcome to Natsukashi.”
The other three teenagers blushed upon seeing her. Their ears turned a cute shade of red.
Tian Han saw their reactions and rolled his eye, although he did admit that she was beautiful.
They silently fought among themselves as to who will give the order and get the chance to talk to her.
But Tian Han already said the order, making his friends glare at him. He shrugged.
Nana looked at Tian Han and asked, “Can I ask you something?”
“Sure?”
“I got to hear your conversation. Sorry about that.”
“No problem.”
“I wanted to ask if the device you talked about, does it also detect listening devices?”