Beneficial Union: Chasing A Rogue Wife

Chapter 144: Do you like it?

Though still confused with Wei Jiayi's action, Gao Lan Mei still smiled fondly at him, then answered truthfully, "Wives need to stay at home to serve their husbands. A wife cannot also deny if the husband marries another." She valued her freedom so much than to marry. Aside from that, how long would Wei Jiayi play before he became bored with her? 

"I will not marry another." Wei Jiayi said, his brows wrinkled, eyes still closed. "I will make an oath on it." He said firmly. Gao Lan Mei reached her fingers to his brows to remove his frown it. 

This caused him to grin silly. Good thing his eyes were still closed, so he was not able to see her ears turning red. "What's funny?" she said, annoyed with him. His grin disappeared immediately. He then shook his head in denial. Gao Lan Mei was sure that if his eyes were open, she would see the funny glint in them. 

Shaking her head, swallowing a little to remove the dryness of her throat, "No need for the oath." She did not want him to swear on something he might not keep. "I do not want you to do that. Anyway, despite what I want, the decree was already accepted by my family." Her voice sounded tired and sad like giving up. 

Wei Jiayi preferred her challenging him or bantering with him with anger like the strong woman she was. He did not like her being weak and sounding so helpless. The guilt was creeping to his being, 'Did I do this?' Then he started thinking about what another course of actions he could take? 

"I... " He did not know what to say. He wanted to apologize, but for what? For him bothering her despite him knowing that she wanted to be free so much? Regardless the could not give her the freedom that she clearly wanted from him. That was easy to fix if she was fine with it. 

"Would you like to look?" She asked suddenly, to which he nodded eagerly after hearing, then she added, "Looking should be fine, I guess." 

Giggling to his action, "Open your eyes then." she said softly, which he did so. 

The woman's face was enchanting to the others and would captivate any normal man's interest, for Wei Jiayi though, he could only stare not sure how to react. 

The face she was wearing was owned by Li Huan, if not for the red eyes, it would be hard to distinguish the difference. It looked like real skin, so to check he reached out to touch the face but was avoided by Gao Lan Mei.

He could also smell a strong stench of blood from it. He then quickly glanced at the big lump in the middle of the bed, which the maid seemed like guarding. The smell of iron coming from it was strong too. 

Currently, Wei Jiayi had a strong hunch that the maid was Feng Ji. Still not sure as the sparrow's human form was of a five-year-old child. The maid seemed to be around fifteen or so. 

Staring at Gao Lan Mei's disguise, wanting to touch the face but refrained because of his punishment, "Did you carve that from her?" he asked mouth tightened, referring to the skin mask she was wearing, "You are staying here since earlier." He then confirmed flatly. 

Nodding, then she did a twirl showing off her dress, it was bright red and embroidered with gold and white flowers.  Gao Lan Mei found the dress pretty, "She did not feel any pain, I promise. Do you like it?" Asking like she was only speaking about food.

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