Mercurial Personality

Shen Wuxiao looked at Liu Qingqing's mourning portrait and even reached out to touch it, as if gently caressing her face.

"Qingqing, it's been seven days, hasn't it? Are you coming back to visit?"

"You used to say all the time that you wanted to stay young forever. I help you make that wish come true—you'll be young forever now."

"And Uncle and Auntie, you used to ask me for things all the time. You wanted this, you wanted that."

"From now on, if you want anything, you can only ask for it in your dreams!"

"Is it cold down there? If it is, remember to come to me in a dream. I'll have someone pour gasoline over your graves and set it alight. That way, you'll be warm."

As Liu Ruyan listened to Shen Wuxiao's words, a layer of cold sweat rose directly across her back.

Shen Wuxiao's personality was ever-changing and incomparably vicious. He was completely insane.

She was starting to feel afraid.

Afraid that one misstep would send her to join her family.

Shen Wuxiao looked at the mourning portrait and smiled faintly. "Rest easy, all of you. I'll take good care of Ruyan for you."

"She's very obedient. I'll take good care of her. If she stops being obedient, I'll send her back to her parents' home. When you meet again, don't blame her!"

Liu Ruyan truly could not remain calm this time.

A fine layer of sweat immediately covered her forehead, while her face and lips went cold, leaving her body weak and limp.

It felt like a sudden bout of low blood sugar.

After the memorial, Shen Wuxiao turned and walked toward the sofa. He dropped onto it, spread his arms, and crossed one leg over the other.

"Ruyan, bring me a glass of red wine. Thank you!"

Shen Wuxiao smiled faintly, looking like a refined gentleman, gentle and cultured, yet every movement he made carried overwhelming pressure.

How could Liu Ruyan dare defy him? She immediately fetched a bottle of red wine.

Then she brought over two goblets.

"Are you planning to have a few drinks with me? Not bad, not bad!"

Shen Wuxiao smiled.

Liu Ruyan poured the wine and placed both glasses on the coffee table.

She then sat down beside Shen Wuxiao.

Shen Wuxiao followed suit, wrapping an arm around her boneless slender waist and pulling her into his embrace.

Liu Ruyan did not resist. She simply pressed herself against him.

At such close range, Liu Ruyan could see him with perfect clarity.

And she inexplicably felt something strange.

Fear, nervousness, anticipation, and even a little enjoyment.

She suspected that she had Stockholm Syndrome.

But Liu Ruyan knew one thing: if there were not this layer of hatred between her and Shen Wuxiao—

She truly felt that if she spent enough time around Shen Wuxiao, she would fall in love with him like a madwoman!

There was nothing to fault about Shen Wuxiao in any regard.

Whether it was his physique, his looks, his status, his power, or even his Kun Kun, all of it was top-notch.

And he was especially bad—so bad it made people's hair stand on end.

That ruthless, venomous, unpredictable personality of his was terrifying.

Yet it was precisely that wickedness that inexplicably drew people in.

It made them fear him while still wanting to get close.

They desperately wanted to be the one he cherished.

Unfortunately, she and Shen Wuxiao were destined to fight until one of them died.

Perhaps she would be lucky enough to kill him, or perhaps one day, he would kill her.

Shen Wuxiao had changed positions now. He lay directly across Liu Ruyan's thighs.

Her fragrant, soft thighs were the finest pillow.

Liu Ruyan did not remain idle either, gently massaging Shen Wuxiao's temples.

If one only looked at the scene, one would surely think they were a loving couple.

After quite a while, Liu Ruyan finally spoke. "The red wine has breathed enough."

"Mhm." Shen Wuxiao had his eyes closed as he said lightly, "I can't be bothered to move. Just feed me!"

"Feed you?" Liu Ruyan froze.

Shen Wuxiao was lying down. How was she supposed to feed him? What if she spilled it onto his face? Wouldn't he kill her?

"With your mouth," Shen Wuxiao said.

Liu Ruyan opened her mouth, but in the end, she said nothing.

She could only lean down and pick up a glass of red wine.

Then she took a small sip with her red lips and held it in her mouth.

After hesitating for a moment, she braced herself with her thighs, lifting Shen Wuxiao slightly. Supporting his head, she bent down.

She pressed her red lips to his.

Shen Wuxiao did not stand on ceremony.

A long while passed. Shen Wuxiao kept his eyes closed, as if asleep.

But Liu Ruyan did not dare make a sound.

"Run some hot water. I want to take a bath!" Shen Wuxiao suddenly sat up and casually said.

Liu Ruyan merely answered, "Mm," before rising and heading toward the bedroom.

She returned to the bathroom in her room and filled the bathtub with hot water.

As the water ran, she stood there blankly, not knowing what she was thinking.

Suddenly, she looked at the hairdryer hanging on the storage cabinet.

If she plugged in the hairdryer while he was bathing and tossed it straight into the tub—

Would everything come to an end?

Her heart pounded wildly.

Only when the bathtub overflowed did she come back to herself.

After struggling with it for a while, she still chose to give up.

She could not bear the price of failure!

After preparing the water, she went to call Shen Wuxiao.

The two arrived outside the bathroom together.

Liu Ruyan spoke very directly. "I... I can't serve you today. I'm having my period..."

Shen Wuxiao nodded. "Just scrub my back!"

Only then did the two enter the bathroom.

As soon as they entered, Shen Wuxiao saw the bathtub overflowing with water.

He merely smiled faintly.

Once he entered the tub, Liu Ruyan did as he had instructed and scrubbed his back.

"Ruyan, you must think I've brought you a great deal of humiliation. You must want to kill me too, right?" Shen Wuxiao suddenly said.

Liu Ruyan's delicate hand could not help trembling, but she still shook her head. "No... no!"

"No? Fine, perhaps I was overthinking it!"

"I thought that while you were in the bathroom, you were thinking about how to kill me. The water overflowed so much—you were clearly distracted."

Liu Ruyan forced herself to calm down.

She could see through Shen Wuxiao less and less. All she felt was that he was terrifying.

"Suppose you wanted to kill me in the bathroom. Other than mixing two disinfectants to create poisonous gas, there should only be that hairdryer!"

"Ruyan, bring me the hairdryer."

Liu Ruyan was completely at a loss. Her entire body stiffened for a moment.

"What's wrong? I asked you to get a hairdryer. Can't you do that?" Shen Wuxiao asked.

Only then did Liu Ruyan rise and walk to the storage cabinet, taking out the hairdryer.

After Shen Wuxiao took it, he gestured. "Plug it in!"

Liu Ruyan felt as though she had misheard him!

"I said, plug it in!"

This time, Liu Ruyan did not dare disobey. She could only plug it in.

Shen Wuxiao looked at the hairdryer and switched it on.

The hairdryer let out a droning whine.

Right before Liu Ruyan's eyes, he raised the hairdryer high, then let go!

"Don't!" Liu Ruyan was startled and instinctively cried out!

But it was already too late.

The hairdryer fell into the bathtub.

In an instant, arcs of electricity spread throughout the entire tub.

Liu Ruyan was so frightened that she pressed herself tightly against the wall.

Yet Shen Wuxiao remained seated inside, as though he had not been affected in the slightest.

Only when the fuse burned out did it stop.

Shen Wuxiao chuckled. "Remember this—this method won't work either. Damn it, it just feels like scratching an itch!"

"Don't put yourself in danger, understand?"

Liu Ruyan had no mind to think about any of that.

She was drenched in sweat from head to toe.

The moment she saw Shen Wuxiao let go, her heart had violently clenched.

It hurt beyond measure.

It was an instinct. Even she did not know why.

The reality was that Shen Wuxiao truly was completely unharmed.

Naturally, she did not know that Shen Wuxiao's awakened ability was lightning control.

Such a small amount of electricity could not harm him at all. Even without lightning control, relying on the physique of a Sixth Rank Fifth Stage Master, those arcs would not have caused him much harm.