Chapter 32

What the hell, doesn't the Ningcheng municipal government care about this? It'll endanger public transportation safety!! TvT]

Tang Mingxi: [Proud cat head jpg]

Tang Mingxi was quite pleased by the praise and checked his reflection in the car window again.

But this time, he actually discovered Ye Heng looking at him in the window's reflection.

Ye Heng had been caught off guard and did not even have time to turn away and hide his gaze.

Their eyes met in the air for a moment.

Then, with a "thump."

They both heard the thunderous sound of a heartbeat in their ears.

Fuck.

Even as he climbed the steps onto the Black Swan Yacht, the heat on Tang Mingxi's face had yet to fade.

Damn it.

How had he been dazzled by the male lead's looks for a moment just now?!

Fine, he had loved Ye Heng when reading the novel, but back then Ye Heng had only been a fictional character!

Who didn't like the male lead when reading a novel?! TvT!

Who could have guessed he would transmigrate into the book and even become that fictional character's wife?! TvT!!

Tang Mingxi felt inexplicably depressed, but when he looked at Ye Heng aboard the yacht, that strange racing heartbeat disappeared.

So it had been an illusion. Yes, definitely an illusion :)

Everything aboard the Black Swan Yacht had been arranged according to the highest standards. Dishes from Michelin restaurants that normally cost three or four thousand were everywhere at the banquet.

At this gathering of high society, amid the glittering clothes and mingling shadows, Tang Mingxi, the star of the evening, had been surrounded from the moment he entered the yacht and had not had a moment's rest.

He had no fewer than four personal assistants at his side: one to block drinks for him, one to feed him prompts, an interpreter who spoke four languages, and a lifestyle assistant mainly responsible for checking whether any food or drinks entering Tang Mingxi's mouth had been tampered with.

All four were carefully selected elites. Standing beside Tang Mingxi, they watched his etiquette and monitored every alcoholic drink he consumed, terrified that anything might go wrong. It put him under enormous pressure.

At times like this, Tang Mingxi missed Wang Ma's simple, direct, rough-but-effective ways more than ever.

Wang Ma, my fated Wang Ma, sob qvq.

After an hour, Tang Mingxi was already a little tipsy.

Seeing this, the lifestyle assistant hurriedly reported it to Tang Yun. A few minutes later, hangover medicine was delivered.

Tang Mingxi felt stifled inside the yacht and waved a hand, saying that he wanted to take a walk on the deck.

The four immediately prepared to follow him. Tang Mingxi was practically on the verge of collapse. At this point, even being around Ye Heng would be happier than being around these four robot AIs!!

He hurriedly changed his words and said he was going to find Ye Heng. Only then did the four hesitate, glance at him, and move aside.

After all, the second young master was going to see his husband. They could hardly follow along and play third wheels.

Tang Mingxi darted into the restroom, washed his face first, and cleared his head a little.

Then he secretly took the emergency passage and slipped out onto the deck from the other end.

Just then, the conversation of two men reached his ears from the darkness.

"There are too many people. We can't find a chance to make a move."

"Wipe a little of this drug on his cup. This stuff works fast."

"Once he loses consciousness, throw him into the sea and drown him."

"Clang—!"

"Who's there?!"

Tang Mingxi's eyes widened. Realizing he had been discovered, he hurriedly ran backward.

When the two saw that their plan had been exposed, vicious looks immediately crossed their faces. They grabbed Tang Mingxi in one swift motion.

It all happened within seconds. Tang Mingxi felt darkness fall over his vision, and he instantly lost consciousness.

Ye Heng was not a good drinker, so he had deliberately avoided occasions involving alcohol that night.

After entertaining several business clients, he turned and saw Tang Mingxi's lifestyle assistant.

The assistant was equally surprised to see him and quickly said, "Sir, isn't the second young master with you? He said he was coming to find you."

Ye Heng frowned slightly. "I haven't seen him tonight."

The lifestyle assistant's expression changed, and Ye Heng seemed to realize something as well.

A sense of foreboding rose within him.

Five minutes later, the yacht's security began searching for Tang Mingxi.

But Tang Mingxi seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Something had happened!

Tang Mingxi was choked awake by the freezing seawater.

It seemed that someone had thrown him off the yacht. Tang Mingxi abruptly came to his senses and discovered that he was already some distance away from the slowly moving yacht.

"Help... is anyone there..."

"Help... someone's fallen overboard..."

His faint cries for help could not change anything. The warmth in his body was slowly fading, and under the effects of alcohol, Tang Mingxi could only hold on at the surface for a while before exhaustion dragged him under.

Seawater swallowed over his head, and the pain of suffocation hit him. Tang Mingxi struggled miserably in the water.

Was he going to die?

It seemed he was.

And he was not even going to be killed by the male lead.

Well, he was drowning in the sea either way. At least it was better than being bitten to death by sharks.

If he was lucky, perhaps his body would float back to the surface after he died, leaving him with an intact corpse.

Only...

Tang Mingxi's throat loosened slightly, and a string of bubbles rose through the dark seawater.

Before dying, he was not sure whether he had called Ye Heng's name.

It was just that, when he thought about his connection to this world inside the book,

Ye Heng was surprisingly the only one.

Just as his consciousness gradually faded, he suddenly felt someone yank him hard around the waist.

His primal instinct to survive made Tang Mingxi struggle again. He opened his eyes and saw a blurry black figure holding him tightly in the seawater.

At that moment, Tang Mingxi's craving for oxygen reached its peak.

Before he could even see who it was, he pressed close, covered the other person's lips with his own, arrogantly pried them open, and took a breath of oxygen.

Chapter 21

At that moment, perhaps it had been an illusion.

Tang Mingxi felt as if the other person had suddenly gone stiff as a rock.

When they reached the surface, Tang Mingxi was still clinging to the person like an octopus.

Of course. If he let go, he would sink straight to the bottom of the sea.

He would not let go. Not even if he died, he would not let go qvq.

He even wished he could hang his entire body off the other person. His pale arms clung tightly around the young man's neck, while his face buried itself in the crook of his neck as Tang Mingxi coughed violently enough to shake the heavens.

Ye Heng held him with one arm and had no choice but to swim forward laboriously with the other.

Tang Mingxi finally came back to himself. Breathing fresh air, he felt the aggrieved relief of having survived a disaster.

He had not expected that the one who had saved him at the crucial moment would actually be Ye Heng?

The male lead who would mercilessly push him into the sea in the future had now saved his life in the sea instead.

The contrast could not have been greater.

The grievance in Tang Mingxi's heart grew even stronger. Taking advantage of the pitch-black surroundings, he pursed his lips and secretly shed two tears.

After all, men did not cry easily. Besides, no one could see him crying if the tears fell into the sea :)

When Ye Heng turned his head, he saw Tang Mingxi secretly crying.

Thinking of Tang Mingxi's spoiled temperament, where even a scrape on his finger would have him calling a family doctor, tonight's experience must have felt like the end of the world to him.

Fortunately, the rescue team arrived quickly. In less than three minutes, lifeboats had surrounded them.

Flashlight beams swept back and forth across the water. Tang Mingxi raised a hand to shield his eyes from the glare, then felt Ye Heng grip his waist and lift him upward. Tang Mingxi cooperatively used both hands to climb into the lifeboat.

Even at a time like this, the exceptionally clever yet unremarkable little genius had not forgotten his persona as someone who could not swim.