282 Friends With Benefit Than F*ck Buddies

He read her like an open book and deciphered her like she was his own dialect. He smirked and motioned with his forefinger to the square box resting in the jewelry box.

She stared at him intently for a while not making a move to open the square box. She was almost afraid to see what was so worthy that it was exclusive enough among these jewels.

Taking it in her hand, she turned it in all the sides possible, for a very small box it carried weight which would be the case for pearl in the shell too. Giving him one final glance as a chance to retrieve it back, she opened it.

She gasped and threw it back in the rectangular box. She opened and closed her mouth trying to utter a word of denial or approval. The context of her speech will hardly have insignificance at this point.

She shook her head and glared at the box as if it was the Pandora's box in her life containing all the evil, "What..."

Li Yuan picked the box back and cradled it into his hand before taking out the rings the freaked her out and placed them on the table.

Her eyes fell on the white gold rings too. One more feminine and larger than the other: One had three straps with intricate filigree and in the middle, the strap had a string of perfect pink diamond string of about 2.5 carats. The other which was more masculine was thicker and had the same intricate filigree and but a steep string of blue diamonds. One look and you could recognize they were a couple.

From her angle, she could see the LY a double heart overlapping one another, and LX, their initials, carved in the underside of the rings.

She was freaking out as sh*t was getting real at this point! When she agreed to an engagement, she agreed to a pretend engagement! Where once she had her goal achieved she would disappear like a genie from the bottle!

"I want you to be my wife."

There was nothing like a suggestion in his tone despite what his word sounded like.

It wasn't even a proposition, it was a demand and this made her already deflated ego bashed with another blow. 

'Who did he think he was? Her Master?! She could see the smug look in his eyes along with seriousness. She had no Master!

She was contemplating throwing the precious stones on his face. But instead, she took a deep breath to counter to not do anything rash or uncalled for.

In the entire God-loving world she couldn't comprehend, why the hell he was so big no getting married! And that too with her? Without discrimination or biases, she was the least favorable candidate for a martial life!

She gave a sarcastic laugh and shook her head in defiance, "You said you wanted me to be your fiancé! Where is this coming from now?! Do you even hear yourself?"

He stayed calmly laid back, but she could tell by his face that darkened and his jaw the clenched, he was anything but, "Lei Xinyi,"

Her name from his lips resounded like a verdict sending a chill down her spine but she resisted every bone in her body telling her to submit, "Engagement revenues one day you will have to marry me."

Clenching her fists she tried to rein her thoughts. It was okay to be with him in a spar of no string relation…She could afford that! But a real relation entailed them being strapped together for life.

For her to come out of the shadows that had been her veil for as long as she can remember and… and it just didn't look like she could survive a relationship with him! 

He was demanding, a narcissist, a psychopath on many levels. He will need an heir someday too… She couldn't give him an heir! Any child born out of a Lei had the unique irises that were official to only Lei's so there was no hiding him or her. And any child that had Lei's blood in their veins had to be given to the patriarch…

They will come for the child and then when the Li's would refuse, it would resurrect a dying war! Above the Lei's game already going on, it was baring her neck to another dagger hanging for her execution!

And the most important fact that she was taught to peel skin, not cradle an infant! She was by no means a woman to stay in a Household. Eventually, she would get bored and would want to leave and Li Yuan will oppose the idea…

Then she will have to run and… she will run and eventually go into hiding! All in all, she will be back on square one! What good it will do then, just flare the already scorching nirvana?

On top of all these rubbles, she was already engaged to another man too who is also waiting for her to marry him!

She released a sigh in utter frustration and looked away, "Li Yuan, what we have is good we don't need to complicate something that is truly ours. Eventually, we will move forward too…"

Li Yuan cut her butter-smooth placidness at once, "So you are suggesting eventually we will f*ck but you won't marry me?!"

Her head snapped to him as her eyes burnt with devastating disrespect he had dished her but then something clicked and she shrugged, "If that's how you want to put it. I would rather, you call us friends with benefit than f*ck buddies. But both go by me."

To her, physical intimacy was just physical but nothing intimate. She was no woman who held her chastity though at that time she wasn't given a choice, period but all of these were trivial details.

He stared at her for a good minute under the golden light straining her already pale reflections. He was trying to decipher the vial of his rage.

Every woman on this planet would gravel to marry him for one reason or another, most women wanted him for his looks, who didn't want him for his looks wanted him for his money, who didn't want him for either wanted him for his charms and here she was propositioning herself to be rather a mistress?!