287 Crazy, Clingy Fiancé

"I meant every word. I will ruin any man who dares challenge otherwise."

She wanted to throw some salty water from the ocean in his eyes to wake him up. Why did he have to assume it was going to be a man who was going to 'challenge' his claim. Why couldn't it be her who seems to not like these brewing plans too much?

She let out a forced laugh to ease the tension and waved her hand in a dismissive manner, "This was corny and creepy."

Then she dramatically sighed and the melancholy that she didn't feel seeped into her tone, "If I wasn't me and you weren't you… I would tell you that my heart yearns for you too, your touch melts me in your arms, you make my heart jolt with passion…"

She snorted at the acidic taste the words left in her mouth, and rolled her eyes, "…You know why Lei's never marry, not that they are some pompous asses but it's just that we can't afford families… with the Heir's Game, enemies, risks, flexible lifestyles. Lei's descendants are all either drunken mistakes, illicit affairs, or rapes. My own bearer was a Mistress to a rich man…well several men."

She took a deep sigh remembering the most slutty mom she had ever known. No one could really blame her for her poor ethics. She had the shitiest role model there was. "The point is that we don't settle because it's not like we can stay. Yu Wang's mother… she wanted a family bad but she couldn't afford one. Her son was a ruse; your uncle was captivated by the enchantress. I never met her but I had heard stories that the victor of the last game wanted her for himself too but how did it end for all of them?"

"Most of all, we are nothing domestic. You are looking at a woman who doesn't even exist! It's all pretension, with all of us. We are all too damaged, cracked, or in concise words, psychopaths to be a part of the society. If you know a day of what I had done growing up as a hobby you will see me past this skin for the demons I have…"

He who was looking at her with a bored expression had already had enough of her demotion of her family and cut her off. As the next patriarch of the family, he had it rough was an understatement.

When people saw all the glimmer of his fame and fortune they often wished to suck up to him but others didn't know what he went through but she… she knew. He had an agony-inducing, brutalized childhood worse than she had.

"I have known worse…"

Lei Xinyi cut him off, as she wasn't having any of it till she made her point clear, "Yes! You have! That's what makes us more incompatible, you need some compassionate, sugary sh*t as a wife. I can't do anything except… quench your passion for me. There is nothing else I can afford and trust me this is a fleeting infatuation…"

"Lei Xinyi, you are not leaving me, I will eradicate anything in our…"

"Stop this! That's not even my name!" At the end of her wits she was about to tear her hairs out but shouted instead, "And I don't want to talk about you murdering my family!"

Li Yuan looked at her skeptically with not a shred of animosity or astonishment in his features. He had known for a long time there was no Lei Xinyi, it was just an alias everyone knew her by.

"Then what is?" His tone was calm but the underlying threat was evident.

She ignored his question, "Li Yuan…please, I don't want to fight, not every time you bring up this topic! You never listen to me and start fussing about it."

Taking a deep breath she shook her head trying to clear her head, "Listen! I am not suicidal nor I am brain-washed enough to be a merry sacrificial lamb! It's just that I don't want you to kill my cousins because they are not the problem here...That old man, this tradition is. Till all our issues are resolved you don't ever and I mean never ever speak that nauseating poetic ramble or GOD help me…"

"Right, I will eradicate…"

"No, you will not do such a thing, in fact regarding all this you don't do anything at all! We will take every day as it comes. Except for Yi Yang, all other heirs are level-headed unless provoked otherwise so we will just start by you not… killing my relatives. And please make sure Yi Yang is only kept confined and not tortured."

He held her chin lightly caressing it while his eyes inspected every emotion that ran in them, "You will not try anything stupid." It was his ultimatum, he could do things her way when she was with him where he could keep her under the wings, safe from the storm the night will endure.

But Lei Xinyi was a stubborn mule and often wanted to make hasty decisions that ended her in the pile of her own blood, for instance, her escape plan and he would be a moron if he was to ever leave margin enough for that ever again.

She nodded. "You will not proceed with anything before consulting me."

He raised a brow but nodded when she squinted her eyes, "In return, you will take the liberty to tell me where you are at all the times."

A thought struck her in the exact moment of his whereabouts. Most High society men spent their lavishness in entertaining themselves with various women.

Women who desired for riches, fame, or even an upgrade in status tripped over their feet to catch the attention of men such as him and his whorish ways were no news to her, and nor was his family men history of debauchery but that did nothing to console her rage.

If she was going to be a celibate then so will he be!

She was a possessive and callous woman in her acts, without sugar-coating it she knew the wrath of Li Yuan's Mother and Grandmother would look like angels touch if Lei Xinyi was to stake a claim on him.

Maybe she was going nuts or it's her hormones on some doped hanky panky stuff but one moment she feels like she wanted to stake her claim on him yet commitment scares her sh*tless.

No, she needed her head in the game; all these issues could be dealt with later if she is alive…

She gave him her best chilling smirk and darkened eyes, "So as it is fair, you will inform me of your whereabouts all the time. Where and with who."

"So now you are my crazy, clingy fiancé?" He raised his brow in amusement, intrigued and thrilled by her new attitude.

Lei Xinyi waved her hand dismissively, "While you are hovering around me don't even think about another wh*re. I will make a note to make an example out of her that not even your family legacy will feel brutal or nasty anymore."

"What will you do?" With a soft smile, he inquired.

Lei Xinyi smirked in her most sickle sweet way and dusted off invisible particles from his shirt, "I will rip out the eyes that looked your way, I will tear out the gut she had to come to you, and then... put a bullet in that pussy that dared wet at your sight!" 

He couldn't keep in the chuckle and pulled her in a hug, "Damn! That's so romantic. You are turning me on."

Having been exhausted beyond humanly possible on emotional and physical levels, Li Yuan decided for them to spend the night in The Beach Villa which was too extravagant to be a Beach House. 

He picked her up and walked to their designated bedroom for the night. Barely able to keep her eyes open she walked to the bathroom in a daze, hardly washing off the make-up and freshened up. 

She stripped down to her underwear and wore his shirt that he handed her before entering the bathroom.

Lei Xinyi was too tired to even comment or argue when he laid beside her and scooped her in his arms murmuring things she had no understanding of at that point.

As she hit the mattress she was out cold to the material world.