Marriage of a Sickly Villain and a Fortune Hunter - Chap 45

There was nothing more embarrassing than this. Xia Xingchi was so humiliated that he covered Li Chengyuan’s face with the pillow, not allowing him to speak and wishing he could kill him on the spot.

It was a pity that this was a big cat that was not easy to raise, and he really couldn’t bear it.

Seeing that he had finally stopped talking, Xia Xingchi simply threw the pillow aside and jumped into bed himself, disguising himself as a rice ball that couldn’t move or talk.

No matter how Li Chengyuan poked him, he would remain still and refuse to come out.

Xia Xingchi’s face turned even redder from being smothered.

Li Chengyuan’s helpless expression when he repeatedly emphasized “it’s really you” appeared in his mind. The more he thought about it, the more denials he remembered. He had even scolded sourly, “You can’t even recognize your own White Moonlight?” He looked exceedingly stupid.

Li Chengyuan reached out to touch the small sushi roll that was wrapped up tightly, his eyes full of smiles, but he deliberately said with a serious face:

“Come out. If you don’t behave well, I will fire you when my “White Moonlight” comes back.”

Seeing that this bastard dared to whip the corpse endlessly, Xia Xingchi became even more furious.

He couldn’t endure it any longer, and directly jumped out of the covers and threw Li Chengyuan on the bed!

In consideration of the wound on Li Chengyuan’s back, Xia Xingchi dared not use too much force, so he straddled his waist and reached out to grasp his face, saying through gritted teeth: “Be careful, Sir, or I will bite you to death right now!”

Obviously in a good mood, Li Chengyuan smiled lightly and held Xia Xingchi’s wrist, stroking the scar bitten into his skin.

“Do you remember this scar?”

Xia Xingchi blinked and shook his head: “It seems I don’t yet.”

There was indeed a brief fragment of memory where he handed his wrist to the sick little porcelain doll and let him bite, but he still couldn’t remember clearly.

Li Chengyuan could only frown: “After you cheated me, you forgot about it.”

All these years, he had been planning to catch the little liar back, brutally imprison him, and make him pay for his actions.

But since the day of the engagement, when Xia Xingchi bumped into him, he neither recognized the “little porcelain doll” he always teased at the time, nor did he recognize his marriage partner.

On the contrary, he took the initiative to bring them together by mistake, throwing himself into his arms as soon as they met……he was too fascinating to let go, and he was also unwilling to do so.

Xia Xingchi shook his head upon hearing this and said firmly:

“Wrong! Although I don’t remember it now, I’m sure I’m not the type to do things like murder – maybe there was a misunderstanding?”

All of this was so mysterious. Just how he met Li Chengyuan across worlds, and how his age changed from being older than him to being younger than him were temporarily unsolved mysteries.

What’s more, when he talked about “cheating him out of all his money and leaving,” perhaps at some juncture he just disappeared from this world?

Li Chengyuan narrowed his eyes, as if contemplating something.

After a while, his tone was calm but sure: “No, you’re a little liar.”

Xia Xingchi disagreed with this statement and grasped his face again: “I’m not! Why are you so sure?”

“Because you deceived me with a fake train ticket.”

On such a stormy night filled with lightning and thunder, when Li Chengyuan found out that Xia Xingchi was gone forever, his first reaction was not that he had scammed him of money and run away. Rather, he was deeply afraid that something had happened to him.

After waiting for a long time with overwhelming restless anxiety, Li Chengyuan, with his high fever and weak body, got up and tried to go out to find Xia Xingchi.

But at that time, he was so sick that he could hardly walk. He’d had a high fever for several days and nights, and would vomit even after drinking water.

When he woke up again, he found that it was already noon the next day. The rain had stopped, but Xia Xingchi still hadn’t come back.

If it wasn’t for his illness, Xia Xingchi naturally wouldn’t have had to leave in the rain to buy medicine late at night, not to mention encounter a possible accident.

At this thought, feelings of fear, guilt, and remorse intertwined. Li Chengyuan lay on the ground trembling, his mind filled with various scenes of accidents.

He hated himself so much for being sick again. He had already killed his mother by driving her crazy, so now had he killed Xia Xingchi?

This thought made Li Chengyuan extremely miserable, and at the same time, he was burning with anxiety. After returning to the Li residence, he desperately tried to find him.

In the process of searching, however, he found that not only was there no child involved in an accident, even Xia Xingchi’s name and identity were fake, and there was no trace of him.

Li Chengyuan recalled that when he mentioned his hometown city, he was puzzled at the time because he had never heard of this province or city.

But a young person inevitably had less experience, so maybe he was just ignorant and didn’t know about it?

Xia Xingchi saw his confusion, so he conjured up a train ticket: “Look at the words on it, believe me now? This is my lucky ticket that helped me escape them and come to the capital! I’ll give it to you and hope that your illness will get better soon.”

But it was later discovered to be fake. The style and color of the ticket was wrong, and that city was not on the map at all.

Why make this stuff up if it wasn’t intended to be deceptive from the start?

Xia Xingchi was stunned when the other party finished speaking: “A fake train ticket? And fake location names?”

Regardless of whether he was actually so wicked, how could he have such a magical forgery ability?

But after thinking about it, he suddenly came to a realization. Xia Xingchi slapped his head and immediately reported the name of a province, city, and even a street.

Because he had been away from that place for many years, it had taken some time for him to remember it.

However, Li Chengyuan had almost engraved this information into his bones over the years, and immediately nodded with a frown: “Yes, that was it.”

With that affirmative answer, the context of things seemed to become clearer – maybe he had actually transmigrated without knowing it.

Because they were both in “Beijing,” and he was a child who didn’t know his way around upon first arriving, and had no relatives or friends, he had not realized that he wasn’t in his original time and space.

Although it sounded unbelievable, it all seemed to make sense.

“Actually, the ticket isn’t fake…..”

Xia Xingchi opened his mouth, but realized that if he wanted to explain this, wouldn’t the matter of transmigrating be exposed?

No one could easily accept the outrageous statement, “Actually, this is a book, and you are the short-lived villain who died prematurely.”

After hearing this, the other party would surely think Xia Xingchi was crazy.

Xia Xingchi dithered for a long time without knowing what to say, so he could only end the topic abruptly:

“Never mind, never mind! I can’t even remember. If I did, I would tell you, ba.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Li Chengyuan’s eyes slowly focusing on his face, with the familiar keenness and hidden depth of a hunting feline.

Xia Xingchi immediately had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, Li Chengyuan calmly set forth: “Xia Xingchi, you’re not from this time and space, right?”

He mentioned this casually, as if making an off-hand statement such as “The weather is very nice.”

However, Xia Xingchi received five thunderbolts worth of shock, and almost jumped up in fright.

He suddenly realized that Li Chengyuan might have known that he was not a “little liar,” and deliberately said this to test him.

In the process of reporting the location name and avoiding the topic, he had completely fallen into the trap and thoroughly exposed the truth.

“You……what are you talking about, ah?” Xia Xingchi could only feign ignorance. “Are you possessed? After being cheated, have you become delusional?”

Li Chengyuan only showed a smile that was not a smile, and this time he didn’t intend to let him off:

“Why were you afraid of me in the first place? How did you know I would die? And why did you think Xia Yu should have had smooth sailing?”

Every time he said a word, the hairs raised up all over Xia Xingchi’s body. His heart was beating so hard that it almost leaped out of his throat.

He never thought that this person would be so sharp, and didn’t even know when he had been completely exposed.

Li Chengyuan saw that he couldn’t utter a single deceptive argument in his astonishment. He lowered his eyes and stroked Xia Xingchi’s wrist, saying:

“You knew my destined ending – so what kind of ‘role’ did I play?”

As soon as the last sentence came out, Xia Xingchi practically heard a resounding “zap” of shock.

How did Li Chengyuan know everything?!

He set the tune with one beat of the gong, obviously aware of much more than Xia Xingchi had imagined.

“How do you……” Xia Xingchi stammered, “No, I don’t know……”

With a sigh, Li Chengyuan touched the head of the frightened little hedgehog. In fact, he had already guessed what his role should have been.

Thinking back to how terribly afraid Xia Xingchi had been of him at first, it far surpassed the awe and fear of ordinary people.

But in order not to scare him, Li Chengyuan hadn’t shown his paranoid, twisted true self in front of him at that time – one could imagine that he was probably the villain.

Li Chengyuan knew that his mental state had been deteriorating day by day. If not for Xia Xingchi’s appearance, it would be no surprise if he went completely insane soon after.

So his little hedgehog had not only returned to his side, but even changed his original hopeless ending.

Li Chengyuan smiled faintly and didn’t continue to embarrass and frighten Xia Xingchi, raising a hand to touch his head: “So when are you going to get off of me?”

Xia Xingchi was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly found that he was still straddling Li Chengyuan in a position that was not suitable for children, which painted a very colorful picture.

Xia Xingchi: “…….”

Discussing this serious matter in such an unorthodox posture was simply terrible.

He jumped up as if he had received an electric shock, and then quickly lifted the blanket, intending to get back into his hedgehog nest.

But this time, Li Chengyuan gripped him by the back of the neck: “Come out with me for a walk.”

Xia Xingchi refused and continued trying to get under the covers, saying vigilantly: “No way, the doctor said you have to stay in bed and rest, lie down and don’t move around.”

After that, he turned his head to bite Li Chengyuan’s hand that was gripping his collar, but his nose was pinched again when that hand loosened.

Li Chengyuan got up to grab his coat, obviously not intending to follow the doctor’s advice: “It’s uncomfortable to lie down all the time.”

After lying down for several days, the farthest he went was to walk down the corridor while holding onto Xia Xingchi and the IV stand, which was really difficult to bear.

There was nothing Xia Xingchi could do about him, so he stuck his head out from under the covers to make a condition: “Let’s take a stroll down the corridor again, or you can sit in a wheelchair……I can push you for a ride!”

This proposal was rejected by one vote, of course, and he even got a tap on the forehead.

Xia Xingchi compromised in the end, thinking that a walk might improve Li Chengyuan’s appetite and make him eat more. Thus, he quickly put on his coat and agreed to go downstairs to walk the cat.

The most important thing was to put more clothes on his cat, whose body had not recovered. If he caught a cold and got sick, Xia Xingchi would definitely be worried to death.

Xia Xingchi finally felt at ease once he wrapped that person tightly in three layers inside and outside. He euphemistically said, “I’ll hold you up,” but in fact, it was obvious that Li Chengyuan was dragging him crookedly by the arm to go downstairs for a walk.

This was the top private hospital in Beijing, after all, and the supporting facilities were quite exhaustive.

Downstairs, there were not only gardens and beautiful walking paths, but it was also directly connected to a small ecological park with an excellent environment.

The two took a leisurely stroll, and finally stopped in front of a shallow artificial lake. This lake was full of koi, which would come up when people passed by, likely out of the habit of being fed.

It had already entered early winter, but today was a rare nice and temperate day, not particularly cold.

With the warm sun shining on his face, Xia Xingchi squinted his eyes and took Li Chengyuan’s arm, rubbing his head on his shoulder. He suddenly felt that this day was extremely pleasant.

There was nothing more reassuring and joyful than spending time with his family’s big cat.

The two sat on a bench by the lake, and after a while, Li Chengyuan instructed a bodyguard to quickly bring fish food over. He conscientiously unscrewed the lid and handed it to Xia Xingchi.

Xia Xingchi’s eyes lit up at once at the sight of the fish food, and he stood happily by the lake feeding the fish, while Li Chengyuan watched quietly from the sidelines.

As he watched the warm sun outline Xia Xingchi with a golden border, the other’s thick and slightly long hair looked fluffy.

“Li Chengyuan, look, look, I found a……”

Xia Xinghchi stared at the pure golden koi and wanted to have Li Chengyuan take a look, but when he turned around, he found this person standing beside him quietly.

When they turned their heads, their faces happened to meet, and Li Chengyuan leaned down to kiss him gently on the forehead –

It was clearly a premeditated kiss.

Xia Xingchi was taken off guard by this unexpected sneak attack and immediately wanted to kiss him back, but he suddenly found that there were many fans around them, watching on with eyes full of pink bubbles.

As for Li Chengyuan’s kiss, many people couldn’t help but scream in excitement, and the atmosphere became even more lively.

There were quite a lot of people in the garden, and after recognizing the two of them, they quickly gathered over as if wishing to see another kiss on the head.

After being stared at in such a passionate atmosphere, Xia Xingchi immediately blushed and said: “What are you doing, there are still people here! Did you do that on purpose?”

Li Chengyuan gave a faint smile. Sure enough, he did it on purpose.

In the past, he had used various routines to get Xia Xingchi to officially announce them to the world. A certain person’s definition of “low-key” was really a double standard.

There was a lot of commotion, and there were so many fans and onlookers that it almost became a small meetup.

It was nothing more than showing affection in front of the camera, but now he really couldn’t adapt to being under everyone’s watchful eyes, especially the excited crowd that cheered and shouted: “Kiss again! President Li! Kiss Xingchi again!”

Xia Xingchi subconsciously wanted to run away, and was about to grab his big cat when he suddenly remembered that the doctor told the patient not to exercise vigorously during this time.

Fortunately, this group of fans was really affectionate and friendly, and didn’t rush forward wildly. They were likely taking into account the physical condition of everyone’s male god.

Xia Xingchi had no choice but to stand in place. He was a little embarrassed to see so many fans for the first time, and couldn’t help wanting to shrink back.

After all, Xia Xingchi had been despised for so long during his more than twenty years of life, and had never faced so many kind and loving eyes. He was a little unaccustomed to it, and even a little flattered and disbelieving.

When he took a step back in embarrassment, Li Chengyuan pulled him into his arms protectively. He gently stroked his head as if to comfort him, and then lowered his head and kissed him lightly on the cheek.

The fans immediately burst into cheers, and were so excited that they wished they could move the Civil Affairs Bureau here so that the two could get married on the spot.

“Why are you kissing me again? You want to fight, don’t you, ah?”

Xia Xingchi’s face was hot from the kiss, and he couldn’t help but puff up.

“This is doing business in front of fans,” Li Chengyuan said in a low voice, calmly revealing his righteousness, as if he was actually doing it for the sake of the cheering fans.

Xia Xingchi naturally knew that he no longer cared about business. This was just deliberately making up excuses.

“Sir, what is the relationship between us? I don’t seem to have said that we are going to be together. You’re being so familiar, ah!”

Just as he was speaking, he happened to hear a fan in the crowd shout: “Mr. Li! Xingchi! When will we be able to eat wedding candy? Today is also a working day for the Civil Affairs Bureau!”

Everyone’s goal immediately upgraded from a simple kiss to “Get married! Get married!”

Originally, everyone was just excited after meeting them by chance and wanted to knock cp to make things lively. Unexpectedly, Li Chengyuan actually answered:

He cleared his throat slightly as a signal, and everyone immediately fell silent.

They hadn’t heard him speak in person. His real voice was deeper and more magnetic than it was after being compressed and distorted online:

“We will marry and get the certificate soon – this mainly depends on whether I can please my little fiance. I am endeavoring to do so.”

After speaking, the corners of Li Chengyuan’s mouth turned up slightly and he went to look at Xia Xingchi again. Not only did he tell the truth, but he felt no shame chasing after this person, and was in a good mood.

The crowd was already very excited by his voice, and they immediately boiled up when they heard this, shouting “promise him,” which caused unknowing passers-by to wonder who was proposing.

Xia Xingchi could only stare at Li Chengyuan again. This big boss was already so hungry to get married to the point of asking fans to help force the marriage?

Of course, apart from the matter of getting married, everyone was most concerned about whether Li Chengyuan’s physical condition was better or not, and if it was serious.

After all, seeing him like this, his face was really pale and bloodless.

Xia Xingchi smiled and answered truthfully: “Don’t worry, everyone. The doctor has examined him carefully, and he will be completely fine after a period of rest.”

Li Chengyuan’s body did recover quickly. Although the interval between the two hospitalizations was so short, making it worse for his already injured body, he fortunately did not damage his foundation. Raising him back to health was no problem.

The two had nothing else to do, and didn’t refuse everyone’s requests for autographs and group photos. Xia Xingchi finally caught the feeling of being a legendary star.

It was a pity that the injury on his right hand had not healed. Although the bandage was removed, he couldn’t handle a pen very well. He only struggled to sign his name a few times before turning to take group photos.

Rather than taking group photos with them, all the cp fans obviously wanted to see them taking photos together. Li Chengyuan was uncharacteristically very easy-going and responsive in this regard, and obviously had malicious intentions. Xia Xingchi glared at him several times.

More and more people came, and the scene gradually got out of control.

Only then did Li Chengyuan raise his hand to signal the bodyguards to come forward, so as to avoid any accident that could result in Xia Xingchi being hurt again.

. . . . . .

That night, “Yuanchi cp” quickly became a trending search.

Because Xia Yu and Li Shengrui always made a mess of things before, every time Li Chengyuan and Xia Xingchi were on the trending searches, it was always in regard to wretched things done by those two wretched people.

This time, everyone was finally able to knock cp happily instead of looking for sugar among heartrending shards of glass. The scene was quite spectacular for a while.

[I’m the Civil Affairs Bureau, I moved myself here. Quick, quick, quick, I can’t wait!]

[Oh my god! It’s the first time since the reality show that I’ve seen Mr. Li and Baby Xingchi again, I’m so moved]

[Hahahaha When they met last time, they were still pretending not to know each other! Don’t try to fool our sharp eyes]

[Oooh, his hugging picture is amazing. Which sister thought of this pose, help me, I can still knock!]

[I was there! This is not a posed photo, everyone’s enthusiasm scared Baby Xingchi, and he subconsciously slipped into Mr. Li’s arms!]

[Aaah, that’s even better! It’s enough to see how they usually act around each other! I want to keep this one forever. The car door has been welded shut and I’ve swallowed the key! Get married soon!]

[They finally got close in front of the camera! ! Thanking the sisters who took pictures and videos!]

. . . . . .

This pairing was called “the pinnacle of knocking cp,” and was indeed out of control.

In the next few days, every detail from the reality show was picked out frame by frame, and even the photos of Xia Xingchi at the fashion soiree were re-posted.

The more people, the stronger they were, and in just four or five days, there was enough sugar for everyone to find.

[Hey hey, do you know there is also a black set of Xingchi’s couture?]

[Hmmmm? Ears ready for sugar! Is it for couples?!]

[I remember that dead green tea Xia Yu couldn’t rent it when he wanted to, but it’s said that Xia Xingchi bought it directly. Therefore, nobody could have borrowed it from the brand]

[That’s right! Mr. Li bought it for Xingchi! The most important thing is – I finally dug three feet to find a photo of Mr. Li that day! (image.jpg)]

[Groundhog scream ahhh! Mr. Li was actually wearing a couples style at that time! Wuwuwu these two are so good together!]

[Raising hand! I found one even more beautiful! Look at this one! (image.jpg)]

Xia Xingchi was playing on his cell phone in the dark. Playing in the dead of night was the most enjoyable time. At this moment, he was following the candy-knocking curiously, wanting to know what was more “beautiful.”

At first glance, the photo was dark and the phone screen was dim, so he couldn’t see anything.

But in his uncertainty, he exited the picture and went to the comment area and saw everyone shouting, “Knock it!.” Then he remembered that he could try turning up the brightness.

So at the risk of being blinded during the night, Xia Xingchi squinted his eyes and adjusted the phone screen to the brightest setting, and saw the photo clearly —

It turned out that it was Li Chengyuan hugging him horizontally in his arms. He was so drunk that he was actively clinging to him, hugging Li Chengyuan’s neck tightly and refusing to let go.

This was what happened after getting drunk that day?

Although the memory was a little distant and blurry, the two of them had obviously not had such a close relationship at that time, and were even slightly estranged.

Seeing these photos pieced together, it was obvious that he had insisted on playing tricks and making that person hug him, so Li Chengyuan had no choice but to follow suit.

Xia Xingchi was dumbfounded. There was actually some sugar found by the fans that made the idol look foolish……the sugar was quite sweet, and the shock quite shocking.

. . . . . . .

In the early morning, Xia Xingchi was sleeping drowsily when he had a feeling that something was missing.

He instinctively wanted to stick to Li Chengyuan’s body, but after rolling twice, he failed to roll into the target’s arms like he usually did, and couldn’t help but reach out sleepily to feel around.

But he found that the person next to him had left at some point.

Since Li Chengyuan was about to be discharged from the hospital, Xia Xingchi was worried that he wouldn’t follow the doctor’s advice to stay in bed and recuperate more, so he immediately woke up and wanted to find out where he was.

Just as he put on his slippers and got out of bed, he found that Li Chengyuan was standing on the balcony outside of the ward with his coat on, talking in a low voice as if he was on the phone.

Although his back was facing Xia Xingchi, he could still vaguely see that he was holding something in his hand and was looking down and fiddling with it.

Xia Xingchi tilted his head and gazed at him quietly. One day when he was half asleep and half awake, he had seen him standing on the balcony like this, and it looked pretty much the same —

Who was he talking on the phone with instead of sleeping so early in the morning?

What was even more bizarre was that although the fans had been enjoying themselves these past few days, Li Chengyuan seemed to be getting colder with each passing day.

Although his words and actions were the same as usual, he always seemed a little mysterious. When asked who he was on the phone with and what he was looking at, he replied calmly: “I’m looking at my fingers.”

Xia Xingchi naturally didn’t believe him. Although his hands were indeed extremely beautiful, he imagined the big tycoon playing with his hands while talking on the phone. This scene was too creepy, there was no possibility of it happening at all.

— Was it possible that this person was cheating before the relationship was confirmed?!

Of course, there was still a baseline of trust between the owner and the big kitty cat, and now was just a good opportunity to find out what Li Chengyuan was up to.

Xia Xingchi crept close to the balcony. He stretched out his head to see what Li Chengyuan was holding in his hand, and at the same time, tried to prick up his ears to hear what he was saying.

But the angle was not suitable. Although Xia Xingchi worked very hard, he could only vaguely look from the side and couldn’t see everything. He also couldn’t hear the content of his phone call clearly through the glass.

Just as he was thinking about opening the door and going to the balcony for a surprise inspection, Xia Xingchi suddenly realized in horror —

Li Chengyuan wasn’t wearing a bluetooth headset at all, so what kind of call was he making?!

This discovery was hair-raising. After waking up, he actually found out that his family’s cat was crazy and was standing on the balcony talking to himself?

Xia Xingchi couldn’t care less about tiptoeing. After all, “crazy” was just an adjective for others, but it might be true for Li Chengyuan.

He quickly jumped up and slammed the doorknob, opened the balcony door, and rushed forward!

This action was too fast and sudden, and clearly caught Li Chengyuan by surprise.

A bit of astonishment appeared in his usual calm and indifferent expression, mixed with embarrassment and tension that could not be completely concealed. Even the tips of his ears suddenly turned red.

Xia Xingchi was taken aback. He had never seen Li Chengyuan wear such an expression.

What made him even more confused was that although Li Chengyuan’s reflexes were fast enough, Xia Xingchi still vaguely saw —

The thing in his hand seemed to be a ring box?