Chapter 562 I Am Your Man
Shen Qianan was unaware that she had slept until the afternoon. She could not help but feel annoyed. “I’ll change my clothes first before heading downstairs. You may leave!”
After seeing the servant leave, Shen Qianan headed into the bathroom. She quickly washed up and changed before going downstairs.
Shen Qianan walked a little slow as the throbbing pain between her legs made her expression change. Instinctively, she glanced at the servant beside her, but she acted like she did not see anything and looked straight ahead. “Enjoy your meal, Mrs. Fu,” said the servant.
“Don’t call me Mrs. Fu!” Shen Qianan reprimanded, “Call me Ms. Shen! I have nothing to do with Mr. Fu!”
The servant eyed Shen Qianan with an odd look and added, “Enjoy, Mrs. Fu.”
Shen Qianan took in a deep breath as she was agitated. However, knowing the servant would not do as she said, she stopped arguing with the former.
After having her meal, Shen Qianan did not see Fu Sijue for many hours afterward, even at night. It somehow made Shen Qianan feel a little uneasy, but she could not understand the origin of the insecurity.
Until it was late at night, Shen Qianan did not see Fu Sijue. She could not help but sigh in relief. However, perturbation filled her mind and made Shen Qianan somewhat restless.
She paced around the room and dared not stop for a moment.
When Shen Qianan opened the door and walked out, she was surprised to see multiple servants standing by the door. “What are you doing here?”
“Mr. Fu is worried you will be scared to sleep at night, Mrs. Fu,” explained one of the servants.
An inexplicable frown formed on Shen Qianan’s face. “Where’s Mr. Fu? Where is he? I want to see him.”
The servants kept quiet, and their silence only made Shen Qianan more annoyed than she already was. “I’m asking you a question. Where is Fu Sijue?” she demanded.
“Mr. Fu is busy with some work. I will inform Mr. Fu if you miss him,” replied the servant.
Enraged, Shen Qianan shot a fierce glare at the servant and slammed the door shut. Doing so did not successfully alleviate her anger, so she followed up with a heavy kick to the door. On the other side of the door, she heard a faint thud. It sounded as if something had fallen to the ground.
After hesitating for a while, Shen Qianan walked to the door and was about to open it, but someone twisted the doorknob from the outside. Shen Qianan quickly stepped back and hastily grabbed a lamp from the bedside table. Once she saw the figure come in, Shen Qianan raised her arm and prepared to hit the intruder. However, she was not a match for the person. Her hand was restrained tightly in the air, and she could not move an inch.
“How have you been?” A mischievous voice echoed from the top of her head. Shen Qianan felt a chill running down her spine when she heard that voice, causing her to tremble.
She lifted her head to look at the intruder and met his eyes. His eyes were dark as a bottomless abyss, and there was a glint of evil in them. Shen Qianan was stunned for a moment. The man’s face was utterly unfamiliar to her, but those eyes of his felt rather similar to Fu Sijue’s. Fu Sijue’s gaze was cold, but the eyes of the man in front of her harbored evil.
“Who are you? I don’t know you!” yelled Shen Qianan.
She tried to struggle out of the man’s grasp but to no avail. He was simply too strong for her, and she could not budge at all. “Let go of me!” she yelled once more.
“You don’t know me?” Yun Shen stroked his chin; there was a glint of mockery in his eyes. He clicked his tongue and continued, “Ms. Shi, we are supposedly old acquaintances. Even though we haven’t met for a long time, there’s no way you would forget me. After all, I did save you multiple times back then.”
Ms. Shi?
Shock flitted across Shen Qianan’s face. When she regained her senses, she exclaimed, “I’m not Shi Nuan!”
This time, it was Yun Shen’s turn to be shocked. His mischievous gaze landed on Shen Qianan as he found it hard to believe that there would be someone on earth that resembled Shi Nuan so closely.
Glancing at her face as if examining something, Yun Shen said, “Right! Although you two look alike, your composures and characters are different. Also…” Yun Shen’s gaze fell upon Shen Qianan’s stomach. “You’re not pregnant.”
Shocked at first, Shen Qianan stared at Yun Shen after hearing what he said. “Who are you? How did you know Shi Nuan?”
“Haha!” Yun Shen let out a chuckle and asked, “I should be asking you the same question. Who are you and why are you in this villa?”
Shen Qianan noticed the man did not harbor vile intentions, but she still disliked the tone of his voice. “I asked you first.”
Yun Shen stroked his chin. “Interesting!”
Shen Qianan was slightly infuriated as she continued to question the man, “Who are you? What are you doing here?” As she spoke, her gaze shifted to the servants that were lying unconscious on the ground. “Did you do that?”
Hearing that, Yun Shen raised his brows. “Yes!”
He loosened his grip on her. When Shen Qianan regained her freedom, she took a few steps back and put some distance between her and the man. She did not let the man out of her sight the entire time, staring at him warily.
Yun Shen clicked his tongue and exclaimed, “I never thought he would keep a woman in his house. A woman who looks exactly like Shi Nuan!” Yun Shen stroked his chin, and a glint flashed through his eyes.
Just then, Shen Qianan abruptly raised her head after hearing his words. “He? Do you know the owner of this villa? Tell me! Who is he?”
Despite knowing Fu Sijue’s name, Shen Qianan did not what he looked like, let alone know who he was and why he hated the Fu clan so much. This man here knows Fu Sijue, and judging by his tone, they seem to be quite close.
Yun Shen remained blissfully unaware of Shen Qianan’s thoughts. He merely noticed that a member of his family had been stirring up a commotion recently. No one had been to this villa for a long time, and all of a sudden, it was being targeted again. Yun Shen came here out of curiosity, but he did not expect the cold and unfriendly member of his family, who always rejected everyone regardless of their gender, would hide a woman in this villa. He pieced together the information and found out that during Old Mrs. Yun’s birthday party, the man’s interest was piqued by Shi Nuan.
Narrowing his eyes, Yun Shen suddenly felt things were becoming interesting. “Don’t you know who he is? You even live here! Let me think… What is your relationship with Yun Jing?”
“Who is Yun Jing?” Shen Qianan was taken aback. “Isn’t the owner of this villa Fu Sijue?”
“Fu Sijue?” Yun Shen raised his brows and gritted his teeth secretly. Then, he chuckled. “Then who are you?”
“Shen Qianan!” said Shen Qianan.
She noticed the man was surprised by her answer. Shortly after, he asked, “You’re Shen Qianan?” Shen Qianan furrowed her brows, confused by Yun Shen’s reaction. Although she did not understand why he had reacted that way, she felt as if she was missing out on something. Shen Qianan looked at Yun Shen without blinking and asked, “You haven’t told me who you are and your intention of coming here.”
Yun Shen chuckled and walked past her to the window. He noticed the commotion outside, and his gaze became fierce. “My name’s Yun Shen. We’ll meet again.”
As soon as his words fell, he opened the window and jumped toward the balcony. It all happened in the blink of an eye as his speed was shockingly fast. Shen Qianan looked at Yun Shen dumbfoundedly. She parted her lips and was about to say something when the man’s gaze turned cold. He raised his hand and hit the back of Shen Qianan’s neck, knocking her out.
Before Shen Qianan fainted, she heard Yun Shen tell her, “I’ll take you away next time!”
As soon as he was done speaking, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him. His opponent was attacking swiftly, and Yun Shen managed to block those attacks. When he noticed the person was wearing a silver mask and launching fatal strikes at him, Yun Shen furrowed his brows and left Shen Qianan on the floor. The man with the silver mask stopped his attacks in time and caught Shen Qianan in his arms.
However, by the time he lifted his head, Yun Shen was already long gone.
Under the mask, the man’s expression had darkened. He lowered his gaze and looked at Shen Qianan, who had lost consciousness. He pulled her into a gentle embrace and placed her head right next to his heart. The man behaved as if he was holding a treasure, in hopes that doing so would assure him that the person beside him was actual and existing.
Shen Qianan felt as if she was in a long, long dream. In her dream, she was struggling to run away. No matter how fast she ran, Fu Sijue was always trailing close behind, rendering her efforts to escape futile. She soon got tired of running, and Fu Sijue enveloped her in a tight hug. He kissed her lips, but his lips felt cold, and his eyes were ferocious. He grazed her cheeks softly, but the words that came out of his mouth held no warmth. “You can’t run!”
Shen Qianan’s eyes snapped open, and she noticed someone was gripping her hand tightly.
At first, she was shocked. She turned around and was met with a pair of dark, brooding eyes. Fu Sijue was staring at Shen Qianan all the time. She appeared to be dreaming. It probably was a bad dream as she was furrowing her brows and murmuring endlessly. At first, Fu Sijue could not hear clearly. Once he got close, he heard what Shen Qianan was murmuring in her sleep. “Fu Sijue, let me go, let me go!”
His hand grabbing Shen Qianan’s tightened slightly as Fu Sijue stared at her pale face. “Qian, don’t ever think about it. I won’t let you go! Not in this life!”
“Really?” Instead of delight, all Shen Qianan felt when she heard his words was fear.
She fixed her gaze on Fu Sijue, looking at him intently. Her gaze seemed distant, and Fu Sijue noticed that. He subconsciously furrowed his brows and asked, “Qian, what are you thinking about?”
Shen Qianan shook his hand off of hers and sat up from the bed. She leveled their eyes and fixed her gaze on the man as she asked, “Do you want to be with me forever?”
Fu Sijue was startled by her question, but delight soon washed over him. “Yes! Is that what you want as well?”
“Haha!” Seeing the man inch closer to her, Shen Qianan moved backward, maintaining a distance between them. “You want to be with me, but… who are you?”
Fu Sijue’s eyes dimmed instantly when he heard the words that left Shen Qianan’s lips. His gaze was dark and cold, but he did not want to scare her. He extended a hand and stroked Shen Qianan’s pale face, declaring, “Qian, I’m your man!”
“No, you’re not. You said you want to be with me, but you can’t even bring yourself to trust me. Isn’t that the most basic thing in a relationship? You don’t trust me, and that’s why you refuse to let me know your true identity. Isn’t that right?”
Shen Qianan did not forget about the man who appeared before she fainted. He told her his name was Yun Shen, and it was obvious he knew Fu Sijue.
“Who exactly are you?” asked Shen Qianan.
