Chapter 38 - The Ideal Target

When Yu Huiyin awoke the next morning, she found herself once more lying in Xie Jingyu's embrace. Her hands were resting on his sturdy and warm chest, her head nestling against his shoulder. Clearly she was like a small kitten cuddling against him.

This time, Yu Huiyin woke up before Xie Jingyu, and he slowly withdrew from his embrace with a slight shake of her head. Why was it that she was unable to keep her paws to herself? Every night she would end up in his embrace and sleep almost like an eight-legged octopus on top of him.

She was unaware that the one who dragged her into his embrace every night was Xie Jingyu, she was convinced that it was her own bad habits, and she was quite embarrassed by it.

Although they were married, their marriage was a contract marriage, not one where they would be together because of love, because of this, she felt that she ought to keep a certain distance.

Unfortunately, she was always climbing on top of Xie Jingyu when she was asleep, and she was not sure of how to change this. She could not control her body when she was sleeping.

Sighing, she went to the closet, picked out some clothes, and entered the bathroom to wash.

As soon as she had entered the bathroom, Xie Jingyu slowly and lazily opened his eyes. He seemed like a predator who had caught his prey and was playing with it. A smile was on his lips, but unlike the usual gentle smile, this one carried with it some wickedness and evilness.

Xie Jingyu was not a patient person. He would use any means to get what he wanted, and the more time he spent with Yu Huiyin, the more he realized that he wanted her more than anything he had ever wanted in his life.

He had never expected that one day he would encounter a woman who could affect him to this degree.

But because his wanting of her was growing increasingly dangerous each day, he was also at a point where he had a hard time holding back.

The monstrous beast within his heart was baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, ready to jump out and swallow her at any moment.

But during this time, Yu Huiyin was utterly unaware of his feelings for her; she even thought he had none, and it was tortuous.

Xie Jingyu looked at the bathroom, then he decided it was almost time for him to make a move on her, just a small one, to see her reaction to him.

He picked a suit and went to the bathroom down the hall to get ready.

After they were done getting ready, they both ate their breakfast together. This time it was a western breakfast, and while Yu Huiyin preferred the eastern style breakfast, she was not against it and had a bit of everything.

Xie Jingyu needed to go to the company, while Yu Huiyin had decided to fetch her motorcycle, but before Xie Jingyu left, he gestured for a bodyguard to come forward.

The bodyguard was not unknown to Yu Huiyin. His name was Hui Liqiang; he was one of the ones looking after her at the hospital.

"This guy is your personal bodyguard and also the designated driver." Xie Jingyu said as he looked at Yu Huiyin with tender eyes. "Make sure to bring him along everywhere you go, don't get harmed."

"Who would want to harm me?" Yu Huiyin asked with laughter in her voice, but she did not understand the gravity of the situation.

Xie Jingyu had many enemies, both in business and in private. Before he had no weakness; however, now he had one, and that weakness was his wife.

If his enemies within the underground got a hold of this piece of information, then Yu Huiyin would be in severe danger.

Xie Jingyu was well aware that a life with him would be dangerous for Yu Huiyin, but he was not able to let her go. On the other hand, he believed that she would be able to live up to his expectations and run the Empire he had built alongside him.

Sighing, Xie Jingyu looked at the naive and innocent eyes of Yu Huiyin. He was not sure how to answer her, so he reached out his hand and cupped her cheek.

"I am worried about you," he said gravely. "I understand that you want to deal with everything on your own, but at least let me feel some security by having you protected at all times."

Yu Huiyin frowned, but she could feel that Xie Jingyu was genuinely worried about her, and although she thought that it was slightly weird, she still obediently nodded her head.

He was a wealthy businessman, after all. It was hard to say if someone would kidnap her to blackmail him for money.

As such, she shrugged her shoulders and accepted the bodyguard to be her driver. She was not going to be spending a lot of time together with him, as she was going to be driving her motorcycle back to the modern manor, and he would be in the car by then.

Together, Yu Huiyin and Hui Liqiang picked a more neutral black land rover instead of the dead expensive luxury cars, and drove to the slums.

It was as if the sun never reached the slums, everything was dark and grim, and the big land rover could not enter the small alleyways.

They had to park the car at a parking lot close to the slums and walk the rest of the way, but while Yu Huiyin usually didn't feel worried walking in the slums, she was not too comfortable either. Now she was wearing branded clothes and had a bodyguard with her.

She was now an ideal target to be robbed.