(Yesterday’s chapter was revised. If you read it before noon on 2025/7/16, you may want to read it again.)
“You’re asking why I was chosen as Alicia’s fiancée?”
Luo Ye took a sip of coffee and casually replied, “Who knows? Maybe His Majesty thinks I’m handsome.”
“You’re spouting nonsense!” Hisina couldn’t help but glare angrily at Luo Ye, her voice cold as she said, “Isn’t it because you used your connections to get the Sage to speak ill of me before His Majesty? If you had any self-awareness, you’d give Alicia back to me.”
Why does everyone think I’m some kind of Relationship Household?
Is being a Relationship Household really something to be proud of?
Yes, that’s right!
But this time, Luo Ye swore to the heavens, he truly didn’t use any connections. If he really had, he’d eat this table right here and now.
Luo Ye narrowed his eyes. “Aren’t you mistaken? Do you really think Alicia belongs to you?”
“I…” Hisina was momentarily at a loss for words, but then she regained her cold demeanor and said, “It doesn’t matter if you refuse, this isn’t up to you. Or do you really think you can take good care of Alicia?”
“Whether I can or can’t take care of her, that’s not for you to decide—it’s for Alicia to say. And are you sure that by making a scene here, Alicia will actually want to go with you?” Luo Ye said.
Just now, Luo Ye took the chance to glance at Alicia, and saw that her elegantly crossed legs were subconsciously angled toward his side.
According to psychology, when a person’s legs are crossed, they will unconsciously angle toward someone they are familiar with or trust.
So Luo Ye understood that, at this moment, Alicia was on his side.
He could safely launch his offensive against Hisina.
And as a result, his words angered her.
“Don’t be ridiculous.” Hisina couldn’t help but say, forcing herself to look at Luo Ye with suppressed anger in her eyes. “Do you even know anything about Alicia and my past? You’re just an outsider—what right do you have to point fingers?”
“Hisina, don’t be mean to Luo Ye.” Alicia raised her head and stopped her.
“Sorry.” Hisina instantly lowered her head like an obedient puppy, but at the same time, she secretly lifted her gaze, full of longing, desire, and humility, carefully observing Alicia.
Hopelessly devoted to women.
“Let’s go outside and talk in private.” Luo Ye said to Hisina.
Hisina furrowed her beautiful dark brows, her bright ice-blue eyes glancing in the direction Luo Ye was leaving. Subconsciously, she checked Alicia with her peripheral vision, and seeing that Alicia never lifted her head and just sat there elegantly sipping her tea, she immediately understood that this was Alicia’s intention as well.
So, Hisina reluctantly left her seat, heading out to face Luo Ye alone… no, to ‘punish’ Luo Ye.
Luo Ye leaned against the railing, calmly drinking water from his cup. He didn’t rush to respond to Hisina’s earlier accusation of him being an outsider, nor did he pay any attention to her angry glare.
From the very beginning, he felt that Hisina was being far too arrogant.
“Hisina, I can tell you clearly, today was my first time meeting Alicia. And there’s something else…”
Luo Ye took a deep breath.
From the moment they met, Hisina hadn’t cared about Alicia’s feelings, nor his own position. She just started accusing him of stealing Alicia away.
Even if, three years from now at Alicia’s Funeral, it was obvious how deeply Hisina cared for Alicia, that didn’t give her the right to harass him and Alicia now for no reason.
In a way, Hisina and Anna were extremes on two different levels.
One was obsessive, the other submissive.
Even at noon today, Luo Ye could see that Alicia had her own Secret, but Hisina was still lost in her fantasies of a perfect Past and future.
“You’re really someone who only ever thinks about yourself.” Luo Ye said with a gentle smile.
“What did you say?!”
Hisina immediately clenched her fists, her waist-length silver hair seeming to sway even without wind, like an angry witch. In her eyes, white-blue flames flashed, as if she was about to summon ice and snow to blanket the earth.
How could he say that about her?
Clearly, she and Alicia were meant to be together, so how could this third wheel act like he was the main character, pointing fingers at her?
Luo Ye didn’t know what strange thoughts were running through Hisina’s mind at that moment. Instead, he took a deep breath and calmly said:
“I don’t know about your Past with Alicia.”
Hisina’s eyes immediately lit up.
“But that doesn’t stop me from fulfilling my Marriage Contract with Alicia.”
Hisina’s expression darkened instantly.
See, there she goes again, getting all worked up.
Luo Ye put down his coffee cup.
“No matter what, Alicia has done me a favor. I did unintentionally interrupt your conversation this morning, and that was my fault. I can apologize for that. But you wouldn’t listen to my explanation, and Alicia had to step in for me—that’s also a fact.”
“Just from that starting point, a person’s character decides everything. I believe there’s nothing inappropriate about Alicia being my fiancée. On the contrary, she can become a great support for me in the future. And you know my identity—I can also be a vital support for Alicia in the future.”
“Besides, I bet you’re very curious about the Truth behind why Alicia left you back then. But as Alicia’s fiancé, of course I stand by her side, so I won’t tell you. That would only make things difficult for her.”
Luo Ye systematically dismantled Hisina’s earlier attacks from three different angles, then played his trump card.
He was betting that, for the time being, Hisina wouldn’t find out the reason Alicia left her, and that Alicia herself wouldn’t take the initiative to tell her.
So he could use this as leverage to keep Hisina in check.
“You…”
Hisina took a deep breath, pointed at him, stomped her foot, her face flushed red, as if she wanted to curse him out: “You really are… really are…!”
Luo Ye saw that Hisina, perhaps because she’d never cursed someone out before, got stuck on the words and couldn’t continue, so he said seriously:
“What I’m saying is, have you ever considered the possibility—one you may never have realized—that I’m about to reveal to you?”
“…” Hisina saw his gaze, full of aggression, and instinctively felt the hairs on her flawless skin stand up. Her jade hands unconsciously hugged her arms, and she cautiously took a step back, looking up at him like a wary little animal.
“What do you mean? What is it that I haven’t realized?”
Luo Ye straightened up, took a step forward, and looked down at her from above. “You actually don’t care whether Alicia is happy or not. You just want to keep Alicia tied to your side, don’t you?”
“Eh?!” Hisina’s pupils trembled.
Now, Hisina’s heart began to waver, but she still gritted her silvery teeth and glared at Luo Ye.
“That’s not true! I really am worried about Alicia’s safety, that’s why I want to bring her back.”