Contract Marriage: Billionaire and His Deaf Wife
Chapter 41 White Flower Snake and Crocodile (1)

Chapter 41: Chapter 41 White Flower Snake and Crocodile (1)

It’s so late already, going to fetch clothes?

Gu Nuan said, "This isn’t urgent, it can wait a couple of days."

"How can that be acceptable?" He put down his phone, speaking as if it were a matter of course, "How can my Mrs. Xiao dress like this?"

Gu Nuan replied, "It’s perfectly fine. We aren’t really married. How I dress at home really isn’t your concern."

She didn’t expect him to suddenly turn his head and look at her.

Gu Nuan squinted her eyes momentarily, caught off guard by his perplexing gaze.

His lips, naturally arrogant, curved into a subtle arc. This reminded Gu Nuan immediately of the evil old cat in an American cartoon.

"You’re pleased, aren’t you?"

"What?" Gu Nuan asked.

"I mean, being able to marry me and then watching that mother and son considering jumping into the river, you must be happier than anyone else, right?"

He actually turned around, laid himself down on the sofa chair, and talked to her, resting his chin on his hands.

Gu Nuan scoffed, "Childish."

His behavior was completely that of a childish boy. Did he really think she married him because Wa Zicong found another woman and she was upset? How childish!

She, Gu Nuan, isn’t a woman who would die without a man!

At first, he seemed to slightly furrow his handsome eyebrows, but then he covered his mouth with his fist, lightly laughing, "Yes, you’re right."

Gu Nuan felt he was being utterly ridiculous, uncertain which of his many faces was truly him.

"But—" Xiao Yebai turned his head back toward her and squinted those old cat-like eyes again, "you must still be a little pleased, right?"

"I’ve always found you odd. Mr. Xiao. Speaking of which, you and he are practically strangers. Why care about this matter?"

At that moment, she could read the sharp intensity in her gaze, as cutting as a knife. Suddenly, a thought struck Xiao Yebai: What kind of past had shaped this woman? He knew his own reasons very well. But this woman, according to investigation, had loving parents and a happy family. Supposedly, she shouldn’t have a character as dark as his.

However, regardless, he was captivated by her, by her demeanor, seemingly even darker than his own.

"It’s not him I care about; it’s you."

Gu Nuan felt a jolt in her heart, involuntarily.

Sweet nothings, men love to use sweet nothings. She, Gu Nuan, wouldn’t be easily deceived again now.

"Thank you for the sweet words, Mr. Xiao. But don’t forget, we are merely partners." Gu Nuan squinted her eyes, reminding him.

Indeed, she was not easy to fool, but he found himself liking that about her, her surpassing cleverness.

Xiao Yebai smiled, his thin lips hardly seeming to meet, "Mrs. Xiao, don’t you think we are a match made in heaven? You are like a White Flower Snake, and I, a venomous snake."

Meaning we’re both bad.

Gu Nuan admitted, "I’m no saint, and I can’t be one."

"So we hit it off right from the start—"

"Exactly, reaching an agreement to cooperate, nothing more."

It was slightly disheartening.

Gu Nuan thought she misread it, the flicker of expression on that man’s face, what was that brief flash?

Maybe she really had misread it. She just saw the man suddenly narrow his eyes, displaying a depth and cunning like that of an old cat, "To be precise, in the eyes of Director Li, you’re merely a small alligator that slipped through the net, perhaps not even small enough to count as an alligator, just a snake."