Belated Romance (Mu Tongrui)

Fu Lingye clutched her against his chest and grabbed the blade with his bare hands.
The sharp edge of the knife sliced open the skin on his hand, his blood seeping out from between his fingers. Miao Qixiang
flinched and tried to pull his knife back to no avail.
Fu Lingye lifted his slender leg and pinned Miao Qixiang down, his knife clattering onto the floor.
Within three minutes, Miao Qixiang was bound to a chair, unable to move.
Fu Lingye gave Xu Kun a call and told him to call the police.
After he hung up, Mu Tongrui appeared before him with a first aid kit, pulling his injured hand over. The wound was deep and still
bleeding. Mu Tongrui could feel tears prickling her eyes as she said, “I'll wrap this up for you for the moment. It's too deep.”
Fu Lingye lifted his uninjured right hand to stroke the wound on her neck. Frowning, he said, “You're bleeding too. Pass me the
cotton buds.”
“I'm fine......”
“Give it to me.”
Mu Tongrui pulled out a couple of cotton buds and handed them to him. When he touched the wound, she hissed in pain. “It
hurts......” She whined.
Fu Lingye took a fresh cotton bud and continued to dab gently at her wound. “Be still. It'll be over soon.”
“......”
Shouldn't he be the one needing immediate medical attention?
Mu Tongrui glanced at his bloodied hand and winced. Does it not hurt or something?
She suddenly thought of the person who inflicted that wound on him, and she rushed over to land a few kicks on his nether
regions. Miao Qixiang howled in pain.
“How dare you kick me?!”
Mu Tongrui stomped his foot. “Who are you yelling at? Such a pervert! Wait till the cops come for you!”

Mu Tongrui continued to press her foot deeper into his flesh, earning painful squeals from him. “Please stop! Ma’am, I'm sorry!
Let me go!”
Mu Tongrui caught sight of the knife on the floor. That thing had hurt both herself and Fu Lingye! She picked it up and tapped
Miao Qixiang's face. “Bold of you to attack my man! How about a few stabs as retribution?”
Mu Tongrui waved the knife in front of his eyes a couple of times, almost slitting his skin open. Miao Qixiang began to shiver in
fear.
“Nonono! Please! I promise I won't do it again!!”
“You deserve to be castrated, you pervert!”
Miao Qixiang's face paled in fear.
“Please Ma'am! No!”
The tip of the blade plummeted downwards, heading straight for his crotch.
Miao Qixiang almost wet himself from shock. He squeezed his eyes shut in anticipation of the pain that never came. Slowly, he
opened his eyes and looked downwards.
Luckily, the knife was stuck in the chair, not in his male parts.
Fu Lingye couldn't help but feel attracted to her threatening persona. Even so, he still frowned and said, “Rui, come back.”
Mu Tongrui taunted Miao Qixiang with the knife for a couple more seconds before walking back to the sofa and kneeling down on
the carpet beside Fu Lingye. She grabbed his hand and proceeded to bandage it.
“Does it hurt?”
He avoided the question completely and asked, “Who's your man?”
“......”
Mu Tongrui went red in the face. This was not the time to be teasing her!
Fu Lingye looked down upon her pale neck. “Hmm?”

“Fu Lingye......”
She opened her mouth to say something, but Fu Lingye cut her off.
“Look at me.”
She did as she was told, only to be met with his lips as they pressed into hers.
Mu Tongrui was stunned, unable to do anything as he continued to kiss her.
After a few seconds, Mu Tongrui remembered that Miao Qixiang was still there, and tried to push Fu Lingye away.
Xu Kun chose that moment to rush in with the police. He gawked at the scene before his eyes.
Miao Qixiang was bound to a chair, and Fu Lingye was......kissing Mu Tongrui.
Boss must have been holding it in for really long to end up kissing Ms. Mu in front of Miao Qixiang!
Xu Kun clenched his fist and brought it up to his mouth. “Ahem!” He coughed loudly.
Mu Tongrui pushed Fu Lingye away at the sound of that, the tips of her ears getting hotter.
She looked back and saw the police and Xu Kun looking at them in mild amusement. Her face turned red as a beetroot.
“......”
Xu Kun and the police felt awkward standing there.
“Um, Boss, if there's nothing else, I'll just let the police take Miao Qixiang away?”
Fu Lingye seemed unaffected by the fact that people had walked in on his intimate moment with Mu Tongrui. That's so thick-
skinned of him!
“Alright. Take care of him for me.”
The police had Miao Qixiang surrounded and handcuffed within seconds. “We're going to the police station!”
“Please, Sirs, listen to me! I didn't hurt anyone! They hurt me!”
“Keep your mouth shut!”

After Miao Qixiang was taken away by the police, Xu Kun sent Mu Tongrui and Fu Lingye to the hospital in his car.
Fu Lingye glanced at the bandages on his left hand and scoffed, “So ugly.”
“It did its job.”
Fu Lingye lifted his arms and pulled her into a hug. He put his lips against her forehead and said, “Sorry for freaking you out just
now.”
Mu Tongrui buried her face into Fu Lingye's coat while holding on tightly to his collar. “I was so scared when Miao Qixiang held
me at knifepoint, but not anymore when you appeared. I know you would come and save me.”
“You trust me so much?”
“But......I know you weren't serious about distancing yourself from me, but I still felt so sad for a moment......Fu Lingye, don't you
dare hide your feelings next time. I'd feel hurt!”
“If I didn't put on an act just now, Miao Qixiang would have-”
“I'm talking about in the future!” Mu Tongrui said, staring into his dark pupils.
Fu Lingye stared at the woman in his embrace for a while, before his lips curved upwards. “Rui, I love it when you act like a
spoiled brat in front of me. Do it more often.”
“......”
Mu Tongrui turned red all the way to her neck.
Xu Kun could only endure this blatant show of affection. His hands on the steering wheel trembled. Is something wrong with his
ears? Since when the arrogant Fu Lingye act would so lovey-dovey, and say things so sappy that it gave Xu Kun goosebumps.
Mu Tongrui gazed at his beautiful chin and couldn't resist the urge to peck a feather-like kiss on it, like a dragonfly's touch-and-go
dance on the water.
Even so, Fu Lingye still felt the softness of her lips against his skin.
A young female doctor attended to them when they got to the hospital.

Her face turned red as a tomato the moment she started bandaging his hand.
Mu Tongrui felt indignant watching this.
How does this man get gawked at everywhere he goes?
The female doctor's fingers skimmed over Fu Lingye's beautiful hands.
Just as she was about to finish the bandaging, Mu Tongrui decided that she had enough. She grabbed his injured hand and told
the doctor, “Thanks Doctor! Let's go, dear!”
Fu Lingye looked at the woman beside him with a dazzling smile.
A hint of playfulness flashed across his eyes. “She hasn't finished patching me up, why the rush?”
“That's right! If you don't deal with this wound quickly, it wouldn't heal properly!” The doctor said hurriedly.
Mu Tongrui took a deep breath and decided to put up with it.
It took a while, but they're finally out of the hospital.
Fu Lingye suddenly grabbed Mu Tongrui's waist and pulled her close to his body. Pressing his lips against her ears, he asked,
“What did you call me just now?”
Mu Tongrui looked at him with a bewildered look. “Huh? I don't remember.”
“You sounded so natural just now! Try again?”
“......”