No? Can I read the mind of my mortal enemy?

Pei Jingnian didn't know what had happened; all he knew was that his wife was crying.

He reached out and supported Shi Qiao, leading her to sit on the sofa. He gently patted her back with one hand, and with the other hand, he naturally gathered her slightly cold feet and pressed them against his stomach to warm them up.

He deciphered Shi Qiao's ambiguous words and replied to them one by one.

"I'm not going to jail, honey. Aren't I right here?" His voice was deep and full of coaxing. "What's wrong? Had a nightmare?"

Shi Qiao sobbed, "But you said everything was ready. Are you going to kill Ruan Ruan?"

Pei Jingnian was stunned.

He...did say everything was ready.

But he thought it to himself, he didn't say it aloud.

Or was it a coincidence? Did she hear it in a nightmare and it just happened to overlap unintentionally?

Also, how did your wife find out about Ruan Ruan's affair?

Shi Qiao kept wiping away the tears that were welling up in her eyes with the back of her hand. "You... it's no use lying to me. I saw it on your phone."

"The person with the black profile picture said you investigated the information and locked them up, and that you're going to mess with Xia Heng's family or something."

"Didn't you do a lot of things like this for me before? You'll make yourself hated, you big idiot!"

"What if they team up and use evidence to sue you?"

"Although...although I want to say that it was wrong of me to look at your phone, it was even more wrong of you to keep these things from me, sob sob sob."

"I know you want to help me get revenge or something, and they really do deserve to die—no, ptooey, they can't die, they can't die—but what if you go to jail?"

She was exhausted from crying, and her head drooped on Pei Jingnian's shoulder, as docile as a frightened kitten.

After saying those words, she calmed down a bit, but her body still kept twitching physiologically.

For no apparent reason, Pei Jingnian suddenly felt like teasing Shi Qiao.

"I see... I've never thought about these things before."

"What if I really go to jail? Will my wife leave me?"

Shi Qiao was startled, then tightly hugged Pei Jingnian with her hands hanging at her sides, burying her head even deeper.

During her afternoon nap, she had a remarkably vivid lucid dream.

In her dream, Pei Jingnian went to jail. She wanted to visit him, but the prison guards said he was a serious offender and couldn't be visited. No matter what reason she gave, they wouldn't let her see him.

Even her attempt to bribe the police officers with cash was futile.

They were also warned and ruthlessly thrown out.

When Shi Qiao thought of this, she felt wronged again.

She sniffed. "No, I won't leave you, but please don't go in. What if I never see you again..."

"And in the end, it's all because of me that you went to jail... I'm the one who ruined you, Pei Jingnian."

Every word he uttered was tinged with a nasal tone because of his stuffy nose, which made Pei Jingnian involuntarily tighten his embrace.

So cute!

"So, my wife really doesn't want to part with me."

So, she loved him too.

He tilted his head to the side, his eyes gleaming with obvious desire, his nose brushing against her engorged earlobe, kissing the back of her ear with a very light nibble.

"Wife, how can you be so good to me?"

"I can't live without you, so I won't go to jail."

"So cute, how can you be so cute, my wife?"

The soft sucking sounds from their thin lips touching skin were interspersed with every word.

Gradually, it slid down to those moist cherry lips, catching the person in his arms off guard, and soft, melting sounds escaped from his lips and teeth.

The warm, moist tongue skillfully parted the soft, tender lips, then slipped through the hair and deepened its touch at the back of the head.

Chan Deqiao kept pushing against Pei Jingnian's chest, and her sobs gradually turned into whimpers of pleading for mercy.

Pei Jingnian, however, chased after her fleeing tongue as if he had gone mad.

Catch them, hook them together.

They were tightly and intertwined together.

When the kiss ended, Shi Qiao seemed to have turned into a limp lump of mud, floating weakly in the man's arms.

Pei Jingnian pecked her swollen lips with lingering desire, twirled her soft hair with his index finger, and obediently rubbed his forehead against her neck.

"I'm sorry, honey. I shouldn't have kept this from you. I was planning to tell you at a suitable time."

"I was worried that I would scare you, but instead I scared you and gave you nightmares. I'm so terrible."

"I won't go to jail, honey. You can rest assured. I rarely use violence."

"For example, Xia Heng, what I did was a good thing for everyone."

"We're just informing various sectors in the area about Xia Heng's previous private dealings with business owners to prevent them from suffering financial losses."

"Pure violence is too risky, not my style, honey."

"Besides, even if he does go to jail, it's not because of you that he's going to jail."

"I should be responsible for everything I do; how can my wife take the blame?"

Shi Qiao caught her breath and gently shook her head. "Then why did you lock Ruan Ruan and the others up... weren't you going to kill them?"

Pei Jingnian seemed to be thinking, "Ruan Ruan and the others are staying there waiting for my wife to teach them a lesson."

His voice was incredibly soft, his fingertips gently stroking her trembling waist. "Didn't you say you wanted to slap them ten times back, honey?"

However, it's fortunate that I didn't impulsively sever their tendons, otherwise what if I had scared my wife?

"I'll do those things after my wife has finished scolding me."

"I did... say that," Shi Qiao said, grabbing Pei Jingnian's clothes tightly. "Then, then I'm the only one who can discipline you, okay? You can't touch my tendons, that would..."

She swallowed her tongue.

She's lost her mind!

How did that answer Pei Jingnian's inner thoughts?

He probably...didn't notice, right?

She immediately looked up, quickly changing the subject, "Pei Jingnian, anyway... anyway, you can't do that again!"

Pei Jingnian nodded, "Okay, I won't hide it from my wife anymore."

He gently wiped away Shi Qiao's tears with a tissue, as lightly as a feather brushing against her cheek.

"However, honey, I also have a question I'd like to ask you."

Shi Qiao nodded. "Go ahead and ask."

Seeing that Pei Jingnian hadn't spoken for a while, Shi Qiao blinked quickly twice, "Ask away?"

Pei Jingnian remained silent.

After a while, a voice suddenly rang in my ears:

Honey, you seem to be able to hear what I'm thinking, right?

Shi Qiao: !