Forced Pampering: Haughty Husband, Please Restrain Yourself

Chapter 1168: Chapter 1182: She Has Nothing Left

Mu Xingfeng led her by the hand straight to the window, pulled open the tightly closed sheer curtains, and the sea breeze rushed in. From this angle, the azure sea and the white beach were laid out before their eyes.

Mu Xingfeng wrapped his arms tightly around her from behind.

An Ran turned her head to meet his gaze, taking in his handsome, resolute face and the unfathomable tenderness in those dark eyes.

”Do you like it?” Mu Xingfeng asked again.

An Ran turned around in his arms, her brows and eyes arching as she nodded. ”I like it.”

No matter how powerful this man was in front of others, he would always inadvertently reveal his delicate, vulnerable side in front of her.

She wrapped her arms around his waist and rubbed against him in his embrace. ”It’s only been a week we haven’t seen each other, it’s not like we haven’t been apart before.”

”But from the moment we parted, I haven’t stopped thinking about you,” Mu Xingfeng let her go and said solemnly.

Yes, it had only been a week since they last saw each other and he already missed her so much. But once he was transferred back to the Imperial City, he might not be able to see her for a month, or even longer.

An Ran’s face flushed red, but the corners of her lips couldn’t help curling up. Mu Xingfeng’s flirting skills were still very much online; even as an old married couple, she still couldn’t withstand them.

”Will you miss your husband?”

Mu Xingfeng couldn’t help asking as he looked at her small, adorable face. He was really afraid that once he was gone, his little wife wouldn’t be able to resist those hormone-fueled young boys at school and would be lured away by them.

If you asked when in his twenty-seven years Mu Xingfeng had ever lacked confidence, a year ago he probably would have said never. But now—heh—only he himself knew.

An Ran lowered her head and nodded slightly. ”I will.”

Mu Xingfeng directly lifted her onto the wide bay window.

An Ran was startled. When she raised her head, she found their eyes were more or less level, and the man before her was staring at her with those deep, dark eyes without blinking, as if he wanted to suck her into that bottomless pool of darkness...

In an ordinary residential building in the Imperial City, Wang Xia was marking up a newspaper, and finally circled a few restaurants that were still considered fairly upscale.

She had already been looking for a job for nearly a month. From white-collar roles at the beginning to ordinary staff positions later, she had attended no fewer than thirty interviews of all sizes, yet still hadn’t found a suitable job.

The best one had been when she was hired and then dismissed by the HR department two days later, on the grounds that she was unable to handle a simple typist position.

She hadn’t had much education to begin with. Not long after graduating, she married Haigang. After Haigang passed away, she received a large sum in survivor’s benefits, and there was even a deposit coming in every month.

She had been puzzled before; generally, survivor’s compensation was paid in a lump sum, yet in these seven years it had never stopped.

The monthly deposits into that card were even higher than a white-collar worker’s salary. Later, by chance, she learned that all the deposits to that card came from the Mu Group.

Although she knew that money shouldn’t belong to her, once she thought that it was given to her by Mu Xingfeng, she actually enjoyed that treatment with a clear conscience. Over time, she even came to feel that it was only natural for Mu Xingfeng to support her and her son, and she had been working hard at pushing it further in the direction of ”only natural.”

She hadn’t expected all of that to come to a full stop after An Ran appeared.

The survivor’s benefits from back when Haigang died had long since been squandered. Their daily expenses had all depended on that card, and now that card had been frozen as well.

When she did that thing, she had indeed prepared for the worst, but she hadn’t expected that once she lost that monthly deposit, she would be left with nothing at all.