Flash Marriage: He is a Wife-pampering Addict

Chapter 1396: I don’t want you to leave

Bai Yiyi stared at him in a daze.

For a moment, she didn’t understand whether what he said was meant to scare her, or if he was being serious.

Gu Kai’s handsome face darkened even more, and he said one word at a time: “If you dare leave and don’t come back to G City, I will never let you see Tongtong again.”

“You…”

Bai Yiyi’s small face was suddenly colored with anger.

This unreasonable man—what on earth does he want?

Gu Kai raised an eyebrow and said domineeringly, “You can go back to spend the New Year with your mom, but by the fifth day, you must return to G City. If you don’t come back, I’ll make Tongtong forget about you and call someone else ‘mom.ʼ”

Bai Yiyi’s small face alternated between pale and flushed as she furiously glared at Gu Kai’s sullenly handsome face and mocked, “So, if I stay in G City, are you planning to never get married and not find Tongtong a stepmother?”

“Tongtong has her biological mother. Why would I go through the trouble of finding her a stepmother?”

Gu Kai, that unpredictable man.

One moment, he was viciously threatening her that Tongtong would forget her if she didn’t come back. The next moment, he was smirking.

And his smirk was utterly infuriating.

Bai Yiyi really wanted to smash the phone in her hand against his face to wipe off that hateful smile.

“Weren’t you the one who said you’d make Tongtong forget about me?” Bai Yiyi gritted her teeth.

“That’s only if you don’t want her. If you’re by her side, I have no reason to find her a stepmother.”

“You should find Tongtong a stepmother because it’s impossible for you to stay single forever. The Gu Family needs boys to carry on the family line. Even though Tongtong now has the Gu surname, she’s a girl.”

“Heh!”

Gu Kai squinted his eyes and leaned forward slightly from the couch where he had lounged, his gaze narrowing as he locked eyes with Bai Yiyi. “You’re quite concerned about me. Since you’ve already given me a daughter, how about giving me a son too?”

“You know that’s impossible.”

Bai Yiyi’s face changed, her tone turning harsh.

Gu Kai looked at Bai Yiyi’s furious little face, lowered his gaze, and asked softly, “What’s impossible?”

“…”

Bai Yiyi glared at him, her chest rising and falling slightly with anger.

In the living room, she heard Gu Kai’s voice faintly linger, “Having kids is easier than marriage. It’s just one night in bed, making you endure ten months of pregnancy. You wouldn’t even need to spend a lifetime with me. How about you just give me another one…”

“Gu Kai, you bastard.”

Bai Yiyi interrupted his words with an angry curse.

“You were the one who brought up me having a son to pass on the family line, Bai Yiyi. What right do you have to call me a bastard?”

Gu Kai snorted coldly, his mood shifting quicker than the weather. “You know full well that the person I like is you. Even though your parents are my sworn enemies, I can’t make myself forget about you or treat you like a stranger.”

The anger on Bai Yiyi’s face was slowly replaced by pallor.

She stared blankly at the man opposite her, seated on the couch, hearing his accusations one after the other. “You know very well why I won’t let you leave G City. Yet you deliberately oppose me, thinking that once you leave, you won’t return. You are fully aware that I didn’t marry Fang Zhiwei before, nor will I ever marry a woman I don’t love, but you still brought up the topic of passing on the family line in front of me.”

“Bai Yiyi, you did it on purpose.”

“I didn’t.”

Bai Yiyi’s voice was weak.

Not because she was guilty, but rather, she was startled and shaken by his pointed accusations, leaving her with no confidence.

She had thought that ever since he learned that her mother had also harmed Ranran, he would hate her for a lifetime and keep her in G City merely to torment her…

“You’re not stupid; you would know what I mean.”

Gu Kai clearly didn’t believe her. He sneered, the mockery in his smile piercing. “You know it—you’re more aware of it than anyone. The reason I let your mother walk free without consequences is because I like you.”

Bai Yiyi bit her lip, her clear, watery eyes beginning to mist.

She didn’t know why, but all of a sudden, she felt so sad.

She turned her face away, unwilling to look at him, but his voice still entered her ears, each word like a heavy hammer pounding on her heart.

“Bai Yiyi, do you think that just because I like you, you can assume I’m yours to control?”

Bai Yiyi’s face was pale, her misty eyes clouded with contradiction and a hint of confusion.

“But you also hate me, don’t you?”

She heard her own voice, ethereal and sorrowful, with a sense of unreality.

It didn’t sound like it was coming from her own mouth, but it was undeniably words spoken by him.

“You’ve finally admitted it. You knew it in your heart all along.” Gu Kai laughed self-deprecatingly. The anger on his face dissipated, replaced by a rare calm, “That’s right, I like you, but I also hate you. If you weren’t Fu Jingyi and Bai Yuqin’s daughter, if your parents weren’t my enemies and hadn’t killed my mother, we could’ve been happy like Ranran and Mo Xiuchen.”

Happiness always had conditions.

Not every mutual affection meant a lifetime together.

“So why insist on keeping me in G City? If I leave, it’ll be better for both of us.” Bai Yiyi lightly bit her lip.

Her voice came out softly.

“I don’t want you to leave.”

Gu Kai’s voice was low. He didn’t even look at Bai Yiyi. Instead, he bowed his head, gazing at his long, slender, fair fingers.

Bai Yiyi almost burst into tears.

But she forced back her tears. Stubbornly, she raised her chin high and stared up at the ceiling.

Gu Kai’s conflicted and struggling tone twisted her heart.

She looked at Gu Kai, his brows furrowed, his eyes downcast, trapped in a conflict he couldn’t escape—the struggle of loving the daughter of his enemy. Strangely, her heart ached for him.

In that moment, she wished she had never met him and wished he never knew Tongtong was his daughter.

She wished he had never loved her.

If that were the case, he wouldn’t be so torn, wouldn’t be in such pain and struggle like he had for ten days before…

“Ah Kai, I’m sorry.”

Bai Yiyi didn’t say it out loud but apologized in her heart. She opened her mouth slightly, and suddenly, from the stairwell, Tongtong’s soft, sleepy voice called out with three parts of grogginess, “Mommy, Daddy.”

As soon as Gu Kai heard the voice, he immediately suppressed his emotions, stood up, and approached. Taking Tongtong from the nanny’s arms, he asked, “Have Momo and the others woken up?”

“Ziyi’s awake. Xin Xin and Momo are still sleeping,” the nanny explained with a smile. As she finished speaking, another nanny came downstairs from the second-floor stairwell, holding Ziyi.

“Uncle!”

Ziyi saw Gu Kai and grinned happily.

Gu Kai said to the Tongtong in his arms, “Tongtong, go to Mommy.”

With those words, he placed Tongtong on the floor, letting her run over to Bai Yiyi near the couch. Standing near the stairs, his tall figure waited for Ziyi to come down.

Tongtong ran over, stretched out her arms, and jumped into Bai Yiyi’s embrace. She held her tightly and called out crisply, “Mommy.” Then she turned her head, looked at Gu Kai, who was carrying Ziyi over, and called out gleefully, “Daddy, hehe…”