She Lost Memory Before the Divorce - Chapter 90

Chapter 90: Chapter 0090: The Slyness of Huo Tingxiao
 

Huo Tingxiao looked at her huffing and puffing, what had he said to make her so angry? Women, their tempers always seem to come from nowhere.

“That’s not what I meant.”

Mu Lan sneered coldly, her tone very impolite, even somewhat aggressive.

“Then what do you mean? You pamper and treat me well, but I can’t be loved. What do you think I am? Your pet dog?”

That was really harsh, and Huo Tingxiao didn’t know how to respond for a moment.

“Is it wrong for me to do what a husband should do? Don’t you women like to be pampered?”

Ha! And he still asks if it’s wrong?

“No, Huo Tingxiao, are you really stupid or just pretending to be stupid with me? If you don’t like me, why are you nice to me, why do you pamper me?

What, are we half-siblings with different mothers or what?

Do you know what this kind of behavior is called?”

Huo Tingxiao shook his head, he really didn’t know.

“This is called ‘delusional disorder of feigning succession with no throne available at home’!”

Mu Lan said each word he could recognize, but strung into a sentence, he couldn’t understand at all!

“What do you mean?”

“If you don’t understand, let me translate for you. Do you think you’re the Emperor or what? Have you been watching too many time-travel dramas? — ‘Women, I, the Emperor can grant you honor and favor, but you mustn’t expect love from an emperor.’”

After finishing, Mu Lan even felt like she was going crazy and uncontrollably shivered. It was the first time Huo Tingxiao felt there was a generational gap between him and Mu Lan; he truly didn’t know that emperors in TV dramas spoke like that.

Only now did it suddenly occur to him that he was thirty years old, while the girl in front of him was merely eighteen.

“Then what do you want me to do?”

“I want you to stay away from me!”

Huo Tingxiao’s expression turned very ugly. Mu Lan didn’t care about him, continuing to hit where it hurt:

“Since you don’t mean it, don’t pamper me or be nice or whatever. Isn’t it just a marriage in name? Who are you performing this act for?

If you ask me, we should clearly demarcate our territories, like the Chu River and Han boundary, and not be ambiguously entangled.”

“How do you want to make it clear?”

How to make it clear… Mu Lan thought for a bit.

“Ever heard of a nominal husband and wife? As long as we can get by in front of others, that’s good enough. Privately, we should not interfere with each other.”

Huo Tingxiao’s face turned completely dark, where had she learned such absurd ideas?

“Are you trying to pursue an open marriage?”

“What nonsense are you spouting? Do I look like the type to mess around? Please, I outright told Lin’s mother, who wanted to set me up with Yize, that I was married, okay?”

This self-exposure from Mu Lan made Huo Tingxiao feel like he was on the verge of a heart attack. So there was this thing between her and Lin Yize? The tone of his speech now also carried full-on danger signals.

“You’ve met his parents?”

“What meeting the parents? No… it’s not what you think. It was just that his aunt got hurt on her birthday, and Yize couldn’t drop me off at home first, so by a twist of fate, I met them. Anyway, I have a clear conscience!

Huo Tingxiao, don’t change the subject; we’re talking about how we will interact in the future.

The words have been said to this point; from now on, you don’t manage me, and I don’t manage you.

From now on, you’re not allowed one step over the line!

And rest assured, I, after running into a south wall once, that will be it — only a fool would do it a second time.

Like you? Hmph, you’re overthinking it; I absolutely won’t!”

Huo Tingxiao felt that women were truly incomprehensible creatures; she had been so rational before, how could she suddenly become so unreasonable.

“It seems we have a great divergence in our definitions of marriage; I think we… ”

“What you think is useless; from today on, I will move into the guest room to live.”

Mu Lan made up her mind. Since he had made things so clear, should she persist in refusing to be a pet dog?

Huo Tingxiao gnashed his teeth, so irritated by Mu Lan that smoke seemed to billow out of his seven orifices.

“Don’t even think I’ll agree to your demands!”

“If you don’t agree, I’m going back to my parents’ home. Yun Xi, take me back to Mu Mansion first.”

“Yun Xi, don’t you dare go!”

Yun Xi frowned slightly, feeling as if she was dealing with two three-year-olds.

“You two, rock-paper-scissors.”

No sooner had she spoken than the two of them, as if conditioned to do so, followed suit. The result was Huo Tingxiao’s victory.

Mu Lan stared dumbfounded at her own rock, very unwilling to accept the loss, but having made a bet, she couldn’t go back on her word.

Even though Huo Tingxiao had won, he wasn’t happy at all. Things had been going so smoothly between them lately, so why had they suddenly taken a step back?

When they returned to Maple Forest Garden, the housekeeper Li Sis could clearly sense that something was off between the two of them.

Mu Lan was stubborn and insisted on going to the guest room.

Huo Tingxiao watched her, not stopping her, but he had already thought of a countermeasure in his heart.

In the middle of the night, as Mu Lan slept soundly, Huo Tingxiao silently carried her from the guest room to the double bed in the master bedroom.

Come morning, when Mu Lan awoke to find herself clinging to Huo Tingxiao like an octopus, she nearly died of fright.

“How come you are in my bed?”

Huo Tingxiao put on an innocent face, looked down at a wet spot on his chest, as Mu Lan embarrassingly wiped the corner of her mouth. Oh my, she had actually drooled on him!

“Take a good look at where this is,” he said.

Mu Lan instantly sobered up, realizing that this was, in fact, their shared master bedroom!

What was going on? She clearly remembered sleeping in the guest room last night! How did she end up back here? Could it be that she sleepwalked?

Good gracious, she didn’t even know she had this problem.

Huo Tingxiao leisurely watched her puzzled expression, hardly able to suppress a smile.

“You crawled into bed in the middle of the night and started fondling me; I couldn’t very well kick you awake.”

Mu Lan’s face turned bright red, she wrapped herself in the blanket, with only her eyes showing.

“Stop it, it’s too embarrassing!”

Seeing her die of shame, Huo Tingxiao was in high spirits. She didn’t want to listen, but he just had to keep talking.

“Not only that, you were hugging and nibbling at me. I wonder what you were dreaming about that made you do that.”

Dreaming… Dreaming about what?

Mu Lan made a strenuous effort to remember. Last night, she had dreamed of eating pork buns.

No way, had she actually gone to the extent of grabbing and nibbling on someone?

Mu Lan, can’t you be a little more dignified?

“I’m sorry, I promise I won’t disturb you tonight. I… I’ll lock the door!”

Huo Tingxiao raised an eyebrow and huffed.

“You say no with your mouth, but your body is quite honest.”

As she watched Huo Tingxiao get out of bed, Mu Lan thought to herself where he had learned such lines.

After freshening up, at the breakfast table, the oblivious housekeeper Li Sis watched one person steeped in constant sorrow and the other completely at ease, and couldn’t help but wonder what had happened.

“Miss Yun, does the breakfast to your liking?” she asked.

Yun Xi didn’t expect Li Sis to ask her, and she nodded.

The awkward atmosphere finally eased a little. Mu Lan quickly tried to make small talk with Yun Xi, all the while convincing herself that nothing had happened yesterday.

Huo Tingxiao watched her act, amusement twinkling in his eyes, seemingly forgetting that the two of them were actually in a cold war.

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