Chapter 193 - Mr. Pei
Lu Chen gulped nervously as soon as he saw his wife’s tempting appearance. He hesitantly closed his eyes and lowered his head to stop himself from having any more uncontrollable thoughts.
He cursed silently to himself. How could be such a beast ah?
Why does he always have this urge to suddenly jump on his wife every time? Was he this much of a beast even before? God!
Hearing the sound of the bathroom door opening again, Lu Chen finally opened his eyes and saw no figure of Xiu Mei at all. He finally released the breath that he had been holding. That was close.
But as soon as he took another deep breath, he smelled his wife’s freshly bathed scent filling the room. He remembered trying to smell her shampoo to see if it was that same scent he could smell from her but he found out that it wasn’t as pleasant as it was on Xiu Mei’s body.
Her scent felt like it was hugging him. Tempting him. Bewitching him. And the fire hidden beneath continued to burn. He subconsciously started tapping the back of his tablet continuously as if he was impatient about something.
Xui Mei knocked on the door of the bathroom to tell Lu Chen that she was finished and it was now his turn. She didn’t dare to look at Lu Chen’s direction at all when she said that. Lu Chen’s breath hitched when that familiar scent intensified with her exit from the bathroom.
"Mhm." He simply replied as he tried to act as normal as possible. Picking up his change of clothes and strode at a normal pace to the bathroom. The moment he locked himself inside, he smelled that scent again but this time, it was mixed with the scent of soap and floral smell.
He took a deep breath and tried to recompose himself, organize his thoughts, and suppress the desire that was threatening to explode from within him. He quickly slipped off from his clothes, and without batting an eye, turned on the cold shower and calmed himself down with the ice-cold water.
Meanwhile, Xiu Mei didn’t know that she had just escaped from getting eaten and becoming the dessert of the wolf showering inside the bathroom. She immediately threw herself under the sheets after drying her hair and closed her eyes, trying to get some early sleep.
In her mind, she believed that it would be safer for her to sleep early than to stay awake for Lu Chen to feast on. Look at what happened yesterday when she didn’t sleep early...Xiu Mei’s cheeks reddened at the memory.
Eventually, sleep visited her early just as she wanted and the moment the husband finished his shower, he saw his wife sleeping soundly on her side of the bed. He chuckled at the sight and shook his head lightly. He turned off the lights and slipped under the blanket, scooting closer to where his wife is.
And then he carefully held her by the shoulder to turn her body towards him, making her slip head slip over his arms. Xiu Mei was always deep inside her dreamland that she didn’t even budge awake at the movements. Lu Chen casually wrapped his other arm over hers to hug her and buried her head on his chest. After he was satisfied with their position, he finally whispered to her "Goodnight" before he followed her to the dreamland.
A few hours later...
It was still dawn when the couple sleeping sweetly on the bed was awoken by their both phones ringing so loudly in the dark. Xiu Mei’s occupational habit to be awake at the sound of her phone was ingrained into her hence, albeit drowsy and still not on her senses, she subconsciously reached out to her phone as soon as she heard it ring. On the other hand, Lu Chen woke up immediately from the first second of the ring.
He thought that it was his phone just ringing, but he quickly realized that Xiu Mei’s phone was also buzzing on the bedside table. Seeing his wife waking up and slowly reach out for her phone on the bedside table, he turned behind him to reach out for his.
He grumpily looked at the screen and saw Lu Shao’s name flashing.
"Hello?" He said as soon as he accepted the call.
Meanwhile, Xiu Mei begrudgingly answered the annoying phone call. With her hazy gaze, she swiped to the right accepting the call without even looking at the caller’s name. She opened her mouth to say ’hello’ but no sound came out, but before that could completely register in her mind, the other party spoke first.
"Oh my god, Xiu Mei! Did you see the news?" Xiu Mei instantly recognized Bei Jia Ying’s voice. "Yu Zhenzhen’s husband was found dead!"
Xiu Mei’s already blank thoughts blanked out even more. It took her for a full minute before it finally registered in her mind what Bei Jia Ying said.
"!!!!"
She almost jumped in shock as she rose from the bed when she finally absorbed her words.
Yu Zhenzhen’s husband was found dead... Pei Ji Huang was dead?!
She quickly noticed that Lu Chen was also awake and turned in his direction. He was also on his phone and even if the room was dark, she could see his expression darkening by the second. With her eyes widened and mouth agape, the couple’s gaze met, and with a tacit understanding, they knew that they were on the same page at this moment.
It wasn’t only the Lu’s who were startled by the news. The entire business community and country were also shaken by the news that the Prime Minister’s son-in-law was found dead. The cause of his death has yet to be announced but the entire nation was filled with anxiety when they learned about the news. It was the son-in-law of the most powerful person in their country, and he turned up dead?
The citizens’ curiosity and anxiety were all expressed in Weibo. Pei Ji Huang’s name dominated the top five searches.
The public has been yet to be informed of the cause of death, but Lu Chen was informed by one of his men monitoring Yu Ming Xi that Pei Ji Huang’s death was suspected as murder or homicide. The autopsy is yet to be finished so the police have not started drawing their hypothesis and in which angle they’re going to start with.
At the same time, the Xiu family who is witnessing all of this in realtime through their connections was also startled. Xiu Mo Ruo and Xiu Gu Ren’s first thoughts were, is his death related to the secret shuffling of powers within the government?
After all, Pei Ji Huang’s company was recently involved with the government’s projects, funding, and handling some of the vital projects that the government considers very important. On the side of the military, some of the soldiers were immediately mobilized by the commander-in-chief to improve the security around his pregnant daughter, Yu Zhenzhen, and his security detail as well.
Xiu Mei abruptly hung up Bei Jia Ying’s call while turning on the bedside lamp.
’What happened?’ She mouthed to Lu Chen who just finished his call on his side.
"The police have yet to finalize if it was a murder or homicide. But it was confirmed that Pei Ji Huang’s really dead. His body was found by his company’s security guard in the underground garage of his office." Lu Chen summarized the brief report that Lu Shao told him.
Xiu Mei wanted to open her mouth again when Lu Chen’s phone rang to life for the second time. Both a.d.u.l.ts darted towards his phone with Xiu Mo Ruo’s name flashing on the screen.
Xiu Mei was baffled. Why was her second brother suddenly calling Lu Chen at this time of the night?
Lu Chen answered the phone.
"Hello?"
"I’m pretty sure you’ve already been informed about what happened to Pei Ji Huang." Xiu Mo Ruo’s voice sounded on the other line.
"I am." Lu Chen paused briefly for a second. "Is his death connected to what’s happening in the government?"
"That’s what we’re currently looking at. As far as we’re informed, aside from handling important government projects and being the Prime Minister’s son-in-law, he wasn’t in any way connected to anyone inside the government. I’m actually suspecting if this was a conflict of interest in the business."
"I’ll look it up on my side if that’s a possibility. Any movements after his death?"
"Still nothing. It’s just been an hour so I don’t think we’ll pick it up that fast if there are changes. I’m looking up at his projects right now to see if there’s some link between him and someone from our suspected list. I leave it to you connecting the dots on the business side since that’s your area."
"I know."
As soon as their conversation ended, it was only then that Lu Chen finally noticed Xiu Mei’s blank stare. Her eyes narrowed at him before she started mouthing words to him again.
’What was that?’ are her mouthed words.