Marry the NPC with Money, Wife Comes Knocking - Chapter 143

Chapter 143

After Hua Suihe placed everything they needed in the bathroom, the livestream was temporarily shut off to protect their privacy.

Hua Suihe called Ye Susheng over. Looking at the tattered clothes on her body, she frowned and gently pinched the hem, lifting it a little. There was dried blood on her skin too.

Not knowing whether there were any wounds beneath it, she wet a cotton pad and wiped the blood away, her movements meticulous, terrified of touching an injury.

Only after she had cleaned all the blood from Ye Susheng’s stomach and found no wounds did Hua Suihe let out a breath of relief.

Hua Hua poked her belly with one finger. “How did you end up in such a state? How did your clothes get slashed up like this?”

Ye Susheng lowered her head, looking slightly guilty, and answered in a small voice, “I got into a fight.”

Hua Suihe’s expression turned indignant. “Who dared to bully our Ye Zi and even slash up the new clothes I bought for Ye Zi? Absolutely hateful!”

Ye Susheng’s red-rimmed eyes had yet to recover. Hearing Hua Suihe’s words, she froze for a moment. Once she reacted, she immediately seized the opportunity and began airing her grievances. “The new clothes Hua Hua bought… got ruined. They did it on purpose. They used knives and slashed like this.”

As she spoke, she even mimed the motion with her finger.

“They? So they ganged up on you too!”

“Yes. Those impostor were awful.” Ye Susheng took every chance to badmouth them. Seeing distress appear on Hua Suihe’s face, she hurriedly continued, “But they couldn’t beat me. They got in the way of me looking for Hua Hua, so that’s why I didn’t find Hua Hua in time.”

Ye Susheng’s mood sank, and her voice dropped into a choked whisper. “And because of that, Hua Hua ended up soaking in seawater…”

“No, I didn’t even taste the seawater.” Hua Suihe’s tone was light, and with one sentence, she steered away from the subject. She gestured for Ye Susheng to raise her arms, then easily peeled the filthy clothes off her.

Once they were off and nothing blocked her view, Ye Susheng’s skin showed no injuries, but it was covered in dark red bloodstains. There were stains on the front and the back, clearly the kind left behind by blades piercing straight through her body.

Ye Susheng’s healing ability was strong, so no scars could be seen now. But looking at this evidence, it wasn’t hard to imagine what state she had been in when she was injured.

Hua Suihe’s fingers brushed those spots lightly. Even though she knew Ye Susheng would never cry out in pain in front of her, she still asked instinctively, “Does it hurt?”

Ye Susheng shook her head. She watched Hua Suihe’s movements, but her mind had already wandered to other little schemes.

Hua Suihe was in no mood to fool around with her right now. She tested the temperature of the bathwater with her hand, wet a towel, wiped the blood and grime from Ye Susheng’s body, then applied body wash and scrubbed away the smell.

Ye Susheng’s eyes narrowed, a little dazed. She murmured, “Hua Hua…”

Hua Suihe picked up the showerhead and rinsed off the foam, then motioned for her to sit in the bathtub.

“Hua Hua, I want to…”

Hua Suihe refused at once. “Nope. The privacy blackout only lasts half an hour. We’re at home right now, not in a dungeon location, so time can’t freeze here.”

Ye Susheng sat in the bathtub, both hands gripping the edge. She stared at Hua Suihe with unsatisfied longing. Seeing that Hua Suihe truly had no intention of doing anything wife-and-wife with her, she couldn’t help feeling secretly wounded.

Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that the dense red cracks on her arms had yet to disappear. Realizing with a start that she was still in a state of Anomalization, she hurriedly raised her hands to cover her eyes.

Hua Suihe moved a small stool over and sat outside the tub. Not understanding why Ye Susheng had suddenly turned her back, she reached out and poked her on the back. “What’s wrong? Are you upset?”

“But what I said is the truth. Our livestream is already bloody enough as it is. It wouldn’t be great to add adult content on top of that, right?”

Seeing no reaction from her, Hua Suihe pretended to compromise. “Fine, if you don’t mind… it still isn’t happening.”
Still no response. Hua Suihe stood up, circled halfway around, and leaned in to look at her from the front. Seeing Ye Susheng covering her face without saying a word, she reached out to tickle the hollow of her neck. “What is it? What is it? Are you really mad?”

“Hua Hua, I can’t change back…” Ye Susheng’s voice carried an unmistakable tremor of fear. “I can’t change back. What do I do? I’ve turned into an ugly monster.”

The moment she thought about herself being stuck with those ugly monster traits, grief welled up in Ye Susheng’s heart. She whimpered until tears streaked her face.

Hua Suihe finally realized that what Ye Susheng cared about was her appearance after Anomalization, and hurried to comfort her. “How could that be? Maybe you’ll recover in a little while. Besides, you’re not ugly at all. You can’t call yourself an ugly monster.”

“I am ugly. What am I supposed to do when I’m this ugly? Wuuuu~” Her Anomalized appearance was one of the very few things Ye Susheng would ever argue with Hua Suihe about.

In her eyes, the appearances Thriller granted to Anomalies were ugly. It was the same for everyone. Other Anomalies were ugly, and she was ugly too.

Then she thought of how Hua Hua had just rejected her invitation for intimacy. Maybe it was also because Hua Hua found her current appearance impossible to stomach. Wuuuu~

Ye Susheng felt terribly wronged and sobbed in little hiccups.

Hua Suihe had no idea what wild conclusions she had leapt to, but the sight of her drowning in sadness was genuinely heartbreaking.

Hua Suihe pulled her hands away and saw Ye Susheng’s tearful red eyes. She wiped away a bit of moisture with her finger and held it beneath Ye Susheng’s eyes. “Look. The tears you’re crying now aren’t blood-colored anymore. That proves you’re recovering, doesn’t it?”

Ye Susheng sniffled and blinked, then looked at Hua Suihe’s finger. Sure enough, they were normal tears.

She was recovering, just slowly.

Hua Suihe bent down, leaned in, and kissed her on the lips. Tasting the salty bitterness of tears, she stroked Ye Susheng’s damp hair. “All right. Our Ye Zi has the most top-tier looks. You have the prettiest human appearance, and you’re also the prettiest among Anomalies.”

Ye Susheng sank a little lower into the water, her head resting on the edge of the tub. Her ruby-red eyes gazed at Hua Suihe, shimmering with tears. “Really? Hua Hua really thinks I’m the prettiest?”

“Of course. I’ve never seen an Anomaly prettier than Ye Zi.”

Ye Susheng reluctantly accepted that she was the best-looking of the ugly monsters.

Ye Susheng shifted to one side of the bathtub. “Hua Hua hasn’t showered yet, right? Come in with me~”

Hua Suihe silently chanted to herself, Just ten minutes.

In the end, under Ye Susheng’s eager gaze, she stood there and gave herself a quick rinse with the showerhead.

She even left the bathroom before Ye Susheng did.

Wearing her pajamas, Ye Susheng stood at the bathroom door, staring resentfully at Hua Suihe, who was doing her skincare at the vanity.

When she saw that Hua Suihe wasn’t paying attention to her, she took the initiative to walk over and sit down in the chair beside her.

“Is Hua Hua’s livestream still on?”

“Yeah. I don’t know what’s going on today.” Hua Suihe applied a sheet mask to her face, baffled. “Usually, after we leave a dungeon, the livestream perspective gets cut off. But we’re home now, and the livestream still hasn’t been turned off.”

Ye Susheng also expressed her dissatisfaction. “With so many pairs of eyes watching, Hua Hua won’t even get intimate with me anymore.”

[Hey, hey, hey, this has nothing to do with me, okay?]

[That was half an hour just now, right? It really seemed like only half an hour. Why didn’t you extend the time?]

[Half an hour isn’t enough to get anything done. The livestream room is way too inconsiderate.]

[Actually, if the stream is shut off for half an hour, and things still aren’t over when it comes back, the privacy protection will make the screen go black too.]

[So when the screen goes black, you can look at your own thirsty face reflected on it, huh, you little glutton?]