The weather is rather sweltering, a bead of sweat rolling down the woman's long and fair neck, slipping into the open collar of her shirt.

She puts down the brush in her hand, pulling her long hair up with a hairpin.

Her delicate and white nape of neck is scattered with numerous marks, emanating a sense of alarming possession.

Ji Mingyan doesn't wish to wear high-collared clothing in the middle of summer, but marks unsuitable for public view cover her body. Embarrassed by the sight, she has no choice but to wear the loose, autumn shirts, the hems swaying against her slender and straight legs.

She had turned on the air conditioning in the villa, so the heat wasn't intolerable.

She opens a pack of fruit candy, feeling nauseous after having just a couple, wanting to vomit.

Stifling her discomfort, she consumes a few more until she is forced to run to the bathroom and throws up...

Cupping her stomach, Ji Mingyan lies weakly on the bed, her slender and white finger bringing out the contraceptive pills that Jiang Ting gave her and inspected them.

Are these really contraceptive pills?

As Jiang Ting once emphasized that he didn't want children for the fear that a child would interfere with his position in her heart, he swore so sincerely that Ji Mingyan didn't suspect him of tampering with the contraceptive pills.

But now that her period was delayed by a week and she had started to vomit, she couldn't help but to raise a question.

Ji Mingyan clicks pictures of the medicine bottle and pills and asks for a doctor's help.

Doctor: "These contraceptives...They're vitamins!"

Ji Mingyan trembles with rage.

Jiang Ting, you insane man!

How dare he replace birth control pills with vitamins?!

There's nothing Jiang Ting wouldn't dare to do. He took advantage of Ji Mingyan's naiveté in love, convincing her to stay at home painting after graduation. His possessiveness was extreme; even the Border Collie they kept at home was female.

She had initially agreed to be a magazine model for a senior classmate, but now she couldn't go.

She called to explain the situation, and the senior classmate showed understanding.

After hanging up the phone, the senior classmate sobbed and wailed.

"Who has ruined my fairy Yan Yan?! Who?! Who?!"

"What's happened to Yan Yan?"

"She's pregnant, sob sob sob…"

"Damn it! Rascal, come out and face your death!"

"Ahhhh! I wanted Yan Yan to enter the entertainment industry and become a star."

"Asking a designer to be a star, are you out of your mind!"

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Meanwhile, at Jiang's Group meeting room.

The project leader was passionately presenting his PPT, attempting to win the approval of the big boss.

Jiang Ting furrowed his brows, not because there was a problem with the PPT, but because Ji Mingyan hadn't replied to his text for 10 minutes.

At this time, she should be painting. How could she possibly miss the text message on her phone?

The man, with his handsome and stark features, coldly announced the end of the meeting and left the conference room.

Leaving behind a bewildered group of corporate drones.

"What's up with the boss again?"

"I have no idea. He does this every month."

"He looks like a disgruntled husband being neglected by his wife."

"The boss has a wife? Hilarious. Who could tolerate his possessiveness day and night?"

Jiang Ting, holding his car keys, was planning to go home and embrace his wife.

He should not have listened to the psychiatrist's advice to remove the surveillance cameras in his home. He couldn't see what Ji Mingyan did every day.

Look, he bought new painting materials for Ji Mingyan and removed the golden bracelet from her ankle. Except for not being able to leave the villa, she could move freely.

As long as the psychological evaluation result was normal, he could propose to her with the report.

The psychiatrist was almost in tears. Anyone with a gun held to their head would agree, right?

Jiang Ting's lips curled up in a warm smile, his black shirt buttoned up to the top, revealing his sharp jawline. Even just glimpsing the lower half of his face would make any young girl swoon, with his restraint, flirtatious gaze, and humble elegance.

But those glossy, twisted eyes were terrifying, like sealed demonic eyes on the brink of madness at any moment. Only when he was with Ji Mingyan did he seem like a living person.

A man stopped him in the garage.

Jiang Ting: "Move aside."

Jiang Yuchen choked up and said: "Uncle, could you help me find Ji Mingyan one more time? I haven't seen her since graduating from university. I don't know why she's avoiding me. I just want to say a few words to her. Can I kneel down and beg you to help me find Yan again? I really miss her."

Although he hasn't confessed his feelings yet, having spent four years together in university with Ji Mingyan, his feelings for her run deep. He had even kneeled until his knees bled in front of his parents to get their approval for her, a girl from an ordinary background. However, she disappeared the day before he planned to confess.

Jiang Ting said with a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes: "I've been helping you look for her, but I'm busy with work every day, I also have to take medicine for my illness, and my energy is limited. Don't worry. If it's meant to be, you'll see her again."

Jiang Yuchen burst into grateful sobs, "Thank you, uncle. Thank you, uncle."

Jiang Ting patted his little nephew on the shoulder, got in his car, and drove away.

Jiang Yuchen regretted deeply that on the day Jiang Ting was giving a lecture at S University, he brought Ji Mingyan to greet him.

He greeted him in the morning.

By the afternoon, he lost his future wife.

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Tian Shui Bay Villa.

The living room had a very wide black plush sofa on which two people could roll around with room to spare.

Ji Mingyan liked to lie here in the afternoon, looking at design drawings. She wanted to change the sofa cover to a warm white color, but Jiang Ting said the black made her skin look fairer and wouldn't allow her to change it.

Today, she had changed the sofa cover and was asleep. She hadn't given him a kiss when he came home from work.

It's okay, he could take it himself.

Jiang Ting loosened his tie, bent over, and held his fragrant and soft wife in his arms. He particularly enjoyed the feeling of her snuggling in his embrace, her soft and heavy weight giving him a sense of accomplishment. He had cultivated her from a bare-boned person to having tender and soft skin, and goose fat-like flesh that he couldn't get enough of. Even someone without the desire to possess would get addicted to the fragrant and soft little darling in his arms.

He playfully sucked on Ji Mingyan's face, murmuring in a low and hoarse voice, "Wake up, darling, your husband is home."

Slap--

The woman's slender fingers touched the man's handsome face, and then she rubbed against the man's collarbone, found a comfortable position, and continued to sleep.

Jiang Ting was stunned for a moment, then he kissed her hand, "Sleep on, your husband won't disturb you."

Over the past year, he not just made her skin tender and lovely, he also induced a small temper in her. Who dares to slap Jiang Ting's face or even touch him in the outside, would face a miserable end. But the darling in his arms was different. He even helped her wash her undergarments. What's a slap compared to that, when he had attempted even more humble ways to apologize whenever she cried. Moreover, when she hit someone, it didn't even hurt, a well-bred little girl who couldn't hit properly.

Jiang Ting chuckled softly, his dark eyes seeming creepy, kissed his darling again, she was his life, whoever dared to snatch her would meet a miserable end, Jiang Yuchen was no exception.

When it was time for dinner, he had no choice but to wake Ji Mingyan.

She sat on the chair and pulled her hand from his. Seeing this, Jiang Ting's eyes darkened, he instantly lost his appetite, his face gloomy and frightening, looking like he was about to lose his mind the next second.

Ji Mingyan held her fingertips, not letting him touch, she felt angry, and didn't know how to mention the pregnancy issue.

Since she didn't buy a pregnancy test stick, she couldn't confirm whether she was really pregnant.

If she was, would Jiang Ting allow her to keep the child...

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