Picked by the Other Man

"Brother, you won't agree to her unreasonable requests, will you?" Wang Yunxi had a very bad feeling when she heard what he had said.

"No matter who you are, you have to pay for what you have done wrong." It was for sure that she would be punished as said.

"No, I don't! I don't! Over my dead body!" Wang Yunxi shouted uncontrollably.

Pei Xiuyuan did not respond. He looked at Lu Man.

"Are there any more requests?"

"So, you agree to these?" Lu Man looked at him in disbelief.

She had made those requests but did not expect that he would agree to them. After all, this would also affect the reputation of the Pei family.

"Yes."

Lu Man looked at him. Her eyes widened in disbelief. After a while, she said, "I have no more requests."

Pei Xiuyuan turned around and looked at Wang Yunxi. "You can go now. Proceed with the press conference as soon as possible."

"No, I do not want to! I will not!" Wang Yunxi glared at Lu Man angrily. This evil woman! She must kill her! It was a must!

"Send them out," Pei Xiuyuan ordered.

PA Wang moved toward Wang Yunxi and said, "Please leave."

Wang Yunxi ignored PA Wang. "Brother, are you really my brother? How could you promise her such excessive requests? If I did it, it would not just be embarrassing to me alone, but the whole Pei family!"

"There is no lesson that is unbearable. You have never learned your mistakes. I should take the blame as well for not educating you well. Losing face is not a big deal when you have done something wrong." Pei Xiuyuan was determined to impose the punishments on her.

"You… You are not my brother! You are not!" Wang Yunxi looked at him. Her eyes were red. She felt wronged. It was awful.

She did not understand how her loving brother could change all of a sudden!

"Send her out." Pei Xiuyuan's face remained unchanged.

"Please, Miss."

"Shut up! I am telling you that I am not going to do it! Never!" Wang Yunxi shouted and left.

"Manman…" Mu Yunhai looked at Lu Man with his begging eyes. She could not have let Wang Yunxi do this! He would be ashamed for the rest of his life!

When Lu Man was about to say something, Pei Xiuyuan turned around and stood in front of her, blocking her from seeing Mu Yunhai. "There is nothing else to settle, you can leave now!" He said.

"I know Yunxi has gone overboard this time. But she is still young and she is a proud girl. If you let her do it, she will…" Mu Yunhai tried hard to persuade Pei Xiuyuan.

"I know exactly what kind of character she has," Pei Xiuyuan replied, hinting that he did not need to say anything more.　　

"But…"

"Sweetheart, the show that you have been following is about to start." Pei Xiuyuan turned around with Lu Man in his arms.

He was asking him to leave although he did not say it out loud.

"Manman…" Mu Yunhai looked at Lu Man.

His begging eyes made Lu Man clenched her fists. She let go of it after a while and pretended that she did not hear his plea.

Mu Yunhai looked at her. He suddenly felt a cold chill in his heart and shivered.

Since the first time he met her when he was fifteen, he had decided to marry this girl. She became his girlfriend at sixteen and his fiancée at twenty-three. All this time, she was the only one that he had always wanted.

He treasured her, loved her, and protected her with all his heart. He wanted her to become the world most beautiful rose, the rose that he would cherish forever.

She was also the reason why he had done this. Although he knew the risk of losing her was very high, he believed in their love. She loved him. And he was thinking of giving her a good life after he had succeeded. Then, they would be able to live happily ever after. But why?

Why had it turned out like this?

In the blink of an eye, she was not his anymore.

His rose that he was so afraid to even touch, fearing that he might hurt her, had been picked by another man!

And this man was his biggest enemy!

Why was this happening? Why?

His heart felt like it was stabbed with thousands of knives. His sorrow, nobody would ever understand.

Mu Yunhai was a person with very good self-control. Even though he was so emotional that he was almost drowned by his feelings now, he still managed to stand there, not showing any particular feeling. He was silent for a moment before he left.

He had sacrificed so much to get here. Now, he could only succeed and there was no space for failure!

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Lu Man slowly relaxed her mind.

Pei Xiuyuan was hugging her. His hands were playing with her long hair but his eyes were dark.

The silence was making her feel almost suffocated.

Finally, Lu Man asked, "Are my requests too excessive?"

Pei Xiuyuan's eyes darkened more. "No, Wang Yunxi has done wrong this time. If she does not learn a lesson this time, she will become worse."

Lu Man bit her lower lip. "But… will it affect the reputation of the Pei family?"

"It will. But people would just say I pamper my sister too much. That's all."

"Wang Yunxi was a very proud person. It will be unbearable for her to slap her own face.

"Only then she would remember her lesson and know what she should do and what she shouldn't."

Lu Man was speechless.

"Is she your real sister?" He was so cruel to her!

"She is, but you are my wife. I feel very bad for not being able to get proper revenge for you." His eyes were full of guilt.

He thought that what Yunxi had done was unforgivable but Lu Man was only making Yunxi lose her face in the public. The punishment was just too light for what she had done.

Lu Man looked at him. She could not say anything.

After a while, she asked, "Why do you treat me so well?"

He could even treat the sister that he loved that way for her sake.

"You are my wife. If I don't treat you well, who should I treat well?"

He looked at her deeply. He was so serious about it. It was very touching.

She could not look into his eyes, so she looked away.

Pei Xiuyuan did not say anything but he hugged her tighter.

At the lobby…

"What took you so long to get down here?" Wang Yunxi was in a very bad mood that she could not even be nice to Mu Yunhai.

"I was persuading your brother not to let you hold the press conference."

"Persuading him? You still harbor feelings toward Lu Man, don't you?" Wang Yunxi said coldly. Even she could not persuade her brother, much less him persuading her brother! She was not a fool for not knowing what he was thinking!

"What difference does it make if I still have feelings for her?" Mu Yunhai felt dejected when Lu Man was mentioned.

"Yeah, right! She is now our sister-in-law and she has the power to control us! You must never have imagined that after dumping her and making up with me that you will have to live a life under her power, right?" His confession annoyed Wang Yunxi. So she had said this sardonically.

Mu Yunhai's face darkened. "I made up with you?"

"Didn't you?" Wang Yunxi was not stupid. She knew he had Lu Man in his heart, but he still decided to marry her. If it was not for her family background, what else would be it for?

"If you think that way, so be it then."