Play along, hubby

Shen hurried towards Lina. The crowd had their eyes on him, and naturally their gazes followed his quickly moving figure.

There were gasps from everyone when they saw a miserable-looking, disheveled Lina. The whispers started sounding about why she looked like that.

Sara had counted on this being an embarrassment to Shen, and hoped that if she came back to the ballroom, he would shoo her away to preserve his pristine image, rather than have an untidy woman at his side.

But the way he rushed towards her, his eyes gentle and full of worry, made her quake with fear.

"Baby...what happened?!"

He asked her in a soft but worried voice as he held her limp figure in his arms, shielding her from the crowd.

How did this deadly woman manage to get beaten up and scratched at an event full of pompous, spoiled brats and aristocrats with soft hands?!

Who could she have possibly found trouble with?

As he cradled her body close to him, she peeped up at his face and smiled coyly.

"Play along, hubby. There's a little girl somewhere around here who deserves to be punished."

Shen's bemused expression implicitly conveyed that he'd entertain her no matter what she wanted to do.

As the show began, she began to sob in his arms.

"H-h-hubby...I've been attacked..."

Suddenly, everyone was alert.

Attacked?! Here? At this prestigious hotel with only the cream of the crop present?

Who could have been so bold to attack anyone here with so much security and surveillance. And no less, the woman who Shen Moshi had announced publicly as his wife?!

The culprit was bound to get into trouble.

Madam Yi quickly came forward and began fussing greatly over Lina and making a scene.

After all, she had to show concern as the host of this ball.

Otherwise her reputation would be stained.

"Come my dear, let me help you go to a room and clean you up!"

As she began hurrying Lina to her feet, she began yelling for security.

"SECURITY! Where is the head of security!?"

The men stationed at the entrance all came running up to Madam Yi.

"Yes madam, how can we help?"

"How can you help?! A guest here has been attacked and none of you saw or did anything? What is going on here!"

As she went off on a rampage scolding the security personnel at the hotel while Shen stayed silently by Lina's side.

His eyes were cold.

Even if Lina was jus teaching someone here a lesson, during the time she had gone to the bathroom, something had happened.

Someone had tried to bully her.

Even if she was a highly capable woman, he wouldn't stand by and just watch while shameless people targeted his wife.

In the midst of Madam Yi's yelling rampage Lina spoke up in a small, pitiful voice.

"Madam Yi...the person who attacked me..."

As Lina spoke, the whole room was hushed, wondering what this mysterious woman was going to say next.

Even Shen was listening carefully, his attention centred on his beloved little wife.

Every bruise on her cheek and rip of on her dress cut his heart.

Sara began to panic standing at the back, wishing she could merge into the crowd. Her two friends looked at each other nervously. Maybe they shouldn't have been so stupid and hurt the woman Shen Moshi publicly bestowed the title of Madam Moshi on.

Sara's family had so much power, they often forgot that there was someone who was more powerful.

And just because they didn't see him everyday, didn't mean he wasn't there.

They had awoken a sleeping beast.

"Who was it, angel?"

Shen encouraged her gently with a tenderness everyone in the room was envious of.

This stunning man's gaze had never been so soft.

"Shen...it was actually someone here...it was a guest. Not an intruder."

The whole ballroom was shocked for a minute.

And then there was a huge ruckus. Discussions and speculations followed with great gusto and interest.

"Hurting his wife here today is like declaring war on the Moshi Corporation!"

"Who would dare be as bold?!"

"Attacking her right under Shen Moshi's nose! How foolish!"

There were jeers and shouts all around, some people calling for the perpetrator to be dragged out by their hair.

Sara felt the sweat run down her back as her heart beat sped up. She was being awfully quiet as Lina watched her trembling figure.

She wasn't going for the kill yet. She was like a tigress still toying with her food.

Just revealing who the perpetrator was would not inflict the same mental torture on Sara as it would to keep everyone guessing and pushing that brat to a point where she would confess herself.

Lina didn't realise she could be so brutal, but her mind was made up.

This girl had not only slandered her, but even attacked her marriage with Shen.

And then she had proceeded to physically assault her with her friends.

How dare she!

"Madam Yi, I don't know anyone here...but I can describe the culprit, I think..."

She spoke slowly and with uncertainty, painting an even more unfortunate picture of herself as a weak woman.

This was also a ploy to publicly establish this fragile image of herself so that their enemies would underestimate her, making it easier for them to screw up and get caught by this formidable pair.

The games had just begun.