Chapter 1: It's easy to latch onto a rich woman, but hard to live off her charity.

Those who frequently marry into wealthy families and marry beautiful and wealthy female CEOs know this all too well.

In fact, living off a woman is not so easy to do...

In the coffee shop, the matchmaking scene unfolds.

Xu Musen, who had already been tormented by countless "little fairies," "Feminist Masters," and "dowry experts," looked a bit dazed at the woman appearing before him.

Black hair cascading like a waterfall, she wore a bespoke lady's suit paired with a light red Burberry coat, and a ruby wristwatch on her hand made her fair skin even more enchanting.

Her long, beautiful legs were sheathed in black stockings, and beneath their graceful curves, a pair of red high heels gently tapped the floor, as if stepping right into one's heart.

She gently removed her sunglasses, revealing a stunningly beautiful face, and sized up the man before her from head to toe. A hint of light flashed in her splendid eyes as she spoke in a commanding tone.

"Marry me, and you can live in a luxury car and villa as you please. You'll have a daily allowance of no less than five figures. You don't need to work or do any household chores. I'll bear you as many children as you want in the future. All I ask is that you never leave me and never go against my will."

The woman picked up her coffee and elegantly took a sip, her phoenix eyes twinkling confidently. She leisurely shook her black-stockinged leg and looked at him with a self-assured smile.

"Think about it?"

Xu Musen's eyes widened in shock.

Hold on, isn't this script off?

After all, the typical conversation at such matchmaking events would be: "A dowry of 288,000, not a penny less!"

"The house and car must be put in my name, and you'll hand over all your salary to me."

"And there are the costs for getting in the car, the gold jewelry, the change-of-name fee, the tea ceremony fee—not a single red packet can be missing!"

"Oh, and by the way, my family will give you a reciprocal gift of three quilts, hehe!"

Three quilts, oh, enough to cover for three lifetimes.

In the fierce competition of today's matchmaking market, the demands made by such a beautiful woman seemed like a fairy sister descending to the mortal world to save all beings.

For Xu Musen, who was penniless and even saddled with a huge family debt, this offer was incredible.

Why hesitate at all!

Even though his current job as a doomed programmer was okay, with the boss occasionally looking after him and letting him earn some money from projects, it was still a drop in the bucket compared to the family debt. With this offer, it wouldn't just be about marrying into the family; he would even call her his godmother right there and then!

If it had been someone else, they might have wondered if the other party was just trying to make quota from a border area in Myanmar.

But the woman in front of him was his childhood sweetheart, whom he had grown up with and knew inside out—Yao Mingyue.

Yet, what Xu Musen would regret the most later on was that today, on a whim, he eagerly accepted this soft rice to eat.

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After the marriage.

Yao Mingyue kept her word and truly treated Xu Musen well.

He didn't have to work or do chores, as everything was provided on a silver platter.

She also initiated intimacy every night, often aggressively to the point where Xu Musen felt he lacked the stamina to keep up.

Except for at the company, she was always glued to his side.

What was once an enviable life gradually became suffocating as Yao Mingyue's controlling desires grew stronger.

She began to control his social life, not allowing him to have other friends, and forbade any interaction with the opposite sex, not even a second glance.

Later, she even took his phone, cleared out his contact list, and allowed only her number. Eventually, she prohibited him from leaving the house without her permission.

He remembered once when he went to her company to deliver documents, just because he spoke to a female employee in the hallway to ask for directions, Yao Mingyue fired the employee on the spot.

Xu Musen merely pleaded for the female employee a little bit.

As a result, in the following week, Yao Mingyue locked him in a room. The only view of the outside world he had was through the solitary window in the room.

Yes, it turned out that Xu Musen had never known that his childhood sweetheart was actually an extremely possessive yandere.

As the saying goes, your story with a yandere is interesting, but when a yandere takes a liking to you, that's an accident.

Because of the marriage, he had lost his job, his friends, and even his family seldom visited him.

His entire life seemed to exist for Yao Mingyue. Even what he ate, what he wore, his tone of voice... even the rhythm of their conjugal life had to be entirely according to Yao Mingyue's requirements.

Can you imagine the bizarre scene of saying "Chairwoman, I request to change gears," late at night?

He gradually felt that he was no longer like a person.

More like a personal tool of Yao Mingyue.

He had thought about having a child too, but Yao Mingyue, who had previously agreed to it, was now always making excuses to evade the matter, which left Xu Musen utterly discouraged.

So he proposed divorce.

When he placed the divorce agreement before her, Yao Mingyue just looked at him indifferently, "Have I done anything to wrong you?"

Xu Musen shook his head, "You've been good to me, but this isn't the life I want. I will pay back the debt you cleared for my family slowly, and I will leave without taking anything, let's... part amicably."

When Xu Musen said this, he felt a tinge of melancholy deep inside because Yao Mingyue had been truly good to him, except for her pathological possessiveness, which was like a mountain pressing down on him, stifling his breath.

Yao Mingyue didn't speak, just calmly looked at him for a long time, then picked up the divorce agreement and set it aside.

"Fine, but before signing, join me for one last meal."

Xu Musen didn't expect she would agree so easily.

After so many years of marriage, it was impossible to say there were no feelings, so he agreed.

It was giving each other one last bit of dignity.

But this was the second thing he regretted most in his life...

After downing the last glass of red wine, Xu Musen prepared to get up.

"That's it then, I'll pack my things and leave tonight."

But just as he stood up, suddenly the world began to spin, and he collapsed to the ground.

In his dazed vision, a pair of red high heels and legs wrapped in black stockings appeared slowly before him, and then the owner of these perfect jade legs squatted down. A hint of pathological expression appeared on Yao Mingyue's beautiful face.

She cradled the unresisting face of Xu Musen.

"It was you who promised me from a young age, never to leave me, and since you've forgotten, I'll fulfill the promise for you, you are mine, forever..."

Yao Mingyue kissed him deeply.

Xu Musen was thus locked in a room in the villa.

He wanted to escape, but what truly trapped him was never just a lock on the door.

In the end, it was he who had agreed to these terms, and indeed, Yao Mingyue had helped him and his family through a difficult time.

Yao Mingyue wasn't wrong; her possessiveness was just too pathological, and Xu Musen had underestimated the cost of being a kept man.

It wasn't until New Year's Day that Yao Mingyue finally agreed to let Xu Musen leave the room and go home with her to see his family.

The car was driving on a snowy road when suddenly a truck seemed to lose control.

With the icy road surface, the truck almost instantly reached the car door near Yao Mingyue's side.

"Watch out!"

Xu Musen shouted, nearly on instinct, he fiercely pulled Yao Mingyue into his arms.

"Bang!"

"No, no... Musen... Musen!!"

In his final vision, Xu Musen saw Yao Mingyue crying her eyes out, her forehead also smeared with blood, no longer possessing the domineering aura of the tough businesswoman she once was.

She cried heart-wrenchingly, holding Xu Musen's increasingly cold body, it was the first time she was so frantically desperate, "You... you can't die, you absolutely can't die, I won't allow you to die!!"

Xu Musen's body grew colder, but deep within his soul, he felt a kind of release. He looked at Yao Mingyue's panic-stricken beautiful face, even at this moment, she was still so naively assertive.

Xu Musen trembled with laughter, he looked at Yao Mingyue's tear-stained face.

"If there's a next life, I'll never eat your soft rice again..."

Yao Mingyue cried heart-wrenchingly, apologizing to him, but it was ultimately too late, his consciousness gradually faded.

Xu Musen didn't hate her, but he had had enough of this kind of life, if there really was an afterlife.

He would definitely not cling to a rich woman again, as destiny should be in his own hands, that's the true essence of life!

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