Hearing her speak to him, Yue Linze joyfully looked up but remembered to maintain his dignity and quickly stiffened his face: “I said nothing.”
Tao Yu scoffed, her eyes devoid of any humor.
Yue Linze’s eyes moved, and seeing she had nothing more to say, he couldn’t help asking, “Why are you back so late? Do you even care about me, the head of the household?”
“What difference does it make if I care or not,” Tao Yu, who had clearly heard what he said earlier, was in no mood to be pleasant.
Yue Linze heard the hostility in her tone and was momentarily at a loss. The more Tao Yu saw his helplessness, the more she wanted to provoke him: “Do you feel you made a mistake marrying me and now regret it?”
Yue Linze stared at her, instinctively refuting: “I don’t…”
“No need to pretend. If you truly regret it, we can divorce. I find being the city lord’s wife utterly meaningless,” Tao Yu’s voice carried a hint of irritation. This alternate personality had no aggression yet persistently existed, and an important NPC had died without finding the killer.
These days, she had made no progress, feeling completely overwhelmed by pressure. Hearing his regret about marrying her and thinking about her efforts, she was filled with a self-destructive sense of annoyance.
Divorce it is. She would leave the city lord’s mansion to focus on finding the killer, then return to investigate the alternate personality’s aggression.
Yue Linze was completely frozen by her words, and after a long while, he trembled, “You find being my wife completely meaningless?
Tao Yu glanced at him without speaking. People are inexplicable; her previous alternate personalities were more and more difficult to deal with, yet she could calmly cope with them. But every time she encountered this crybaby, after failing to console him with a few words, she wanted to kick him and tell him to go adjust himself elsewhere.
Yue Linze couldn’t hear her response and stood up, feeling hurt. He stared at her for a long time, then took two steps back and choked out, “I hate you!” Then he turned and ran away.
