"Bang!"
With a loud crash, the apartment door was kicked open, followed immediately by Huo Xuting's angry roar, "Lin Muyu, get out here!"
Startled in her bedroom, Lin Muyu hurriedly got up, her usually pale face flashing with alarm.
Before she could even respond, the man reeking of alcohol had already barged straight in.
Huo Xuting glared at her maliciously, "Miss Lin, the pride of a lady, aren't you going to greet your husband when he's back?"
As he drew closer, the strong smell of alcohol became even more pungent, causing Lin Muyu to wrinkle her brow involuntarily, "Have you been drinking?"
As soon as the words left her mouth, she couldn't help but laugh bitterly.
After three years of marriage, Huo Xuting only visited when he was drunk, otherwise, he wouldn't even bother to show up.
Helping him to sit on the bed, Lin Muyu had regained her composure, "Rest for a while, I'll get you some water."
There's hot water ready in the room, Lin Muyu walked over with a cup. But barely had she approached him when the man violently raised his hand, knocking over the clear glass cup, the scalding hot water spilling all over her left hand.
"Ah!"
Lin Muyu cried out in shock, her left hand visibly reddening from the burn at an alarming speed. Huo Xuting's sharply contoured face seemed to magnify before her eyes, "I haven't even done anything, and you're already screaming? If you're so impatient, then allow me to oblige!"
With that, Huo Xuting put some force in and pushed her down onto the soft bed.
With a tearing sound, her light attire was ripped apart, and with a cold smile playing on the corners of his lips, Huo Xuting moved to pin her down.
Lin Muyu widened her eyes in horror, the intense fear causing her to completely forget the pain in her arm.
"Huo Xuting! You can't treat me like this!"
"Can't I?" The man over her seemed to hear a joke, the corner of his mouth curled up mockingly. "Lin Muyu, you devised numerous strategies to seize the position of Mrs. Huo. What's wrong with asking you to perform your wifely duties?"
"I did not!" Tears of shame trickled from her eyes as she angrily turned her head away.
However, Huo Xuting grabbed her chin and his icy eyes locked onto her firmly. "Lin Muyu, you fought for this position, so you must bear the corresponding price! If it weren't for you, why would Xiaoya leave me?"
He growled in anger, his towering figure suddenly pressed down, and Lin Muyu felt as if she was being torn apart in an instant.
The storm-like torment continued for nearly half an hour, and Lin Muyu didn't even know when it stopped.
After it was over, Huo Xuting disdainfully got up, barely casting an extra glance at her.
He swiftly dressed up, returning to his usual refined demeanor, only then realizing the room had been devoid of feminine sounds for too long.
Huo Xuting turned back to look; her body was marred with intercrossing shades of black and blue, like a broken rag doll.
Seeing her in this dazed and lost state, an inexplicable irritation surged in Huo Xuting's heart. With a sweep of his hand, he threw a blanket at her.
"Stop playing the victim in front of me. If you didn't resort to unspeakably shameful tactics, Xiaoya would not have left me, and my grandfather would not have forced me to marry you. Lin Muyu, you've got what you wished for, so what right do you have to pull such a long face?"
