Sequence Beyond: My Wife is a Mysterious Boss

In the open kitchen, a graceful figure is busy at work.

Su Wan was wearing that familiar loungewear dress, her long hair was tied up, revealing a section of her jade-like nape.

She was making soup.

The clay pot was bubbling and steaming.

This scene should have been peaceful and heartwarming, enough to bring tears to one's eyes.

If it were the same loop as before, Su Wan should gently turn around at this point and say the classic line, "Honey, you're awake."

But today, the script isn't quite right.

Su Wan did not turn around.

With her back to Lin Bai, her movements were somewhat mechanical, and her shoulders were shrugging slightly, exuding a chilling aura that kept strangers at bay.

That was the calm before the storm.

"Wife...?"

Lin Bai stood two meters away, tentatively called out, his toes already turned, ready to rush out the door at any moment.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Snapped!"

The cleaver used for chopping scallions slammed heavily onto the cutting board, the blade penetrating deep into the wood, the sound echoing through the air.

The air in the entire living room instantly froze, and the temperature seemed to drop to freezing point.

Su Wan slowly turned around.

Gone was her usual gentle smile; her exquisitely beautiful face was now etched with heartbreaking sorrow.

His eyes were red, as if he had just been crying.

"husband......"

Her voice was no longer soft and sweet, but trembled slightly, as if she had suffered a great injustice:

"I never expected you to be this kind of person."

Lin Bai: "???"

What is that?

What kind of person am I? What have I done?

I'm working harder than 996 to survive every day. I haven't had a decent night's sleep. What's wrong with me?

Before Lin Bai could even speak in his defense, Su Wan took a deep breath, and the red light in her eyes became even clearer.

"If you don't like me, if you think my cooking is bad, or if you think I'm cold, you can tell me."

Su Wan approached step by step. Although she wasn't holding a knife, the oppressive aura she exuded was more terrifying than if she were holding a Gatling gun.

"I can change, I can even... set you free."

"but......"

She stopped half a meter in front of him, her dark eyes fixed on Lin Bai's, a chilling, sickly smile playing on her lips.

"You can't possibly like dolls, can you?"

"Or is it... a mechanical doll?"

boom!

Lin Bai was completely numb.

Mechanical doll?

Shen Shu?

Holy crap! You even know that?

Did you install a 24/7 surveillance camera on me?

Moreover, my friendship with Shen Shu was purely revolutionary!

It's just a lump of iron, all cold metal except for its face. What could I possibly want from it?

Is it because it's hard? Is it because it can deform? Is it because it has built-in WiFi?

Lin Bai was even more wronged than Dou E.

But he also knew that trying to reason with this "ghost wife" was like lighting a light in a toilet—it was suicidal.

In her logic, any female creature that appears next to Lin Bai, even a battery, is an unforgivable mistress!

"No, honey, let me explain... I mean, I want to clarify!"

Lin Bai broke out in a cold sweat instantly, waving his hand as he made a tactical retreat.

"I won't listen, I won't listen."

Su Wan instantly suppressed all her emotions, her expression changing as fast as turning the pages of a book.

She turned and walked back to the stove, picked up a ladle, and ladled a bowl of thick soup from the boiling casserole.

"None of that matters anymore."

Su Wan carried the bowl and walked back to the dining table step by step, then gently put it down.

Her movements were so elegant and her virtuousness was outrageous.

"Have some soup."

She raised her head, looking at Lin Bai with a deep gaze, and her signature smile returned to her lips.

This time, however, the smile held less gentleness and more of a bloody cruelty.

"Since you like that mechanical doll, then from now on... you'll have to find that metal lump to cook for you."

"This is the last pork rib soup I'll make for you in this house."

"Drink it while it's hot; once it's cold... the taste won't be right."

Lin Bai looked at the bowl of soup.

The soup is milky white, rich and tempting, with a few tender green scallions floating on top, making it look very appealing.

In the center of the soup, a piece of pork rib lay quietly.

The bones are long and slender with an eerie curve, and the meat is crystal clear and stewed until extremely tender.

But the shape of this spare rib... looks a bit strange?

Are regular pork ribs this thin and curved?

Just then, Lin Bai felt that fleeting stinging pain in his abdomen return.

And this time, it's no longer an illusion.

It was a real, intense pain, like my body was being hollowed out!

"hiss--"

Lin Bai gasped, his hand trembling as he reached for his chest.

Through the thin nightgown.

His fingertips touched a... collapsed area.

The left side of the chest cavity, which should have been supported by ribs, was now empty!

It was soft and yielding; my fingers sank in without any resistance, and I could even clearly feel the heartbeat inside.

Two are missing.

It's right below the heart.

Lin Bai suddenly looked up, staring intently at the steaming bowl of soup on the table.

The "ribs" floating in that bowl...

It's basically his own rib!

"Wife...you..."

Lin Bai froze, completely at a loss.

Su Wan sat across the table, resting her chin on her hand, looking completely innocent.

"The ancients said that women were transformed from a man's rib."

"I've thought about it. Since we're going to separate, since your heart has already flown to those pieces of junk..."

"Then you'd better give me back this extra bone in your body."

"Aren't you right, darling?"

Su Wan extended her cold finger and lightly touched Lin Bai's chest from a distance, her lips slightly parted:

"Does it still hurt?"

"ah!!!"

The excruciating pain reached its peak instantly, as if the soul was being torn apart.

The world before my eyes began to collapse.

The cozy living room, the sickly wife, and that terrifying bowl of rib soup all transformed into countless shattered pieces of light and shadow, exploding like a mirror.

......

"Whoosh—! Whoosh—!"

Lin Bai suddenly sprang up from the bed, panting heavily.

Cold sweat had already soaked his entire body, and the sheets beneath him were so wet it looked like they had just been pulled out of the water.

The scene before my eyes was no longer that terrifying one.

Instead, it was a cheap apartment filled with the smell of mildew.

Outside the window, the gray sky over Blackrock City remained oppressive, yet it carried a sense of reality that made Lin Bai breathe a sigh of relief.

"It's a dream...it's just a dream..."

Lin Bai's pupils contracted violently, and his heart pounded wildly, almost bursting out of his chest.

Almost instinctively, he lifted his shirt and touched his left breast with trembling hands.

Hard.

The bones are still there.

There was no collapse, no wound.

"Damn...that scared me to death..."

Lin Bai slumped down, leaning against the headboard, feeling as if he had just run a life-or-death marathon.

Although my body was perfectly healthy, the pain of having my ribs forcibly removed in my dream felt so real.

It was so real that it still causes him a dull ache.

This is more than just a nightmare.

This is a warning.

It was his "ex-wife," whose whereabouts and fate were unknown, who gave him this warning!

"Just what level of monster is this woman?"

Lin Bai gritted his teeth, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and a fierce glint flashed in his eyes.

It seems that as long as there is even the slightest suspicion of "cheating", or even just a little bit of mental relaxation, one will be at risk.

That crazy woman will be able to find us through the internet!

"That was...so exciting!"

Lin Bai gave a wry smile and pressed his hand against his still wildly beating heart.

"Su Wan, you wait. Sooner or later, I'll make you pay for this bowl of pork rib soup... We'll settle these scores one by one!"

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