Going back to being twenty, taking her heartbroken son to a massage parlor.

Xia Qingwu crawled into bed.

The cool silk nightgown brushed against Su Mu's skin, sending a slight shiver down his spine.

Then, a soft, warm body pressed against me.

Xia Qingwu did nothing else.

She simply curled herself up into a ball, like a cat finding warmth, and naturally snuggled into Su Mu's arms.

It nuzzled its head against his chest, finding the most comfortable position, and then remained still.

The woman who had been wielding a hammer and had a cold, aloof expression just moments before was now unbelievably docile.

Su Mu felt that this woman was blatantly absorbing his yang energy.

Every breath he takes away takes away a bit of his energy and spirit.

Xia Lanlan, who was sleeping on the floor, peeked out from under the covers and saw her older sister looking so cuddly. Her courage grew again.

She pursed her lips and muttered under her breath:

"Hehe, really."

"She usually acts so aloof and fierce, but now she's completely under a man's thumb."

Even the most amazing woman has to snuggle up in a man's arms and act all cute.

Xia Qingwu didn't bother with her at all, as if the whole world only consisted of the man in her arms.

Her eyes were closed, and her long eyelashes gently brushed against Su Mu's chest, tickling him.

Su Mu looked at the ceiling, feeling the warmth in his arms, but some distant images inexplicably surfaced in his mind.

He spoke softly, breaking the silence in the room.

"Actually... your sister wasn't this fierce before."

Su Mu unconsciously patted Xia Qingwu's back gently, as if soothing a child.

"It was probably during her sophomore year of college. She did the same thing, snuggling in my arms and sleeping all night."

Xia Lanlan's eyes widened like saucers, her gossip-loving spirit burning brightly:

"Really? You two were already having sex back then?"

"Don't talk nonsense."

Su Mu glared at her, his gaze becoming somewhat distant.

"Back then, she wasn't called Xia Qingwu, she was called Xia Qing."

That was twenty years ago.

There were no smartphones, no WeChat, and even internet cafes were still a rarity.

Xia Qingwu back then was completely different from who she is now.

She always wore thick-rimmed black glasses and had thick, straight bangs that almost covered most of her face.

He was gloomy and didn't like to talk. He always walked close to the wall, like a wandering ghost.

With that kind of personality, she was practically a target for bullying in the girls' dormitory at that age.

Su Mu pointed to the floor beneath his feet.

"This used to be the campus of the old medical university."

"This faculty apartment building was formerly an anatomy building."

Xia Lanlan shivered and pulled the blanket tighter around herself.

"Su Mu, don't scare me."

Su Mu's tone was calm.

"I wasn't trying to scare you."

"Behind this is the old anatomy lab, which is said to be the most haunted place. It happened to be during the Ghost Festival, and ghost stories were being told everywhere in the school."

"The three girls in your sister's dorm always like to bully her, and that day they insisted on dragging her on an adventure."

"They call it an adventure, but it's really just a prank."

Su Mu sighed.

"Your sister was originally determined not to go, but those guys said that if she went, they would take her out to play and make up with her."

"You know, being isolated back then was a terrible thing."

The naive Xia Qing believed it.

The four of them went down to the basement in the dark.

That place is perpetually dark, damp, and cold, with a lingering smell of formaldehyde in the air.

When Xia Qing reached the entrance to the underground secret room, her legs went weak with fear, and she absolutely refused to go any further.

Her three roommates told her to wait where she was, saying they would just go in, take a look, and come out.

As a result, they waited for half an hour.

There was no sound from inside.

Although Xia Qing was scared, she was even more afraid that something might happen to her roommate, so she gritted her teeth and went inside in the dark.

That's the room where specimens are stored.

Rows of glass jars contain various human tissues.

The instant she stepped inside.

Clang!

The door behind me was slammed shut, followed by the sound of it being locked.

The suppressed laughter and hurried footsteps of the three girls could be heard from outside the door.

They ran away.

The timid Xia Qing was locked alone in a basement filled with corpse specimens.

Xia Lanlan's fists clenched upon hearing this.

"That's so unethical!"

"What if this scares someone badly?"

Su Mu smiled wryly: "She was really terrified. When I found her, she was huddled in a corner, her voice hoarse from crying, and she couldn't even stand up."

How did you know she was inside?

"What a coincidence."

Su Mu recalled his youthful vigor and high spirits.

"At that time, I happened to be the student council president, and I had a wide network of connections."

"It just so happens that the boyfriends of those three girls were bragging in the dorm that there would be a good show tonight, that they locked that female ghost in a real haunted house."

In a moment of impulsiveness, Su Mu went up and slapped the bragging boy.

After finding out the location, he didn't care about anything else, grabbed a flashlight and ran towards the anatomy building.

That place is indeed eerie.

In the pitch black, and I don't know if it was just my imagination, I felt like those things soaking in the jars were staring at me.

Su Mu climbed through the window on the first basement floor and found Xia Qing huddled up in a gap among a pile of bottles and jars.

By then, she had long since lost her glasses from crying, her hair was a mess and stuck to her face, and she was trembling like a leaf.

Su Mu had just helped her up and was about to take her out.

There was another "clang".

The window was sealed off from the outside.

It's obvious that it was the group that got slapped who did it.

Xia Lanlan listened intently.

"and then?"

"You just stayed there all night, in that place full of corpses?"

Su Mu shrugged helplessly.

"Otherwise what?"

"There's no cell phone signal, and all the doors and windows are sealed off."

"I could only hold her and sit in that gloomy basement until dawn."

That night, Xia Qing was just like she is now, clinging tightly to his clothes, her whole body huddled in his arms.

To comfort her, Su Mu told jokes all night long.

They weren't discovered by patrolling security guards until the next morning.

Xia Lanlan was filled with righteous indignation upon hearing this:

"Isn't this a huge understatement? Those people weren't punished?"

Su Mu shook his head.

"Back then, college students were incredibly valuable."

"This matter could be a big deal or a small deal. The school was afraid that it would damage its reputation if word got out, so in the end, they just gave those few people a demerit, which was nothing serious."

"And we still haven't found out who planned it. Those girls insist it was a prank."

The air suddenly became quiet for a few seconds.

Xia Qingwu, who had been pretending to be asleep in Su Mu's arms, suddenly spoke up in a muffled voice.

"It's your ex-wife."

Su Mu was taken aback, looking down at the person in his arms: "What?"

Xia Qingwu didn't open her eyes: "Jiang Yiyao."

Su Mu froze completely.

But he never expected that the mastermind behind it all was Jiang Yiyao.

Xia Qingwu traced circles on Su Mu's chest with her fingers.

"Back then, she saw that you always took care of me, helping me carry books and getting my meals."

"She was jealous, and she also thought that my gloomy personality made me easy to bully, so she wanted to teach me a lesson."

Su Mu felt a chill run down his spine.

At that time, he and Jiang Yiyao were not together yet; they were just ordinary classmates.

Who would have thought that the seemingly gentle and elegant school beauty was actually so scheming?

"I'm sorry..." Su Mu's throat was dry; this apology was twenty years overdue.

"fine."

Xia Qingwu snuggled against him.

"Actually, I should thank her."

"If she hadn't locked me up there, why would you have come to rescue me?"

"If it weren't for that night, how would I have known that your embrace is so warm?"

"It's so warm that I want to make you into a specimen and lock you away with me forever."

Su Mu: "..."

Xia Lanlan: "..."

We can't talk today.

This yandere's thought process is indeed extraordinary.

Xia Lanlan tried to steer the conversation back to normal logic.

"Sis, aren't you angry?"

"You've been bullied so much! Haven't you ever thought about getting revenge?"

Xia Qingwu uttered two words calmly.

"I'm so angry."

Xia Lanlan was always eager for chaos.

"Then go for it!"

"Now, who's afraid of who? Let's settle all our old and new scores!"

There was no reply.

Only the sound of even, drawn-out breathing could be heard.

Xia Lanlan peeked out and, wow, she was asleep.

Su Mu was both amused and exasperated.

Really.

This woman must be almost thirty years old.

A thirty-year-old adult certainly doesn't have that much energy.

One second they're saying they're angry, the next they can fall asleep instantly.

This is supposed to be a yandere female CEO?

Forget it.

As long as she doesn't go crazy, the world is a beautiful place.

Su Mu reached out and turned off the bedside lamp, plunging the room into darkness.

Sleep well, goodnight.

He said something to Xia Lanlan, who was lying on the floor.

In the darkness, Xia Qingwu's arm tightened unconsciously, as if to confirm whether Su Mu was still under control.

Su Mu sighed and resignedly closed his eyes.

These days are probably going to be tough from now on.