Rules of the Unusual: My Yandere Husband Pretends to Be Innocent Online

Time seemed to stand still.

After a long while, the faceless man sighed, gently embraced Xia Xiaoqin, and patted her head.

"Xiaoqin, I know you're terrified. After all, you can't see, so you have no idea how scary that ghost bride looks. How could our rule for surviving tonight possibly be protecting her?"

But Xia Xiaoqin suddenly pushed Lu Yang away and shook her head desperately.

"Lu Yang, believe me, everything I'm saying is true! The reason that ghost bride ran to the bridal chamber was because there were many players there, so she hid there and wanted to ask us for help!"

"You don't know, I swore a deadly oath during my death broadcast, that I would use my life to kill you and Liu Ruyan, because I hate you! So if you die, I will die too! And that monster wearing your face, even if he becomes the young master of this world, his rules haven't changed! We must protect the person we hate—the ghost bride! Otherwise, if she dies, we will die too!"

Xia Xiaoqin spoke very quickly, leaving Lu Yang stunned.

But time waits for no one, and the ghost bride's life is inextricably linked to the player's.

So Xia Xiaoqin forced herself to calm down and quickly thought about where the ghost bride and the monster wearing Lu Yang's skin might go.

The image that flashed through her mind was of the well.

"At the well! Lu Yang, that monster brought the ghost bride to the well!"

The girl stared ahead, her eyes unfocused, her expression anxious.

Her intuition told her that the young master would throw the ghost bride back into the well, and Qin Bufei was there too, so she had to act quickly.

"Lu Yang, it doesn't matter if you don't understand what I'm saying, but I have to go back to the well and save the ghost bride! If she dies, we're all finished!"

Grasping the wood-chopping knife again, Xia Xiaoqin's face turned deathly pale, her slender figure standing ramrod straight.

But just as she turned to walk towards the door, a hand grabbed her waist.

Lu Yang gently blocked her, his palm against her waist, pulling her back.

Under the oil lamp, his face, devoid of skin, was nothing but blood-red muscles, and his masseter muscles swayed when he opened his mouth.

But his eyes were surprisingly firm and gentle.

"Let me go," Lu Yang said, his voice deep and magnetic. "Xiao Qin, let me handle the dangerous tasks."

Xia Xiaoqin raised her hand to push him away, but he grabbed her wrist instead.

Then, the man gently wrapped his fingers around the girl's hand, his voice lowered, and he choked back a sob.

"Xiaoqin, we grew up in an orphanage, and we finally got into university together after a lot of hard work. We've been together for so many years... I will never let you do anything dangerous."

"I've already lost you once, I can't let you get hurt again."

After saying that, the man squatted down.

Xia Xiaoqin stood there, stunned. In the darkness, she felt a pair of slightly trembling hands gently tying her shoelaces.

She couldn't see anything, not even when her shoelaces came undone.

"Fool." Lu Yang squatted on the ground, his tone sorrowful. "You can't even tie your shoelaces properly, how are you going to fight that monster?"

"Xia Xiaoqin, do you think I'm no longer worthy of protecting you? I know I'm disfigured and have no face, which is why you don't want to acknowledge me. But at least let me protect you one more time, okay?"

Xia Xiaoqin clenched her hands around the hem of her dress, stubbornly refusing to cry.

But she still couldn't help but cry, feeling wronged.

The highly tense nerves finally relaxed at this moment, and all the high walls and spikes that had been erected to protect themselves crumbled.

She knelt down, crying, and hugged Lu Yang.

Hot tears welled up in the girl's blind eyes and fell onto the man's clothes.

"Lu Yang... how could I despise you... when I went blind, you didn't despise me either. You carried me for such a long way, you told me it was okay, you said you would be my eyes, and we would never be apart..."

"It's my fault... I can't fully trust that you haven't betrayed me, I can't accept that you've become like this because of me. I'm sorry, Lu Yang, I'm always so bad, but I will always love you..."

Xia Xiaoqin cried so hard she could barely breathe, releasing all the fear, grievances, and forced composure she had been suppressing during this time.

Lu Yang also cried.

Without eyelids, the eye sockets couldn't hold the tears, which, mixed with blood, streamed down from the exposed eye sockets.

But he held Xia Xiaoqin with all his might, resting his chin on her head, his shoulders shaking, crying like a child.

"Lu Yang, let's go save that ghost bride together."

"Whether we live or die, we'll be together!"

But just then, a shrill crowing of a rooster suddenly rang out.

The rooster, dragging its newly sewn-up belly, pounced off the cutting board.

It wobbled to Xia Xiaoqin's feet, spread its wings to block her way, and used all its strength to let out a series of rapid cries at Lu Yang. Its tiny, beady eyes stared intently at Lu Yang, as if it was desperately trying to drive him away from Xia Xiaoqin.

Xia Xiaoqin wiped away her tears, scooped the rooster into her arms, and was overjoyed.

"Rooster, you can move now?!"

"That's great, but you can't come with us. You have to stay here and let the chef take care of you."

Standing up, Xia Xiaoqin put the rooster back on the table.

But the rooster shook its head desperately in her palm, its wingtips clinging tightly to her sleeve.

So Xia Xiaoqin lowered her head, pressed her forehead against its fluffy head, and whispered, "Don't worry, I will try my best to come back alive to get you."

After saying that, Xia Xiaoqin turned around and pulled Lu Yang, preparing to hurry to the well.

But Lu Yang held her hand down.

"Wait a minute, I know a tool that's better than the machete you have. Zhao Dafeng gave it to me before, I'll let you use it."

Xia Xiaoqin was stunned for a moment.

Props?

But Lu Yang didn't explain. He just told her to wait there and that he would come back as soon as he got it.

The footsteps hurried out of the kitchen and disappeared at the end of the corridor.

……

In the darkness, Lu Yang pushed open the door of the woodshed, and a musty smell mixed with the stench of blood hit him.

He looked at the large vat by the wall and slowly walked over.

The jar was very heavy, and the moment the wooden lid was lifted, a whistling sound came from inside.

Liu Ruyan had a rag stuffed in her mouth and her hands and feet were bound like a dumpling with hemp rope. The moment she saw him, her face contorted and she kept making muffled cries.

Lu Yang pulled the rag out of her mouth.

At that moment, the disheveled Liu Ruyan spat on Lu Yang's shameless face.

She took a deep breath and screamed like a madwoman, "Lu Yang! You heartless bastard! Didn't you say you loved me?! I've helped you so much!"

"Back then, I was the one who blinded Xia Xiaoqin, and I was the one who forced her to do a suicide livestream. I did every single step for you! You promised to help me escape Jinghai City! You promised!"

Liu Ruyan became more and more agitated as she cursed, her face turning bright red, and spittle sprayed onto the man's skinless face.

But Lu Yang remained unmoved.

At that moment, Liu Ruyan suddenly thought of something, and she grinned, revealing her bleeding lips, and burst into laughter.

"Damn it, Lu Yang, you piece of trash who hooked up with me after I seduced you! You think I don't know your secret—you're not Xia Xiaoqin's boyfriend at all, are you?!"

"I saw it all that day! I saw it all! On the day the ghost story began, Xia Xiaoqin and her boyfriend fled. The boyfriend holding her hand wasn't you at all! You're just a thug who kidnapped her while she was separated from her boyfriend due to her amnesia!"