His lips finally hovered at the corner of hers.
Yan Qianyi's entire body tensed.
At this point, it didn't matter anymore; after all, they were already married.
With this thought, Yan Qianyi unconsciously puckered her lips ever so slightly.
However, the anticipated kiss never came.
Mu Yunlie's body suddenly went limp, collapsing onto her lap, completely asleep.
"..." Yan Qianyi awkwardly tugged at the corner of her mouth.
He'd ignited the fire but left it unextinguished.
What a devilishly tantalizing little creature he was.
After that, Yan Qianyi wasn't even sure how she managed to fall asleep.
In her half-dazed state, she had a rather shameful dream.
The next day, she was awakened by the piercing rays of the sun.
When she woke, her arms were empty, as if nothing had ever happened.
If not for Mu Yunlie's name in her spouse column, she would've thought she had encountered a mythical spirit in the depths of the mountains.
After all, that man was far too alluring, too skilled at seduction.
Thinking that his sudden departure must have had its reasons, Yan Qianyi made no attempt to contact him.
For now, she had far more pressing matters to attend to.
...
In the flying car.
Mu Yunlie, seated in the back, exuded a cold, imposing aura.
Last night, he had disguised himself to personally carry out a mission, but unexpectedly, the poison in his system had flared up.
Thinking of the incurable toxin within him, Mu Yunlie pinched the bridge of his prominent nose and asked the adjutant beside him, "Have you found the doctor capable of curing my poison?"
"N-not yet," Pei Yuanxuan cautiously replied.
Over the past two years, the poison in Mu Yunlie's body had made his temper increasingly volatile and unpredictable.
Although Pei Yuanxuan had been in closest contact with him during this time, he had only once witnessed the state Mu Yunlie was in during a poison flare-up.
That adorable, childlike appearance seemed so vulnerable, as if anyone could bully him, yet anyone who saw him would want to protect him.
Even Pei Yuanxuan, a grown man, couldn't handle the sight.
Still, the fact that Pei Yuanxuan had seen Mu Yunlie in that state and lived to tell the tale made him the only one left who could claim such a feat.
Because as the Supreme Commander of the Interstellar Federation Empire, the fact that Mu Yunlie was poisoned was the Federation's top secret.
If this information were to leak, it wouldn't just endanger him, but the entire empire as well.
Seeing that Mu Yunlie hadn't lashed out and called him useless, Pei Yuanxuan dared to ask, "Sir, that girl you were with last night, she didn't take advantage of you while you were unconscious, did she?"
Last night, when the commander suddenly lost contact, Pei Yuanxuan knew something had gone wrong.
He waited all night and only received orders to pick him up just before dawn.
When he arrived at the scene, he saw a girl sleeping soundly nearby.
The girl's clothes were slightly disheveled, and at that moment, a few suggestive thoughts flashed through his mind.
Mu Yunlie glanced down at his dampened collar, his handsome brows furrowing slightly.
Upon waking, he had found a small figure curled up in his arms, drooling all over him.
As for what had happened the previous night, he truly had no recollection.
In the early stages of the poisoning, he could still vaguely remember what happened during flare-ups.
But as the attacks became more frequent, his memory of those times grew increasingly blurred.
Mu Yunlie lightly tapped his smart bracelet and asked Ah Chang, "Who was the girl last night?"
Ah Chang's voice emerged from the bracelet, "Yan Qianyi, female, twenty years old, unemployed, married, spouse: Mu Yunlie."
Pei Yuanxuan was a little surprised, "What a coincidence, her husband shares the same name as you, sir."
Ah Chang added, "Even more coincidentally, her husband *is* you, sir."
(End of Chapter)