Ten Years of Yearning. My Love, Let Me Protect You.

Standing at the balcony, Luo Lixi stared ahead with her red and misty eyes. She wanted to rush inside and interrogate the man but she couldn\'t muster the courage to do it. How can she question it when she was scared to know the answers! 

To find out something she didn\'t want to hear!

This time, even though the buildings were blocking her view of the sky, she didn\'t get irritated. Rather she began to think about what she should do next. Remembering the other contents of the email, her mood fell further. 

\'Can I really not get pregnant?...\' Luo Lixi thought as her throat tightened. The medical results of her body and the information of Sheng Ruming keeping a woman outside were sent to her. 

Not only that her heart clenched with just the very thought of him throwing her away, she was feeling useless...and worthless.

She knew that after Luo Lixiang\'s assault, her body became weak. But she would be unable to bear a child for this. To her, it was worse than being dead.

How would a woman feel after losing her power? Her reason for existence…!

For a moment, Luo Lixi had the notion, after meeting Sheng Ruming, she seemed to have cried a lot. And thus, rather than getting mad, crying and throwing a tantrum, she decided to stay calm and observe everything. 

After a long time, Luo Lixi turned around to enter the room. The air of the night was chilly and cold after all and was unbearable to her. 

As soon as she turned around she was met with a pair of dark eyes. Sheng Ruming was in a sitting position on top of the bed and was staring at her intensely. When he saw she didn\'t intend to say anything, the man opened his lips first and smirked.

"What are you doing there? Are you admiring the moon or the building? Or perhaps, you are talking with your ghost husband?" The man still didn\'t forget about the time when he was teased by her in the bathroom.

Hearing him, she narrowed her eyes and pursed her lips. Without retorting, she walked to the bed and stared at his face. 

\'Even if you cheat, you are mine! You\'ll live as my man! Die as my old man! Even your ghost is mine!\' Such thoughts domineeringly echoed in her head. 

She wouldn\'t dare to lose him! Not even for a second!

Looking at Sheng Ruming\'s carefree and cheerful face, she had the urge to bite off the nose. After staring down for a while, Luo Lixi crawled to the bed and sat directly on his lap. 

"Hug me!" Luo Lixi commanded fiercely.

"Alright…" The man did so as he was ordered. 

"Tighter!" She said fiercely. 

"Cough!" Sheng Ruming was amused by her sudden change of mood and did as she said, tightening his hold until there were no gaps between them. 

Luo Lixi grabbed his chin and lifted up. Looking at his face, she frowned and said sternly, "You are too fair and handsome! Just like a fresh lychee. From tomorrow, keep your beard and hide your face!"

"..." Sheng Ruming nodded silently. But watching him nodding his head so obediently, another string in her mind broke.

Luo Lixi opened her lips and directly bit his ear. She had thousands of ideas to make him suffer and beg for mercy! 

But she still remembered that there was still the marriage contract both of them signed while they were abroad. She still remembered the clauses.

1.No divorce

2.All his property and assets are hers. 

If she wanted, Sheng Ruming would be the poorest CEO in the City! While thinking about this, Luo Lixi smirked and bit him hard.

\'Is this also the drug\'s effect?\' Sheng Ruming thought speechlessly as his pitiful ear was bitten until Luo Lixi was satisfied.

After she was done, Sheng Ruming covered her with a blanket and whispered, coaxing her, "It\'s still night. We will have to go to the company. Won\'t you go to the studio?"

"Did I say no?!" She demanded an answer while shooting daggers with her eyes.

Rather replying, Sheng Ruming moved to lie down on the bed, with her in his arms. Luo Lixi barely made a sound and closed her eyes. 

Weird… this is only a thought he could come up with after witnessing her.

Then this time, like a koala, she clung onto him as her legs encircled around his hips and her two arms locked his head on her chest. Even though he had difficulty breathing Sheng Ruming didn\'t say anything at first. 

But when her arms around his head tightened he felt suffocated. Sheng Ruming whispered as his breath directly fell on her chest, making her paused in her angry thoughts, "I can\'t breathe… Babe… Loosen a bit…" 

"Sleep." Even though her words sounded harsh, she adjusted his head so that he wouldn\'t die in her arms that night! 

…

A big lump was in the middle of the bed. 

Some time passed and the room was surrounded with silence. The man thought she had already fallen asleep because she didn\'t move even a slight. But after a while, her voice rang out above his head.

"Besides your mother and me, is there any other woman in your life whom you have spent a lot of time with?" Luo Lixi asked after thinking a lot. 

"Yes..." Sheng Ruming murmured. Luo Lixi\'s eyes darkened with contempt while his mind was busy counting, \'Ji Yanli, Aunt Lin, paternal grandma, maternal grandma…\'

…

The next day.

This time, Xiao Huang drove the car. It went towards the Sheng Industry and Corporation. The young man first left Luo Lixi at the entrance of the studio which already had the signboard of DreamArt. 

She took time to stare at the signboard and then sighed with nostalgia. \'My studio… but… I wanted it a decade ago… \'

"Do you want to accompany me to an engagement party tonight?" Sheng Ruming asked from behind. He hesitated at first whether it would be good to bring her with him. 

But noticing her stopping abruptly as she stared above with emotional eyes, Sheng Ruming thought he should bring her to many places for her mood to improve. 

Luo Lixi left a message before she walked in, "I will think."

And so, Sheng Ruming and Luo Lixi went to their own workplace. Even before she entered the lift, she got a message from him.

[If you feel sick or uncomfortable, remember to take your injections and medicine on time. Also… refrain from self-harm. Call me if you feel very sad even a bit. I will stop by to take care of you if you just sent me the :FaceWithMask: emoji]

Right after, Sheng Ruming set the default emoji of their chatbox into the :FaceWithMask:. Luo Lixi saw it and gave his message a like, lessening the worried man\'s concerns.

"But…just a... like? I am seriously concerned…" He mumbles, placing his mobile back inside his pocket.

...

Luo Lixi entered the studio. Even though the whole building was the studio, the fifth floor was the main office. The man left the decision to her to do anything with the other floors.

Right after reaching the 5th floor, she went straight to her room. There both Yang Meili and Pan Er Jiu were waiting for her. 

"Madam." Both of them called out when they saw Luo Lixi entering and stood up to greet her. 

She nodded at them and turned to look ahead, where her sketch had been bound into a beautiful silver portrait. Behind the thin glass, it truly looked like a piece of gem. 

"What should we do today?" Yang Meili asked. 

"What can you do?" Luo Lixi asked as she picked up the portrait. Right beside it, a box with the same design was placed. She picked up the portrait and placed it inside.

"I can design, draw, make art, do computer coding, hacking, business management, controlling PR, make little games and software… anything I can do as long as you ask me, Madam." Pan Er Jiu nudged her glasses slightly. At that moment, Yang Meili got the feeling the simple-looking glasses were shining with the ray of wisdom~

"Goddess~" Yang Meili blinked her eyes and murmured with shining eyes. Pan Er Jiu was embarrassed when she realised she told too much...

"Fine. Let\'s make some designs of dresses and accessories then." Luo Lixi laughed while saying. 

Painting pictures is more difficult than sketching jewellery and dress designs for Luo Lixi. Not to mention, it\'s been years since she practised every day. 

Thus for the next five hours, she spent all her time making designs. The other two women were fascinated by Luo Lixi\'s works. Pan Er Jiu picked up one design of rings. One end of it was shellfish and the other part of it was a pearl. Also, as time went by, Luo Lixi created more things but most of them looked very cute.