148 Twirling to her own beats (1/2)

Lei Xinyi was sitting on the shotgun seat, looking at the Mansion pass by. The moment she woke up in the Mansion, she knew that it wasn't the Mansion he usually lived in.

Looking at the passing lights of the city out of the car's window, Lei Xinyi smirked. The man was a paradoxical enigma.

He didn't take her there. He didn't trust her. Right now he just wanted to make sure that she wasn't restless in his golden cage or if she had some hidden cards up her feathers.

Lei Xinyi exhaled. The problem with Asian man, they were all f*cking male chauvinist.

Li Yuan for a matter of fact didn't want or need a loving or caring wife. He wanted a pretty-faced trophy to show the world how he tamed the fire-breathing dragon.

He wanted someone like his Mother and Grandmother.

They were both fierce, sharp, and charismatic woman who wielded immense power but lived under their husband's thumbs.

He could live in any illusion he liked, Lei Xinyi wasn't his stay-at-home b*tch, who he could come home to f*ck when he wanted, take to show-off when he wanted then dumped her when he wanted.

She wasn't an idiot. The first thing she noticed was that a tracker was planted in her phone and her calls were being traced after waking up.

Besides, she wasn't allowed to leave the Mansion without him knowing and nor was she blind to see that the Maids and Butler, in the pretext of assisting her were keeping an eye on her.

The wild birds that are born to soar high in the skies don't live in cages, they just survive there... and even the fanciest of jewels fade in contrast to freedom, in contrast to the rush of fast wind flowing through your hair.

The constant fake smiling, monitoring what leaves her mouth, the heavy jewels, sure she loved all the shiny stuff but right now they were suffocating her.

They were like a liability. She felt insulted, like Li Yuan was making her his trophy and showing her off with all the jewels and expensive things.

Yeah., she wasn't the most rightist person because she was herself doing fraud with him, but...

”What are you thinking so hard?” Lei Xinyi looked to see Li Yuan looking at the road from windshield glass with a frown.

Lei Xinyi let out a deep breath. He was just so overbearing. He even wanted to control what she spoke, did, or even thought.

He wanted to occupy everything about the things or people he 'owned'.

He kept her around for his 'entertainment'. Because she was a new subject to dissect, to know all nooks and crannies of.

He liked her because she was unique to his world, something novel.

Lei Xinyi smiled sweetly, the hollowness in it only she could feel, ”I was thinking...this isn't your Mansion where you live. Right?”

Li Yuan chuckled, his frown smoothening, ”Yeah, it isn't, but I wanted that house to be our Matrimonial House and I am upgrading that Mansion for security and we needed a little renovating there before we get shifted there once we are married.”

Marriage was something he was trying too. To know the perks of it.

Lei Xinyi nodded and looked again out of the window, uninterested in conversations anymore. It would mean that she would never get to see the place.

She had heard the rumors of how magnificent and exotic the place is and was supercurious to see what the fuss is about.