Chapter 7 - Familiar Stranger (1/2)

''Miss Yu…”

Yu Mei glanced towards the man standing in front of the dining table.

She remembered him. It was the same man who came to her room last night along with the nurse appointed to take care of her.

”Yes?” She asked indifferently while making her way towards the dining table.

It would not be an exaggeration if she said that she was dragging herself to walk further ahead. She never imagined walking would be so tough one day.

”You...You are late..” Steward Gu awkwardly said while walking towards the left, giving her the full view of an enviably sexy back that was hidden behind his frame earlier.

He wondered what kind of tragic day was it that Master was home yet Miss Yu did not seem to have any interest to meet him.

All he could think was she was just trying to avoid the consequences of her wrongdoings.

Yu Mei's steps paused for a moment. Because of the angle, she was unable to see someone sitting there before.

Master…It was supposedly how the servants in the mansion addressed him and the only thing the previous Yu Mei Zhen knew about the man who happened to be her husband was that he was powerful.

After Yu Mei Zhen was abandoned by the Yu Family, she was sheltered by her paternal grandmother. The girl tried up every bit of her scheming and plotting to get back to the Yu Family but she failed at it continuously.

But just as she got hope, when her stepbrother returned from abroad, a stranger showed up at her grandmother's place, offering her a deal, a deal of getting married to a rich man.

The previous Yu Mei Zhen could be the most naïve and innocent girl for her family but to the outside world, she was a schemer.

Someone as smart as her denied the marriage proposal. She believed it to be a fraud.

But things turned out differently when she was shown the picture of the man and was told that this arranged marriage proposal was related to her late mother, her father's mistress, Li Na.

The girl being an infamous idiotic man-chaser accepted the proposal when she was offered a huge sum of money.

She moved into this mansion after getting married but till then she never once saw her supposed husband.

But Yu Mei Zhen, who believed to have fallen in love at first sight with the mysterious man after seeing his picture tried various schemes to attract his attention, which included 'self-harm'.

”Cough…”

Yu Mei snapped out of her thoughts as she glanced at Steward Gu who wore a desperate expression.

She took a seat, never once glancing at the man sitting right in front of her.

The atmosphere around the 10-foot long table was tense as the two people sat on the chair at each end.

'Thud'

The loud sound of something banging on the table caught her attention. She was startled for a moment before looking up, only to find a pair of eyes gazing at her.