My Wife Longs for Divorce Every Day

Chapter 692: 692, The Sixteen-Year-Old's Nightmare

Chapter 692: 692, The Sixteen-Year-Old’s Nightmare

Mo Weiyi’s bedtime is at 10 o’clock every day.

This has been her routine since she graduated from high school.

Being a princess is not an easy task. It not only requires diligent care and maintenance daily but also a scientific sleep schedule.

Moreover, interning at a law firm is boring and tiring. After a week of printing and hole-punching, and staying up so late today, Mo Weiyi is genuinely exhausted.

Even when Xiao Yebai was bathing her, she was half-asleep.

As soon as her face touched the pillow, she closed her eyes and fell asleep instantly.

Xiao Yebai placed a thin blanket over her body.

He then turned and left the bedroom.

About ten minutes later, the man returned to the bedroom, but this time with a laptop in his hands.

Once the bedroom door was closed, he went and sat on a sofa in a small hall on one side.

The entire bedroom was dimly lit, with only a wall lamp casting white light near the sofa, cutting a mysterious shadow from the tall figure of the man.

Xiao Yebai was reviewing the data on the computer.

His handsome profile, sharp without glasses, and tight lips appeared exceptionally stern and austere.

…

A huffy sixteen-year-old Mo Weiyi returned to her princess room.

Xiao Yebai had just returned from the American Institute for the New Year. She had kindly offered him a chicken leg at dinner, but he simply put down his chopsticks and said he was full.

Then, she took her homework to him, but he sat behind his desk and completely ignored her.

Frustrating!

Mo Weiyi dismissed all the servants and went to bed after a bath.

So upset, she even forgot to close the floor-length windows.

Her villa was located in the center of the four villas of the old mansion, a slightly retrospective European-style castle.

It was said that it was designed and built shortly after her birth, bursting with the style of a European castle. Naturally, the princess of the Mo family lived there.

But the princess couldn’t get the boy she liked the most.

Lying in bed, Mo Weiyi was thinking about Xiao Yebai, and she dozed off.

Until a thunderclap jolted her awake.

Opening her eyes, the first thing she saw was a flash of light outside the window.

Scared, she quickly grabbed the blanket and curled up her entire body.

The sound of the wind blowing audibly outside, accompanying the continuous thunderclaps.

Was it going to rain?

Mo Weiyi closed her eyes again, intending to go back to sleep, when suddenly…

“Thud, thud, thud…”

It sounded like someone was walking outside.

Mo Weiyi opened her distinctively black-and-white cat eyes and turned towards the direction of the door inside the blanket.

The room was completely dark, and the door was closed, but the sound seemed to be getting closer, one after another until it stopped right outside the door.

Just when Mo Weiyi was getting nervous, suddenly, another blast of thunder resounded outside the window.

“Ah…”

Mo Weiyi screamed in fright.

The room was instantly bathed in a white light.

Simultaneously, the sound of the door lock being turned could be heard, and then the door was pushed open.

Mo Weiyi jolted up from bed.

Looking at the woman who entered the room, she opened her eyes wide, her mouth hanging open, and exclaimed in surprise, “Mother?”

Xu Xian, dressed in a white yarn nightgown, with her black hair cascading down, emotionlessly came to the bedside.

“Mother?” Mo Weiyi stared at her, surprised.

She hadn’t seen Xu Xian for a long time.

Her grandfather had told her that Xu Xian was ill and was recuperating in the West Garden Villa. No one was allowed to disturb her, not even herself.

Mo Weiyi was slightly excited about this.

Because her grandfather and father were particularly fond of her, they agreed to whatever she wanted to do, and also what she didn’t want to do.

Only Xu Xian was exceptionally strict with her and could become inexplicably irritable.

The most obvious example was that she insisted on Mo Weiyi practicing piano. Since Mo Weiyi became sensible, she had to practice the piano, which always made Xu Xian unusually agitated.

If she made one wrong note, Xu Xian would start berating her for not being dedicated, lacking talent, not working hard enough, not as talented as Qu Yunyao…

And so on.

After enduring this for a long time, Mo Weiyi began to despise playing the piano. The more she despised it, the less she practiced, and the less she practiced, the more mistakes she made.

This vicious cycle finally struck Xu Xian one day, and in a fury, she kicked Mo Weiyi out of the piano room.

Ever since that day, it seemed as if Xu Xian had fallen ill; she lived alone in the West Garden Villa behind.

So now, was her mother here to get her to practice the piano?

Mo Weiyi felt a bit uneasy in her heart, “Mother, it’s so late, you…”

“Weiyi, do you want to leave with mother?” Xu Xian abruptly interrupted her.

Mo Weiyi asked, “Go where?”

“Mother doesn’t want to live here anymore, mother wants to go abroad, will you go with me?”

Mo Weiyi blinked, her expression confused and clueless, “Why?”

Xu Xian sat down at the side of the bed, her lips slowly hooking up into a smile, her voice and laughter seeming somewhat ethereal, “Just the two of us, mother will take you away now, okay? We won’t live here anymore, and we’ll have nothing to do with anyone from the Mo family, okay?”

With that, she reached out to lift the blanket.

Mo Weiyi shrank back frantically, grabbing onto the blanket and not letting go, “No! I don’t want to!”

“Why don’t you want to?” The smile on Xu Xian’s face disappeared.

Mo Weiyi looked at her and blurted out, “Because I want to be with Xiaobai! I haven’t won Xiaobai over yet!”

“Xiaobai?” Xu Xian stared at her, her eyes gradually becoming complicated, “You want Xiaobai, don’t you want your mother anymore?”

“I…”

“Weiyi, don’t you know? This is all your father’s lies.”

As Xu Xian spoke, she suddenly reached out to grab Mo Weiyi’s shoulders, mumbling incessantly as if she’d been triggered, “Weiyi, your father is really heartless, really heartless, he’s a liar, he’s a liar, Weiyi, I want to take you away, Weiyi…”

Mo Weiyi was very scared; she wanted to run away, but she couldn’t.

Xu Xian pulled her down like a madwoman, dragging her outside.

A thunderbolt flashed across the window, illuminating Xu Xian’s insane and ferocious face…

Mo Weiyi wanted to scream for help, but despite opening her mouth, she couldn’t make a sound.

Her head was throbbing terribly, panic engulfing her entire body. All she could do was struggle furiously, letting out low whimpers from her mouth.

…

“Weiyi!”

“Weiyi!”

“Weiyi!”

Mo Weiyi shook her head frantically until a light shot past her eyes. Finally, she opened her eyes and stared at the familiar handsome face before her.

After a moment, she spoke in a daze, “Xiaobai?”

“Had a nightmare?” Xiao Yebai raised his hand to wipe the fine sweat from her forehead.

The warm, real touch seemed to have a calming effect, and Mo Weiyi finally returned to reality.

She immediately sat up.

The thin blanket slid off her body, and her slender hands clung to him tightly, her whole body curving against him.

“Xiaobai, I’m scared…”

The woman was trembling incessantly, still seemingly soaked in the extreme fear.

Xiao Yebai lowered his head, his voice was low and gentle, “Did you dream about your mother again?”

Apart from the incident with Xu Xian, Mo Weiyi’s life in the past twenty years had been smooth and simple.

Every time she had a nightmare, it could only be for this reason.

As expected, Mo Weiyi nodded fiercely.

Xiao Yebai didn’t say anything else and continued soothingly stroking her delicate back, trying to calm her restless emotions.

After what felt like an eternity, Mo Weiyi’s voice finally sounded again, “Xiaobai, where did you go just now?”

The man’s eyes flickered slightly, and then Xiao Yebai replied, “I’m sorry, I was reading material on the couch.”

Mo Weiyi said, “I just dreamt about my mother.”

“I know.”

“Xiaobai.” Mo Weiyi’s voice was hoarse, “Will anything happen to grandpa?”

Xiao Yebai reassured in a low voice, “No, didn’t Uncle Yu just say that grandpa was only temporarily shocked, and they have already revived him. I will take you to see him tomorrow.”

But Mo Weiyi asked again, “Then will grandpa suddenly leave me like mother did?”

Xiao Yebai lowered his head.

Birth, old age, sickness, and death were all natural.

Yet given the current situation, he still said the words, “No.”

Mo Weiyi seemed reassured, her face rubbing against his chest as she asked, “What about you, will you suddenly leave me?”

Xiao Yebai looked down, again answering, “No.”

Mo Weiyi curled her lips, “Xiaobai, I want you to hold me and sleep.”

“Okay.”

Xiao Yebai reached to turn off the light and then lay down.