My Clingy Fiancée Is Forcing Me to Marry Her Again - Chapter 44.1

Ugh!—”

Following that deep cry, which seemed to come from the depths of the earth,

A torrent of glass shattering sounds erupted from all directions like a fierce tide.

Li Fangge subconsciously covered her ears. In her terror, she saw Chen Beizhe’s mouth was gaping wide, and the thick, deep roar was emerging from the very core of his body.

Her head was ringing loudly. Just as she was about to reach her limit, Li Fangge let go of her ears and instinctively reached out to cover Chen Beize’s cavernous maw. Enduring the head-numbing vibration, she struggled to block it forcefully.

The roar turned into an unclear whimper, and not long after, the terrifying sound finally ceased.

The sound of shattering glass from all directions seemed to lose its source and subsided as well.

The night returned to quiet.

Chen Beizhe was like a machine whose power had been depleted.

She watched as his knees buckled, and he dropped to the ground with a thump.

Li Fangge saw Chen Beizhe kneeling before her, looking utterly exhausted, his head and shoulders drooping listlessly.

Snapping back to her senses, Li Fangge quickly let go of Chen Beizhe and the car, and ran frantically toward the front door of her house without looking back—

Chen Qiaoyi was wiping dust from the leaves of a plant. Hearing the noise, she subconsciously looked up. Seeing Li Fangge rush into the living room, she quickly put down the spray bottle and soft cloth and hurried over with concern.

Li Fangge clutched her chest, leaning against the wall with her eyes closed, gasping for air as if severely deprived of oxygen. Her forehead was slick with clear, bright sweat, and her hair was somewhat disheveled—

“Miss Heguo, what’s wrong?”

She seemed to ignore Chen Qiaoyi’s anxious question.

After a long while, she slowly opened her eyes. Still shaken, she straightened up and glanced toward the living room entrance. Only after confirming Chen Beizhe hadn’t followed her in did she lift her sleeve and hastily wipe her sweaty forehead.

“Miss Heguo, use this.”

Hearing this, she shifted her gaze back.

Chen Qiaoyi was holding a pack of tissues in her left hand and offered them to her.

She reached out, weakly took the tissues from the housekeeper, and said faintly, “Thank you.”

Li Fangge had practically sprinted home at a hundred-meter dash pace just now.

Now that her brain had lowered the danger alert, she finally realized how fast her heart was pounding, the coppery taste in her throat, and how her legs were so weak and sore that she could barely stand—

“Miss Heguo, what happened?”

“Didn’t you see the message I sent you?”

Li Fangge’s voice was lifeless and somewhat ethereal.

The way she floated past Chen Qiaoyi with the tissues felt light, as if she were hovering in the air.

“I didn’t check my phone,” Chen Qiaoyi quickly followed her.

Walking to the sofa, Li Fangge noticed that the floor-to-ceiling windows were completely intact.

That rush of sound outside the gate, which felt as if all the glass in the entire city of Ludu had shattered at once, where did it come from?

She turned around and met Chen Qiaoyi’s eyes. “Sister Yi, did you hear the roar and the sound of breaking glass just now?”

The decibel level of Chen Beizhe’s roar and the shattering glass was so intense that Li Fangge felt anyone within a few kilometers who wasn’t deaf must have heard it.

“I was inside, and I didn’t hear anything.”

“Is that so.” Li Fangge felt a sudden moment of bewilderment.

No matter how she looked at it, Chen Beizhe was a being much stronger than her.

The fact that she was able to escape from him safely still felt bizarre to her.

Chen Beizhe gave Li Fangge the feeling that if he wanted to, he could easily rip her to shreds, just as effortlessly as he tore off her car window.

But he hadn’t. His purpose was clearly not to hurt her.

Marriage! His demand was utterly ridiculous. No normal person would act like that—

“Miss Heguo, I didn’t receive your message.”

Chen Qiaoyi’s matter-of-fact tone suddenly broke Li Fangge’s train of thought.

She leaned in slightly, her gaze falling on the phone screen Chen Qiaoyi offered. Their chat history stopped at yesterday morning.

Though surprised, Li Fangge remained outwardly calm.

The terror in her heart hadn’t completely dissipated, but she had calmed down on the surface. “Maybe the message didn’t send successfully.”

That’s what she said, but it wasn’t what she thought.

Li Fangge was certain that the moment Chen Beizhe tapped on her car window, her voice message for help had been successfully sent.

However, just as she had believed the glass for kilometers around had been shattered by Chen Beizhe’s roar, the reality seemed to be the exact opposite. All the glass she could see in the house was intact, so it wasn’t surprising that Chen Qiaoyi hadn’t received the message.

“Miss Heguo, what happened?” Chen Qiaoyi asked again.

“I ran into Chen Beizhe outside the main gate just now,”

Li Fangge pulled out a few tissues, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and slumped weakly onto the sofa. “Some unpleasant things happened—”

“Chen Beizhe—”

There were no signs of a struggle on Li Fangge.

In the past, when debt collectors cornered her outside, she often came back with injuries.

Therefore, Chen Qiaoyi wasn’t overly nervous. The mansion belonged to Mr. Li, and even if Chen Beizhe dared to follow her in, he probably wouldn’t dare to act recklessly.

But looking at Li Fangge, whose expression was completely altered by fright, she was still very worried. “What did he want?”

Li Fangge blinked her slightly reddened eyes. Everything that just happened was as bizarre as her transmigrating into the book. She wasn’t sure whether to tell Chen Qiaoyi the truth. “It wasn’t about the debt; it was because of Guan Xiaoyu.”

She spoke vaguely. Chen Qiaoyi and Yin Xiaoyou both knew about her and Guan Xiaoyu going to see Chen Beizhe yesterday afternoon.

“Is it true that Chen Beizhe likes Miss Heguo?”

“Yes.”

Had yesterday’s trending topic become common knowledge?

Even the rigid Chen Qiaoyi, who seemed utterly uninterested in gossip, knew about it.

Seeing that she couldn’t hide it, Li Fangge continued, “Chen Beizhe came to see me tonight. He wants me to break off the engagement with Guan Xiaoyu.”

Chen Qiaoyi suddenly took a step forward. “Chen Beizhe used the debt to threaten Miss Heguo?—That’s too despicable!”

“No.” Li Fangge was suddenly very tired. “Could you check the surveillance to see if he’s still at the gate? If he is, let Lord Pu know, and he’ll arrange things.”

“I’ll go right now.” Chen Qiaoyi quickly left the living room.

Yin Xiaoyou was on vacation today. Whenever Li Fangge didn’t eat at home, Yin Xiaoyou, having nothing to do, would usually choose to take the day off.

The room became very quiet. The scenes she had just experienced replayed in her mind.

Chen Beizhe is crazy, he must be! Li Fangge thought.

In the original memory, the Scum Alpha hadn’t even met him. Counting yesterday noon, tonight was only their second meeting.

A normal person, no matter how much they liked someone, wouldn’t say those things to them on their second meeting.

Not to mention, Chen Beizhe clearly saw how close she and Guan Xiaoyu were yesterday. Where did he get the confidence to say that only he could give her what she wanted? Was it due to years of calculated planning, or his certainty that she would be completely unable to repay the debt by the end of August?

The fear had just receded, and now anger surged up. Li Fangge still couldn’t understand why Chen Beizhe suddenly had a meltdown over something he clearly knew—

The sound of Chen Qiaoyi returning interrupted Li Fangge’s thoughts.

“Miss Heguo, everything is normal outside the gate and in the yard. There are no problems inside the house either. It’s confirmed that Chen Beizhe did not break in. Do you still want me to contact Mr. Li?”

In fact, Li Fangge more or less knew this was the case.

When she entered the gate, she had looked back and confirmed that Chen Beizhe hadn’t followed her.

“—Not for now.” Li Fangge sagged onto the sofa. “Sister Yi, you don’t need to worry about me.”

Chen Qiaoyi stared at Li Fangge, hesitated as if to speak, but finally left silently. After a short while, she returned again, bringing a cup of lily tea.

She stood by the side, not leaving, seemingly wanting to say something more.

“Sister Yi, your break time has arrived.”

Bringing up everyday matters in a seemingly casual way at a time like this could often ease a tense mood.

Li Fangge picked up the cup, gently blew on it, and took a sip. The warm liquid slid down her parched throat. The honeyed sweetness of the lily tea dissolved the bitterness in her heart. She became a little calmer, and the strength that had left her was slowly returning.

“Miss Heguo, would you like me to invite Miss Guan over to keep you company?”

“…….Sister Yi, why do you think I need Guan Xiaoyu to accompany me? It’s not safe here right now.”

Li Fangge knew Chen Qiaoyi meant well. She was indeed not suited to be alone right now, but she wasn’t sure if Chen Beizhe had truly left.

Even now, she was still deeply afraid. Although Chen Beizhe looked pale and fragile, he was far more powerful than she imagined. Especially his roar—that deep, heavy sound was much more terrifying than the sight of him effortlessly tearing off her car window.

“Miss Heguo, I—I’ve already reported to Mr. Li. The chief of security has contacted me to confirm, and they should arrive in a few minutes. I will have them look around. Leave this to me, Miss. Please rest well.”

Chen Qiaoyi, as expected, had her own ideas. She was a mature and rational woman and didn’t even hold a grudge about Li Fangge previously asking her to drive a tractor to mow the lawn.

Li Fangge said faintly, “Thank you, Sister Yi.”

Chen Qiaoyi nodded, turned around, and left to busy herself again.

Li Fangge stared blankly into the void for a long time.

Snapping back to reality, she took out her phone and saw a new message. Tapping it open, she saw it was from Guan Xiaoyu, sent not long ago.

“Sister Li only gave ninety-nine points, is it because I didn’t go to your house tonight?

“I think about sleeping together every day, but it’s okay just for today. Maybe leaving a little bit unsaid is better. Everything too perfect, I would not dare to believe it’s true. Sister Li, your ninety-nine points is my one hundred points.”

Is that so?

Everything too perfect, not daring to believe it’s true—

Li Fangge stared at their chat window, wondering how to tell Guan Xiaoyu about being cornered by Chen Beizhe just now.

The conflicting feelings of wanting her to know and fearing that she would worry made her hesitate to type.

After a long time, she still hadn’t figured out the best way to tell her.

She backed out and scrolled down the screen.