An Accidental Rebirth: The Surrogate Bride

“Open the door! Liu Zixiu! Open the door…”

Standing outside, Nangong Du shouted with his hands on his hips, managing to hold back his anger. To his surprise, though Liu Zixiu looked clumsy, he moved much faster than when he had been in his mansion. Nangong Du was regretted not having used Qing Kung because he underestimated Zixiu, or he wouldn’t have been shut out of the door!

Before Nangong Du could get him just now, Zixiu had rushed into the room at an incredible speed. He immediately closed and bolted the door before pressing the dinner table against it. After that, he leaned against the table, gasping for a while. As he finally caught his breath, he realized that the basic skills of Qing Kung he had practiced for months had worked! Though not as fast as a rabbit, he could at least get away from his enemy. At the thought of this, Zixiu felt a surge of confidence at once. ‘Seems I’m not that stupid and useless! Dad is right! I have to make progress little by little and there’s no way to master Qing Kung overnight! But dad told me that no outsiders would be able to enter the valley. How come that damned pervert suddenly showed up here? What the hell is going on?’

“Liu Zixiu, open the door! Did you hear me? Open the door…” Nangong Du wondered why he lost his temper so easily whenever he faced Zixiu, and especially when he had just accidentally put out the torch, he grew even more impatient. ‘It’s damned cold in the mountains! How dare Liu Zixiu shut me out!“ Actually, what annoyed him most was that to find Zixiu, he went to great lengths not to arouse the suspicion of others and came all the way from his fief, but the latter even ran away at the sight of him! ‘Damn it! Am I that scary?’ Nangong Du thought resentfully. “Liu Zixiu, open the door! You coward, if you keep the door shut, don’t blame me for tearing down your house!”

‘Coward?!’ “Damn it! You..” ‘Er… Wait! He must be trying to get me out by provoking me! Liu Zixiu, relax! You must keep calm!’ Zixiu told himself.

Taking a few deep breaths, he managed to calm himself down and stopped talking with his teeth clenched. After a while, he wiped the cold sweat off his forehead with his mind spinning. ‘That jerk means what he says. He might really tear down my house! Besides, destroying a door is much easier than demolishing a house! Seems I have to do something to keep him from getting me! What’s more, I can’t let any outsider see me look like a pregnant woman! It was so dark, so that pervert must not have seen me clearly just now!’

“Liu Zixiu, do you think you can hide from me forever? Listen, it was your dad who told me…”

‘Dad?’ Hearing that, Zixiu felt his heart sink and he grew even more alarmed. It had been three days since his father left. However, instead of seeing him come back, he saw Nangong Du suddenly appear in front of their house! Obviously, Nangong Du didn’t get here by climbing the cliff. ‘Could dad have been…’ “You bastard, what did you do to my dad?”

“Humph!” Irritated by Zixiu’s swear words, Nangong Du deliberately answered in an enigmatic tone, “No worries, darling. As Liu Wuyi is my father-in-law, I should treat him well!”

‘‘Father-in-law?’ As far as he knew of Nangong Du, there was no way the latter meant what he said just now literally. ‘What did he mean by ‘treat dad well’?’ Zixiu wondered with his fear turning to fury instantly. “You f*cking asshole!” he couldn’t help but curse again.

“Whatever you say! Come on! Come out and teach me a lesson!”

“!!” Though Zixiu was in a towering rage, he hadn’t lost his mind yet. He had known well that he was no match for Nan Gongdu months ago!

“You don’t dare come out, do you?” Nangong Du said sarcastically, trying to goad Zixiu to open the door.

However, to his surprise, someone else’s voice suddenly rang from behind. “Prince Mu, seems you’re in a good mood. Are you here so late to watch the sunset or enjoy the moonlight?”