Marlene's reaction made Xiao XiRan's heart almost jumped out of his chest. He fell out of the sofa, while his butt slammed on the floor, holding his face that was punched.

"Wife! I can explain." Xiao XiRan said with a jumping rabbit inside his heart. He honestly doesn't know how to explain since he knew it was his fault to force someone to marry him.

Rubbing his face that was punched by his wife, Xiao XiRan can feel pain on his lips. He can taste a blood from the side of his mouth while looking at Marlene's angry face.

Marlene looked down at Xiao XiRan who remained in the floor with a face slowly turning pale while beads of cold sweat began to form on his forehead.

She remained sitting on the sofa with a complicated expression but Marlene's heart secretly felt being twisted to know that there's another woman waiting for Xiao XiRan.

Her silence made Xiao XiRan's heart began to panic. Although he has no idea how Marlene run away from him three years ago, the way she hides from him made him feel frightened to happen again.

Xiao XiRan stood up and sat next to Marlene. He picked up her hands that were clenching on her lap while ignoring everyone watching them.

"I know I was wrong. But I thought I would never see you ever again." Xiao XiRan uttered slowly and tenderly like a spell with sincerity on his voice.

Marlene: ".." Since when does he speak this way?

"Have you forgotten? All those years, I tried to find you, but your people ban me to enter your land." Xiao XiRan said in a low or barely audible voice.

Xiao XiRan's voice cannot hide the sadness as he explained like there was a knife piercing his heart. "But you sent a word that you would never see me again and asked me to move on."

Marlene: ".." So it is now my fault?!

Marlene was speechless. She lowered her head with a complicated expression while recalling the times when Xiao XiRan came to the Reverie forest to take the test to enter medieval land.

Although Marlene commanded her people to ban Xiao XiRan and sent a message for him to move on, she was not mad that he tried to do what she asked.

Instead, Marlene was angry that Xiao XiRan was forcing another woman to marry him which means the other woman might have felt the same as she did at that time.

Tears began to form on Marlene's eyes while she remembered her experience when Xiao XiRan kidnapped her and be with someone she doesn't like was unforgivable.

Besides, Marlene lived for a thousand of years while preserving her innocence and promised to give it to her one true love was prematurely taken by Xioa XiRan.

"What did you do to her?" Marlene asked nonchalantly after taking a deep breath to speak in a normal tone while she tried to pull her hands away, but Xiao XiRan tightened his grip.

Xiao XiRan: ".." What did I do to MeiFen? I.. Wait..

Xiao XiRan was confused, but he realized that Marlene might be thinking that he also did what he had done to her; a bitter smile secretly appeared on his lips.

He understands that kidnapping her was like a nightmare, but Xiao XiRan had a sigh of relief that Marlene is not planning to leave him, instead she was concerned about Jie MeiFen.

"I did nothing to her. I did not force her to sleep with me." Xiao XiRan tried to explain but Marlene's face turned dark that made his heart began pumping hard about what she was thinking.

With fear that Marlene will insist to stay away from him, Xiao XiRan immediately explained. "I mean we did not sleep. I never touched her aside from kissing."

Xiao XiRan's claims made Marlene raised her head and looked straight at him; narrowing her eyes to see whether he was telling the truth or he was lying.

Xiao XiRan: ".." Does she really think I'm that bad?