Chapter 2

Sally was confused. “Would you be able to wash if I leave?”

He was blind, would he be able to see anything?

The man did not say anything.

Yet, the air temperature between them fell a few degrees lower.

It seemed like she had finally noticed his anger. Thus, Sally timidly picked up the bath towel and left. “Be careful! Call me if you need anything!”

Sally could not stop fidgeting after leaving the bathroom. Her eyes kept darting back in the direction of the bathroom.

The bathroom was a slippery place. What if he slipped and fell?

What if he was unlucky enough to die from that fall?

She just got married. She did not want to become a widow that quickly.

As she was feeling uneasy and anxious, her phone rang.

It was her bestie, Evonne Turner, who had sent her a video.

The video came with a tag that said ‘Learning Materials!’

Learning Materials?

Sally opened the message while grumbling internally about how it was still way too early for their finals. Why in the world would Evonne send her learning materials at this time?

She played the video, only to see a woman in disheveled clothing...

!!!

Sally’s face exploded into a burning red as she fumbled to turn off the video.

It was at this precise moment that her knock-off phone decided to lag out on her.

As she struggled to turn off her unresponsive phone, the bathroom door opened.

“Mmm…”

The second Elijah exited the bathroom, his ears were surrounded by mortifying sounds.

The expression on the man’s face darkened. “What are you doing?”

In her anxiety, Sally was already sweating buckets. The sudden question from Elijah nearly made her drop her phone onto the floor.

She was indescribably anxious, and just chucked her phone into the folds of the quilt.

“You…”

Elijah stared at her with a scowl.

“I’m… I’m watching a video on scrubbing!”

Sally clumsily sat herself down on the quilt, praying that it would be enough to suppress the woman’s voice from the phone.

Elijah’s exquisite facial features seemed slightly distorted. “...A video on scrubbing?”

“That’s right.”

Sally pressed hard on the quilt and wiped the cold sweat from her forehead. “A man is scrubbing down a woman in the bath forcefully.”

“...” Elijah remained silent.

Perhaps she did not just think of him as a blind man, but an idiot too?

The room sank into a deafening silence.

The woman’s voice from the video came from beneath the quilt weakly. Meanwhile, Sally’s body that was merely clothed in underwear was pressed on the quilt in a hilariously strange position.

The warm yellow light from the stained glass lamp illuminated her dainty, slim waist, and her fair slender legs. The scene possessed a sense of sultry ambiguity that could trigger a palpitating heart.

Elijah’s breathing turned heavier as his gaze darkened.

Beads of sweat lined Sally’s forehead.

Today, she learned how tiring it was to press on a soft and fluffy quilt!

Thankfully, the video ended not long after.

She wiped the sweat off her head and fished out the burning phone from underneath the quilt.

The man sat on the edge of the bed and gave her a look that hinted subtly at a smile. “The two of them are done scrubbing each other?”

Sally smiled awkwardly. “Yes, I’m done watching the video…

“As expected, we shouldn’t use too much strength during a scrub.”

“...” Elijah was speechless.

Noticing a lack of response from him, Sally deleted the video guiltily and sent an angry message to Evonne: ‘You nearly got me killed!’

A second later, Evonne: ‘You’re biting the hand that feeds you!’

‘Didn’t you say that your newly-wedded husband is disabled?’

‘This adorable fairy went all out to find you a video! Have you learned them yet?’

Sally’s face burned bright red. Sally: ‘Die already!’

Since Elijah was blind, Sally did not bother to shield her phone screen from him.

Elijah read every message that traversed between her and Evonne.

Sally: ‘My phone lagged out on me as I was about to turn off the video! He heard the video!’

‘He even asked me what I was doing. Took me a lot of effort to lie my way through this!’

‘Thank God he’s blind! Or I would’ve died of embarrassment!’

Elijah was at a loss for words.

Evonne: ‘Haha, Sal, you’re pulling my leg!’

Sally: ‘Go to hell!’

Evonne: ‘One hour of spring night is worth thousands of gold. I shall excuse myself from obstructing you and your handsome blind hubby from doing real business!’

Elijah’s eyebrows twitched briefly -- handsome blind hubby?

What an awful name.

After taking a deep breath, Sally set down her phone and lifted her eyes to gaze at him. “Let’s start.”

The man reciprocated with silence.

The woman clenched her small hands by her sides.

She had known this man before her for less than twenty-four hours.

She could see that the man did not like her at all.

Yet...

Her aunt told her that they must do it during their wedding night, or they would never be happy!

She threw herself on Elijah’s body and wrapped her arms around his neck. Her pink lips clumsily planted a kiss on his cold, thin lips.

Elijah’s eyes turned a few shades darker.

The girl’s eyes were focused and serious, it seemed like she was resolved to become one with him.

The man’s hands clasped on her slender waist. “You won’t regret it?”

Sally nodded with a blushing face. “You’re my husband. I won’t regret it.”

Elijah looked at her with a gaze that had softened with a shred of gentleness.

His voice grew husky and restrained. “Can you bear the pain?”

“Yes.”

She pursed her lips. As she was about to take advantage of the moment and hasten the process, the man caught her wrists. “Let the man take the lead in matters like this.”

…

The next morning, two servants who were in charge of making breakfast pushed the front door to the Moses house sleepily.

“The new madam looks like a simpleton. Mr. Moses is blind and has a weak constitution. Do you think it went smoothly for them yesterday night?”

“Seems like things went well. I heard the bodyguard on duty yesterday night said that he heard the new madam’s voice.”

“For real? This madam seems quite innocent. Who would’ve guessed…”

The two servants gossiped as they walked toward the kitchen.

“Good morning!”

The round-faced young girl with a pair of round glasses placed two bowls of porridge on the dining table energetically. She wore a little pink apron around her waist. “You start work this early?”

All of a sudden, the atmosphere took an awkward turn.

The two servants exchanged glances, unsure of what to do.

After confirming that she did not overhear their conversation just now, the two servants hastily went forward to take over the things in her hands. “Madam, why are you up so early?”

Sally smiled as she glanced at the wall clock, “It’s not early! It’s already a few minutes past six!”

She did not sleep well yesterday night, thus she woke up later than usual today.

The servants started to panic. Was the little madam disdaining their lateness?

The servants scrambled around to make breakfast, only to realize that the dining table was already lined with food.

There were hard-boiled eggs, some cold dishes, and several pies that were fried to a golden brown.

The servants were shocked. “Madam, these are…”

“I made them!”

Sally smiled happily. “ I didn’t know what my husband likes to eat. So, I made a little something that I usually make for my grandmother.”

After saying that, she trotted over to the servants and pushed a few pies in front of them. “I didn’t expect you to come this early, so I didn’t make any for you.”

“Why don’t… You two eat these first, I’ll go make more!”