Chapter 49 - Divorce and marriage

Tyler sat with Yun Xuan at the dining table after his shower. He smelt especially nice and fresh.

"Why are you looking at me?" Yun Xuan had goosebumps when she noticed how attentively he was staring at her.

"You look beautiful." he complimented.

"Thanks" she smiled lightly and stuffed a steamed bun into her mouth to prevent herself from blushing too much.

Tyler actually wanted to ask her if she had thought about their relationship but was afraid to rush her.

"I'll wash the dishes." she said and stood up when they were done.

"No, I'll do it"

After both insisting for a while, they ended up in the kitchen together. That's when Yun Xuan noticed a strange glaring scar that she hadn't seen before on his arm.

She held his arm without thinking "What happened to your arm?"

Tyler looked at her hand holding his arm. "I got injured during a mission. It's completely healed now."

He held her other hand and looked into her blue eyes. She looked at his handsome face and felt intoxicated.

He gazed at her deeply, feeling tempted by her lips. They looked pink and full tempting him to give them a bite, which is exactly what he did before he knew what hit him. Yun Xuan's eyes flew wide open.

"Sorry" he apologized. Her face turned red with embarassment. She wasn't offended at all. She was just confused.

"How about going out for a movie?" he suggested. Their interaction was too awkward. She instantly agreed. For some reason, she was more nervous than the last time they met. Could it be because he had confessed?

"I don't bite, you know." he laughed."You don't have to be so nervous around me."

"Well you sure really don't bite" she smiled at him.

.....

At the break of dawn.

Yun Xuan woke up with a split headache. She glanced around at the new environment. It was obviously a man's bedroom....men's and women's clothes lay carelessly around the floor. Her blue eyes widened as she looked at her skin and noticed the obvious hickeys.

Had she...?! Had they?! Her innocence was gone just like that?

She instantly burst into tears. She had kept herself pure even when she was with Qin Zhifan and would only agree to do it after their marriage. And now she had lost it just because they got drunk?

Tyler walked into the room and was not entirely surprised to see Yun Xuan crying. He somehow expected it. After all they were not even dating. Whatever happened was a result of them losing control after getting drunk the night before. There's probably no single woman who would accept that she lost her first time in such a careless way.

"Yun Xuan" he called softly.

He went closer and hugged her in his arms.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry about what happened." The girl cried for half an hour in his arms before slowly calming down.

He kissed her forehead. "Take a shower and find me in the living room. The sooner we face this the better."

She nodded and went into the bathroom. She came out an hour later and found him waiting with a stern face. She sat a little distance away from him and waited nervously. He looked too serious. He wasn't going to treat it as a one night stand, right?

"Yun Xuan"

"Get to the point." she wasn't going to waste time with all that 'it was an accident' talk.

Tyler raised an eyebrow. She wanted him to e straightfoward, huh? Hope she doesn't regret it.

"I'm sorry about last night." he sighed. "I hope you can forgive me." Her tears once again started falling.

"Yun Xuan, let's get married."

"What...what did you say?" she was expecting something like 'we can't be together' or a reminder to take the morning after pill.

"I said let's get married." he took a little box with a ring from his pocket, took her hand and put the ring on her ring finger without waiting for her answer.

The first thing he had done that morning when he woke up and saw the state they were in was measure her finger and order a ring. The delivery luckily didn't fail him.

The girl just looked at him too stunned to speak.

"Look, we already.... you know. We can't just treat it like nothing happened."

Yun Xuan finally showed a reaction by nodding.

They headed to the civil affairs bureau right after breakfast.

"Divorce?" the man asked looking at Yun Xuan's swollen eyes.

"Marriage."they said in unison.

They filled in their details before the clerk gave them a curious look.

"Ma'am, you have to divorce your current husband before you can remarry.

Yun Xuan was shocked. "Huh? Divorce my current husband? You're joking, right?"

The clerk was annoyed. "I don't joke about such things."

Tyler frowned. "You say she's married. Who's she married to?"

The man was annoyed at this weird duo but answered since it was his job.

"The record says your husband is Lu Aotian. You signed your marriage on the fifth of July four years ago."

"Yun Xuan? What's going on?" Tyler asked the dazed Yun Xuan. He knew the claim was true from her shock or realisation sort ot reaction.

"You're actually married? And to the overlord Lu Aotian? And you were still dating Qin Zhifan? And now you and I even....."

"Tyler, it's not what you think. I can explain.... let's go home first okay?" She held his arm.

He shrugged her hand away.

"No. There's no excuse for infidelity." He stormed off.