This evil bastard!

Evelyn's entire body was in an alarmed mode, and as she turned her face away, she indignantly dugged her nails into his arm. Without waiting for her to start cursing, his lips had already quickly moved to her ear and he whispered, "Grandpa is just opposite us."

Screw your grandpa!

Evelyn didn't even get the chance to argue further when Theodore spoke up again, "Play along with me. I won't treat you badly."

There was a trace of pleading in his voice, but also of warning: If you don't play along, your family will have to suffer.

After a moment of hard thinking, Evelyn grudgingly went along with him. But her eyes were full of rage and she used her glare to warn him of her limits.

"If you dare cross this line, I will not hesitate to risk it all! What a twisted pair of grandpa and grandchild! The grandpa was a peeping tom and the grandson was a pervert!" Evelyn thought furiously.

"Ahem!"

A deep cough was heard from outside the door, and with it came Ethan scolding. "How can you leave the door open? How embarrassing."

Once the voice outside the door stopped, Theodore immediately let go of Evelyn and quickly went to close the door.

Evelyn rushed embarrassedly to the side of the bed, pulling out her scalpel as she tidied her clothes. She gritted her teeth as she glared at the approaching Theodore.

Theodore's expression was extremely unnatural. He stopped two meters away from her, saying quietly, "Sorry."

"To hell with your apology!" Evelyn said angrily, pointing the scalpel at him as she scolded. "You shameless hooligan! Even your grandpa is disgusted by your actions, and you still dare to use him as an excuse for taking advantage of me?"

The corner of Theodore's mouth twitched and he was silent for a while.

But Evelyn immediately saw through his expression and was enraged. "Kingsley, the one not being courteous and disobeying the contract now is you! I have the right to request to dissolve the agreement between us. Go bring the contract here!"

"Dissolve the agreement?!" Theodore stared at her for a couple of seconds before suddenly raising an eyebrow. "How did I break the rules? Haven't we agreed that we could be a bit affectionate when the time called for it?"

"You call this 'a bit affection'？Do you even have morals?"

"Weren't you the one who let me do it?"

"Huh? When did I allow you to?"

"When you touched my back."

Thinking about her intoxicated self before, Evelyn's face instantly felt hot. She then countered, "I just touched your lower back. I didn't ask you to touch my front!"

"Have you never learned the phrase, 'Back equals chest'? You don't understand it?" Seeing her confused face, Theodore shook his head in disdain. "That explains you were dozing off in elementary school language classes. Never mind, I'll teach you today. This phrase indicates the 'back' of a man and the 'chest' of a woman. They are counterparts to each other, meaning the 'back' of a man is equivalent to the 'chest' of a woman. That means when you touched my back, I naturally took it that I could touch your front." He sighed. "In fact, I got the worse end of the stick since you used both hands to hold onto my back for so long, and I barely brushed your chest with one hand for a second."

Evelyn was already getting dizzy with Theodore's explanations, but once she heard his last sentence, she got riled up and yelled, "Nonsense! That's an absurd theory!"

"An absurd theory? Then why don't you tell me, what was so 'absurd' about that?"

"I—"

"You have nothing to counter, right? Ah, that proves it. I'm right. Be more humble and learn something. But you don't need to thank me or call me 'professor'. I've always been happy to help others." Once Theodore finished speaking, he happily entered the bathroom.

"Jerk! You're cruel!"

Evelyn's angry scolding was muffled by the bathroom door. Her anger was not satisfied, and she saw his pillow lying on the bed. She rushed over and picked it up to throw it on the floor furiously, even stomping on it a few times.

Ding— Her phone buzzed with a notification from WhatsApp.

Kicking Theodore's pillow to the bathroom door, Evelyn finally felt more soothed, and took out her phone to check the message.

'Evelyn, are you there?'

It was Wendy.

Knowing what it was that she wanted to know about, Evelyn glanced at the bathroom before answering Wendy.

As expected, after Wendy had asked about her parents, she started asking a bunch of questions about her and Theodore's relationship.

She resumed from what she had already told Wendy regarding the situation between her and Theodore, and roughly skipped over the details they had made. She believed Wendy had already seen all the gossip online and knew that she was not concerned with the process, but rather to make sure that Evelyn was really together with Theodore.

Sure enough, after getting a definite answer, Wendy started to show relief. 'I just stayed offline for a few days and didn't imagine I would miss out on so much good news. All because of that darned school festival.'

'It's not really good news,' was what Evelyn wanted to say, but after some thought she stopped it and chose to stay silent instead.

'Evelyn, you must have saved the universe in your past life. If not, how would you have met someone like Master Kingsley? That's enviable.'

Evelyn cirnged at this word. She really wanted to say, 'Then how about we swap lives?' but she knew saying this would not change the situation, and would only cause her good friend to roll her eyes, so she chose not to say anything at all.

Wendy finished gushing and excitedly changed the topic again. 'Evelyn, there must be plenty of eligible bachelors around Young Master Kingsley. Come on, help your bestie out and get me into their good books.'

Evelyn immediately replied, 'It's not all sunshine and roses being a rich wife.'

'I need to experience it to know if it's good or not. Come on, we have been good friends for many years. You're already in paradise, enjoying life. Remember to pull your good friends along too, help me leave this hell earlier.'

From behind the screen, Evelyn sighed.

Enjoying life? There was only suffering that she knew.

If she had a choice, she would want to go back to being a simple forensic doctor. She imagined working on time and going home to enjoy her time with her parents; solving cases and meeting friends in her free time, living life the free and easy way. How wonderful that would be.

She didn't even know when she could escape the jaws of the Beast Theodore, and return to the life she was supposed to have.

'Evelyn? Why aren't you replying? Are you busy?"

'Yeah, I have some things to take care of at home. Let's talk again another day.' After handling Wendy, Evelyn then messaged her mother. She told her that she had settled things with Theodore and there was no need to worry.

Right at that moment, the bathroom door opened. Seeing Theodore look dismally at his thrown pillow, Evelyn cheered up quite a lot. She put down her phone and picked up her nightgown, walked toward the bathroom and purposely kicked away the pillow that was blocking her way. Without sparing Theodore a second glance, she lifted her head and walked into the bathroom, satisfied.

Facing the mirror as she took off her clothes preparing to shower, she saw the left side of her chest start to redden. She instinctively used her arms to cover her breasts as if the cruel claw of the Beast Theodore were poised to attack her chest again. She couldn't help but curse Theodore in her head.

This guy, did he get possessed again today?

From that morning, since his grandpa 'investigated' their room, Theodore had obviously started to distance himself from her whenever they were alone unless it was necessary. Otherwise, he barely said anything to her.

When she felt the situation changing, she was quite happy since. At least, she didn't need to keep being cautious around him and be alert of him taking advantage of her. At first, she thought things would continue that way until the end of their contract, but who knew he would go against it today.

"Could it be that I'm too attractive and he couldn't resist me?" Evelyn thought.

After scrutinizing herself in the mirror for quite awhile, she shook her head.

The girl looking at her in the mirror was rather plain. There was nothing especially outstanding or attractive about her, and Theodore kept calling her 'silly woman', meaning that no matter on the inside or on the outside, she didn't have any advantage. If so, then why?

She was afraid that there was only one reason for it: this Beast Theodore was a shameless, woman-hungry old man. Those few days, he buried himself in his work the moment he had come home, probably because of company issues, so he was not in a mood to tease her. Today, his old habits just came back.

No, not just old habits; it was the cancer of lust returning.

Disgusting. If he had a disease he should get it cured!

Evelyn turned on the shower and let hot water spray onto the places Theodore had touched.

Despite everything, that Beast Theodore was truly a master of disguise. His body was more well-built than normal, and a big company syndicate behind him like a bright halo, it was obvious that God was playing favorites.

She couldn't deny that she did enjoy his loving romantic side that he displayed when they were in public. Even though she knew it was but a show put on for others to see, she couldn't stop herself from falling for it. Still, she did not fall completely. At most, she would just lose herself for a little while, since her mind was still very clear.

When she was done with showering, she came out of the bathroom, and saw Theodore busy working at the computer again. Evelyn was too lazy to spare him another look. After checking for her scalpel in the bedside drawer, she reclined slightly on the bed and took out her notebook to check the notes she had been making the past few days. As she did so, she thought of the information she had gotten from Wendy.

After investigating for a long time yet without any useful clues, she unwillingly shoved her notebook back into her bag.

The more clueless she got, the further she wanted to dig deeper.

Sadly, Theodore wasn't loosening his reins and she didn't dare to go to Happy Garden after work again without telling.

Even though Elaine was rather contemptuous, it was still a life that was lost. Besides, she was a worker at his company. How could he be so indifferent about it?

Well, she was just a forensic doctor after all. Solving cases was not her strong point or something within her job description, and she definitely did not need to care so much. She decided to just let things be.

"I will go pick you up from work tomorrow at 2pm," Theodore said suddenly.

Evelyn immediately disagreed. "Why do I have to go home so early?"

"It's Zion's birthday tomorrow. We are celebrating for him at night."

"Since you're celebrating at night, why do I need to get off work at 2 in the afternoon?"

Theodore turned back and swept his gaze across the clothes she had placed at the foot of the bed, ready to be worn tomorrow. "There's a party tomorrow."

"Sure. But I don't know how to dress up." Evelyn shrugged, not making much of it.

"If he thinks I can't dress up nicely enough for the party, he can always change his female companion." Evelyn thought.

Theodore glanced at her again, but said nothing.

Evelyn knew he had given up, but for some reason her heart felt a little uncomfortable. She pouted and unhappily burrowed into the blanket.

If he really ended up changing partners for the party, then could she use that to against him as his legal wife? Or maybe she could argue with him?

Anyhow, she wouldn't let him forget it.

Hmph.

Dawn started to break.

Evelyn, who had been tossing and turning for half of the night, was currently in sweet slumber.

Her phone suddenly started to ring.

Evelyn awakened to the sound. Seeing that it was Wendy calling, she picked up and lazily answered, "Hey."

"Evelyn, good news! Something really good just happened!"