My Sexy CEO Wife

Chapter 565 - 562: The Corpse Trick

Gao Fei lay on the ice-cold ground, eyes closed, motionless, looking as if he were dead.

"Alright, enough pretending!" Shangguan Yunyue huffed, "Playing dead in front of me is just too childish. If I were to fall for it... wouldn't I be dumber than a three-year-old child?"

Gao Fei lay on the ground, unmoving.

"I'll count to three, and if you don't get up, I'm going to kick you." Shangguan Yunyue began to count, "One, two... three..."

Still, there was no movement from Gao Fei.

"Well then, got quite fond of playing dead, have you?" Shangguan Yunyue walked over and kicked Gao Fei hard.

Gao Fei remained motionless.

"Fine! You want to pretend to be dead? Then keep pretending—I won't bother with you, will that suffice?" Shangguan Yunyue turned around and walked away in a huff, believing that Gao Fei would get up and chase after her, but... after she left the room, Gao Fei still lay on the ground, not moving at all.

Shangguan Yunyue turned her head back for a glance and said bitterly, "Let's see how long you can keep this up!" She stomped her feet irritably before soaring into the sky.

After flying some distance, Shangguan Yunyue stopped.

She looked back, but there was nothing but empty space behind her, not a single person in sight.

"He didn't follow?" Shangguan Yunyue furrowed her brow, "That Gao Fei... he wouldn't really be... No! It must be a trick! Right, definitely a trick! He's playing hard to get, trying to fool me! No way I'd fall for that!" Shangguan Yunyue descended from the air, found a flat spot to sit, and waited patiently.

Time ticked away bit by bit.

Unknowingly, an hour had passed.

...And Gao Fei still had not come after her.

The look on Shangguan Yunyue's face started to grow ugly.

Two hours went by.

Still no sign of Gao Fei. Shangguan Yunyue's expression turned uglier still.

Three hours...

Four hours...

Five hours...

Six hours...

From nightfall until dawn, she saw no sign of Gao Fei.

Finally, Shangguan Yunyue could no longer sit still, "No! I have to go back and check! If I find out Gao Fei tricked me, I won't let him off easily!" Shangguan Yunyue took to the sky, flying toward the place where Gao Fei resided. Anxious, she increased her flying speed substantially, and it didn't take long for her to arrive at Gao Fei's abode.

Gao Fei was still lying there, his complexion as pale as paper, not stirring in the slightest.

Shangguan Yunyue hurried over, crouched down, and reached out to check Gao Fei's breath—there was none. Shangguan Yunyue then placed her hand on Gao Fei's chest—no heartbeat... Her hands began to tremble slightly; she took a deep breath and then grabbed Gao Fei's wrist...

After feeling carefully for a moment, there was no pulse.

No breath, no heartbeat, no pulse... What did this mean? It meant that Gao Fei was, at this moment, a dead man.

Shangguan Yunyue checked Gao Fei's Dantian and discovered it was utterly silent, not the slightest fluctuation; even the True Qi within his body had dissipated...

"How could this happen?" Shangguan Yunyue finally panicked, shaking Gao Fei hard with both hands, "Get up! Get up!!! Get up!!!" No matter how much Shangguan Yunyue shook him, Gao Fei did not respond, "You bastard! You damn fool! Wake up! Wake up!"

Shangguan Yunyue pulled out an elixir from her bosom, pried open Gao Fei's mouth, and stuffed all the pills in, then pressed her hand against Gao Fei's chest, transferring True Qi into his body.

After much effort, she still could not revive Gao Fei.

"You can't die! You can't die!" Shangguan Yunyue tried every method she could think of, but alas... none of them worked.

Gao Fei lay stiffly on the ground, his eyes tightly shut, no breath, no heartbeat, no pulse, his Dantian silent, his True Qi dissipated, his body cold, rigid... At this moment, Gao Fei had become a corpse, a cold corpse.

"How could this happen?"

"How could it?"

"Is Gao Fei dead?"

Shangguan Yunyue slumped to the ground, staring blankly at Gao Fei, feeling a sudden stabbing pain in her chest, an intense heartache, her eyes reddening, tears slowly flowing out: "I don't want you to die! I don't want you to die!!!" Shangguan Yunyue suddenly lay on Gao Fei, clutching his shoulders with both hands, shaking him with all her strength, tears flowing incessantly, she cried out heartbreakingly, "Wake up! Wake up!!! I don't want you to die! I don't want you to die!!! You bastard! What did you promise me before? You said you would take responsibility for me, that you would marry me if I were willing, and cherish me with your life... I agree now, I agree to marry you, so wake up, wake up quickly..."

Shangguan Yunyue's cried miserably, in this moment, she clearly realized how much she cared for Gao Fei.

"You bastard! I hate you! I hate you!!!" Shangguan Yunyue beat Gao Fei's body while she cried out, never in her life had she felt such sorrow, if heaven were to give her another chance, she would definitely cherish Gao Fei.

Was Gao Fei really dead?

The answer was... fake!

That's right, Gao Fei was just pretending to be dead, albeit very convincingly, even the exceedingly astute Shangguan Yunyue was deceived.

At this moment, Gao Fei was in a bit of a quandary, he hadn't anticipated such an extreme reaction from Shangguan Yunyue...

In his mind, Gao Fei's soul was speaking with Xuan Jizi's soul.

"Let's see how you're going to get out of this one," Xuan Jizi's soul said with a mix of schadenfreude.

"Teach me, what should I do now? Just come back to life?"

"If you're not afraid of Shangguan Yunyue's retaliation, then go ahead and come back to life," Xuan Jizi replied.

"Then what do you suggest I do?"

"You got yourself into this mess, figure it out yourself, don't come asking me,"

"I'm asking because I can't think of anything else to do."

"Let me just ask you one thing: do you plan to keep playing dead indefinitely?"

"Definitely not!"

"Since that's not feasible, you might as well come back to life."

"Ah, I'm worried..."

"If you don't come back to life soon, Shangguan Yunyue might actually die for love, then what will you do?"

"That can't be, Shangguan Yunyue dying for my sake?"

"Just look at Shangguan Yunyue now, she's utterly devastated. Tsk tsk, I never would have guessed, you're quite the ladies' man, to have even a woman like Shangguan Yunyue fall for you, impressive indeed."

"Whether I face the chop going forward or backward, so be it! I'm coming back to life now..."

...

"With you dead, what am I supposed to do?" Shangguan Yunyue continued to weep: "What meaning is there for me to live alone?"

"Cough cough cough..."

The long-dead Gao Fei suddenly opened his eyes, looking surprised at Shangguan Yunyue: "Ah... why are you crying..." Gao Fei's expression was rich with confusion, bewilderment, incomprehension, and compassion... Of course, it was all an act.

"Ah?" Shangguan Yunyue was stunned, her eyes wide, her mouth agape, what was going on? Wasn't Gao Fei dead? How did he come back to life? Could it be... he was playing possum?