Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier)

Winnie was utterly oblivious to his considerations.

She glanced at him dejectedly and replied, “My hubby’s heart will not ache for me because he has some problem here.”

Winnie pointed at her own head as she spoke while wearing a poker face.

At that sight, Josiah chimed in sarcastically, “That’s right. There’s something wrong with his husband’s brain. His condition has been unstable and cannot be fully cured. I can’t even bring myself to describe how awful it is. At times, he even acted no different from an insane person!”

“Exactly.” Winnie curled her lips into a fake smile and raised her hand in Josiah’s direction.

Josiah fathomed her intention and gave her a high-five.

The corner of Xavier’s mouth twitched imperceptibly as he took in his wife and his best friend collaborating to mock him.

He stared at Josiah’s hand, which came into contact with Winnie’s palm, and thought to himself. I think it’s time for someone to lose a hand now.

“Let’s get down to business. I thought that’s why you two are here looking for me,” Xavier uttered impassively.

“That’s right. I was asking you a question, but you interrupted me. I answered your question about the origin of the hypnotic incense. It should be your turn to answer my question now, right?”

Xavier frowned. “Okay. I don’t remember. I’m not sure if someone hypnotized me.”

“All right then.” Josiah nodded. “This is within our expectation. However, we suspect this to be the reason. Besides, from our investigation, we found out Yolanda studied the art of hypnosis. Since you do not remember anything, we’ll skip interviewing you. Let me talk about my—”

“Hold on!” Winnie interjected Josiah’s speech.

She turned to look at Xavier. “At that time, you remained unconscious for a long time after the needles were removed. This situation had never occurred during the previous acupuncture sessions. What happened that day? Were you feeling extra sleepy or what? Or did you hear a special sound in the end that instantaneously awakened you?”

“She’s right! Did you wake up because you heard or sensed something? This is very important. How could I have forgotten about this?” Josiah urged Xavier to answer the question.

Initially, Xavier was reluctant to tell, as the uncertainties regarding his situation were piling up.

Besides, he had planned to maintain his current condition in order to fool Yolanda.

Having said that, after witnessing how much Winnie had done for him, he could not bring himself to cause her more trouble and waste her time on irrelevant matters.

Therefore, after giving it some thought, he decided to divulge some information.

“I have the slightest recollection in this regard. At that time, I tried my best to open my eyes, but I could not control my body as if I was experiencing sleep paralysis. This lasted until I heard a series of ticking sounds, prompting me to jolt awake.”

“Ticking sounds…” Winnie mumbled that phrase repeatedly while taking off her wristwatch with her head lowered. She placed the watch beside Xavier’s ear and asked, “Try to recall your memories. Is this the ticking sound you heard?”

“The sound is similar, but the ticking sound I heard previously was louder.”

“The sound is similar, but the ticking sound I heard previously was louder.”

She nodded. “That is most likely a pocket watch. A pocket watch is a usual and convenient hypnotic tool to carry around.” Winnie kept her wristwatch and added, “I think it is highly possible Yolande had hypnotized you. Nevertheless, I could not think of her motive in doing this.”

Josiah knitted his brows. “You’re right. Yolanda is very discreet and will never tell the truth, regardless of how we interrogated her. Now, I even have the feeling that she will not provide us with the answer we need even if we catch her red-handed and torment her.”

“In that case, we shouldn’t alarm her. We can just play along with her scheme,” Xavier suggested.

Winnie furrowed her brows. “That is plausible, but we need to think of a way to counter her hypnosis because we cannot predict what instructions she’ll be giving next time. Your brain should not and cannot be manipulated further.”

Xavier nodded. Nonetheless, he did not want his wife to overwork. “We’ll let Josiah handle this since he’s a modern medicine practitioner. He should be more familiar with hypnosis. As for you, a traditional medicine practitioner, I think there’s no need for you to take part in these issues.”

Winnie could not be bothered to argue with Xavier regarding that matter. However, she could never rest assured letting Josiah deal with everything.

Josiah agreed with Xavier’s statement. “Okay. I will consult a professional when I return. Perhaps I can reply to you two by tomorrow morning.”

“Okay.” Xavier got to his feet. “It’s getting late. Let me see you out.”

“No, it’s okay…” Josiah was dumbfounded. What the heck? He’s chasing me away without even trying to be polite or subtle.

Still, he did not call Xavier out for his uncourteous behavior. “I know the way around here, so I can leave on my own.”

car keys from the

before realizing Winnie

his head around and glanced at her. “Aren’t you

the couch. “You can depart first. I have a few things I need to speak

two should carry on. I shall take

to walk him to the door,

waited until Josiah closed the door before turning around and shifting his pensive and

else do we have to talk about, Dr. Garland? Why can’t

not possible. This is a personal matter between us, so Josiah’s presence would not be

into a faint smile while

What personal matter could that

and gently patted the spot next to her.

you sure? Aren’t you afraid your husband will get mad if he knows that I sit so close

if I request my patient to sit next to me so that

already facing

go over. Even if she did not ask him to sit beside her, he had the urge to do so

back of her head with his other hand. He wanted to let Winnie know just how

that impulse. Instead, he carefully contained the eager beast within him and

deliberately left the space of an arm’s length between

within him, and

by his desire, and that was an outcome he did not

do you want to say to me,

and launched the camera

nonchalantly, “I’m afraid you’ll forget me, so I am

chuckled. He seized the opportunity to greedily appreciate the sight of her while she lowered her head and focused

her effort to create proof because I will never forget her, even if I fail to remember everyone else. Even if the virus takes control of my brain one day and causes me to forget everything, I believe I will still fall unconditionally

editing the picture, so she was oblivious to Xavier’s passionate gaze that was fixed

merely added some descriptions to the image. Due to the simplicity of the task, she was done with

to you. Remember

rang right after Winnie uttered those words. Evidently, he had

the message and saw the picture was taken from an excellent angle. As a result, the duo appeared exceptionally at ease in

thought the captions she

patient” beside his face

to laugh after seeing

I’ve kept you in

“Thank you.”

after she expressed her gratitude, but he was reluctant for her to take her

but hesitated at that instant after parting his lips as he was too embarrassed

Winnie used to act like a fool in front of him, he made peace with the situation. All I have to do is pretend to be amnesic. If she could pretend to be a fool,

you have my contact information, and why did

him. “What do you think? In your opinion, what could be the

I must have wrongly saved your contact because you

that so? In that case, aren’t you smart to have done something like that? Why

Xavier acted as if he was going to change the contact name as he spoke, but he

before asking, “How do I spell your name? Why don’t you

suggestion. She received his phone and amended the contact name from “Dumbo” to

the contact name, she did

fell silent for a few moments and directly set the

her. “What are

narrowed her eyes. “You call this enticing? I’ll show you what a

on the couch,

most of the time. Perhaps a more accurate saying would

she told him she would show

in that state was actually

mind, and the intense lust that overwhelmed his sanity prompted

Winnie’s legs and pinned her against the coffee table in front

was not his intention to exert so much

her back collided with the

must be experiencing significant pain due to the injury. Otherwise, she would not have

eyes started to redden