Chapter 2 You even changed your name to avoid me?

"Enough!!!"

Upon hearing that, the woman's anger reached its peak.

"Chen Yan, what do you mean? You can't possibly think that I, Liu Ruyan, the dignified head of the Liu Group, would mistake my own husband, can you?"

In a fit of rage, Liu Ruyan strode towards Chen Yan with long steps.

"Chen Yan, don't push me to my limits. If I get angry, even if your name has 'Yan' and you're as hard as a rock, I can still smash you to pieces."

Hearing this, Chen Yan immediately frowned.

No, this woman must be crazy. He was just telling the truth, why was she baring her teeth at him?

Wait a minute, her name has "Yan" (rock). Holy crap, why didn't you say so earlier? This solves the mystery, doesn't it?

Then, Chen Yan, who thought he had grasped important information, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and an idea immediately popped into his mind.

"Wait a moment, Miss Liu Ruyan. I can prove that I am not the Chen Yan you are looking for."

Adhering to the great principle that an angry woman is harder to control than a pig during the New Year, Chen Yan decisively chose another method to prove himself.

"What do you mean?"

Rarely, she had unexpectedly become quiet at this moment.

"Look, this is my ID card. My name is also Chen Yan (Yan), but it's the 'Yan' with the 'Wang' radical and 'hot' radical. Your missing husband's name should be 'Yan' (rock) meaning rock, right? You really have the wrong person."

Seeing that the other party was willing to respond, Chen Yan immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly pulled out his ID card, pointed to the name column on it, and said with a serious expression.

As his words fell, Liu Ruyan actually became quiet as she looked at the ID card in Chen Yan's hand.

"Oh, what a fuss this has been. Wouldn't it have been simpler to just say so? Taking out an ID card is such a convenient thing."

At this moment, Chen Yan thought his method had worked, and couldn't help but feel smug inside.

However, this silence did not last long before it was broken by Liu Ruyan.

"Enough!!!"

"To avoid me, you even changed your name?"

Liu Ruyan took a deep breath, her eyes filled with disappointment as she looked at Chen Yan.

"Change my name? Holy crap... do you think I have supernatural powers, that I can change my name whenever I want?"

Realizing that Liu Ruyan still didn't believe him, Chen Yan truly felt numb.

However, his rebuttal was directly met with Liu Ruyan's disregard and disdain.

"I've told you many, many times, I won't like you, please don't use these despicable methods to get my attention, okay?"

"I advise you not to waste your efforts. I don't like you, and no matter what you do, I won't like you."

"I didn't before, I don't now, and I certainly won't in the future!!!"

Looking at the somewhat agitated Liu Ruyan, Chen Yan also lost his patience.

"No, tell me, you're so ugly, like an old lady arguing at the vegetable market, do I need to attract your attention?"

"Besides, I'm telling you one last time, I don't know you, you've got the wrong person."

Immediately after, Chen Yan unleashed a torrent of words at Liu Ruyan. There were plenty of beautiful women in this world; as long as he knew his place and wasn't greedy for her beauty, why should he indulge her?

"What! You actually called me ugly? Do you believe I'll beat you to death and bury you somewhere no one will ever know?"

Beauty had always been Liu Ruyan's pride. Since she was little, countless people had marveled at her top-tier divine looks, but now she was being belittled by Chen Yan as an old lady arguing at the vegetable market.

This instantly made Liu Ruyan lose her composure, and her voice even cracked as she spoke.

"Heh, is being rich so impressive?"

Unexpectedly, Chen Yan didn't fall for it at all. He had no parents, coming and going without any attachments.

"Are you questioning me?"

Liu Ruyan's face grew even uglier upon hearing this, as if she had eaten two lumps of feces.

"No, no, no, I'm not questioning you. I just..."

Chen Yan shook his head and said unhurriedly. However, while Liu Ruyan wasn't paying attention, he suddenly moved closer and grabbed her neck.

"I just want to tell you the principle of 'a common man's rage, blood splatters five paces.' One for one, the advantage is mine!"

As he finished speaking, Chen Yan suddenly tightened his grip. A sense of suffocation washed over Liu Ruyan, and her face began to turn red.

"Is that so??? You couldn't lick your way to me, so now you're trying a different approach to get my attention? You truly disgust me."

Although her vision was starting to blacken, Liu Ruyan still maintained the elegance of a group executive.

"Idiot, moron!!! You can't even recognize your own husband."

"Last time, I am not the Chen Yan you are looking for. Please let me go."

Faced with her taunts, Chen Yan truly wished he could give her a good beating, but alas, her family was too powerful. Without her nod, he likely wouldn't be able to leave here smoothly.

Resort to force? The thought of the two two-meter-tall burly men at the door made Chen Yan decisively abandon that unrealistic idea.

"Oh~~ is that so? If you have the guts, strangle me to death! Do you think you can leave here? I finally found you, so how could I let you run away?"

At this moment, Liu Ruyan's face was almost the color of soy sauce, but she still didn't resist, allowing Chen Yan's fingers to tighten further. She even showed a mocking expression, but her tone remained very firm.

"Alright, you win. What exactly do I need to do for you to believe that I'm not your husband, that you've got the wrong person?"

Seeing the other party stammer through her words, Chen Yan also gave up and released her. Because Liu Ruyan was right, if he really strangled her to death, he would definitely not be able to leave this place.

They didn't have a mortal feud; Chen Yan didn't need to go that far.

However, due to excessive force just now, five clear finger marks were left on Liu Ruyan's slender, fair swan neck.

"Cough, cough, cough."

"Hoo..."

Her vision suddenly cleared, and her breathing became smooth again. After a fit of coughing, Liu Ruyan took a deep breath of fresh air, and her complexion gradually returned to normal.

"I wouldn't mistake him."

Then, Liu Ruyan raised her head and looked at her husband, who was a full head taller than her. She shook her head with a resolute attitude.

They had been married for four years. Even though she rarely paid attention to him on weekdays, and even though he had run away from home for several months, she wouldn't forget her husband's appearance.

Although she still couldn't figure out why Chen Yan would suddenly change 'Yan' (rock) to 'Yan' (Yan), and what methods he used to change it.

But she would absolutely not mistake him.

"Alright, you should rest well. Since you're back, just be my husband, Liu Ruyan's husband, and live a life of luxury. Isn't that good?"

Liu Ruyan twisted her neck, stretched her limbs, and suddenly spoke, waving her hand in front of Chen Yan.

"But the problem is, Miss Liu, I'm really not the one you're looking for..."

"Whoosh."

Not realizing what was wrong, before he could finish his sentence, he heard a muffled thud, followed by a pain in his neck.

"What was that?"

The needle-like pain came and went quickly. Chen Yan instinctively reached out to touch it, but what he felt was a hard texture.

"I told you, you should rest well."

Liu Ruyan smiled slightly.

"You actually..."

Chen Yan, realizing something was wrong, was too late. The fast-acting anesthetic took effect in an instant, and he slumped weakly to the ground...

Caw caw caw.

Second floor of the villa.

The fast-acting anesthetic took effect quickly and wore off quickly. However, by the time Chen Yan was fully awake, the sky had already darkened; it seemed to be evening.

"Damn it. This woman can really endure it. She didn't even let her subordinates act when I was strangling her."

He stretched his limbs. Although his muscles were still tingly and weak, it no longer hindered his free movement.

"Good evening, Young Master-in-law."

Chen Yan didn't turn on the light. He used the light spilling in from the window to find the door. Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened the door, he saw two girls in maid outfits standing there. Upon seeing him open the door, they bowed and greeted him.

"Uh... you... hello."

Accustomed to equality, Chen Yan had never seen such a scene. He was completely stunned and couldn't recover for a long time. Finally, he simply closed the door and was done with it.

Little did he know that his last sentence not only stunned the two servants guarding the door, but also Butler Fu and everyone else in the villa who received the news.

"Young Master-in-law actually said 'hello' to them!"

Butler Fu, upon hearing this news, even thought he was getting old and his ears were failing him. How long had it been since the Young Master-in-law ran away from home? How did he become so polite?

"Really? Are you two sure you didn't mishear?"

Butler Fu, somewhat unwilling to believe it, couldn't help but ask again for confirmation.

"No."

The two looked at each other, then said in unison.

"Damn it, how ruthless! What does this woman, Liu Ruyan, mean? Restricting my personal freedom, putting me under house arrest?"

Back in the room, Chen Yan stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the patrol teams passing by from time to time and the streetlights lighting up one after another. He scratched his head, feeling annoyed.

Seriously, he still hadn't figured out why he, a 996 corporate slave, who had finally endured until the company's N+1 severance package, was preparing to use that money to travel and enjoy himself, suddenly became the husband of a rich woman. This was even more absurd than online novels. The most important thing was, it was clearly her mistake, but why wouldn't she believe him?

Thinking of this, Chen Yan was filled with frustration.

The most crucial thing was that after he was injected with an anesthetic, even his mobile phone was confiscated, completely cutting off his means of external communication. He couldn't even call the police, which was absolutely outrageous.

The sky grew darker and darker. Surrounded by darkness, Chen Yan, out of helplessness, turned on the light. The cool white light illuminated the room.

He wasn't in the mood to watch TV, and there was no computer. Bored, Chen Yan simply started rummaging through the room. Finally, he really did find an exquisitely decorated notebook.

"Oh ho, in this day and age, I didn't expect this Chen Yan to still have the habit of writing a diary."

After glancing at the contents of the beautiful notebook in his hand, Chen Yan immediately became interested.

Although, ummm, a diary is someone else's privacy, but times have changed. Is there a problem with me looking at it to vent my anger after being put in such a miserable situation by that brother? Besides, I promise not to reveal a single word; otherwise, I'll punish myself by turning eighteen into twenty-three.

"Tsk tsk tsk, as expected of a simp who sits at the same table as dogs. Simping until you lose everything."

After quickly reading through the entire diary, the look of disdain on Chen Yan's face grew even stronger.

It turned out that the contents of this notebook were all about how much Chen Yan loved Liu Ruyan and how happy he was to marry her.

Especially the content on the last page made Chen Yan furious, both angry and feeling it wasn't worth it for the vanished Chen Yan.

[I loved her so much, yet on our fourth wedding anniversary, she chartered a plane to fly abroad just to see that person, and then chartered a plane back that night. Does she really think I don't know...]

[It turns out that for these four years, no matter what I did, no matter how much I sacrificed, she wouldn't care. I would never enter her heart.]

[It's time, Chen Yan, you should leave, no matter how unwilling you are. Absolutely no more playing the clown...]

"Idiot! Moron! Three-legged toads are hard to find, but aren't two-legged women easy to find? You've had too many good days, always talking about love and affection."

After reading it, Chen Yan couldn't help but curse a few times.

However, disdain aside, Chen Yan noticed a corner of torn paper, as if someone had deliberately torn out a page but hadn't torn it cleanly.

Huh, a page was torn out here?

However, Chen Yan didn't care. After all, it was someone else's item. Perhaps after writing it, they thought it wasn't suitable and tore it out?

My poor brother Chen Yan, why did you have to be a simp? Simp, simp, until you have nothing left. Besides, even if you're disappointed, you could just divorce her, or ask Liu Ruyan for a small fortune to enjoy life, wouldn't that be better? Why disappear? Now look, you've dragged me, an innocent bystander, into this.

And Liu Ruyan, Liu Ruyan, I really didn't expect that someone as beautiful as you would be such a rotten person. Eating from your bowl while looking at the pot.

If you really can't let go, you could divorce brother Chen Yan, why do all this? Is playing with people fun?

It really shatters one's worldview.

"Slap."

After complaining, Chen Yan casually closed the diary and put it back in its original place.

"Thump, thump, thump."

Just then, a regular knocking sound came from the door.

"Who is it?"

Chen Yan instinctively became alert.

"Young Master-in-law, it's me, Ah Fu. Dinner is ready in the kitchen, I've brought it up for you."

Soon after, Butler Fu's voice came from the door.

"Come, come in."

Hearing this, Chen Yan breathed a sigh of relief. So it was dinner. He then realized his stomach was already growling and immediately replied.

The next second, the door opened, and Butler Fu led people in, pushing a dining cart.

"Young Master-in-law, here are your favorite four dishes and one soup. If you need anything, just call me."

Seeing a white-haired old man politely speaking to him while serving dishes, Chen Yan, unaccustomed to such aristocratic customs, immediately stood up and helped Butler Fu carry the trays.

"Young Master-in-law, Young Master-in-law, this will not do."

Seeing this, Butler Fu was also stunned and quickly tried to stop him.

"Oh, I'm really not your Young Master-in-law. Please let your Young Miss know when you see her that you've really got the wrong person."

Hearing this, Chen Yan helplessly explained again.

"Ah, Young Master-in-law. Actually, the Young Miss has something going on tonight..."

Hearing this, a hint of unnaturalness flashed in Butler Fu's eyes. His first thought was the same as Liu Ruyan's: what new trick had his Young Master-in-law learned to get the Young Miss's attention?

However, he didn't expect his words to be interrupted by Chen Yan before he could finish.

"She is her, I am me. There's no need for her to tell me what she does..."