Two people's harmonious life

Oliver observed Ava the whole time, the pain was clear on her beautiful eyes even though she was trying so hard to hide them, which confused him a bit. He felt he reminded her of a very painful past but how could that be? It was because of her he was ruined, then how could she be in pain? Yet he couldn't see those agonizing eyes. He stopped asking questions and changed the subject.

"Are you hungry? Do you want to go downstairs and eat something?" Oliver asked Ava instead of ordering her.

'She had not eaten anything the whole day, she must be very hungry,' he thought. Oliver's mind was very conflicted he didn't want to worry about her but he couldn't help it either. He knew his purpose yet he couldn't see her in pain. He wanted to punish her, because of her he lost the love of his life but whenever he tried to hurt her his own heart would ache even more. He couldn't understand why he felt like that for her.

"Yes, I am a bit hungry," Ava said smiling gently.

Downstairs, Mrs. Lee had already prepared a table full of rich dinner for the couple. Seeing Oliver and Ava were coming down, Mrs. Lee stood at the side quietly.

"Mr. Knight, Miss Green, dinner is ready." Mrs. Lee said with a smile.

"Mrs. Lee, you can go back to your room and have a rest," Oliver ordered.

"Ok." Mrs. Lee left them alone. She was in fact relieved that Oliver had asked her to leave. She was really afraid of Oliver's temper. Besides the couple seems to fight one second and make up in another and she didn't want to get involved in their fight.

Oliver and Ava started to eat silently. The atmosphere was very quiet and peaceful.

Ava was really hungry and the food Mrs. Lee prepared smelled so delicious that she started to dig inside the food immediately.

"Mrs. Lee's cooking skill is really good, don't you think." Ava praised Mrs. Lee as she stuffed a piece of braised pork into her mouth hastily.

"Can you at least watch how you eat?" Oliver looked at Ava distastefully.

"Why? I am hungry and it's home, why can't I just devour my food?" Ava waved.

"Aren't you afraid you will humiliate me in front of my friends?" Oliver said smiling slightly. Although he was used to eating elegantly with manners but he was actually enjoying seeing Ava eating so freely.

"Well, you're not going to take me out to meet your friends so how would I humiliate you?" Ava put a prawn in his mouth again and said vaguely.

"How do you know I wouldn't? I would if I had friends." Oliver said with a self-mocking smile.

Oliver had countless friends from childhood, but the only person he could truly call a friend was Arvin. Other people have a purpose to be close to him. If he was not Oliver Knight then those people would never even bother to talk to him let alone be his friend.

Ava's hand that was holding chopsticks paused, she looked at Oliver and said with a smile, "What a coincidence, I don't have any friends either."

"Why are you so happy it's not something to be proud of, you know," Oliver said eating his food gracefully.

Ava didn't care what he said she was eating happily. Suddenly she asked after hesitating for a while, "Oliver, after a month when I'll go back, can we still be friends in the future?"

Oliver was eating attentively, hearing Ava he paused, his mood got a little complicated. He couldn't tell her that he wouldn't let her leave. His plan from the beginning was to make her fall in love with him and then punish her for the rest of her life by torturing her in different ways. Making her life so miserable that she would ask for death but he wouldn't give it to her. That would be his ultimate revenge on her.

However, now he was uncertain about his plans. He could feel everything was changing between them, he wasn't that cruel to her anymore. Now he wanted to see her smiling face every morning when he wakes up, he wanted to nag her and fight with her over small things. Oliver didn't know himself, what was wrong with him. He suddenly felt very depressed.

He looked up and said coldly. "Since you don't have any friends I assume you are not a good friend so, I would rather keep you as a spare tier."

Hearing Oliver Ava started to laugh loudly, "Very funny." She thought Oliver was joking with her.

Oliver didn't say anything else. The dinner was quite harmonious which was very rare.

After dinner they watched TV together in the living room and around nine o'clock, Oliver carried her to the bedroom.

When they were in the room Oliver mischievously whispered in Ava's ear, "Shall I bathe you or shall you bathe me?"

"What? What do you mean?" Ava stared at him thinking if he was joking.

"You are giving me a bathe or you want me to give you one?" Oliver said the same thing changing his words, Ava was still in his arm and he looked at her with a rare tenderness in his eyes.

"Can I choose to take a bath myself?" Ava asked. Her face was red like a tomato, but she also looked at Oliver affectionately.

"No, but you can choose to take a bath with me." As soon as he said that, he took Ava straight to the bathroom and throw her in the bathtub. The bathtub was full of water which splashed everywhere.

"Pervert! You are such a pervert." Ava shouted angrily. She was still fully clothed.

Oliver ignored her shouting and instead of getting angry at her he said with a spoiled smile: "Wife, don't insult yourself like that, if I am a pervert, then you are the Pervert's wife. Do you think that's very pleasant?"

"Who is your wife? I am not your wife" Ava spat.

"Oh, you don't like that? How about 'little lover'? "Oliver continued to flirt with Ava with more interest.

"Go away." Ava clenched her right hand and punched Oliver on his strong chest.

Oliver blocked her attack and with a swift movement held her hand tightly with one hand and with his other hand quickly took off her clothes.

Ava was stunned by his sudden movement she hurriedly covered her chest with her hand in embarrassment.

With an evil smile, Oliver put his right hand on Ava's thigh. "Why are you feeling shy? Is there any part of your body that I haven't seen or touched" Oliver said seductively on her ear then he started to kiss her shoulder, his hands were running all over her body greedily.

Suddenly his hand fell on her scar, he stopped kissing her and looked at it with complicated eyes, he thought Ava's pure white skin was totally incompatible with this scar. Without this scar, she would be so perfect.

Ava also realized that Oliver was staring at her hideous scar, she felt self-conscious and tried to hide it with her hand.