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The CEO's Substitute Ex-Wife

Chapter 342: Sleepless Night

Author: ShyCucumber
updatedAt: 2025-09-24

CHAPTER 342: SLEEPLESS NIGHT

Ye Feimo stood alone at the bedroom door for almost two hours. It was past midnight, and he had no desire to sleep. Wen Nuan lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep either.

She was used to his embrace and his scent. Without him, the empty bed was a form of torture. Wen Nuan tried her best to forget his influence on her, but it was no use.

After a bath, she felt a lot better. Wen Nuan didn’t want to hold on to Ye Feimo’s past. She knew he loved her, and that should have been enough for her.

For a man like Ye Feimo, it was already rare for him to love one woman so deeply. What more could she ask for?

But as soon as she thought this, Wen Nuan felt wronged. She was talented, beautiful, and rich. There were many people who liked her. Why should she have to endure this? Just because she loved Ye Feimo, did she have to be so stifled?

Thinking about this, she felt even more unwilling.

Han Bi was a thorn in her heart that she couldn’t remove.

There was a sound at the door. Wen Nuan closed her eyes. Ye Feimo slowly walked over. Wen Nuan’s hands were still cold, without any warmth. Ye Feimo felt terrible.

"Nuan..." Ye Feimo knew she was awake and called out to her. Wen Nuan didn’t react, keeping her eyes closed with an expressionless face. The room was very quiet, so quiet that they could hear each other’s heartbeats.

Ye Feimo brushed the hair from her cheek. His eyes were full of heartache. He knew that Wen Nuan had a thorn in her heart. This situation was different from Fang Liucheng. She and Fang Liucheng weren’t in a relationship. It was just a one-sided crush. Fang Liucheng loved her, but he held back because of hatred. They were never in love with each other. Even so, he still cared about it, not to mention all the things that happened between him and Han Bi.

"What do you want me to do?" In the darkness, Ye Feimo’s voice had a hint of the night. Wen Nuan’s heart ached. She couldn’t bear to see him sad, but she was also hurting.

"No one wants you to do anything. Just leave me alone for a little while." Wen Nuan opened her eyes. Ye Feimo looked at her deeply, his gaze unclear. "Wen Nuan, if I leave you alone for a little while, can you really act like nothing happened? Every time we argue about this, can you pretend it didn’t happen? Will there be no crack between us?"

Wen Nuan sat up in bed and sneered coldly. "Ye Feimo, are you saying that I’m petty and that I always get upset with you over this? Do you think I want to be like this? My husband’s ex-girlfriend keeps provoking me. One moment, she says the watch you’re wearing was bought by her seven years ago and that you can’t forget her. The next moment, she says you designed an evening gown for her and how much you two loved each other. And then she says you two had a child. When I hear all this, as a woman, what do you expect me to feel? Should I just laugh it off and say that it’s your past and I don’t mind at all? If I were that generous, wouldn’t you get angry and ask me if I really love you?"

Ye Feimo looked at her silently. Wen Nuan was too tired to argue with him. She lay back down to sleep. Ye Feimo’s eyes narrowed dangerously, and he said in a low voice, "I’ll have my brother arrange a surgery for me tomorrow."

Wen Nuan was startled. She opened her eyes. *Surgery?*

She suddenly sat up, her face tense. "What surgery? Is your stomach bothering you? What’s wrong? You’ve been fine lately... You haven’t had any flare-ups..."

Ye Feimo looked at her directly, and the corners of his lips couldn’t help but rise. Wen Nuan also realized that she was too nervous. Seeing him smile, she got angry and kicked him. "What are you laughing at? What’s wrong with you?"

Ye Feimo grabbed her foot and pulled her into his arms. "I’ll have my brother arrange a brainwashing surgery for me. Are you happy now?"

Wen Nuan was shocked and then became enraged. She grabbed a pillow and hit him fiercely on the head. Ye Feimo put his hands up to block her. Wen Nuan straddled his abdomen and kept hitting him with the pillow, covering his face.

"Hey, Wen Nuan... stop, stop, stop..."

"I’ll beat you to death!" Wen Nuan ignored him and kept hitting him. Ye Feimo used his arms to hold her waist and rolled to the side. They rolled in a circle on the bed, and their positions were reversed, with Ye Feimo on top of her.

"Let go!" Wen Nuan looked at his hands holding her wrists, her eyes narrowed in anger. Ye Feimo let her go. Wen Nuan pushed him off. "You need to get a new brain, not a brainwashing."

He was crazy. *Brainwashing?* To erase all his past memories? How could he come up with such a stupid idea? She wouldn’t have felt better without beating him up. How could a person ruin himself like this?

Besides, there were almost no precedents for this kind of surgery in the medical world. When she was at Mo Xiaobai’s house, she had heard Mo Xiaobai talk about his parents’ love story. He mentioned that his dad had his brain "washed" for his mom.

He didn’t remember anything.

Wen Nuan’s anger flared up. Wasn’t that self-torture?

No one could endure a blank life. Why would he put himself through that? Besides, she didn’t want him to lose his memory. He had loving parents, and he loved his parents. He had a group of good friends. So many people loved and cared for him. How could he just forget them?

"Then don’t be angry."

"Get out!"

"I’ll go get my brain ’washed’ tomorrow."

"Go ahead. The moment you do, I’ll leave you and marry someone else. You won’t remember me anyway," Wen Nuan said coldly. She was too tired to talk nonsense with him in the middle of the night. She lay down to sleep.

Ye Feimo was speechless and also got angry. "What do you want?"

"I don’t want anything. All I want is to have a good night’s sleep right now. I’m very tired. Is that okay, Mr. Ye?" Wen Nuan asked, one word at a time. Ye Feimo looked at her with an expressionless face. The two of them were in a cold standoff. Wen Nuan simply turned over, closed her eyes, and ignored him.

"Wen Nuan, Han Bi and I are truly over. If you want to know about our past, I can..."

"I don’t want to know." Wen Nuan interrupted Ye Feimo. The atmosphere became silent and awkward. Ye Feimo didn’t know what else to say to her. The only thing he was grateful for was that Wen Nuan didn’t get so angry that she talked about leaving him.

"I just called Han Bi. I told her that we are married," Ye Feimo said calmly in the darkness. "Wen Nuan, you are my wife."

Wen Nuan was silent and didn’t answer. The room was quiet. No one spoke.

Ye Feimo stayed in the bedroom for a while, then suddenly stood up and slammed the door shut. The sound made the floor tremble. Wen Nuan opened her eyes, sighed, and closed them again.

It was a sleepless night...

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