After dealing with Ji Fushun, Li Chenghuan went to Han Youxi's room to check on her safety, only to find that she had just been knocked unconscious.

Han Youxi has been busy with Li Chengxian's affairs lately, which has taken a toll on her. Her once beautiful and charming face has become somewhat thin, but she is still very beautiful.

Especially when she's asleep, she looks like Sleeping Beauty, with only a trickle of drool at the corner of her mouth making her look somewhat adorable.

Lee Seung-hwan woke her up, and Han Yoo-hee sat up groggily. When she saw Lee Seung-hwan return, she screamed, "Seung-hwan, you're finally back! There's a thief! I saw a thief break into our house! Did you catch him?"

It seems she saw Ji Fushun sneak in.

However, somehow Ji Fushun knocked her unconscious. Fortunately, Ji Fushun was not the kind of woman who would kill innocent people indiscriminately, otherwise Li Chenghuan would not have let her leave alive.

Han Youxi was unaware that Ji Fushun was not a thief, but a top-notch assassin; she was still somewhat shaken.

She told her brother-in-law that she was doing housework at home when she suddenly saw a figure climb in through the window, which startled her. She quickly hid and tried to call Lee Seung-hwan.

As soon as I pressed the button on my phone, everything went black, and I knew nothing more...

When she woke up, she saw Lee Seung-hwan sitting by her bedside.

Li Chenghuan smiled and comforted her, "Sister-in-law, it's alright. The thief has already run away. When I came back, I happened to catch her trying to steal something from our house. I hit her a few times and chased her away."

Han Youxi breathed a sigh of relief. Luckily, Chenghuan came home early today, otherwise she wouldn't know what to do, especially since she was worried that the thief would not only steal things but also harm her...

Just thinking about that scene made Han Youxi feel a little scared. She really couldn't imagine whether she would have the courage to live if she encountered such a thing, and how she would face Cheng Huan and her dead husband.

Seemingly sensing Han Youxi's fear, Li Chenghuan smiled and patted her on the back, comforting her with a self-reproachful tone: "Sister-in-law, it was my oversight. As a prosecutor, I have to face evil forces every day and inevitably offend some bad people. They may not be able to do anything to me, but they will definitely target my family."

“My older brother has sacrificed himself. Now you are my only remaining family in this world. I will never let you get hurt again. So, I will assign you two female bodyguards to protect you.”

"Or, I can buy you another house, one that you live far away from me, so that strangers won't know about our relationship, which will also avoid a lot of danger..."

When Han Youxi heard Li Chenghuan say that he would provide her with two bodyguards, she was quite happy. She could feel her brother-in-law's attention and care for her.

But when she learned that he wanted to buy her a new house and let her move out, she suddenly panicked for some reason and quickly stopped him, saying, "Chenghuan, there's no need. I think it's fine to live here. You work so hard every day, and your annual salary isn't much. Buying a new house would cost a lot of money, which is too wasteful."

"Besides, since I live here, I can help you with laundry and cooking, and take care of you... You said you only have me left... as family, and I think your older brother was thinking of having me, his sister-in-law, take good care of his only younger brother before he passed away..."

After Han Youxi finished speaking, she realized there seemed to be something wrong with what she had said. She looked at Li Chenghuan with a nervous and slightly aggrieved expression: "Chenghuan...does your girlfriend think I'm in the way? I know you have a girlfriend, and it does seem a bit strange for me to stay at home. If you don't want me here, I...I can leave..."

At this point, Han Youxi's eyes were already red.

Her pitiful, tearful appearance could evoke any man's protective instincts.

Li Chenghuan's throat moved, and he quickly waved his hand and said, "Don't be silly, sister-in-law, I... how could I send you away? Before my brother left, he repeatedly told me to take good care of you."

“You can stay here as long as you want. My girlfriend won’t say anything. Not only would she not dare, but even if she really disliked you, I would kick her out immediately. In my heart, my older brother and sister-in-law are my closest relatives. Everyone else is just an outsider.”

Lee Seung-hwan's words deeply moved Han Yoo-hee.

She could tell that Li Chenghuan's words came from the bottom of his heart, so she gently wiped away the glistening tears from the corners of her eyes, smiled through her tears, and said to Li Chenghuan, "Thank you, Chenghuan. By the way, are you hungry? I'll go make you some noodles."

Han Youxi's cooking skills aren't great, but she can still manage to make a mixed instant noodle dish.

Of course, South Koreans don't have much cooking skill at all; they just eat instant noodles, rice, kimchi, and soybean paste soup over and over again.

Li Chenghuan initially wanted to refuse, but remembering how much energy he had expended when beating Ji Fushun, he nodded and said with a smile, "Then I'll trouble you, sister-in-law."

"No trouble at all." With a hint of joy and a sense of satisfaction at being needed, Han Youxi went to the kitchen to get busy.

Lee Seung-hwan, meanwhile, sat quietly in the restaurant, waiting for Han Yoo-hee to showcase her talents. Watching her busy figure in the kitchen, and seeing her wearing an apron and looking every bit the virtuous wife and mother, his eyes narrowed slightly, as if he were thinking about something...

He wasn't kept waiting long.

Soon, Han Youxi carefully walked out of the kitchen carrying two steaming, fragrant bowls of instant noodles. Li Chenghuan quickly got up and took them from her.

After placing the instant noodles on the table, Lee Seung-hwan praised Han Yoo-hee, saying, "Sister-in-law, your cooking is really good. This bowl of noodles looks very appetizing."

Han Youxi smiled and said, "I'm glad you like it, Chenghuan. Eat up. I have more if you need more."

Lee Seung-hwan picked up his chopsticks and said, "Then I won't be polite."

He was indeed hungry. Han Youxi had just picked up a few chopsticks and was eating slowly and deliberately, with an elegant posture.

In contrast, Lee Seung-hwan wolfed down his noodles, even finishing the soup. Seeing this, Han Yoo-hee quickly pushed her bowl of noodles, which she had only partially eaten, in front of Lee Seung-hwan: "Seung-hwan, I can't finish this, you can have it all."

"Oh? How could I possibly accept this?"

"No, it's okay. I'm on a diet right now. Chenghuan, you can finish it all, as long as you don't mind..."

"How could that be? My older brother and I have suffered countless hardships since we were young. We've even picked up leftovers from the trash cans countless times. How could I possibly look down on them..."

Lee Seung-hwan also ate Han Yoo-hee's noodles, and Han Yoo-hee was secretly happy that Seung-hwan hadn't disliked her.

In fact, she had been feeling anxious lately because she felt that with her husband's passing, she should no longer shamelessly stay at Chenghuan's house.

After all, Chenghuan will eventually fall in love and get married. What will other girls think of him if they know that he has a widowed sister-in-law?

Han Youxi didn't want to cause trouble for Li Chenghuan.

But she didn't know what else she could do if she left. Should she go back to her parents' home? Her family was very snobbish and didn't treat her very well. Moreover, married daughters are usually looked down upon when they return home, even if she has lost her husband.

Moreover, if she really goes back, her parents will likely make her remarry, but she doesn't want to get married again.

Han Youxi doesn't have any grand ideals or ambitions, nor does she want to be a strong woman or an independent woman. She just wants to live a simple, happy, and fulfilling life with the person she loves, enjoying peaceful and quiet times.

My favorite thing to do every day is to stay home and wait for my husband to come home, cook him a meal, and then we sit at the table and chat about the interesting things that happened to us that day. Then we do the housework together, take a shower together, and then...

But none of this was ever going to happen again; she became a widow.

For the rest of her life, all she wanted was to take good care of her husband's only remaining family member in the world...

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