A Vengeful Ex-Wife
Chapter 382 A Candlelight Dinner

Seeing all those messages, Maria was on the verge of breaking down. What made her even more depressed was that she had received wishes from many of those people. "Congratulations on going from Ms. Song to Mrs. Xi."

"Congratulations! Happy New Year, Mrs. Xi."

"Maria, the flowers you posted in your WeChat Moments must be from Mr. Xi, right? They are so beautiful."

Maria had no choice but to reply "Thank you" to these messages one by one.

What else could she say? Then, remembering something, she went and checked her WeChat Moments.

To her surprise, she found that there were more than 99 comments there.

Looking at the sheer number of comments, she had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, she not only saw that same photo of her kissing James, but also a photo of the Juliet Roses, and a photo of her hand wearing the ring that he had given her. She had no idea when he had taken all these photos.

They were captioned, "Spending Valentine's Day with my husband."

After reading the countless wishes from many people,

Maria felt like weeping. How could James do this to her?

What pissed her off even more was that, after she had woken up from her nap, he had just innocently gone to the study, as if he hadn't done anything at all.

Of course, she was annoyed with herself, too. She was really a disgrace to Norman, who had trained her to be a secret agent. What kind of secret agent would sleep peacefully in a man's arms while he did whatever he liked?

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. In the end, she couldn't sit still and watch the movie anymore. She stormed over to the study and pushed the door open. "James, are you looking for trouble? Explain it to me!"

James, who was in the middle of a video conference, calmly looked at his computer and said, "I'm sorry, everyone. My wife is angry with me. I'll talk to her first, and come back soon."

Maria watched wordlessly as he took off his Bluetooth headset, turned off the computer, and walked towards her.

"What's wrong, Mia?"

His gentle voice immediately cut through Maria's hard exterior, but she tried to sound firm as she said, "James, don't try to use your charm on me. I won't allow myself to be pushed around..." But when she looked into his calm eyes, she could not help but swallow hard.

Smiling lightly, James said, "Really? I remember how one day, a woman pushed me onto the bed, unbuttoned my shirt, and touched me all over. And she said she was happy!" "Shut up!" Maria blushed and covered his mouth with her hand.

He was so tall that she had to stand on tiptoe.

"Okay, I'll shut up." Hearing his muffled words of agreement, Maria lowered her hand, and then shook her phone in front of his face.

"What did you do with my phone?"

"Nothing. I just declared to everyone that you're mine," James said, shrugging.

Maria hit him on the shoulder. "Are you insane? How can I show my face in front of those people in the future?" He knew that those men were trying to win her affections, but he had still sent photos to irritate them.

James grabbed her hand and rubbed it. "I would rather you don't." That was honestly what he wanted from the bottom of his heart.

Maria was so angry that her stomach ached. "Do you have a private Weibo account?" she snapped.

"No, I don't."

"I can't believe it!" She rolled her eyes at him.

"I can log in to the company's official account," James suggested.

"What's the point? You can't post random things on an official account. Anyway, why isn't there anything in your WeChat Moments? I also want to declare that you're mine. Post something!" Maria knew he was a low-key man who seldom posted updates, let alone photos in WeChat Moments. And when he did post, it was always about the company's new products.

James pressed his lips together and hesitated. There were some things that were difficult for him to tell her, but he took a deep breath and confessed, "I haven't posted anything because I don't know how to." The truth was, he didn't know how to post updates. The few photos he had uploaded to WeChat Moments were just reposted from his company's public account.

Maria scoffed in disbelief. "If you don't want to post anything, just say that. Don't pretend as if you don't know how to. You're only thirty years old, not three hundred years old! Even Grandpa and Grandma know how to use it, but you don't?"

"How about you post it for me?" Without arguing, James took out his phone and held it out to her.

Maria rolled her eyes. "Forget it. I'm afraid you'll regret it."

"Why would I regret it?"

"What if I discover your secret?

Maybe you flirted with many women on WeChat," Maria mocked.

"I swear, I didn't.

You can check if you don't believe me." "If you dare to do something like this again, I will show off our love on your company's official account," Maria threatened. His company's official Weibo account had tens of millions of followers, two-thirds of which were women who fawned over James. If she really posted a lovey-dovey photo there, countless girls would be mourning in the comments.

Although there had already been news about them getting back together, it was different from posting a picture on social media.

To her surprise, James answered, "Well, that's a good idea."

Maria didn't know how to talk to this man anymore.

She let out an irritable groan before saying, "Carry on with your work. I want to finish watching the movie."

"Okay. Don't forget to cook dinner later," James reminded with a smile.

"Sure, as long as you don't forget to apply for a membership of some salon for me. Look at my face and my hands. They are not smooth anymore because of the oil and smoke," Maria joked. He nodded, "Okay."

She raised an eyebrow at him. Why was this man always so serious about everything? She was just joking.

After Maria left, James took a look at his phone and saw a message from Ethan. It was a screenshot, accompanied with the words, "I know you don't check WeChat Moments, so I'm sending you this screenshot. Look, someone posted it, saying that you and Maria showed your affection in public."

It was a screenshot of a post of a manager of HL Group. The words on the post read, "It's Valentine's Day today. As a single man, I don't mind watching everyone's public display of affection, but I didn't expect to watch the public display of affection from my boss and his wife, too! During a video conference, my boss suddenly excused himself, saying that his wife was angry and he needed to calm her down first. You should know that this was an emergency meeting attended by the company's senior executives! And my boss, who was scolded by his wife, is none other than James Xi! Isn't it surprising?"

James smirked as he read through the screenshot. Then, he sent a reply to Ethan saying, "Well, we'll display our affection like this every day from now on. Once you get used to it, you won't be surprised anymore.

A single man like you won't have the chance to know the happiness of being scolded by your wife!"

Upon reading the text from James, Ethan frowned. What had he done wrong? All he had done was send James a screenshot.

At about eight o'clock that night, James, who had never posted anything private on his WeChat Moments, posted a picture captioned, "Valentines' Day candlelight dinner prepared by my lovely wife." There was a photo of the dishes that Maria had made, with two glasses of wine. It was followed by another photo of Maria cooking in the kitchen, taken from behind.

He had thousands of friends on WeChat, so very soon, he received countless comments.

What was more, the screenshot of his post was posted on Weibo, which resulted in a lot more comments, this time from the public.

However, Maria didn't know anything about that. She just took a look at James' post after getting a message from Ethan. Pretending to be dissatisfied, she asked James, "You tricked me into cooking for you because you wanted to take a photo of me secretly, didn't you?" However, she couldn't hide her smile.

James didn't deny it, and just frankly said, "Yes."