The maid’s piercing cries, her pleas for mercy, alarmed Eva Miller upstairs. She hurried downstairs, only to see the maid’s entire body burned red, blistered, looking somewhat unbearable.

"What... exactly happened here?" Eva was puzzled. It was fine just a moment ago, so why did Luke Land suddenly lose his temper and make the maid turn out like this?

"Nothing, just teaching a defiant servant a lesson."

Luke Land embraced her waist, holding her in his arms, preparing to go upstairs, but suddenly seemed to remember something and turned around.

"You, get out of the Land Family now." Luke pointed outside at the maid.

"No, Young Master, please give me one more chance." The maid crawled at Luke Land’s feet, extending her blistered hand to grab his pant leg. The weather outside was freezing, and she had no home. Where would she go if she were kicked out?

"Luke, what did she actually do wrong? Treating a woman this way, isn’t it too cruel?" Eva couldn’t stand it anymore, pushing away Luke Land’s arm around her waist and backing up a few steps, watching him seriously, "Can you leave people a way out?"

"If I leave her a way out, what if one day she forces you to a dead end?" Luke didn’t heed Eva’s words and looked down coldly at the maid on the ground. "I’m giving you one minute. If you don’t get out by yourself, I’ll have someone throw you out."

The maid’s hand that was gripping Luke Land’s pant leg slowly dropped. She stood up tearfully, ready to walk outside.

"Wait!" Eva stopped the maid; the sight of her was indeed too pitiful.

"Um... Luke, you haven’t paid her salary yet. You’re just kicking her out like this, making her sleep on the streets in the cold wind?"

"..."

Luke Land’s mouth twitched. This woman, how did he not see before that she had such ’kindness’? Facing him, most of the time, she should be ’always fighting.’ Right?

Luke took out his wallet and threw a bunch of money onto the maid.

Eva shook her head. Do rich people just love to trample on others’ dignity like this?

She still wanted to say something, but Luke Land took her up the stairs.

He directly tossed her onto the bed.

"Oh my God, Luke Land, you’re insane! I’m pregnant, pregnant! How can you treat me like this?" Eva struggled to get up, but before she could sit up properly, Luke Land pinned her down on the bed again. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

"You’re pressing on my stomach; get off..." Eva turned her head to the side, feeling uncomfortable.

"Little Chili, I... kind of want to kiss you."

Luke Land suddenly felt intense discomfort in his body. He had abstained for four or five years, and every night Eva lay in bed was an immense torment for him.

"No way!" Eva forcefully pushed his chest, but he didn’t budge. "We have a marriage agreement in place; you even signed it, promising not to break the contract."

Eva thought, thankfully she had a backup plan.

"I’m technically your husband now, aren’t I? You’re not giving me any benefits?" Luke Land frowned, clearly dissatisfied.

Eva’s body stiffened. In this marriage, she seemed not to have given anything. She merely used Luke Land as a cover...