The CEO's Mischievous Little Bride

Molly blinked and smirked, "So, you married me just to sleep with me?"

"Yep," Sebastian shot back without missing a beat.

Molly, usually tough as nails, was thrown off by Sebastian's bluntness.

"In your dreams," she blushed, instinctively denying it.

After their little spat, Molly shamelessly asked, "Sebastian, when do you get off work?"

"What do you have in mind?" he asked, curious.

"Christmas is coming, and I need new clothes," Molly said.

"Didn't you just buy some a few days ago?" Sebastian questioned.

Seeing Molly's annoyed glare, he quickly backtracked, "I get off at six. Wait for me on the couch."

A few days ago, Molly had indeed bought new clothes, yet here she was, claiming she had nothing for Christmas.

Sebastian was still baffled by women's endless shopping desires.

After work, Sebastian took Molly's hand, ready to leave.

He figured she wanted more dresses or bags, but when they got to the mall, she dragged him straight to the men's clothing store. Sebastian looked at her, puzzled, "Who are you buying for?"

"A dog," Molly replied with a smirk.

Sebastian wrapped his arm around her waist and gave her a playful smack, "Say that again!"

Molly mumbled reluctantly, "It's for you."

Sebastian was thrilled; his affection for Molly wasn't wasted. Even though he footed the bill, he was pleased by her sweet gesture.

Usually, Sebastian would sit on the couch watching her try on dresses. Now, it was her turn to sit and watch him try on clothes, nodding or shaking her head.

Luckily, Molly had helped Ellie pick out clothes for Sebastian before, so she wasn't clueless about men's fashion.

Molly's good taste earned her a few compliments from the sales assistant, "Are you two siblings? You get along so well."

Because Molly sometimes called him "Sebastian" and other times "brother," the sales assistant naturally assumed they were siblings.

While checking out, Sebastian clarified, "We're getting married in March next year."

"Oh, you're engaged! Congrats!" The sales assistant beamed at them.

Sebastian's impression of the store improved.

After their relationship changed, Sebastian spent a day informing everyone in the stores that they were getting married.

"Mr. Chase, aren't you siblings?" someone asked, shocked.

Sebastian explained, "My last name is Chase, her last name is Olteran. We used to be like siblings, but soon we'll be a couple."

Molly had no idea that while she was trying on clothes, their wedding date had become widely known.

Later, feeling exhausted from shopping with Sebastian, Molly had him take her to a new restaurant.

The clothes cost two thousand dollars, and dinner cost three thousand dollars. But Sebastian was still very happy.

Molly, however, felt the same as before, with no thrill about getting married. She went to Vera with her concerns, "Vera, do you think I'm not taking marriage seriously enough? I don't feel anything at all, it's like I'm not even getting married. What were you like before you got married?"

Vera replied, "You're asking me? Before I got married, I dragged you out to curse Patrick for being old and not getting married, which made Shawn notice me. We cursed the Olteran family for two hours, remember?" With that, Molly remembered cursing the Olteran family with Vera.

"That's weird, I don't feel anything. Maybe I don't like Sebastian?" Molly wondered aloud.

Vera quickly shut down Molly's dangerous thoughts, "Stop overthinking. Think about it-maybe you're just too familiar with the Chase family. Marrying into it feels like going back home, and the wedding is just a formality, so you don't have any special feelings about it?"

It was crazy-they were getting married next year, and now she was suddenly questioning her feelings.

Was she trying to call off the wedding?

Vera bet that if Molly dared to call it off, Sebastian would handle it directly.

Molly sat cross-legged on the bed, feeling troubled.

After a while, there was a knock on the door. Before Molly could ask who it was, she heard Theodore crying through the door.

When Vera opened the door, she saw Patrick holding Theodore. She took him, and his crying gradually subsided.

The darker the night, the harder it was to soothe Theodore, and he only calmed down when Vera was around.

Though Theodore was very clingy to Vera, sometimes he needed Patrick too.

Waking up in the middle of the night and seeing only Vera but not Patrick, Theodore would cry. Vera couldn't understand why Theodore had suddenly become so prone to crying.

A snowfall in Zandonick made the Christmas atmosphere even stronger.

Vera and Molly were building a snowman at the door, and Cindy commented, "Aren't they cold? They sure can handle it."

After a while, Shawn went out to join them, his nose turning red from the cold.

Patrick was on vacation, but his phone rang every day.

Patrick held Theodore by the window, watching Vera play outside. Her face was red from the cold, and she rubbed her hands together after touching the snow, then blew on them to warm up before continuing to roll the snowball. Shawn was forced by Molly to wear a scarf.

Molly used a basin to scoop up snow from the ground. As she scooped, she suddenly found something fun and ran off to play a new game.

Vera rolled the snowball for a while, feeling cold, and then ran off to join Molly in the new game.

Vera and Molly had promised their family to build a snowman, but they forgot about it and played happily in the yard all afternoon.

Randall had anticipated this, "Ten years, Patrick. In these ten years, they haven't built a single complete snowman."

Later in the evening, with a program on TV and a thick layer of snow accumulating outside, Vincent and Cindy were also called out by Vera and Molly to build a snowman with the whole family.

Shawn used a small knife to carve the snowman's nose, Cindy pulled out a rope to use as the snowman's scarf, and Molly contributed her hat to the snowman.

Vincent and Patrick were also left bending over in the cold, rolling snowballs in the snow.

Patrick took over the half-rolled ball from Vera, and Vincent used the basin Molly had used earlier.

"Randall, is the snowman's base ready?" Vera asked.

"Randall, weren't you supposed to make the arms? Why are you picking twigs?" Molly asked.

"Randall, hurry up," Shawn also urged.

Randall shouted in the yard, "Stop! I can't be in two places at once. Vera, Molly, what are you two doing? Weren't you the ones who said you wanted to build a snowman?"