Chapter 0005 – Fulfillment of Obligations (2 / 2)

Su Wanqing was momentarily speechless.

She clenched her fists and gathered her courage to explain, “It’s not that kind of relationship between Brother Banquet Boat and I.”

“Heh, so what’s the relationship?”

Qi Zhi Iu was unimpressed, his tone casual and diffident: “Throughout Yan City, everyone knows that you were brought up by him!”

“If the Knight family hadn’t been in trouble three years ago, maybe ……”

He took a soft sip of his wine and surveyed her with scrutiny in his eyes, “Should I call you, Mrs. Knight?”

Su Wanqing once again fell into silence.

There were indeed rumors circulating in Yan Cheng’s high society about the gossip between her and Li Yan Zhou.

She was rumored to be Knight Banquet Boat’s favored lover.

Li Yanzhou wanted to solidify his position in the Li Group, there was no way he would marry a helpless orphan girl like her as his wife.

Therefore, she, Su Wanqing, could only be an unrecognized lover.

What’s even more outrageous is that some rich wives privately rumored that she had practiced the art of charming her bones.

Su Wanqing suppressed the bitterness in her heart and said faintly, “By mentioning these past events, what is Young Master Qi trying to illustrate?”

“Didn’t think anything of it, it just came off the top of my head.”

Qi Zhiyu finished the wine in her hand and beckoned to her, “Here, pour me another one!”

Su Wanqing looked at his attitude that was like calling a kitten or puppy, clenched her teeth and walked forward hopelessly.

She reached for his cup and again he dodged it.

The cap of the bottle was already open, her hand hanging in the air, “Qi Zhi Iu, I’m not overly demanding anything. I’ll do my best to cooperate with whatever you want me to do, but shouldn’t you at least maintain a little respect for me?”

“Respect?”

Qi Zhi Iu sounded like he heard a joke, his low voice hiding an imperceptible coldness.

“Three years ago, you were able to ignore me and talk directly to my grandfather about cooperation. At that time, how come you didn’t think about respecting other people’s feelings?”

“Yes, it did aggravate you to let you marry me. But you weren’t completely unaware of the situation before the license, were you?!”

Su Wanqing’s anger surged and she violently put down the bottle, the wine splashing onto Qi Zhiyu’s white shirt, “So, Young Master Qi, may I ask where I disrespected you?”

Qi Zhi Iu snapped his head up, his eyes sharp as sharp blades, flashing with an undeniable light under the light, “Do you think that even if grandpa has already promised you, I still have the right to say no?”

These words, like a thunderbolt, made Su Wanqing’s mind freeze for a moment, as if time quietly stood still at this moment.

She froze in place, her insides churning with unnameable complexity.

This, she admitted, she really had not considered in depth.

She wanted to speak, but only one word came out of her mouth, “May ……”

Hesitation and struggle were woven through her mind, as if to compress all the unfinished words into those simple syllables.

Eventually, she struggled to organize her thoughts, an imperceptible tremor in her voice, “If you had told me directly of your reluctance, I would have pleaded with Grandpa Qi to withdraw that offer ……”

“Retract the offer?”

Qi Zhi Iu mouth corner hooked up a cold mockery, his hand gently pressed on the back of her neck, the force is light, but let her feel a kind of invisible pressure, his voice cold and cold as a glacier, “Su Wanqing, what do you think I am? When you need to take the liberty of deciding to use me as a tool, and once it is useless, you want to discard it at will?”

“I never saw you as a tool!”

Su Wanqing tried her best to restrain the fluctuations within her heart, and word by word, clearly and firmly defended, “My initial request for Grandpa Qi’s help was not an intention to involve you, it was Grandpa Qi who took the initiative. At that time, I still thought that you and Shen ……”

However, before she could finish her explanation, she was interrupted by his stern eyes, “You think? Su Wanqing, do you always act based on your own speculations without regard to the feelings of others?”

“I didn’t make any wild guesses ……” she defended eagerly, but he cut her off.

“If it’s not a guess, then have you asked my opinion?”

Qi Zhi Iu questioned, and without waiting for her to answer, he added with a twist of words, “Even if she told you that we had broken up, why didn’t you come to personally confirm my wishes before my engagement to you became an established fact?”

In the face of this series of questioning, Su Wanqing was dumbfounded, her heart flooded with an unspeakable sourness.