Chapter 0009 – I really underestimated you (1 / 2)

She had worked hard for many years, and it was only with great difficulty that she was able to escape from financial constraints and enjoy the sweetness of financial freedom. How could she wish to repeat the same mistakes overnight, or even be reduced to a situation worse than before?

“Hmph!”

Qi Zhi Iu gazed deeply at her, the corner of his mouth hooked up in a playful smile, “I really underestimated you, so you also care so much about money.”

Su Wanqing was scooping up a mouthful of congee and sending it to her mouth, her mouth slurred as she countered, “It’s easy to go from frugality to extravagance, and difficult to return from extravagance to frugality, and who can endure that kind of drastic change of falling from the clouds to the bottom of the valley?”

The warmth of the porridge liquid slid down his throat, immediately relieving the discomfort from his empty stomach.

“Plus, don’t you value money?”

She followed up with, “Without money, your fancy car when you travel, your spacious apartment on the top floor of the jk building, and all those beautiful women surrounding you, do you think all of this just fell out of the sky for no reason?”

“The moment I open my mouth, you have ten rebuttals. Su Wanqing, when you followed Li Yanzhou, were you also this articulate?”

Qi Zhi Iu’s words were sharp and to the point.

Su Wanqing’s hand on the porridge gave a start and tilted her head up, just in time to bump into the gaze he threw at her, like an abyss that one couldn’t fathom.

“Why don’t you keep talking? Weren’t you quite eloquent just now?”

Seeing her silence, Qi Zhi Iu’s tone gradually turned cold, as if he already knew everything.

“The one who signed a hidden marriage agreement with me is you, not Knight Yanzhou. So those words, naturally, don’t need to be said to him.”

Su Wanqing lowered her eyes and thought for a moment before responding faintly.

After all, Li Yanzhou also from penniless struggle to today’s position, the hard-won realization of wealth, perhaps more profound than Qi Zhiyu.

“Su Wanqing, have you already forgotten why we signed that hidden marriage agreement?”

His bony hand rested gently on her spoon holding wrist, stopping her from continuing to eat.

Su Wanqing’s heart tightened violently, realizing with hindsight that she had thrown this hidden agreement out of her mind in order to show off her tongue.

Noticing the steep tension in the compartment, she had to compromise in order to prevent the situation from escalating, “I’m sorry, I overstepped my bounds.”

“Never again!”

The hand he had on her right hand, while relaxing some of its force, didn’t retract, as if it was still a reminder of something.

Su Wanqing symbolically struggled for a bit, but ultimately failed to break free, and could only sigh helplessly and changed her hand to continue drinking congee.

“How long did it take to learn to use your left hand?”

Qi Zhi Iu stared at her with unblinking eyes, those narrow and cold eyes full of surprise.

“I’m originally left-handed, I just don’t show it much on a regular basis.”

Su Wanqing’s tone was calm, as if she was recounting a trivial matter.

“I hope you’re telling the truth.”

There was a note of imperturbability in his tone.

“If you don’t believe me, it’s futile for me to say more.”

Su Wanqing’s voice took on a hint of helplessness.

“Su Wanqing!”

Qi Zhiyu’s voice carried a hint of displeasure, obviously not too pleased with her words.

“A taste?”

Su Wanqing had a bright idea, scooped a spoonful of porridge and suddenly handed it to him, with a hint of cunning in her smile, “There are mung beans in the porridge, which quenches the thirst and removes the fire.”

In the face of her smirking expression, the anger on Qi Zhi Iu’s face didn’t completely dissipate, he just looked down at the spoon in front of him, his voice low, “Are you this close in front of him, too?”

“Forget about not eating!”

When Su Wanqing heard this, the smile on her face instantly tightened, and there were a few hints of gambling in her tone.

Before the porridge could be swallowed, he violently closed the distance between the two of them, one hand steadily against the back of her neck, leaving no room for her to escape, and then a passionate kiss fell.