Ambiguous pull

Jiang Xiao swallowed, covered her face with the book in fear, and leaned back uncontrollably until her body was completely against the back of the chair.

In a flash, she trembled and spoke, trying to awaken his conscience: "You are not angry because I said it right, and you want to hit me? I tell you, men can't hit women, and you... this is domestic violence, which is even worse."

"Who said I was going to hit you?"

While talking, Zhou Qishen slowly bent his knees and squatted in front of her. At the same time, he easily grabbed her arms that were waving in the air, and pressed them together on her knees.

"Then, what are you going to do?" Jiang Xiao's breathing suddenly stopped as her body control was restricted. Her hands began to shake uncontrollably, and the book she was holding fell to the ground with a loud noise.

"Bang!"

However, neither of them cared about this little episode. After all, what they cared about more at the moment was the person in front of each other.

"You're right. It's true that I don't have enough self-control." Zhou Qishen frankly admitted what she had just said. He stared at her with narrow eyes, like an eagle locking onto its prey, deep and dangerous, filled with the heat of desire.

Suddenly, Zhou Qishen grabbed one of her hands, slowly raised it up, and placed it on his left chest.

The sound of his thumping heartbeat almost drowned out his deep voice: "I can't help it. It's you who's the one pretending here."

The masculine scent he exuded hit her face, rapid and hot, like a confession of love, which made Jiang Xiao blush uncontrollably. Her fingers lightly resting on his chest involuntarily clenched the clothes on his chest.

Zhou Qishen looked at her and suddenly asked an irrelevant question: "You are probably not fluent in Spanish, right?"

Jiang Xiao was stunned when she heard that. Spanish? What's the meaning?

Then she followed his gaze and glanced at the cover of the book that had fallen to the ground.

She realized what he meant. Just now, she had accidentally picked up a book printed in Spanish. As he said, she couldn't understand the words on it at all.

"You are holding a book that I cannot understand, and you keep stealing glances at me and observing me. Tell me, is there me in your place as well?"

If she had been confronted like this before, Jiang Xiao would have fought back even though she knew she was wrong. However, when the words came to her lips, she swallowed them back, and they kept turning between her lips and teeth, and she just couldn't say, "I..."

"Hmm?" Zhou Qishen's eyes darkened.

Jiang Xiao's heart trembled when he looked at her, and it surged like a tide, but she also understood that it was impossible for a man as wise and sober as Zhou Qishen to fall in love with her in just a few days.

Every word he said now was more of a counterattack to her bold remarks just now than a confession.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiao felt relieved but also felt a sense of emptiness in her heart. Something that had just sprouted was flowing out so quickly that she couldn't catch it even if she wanted to.

Jiang Xiao's thoughts were becoming more and more confused, and she was about to be swallowed up by it in the next second... She pressed her fingers against his forehead in panic, pushed him back, and distanced herself from him: "Enough, enough! I admit defeat, I shouldn't have provoked you."

In fact, her slight force could not shake Zhou Qishen at all, but he still tilted his head back obediently, looking at her flushed face leisurely, with a triumphant and childish smirk on his lips:

"You always make me nervous. Let's switch places now."

This kind of smile made him look lively and agile, exuding a completely different kind of ruffian spirit from his usual self. Jiang Xiao was stunned and her heartbeat quickened.

However, his next words made her eyes widen suddenly.

"But as long as you answer one question for me, I will let you go."

It was clearly him who made her nervous every time, but now he turned the tables and said that it was her who made him nervous? And he wanted her to meet his demands? It's so shameless!

Jiang Xiao was so angry that her teeth itched, but at this moment, she was trapped in his encirclement. She couldn't escape, and she couldn't talk it out. She had no choice but to compromise: "What's the problem? Tell me."

As soon as these words came out, Zhou Qishen's gaze as he stared at her suddenly became much more serious, with a hint of scrutiny and oppression.

Not long after, I heard him ask, "Why did you lie to get close to me?"

Hearing this, Jiang Xiao was stunned again. Just as she thought, he never believed her claim of amnesia.

At the same time, I also realized that he wanted to break that layer of window paper.

After a moment of silence, Jiang Xiao took a deep breath, slowly calmed down, and said gently and concisely: "Your nephew Zhou Wenting is my ex-boyfriend, but he cheated on me. I am close to you because..."

Jiang Xiao suddenly stopped talking at this point, and Zhou Qishen replied at the right time: "Revenge?"

"......Yeah." Jiang Xiao bit her lower lip lightly.

Love turns into hate, and then revenge is launched.

This was the most reasonable reason she could think of after leaving aside the system factor. There were two reasons why she didn't tell the truth:

One is that she was afraid that Zhou Qishen would not be able to accept that the world he lived in was a book and would regard her as a mental patient.

Second, she was afraid that after he learned the truth, he would be discovered by the system and directly dealt with like she was at the beginning. Of course, the slightly better situation is that he also received a new system task and was forced to take another path in life.

There are too many unstable factors and no one knows what the consequences will be, so she cannot risk telling the truth. She can only put the blame on Zhou Wenting, otherwise it will be difficult to end it.

Sometimes a white lie is more acceptable than a blind confession.

Regardless of whether Zhou Qi believed it or not, Jiang Xiao continued to rationalize: "I heard that he secretly followed you to learn how to do business, and he respected you very much, so he was not clear-headed for a moment and did something wrong."

After hearing her words, Zhou Qishen fell into silence. His dark eyes seemed to be filled with mist, making it impossible to guess what he was thinking at the moment.

Jiang Xiao was feeling uneasy. After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Qishen finally frowned and sneered, "It's not a smart decision to get close to another man just to get revenge on him."

His expression was not very pleasant, but the fact that he said this must mean that he believed her words.

Jiang Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and forced a curl of her lips: "So I'm confessing..."

Zhou Qishen raised his eyelids, his expression cold and complicated, and did not continue to ask.

Taking advantage of his attention being diverted, Jiang Xiao quickly changed the subject and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, you see we are quite predestined to meet, why don't we try to be friends in the future?"

"Friend?" Zhou Qishen raised his eyebrows and looked at her obscurely. Her brain circuits jumped too fast, and he really couldn't guess what she was planning.

Jiang Xiao nodded vigorously.

Facing her eyes full of hope and desire, he ruthlessly spat out two words: "No."

"Why? Don't we get along very well? I like your personality, Mr. Zhou. We can definitely become good friends." Jiang Xiao was not giving up and tried to use the friendship they had accumulated over the past few days to make him change his mind.

However, he shut her up completely with one sentence: "I'm not short of friends."

Jiang Xiao heard the implication in his words and immediately thought of the lies she had told. She had almost always lied to him since they met in the garage, and now she said she wanted to be friends with him. From his perspective, of course he would find it unacceptable.

But if they can't even be friends in the future, how can she stay with him and get traffic?

Just when she was at a loss, Zhou Qishen spoke again and said something that made her feel incredible: "Since things have developed to this point, I wonder if you are interested in continuing the show?"

"Keep acting? What does that mean?" Thousands of possibilities flashed through Jiang Xiao's mind in an instant, and finally she couldn't help but wonder if he was addicted to playing the role of her husband?

However, her doubts did not last long, and Zhou Qishen began to answer: "My parents have been urging me to get married in the past two years. I need a nominal wife to help me deal with the family."

"Of course, if you want to take revenge on Zhou Wenting, I can cooperate with you."

The two people's positions suddenly changed. Jiang Xiao listened to his proposal, which was not really a proposal, and found it unbelievable: "No, you mean that we should make the best of a bad situation and really get married?"

Zhou Qishen saw the hesitation and confusion on her face, his eyes moved, and he softened his tone: "Well, marriage by agreement."

After getting his affirmative answer, Jiang Xiao was completely stunned.

It’s over, it’s over, this world has gone completely crazy.

When she lied to him and pretended to have amnesia in the hospital, she never imagined that things would develop to such a bizarre extent. It was so explosive that it was no exaggeration to say that she was driving like crazy.

“Ding ding ding——”

A quick cell phone ring broke the silence.

It was Zhou Qishen's phone ringing.

"I'll be right back."

Zhou Qishen hung up the phone after he finished speaking, then turned his eyes away from the screen, his expression a little serious, and continued: "Something happened at home, I have to rush over now. What happened just now is not a joke, I'll give you three days to think about it."

After saying that, Zhou Qi looked at Jiang Xiao deeply, then let go of her hand, stood up and walked to the desk.

He tore off a piece of paper from his notebook, picked up his pen and wrote something. After a while, he handed it over: "I'll wait for your reply."

Jiang Xiao took it in a daze and glanced at it quickly. There was only a simple string of numbers on the note, with black words on a white background. His handwriting was more like calligraphy, like a dragon's pen running, with ups and downs, giving people a sense of fortitude and self-confidence.

The edges of the note were not regular, and seemed to still carry the warmth of the man's fingertips.

If it's not a business card but written on the spot, then it must be his personal number.

Jiang Xiao clenched the note tightly, only then realizing that after knowing each other for such a long time, they had never exchanged phone numbers.

After a long while, Jiang Xiao said softly, "I'll think about it."

After getting her answer, Zhou Qishen nodded, tidied his clothes, and left the study directly.

Jiang Xiao was left standing there, unable to recover from the shock.

In a sense, her plan to gain traffic seems to be going more smoothly than expected. As long as she agrees to the marriage agreement and they have a husband-and-wife relationship, she can do whatever she wants with it. Her mission is half successful.

But she had never thought that such an unfamiliar word as marriage would happen to her, and she would marry a villain. This was too magical...