Chapter 014: Liu Zhiyan expresses his feelings

Qin Xue actually didn't know what to do. She just felt that this matter should not be dealt with by avoiding it.

When she heard Liu Zhiyan's question, she subconsciously answered, "My dad, tell my dad, my dad will definitely have a way to solve it."

Hearing her confident words, Liu Zhiyan thought she had some brilliant idea.

As a result, he was given this way to find his father.

He didn't know what to say.

However, from her words of absolute trust, it is not difficult to know that Qin's father definitely gave this girl enough sense of security, which made this girl subconsciously want to rely on him when she encountered problems.

Furthermore, it was obvious that she had no way to solve her own problems and needed to rely on others to solve them.

But he said it without showing any timidity at all.

No wonder his mother said that this girl is suitable for diplomacy.

After all, diplomacy often involves encountering all kinds of unexpected difficulties, which puts a great test on the diplomats' ability to respond on the spot.

It doesn't mean that you have to solve the problem face to face, but your words must make the other party believe that we are definitely capable of solving this problem.

Inexplicably, he suddenly wanted to protect this girl's fearless courage. "Don't bother two people with one thing. Since I gave you this information, why don't you let me help you solve this problem?"

"Isn't this a bad idea?" Qin Xue hesitated.

"What's wrong? Why is it wrong?"

"We are not related, how can I trouble you?"

"I thought that after spending nearly two months together, even if we weren't master and disciple, we could at least be considered friends. I didn't expect that in your heart, I was still a stranger."

It’s bad enough that this girl hasn’t figured out matters between men and women yet.

He can't accept it if you still interact with him with caution.

Therefore, he decided to take this opportunity to express his feelings.

In fact, Qin Xue was not unaware that Liu Zhiyan was becoming more and more caring towards her.

It's just that she has become accustomed to not having any illusions when interacting with others, so she doesn't allow herself to read too much into the reasons behind Liu Zhiyan's behavior. She just regards it as a transaction between him and Sister Ye, and has nothing to do with her.

Now hearing what he said, it was obvious that it was not as simple as she thought.

This realization made Qin Xue silent and she didn't know how to respond.

Her silence made Liu Zhiyan take drastic action. "I initially agreed to teach you because of the deal I made with your sister Ye. But if that was just because of that deal, I would have taught you step by step. I wouldn't have gone back every night to go through the trouble of adjusting my teaching pace according to your learning progress."

"Also, regarding what I just told you about Wang Xingsheng, if I hadn't had someone keep an eye on him, how do you think I knew he was planning to team up with Ruan Ruyi to plot against you?"

If he hadn't said it, Qin Xue would have thought he'd just happened to know that Wang Xingsheng was plotting against her. "But why did you have someone keep an eye on him?"

"Of course I'm afraid that he will do something bad to you." Liu Zhiyan replied to her unhappily, "You are the first woman I have treated with such care in the past 25 years of my life." He had never even thought this way about his two sisters.

"Ah, you are twenty-five. I thought you were twenty at most."

Seeing that she was not paying attention to what he expected after talking for a long time, Liu Zhiyan stretched out his slender fingers and pinched her rosy lips. "I am telling you seriously that I have fallen in love with you, a silly girl. What are you thinking of me, huh?!"

"Ahhh..." Qin Xue's lips were pinched and she couldn't speak. She could only stare at him with her big eyes.

Glaring at her with those big eyes that seemed to be accusing him, Liu Zhiyan released his grip on her mouth and said again seriously, "I'm twenty-five years old. I sound a bit old, but I have absolutely no romantic history. I'm a serious virgin. Do you want to consider it?"

Because she knew from a young age that she would have to marry a son-in-law, Qin Xue never imagined what her future partner would look like. She knew very well that an excellent man would not be willing to be someone else's son-in-law.

It is said that every woman has spring fever, but Qin Xue is not one of them.

It’s not that she doesn’t want to, but she knows there’s no point in thinking about it.

But when a man who was so handsome that she couldn't find words to describe him said that he cared about her, something seemed to explode in her mind.

She didn't know that it was a heart-throb, she just felt a sense of ethereal floating in the air after hearing these words, "But I want to marry a son-in-law. You are so beautiful and so outstanding, how can you be someone else's son-in-law."

"My parents are prepared for me to be a bachelor for the rest of my life. They would love for me to be someone's son-in-law." Of course, his grandmother might not be able to accept it.

"Don't they care about continuing the family line?"

"I have a brother. He's the one who can carry on the family line, so I can make the decisions about my own affairs. As long as you nod, I can pack my bags and become your son-in-law."

Bang bang bang~~

Feeling her heartbeat faster than ever before, Qin Xue used her last bit of rationality to say, waving her hands repeatedly to refuse, "We can't do this. If we just get married like this, it's called unmediated adultery, and it's against etiquette. No, no, no."

"In other words, as long as I ask a matchmaker to come to your house, you will agree?"

"My father's consent is needed." Qin Xue felt that she couldn't continue. "Okay, I'll leave tomorrow's matters to you. I'll go back first."

Liu Zhiyan thought to himself, as long as you agree, I have a way to get your father to agree.

However, seeing her face flushed so red it looked like blood was about to drip out, he decided to put the topic on hold. "Okay, you can do what you need to do tomorrow. I'll take care of the rest."

In the past, similar words all came from Qin Laicai's mouth.

Hearing this from another man's mouth, Qin Xue felt a strange emotion spreading in her heart.

The unfamiliar emotion made her feel a little bewildered, but she not only didn't dislike it, she even had a faint liking for it...

The next day, Qin Xue was invited to attend the Dragon Boat Festival banquet organized by the ladies. When she saw Ruan Ruyi, she thought of her plot against her, and her body became a little stiff. Fortunately, she was wearing a fairy-like wide-sleeved dress today, so even if her body was a little stiff, others could not notice it.

After Ruan Ruyi left for some unknown reason, she quickly returned to normal and attended such gatherings as she had done before.

She ate and drank as she pleased, as if she had no idea that someone was plotting against her.

When someone asked her what she had been busy with recently, she said that she had been concentrating on learning how to make pastries at Fang's Pastry Shop.

When someone asked her if she was planning to marry into the Wang family, she simply said that her father had already found a son-in-law for her and that there would be news of her engagement soon.

It was probably because she had devoted herself to foreign language learning in the past two months and had learned a lot.

She found that when she attended such a banquet again and ate to her heart's content at such a banquet again, she no longer felt the same joy she had before, but instead felt the sobriety of a bystander.

I clearly know that these gatherings are nothing more than a famous scene for mutual comparison, and I used to be one of those people who compared themselves with others in these famous scenes.

Thinking back to those carefree days when we only ate and drank, I was actually quite happy.

But Qin Xue knew that everyone has to grow up slowly.

Days like that were suitable for the past, but no longer suitable for her in the future.

From now on, she will rarely attend such banquets.

With this in mind, Qin Xue devoted herself to eating and drinking, and really forgot that someone was trying to plot against her.

After she had eaten and drunk her fill, the trap that was supposed to happen to her was exposed in due time.

However, the person who was exposed was not her, but the two people who plotted against her, Ruan Ruyi and Wang Xingsheng.

One is a woman who got her clothes soiled and went to change them, and the other is a man who got drunk and accidentally violated the woman who was changing her clothes.

A play that couldn't be more ordinary, a play that is enough to ruin any woman's reputation if she encounters it.

If this really happened to her, even if she refused to marry Wang Xingsheng, she would never have to think about getting married in her life.

Qin Xue suddenly lost interest when she thought that if Liu Zhiyan had not taken precautions in advance, this would have happened to her.

She didn't continue to watch the follow-up, but just left.

When I returned to the carriage, Liu Zhiyan was already on it.

Compared to his first time in this carriage, when he was so well-behaved, he now looked as if he was at home, sitting relaxedly, without any sense of occupying someone else's nest.

Qin Xue not only did not relax, but became even more nervous. She didn't dare to sit on the same side of the chair as him, but sat down properly on the chair diagonally opposite him.

She told Liu Zhiyan what happened at the banquet, and then said, "After what happened, Ruan Ruyi's marriage might not be possible."

"If I say that even if I didn't do anything, she would have had sex with Wang Xingsheng today, would you believe it?"

"Ah, why?"

"Because compared to marrying an old man as a concubine, Wang Xingsheng is so much better."

Indeed, "So she actually cooperated with Wang Xingsheng just for her own benefit, and she didn't intend to plot against me?"

"No, she's not only plotting against you, she's also plotting against you marrying a scoundrel." If it weren't for the desire to pair these two up, he would have sent Ruan Ruyi straight to the scoundrel's bed. "Ruan Ruyi's heart is far more ruthless than I thought. Don't get involved in anything related to her from now on."

"..." She and Ruan Ruyi had never gotten along well. The reason was that Ruan Ruyi often spoke hurtfully to her, and she was not someone to be bullied. If the other party hurt her, she would hurt back.

At this moment, she suddenly felt very glad that they had only exchanged words in the past.

If she had such malicious intentions towards her in the past, she would have been schemed against to the point of being completely destroyed.

Seeing her frightened look, Liu Zhiyan thought it would be better to change the subject to something lighter. "Please solve it. I will go with you to meet your future father-in-law. It's time to talk about our relationship."

As expected, after hearing what he said, Qin Xue no longer cared about other people. She glared at him with a red face, "Don't call me that before we even start dating."

"I'm going to draw the stroke right now."

Hearing this shameless remark, Qin Xue pouted angrily, but this just happened to benefit someone who loved to play the blame game...