How come I can’t break free once you hold my hand?
"This is not something friends should care about." Fu Xuechen's face darkened.
"You clearly know that I am more than just a friend to you..." Su Qingli suddenly stopped talking and swallowed the end of her words.
Fu Xuechen took a step closer to her and suddenly grabbed her arm. "Since you like me, why did you accept someone else's jade pendant? Are you really planning to marry Lin Zui as a concubine?"
"This is not something friends should care about." Su Qingli retorted.
"What if I tell you that I'm more than just a friend to you?" Fu Xuechen said seriously.
He was completely panicked. When he thought about her marrying the playboy Lin Zui, he didn't want to care about anything else.
If Su Qingli were to be with him, and she discovered the truth in the future, she would hate him so much that she would just kill him, and he would leave all his property to Su Qingli.
But it’s not certain about Lin Zui. He is well-known for playing with women. Su Qingli will definitely have a hard time if she marries him.
Su Qingli looked up at him, with uncontrollable joy in her eyes, but also a little disbelief.
If you really like her, you won't reject her.
I guess she just thought she was going to marry Lin Zui, and her possessiveness exploded.
She turned her face away, her expression very bad. "Mr. Tan just got out of another woman's bed. Don't you think it's ridiculous to say such things?"
"Who said I..." Fu Xuechen couldn't finish the rest of the sentence, and a cough rolled out of his throat. "I went to the brothel to arrest the gangsters who kidnapped your father."
Su Qingli turned around quickly and asked, "Have you caught the kidnapper?"
Fu Xuechen nodded and said with regret: "They were caught, but they refused to reveal the mastermind behind the scenes and committed suicide by swallowing poison."
It seems that the person who killed my father must have great power to make these people follow him to death.
Su Qingli lowered the corner of her mouth bitterly.
Fu Xuechen comforted her, "Although the clues are temporarily broken, I will continue to investigate."
Su Qingli looked at Tan Xi, and the corners of her mouth rose again, "Thank you for helping me investigate the real murderer behind my father's murder. I'm sorry, I misunderstood you."
"Are you really going to marry Lin Zui?" Fu Xuechen asked nervously.
"Mr. Tan, you won't let me get married?" Su Qingli smiled.
"Well..." Fu Xuechen was awkward for a long time before squeezing out a few words, "Miss Su can only marry me."
Su Qingli almost thought she had heard it wrong. How could Tan Xi say such domineering words?
But she doesn't dislike it at all, and she even likes it very much. What's going on?
Su Qingli's ears turned red, and she turned away shyly, "Mr. Tan... so domineering."
Fu Xuechen couldn't wait any longer, so he pulled her sleeve and said in a pleading tone, "Then can you agree?"
"But... I confessed to you before, why didn't you agree?" Su Qingli asked the last question of her doubt. She didn't want them to have conflicts over these trivial matters after they were together.
Fu Xuechen was already overwhelmed by happiness. He was in an extremely excited state. Without even thinking, he said, "I was afraid that I'd scare you by removing the veil. I didn't expect you to be disgusted at all. You even praised me for being pretty. You seemed to like my looks very much. You peeked at me thirty-seven times that day."
Su Qingli's heart pounded at what he said, and her face flushed with shame. "Okay, stop talking. I promise you."
Fu Xuechen's hands were shaking. He wanted to hold her hand, hug her, and even kiss her to express his joy that was beyond words, but he was afraid of scaring her too quickly.
Finally, he just suppressed his joy and said, "Okay."
"Then I'll take you home."
The two walked side by side, their sleeves occasionally touching and then immediately bouncing away.
The distance that seemed far away before is now just a few steps away
Fu Xuechen stared at her reluctantly, "Go in."
But he didn't move a step.
After hesitating for a long time, Su Qingli finally spoke out what she had been holding in her heart, "Tan Xi, I don't actually want to marry Mr. Lin, and I've also decided not to marry again."
Ever since the incident with Qi Jinqian, she was glad that she didn't really marry him, otherwise she wouldn't be able to escape so easily now.
She rejected marriage from the bottom of her heart, and didn't want to be trapped in an inescapable marriage if Tan Xi changed his personality in the future.
"If you can't accept it, then just pretend that I never promised you." Su Qingli said these words cruelly and stopped talking.
Fu Xuechen put his arm around Su Qingli's shoulders and said, "As long as you don't leave me, I can accept anything else."
"Tan Xi, you are so nice." Su Qingli looked at him with burning eyes. She felt that his face became more and more handsome. Even the scar made him look heroic.
Fu Xuechen chuckled softly, unable to bear her burning gaze, and turned away, "Come to my house tomorrow, okay?"
"OK."
…
Su Qingli walked into the house, unable to hide the smile on her face.
Su Zhaoming was reading in front of the yard. Looking at her, she looked like a young girl in love and seemed to be lost in thought.
Madam Su rarely saw Su Qingli smile like this, so she asked curiously, "Why are you so happy?"
"Really?" Su Qingli touched her face, wondering if it was that obvious.
"Your brother should concentrate on preparing for the imperial examination now. If you are interested, you can earn more money and take it home. Don't get involved with bad people." Madam Su advised her.
Su Qingli didn't know why her mother spoke so harshly, so she didn't hide it and said frankly, "Mr. Tan and I have already communicated our feelings."
Su Zhaoming clenched the book tightly.
Madam Su, however, was delighted. "Then Mr. Tan will be my son-in-law from now on. Shouldn't he take us to his house?"
"Why don't you find someone to set a date for the wedding so you two can get married as soon as possible."
Su Qingli shook her head and said, "Mother, I don't plan to get married again."
"What?" Madam Su asked anxiously, "Although people are open-minded nowadays, it is still against etiquette for you to hang out with Mr. Tan, a nameless and unaffiliated man."
"Then it would be polite for our family to move to his house?" Su Qingli looked directly at her mother.
Mrs. Su was suddenly speechless. She could only glare at Su Qingli angrily and walked into the house.
Su Zhaoming was full of resentment and wanted to yell at Su Qingli, but when he saw his mother had already gone back to the house in embarrassment, he had to hold it back.
When did his sister become so powerful?
…
next day
Su Qingli and Fu Xuechen sat at the bow of the boat, sailing through the depths of the lotus pond, where a pool of lotus flowers reflected the morning mist.
Both of them placed their hands loosely on their knees, both eager to make a move.
During the test, their little fingers touched each other, and then inadvertently avoided each other, as if touching but not touching, hiding two restless hearts.
In the end, Su Qingli couldn't control herself anymore and hooked her little finger around his hand, then covered the back of his hand.
She held up his hand and examined it seriously, placing her own hand in his palm for comparison. "Mr. Tan's hands are so big, they are even more beautiful than a girl's hands."
Fu Xuechen took the opportunity to interlock his fingers with hers, "Your hand is so big, how come I can't break free when you hold it?"
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