The two walked in silence all the way to the copy library on the west side of the lobby.
The bookshelves in the library are filled with various documentary materials, giving it a sense of modern bookstores.
The two stood between two rows of wide and tall bookshelves. Before Pei Yanli asked anything, Li Sisi began to explain.
"Pei Yanli, there's something I want to tell you. I was actually married to someone before, and that person was Xiao Yunchen."
Li Sisi lowered her head, clasped her fingers together and didn't dare to look at him, but she told him everything about her past, no matter how big or small.
At the end, she took a breath, mustered up the courage to look up and meet his gaze, and asked, "Are you willing to marry me like this?"
She knew that her behavior was actually very selfish in the eyes of others. She ignored her relatives who gave birth to her and insisted on faking her death and leaving the capital.
As their eyes met, Li Sisi looked at Pei Yanli's deep black eyes, which contained emotions and thoughts that she could never understand, and she felt a little nervous again.
Her hands hanging at her sides unconsciously grasped the corners of her clothes, and she pursed her lips waiting for his answer.
Pei Yanli noticed her nervousness, his eyes softened a bit, he raised his hand to rub her head, and said in a deep voice: "As long as you are willing to marry, I will definitely marry you."
Seeing the girl's dim eyes suddenly brighten up, Pei Yanli smiled slightly and asked softly, "Sisi, are you willing to marry me?"
Li Sisi nodded quickly: "I do!"
If she got married, Xiao Yunchen wouldn't cling to her anymore, would he? In the book, he also let go of the heroine willingly after knowing that she liked his eldest brother.
She may not be as outstanding as the heroine, but based on Xiao Yunchen's character, he would never do something immoral like stealing someone else's wife.
When she thought about marrying into the Pei family in the future, she would have a husband who would protect her, and a mother-in-law who would love her like her own mother. She would also have a lovely child in the future, and the child would grow up in a loving family.
Thinking of this, Li Sisi's heart was unconsciously filled with anticipation and happiness.
When Pei Yanli received her affirmative reply, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated uncontrollably, and his chest's breathing also rose and fell rapidly with his heartbeat.
Her usually calm and serious eyes suddenly lit up with joy, and her Adam's apple rolled slightly: "Sisi, when do you think it would be appropriate for us to get engaged?"
How could Li Sisi understand this? When she came here, the original owner had already paid homage to the master!
But she still knew a little about modern times, so she asked, "Shouldn't we ask a fortune teller about setting a date?"
Pei Yanli's original intention was to ask Li Sisi to set an approximate time. After all, girls need to be mentally prepared for such things, and the two sisters have no elders at home, so they need to prepare in advance.
Now, after hearing what Li Sisi said, Pei Yanli took the initiative and planned to let the matchmaker choose a nearby date. As for the many matters on Sisi's side, he would just give her some more gifts and find a reliable maid to help.
The corners of his lips curled up as he said, "The date is usually decided by the matchmaker and the elders. I'll go back and discuss it with my mother."
Li Sisi was a little surprised. It turns out that in ancient times people didn’t ask fortune tellers to calculate dates?
She nodded: "Okay, you can arrange it." After thinking for a moment, she said: "How about after my shift, I go home and talk to Nian Nian about it? Then we can discuss it together."
Pei Yanli nodded: "Okay."
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Inside the Huaiyin Jingshe, the tightly closed doors and windows mean that the warm sunlight outside can only sneak in through the gaps between the doors and windows.
There was an anxious knock on the door outside, accompanied by Ru Liu's anxious cry: "Master, are you in there? If you are, please let me know!"
Xiao Yunchen supported himself and staggered to the door, then stopped and asked, "Is there anyone else outside?"
"There's no one else here. Are you feeling unwell? Please open the door quickly!"
Xiao Yunchen breathed a sigh of relief after hearing his answer, but he also felt a sense of inexplicable loss in his heart.
He slowly opened the door.
When Ru Liu saw Xiao Yunchen's face flushed, she knew that the poison in his body had taken effect again.
"Close the door." Xiao Yunchen reminded in a low voice.
Upon hearing this, Ru Liu immediately closed the door again and followed Xiao Yunchen towards the desk.
Worried, he asked, "Young Master, didn't you have an attack of the poison a few days ago? According to the time, you can expect another attack in ten days."
He saw blood on Xiao Yunchen's hands and hurriedly opened his bag to get the medicine.
Xiao Yunchen took off his shirt and began to untie the gauze wrapped around his arm. When he was done untying it, the gauze and flesh stuck together, so he tore it off with a sudden movement.
The momentary sharp pain overwhelmed the dense itching, and I sighed comfortably in my mind.
Ru Liu's heart tightened as she watched, her voice trembling with pain: "Sir, please don't be so hard next time. It hurts me just watching you."
"It doesn't hurt."
Ru Liude listened to his casual tone, applied medicine to stop the bleeding with trembling hands, and carefully wrapped it with new gauze.
Every time he did this, his eyes would turn red.
How could it not hurt? It must be because the poison was so torturous when it took effect, so this little pain was nothing.
Xiao Yunchen looked at his slightly trembling hands and said softly, "It really doesn't hurt. Although the intervals between the poison attacks are shorter this time, the pain when they occur isn't as severe as before. It'll only take a little over an hour, and it will be over if you just endure it."
Ru Liu didn't believe what he said at all. If it wasn't so painful, why couldn't the gauze be torn off more gently?
Xiao Yunchen observed his movements and asked calmly, "Why did you come back so early? Have you found out everything I asked you to investigate?"
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