Her vision was dark. The man's broad and powerful hands firmly grasped the back of her head, forcing her to tilt her face up and bear it.
The cool scent of incense at the head of the bed was covered by a strong and dangerous smell. Li Changsi's heart stopped, his coccyx felt numb, and his toes curled up in shame.
It was like returning to that stormy night in the previous life.
Her fingertips slid weakly across his hot body, and he suddenly grabbed her hand, breathing unsteadily and rasping, "Goodnight kiss!"
The voice was unusually hoarse, as if coming from deep in the throat.
The strands of hair on Lu Qi's forehead were soaked with sweat, and his eyes hidden in the darkness were dangerous and obscure. He stroked her soft neck lovingly, then pulled away coldly.
As soon as Lu Qi left, the hot temperature in the room finally stopped rising. Li Changsi's heart was beating like a drum, her cheeks were burning, and she felt a thin layer of sweat all over her body. She didn't know if it was from the heat or from the man's kiss.
Li Changsi buried his head in the soft pillow, recalling his first kiss in this life. He reached for his cell phone, hoping to find a military advisor, but found no one.
She touched her red lips that were numb from the kisses, squinted her eyes and kicked away the hot quilt. There was still a long time to go, and she didn't believe he could endure it forever.
There was no light on in the bedroom, and Li Changsi was not used to playing with her mobile phone in the dark. She threw her phone away and went to sleep. In a daze, the man came back from outside, with cool water vapor on his body, and went to bed and held her in his arms.
She sniffed the cool sandalwood scent on his body after the bath. Her eyelids were too heavy to open. She noticed him holding down her restless hands and hummed unhappily, "Hot~"
Only when her little hands touched his cool skin did she continue to sleep contentedly.
Lu Qi: “…”
Seeing her little hands rubbing into his nightgown, Lu Qi felt tense all over and thought that the cold shower was in vain.
Li Changsi slept very soundly and peacefully that night, but she felt a little hot. She kicked off the quilt in the middle of the night and was woken up by the heat. She kicked off the quilt again and when she woke up, she was the only one in the bedroom.
She stretched, washed up and went downstairs, only to see the housekeeper had already prepared breakfast and was waiting in the side hall with a smile on his face.
"Ms. Changsi, breakfast is ready. Would you like to have it first?"
"Where's Mr. Lu?"
Housekeeper: "The master has a regular meeting this morning and has already had breakfast."
Li Changsi checked the time. It was almost nine o'clock. No wonder Lu Qi had already gone to the regular meeting. She hadn't expected to sleep so soundly on her first night at the mountaintop manor, breaking her biological clock.
There were both Chinese and Western breakfasts, which were very rich and nutritionally balanced. Most of them were low-calorie and high-protein foods. Li Changsi had just finished eating when he received a call from his agent.
Qiubi: "Changsi, your mother went to cause trouble for the mistress and got into a fight with her. The matter got out of hand and the mistress demanded 5 million, otherwise she would expose your family scandal and expose your dirty laundry."
Li Changsi narrowed his eyes: "Where is he now?"
Kyubey: "At your parents' house. I'm rushing over now. Don't be impulsive."
Impulse is the devil. Changsi is so popular now, and so many people are watching him.
Li Changsi responded and went to borrow a car from the housekeeper. Seeing that she was in a hurry, the housekeeper quickly said, "Miss Changsi, I'll ask the gentleman to ask the driver to take you there."
Li Changsi then remembered that she couldn't drive!
The housekeeper went upstairs to the conference room, and soon Lu Qi came downstairs with dignity and elegance. Seeing her holding a coat, wearing a mask and a hat, he asked in a low voice, "What happened?"
Changsi has a dinner party this afternoon, so the morning is free and he won’t go out unless it’s urgent.
Li Changsi pursed her lips and said, "It's my family's business, just lend me a car."
The original owner's family was a mess, but she didn't mind taking some time to clean it up. Letting things slide wasn't her style. Her agent was right; ignoring them would only hinder progress.
Lu Qi nodded, told Song Mao to drive, then picked up his black coat and took her hand and went out.
Li Changsi was surprised: "Aren't you in a regular meeting? I can go alone."
Lu Qi looked at her sideways, reached out and tucked her long hair behind her ears, his eyes deep: "Changsi, you can rely on me."
Except when she would get close to him to flirt with him, most of the time, she always kept a distance from everyone indifferently, not getting close, not relying on anyone, being independent and strong, but he hoped that she could rely on him, only on him.
Li Changsi's eyelashes trembled, and Lu Qi had already held her hand tightly and walked out.
The word "dependence" has never appeared in her life dictionary. Even in her previous life, she had never relied on Lan Jingxing. She clearly realized at a very young age that if she wanted to survive, she could only rely on herself.
Song Mao drove over and navigated to Li Changsi's parents' home while calling to find out what happened there. He said concisely, "Sir, Ms. Zou went to talk to someone and ended up trapped in the house. The other party called someone and wanted to extort 5 million yuan, otherwise they would expose Miss Changsi's affairs."
In a nutshell, Li Changsi's mother went home to settle the score with the mistress, but was caught by the mistress. Now she asks Li Changsi for 5 million yuan, otherwise it will be a fight to the death and no one will be happy.
Li Changsi narrowed his eyes. Ms. Zou was particularly confused. If she were smart, she wouldn't have been deceived by a man for so many years, and even had a mistress take over her home. Divorce is not a big deal. Leaving this scumbag and living with their son is much better. But she turned out to be stupid and greedy, and now she was being controlled by someone.
"Sir, I'll take care of this. You don't need to show up."
I really can't trouble you, sir, with such trivial matters, otherwise it would make him look useless.
Lu Qi said calmly, "Go and take a look."
The car drove all the way to the Chengnan residential area. Due to the previous fight, many people gathered in the community, pointing and talking.
Li Changsi didn't go upstairs, but waited in the car with Lu Qi. After a while, she saw Song Mao coming out with her mother and his brother. Both mother and son looked very miserable.
The 17-year-old boy said angrily, "I told you not to come, but you insisted on coming. You got beaten up, it's so embarrassing."
"I'm here to ask for your living expenses. Your heartless sister not only doesn't help us, but she also asks us for rent. If I don't ask your father, who else can I ask?"
"I think you're here just to beat up the mistress! You can't beat her, and it's even more embarrassing."
The mother and son were arguing as they walked.
Li Changsi got out of the car, walked up to the two of them, narrowed his slender eyes, and looked coldly at Ms. Zou and Li Yingjun.
When Li's mother saw her, she was frightened. She didn't know what was going on. She felt that the timid and cowardly girl had become a different person. She seemed strange, guilty and scared.
"Changsi, you're here? We really just came back to take a look."
Who would have thought that I would fall into the trap of that vixen.
Li Changsi said indifferently: "Are men that good? Do you have to lose face and fight with a mistress?"
When the vixen was mentioned, Li's mother was furious: "Why should I give my house and car to that vixen? This money was originally..."
"What was it then?"
Li Changsi narrowed her eyes. The houses in this community were not cheap, and she remembered that her father had lost money when he was in business with someone else. Her mother only knew how to spend money. How could she have the money to eat, drink, have fun, and even support a mistress in recent years?
Mother Li's eyes fell on Song Mao and the low-key black Bentley behind her. A hint of greed flashed in her eyes. She pulled Li Changsi aside and said in a low voice with surprise, "You silly girl, you're still playing dumb with your mother. Is that Mr. Lu in the car? When Assistant Song went in just now, I don't know what he said to that vixen, and she got scared. Mr. Lu is so rich. This car must have cost a lot of money."
How much money can you make as a child actor? It would be better to give birth to a child for Mr. Lu so that you can share some of the family fortune."
Li Changsi gave her a cold look. Mother Li awkwardly let go of her hand and muttered, "Is your mother going to harm you again? If we hadn't met Mr. Lu in the past few years, our whole family would have gone out to beg for food."
Li Changsi lowered his eyes: "Why would Mr. Lu help our family?"
"Of course it's because of your face. I'm not exaggerating. Your mother has been the most beautiful girl in the area since she was little. That's why we gave birth to such a beautiful daughter like you. That's why you were chosen by Mr. Lu. Isn't it because of Mr. Lu that you entered the entertainment industry? Otherwise, if you hadn't been able to enjoy yourself for three years, your father would have broken your legs long ago..."
Mother Li boasted proudly.
Li Changsi's eyes deepened slightly. Her face was indeed beautiful. If it was any other man, she would believe it, but not Lu Qi. This man had amazing self-control. She always felt that there was an unfathomable undercurrent beneath his handsome and gentle face, hiding something she didn't know.
"So, you and my dad sold me like this? How much did you get?"
Mother Li gestured with a number and said, "This is all your father's doing. At first, we thought Mr. Lu was that old man in his 50s, and I disagreed. Then your father insisted on taking his money, signed the agreement, and severed the father-daughter relationship with you. Who would have thought that Mr. Lu was so young and handsome? This doesn't count as selling out. Maybe you can even fly up to a branch and become a phoenix."
Ten million? For Lu Qi, it was indeed a drizzle, but for the Li family, it was a huge sum of money that fell from the sky.
Li Changsi laughed in anger. No wonder her parents had ignored the original owner for the past three years, and her mother had to be secretive when she called. It turned out that Lu Qi had signed an agreement with them to sever the parent-child relationship. Although this agreement was cold and unreasonable, it really killed the possibility of her being sucked dry by her original family.
Li Changsi: "Is the agreement still in place?"
"Yes, I went back this time to secretly find the agreement. If Mr. Lu doesn't admit it in the future, we can still share some of the breakup fee based on the agreement, right?" Mother Li said as she took out an agreement from her bag furtively.
Li Changsi stood in front of the landscape tree in the community, flipping through the agreement signed three years ago.
In front of the Bentley, Song Mao's face changed slightly when he saw this. Through the lowered car window, he said in a low voice: "Sir, that seems to be an agreement signed three years ago."
The agreement was signed after Mr. met Li Changsi.
Who would have thought that the Li family still had this thing? He also didn't expect that the master would come back after three years! So after confirming that Li Changsi was not the person the master was looking for, the agreement he drafted was extremely unkind.
Song Mao broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead. Damn it, Li Changsi won't settle the score with me later, will she? She didn't dare to do that before, but now she is so bold.
Lu Qi's brown pupils deepened slightly, and he said nothing. Some things could not be hidden, and he was still wondering when she would discover the relationship between them.
Li Changsi read the agreement at a glance. The content was very cold and harsh. It was obviously written by Song Mao. The two parties to the agreement were her and Lu Qi. Lu Qi signed a fifty-year employment agreement with her for ten million yuan. Yes, a fifty-year agreement is almost equivalent to a lifetime.
The agreement had too many clauses and technical terms, so Li Changsi was too lazy to read it and turned directly to the supplementary agreement at the back. The most incredible point in the agreement was that she was not allowed to marry anyone other than Lu Qi, and was not allowed to have physical relations with men other than Lu Qi. There were no other restrictions. This was not an employment agreement, but an unequal indenture.
Li Changsi clicked his tongue. Wow, it had to be said that Song Mao's professional ability was still strong. He had found a loophole in such an unequal agreement and tailored it for him. This was equivalent to a disguised prenuptial agreement, but she did not enjoy any rights, and all control was in Lu Qi's hands.
He can choose to keep her, or give up her and find someone else to marry, but she cannot. She will be bound to death for the rest of her life unless the other party is merciful enough to cancel the agreement.
So the question is, why did Lu Qi sign such an absolute control agreement with her?
She didn't believe her mother's excuse that Lu Qi was after her face. There must be some special reason.
Moreover, for three years, Lu Qi has been allowing her to pursue Bai Zhuo in the entertainment industry, which shows that he doesn't care about the original owner. Now he suddenly changes his attitude towards her. Did he notice her abnormality?
That man's acumen is amazing!
Li Changsi was not panicked. Her personality was too different from the original owner. She didn't think about hiding it at the beginning, and she couldn't hide it in the future. She always wanted to be herself.
Seeing her looking at it for a long time, Mother Li asked anxiously, "Changsi, is this agreement okay? I haven't found the agreement to sever ties with my children yet. I haven't received a cent of the money Mr. Lu gave me, so I brought Yingjun to you. You can't just stand by and watch him die."
Li Changsi put away the agreement and said, "I own the agreement. I will exempt you from three months' rent. As for whether I will stand by and watch you perish, it depends on how you and Li Yingjun perform."
Mother Li: “…”
This damn girl really pissed her off! She wasn't like this before, she would agree to anything once she softened her heart!
Li Changsi glanced at Li Yingjun, who was eavesdropping behind a tree. "Li Yingjun, go back to school. If you don't make the top 100 in your grade on the final exam, you'll have to sleep on the street."
The young man hiding behind the landscape tree was like a firecracker being lit. He shouted in disbelief: "What? Sleeping on the street? Li Changsi, you are my sister. Mom, look at her."
Mother Li was very upset and scolded angrily: "You know how to call mom now? What can I do? I still have to see her face."
Li Yingjun: “…”
The 17-year-old boy said aggrievedly: "Forget it, I'm going back to class."
When you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. Isn't it just about getting into the top 100 in the grade? If Li Changsi can do it, so can he! The boy went to school angrily.
Seeing her fearless son go to school obediently, Mother Li forced a flattering smile and said, "Changsi, what should I do then?"
Li Changsi glanced at her calmly and said, "Divorce and become self-reliant. If you can't do that, I won't care about you even if you get beaten up and end up in the hospital. The same goes for your son."
Seeing that her features were delicate but cold, and that she could do what she said, Mother Li immediately panicked: "Well, okay, then you can't just ignore us, mother and son. I'll go back and cook for Yingjun."
Fearing that she would go back on her word, Li's mother immediately rushed back to the apartment, clutching some jewelry she had snatched from home.
After Li Changsi dealt with the matters concerning her biological mother and younger brother, she walked to the front of the car with the agreement. She narrowed her charming and slender eyes and looked at Lu Qi who was sitting in the car.
Song Mao stopped the car, a trace of cold sweat slowly seeping out of his forehead. Sir, you are in danger!
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