Chapter 377 Money Mania 11
When Yili opened his eyes again, he saw Ishta, who made him feel uncomfortable all over.
Yili: "...Why are you here?"
Ishtar smiled and picked up the water cup beside him and took a sip of water: "This is my home, why can't I be here?"
Yi Li's eyes fell on the water cup. Her throat, which had not had water for a long time, was extremely dry. She couldn't help swallowing.
Ishtar followed Yili's gaze to his water cup and then looked at Yili: "Want a drink?"
Yi Li: "..."
Ishtar handed the water cup to Yili: "If you want to drink, drink it."
Yi Li frowned slightly: "I don't want the cup you drank from."
Ishtar's smiling expression instantly disappeared: "If you don't want to drink, then don't drink it."
He stood up and prepared to leave.
Yi Li quickly sat up and tried to get out of bed, but she found her hands were shackled to the bed rails. She immediately became anxious and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Yishuta looked at Yili and said, "I suddenly remembered that I forgot to tell you that you have been given to me by the Jin family."
Yili: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Ishtar looked at Yili who was in disbelief and said calmly: "It doesn't matter if you don't believe it."
He took out a contract and threw it in front of Yili: "You have signed a contract to sell yourself. EOM and Jin's cooperation, in order to ensure the stability of the cooperation, specially..."
He approached Yili and clamped her chin: "If you choose to marry me, the betrothal gift I will give you is the EOM potion that EOM will provide unconditionally for ten years."
Yi Li pushed Ishtar away fiercely, picked up the contract and read it word by word. When he saw the final signature, the heavy stone in his heart completely broke the last straw that broke the camel's back. He couldn't believe it: "...You are such a beast! I'm only thirteen years old, and you dare to bite me?"
The smile on Ishtar's face froze: "I'm not that hungry that I'd eat anything."
Yili looked at Ishta with eyes full of disbelief.
Ishtar: “…”
He's really not a pedophile.
"Don't worry, I won't touch you until you're eighteen."
Ishtar's tone was filled with disdain: "After all, you are like a bean sprout now. I feel that you are stuck in my teeth when I eat you. The reason I brought you here was just to warn Jin Qing not to act rashly. You are not so confident that you think I am interested in you, right?"
Yi Li breathed a sigh of relief: "That's fine."
Seeing Yili's reaction, Ishtar immediately sarcastically said, "You're not going to let me just let you enjoy yourself here, are you? Starting tomorrow, you'll have to take the etiquette lessons I've arranged for you, and the lessons on how to be an heir's wife, until the day you marry me."
Yi Li: "..."
Ishtar looked at Yili and said, "Every morning, you will get up at six o'clock, wash up, and learn to make breakfast for me from your teacher. In the morning, you will learn music appreciation and women's grooming. At noon, you will learn to make lunch for me from your teacher and memorize my taste. In the afternoon, you will take etiquette and socializing classes, flower and plant care classes, and household accounting classes. In the evening, you can relax a bit and just learn about women's virtues, appearance, and body."
"What are women's virtues, appearance, and body?"
Yi Li knew nothing about this. Jin Qing never taught her these lessons. Instead, he let her study finance, fiscal policy, stocks, and power.
When Madam Xue was still around, she wanted to teach herself how to care for flowers and plants, but was stopped by Jin Qing.
Jin Qing felt that her time should not be spent on these trivial matters, and she should concentrate on studying. Taking care of these flowers and plants was of no use to her at all.
In the end, she argued for her rights and got the opportunity to study with Mrs. Xue.
Mrs. Xue said that some flowers are too prominent, so the gardener will remove those discordant flowers for the harmony of his flower garden.
If you don't want to be laid off, you have to endure it and integrate yourself into it.
Until the day you can gain true freedom.
Yili looked at Ishtar in front of him and said, "Okay."
Ishtar didn't expect Yili to be so cooperative. He thought Yili would be furious or even insult him because of these classes.
He heard that Jin Qing had never allowed Yili to take courses specially tailored for the women in wealthy and aristocratic families, but instead taught her content that only men could learn. Now it seemed that those were all lies.
Jin Qing treated Yi Li no differently.
Not giving the other party the opportunity to grow is no different from keeping a pet in captivity.
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"Hands facing upwards, arms parallel... Don't be so stiff. Are you a zombie? Why are you so stiff?"
She was dressed meticulously, wearing a black long skirt. She had an old-fashioned yet elegant temperament, and she exuded an oppressive feeling that made people dare not speak. She held a heavy wooden ruler in her hand, and her eyes were sharp and cold.
Yi Li stood there holding a cup of boiling hot tea, his whole body burning with pain from being beaten by the teacher.
Bang!
Her waist was slapped by the ruler without mercy: "Don't shake, tighten, and breathe in. A woman's waist should be soft yet slender. Only then will your husband like you, understand?"
Yi Li's young face was expressionless, and he clenched his teeth: "I understand."
One day I will let Ishtar experience this feeling too.
"Put on a smile, don't look so sad. Do you want your husband to think you're expressionless? Your husband is respected and should not be disrespected. When facing your husband, you should be gentle and kind, and give him enough emotional value. This is your responsibility as a wife."
The teacher's stern voice sounded again.
Yi Li forced a dry laugh: "Okay, teacher."
Bang!
"Don't smile so fakely! Smile from the heart! Got it?"
The repeated beatings and scoldings crushed Yili's last bit of patience.
Yili smashed the cup to the ground: "I don't want to learn anymore!"
Her fingers were burned to the point of numbness and her whole body was burning with pain.
She felt like she was not a person, but a puppet for fun.
"How could you do this! Women shouldn't be angry or irritable! It's totally against a woman's virtue and gentleness!"
Yili looked at the teacher: "I don't know how you learned this, but I just can't! What's so gentle and docile? We are human beings, not tools. Why should we rely on others to live? Do you like this kind of content?"
The teacher's calm face froze for a few seconds, but he still said sternly: "A husband is under heaven, and cannot be disobeyed."
Yi Li laughed angrily: "I don't care about his husband being the heaven, I am the heaven!"
She turned and left.
"Stop! Stop right there! Women shouldn't walk in such an indecent manner!"
Yi Li turned a deaf ear and went straight back to his room.
In the evening, Ishtar returned.
When he opened the door, he saw Yili cutting paper with scissors.
"I heard that you argued with your teacher today, refused to continue studying, and even skipped classes in the afternoon and evening?"
Ishtar walked slowly to Yili, sat next to her and asked.
Yili glanced at Ishtar and said, "I can't learn it, and I don't want to learn it anymore. Is that not okay?"
"Didn't Jin Qing teach you these before?"
Ishtar asked with a smile.
Yi Li was about to retort, but changed the subject: "Of course, Jin Qing would never force me to do things I'm not interested in."
"So what are you interested in?"
Yi Li: "Of course it's eating, drinking, whoring and gambling."
Ishtar: "...What did you say?"
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