"Uh-huh."
Zheng Quchi suddenly felt a little nervous for some reason. She cleared her throat and said, "Ahem, a post-nuptial agreement... Both parties promise to remain chaste after marriage and strictly abide by the obligation of fidelity... To ensure a harmonious married life, the woman promises to take the initiative to bear the household expenses... If either party meets someone they truly love in the future, the current marriage will be dissolved, and the man will marry another woman without interfering with the other. This agreement shall serve as the basis for the agreement."
The wind outside slammed the half-closed window shut with a "thud," and the cool breeze blew past the burning red candle, causing the wick to flicker and the light to illuminate Yuwen Sheng's face with an eerie, midnight ghostly aura.
After Zheng Quchi finished reading that page of the post-nuptial agreement, the room fell into an eerie and suffocating silence.
Zheng Quchi pinched the edge of the paper with her fingertips, her mind racing. Was there something wrong with the wording in the agreement, or was there some part that she hadn't taken into account the man's situation?
Finally, after a long process of digesting Zheng Quchi's "agreement," Yuwen Sheng spoke in a low, hoarse voice: "You mean... you want to marry me, and we'll leave each other alone? Ha~"
As he finished speaking, he couldn't help but let out a mocking chuckle. The more agitated and turbulent he was inside, the more delightful and deceitful his smile became.
But Zheng Quchi looked a little flustered: "This, this is not because we are getting married. It's because we can't pay the unmarried tax and we have no choice but to make do. You don't like me, and I can't force you."
The art of speaking lies in the fact that some things are known to everyone, but if you say them out loud, you're in the wrong. So she can only try to make her words sound nice and put him in the spotlight, something she desperately wants but can't have.
She actually understood very well that Liu Fengmian's ability to persist in not settling for so many years meant that he was either absolutely ruthless or absolutely devoted; in any case, he had a relatively extreme personality.
But she has to work as a man to support the family, and she probably won't have much time to cultivate her relationship with him in the future. If he falls in love with someone else during this time and unexpectedly finds true love, then she will definitely not stop him from pursuing happiness.
The purpose of the agreement is to show both parties that our initial purpose in getting married was only to solve the current problem, and afterwards we will leave it to fate. If we can make it work, we will; if we can't... then we can only get a divorce.
At first, Zheng Quchi thought that the agreement was something that both of them would like to see. After all, Liu Fengmian was a fastidious and fastidious person, and he seemed to have a high status with Yuwen Sheng. He probably looked down on her, a country girl.
If he meets someone more suitable in the future, he might just dump her and find someone new.
But looking at him now, it seems that his situation is not quite in line with her initial guess of "being happy to see".
Yuwen Sheng then spoke slowly, "Oh, I also have something important to tell you, which I forgot to mention."
Zheng Quchi felt inexplicably uneasy, his heart pounding: "What...what is it?"
"In our family, once a couple marries, they are always separated by death, never by life. You say you want to marry me, but which option do you choose?"
Which kind? Which way of dying?
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