"What if it's not a marriage arranged for some reason?" Sheng Si suddenly asked.
Upon hearing this, Qin Wan paused almost imperceptibly.
She looked up, staring directly into Sheng Si's gaze, as if trying to see the truest emotions in his eyes and the deepest part of his heart.
"Sheng Si... what exactly is your purpose?" Qin Wan asked, staring straight into his eyes.
Sheng Si remained silent for a moment, and taking advantage of Qin Wan's inattention, he placed the ice pack wrapped in a towel on his ankle.
"hiss……"
The sudden, icy touch made Qin Wan stiffen, and she instinctively pulled her foot back, trying to avoid it.
Seeing this, Sheng Si released his grip on her hands and instead grabbed her ankle.
A deep, sexy male voice rang out.
"Don't move."
Qin Wan: "...I really can do it myself."
Faced with Qin Wan's persistence, Sheng Si merely glanced at her lazily before looking away and focusing on applying ice to her skin.
“I didn’t lie to you,” Sheng Si said softly.
“Even setting aside the factor of arranged marriage,” Sheng Si looked up and stared directly into her eyes, his face full of seriousness.
"I... still want to understand you."
This is his truest thought.
“You…” A hint of shock appeared in Qin Wan’s eyes.
Seeing her reaction, a faint smile flashed across Sheng Si's eyes.
"Are you really that insecure about yourself?"
Upon hearing this, Qin Wan denied it without even thinking.
"Just kidding, how could I lack self-confidence?"
"It's clearly because your favorability rating is too low," Qin Wan couldn't help but think to herself.
As she spoke, Qin Wan raised her chin at Sheng Si with feigned pride, "I just didn't expect you to have such good taste."
At this point, Qin Wan paused, as if she had thought of something, her expression revealing a complex emotion.
"Seeing Yan Mujiang and Hao Chen, I originally thought that all the men around Chu Yan were so blind..."
"I never expected you to be an exception."
Upon hearing Qin Wan mention Chu Yan, Yan Mu, and the others, Sheng Si's expression stiffened for a moment.
"Remember to stay away from Chu Yan." Sheng Si's thin lips were pressed tightly together as he suddenly spoke up to remind her.
Upon hearing this, Qin Wan looked up at him in surprise, seemingly not understanding why he suddenly said that.
"I'm worried she might target you," Sheng Si said without hiding anything.
"Targeting me? Because I helped Sheng Yue? Or..."
Qin Wan deliberately dragged out the last syllable, staring at Sheng Si with probing eyes, her probing intent made no attempt to hide, and her intentions were crystal clear.
“Chu Yan…” Sheng Si calmly raised his eyes to meet her probing gaze, “She seduced me.”
Qin Wan: "!!!"
"Does she like you?" Qin Wan couldn't help but ask.
Sheng Si pursed his thin lips slightly, his brows furrowed, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Her intentions are not pure."
"There may be infatuation, but it's definitely mostly calculated."
Upon hearing this, Qin Wan frowned slightly, rubbing her chin with one hand, looking like she was deep in thought.
"Could it be to marry into a wealthy family?" Qin Wan boldly guessed.
Sheng Si suddenly stopped applying ice to her skin and looked up, staring intently at Qin Wan.
It must be admitted that she is truly intelligent.
Unlike that girl Shengyue...
Sheng Yue's understanding of Chu Yan has always been very superficial.
They only thought Chu Yan was a promiscuous woman, and that she was only flirting with a group of men to show off her charm and win their admiration.
Even regarding Yan Mu's falling in love with Chu Yan, Sheng Yue always believed that Chu Yan was deliberately going against her and that's why she went to steal her fiancé.
Sheng Yue never imagined Chu Yan's true purpose.
Kyoto's prestigious families have a thousand-year-old heritage...
In order to maintain the wealth and influence of wealthy families, it is now almost impossible for ordinary people to marry into them.
It's not like it was a thousand years ago... where people could change their fate and be reborn through marriage.
Wasn't that exactly what happened to Chu Yan's mother and Sheng's father back then...?
Even if the Sheng family hadn't experienced an economic crisis back then, they would never have agreed to let Chu's mother marry into the Sheng family.
Not to mention, Sheng's father himself was of average ability, and his carefree and unrestrained life was entirely due to the protection of his family.
Want to rebel against the Sheng family? For Sheng's father, that's like climbing to the sky!
Compared to Chu's mother, Chu Yan was much smarter. She knew to cast a wide net and see who would be the fool to take the bait in the end.
It should be noted that, besides Sheng Si, Yan Mu, Song Hengzhi, and Jiang Haochen, whom they already know, Chu Yan has quite a few other wealthy second-generation students from Peking University hooking up with.
All of these people felt that Chu Yan was living under someone else's roof and was being bullied by Miss Sheng Yue, which made her very pitiful.
Everyone felt sorry for Chu Yan, thinking she was a good girl, kind, sensible, gentle, and understanding.
After listening to Sheng Si's brief explanation, Qin Wan's feelings were quite complicated...
"System, does this Chu Yan have some kind of female lead halo? Or Mary Sue halo?"
I'll check right away!
Qin Wan: "..." As expected of a useless system, did it have no self-awareness at all before she even spoke?
The plot and missions of this dimension have been interfered with by those few from the Shangqing Realm. Why doesn't it think of investigating them?
Why can't we use our brains?
Thinking of this, a deep emotion appeared in Qin Wan's eyes.
Should she consider switching to a different system?
For example, could you steal the system from other taskers you encounter?
Should the system assign her tasks tailored specifically to her needs?
Should we check for anomalies in the dimensional plane from time to time?
It's better than this useless system, right?
As she pondered the matter, Qin Wan actually began to consider its feasibility.
Upon realizing Qin Wan's thoughts, the system's small body trembled slightly...
【don't want!】
I promise I'll behave well and work hard to improve my intelligence and abilities! Master, please don't abandon me!
Looking at the pitiful, chubby little face in her mind's eye, Qin Wan narrowed her eyes dangerously, "Still talking nonsense?"
[Me! Me! Me! I'll go get to work right away!]
With that, the system turned around and disappeared from Qin Wan's sight without stopping.
Seeing this, Qin Wan finally snapped out of her thoughts.
As soon as she came to her senses, she found Sheng Si looking at her with a complicated expression...
"What's wrong?" Qin Wan felt uncomfortable under his gaze and couldn't help but ask.
“…It’s nothing.” Sheng Si snapped out of his reverie and replied absentmindedly.
Just a moment ago, he suddenly began to doubt the dream.
Many things were exactly the same as what he saw in his dream.
Whether it was the actions of Chu Yan, Yan Mu, Song Hengzhi, and Jiang Haochen, or the things that Sheng Yue encountered, they were exactly the same as in the dream, without any mistakes.
But the Qin Wan before him was completely different from the one he had seen in his dream.
Qin Wan noticed Sheng Si's absent-mindedness and the complex expression on his face when he looked at her.
But Sheng Si was unwilling to say more, so she didn't press him further, and the topic returned to Chu Yan.
"You mean... Chu Yan's real target is you?"
"Instead of Yan Mu, Song Hengzhi, and Jiang Haochen?" Qin Wan said, offering her guess.
Upon hearing this, Sheng Si's gaze towards her became even more complex...
[Sheng Si's favorability increased by 5, current favorability is 50.]
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