28. Good children don't hit people.
"good."
She carefully put away the bracelet, which was most likely given to her by an elder, and stopped thinking about what that strange feeling was. She then began to eat her meal obediently.
She didn't want to spoil Gu Zhao's mood. Although she accepted the bracelet, she would definitely return it to him if they broke up in the future.
Having just experienced such an unlucky thing yesterday, it's most important to enjoy the happiness of the present moment.
Since she awakened as a succubus, there have been many downsides, but also some benefits.
For example, even if humans are not getting enough food, it also means they can eat more, because the body will automatically metabolize it as waste quickly.
This perfectly solved her problem of having a craving for food but a small stomach.
She then ate heartily until she had almost finished all the dishes he had prepared before putting down her chopsticks.
"Cool!"
Ke Qi looked at the almost empty plate and sighed with satisfaction.
Seeing this, Gu Zhao, who was watching her "mukbang" the whole time, leaned closer and touched her flat stomach.
"Strange~" he said with interest, "You have a good appetite, where did all that food go?"
Ke Qi felt ticklish from being touched, so she shrank back and said smugly, "I have a top-grade rice spirit root, how could you possibly tell that so easily?"
After saying that, she stood up, humming a song and in a particularly good mood, and began to clear the dishes.
"Leave it there," Gu Zhao said, taking the plate from her hand. "I can handle it."
Ke Qi blinked as she watched him walk towards the kitchen.
Gu Zhao is so virtuous.
Despite his noble and refined appearance, he is equally adept at social graces and domestic skills, showing absolutely no airs of a wealthy young master.
Keqi felt like she had struck gold.
Without thinking, she nestled close behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist like a little tail.
"Gu Zhao, how can you be so kind!"
"If you're this good to me, I really won't want to leave you." She nestled against his back, murmuring sweetly, "I really won't want to leave you."
You know, when I talked to Fang Zeqing before, that guy didn't even bother to cook. After every meal, he would act like a king, leisurely lying on the sofa playing games on his phone.
Ke Qi didn't think anything of it at the time.
But without comparison, there is no harm. Now she can't help but wonder how she ever agreed to be Fang Zeqing's girlfriend in the first place.
She lowered her eyes, her thoughts drifting away unintentionally.
Perhaps it was because on that stormy night, he tilted his only umbrella towards her, while he himself got soaked like a fool.
Or perhaps it was the jacket he gentlemanly gave her when she accidentally stained her pants during her period and was mocked by other boys.
Ke Qi has always been the type of person who remembers the good but not the bad; if someone is kind to her even a little, she can remember it for a long time.
Therefore, even though Fang Zeqing repeatedly subjected her to emotional abuse during their relationship, she never got angry or thought about breaking up with him.
If he hadn't cheated on her, she thought, she might have eventually married him.
"You can't bear to leave?"
Gu Zhao wiped the bubbles and water stains off his hands, turned around and hugged her. His dark eyes were calm, yet they gave off a strange sense of danger.
"Do you still have thoughts of leaving?"
Ke Qi suddenly felt a little guilty.
"No, don't overthink it."
She nuzzled her head against his chest like a kitten, "I still like you very much."
That's the truth.
Putting love aside, she does indeed have a very good impression of him and likes him a lot right now.
So regardless of whether he will ever meet his true "princess" in the future, as long as he still belongs to her and stays by her side, she will cherish him.
Of course, I am also willing to open up to him a little more.
"Gu Zhao, didn't you want to know why Qiao Qing treated me like that last night?"
Gu Zhao's thoughts were indeed led astray by her: "Hmm?"
Ke Qi laughed and said, "Let's start from when we first met."
"Actually, when I first met her, she was very friendly to me. At that time, she hadn't moved out yet, and she stayed in the dormitory with us every day. We would also go out for meals and shopping together."
"But then, I don't know what happened, she suddenly started targeting me for no reason."
Gu Zhao lowered his eyes. "What did she do to you?"
"It's not a big deal."
Ke Qi calmly recounted: "That is, when he was treating everyone to snacks, he would accidentally forget about me; when I was sleeping, he would deliberately make a lot of noise to wake me up; and when he was on the phone with his friends, he would make all sorts of veiled insults and insinuations about me."
"Sounds pretty childish, doesn't it?"
She smiled bitterly, "But I felt so sad at the time."
"I know she doesn't like me."
At this point, she lowered her eyes, her expression somber, "But I don't know what I did wrong to make her dislike me so much."
"In order to get our relationship back to how it was at the beginning, I was thinking, would it help if I treated her better and tried to please her more?"
Gu Zhao continued, "So you did that, and found that her attitude towards you improved a lot, right?"
Ke Qi asked in surprise, "How did you know?"
Gu Zhao smiled expressionlessly, "But after a while, you find that her attitude towards you has returned to normal, until she asks you for help again and then becomes slightly more enthusiastic, and so on in a cycle."
"And you..."
He drew out the last syllable, his dark eyes like mirrors that could see into a person's soul, "In order to continue winning her favor, you never chose to refuse her, thus helping her, right?"
Ke Qi nodded: "Yes!"
"Gu Zhao, you're so smart, you guessed them all right!"
Gu Zhao: ...
A moment later, a sigh suddenly echoed in the air.
Gu Zhao took off his apron and led her to the sofa.
"Ke Qi".
He pulled her onto his lap, his tone calm yet earnest: "I think you haven't grasped one principle yet."
Keqi: "Huh?"
"Some people dislike you not because you did anything wrong, but because they are mediocre, lack talent, and are unproductive. Therefore, your excellence, talent, kindness, and happiness are all original sins."
His fingertips gently traced her beautiful eyebrows and eyes. "Someone who truly loves you will try their best to tolerate you no matter what you do."
"And those who hate you for no reason will not easily like you just because you are nice to them or show weakness."
"On the contrary, they'll just think you're easier to bully, just like last night."
"So when you encounter someone like that, what you should do is refuse and fight back!"
His fingertips traced a line, gently poking her forehead. "Only when they understand that you're not someone to be trifled with will they dare not offend you so easily next time, understand?"
Ke Qi stared at him blankly, remaining silent for a long time.
"Feel sorry."
Looking at her innocent and bewildered face, Gu Zhao softened his tone, "I'm not saying this to lecture you, it's just..."
"I know."
Ke Qi snapped out of her daze and took his large hands in hers. "Thank you, Gu Zhao!"
Her gaze remained gentle, but Gu Zhao carefully observed that there was a subtle yet unwavering determination within it.
"I understand."
"I was too stupid before, but I won't be anymore!"
"And actually, I'm not that hopelessly stupid."
She snorted smugly, "After all, I beat them up last night..."
At this point, she suddenly remembered something and fell silent.
"uh-huh?"
Gu Zhao raised an eyebrow: "You beat them up?"
"Cough~"
Ke Qi, feeling guilty, tried to cover it up: "No, I was just bragging. How could I possibly beat them up?"
She blinked shyly, "After all, I'm just a weak woman who can't even kill a chicken."
Upon hearing this, Gu Zhao remained silent, only looking at her with a half-smile.
Ke Qi felt uneasy under his gaze and tentatively asked, "The surveillance cameras should have captured everything. It was just their own infighting, wasn't it?"
Gu Zhao remained silent, simply watching her.
"Yes...right?" Ke Qi repeated, her face calm, but inside she was panicking.
No way, did her interference fail?
Tormented by her constant self-doubt, Gu Zhao finally spoke: "I don't know."
"The surveillance camera was broken, I didn't see it."
He casually played with her beautiful finger bones and chuckled, "But our baby is so well-behaved, she definitely won't hit anyone, right?"
Hearing this, Ke Qi breathed a sigh of relief and smiled as she agreed, "Yes, yes."
She breathed a huge sigh of relief.
It seems the interference was successful.
As expected, so what if she's just a novice succubus?
And so what if you didn't have a mother to guide you through your early education?
Didn't she still succeed in practice by relying on the experience of the forum's seniors?
Well, if she had had enough energy reserves at the time, the effect might have been even better.
Thinking of this, she touched her stomach, which was still flat despite her earlier feast, and couldn't help but lean closer and rub against Gu Zhao's high nose bridge in a coquettish manner.
"Gu Zhao, are you busy later?"
"fine."
Gu Zhao pinched her soft waist, pretending not to see through her act, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Upon hearing this, Ke Qi chuckled, jumped off him, and quietly ran to the bedroom to retrieve the eye mask she had put on him the night before.
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