Signing a contract to sell oneself
After weighing the pros and cons and struggling in his heart without any result, seeing that she was crying so hard that a large area of the cloth on his chest was soaked with her tears, Yun Jinglu still chose to coax her first.
He hugged her back and whispered softly into her ear, "Okay, okay, don't cry. It's okay, it's okay... Brother can be yours..."
Hearing this, she stopped crying.
Yun Qiqi suddenly pulled herself out of his arms, feeling that Yun Jinglu, who was feeling empty in her arms, was still a little unsatisfied, and her hand on her waist never moved away.
"When you lied to me and coaxed me, you always used this tone."
"Then what does Qi Que want my brother to do in order for you to believe me?"
"Write a written agreement. You said that honesty and trust are the foundation of business. Once you sign a contract, you can't go back on your word or do something dishonest. I also want a written agreement. My name must be stamped with your brother's fingerprint, and next to it, there must be your brother's Yun clan seal."
"Yun Qique, who taught you to tie me down like this? Do you know that this is no different than signing a marriage contract that unilaterally obligates me to marry you, without stating that you can't change your mind and abandon your brother?"
If he had not investigated Qique's background, he would have known that she was indeed an orphan with no one to rely on. Qique had always been locked up at home by him, and the only time she went out was when she took Chunsu to her own tailor shop as she had just mentioned.
Yun Jinglu, who has always been suspicious and cautious, began to wonder if she was being instructed by someone.
"Merchants are always looking for profit. I'm not willing to sign such an unequal contract, unless..."
"Then how should I write it so that my brother will sign it?"
"Write this: Yun Qique guarantees with her life that she will marry Yun Jinglu. If I violate this rule, I will be at Yun Jinglu's mercy. Oh, and put your fingerprint on the name, too."
Yun Jinglu entwined his fingers with a strand of her long, curly, soft hair. "Sister, you are so afraid of death and you love your life so much, how dare you sign this? If you regret it, I will really kill you. I'm not kidding you, think it over carefully."
"What's there to regret?"
Yun Jinglu is handsome, tall, rich, kind and gentle. Qi Que really can't imagine how stupid she is to go back on her word.
Chunsu and the others said that women will get married sooner or later, and their worries are not whether they can marry a husband they both like, but whether they will have an easy life in their future husband's family.
It sounds like getting married is a big gamble...
Then she would like to marry her brother and stay in this rich and prosperous home forever to enjoy happiness.
Upon hearing this, Yun Jinglu immediately took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from her small desk and wrote two copies of the contract in a fluent manner.
Yun Jinglu is a good-looking person, and his handwriting is also beautiful.
"Yun Jinglu, can you add one more? Just one."
"What?"
"Just write: Yun Jinglu is not allowed to take concubines, is not allowed to have other women, is not allowed to linger in brothels, and can only have me as his wife."
"There's more than one, right?"
"I don't want others to own you, Yun Jinglu. Can you belong to me only, and only me? Don't share your love with women other than me."
Yun Jinglu put down the brush, moved closer to her, put his arms around her waist and pulled her close to him, gently pinching and rubbing her slightly cold earlobes.
"Yunqi Que, you are so greedy that you don't even leave any way out for your future self when he or she becomes wise."
"I have always been greedy for my brother, and this time is no different. I don't want to leave any way out. I just want my brother to belong to me forever and be good to me alone."
"You cut off your own retreat. Don't make trouble with your brother in the future. It's useless."
Yun Jinglu pressed the brush into her hand and said, "If you have anything else to add, write it yourself. If this piece of paper is not enough, I'll give you some paper for landscape painting."
"That's enough. But I can't write those words."
"It's okay, you read it and I'll help you write."
Yun Jinglu stood behind her, held her hand, listened to her talk about the terms she wanted to add, and guided her to write down his "indenture" stroke by stroke.
In addition to the previous one, Yunqique added one more: Yun Jinglu promised to only love Yunqique forever.
After the contract was signed, she asked Yun Jinglu to close her eyes and ran to hide her own contract in her "secret treasure house" impatiently.
That night, I was so excited that I tossed and turned until the early morning before I fell asleep.
But she had a dream.
I dreamed that she was leading a caravan walking in the Western Desert. She was so kind that she gave wine and dry food to a homeless man who was curled up in the gap between the rocks.
She also asked this good-looking homeless man to repay her with her body in exchange for a meal.
After he agreed, she said to him, "It's a deal, you are my future husband. I don't like men who are not chaste. You must protect your innocence. You are not allowed to be deceived into being a child husband, nor are you allowed to be sold as a prostitute."
The dream ends here.
Yun Qique opened her eyes and saw Yun Jinglu sitting beside her couch with a bowl of jade shrimp soup.
Looking into Yun Jinglu's eyes, she felt inexplicably guilty.
Although the dream felt as real as a memory, Yun Qique didn't take it seriously. She was simply too excited about asking her brother to sign a contract with her the previous night, which led to her dreaming about it during the day. Although, there was something wrong with the male protagonist in the dream...
"What is Qi Que thinking?"
"No, I wasn't thinking about anything. It was just a dream. How come you were sitting by my bed before I woke up? Didn't you say before that you couldn't enter my room until I was up and dressed?"
"Hmm? What did you call me?"
Yunqi Que changed his tone in time and called out a sweeter and more intimate call, "A Lu~"
"Be good. Who was it that cried and insisted on being your brother's husband last night? I already signed your unequal indenture. Now that I've signed the contract, you're not allowed to call me brother."
"Wrong, wrong, don't call me brother."
Yun Jinglu leaned over with satisfaction and hugged her through the soft quilt, gently twisting and rubbing her cool earlobes again, looking at her with eyes full of greedy possessiveness and desire.
He deliberately lowered his voice, imitating a pleasant and seductive voice, and whispered in her ear: "You provoked Brother Xian, so you should bear the consequences of this provocation."
The breath that blew against her ear as he spoke, and the gentle way he rubbed her earlobe, brought a strange feeling, very itchy, so itchy that Yunqi Que felt numb all over, but this numbness made her feel... so comfortable...
Noticing her slight avoidance, Yun Jinglu hugged her back and simply stroked her ears more wantonly. When she shrank her head due to the itch, he held her neck with his other hand, preventing her from dodging. With a "bo~" sound, he made a kissing sound in her ear and, at the same time, blew a breath of cool air slowly on her sensitive earlobe.
"Brother, don't be like this..."
"I told you not to call me brother. If you do it again, I will be angry."
Yun Jinglu said he was angry, but his words were actually full of flirting, and it was hard to hide his heavy breathing due to his excitement.
"Qique, you are not allowed to say such suggestive things in this voice, and you are not allowed to say it to anyone else. You can only say it to me."
"Jinglu, did you catch a cold last night? Why does your voice sound a little hoarse?"
"You... forget it, just think of it as your brother catching a cold."
Yun Jinglu realized that she shouldn't go on, but her honest body greedily wanted to bully her more and she was unwilling to get up.
But, he wanted more than just her. As early as yesterday's words and tears flowed into his heart, he began to hopelessly desire her heart...her love.
His desire reached a point where he himself felt he was a sick beast.
Fortunately, she didn't call him brother just now.
After adjusting his emotions that were on the verge of losing control and covering the "evidence" of desire with his wide sleeves, Yun Jinglu sat up, coughed to clear his throat to eliminate the hoarseness caused by lust, and then spoke to her.
"It's time for the caravan to depart. I'll put the Jade Shrimp Soup on the table for you. Get up, pack up, have breakfast, and then come join your brother and set off together."
After saying that, Yun Jinglu quickly fled her room.
After packing up, Yun Qique happily ran to Yun Jinglu's room to find him, but found out that he was taking a bath in the inner room, but he only locked the door of the inner room.
Yunqi Que didn't understand, but was happy to wait.
My brother has always been the cleanest person, so he must have his own reasons for taking a shower at this time.
Bored Yunqique was wandering around his room, but caught a glimpse of a new book placed in the middle of his desk.
The candle next to the desk had melted away and only a little bit of light was left. Could it be that Yun Jinglu didn't sleep much last night?
Out of curiosity, she quietly walked to the desk and picked up the book titled "A Man Riding a Bamboo Horse Around Green Plums". After flipping through a few pages, Yunqi Que discovered that it was a vernacular story.
Chunsu and the others also like to read it. She also glanced through the book that Chunsu was reading recently and was not interested.
The show that Yun Jinglu watched tells the love story of a brother and sister who were childhood sweethearts and went through many hardships before finally getting married.
Because it was a book that Yun Jinglu was reading, Yun Qique was very interested in it.
She hid under her desk and watched quietly, making sure that the moment Yun Jinglu opened the door, she could quickly find an excuse to cover up her behavior of peeking at his book by saying that she had accidentally dropped his book and was helping him pick it up.
If you read these love stories carefully, you will find that they are really addictive.
Yun Qique was quickly fascinated by the show, especially when she saw the intimacy between the male and female protagonists as their relationship heated up. The tingling feeling that Yun Jinglu had brought to her in the early morning resurfaced, and at the same time, she felt excited by the emotions of the male and female protagonists.
So much so that when Yun Jinglu appeared behind her, she was still immersed in the story and didn't notice.
Until Yun Jinglu, who was kneeling on the ground like her, approached her quietly. When she stiffened after realizing that she was discovered, he read the most eye-catching sentence in the storybook in her ear.
These were also the words he wanted to say to her in the morning but didn't dare to say.
"What should I do? Brother really... loves bullying you..."
She closed the book awkwardly, and with the determination to "die", she slowly turned her head and looked at his ashen face.
His voice was so gentle and tender when he was reading the storybook just now, why does he look so angry now...
Help……
"Jinglu, you, please listen to my explanation..."
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