Chu Yuan remained silent. Her chest felt tight and heavy, making even breathing feel like a difficult task.
After speaking, Yan Dai kept her eyes fixed on Chu Yuan, as if observing her reaction or waiting to hear her thoughts.
However, after a brief silence, Yan Dai didn’t hear a single word from her. Seeing her silence, Yan Dai continued, “I’ve written the details down in the prenuptial agreement. Take a look first, and let me know if there’s anything you find unreasonable.”
“Yan Dai.” Chu Yuan finally spoke this time, but she only called her name very softly before falling quiet again.
Yan Dai was slightly taken aback. “Hmm? Is something wrong? Is there an issue with the prenuptial agreement?”
She hadn’t fully reacted at first. Originally, she wasn’t quite used to Chu Yuan calling her “Sister,” but now, hearing Chu Yuan call her by her full name felt even stranger.
Perhaps because this was the first time Yan Dai had heard Chu Yuan address her by her full name, she had unconsciously grown accustomed to Chu Yuan calling her “Sister Yan.”
Chu Yuan pointed to a specific clause in the prenuptial agreement. “What does ‘neither party shall interfere with each other’s romantic lives after marriage’ mean?”
Normal people don’t secretly look for lovers outside after getting married, do they?
Granted, many of the arranged marriages among their social circles weren’t exactly happy, and it was entirely possible that some people played around.
And granted, even though Chu Yuan had casually been in a few relationships back in her youth before she truly understood love, those were proper, committed relationships. She was absolutely not the kind of person who would go out and develop feelings for another woman after getting married!
Even with Ji Xiran, anyone close to her knew that even though she changed girlfriends very frequently, she would always completely break off the previous relationship before starting the next one.
Otherwise, Chu Yuan would have cut ties with Ji Xiran long ago.
But isn’t this clause exactly what Yan Dai implied by drafting it?
Or rather, in Yan Dai’s eyes, was she just that kind of person?
Did Yan Dai think she was someone who completely viewed this marriage as a bargaining chip to consolidate their family businesses, the type who would find a lover outside and leave her wife to guard an empty house alone?
Or was it that Yan Dai herself planned to pursue someone else after marriage, and was thus giving her a heads-up before the wedding?
Chu Yuan already felt a wave of grievance welling up inside her, but currently, she had no rightful status to feel aggrieved.
After all, they really hadn’t spent much time together. She had fallen in love with Sister Yan at first sight, but Sister Yan might not feel the same way about her.
If she hadn’t accidentally fallen for Sister Yan, signing a prenuptial agreement before an arranged marriage would actually be a very normal thing to do.
But she just couldn’t control the sense of grievance washing over her.
It was so overwhelming that her nose stung, and she was on the verge of tears.
Chu Yuan set the prenuptial agreement down on the table, lifted her eyes, and looked straight into Yan Dai’s eyes opposite her. In a voice filled to the brim with grievance, she said, “I don’t understand what this means.”
Yan Dai explained, “After all, there are no feelings between us…”
Hearing this, Chu Yuan pursed her lips in discontent.
Her lips flattened into a straight line, the corners turning slightly downward, making her look exactly like a huffy little duck.
No feelings again. Sister Yan had already said it once before, and now she was saying it again. What on earth did she mean by this!
Her feelings for Sister Yan were indeed nothing but one sided love. But having it emphasized so many times made her heart smash into countless tiny pieces uncontrollably.
But how could Yan Dai possibly know what Chu Yuan was thinking right now?
Yan Dai simply continued to explain matter of factly, “Since there are no feelings, we have to prepare for the worst-case scenario. In case we don’t get along well after marriage…”
“But Sister Yan,” Chu Yuan interrupted her, “would people enter an arranged marriage if there were no feelings at all?”
As she said this, Chu Yuan kept her gaze locked onto Yan Dai, looking like a little wolf staring at its prey.
She was determined to get a clear answer from Yan Dai right now.
“Hmm? Could it be…” Yan Dai raised an eyebrow slightly. A suspicion crossed her mind, but she found it hard to believe. “You like me?”
Even though it was phrased as a question, it sounded much more like a statement.