Li Qiqi thought Xu Nantian would probably confine her, but he didn’t.
Xu Nantian took her back to the room, motioned for her to sit on the bed, took out alcohol and gauze, and gently and meticulously applied medicine and bandaged her.
The cold alcohol stimulated the wound in Li Qiqi’s palm, causing Li Qiqi to tremble, and the tears hanging from the corners of her eyes slid down her cheeks and landed on the back of Xu Nantian’s hand.
Drip—
Xu Nantian raised his eyes and glanced at her. The girl’s pink little mouth was slightly pouting, her eyes were tearful and aggrieved. He lowered his head and approached Li Qiqi’s palm, gently blowing on it.
“Does it still hurt?”
Li Qiqi shook her head.
“I have a bad temper, you know,” Xu Nantian took out the gauze and wrapped it around her palm, “I just want you to be obedient, Qiqi, as long as you are obedient, I can give you anything you want.”
While speaking, Xu Nantian took out a delicate little box from his shirt pocket.
He opened the box, and inside was a soft and noble sterling silver diamond-encrusted bracelet, with a teardrop-shaped light pink crystal hanging at the end.
Xu Nantian gently wrapped the bracelet around Li Qiqi’s fair and slender wrist and fastened it.
“I saw this at the counter next door when I was picking out a gift for Fourth Master Qiao. I thought it would suit you very well, and sure enough…” Xu Nantian was lost in thought, “It’s very beautiful.”
Li Qiqi lowered her eyes and still didn’t respond.
Xu Nantian had never given her expensive jewelry, probably because this man always treated her like a child. Besides the room full of plush toys, Xu Nantian bought her the most fairy tale books.
While letting her witness the surrounding evil and dark forces, he also wanted to maintain her innocence and kindness.
Xu Nantian held Li Qiqi’s wrist and caressed it, but didn’t get Li Qiqi’s response for a long time. The always polite girl didn’t even say a simple thank you this time.
The man’s expression was a little displeased.
He let go of Li Qiqi and stood up, supporting himself on the edge of the bed with his arms on either side, leaning down.
“Are you angry?”
“No.”
Li Qiqi turned her face away, and the man took another step closer, his warm breath spraying on her face, his eyes so deep that they seemed to be able to suck people in.
“Then why don’t you look at me?” Xu Nantian whispered, his voice carrying a hint of impending anger.
Li Qiqi’s eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly raised her eyes, meeting Xu Nantian’s bottomless pupils.
With this eye contact, Xu Nantian’s throat became hot.
He subconsciously approached slowly, so close that he almost touched Li Qiqi’s nose. The girl’s warm and sweet breath intertwined into a dense net, tightly wrapping him.
Xu Nantian’s lips trembled slightly, as if he was hesitating, or as if he was restraining himself. In the end, that restraint was broken by the emotions surging in his heart, and he turned his face to cover hers.
“Uncle!!”
Li Qiqi opened her mouth in a trembling voice, raising her hand to block between the two just before Xu Nantian kissed her lips.
The man’s hot lips touched the gauze on the back of Li Qiqi’s hand, scaring Li Qiqi to lean back against the bed.
The undisguised surprise and resistance in her eyes seemed to stimulate Xu Nantian, and Xu Nantian’s eyes darkened slightly.
“What’s your reaction?”
“You already have Miss Qiao,” Li Qiqi’s thoughts were flustered, and she was a little incoherent, “You can’t do this to me, we can’t…”
“Why can’t we?”
Xu Nantian couldn’t bear the heat and directly interrupted Li Qiqi, leaning closer to the bed little by little, almost pressing half of his body above Li Qiqi.
“You were raised by me, every part of your body is mine. Qiqi, I actually always remember your promise when you were nine years old.”
Realizing that Xu Nantian was planning to open his heart to her, Li Qiqi’s heart suddenly jumped up.
She bit her lower lip tightly, trying to find the source of reason under the man’s strong approach.
“You still remember?”
“Yeah.” Xu Nantian nodded.
The two got closer and closer, and Xu Nantian didn’t say anything more. Li Qiqi lowered her eyes to look at the bracelet on her wrist, took a deep breath, and asked directly.
“Since you still remember, then why did you choose to get engaged to Miss Qiao?”
Xu Nantian was stunned, and the impulse that had just emerged in his heart cooled down instantly. He could see that this sentence had almost exhausted all of Li Qiqi’s courage.
And once this sentence was asked, and he chose to remain silent, then there would be no room for detours between them.
Time passed by drop by drop.
For every second Xu Nantian thought, the light in Li Qiqi’s eyes would recede by one point, and then the tight string in her heart could no longer hold on, and broke with a “bang”.
Li Qiqi’s red lips parted slightly, and Xu Nantian spoke first.
“For power.”
Li Qiqi looked at Xu Nantian in disbelief, and didn’t react for a long time. Compared to excitement and joy, there was more incredulity.
She stared with wide eyes, listening to Xu Nantian confiding in her word by word.
“I have no feelings for Qiao Lina, I just want to use her to deal with the two major forces in Kenakin, and then reap the benefits. If you don’t like it, I can stop immediately, not fight for power, not seize profits, just you.”
While speaking, Xu Nantian gently stroked Li Qiqi’s cheek, gently but with an unquestionable firmness.
“But you have to promise me that you will never let anyone break into your world again, you can only belong to me alone, no one can touch or touch you. Qiqi, let’s… fulfill the agreement, okay?”
“I…”
Li Qiqi lowered her eyes, and Qi Xiaoye’s delicate and good-looking face suddenly flashed in her mind, liking to be buried in her neck, raising his eyes to look at her.
She didn’t quite understand why she would think of Qi Xiaoye at this time. Could it be that she felt guilty because she had been touched and kissed by this man?
But Xu Nantian also touched Qiao Lina, so he should be the one feeling guilty!
Li Qiqi quickly regained her thoughts.
“I know…”
She responded hesitantly, and the corners of her eyes were dyed with a moving red halo because of the tears, and Xu Nantian couldn’t help but approach again, wanting to kiss her eyes.
Li Qiqi dodged reflexively.
Seeing Xu Nantian’s gloomy face, Li Qiqi explained uneasily, “But I, I can’t do it now!”
“It’s okay, I respect you.”
Xu Nantian smiled meaningfully, straightened up, raised his hand to straighten his glasses, and looked down at the obedient and beautiful girl.
“I will definitely find a way to cancel the wedding with Qiao Lina, and then… don’t reject me again.”
The air became quiet again.
Li Qiqi looked up at Xu Nantian’s affectionate eyes, and past memories surged like a tide.
She thought of the man descending like a god when she was six years old, and thought of his love and care for her over the years… After struggling for a long time under Xu Nantian’s deep and sharp gaze, she nodded with complicated emotions.
“…Okay.”
Xu Nantian stepped out.
“Tomorrow is Fourth Master Qiao’s birthday, you accompany me to attend. And then, as before, stay obediently in Liyuan and be the hostess of Liyuan with peace of mind. You don’t need to wear heavy makeup to dress ugly, and you don’t have to go to the clubhouse to sell wine anymore.”
The door was closed.
Li Qiqi was still unable to withdraw her thoughts from Xu Nantian’s gentle words.
This beautiful dream, from the time she was nine years old, had been made until she was eighteen years old, and now it had finally become a reality, but she was not as excited as she had imagined.
Perhaps it was because the pure expectations and fantasies had gradually changed, and she needed more time to adapt and accept?
She and Xu Nantian had not been equal since the day they met. She owed Xu Nantian a life, owing him a full twelve years of time.
Between them, only he wanted, as long as he was willing… she never had a choice.
Fortunately, Xu Nantian was still that Xu Nantian, that uncle who always put her first and doted on her. He would still give up the surrounding Yingying Yanyan for her, and even… give up the pursuit of power.
He had never changed, it was just that she was not confident enough.
Li Qiqi raised her hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, took out her phone from her pocket, and sent a message to Sasha—
“Sister Sasha, I have other arrangements for Fourth Master Qiao’s birthday banquet tomorrow, you don’t have to wait for me.”
Didi di—
The ringtone rang as soon as it was sent successfully.
Li Qiqi thought it was Sasha, didn’t pay attention to the number and directly pressed the answer button.
“Miss Li.”
Qi Xiaoye’s low and pleasant voice came from the other side, with a bewitching magic.
Li Qiqi was stunned, and it took several seconds to recover. She put the phone in front of her eyes to look at it, it was an unfamiliar number.
She hadn’t heard wrong… Li Qiqi didn’t dare to hang up, letting the phone stay connected, and the other side didn’t hang up either.
It was deadlocked like this for a full two minutes, and finally Li Qiqi was the first to give in, holding the phone to her ear and speaking softly.
“Master Qi?”