Chapter 11

His eyes narrowed, his temper flared again. “You don’t want me to touch you, who do you want to touch? Zhou Siwei? Or someone else?”

Jinye’s heart skipped a beat. “It’s none of your business.” She looked like she was facing a great enemy. “You already have Miss Ning.”

He stared at her intently. “So, you want to draw a line between us?”

“Yes.” Jinye didn’t want to share a cucumber with anyone else. “Didn’t we say that before?”

They had agreed that once either party had a relationship with someone else, they couldn’t maintain this relationship anymore.

“What did we say? I don’t remember.”

“You’re being a scoundrel!”

Wei Liangchen laughed angrily. “Who’s the scoundrel? Do you want me to count how many favors you owe me? Should I start from when Secretary Wang slept with the actress and got syphilis and was kicked out by the Inspector General? Or should I start from when Deputy Commander Wu had a heart attack on his little mistress’s bed?”

Seeing Jinye tremble, he stopped smiling. “Can you count them all? Plus, I invited doctors from overseas, I used the best medicine for your aunt. You have backbone, pay back all of this, and then draw a line between us.”

Jinye was stunned. He meant that one year wasn’t enough to pay back.

“I can be your sister, care about you, be on your side, except for this one thing, I’ll do whatever you want, just like Jiaqi.”

He sneered, his eyes dark and gloomy. “Are you Jiaqi? Do you have Wei family blood in you? I have several sisters, do I need you?”

He asked a series of questions, leaving Jinye speechless, her body was trembling.

Wei Liangchen’s expression softened slightly, he pulled her towards him. “Look, I just said a few words to you, your hands are already icy. Is what you see the truth?”

Jinye looked a little dazed. “What do you mean?”

Wei Liangchen pecked her lips. “It means I wasn’t on the mountain last night.”

“Then why did you come back with Ning Xiujun this morning?”

“Heh, I had to put on a show for that old man. I came back in the middle of the night, I wanted to climb in through the window, why did you close the window so tightly? I was afraid the patrol guards would see me, so I left.”

He was a little angry, a little resentful, he pinched her waist. “Next time you don’t let me in, you’ll be in trouble.”

His eyes flickered, he looked at her with a mischievous smile, with a deeper meaning.

Jinye pretended not to understand.

So, it was him who made the noise last night. “I was tired yesterday, I fell asleep, I thought it was a cat or a dog or a mouse.”

Wei Liangchen: “…” “Are you calling me names?”

“You admitted it yourself.”

“You’re getting bold.” This time, he pinched her cheek. “How are you going to compensate me?”

“Why didn’t you like Ning Xiujun?” Was it because of your white moonlight?

Wei Liangchen’s eyes darkened again. “Do I like every female? Am I a stud?”

Jinye paused. “But you’ll eventually like someone.”

“We’ll talk about it when that day comes.”

He clearly didn’t want to continue this topic, he pushed her down into the seat, his beautiful eyes rippled with a deep color, dark and imposing, he lowered his head and kissed her.

The carriage was filled with passion.

Jinye was a little scared, she was all too familiar with his changes. He was wearing a white shirt today, with khaki army pants, and the hard buckle of his belt was digging into her, making her nervous. She turned her face away from him, panting. “We’re almost at school.”

Her eyes were misty, pitiful and cute. Wei Liangchen’s hand was still caressing her waist. “Just taking a little interest, nothing else.”

He had been holding back for over a month, and he couldn’t wait to release himself. He had been wanting to swallow her whole.

He only let go of her when Deputy Commander Shen said they would arrive in ten minutes.

He had kissed her for a whole quarter of an hour, her clothes had been pushed up, her skirt was all bunched up around her waist, her dazzling white legs were loosely hanging around his waist.

Although they didn’t go all the way, it was a far cry from nothing.

In the end, it was unclear who was more uncomfortable.

As Jinye was fixing her clothes, Wei Liangchen used a handkerchief to wipe her clean. His eyes were full of lingering gloom, and a mischievous smile played on his lips.

“You’re a jerk.” Jinye turned her head away, not wanting to talk to him.

The “curtain” in front was pulled back, and a plate of buns was handed over.

Deputy Commander Shen was becoming more and more like Wei Liangchen’s gut feeling. “Young Master, they’ll get cold if you don’t eat them.”

Wei Liangchen wiped his hands with a handkerchief and fed her one. “Our Su City buns are the best, shrimp dumplings are not nutritious.”

Jinye almost laughed, but seeing him use his hands, she frowned.

“Disgusting yourself?”

“You—” Jinye bit down hard, almost ruining half of Wei Liangchen’s finger.

He didn’t get angry, his voice was hoarse. “You’re so sharp-tongued, I’ll let you have your way tonight, don’t go anywhere after school. Understand?”

Jinye didn’t answer him, she chewed the bun noisily.

Wei Liangchen smiled and fixed her hair. “The cheongsam you wore the other day was very beautiful, where did you get it?”

“I’m not telling you.”

“Go make a few more, I’ll pay.”

“Money doesn’t make you superior.” Jinye didn’t really like wearing cheongsams, they were too restrictive. She liked to wear skirts like her school uniform, or Western dresses, or trousers and suits.

But he seemed to like to see her in a cheongsam.

Wei Liangchen’s eyelids lifted slightly. “How can you support yourself without money?”

Jinye’s heart skipped a beat, then she heard him say, “And your aunt, hundreds of dollars a month, especially the dozens of guards outside her ward, wouldn’t you say your Second Brother deserves some credit?” Her heart rate immediately returned to normal.

He was threatening her, reminding her of her situation, to be obedient, a slap and a sweet treat, he was more skilled than his father in using this tactic.

He was also reminding her who was in charge.

He fed her two more buns before saying, “Don’t see Zhou Siwei if you can avoid it, I’ll take care of the rest.”

“He’s not like the others before, I think he’s a good person, don’t… go too far.”

This was the first time she had spoken up for her blind date.

Wei Liangchen’s expression was ambiguous. “How many good people have you met? You met him once and you say he’s a good person.”

“It’s because he sent me shrimp dumplings to eat this morning.” While you gave my shrimp dumplings to someone else.

Wei Liangchen laughed. “How about I buy that Cantonese restaurant, or hire the chef to come home?”

It was almost at the school gate, Jinye didn’t have time to bicker with him. “No need.”

She got out of the car, and Wei Jiaqi immediately ran over. “Second Brother didn’t hit you, did he?”

Her clothes were all crumpled.

“This Second Brother is such a bully.”

Wasn’t he?

Jinye pursed her lips. Wei Liangchen had kissed her very hard and for a long time, it still felt numb and a little sore, maybe it was swollen. She couldn’t let Jiaqi see it. “He didn’t hit me, class is about to start, let’s go in.”

In the car, Wei Liangchen saw the two girls disappear from sight. He stuffed the remaining three buns in the plate into his mouth. “Have someone check out Zhou Siwei’s background.”

He knew about Zhou Siwei, of course, but he hadn’t paid much attention before, because Chief Zhou was obviously grooming his eldest son, Zhou Sihuai, to be his successor. The third son, Zhou Siwei, was a nobody.

But Mrs. Wei and the Warlord suddenly cared about him, which was definitely not simple.

There was something about Zhou Siwei that they wanted.

Jinye entered the school and saw Cheng Yi. She and a bunch of classmates were discussing something, it was a bit noisy around them.

The Jiao’ao issue was making a big fuss recently.

“Jinye, you’re here.” Cheng Yi excitedly ran over, her short hair fluttering. “Come and see the slogans we wrote.”

Cheng Yi was a patriotic youth, full of enthusiasm.

On the small white flags they made with their classmates, they wrote things like “Fight to the Death, Protect Our Sovereignty,” “Better to Be Broken than Whole,” “Our Heads Can Be Cut Off, but Qingdao Cannot Be Lost,” and another one:

“Willing to Give Our Land to the Eastern Neighbor, Treacherous Traitors Are Too Unkind.

Don’t Blame the Youth for Overstepping Their Bounds, The Rise and Fall of Our Nation Lies in Each Individual.”

The students said that students from North City and Haicheng were all going to the streets to protest, and they wanted to go too.

Jinye hadn’t participated because the Warlord had told her not to get involved in these activities.

But not many people knew she was a burden in the Warlord’s family. The few girls who had bullied her before had been silenced by Wei Liangchen, and Cheng Yi didn’t know either. Because they got along well, she had been trying to get her to join their group, to raise their voices for the country with them.

“Tsk, she’s probably some big shot’s kept woman, she wouldn’t get involved with you guys.”

Suddenly, a voice cut in.

Ling Shaomin, from the neighboring Chinese Literature department, the fourth daughter of the Ling family, Ling Xuewei’s sister, was one of the few people who knew Jinye’s identity.

She had always been at odds with Jinye. They had even had a fight at Mrs. Zhang’s banquet last time.

Ling Shaomin didn’t dare to say that Jinye was a burden kept by the Warlord’s family, so she used “kept woman” instead.

In her eyes, no matter how much gold Jinye was wrapped in, she was still a sparrow.

But Ling Shaomin’s words had a double meaning. To the other students, it sounded like Jinye was being kept, and she was so beautiful, everyone’s eyes were looking at her with a bit of meaning.

“Yeah, I saw a driver dropping her off this morning, and there was someone sitting in the back.” A female classmate next to Cheng Yi said.

Jinye’s heart skipped a beat.

Usually, the driver would drop her off a hundred meters away from the school gate. Today, for a change, Wei Liangchen had gone crazy and sent her to school, almost to the school gate.

Fortunately, he didn’t get out of the car.