At this moment, it was Jiang Chi who was at a loss.
Keep going? Although the book said the woman should struggle a bit—it supposedly helps the couple’s intimacy—Qingchan was already crying. If he continued now, it wouldn’t be called intimacy anymore, but outright coercion.
Jiang Chi had always seen himself as a competent and mature man. He thought everything he had done just now had gained Ji Qingchan’s approval.
Even her previous struggles, he interpreted as the woman’s natural modesty.
But now…
She was crying!
Ji Qingchan was crying!
And it was because of him!
“Qingchan, I was wrong. It’s my fault.” Jiang Chi didn’t know how else to express himself. Somehow, these words felt the most fitting, as if they were an instinct deeply rooted in a man’s bones.
He wanted to comfort her, to coax her.
But the book only taught him how to tame a bad woman. It never taught him how to soothe a woman.
“I’m sorry, please don’t cry anymore, okay?”
“I’ll love you properly. I’ll take care of the kids—even twins or triplets. After we get married, you can do whatever you want, no need to be tied down by family duties.”
Hearing this promise, the girl only cried harder.
“Qingchan…” Jiang Chi was completely dumbfounded. He couldn’t understand how things had turned out like this.
*****
“Jiang Chi, you bastard! I never thought you’d be this kind of person! Waaahhh! I’ve been cursed for eight lifetimes~~~”
The girl’s voice quivered with tears, fragile and touching, as if all the grievances she had bottled up inside had exploded at once.
Ji Yue Nian was crying.
Not fake crying. Real crying.
She had never felt so wronged before.
Thinking about all the effort she had put into winning over Jiang Chi, the time spent, and the small fortune she had drained…
And now, before she even got to see Jiang Chi bawling, miserable, and rejected by her in front of the whole school, she was about to be forced into home base!
Waaah!
So unfair! So suffocating!
If she were still in her male body, she would have vented all that frustration with her fists.
But now, in this female body—perhaps because women are made of water, or maybe due to more developed tear glands, or the effects of female hormones—all her grievances and unfairness poured uncontrollably from her eyes!
Waaahhh!!!
Too sad!!
But as she cried, something flashed before her eyes, and the next second, her lips were blocked, silencing all her sobs.
Ji Yue Nian shook her head hard and struggled free, blushing shyly but with a hint of anger on her face.
“Jiang Chi, you bastard!”
“Mmph!”
Another kiss, and this time the young man’s hand firmly pinched the girl’s round hips several times.
“If you cry again, I’ll kiss you again.”
“Beast!!”
Ji Yue Nian cursed furiously, her cheeks flushed, her beautiful eyes shimmering with a faint mist, making her look extremely vulnerable and captivating.
Jiang Chi kissed her again.
Ji Yue Nian was so angry that she nearly lost her mind, but under the boy’s domineering “threat,” she didn’t dare cry out loud anymore and only sobbed quietly.
Seeing “Ji Qingchan” finally quiet down, Jiang Chi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn’t know how to comfort girls, but one trick from “Taming Bad Women” was to forcibly kiss the woman during an argument until she surrendered.
“Qingchan.” Jiang Chi called softly, his tone so gentle it seemed like it could melt away.
“Get lost!” A response full of tears and anger spilled from Ji Yue Nian’s lips as she glared fiercely at the boy pressing down on her.
“Shall we continue?” The young man asked innocently and sincerely.
“Continue my ass! Try being pinned down like this! Jiang Chi, you’re worse than a beast for going after someone underage!!” Ji Yue Nian shouted in frustration, feeling completely miserable and unable even to kick the bastard off her body. It was driving her crazy.
“I just want to give you a home.”
“Just give me the property deed.”
“I want to have you.”
“You’ve kissed me already. Doesn’t that mean you have me?”
“I like you.”
“Yes, yes, yes, me too… huh! Can you stop pinching my butt?”
“I’m afraid you’ll disappear, like before.”
“Ji Qingchan, I’m scared. Really scared.”
“I don’t want to go back to living alone.”
Jiang Chi hugged her tightly, burying his face in her neck and whispering.
His voice was small but each word struck the girl’s heart like a hammer.
This time, Ji Yue Nian was silent.
Time seemed to freeze.
After a long, long while, she finally spoke slowly again, “Just one thing. Can I get out of bed today?”
“After I win you over, the camera will have recorded everything. Trust me, Qingchan, let me love you properly and give you a support.”
*****
Monday, Sports Department Office.
“Brother Ji, Brother Ji.” The voice beside her ear suddenly pulled Ji Yue Nian’s thoughts back from those distant memories. Looking up, she saw it was her junior, Su Tian.
“Hm? What’s up? Something wrong?” Ji Yue Nian quickly pushed away her drifting thoughts and asked.
“Nothing, it’s just that Brother Ji, you look distracted today.” Su Tian held a novel in his hands and asked curiously.
If he hadn’t asked, some memories Ji Yue Nian had deeply buried would never have surged back like a tide, especially when her eyes inadvertently glanced at her left hand, which was even a little shriveled from over-washing.
Suddenly her ears felt inexplicably hot.
Two full days had passed since Saturday, but the marks Jiang Chi left were not something that could be erased in just two days.
Under Ji Yue Nian’s extreme tug-of-war (begging for mercy) and the human mind’s “compromise” nature, she hadn’t been “forced home base,” but she did lose something…
Her palm felt faintly warm, as if still holding his temperature.
Ji Yue Nian couldn’t remember exactly how she left that bedroom or how many times she washed her hands in the past two days.
But she would never forget how perverted Jiang Chi was—not only did he film everything with a camera, but they each had a memory card.
The 18+ content on those cards constantly reminded her of what she had gone through!
“Brother Ji, what brand of hand cream do you use? Your skin looks so nice.”
Ji Yue Nian snapped back to reality and quickly hid her hands behind her back, answering nervously, “Uh, maybe it’s because I haven’t been out in the sun much lately. Haha. Or maybe I’ve been drinking too much iced coffee.”
Su Tian gave her a suspicious look, feeling something was off about Brother Ji today but didn’t push further, instead lowering his head to continue reading his novel.
Ji Yue Nian sat there, distractedly stamping documents.
Clean the streets? Approved!
Greet the elderly living alone? Approved!
Jiang Chi applied to join this social practice? Approved!
Traffic management? Approved!
Without realizing it, her thoughts drifted again.
Jiang Chi, Jiang Chi—these two words seemed to have some mysterious power, making Ji Yue Nian think of that name uncontrollably these past few days.
What should she do now?
The current situation was that Jiang Chi had already been won over by her disguised “Ji Qingchan.”
According to the original plan, the next step was for Jiang Chi to confess his feelings to “Ji Qingchan” in front of the whole school, only to be harshly rejected, with “Ji Qingchan” declaring she didn’t like Jiang Xuezhang at all—that Sports Department Senior Ji was a hundred times better.
But now, the original script sounded a bit dull.
Should she change it to: “I only fell for Jiang Xuezhang because it’s my master’s task. The love-slave loves her master the most~~”?
Ugh!
Just thinking about it made Ji Yue Nian a little excited, stirring a mischievous desire deep in her heart.