Qi Chimu looked up at her, his expression indifferent, but his eyes carrying a trace of tenderness.
“Maybe it’s because I would meet a wife who can’t do anything, so life made me learn everything in advance before meeting her.”
He didn’t feel much anger at the thought of his past hardships. At least those experiences had allowed him to learn many things.
And these things allowed her to look at him with bright eyes.
Thinking about it that way, his life didn’t seem so awful1.
Bai Weiwei was stunned. Then she realized who the wife he was talking about was.
She pursed her lips, as though wanting to let out a few jeers.
But her lips moved, and finally she let out a “Hmph.”
Qi Chimu raised his gaze to look at her and saw that her ears were somewhat red.
Warm light streamed through the window. The two of them sat together, their shadows intertwined.
Appearing affectionate2 and tender.
Qi Chimu deftly embroidered flowers, his mood unusually peaceful and content.
He wanted to continue like this, forever.
【Ding! Male lead’s favorability: 92.】
The examination was the next day. Unusually, there was not much tossing about that night.
Bai Weiwei was half asleep when the system woke her up.
Rubbing her eyes, she carefully climbed over Qi Chimu’s body and got off the bed.
Qi Chimu opened his eyes and saw that she had casually thrown on a soft and thin robe, walking barefoot across the ice-cold floor. Then she walked over to the table, bent down, and lit the lamp.
She turned towards him. Her lashes quivered lightly, and she seemed somewhat nervous.
Her complexion was pale and frail, and the light cast her black eyes into an amber color.
She opened his imperial examination case, then placed a sheet of paper inside.
Still the same as last time, giving him a cheat sheet for the examination?
Qi Chimu felt somewhat suffocated. She still did not like him.
So she didn’t feel heartache over whether he could or could not pass the exam.
But to make him detest her was something he couldn’t do, either.
Bai Weiwei let out a breath, then turned and came back. She gently climbed over his body and smoothly returned to the warm bed.
She glanced at him and found that he was still asleep.
Bai Weiwei let out a soundless yawn, closed her eyes, and slowly fell asleep.
Qi Chimu opened his eyes again.
He reached out, softly squeezing her face.
“Little villain.”
But his voice held a hint of tenderness, without a semblance of cursing someone.
He carefully pulled her feet into his embrace. Sure enough, they were so cold.
He placed her feet on his warm abdomen and warmed her feet.
Bai Weiwei let out a pleasant sigh in her sleep.
Qi Chimu’s eyes held a trace of pampering. The corners of his mouth couldn’t help rising into a smile.
The next day, Bai Weiwei woke up to find that Qi Chime had gotten up early and left.
The admission time for the imperial examination was particularly early.
Even before dawn, the students had to wait.
Bai Weiwei didn’t think much.
Before the system spoke up. “I don’t think you put in a cheat sheet?”
Bai Weiwei said, “It doesn’t count if I put in a cheat sheet.”
She had asked the system. The same method to block would not take effect.
Bai Weiwei lazily got up. “Alright, Qi Chimu’s gone. I should go elope.”
Yes, what she’d put in were a love letter3 and a beautiful eulogy to the partner she was eloping with.
On the paper she stuck in Qi Chimu’s case, she wrote that she fell in love with a certain man, praising him for approximately 3,000 words.
Scribbled at the end of the paper was a line of small words.
She decided to elope with a certain man, then ask for a divorce.
1: 一无是处: not one good point; everything about it is wrong.↩
2: 缱绻: in love and inseparable.↩
3: 绿帽情书: lit. green hat love letter. To put a green hat on someone is to cheat on them with somebody else.↩