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The bed in the bedroom was indeed very big, and three adults would be more than enough, but Lin Xi felt that it would be better to sleep separately.

Seeing that Lin Xi was still hesitating, Qin Yu sneered: "What? It was clearly because you were touching and kissing me at the Qin’s Assembly and you were very open-minded about it, so why are you suddenly embarrassed now? "

Lin Xi was startled, what did it mean that she had touched and kissed him? It was as if she was taking advantage of him …

But after thinking about it more carefully, on the night of the annual party, in order to anger Hu Yuefei, he indeed took the initiative, as if she had indeed taken quite a bit of advantage over Qin Yu.

Lin Xi's ears couldn't help but turn red.

"Why should I be embarrassed?" "We'll sleep together." He didn't sleep together, and even seemed to be afraid of him.

After the two finished discussing how to sleep, it was time to wash up. Qin Yu gave the washroom to Lin Xi in an extremely gentlemanly manner. "Why don't you go take a bath first?"

Lin Xi took a look at the glass in the washroom. Although it was made of grinded sand and was not transparent, it was still very vague. She could roughly see what the person inside was doing. Even if Lin Xi let it go, she still felt a little awkward.

"I'll use the downstairs bathroom. I'll leave it for you to use." Lin Xi said quickly, and then turned and ran downstairs.

Half an hour later, Lin Xi was fully prepared. She returned to the master bedroom and laid down on the bed with Qin Yu, feeling sad. They each separated by an arm's length.

Although Qin Yu was far enough away, Lin Xi could still clearly feel his aura. From the moment she lay down on the bed, she felt like a lone sheep who had entered the territory of a wolf, and could have its neck bitten off by a wolf at any moment.

Lin Xi subconsciously touched her glass. Somehow, she felt a chill down her spine and couldn't sleep anymore. Of course Qin Yu would not bite her neck, he would only bite her heart and say those words one after another, making her heart no longer belong to him.

Lin Xi sighed in her heart and started to count the number of sheep with her eyes closed. After she counted to four hundred, she suddenly heard Qin Yu asking her: "Do you have any new year wishes?"

After Lin Xi finished counting the sheep, she immediately forgot how many she had ranked. She turned around and glared at Qin Yu unhappily in the darkness: "What, you plan to help me realize my New Year's wish?"

She had only asked casually in the beginning, but she did not expect Qin Yu to actually nod his head.

Although it was very dark in the room, Lin Xi was sure that she did not see wrong.

"Why?" she asked blankly.

Qin Yu paused for a moment before continuing, "Last time on New Year's Day, didn't you say that even if we were pretending to be lovers, we should still pretend to be more dedicated and give each other presents during the New Year's Day? I didn't have the time to prepare a present for you today, so I can help you fulfill a wish. "

On the night of the new year, she had indeed said those words. It was originally just a sentence out of anger, but she did not expect Qin Yu to actually remember it.

She hesitated for a moment, then suddenly realised that she really needed Qin Yu's help with something.

When she had made the deal with Lin Qian back then, as long as Hu Yunrong could return home from the mental hospital, Lin Qian would give her proof of Hu Yuefei's identity being exposed. But to release Hu Yunrong from the mental hospital, he still needed Qin Yu's permission.

Since Qin Yu gave her the chance, Lin Xi said impolitely: "Then can you let Hu Yunrong go and let her come back from the mental hospital?"

"Sure." Qin Yu answered very quickly, to the point of not asking Lin Xi the reason.

"However," Qin Yu continued immediately, "As a person of honor, I also have a New Year's wish, and I hope that you can help me realize it."

Lin Xi raised his eyebrows. Since she had initially said that they would give each other gifts and Qin Yu had already promised her, she naturally could not refuse him.

"Of course." As Qin Yu said that, he suddenly extended his arm and pulled Lin Xi into her embrace.

"What are you doing?" Lin Xi was so shocked that she began to struggle.

But Qin Yu just patted her back and said, "Shh, don't move. My New Year's wish is to hug you and sleep tonight. But don't get me wrong, I'm just used to sleeping with something in my arms. I won't do anything to you. "

Words spoken, spilled water. Lin Xi froze in Qin Yu's embrace, seeing that Qin Yu had no intention to joke, he could only close his eyes in's embrace.

She had thought that she would definitely be unable to sleep all night, but she didn't expect that she would fall asleep so quickly. Furthermore, she slept until dawn.

When she woke up, she was still in Qin Yu's embrace.

Qin Yu said that he would not do anything to her, and he just obediently hugged her for the whole night.

However, Lin Xi blurrily looked at her hands that were in Qin Yu's pajamas and felt her strong muscles and the sound of her heart beating. After half a minute, she suddenly came to her senses — she had taken advantage of Qin Yu again!

She hastily retracted her hand and looked at Qin Yu guiltily, hoping that he had not woken up. But the moment she raised her head, she just so happened to meet Qin Yu's clear eyes.

Lin Xi embarrassedly smiled at him, pretending that he was not the one who touched his chest muscles just now.

However, the person on top deliberately asked her: "How is it? Isn't the feel of his hands pretty good? "

Lin Xi, "..."

He had clearly assaulted someone else, but why did he have the feeling that he had been assaulted by someone else?

Fortunately, a servant knocked on the door to remind him that the Ancestral Worship Ceremony was about to begin, and was about to save Lin Xi from its awkward state.

The Qin’s Ancestral Hall was set on the mountain peak. Every year, on the first day of the new year, the descendants of Qin’s would open an Ancestral Hall to pay their respects. This year, the ceremony would take place at exactly eight in the morning, but it was already a quarter past seven.

Lin Xi couldn't care less about whether it was awkward or not as she hastily got out of bed to wash up.

Just as she was about to go out, she realized that the diamond necklace that Qin Yu had given her disappeared.

She clearly remembered that when she went downstairs to take a bath last night, she placed it on the tea table in the living room, but when she went out to look, there was nothing on the tea table. As time was of the essence, she didn't have the time to search for it. She could only wait until the Ancestor returned.

When Lin Xi and Qin Yu arrived at the ancestral hall, it was 8 o'clock sharp.

Due to the limited space in the ancestral hall, according to the rules, only a small portion of people could enter the ancestral hall and burn incense and worship. The others could only stand in the courtyard and worship their ancestors.

As the current owner of the Qin’s, Qin Yu was naturally the first to enter the Ancestral Hall, but just as he was about to bring Lin Xi in, he was suddenly stopped by Yan Huizhu.

"Wait a moment," Yan Huizhu said, "Today, the people who have come to pay their respects are all descendants and wives of the Qin’s. Nian Xi might be your fiancée, but the two of you are not married yet, so she can't enter the Ancestral Hall today."

Hearing this, Lin Xi's footsteps couldn't help but pause. She knew that Yan Huizhu was targeting her because of yesterday's matter, but she felt that Yan Huizhu's words were somewhat reasonable.

did not like her, so it was unknown who he would marry in the end. As a result, he was not yet a member of the Qin family, and he might not be so in the future either.

Since he was an outsider, it wasn't convenient for him to participate in such a solemn event like the ancestral worship. Therefore, she said to Qin Yu in a low voice, "How about I go back to the villa and wait for you?"

Qin Yu held her hand tightly: "The reason why I brought you back this year, is precisely to make all of the ancestors of Qin’s recognize you. Even though you are currently my fiancee in name, in my heart, you have long been my wife.

"Furthermore," Qin Yu looked in Yan Huizhu's direction, "I have the final say in Qin’s."

He purposefully raised his voice with his last sentence. The meaning behind his warning was clear, and everyone else outside the ancestral hall tactfully remained silent. Yan Huizhu still wanted to say something, but was stopped by Qin Man who was beside him.

Qin Yu swept his eyes across the crowd with an imposing gaze, then openly brought Lin Xi into the ancestral hall.

Lin Xi followed beside Qin Yu in a daze, completely dumbfounded by what Qin Yu had just said.

When Qin Yu was at the entrance of the ancestral hall, he told the Qin family that he had already treated his as his wife? He even said that he would only marry his in this lifetime?!

Why did he say that? Was this part of the act?

But even if it was to act in order to make it sound realistic, Qin Yu wouldn't say all these in front of the Qin’s Ancestor. He swore that he would only marry her, that she would forever be the only one in his heart …

Lin Xi's mind was wandering uncontrollably, until she arrived in front of the ancestral hall's ancestral tablets, with a few sticks of incense in her hand, she was still unable to recover.

She and Qin Yu stood shoulder to shoulder in front of the crowd, blankly following the host's instructions, and bowed towards the ancestral tablets of the Qin family along with Qin Yu.

But during the second bow, Lin Xi bent down with Qin Yu, and leaned forward fiercely, just as she was about to crash into the censer in front of her, luckily Qin Yu reacted quickly and used his hands to hold her waist tightly.

Lin Xi's legs staggered, but she did not fall.

Otherwise, if she really fell down, it wouldn't matter if she injured herself, but if people thought that she was deliberately provoking the ancestors of the Qin family, then it would be a huge problem.

Qin Yu only retracted his hand after she steadied herself. He had long since noticed that Lin Xi was a little distracted, so he quietly warned her: "Be careful, don't think too much."

Lin Xi did not reply, she was truly imagining things, but just as she was about to fall down, someone deliberately pushed her when she was bending over to bow.

Lin Xi frowned, and took the chance of the third bow to secretly glance behind him.

She had been thinking about something just now, so she didn't notice that the three people standing behind her were Second Aunt Yan Huizhu, her daughter Qin Man and her eldest sister-in-law Feng Ru.

Although amongst the three, the one who was most likely to push her was Yan Huizhu, Yan Huizhu felt that the person who was pushing her was in a vastly different direction. She could not easily change her position when the ancestor was bowing, so Yan Huizhu became the one who was least likely to push her.

Could it be Qin Man and Feng Ru? But they were both very friendly with her last night...

Lin Xi believed that she did not have any conflicts with any of Qin Man and Feng Ru. If the one who pushed her was really one of them, then why would she do such a thing?

Lin Xi couldn't understand, but the only thing she was sure of was that not everyone within the ancestral house was as friendly as they looked on the surface.