CH 54

Chapter 54 Sharing Bedrooms (2)

After a while, the room became extremely quiet. Mu Yang and Fu Zixian were forcibly pushed out by the guards, while Cheng Xin said goodbye and also left. The two maids were pushed to continue guarding the door from the inside, while the group of guards, who arrived with Chi Jingxi, went out to guard the door from the outside.

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Wen Yantong stood next to the stove, still carrying a quilt around her and feeling comfortably warm. Chi Jingxi stood motionlessly next to the soft couch with a book in his hand, so she didn't dare to casually move around. Only when the servant who cleaned the floor came over did she move a step or two.

In the end, Chi Jingxi still let her stay. The book in his hand was brought out by Cheng Xin from the study. He handed it over to Chi Jingxi for him to read before leaving.

Wen Yantong waited for a while, and seeing that he hadn't moved, she walked slowly to his side and asked, "Little Marquis, what book are you reading?"

Chi Jingxi's brows and eyes were very calm, neither angry nor smiling, so she couldn't see what he was thinking at all.

Wen Yantong stood on her tiptoes and stretched her neck to look. The words ‘Chi Jingxi’ came into view.

She was startled, and before Chi Jingxi could respond, she grabbed the book, took a few steps back, and stuck out her neck. "How can you peek at other people's things?!"

This book was used by her to practice calligraphy in her spare time. Many names were written on it, and they were all characters in the original book. Among them, Chi Jingxi’s name was written the most. Not counting the person she was facing now, when she was reading a book, she liked the villain ‘Chi Jingxi’ very much.

She liked him so much that the death of Chi Jingxi near the end of the story was a difficult pill for her to swallow. She had even shed a few tears for him.

As such, she had a soft spot for the name ‘Chi Jingxi’. It's just that after entering the book, Wen Yantong couldn't transfer her love for the character in the book to the living person in front of her. Every time she saw Chi Jingxi, she always felt extremely unfamiliar; fear and awe accounted for the largest proportion.

Going back to the book they were currently arguing over, the reason why it caused her to have such a big reaction was not that she was shy but because there was a name at the end of the book that Chi Jingxi should never see.

Thinking back to when Cheng Xin was reading this book, Wen Yantong was instantly frightened.

Did Cheng Xin see it?

Seeing her reacting like a cat with its tail being stepped on, Chi Jingxi gave her a nonchalant glance and didn't pursue her discourtesy. He only ordered the servants to boil some water, then turned around and went to the study.

As soon as he entered the study, he saw several plates on the table. Some of them still had leftovers.

"Wen Yantong!" he called.

Wen Yantong held the book and walked in quickly. "What's wrong?"

Chi Jingxi pointed at the plates of food on the table. "Who allowed you to put food on the study desk?"

"Uh... I got hungry halfway through reading and didn't want to waste time, so I read while eating." Wen Yantong scratched her head and explained.

"One should concentrate while studying. With your focus divided, how can knowledge enter your brain? How can learning enter your heart?" Chi Jingxi angrily asked.

Wen Yantong thought about it and then blurted out a sentence that she had just read in the book two days ago. "It is difficult to learn after a youth grows old. Even a single minute should not be taken lightly."

Chi Jingxi's face turned dark after hearing this. He sneered and said, "You have good knowledge. Since you love learning so much, copy this sentence a hundred times today."

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Wen Yantong's eyes darkened.

A hundred times?! Just kill me!

He then ordered a servant. "Clean up the table."

After a while, the table was cleaned up, revealing a piece of paper. This paper was pasted on the table, and on it was Chi Jingxi's righteous words.

This was from the first time Wen Yantong went to Li Boyuan's dormitory to practice calligraphy. This piece of paper was taken from Chi Jingxi's hand, and as she had declared then, she had really framed it and pasted it on the table.

Chi Jingxi was stunned when he saw it. However, very quickly, he noticed that the originally blank border around the piece of paper was now filled with small Psyducks.

Thinking of his previous nightmare about Psyducks lining up to climb a tree, Chi Jingxi gritted his teeth. He tore off the paper, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it on the ground. "In the future, don't let me see another Old Man Ding and Psy...duck."

Wen Yantong walked over, picked up the paper ball, and said, "Little Marquis, even if you didn't like Psyduck and Old Man Ding, don't direct your anger on this paper… look how beautiful I framed it."

Chi Jingxi snorted. "My belongings… I can do whatever I want with them."

"No. You gave me this piece of paper, so it’s mine," Wen Yantong said.

"When did I say I gave it to you?" Chi Jingxi frowned.

"But you didn't say no when I took it." Wen Yantong replied, "To agree tacitly was also to acquiesce."

Chi Jingxi couldn't argue back, so he sat down on the chair angrily. He thought for a while and found that he had nothing to refute, so he sternly instructed, "Bring over a chair."

He said to Wen Yantong angrily, "You sit across from me. I'll watch you finish copying the hundred times."

Wen Yantong regretted talking back immediately, wanting to slap her mouth badly. Why did she bother arguing!?

She dawdled and sat across from Chi Jingxi. She held the brush in her hand for a while, then raised her head and said softly to Chi Jingxi, "Little Marquis, don't be angry. If you don't like Psyduck and Old Man Ding, I'll draw you something else."

"How about a Bulbasaur?"

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The author has something to say: 

Little Marquis is now in the ICU. The cause was because it was too noisy, so he fainted from anger.

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