Noble Son-in-Law - Chapter 3.3

Chapter 3.3

Hearing such anger in the little girl’s voice, Li Zhi lowered his head and met Shen Qingqing’s watery almond eyes, which were clearer than the lake.

 His eyes lingered on the little girl’s cherry-red lips for a moment, and then Li Zhi said warmly, “Master Shen entrusted you to me; I can’t break my promise. The emperor’s orders were on my side, and I had no choice but to chase the rebels and abandon the girl. Now the thief has been eliminated, so I will naturally save you.”

 ‘What? You can’t break your promise?’ Shen Qingqing suddenly understood that Li Zhi came into the water just to show off to his father. He was indeed hypocritical!

 “Do you think our Shen family will miss your kindness?” Shen Qingqing asked sarcastically. She was not a fool. When she saw her father later, she would definitely tell the truth and let him know who Li Zhi really was.

 Li Zhi smiled lightly. “I am not someone who wants kindness from others.”

 He was pretending to be nice by smiling, even though he was making fun. Shen Qingqing started to feel more and more grossed out and didn’t feel like bothering to talk. She continued to hold Li Zhi’s hand. The little girl moved around like a sluggish pink carp that had been caught by a fisherman, so Li Zhi had to increase his strength and squeeze Shen Qingqing tightly between his waist and arms.

 “Let me go!” Shen Qingqing couldn’t struggle, so she turned around and reached out to hit Li Zhi in the face.

 Li Zhi was unprepared and was hit by the little girl.

 He stared at Shen Qingqing with a cold expression after the unexpected attack.

Li Zhi has been smiling the whole time since he came into the water. Right now, his expression quickly changed from looking like a calm and peaceful person to someone who looked like a powerful and scary king of the underworld. Shen Qingqing’s entire body felt very cold seeing his stern gaze, and she couldn’t even react. She just stared at him without any expression.

 Li Zhi’s eyes slowly moved down, and he stared at Shen Qingqing’s lips without concealment.

 Shen Qingqing was very scared. She was very scared and didn’t want to move because she was afraid of what Li Zhi might do if she did.

 “You look beautiful,” Li Zhi said in a casual voice.

Shen Qingqing was scared and angry. “You…”

 Li Zhi smiled, looked into her almond-shaped eyes, and said, “So, I won’t argue with you this time.”

 Shen Qingqing pursed her lips.

 “Seriously, stay still. I will release you once we reach land,” Li Zhi said calmly.

 Shen Qingqing wanted to be free quickly, so she agreed and let Li Zhi take her to the north bank.

 Before landing, Li Zhi moved Shen Qingqing in front of him, then grabbed Shen Qingqing’s legs with both hands and helped her to land.

 The lake’s water was very cold, but the man’s palms were warm. He pressed against her tightly through the thin summer skirt. Shen Qingqing felt extremely awkward. In order to get rid of this feeling quickly, she stopped struggling and pressed her hands against the lakeshore, using all her strength. But just when she was about to lift her left leg with her right leg on the shore, a big hand suddenly appeared on the base of her left leg and waist, firmly pressing her against the shore, making her unable to move.

 “You ba*tard!”

 Shen Qingqing had never felt such humiliation before.

 The little girl was lying on him, her wet dress sticking to her body and outlining a nice peach shape. Li Zhi liked it and talked with a smile. “Miss Shen, I care a lot about my reputation. When you see your dad later, can you tell him that I saved you first and then chased the rebel?”

 Shen Qingqing was very angry; how could she say yes?

 “You’re dreaming!” She cursed loudly, her slender white fingers digging deeply into the soil on the shore.

 “You really don’t agree?” Li Zhi asked with a smile, and the big hand on Shen Qingqing’s waist slowly moved down.

 Shen Qingqing took a breath and then agreed before Li Zhi could touch a private area, saying, “Okay, I promise you.”

 Li Zhi stopped then.

 On the shore.

 Shen Qingqing ran forward without looking back.

 Li Zhi was in the water, and he asked Shen Qingqing with a smile, “Did you lose something, Miss Shen?”

 When Shen Qingqing heard this, she stopped and looked down. She saw that only a wet sock was left on her left foot.

The embroidered shoe was gone!

 She gave Li Zhi a murderous look. If looks could kill, Li Zhi would have died a thousand times!

 Li Zhi jumped ashore with swift movements. Standing firm, he ignored Shen Qingqing’s resentful eyes, smiled, and waved the exquisitely embroidered shoe in his hand at her. “If you report back to your father as agreed, he will definitely thank me when I meet your father in the future. Then I will find you again. I’ll give it back to you when I get the chance;  otherwise, Li Zhi deliberately lengthened his voice, and while hiding the embroidered shoe in his arms, he said meaningfully to Shen Qingqing, “Otherwise, this shoe will be your token of love for me.”

 Shen Qingqing: ‘How could there be such a shameless person in this world?’

 “Give it back to me!”

 Without any other thought, Shen Qingqing ran towards Li Zhi with red eyes, trying to snatch her embroidered shoe back.

 Li Zhi smiled, pointed to the back mountain, and said, “It’s important to catch the rebels, so I won’t accompany you.”

 After saying that, the man ran away like the wind.

 Shen Qingqing chased him unwillingly, but before she could get far, someone behind her shouted her name. Shen Qingqing knew who that person was without looking back.

 “Brother!”

 That call for brother was crisp, tactful, and full of infinite grievances. It reached Li Zhi’s ears with the wind but made the man laugh.

End of chapter 3

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