Chapter 255

Chapter 255: 248: Trouble Caused by Aphrodisiac Fragrance Again (First Update) Chapter 255: 248: Trouble Caused by Aphrodisiac Fragrance Again (First Update) Let’s return to the Guan Family’s engagement banquet.

Everything was kept simple, as per Jhiang Youyou’s request.

The feast downstairs had already ended. Guan Sixing didn’t enjoy socializing, and it wasn’t good for Jhiang Youyou to overexert herself, so Lady Tan Linglan suggested they rest upstairs while she and her husband took care of seeing off the guests.

Guan Sixing closed the door.

“Youyou.”

Jhiang Youyou didn’t respond and sat down on the bed, which was adorned with a pair of dolls symbolizing blessing and joy. She poked the belly of one doll. It was hard; there was something inside.

She unzipped the doll’s clothes and found longan and red dates inside the pocket.

Guan Sixing approached, “Are you still angry with me?”

Actually, she was not angry anymore, but after being petulantly standoffish for so long, she needed a slow descent from her high ground.

She started peeling a longan.

Guan Sixing had drunk some wine and was a bit tipsy. He crouched and half lay on the edge of the bed, taking out longans one by one from the pocket of the other doll.

“I got Gu Yihuan drunk,” he said as he peeled a longan and offered it to Jhiang Youyou. “It was Gu Yihuan who brought that perfume bottle to my house.”

He had asked Xie Shang about it; that perfume contained Aphrodisiac Fragrance, which induces lust. After he had smashed the perfume bottle, he had several dreams like that, hence why he mistook reality for a dream.

All because Gu Yihuan mistakenly brought the perfume to his house.

Jhiang Youyou accepted the longan he handed her. The olive branch was extended, and she was easily appeased, “With how little you can drink, how did you manage to get him drunk?”

“I diluted my wine with a lot of water.”

The longan was very sweet. Perhaps due to the influence of pregnancy hormones, Jhiang Youyou, who previously didn’t care much for sweets, had recently acquired a taste for them.

“Who taught you that shady trick?”

Guan Sixing told her everything: “Kaiyun taught me.”

Gu Kaiyun was supposed to be an upright gentleman, wasn’t he? So even a gentleman had such a scheming side.

Jhiang Youyou glanced over at the nightstand and dressing table, looking for something to spit the seed into. Guan Sixing pulled out a piece of paper, placed it in his hand, and stretched it out to her.

“Can’t we stop being angry now?”

She spat the longan seed onto the paper, “Read the marriage contract to me again.”

“Okay.”

The marriage contract was kept in the drawer.

Guan Sixing didn’t need to fetch it; he had a good memory and could recite it after reading it a few times. He recited it flawlessly to Jhiang Youyou: “From this moment, we are joined in a good union, a perfect pairing. With the red string tied early, we share joy and delight, singing verses of Guan Ju, and the elegant song of linchpin. May prosperity spread over five generations, and good fortune emanate from these two harmonies, pledging with the mandarin duck as our witness, this solemn vow is made.”

After finishing, he looked up at Jhiang Youyou.

“Written by your grandfather?”

“Mm.”

“It’s difficult to understand.”

Jhiang Youyou’s studies in classical literature had always been mediocre.

“Not hard to understand.” Guan Sixing paraphrased the marriage contract into plain language, “I want to marry you.”

“Ah, I see now.”

She fed him the peeled longan. He opened his mouth, she leaned in to kiss him and enticed him to follow her rhythm bit by bit, her tongue reaching out—

Someone began to bang on the door from outside.

Jhiang Youyou ended the moment early, wiping off the lipstick from Guan Sixing’s lips with her fingertip.

Guan Sixing went to open the door. It was Gu Yihuan, already drunk and knocking.

Disturbed by the interruption, Guan Sixing wasn’t in the best of moods, “What do you want?”

“I’ve figured out what I’m going to give you for your wedding,” Gu Yihuan slurred, excited and beaming, his eyes curving into crescent moons, “A gold brick, because when a woman is three years older, she embraces wealth.”

Jhiang Youyou was three years older than Guan Sixing.

Guan Sixing closed the door on him.

The matter of the engagement needs to start from last month.

After Jhiang’s family went bankrupt and assets were liquidated, Jhiang Zhenghao was hugely impacted. Unwilling to see the business he built from scratch collapse, he called his sons-in-law one after another. They all ignored his calls, and he was so angry that he ended up in the hospital.

In the beginning, Shen Li was the one keeping him company at the hospital.

Unable to get through to his sons-in-law, Jhiang Zhenghao grew agitated, “Xiao He and Xiao Xu aren’t answering my calls. Use your phone to call them.”

Jhiang Zhenghao had now become penniless. He could no longer count on Shen Li to show him any kindness.

“Why bother calling? If you annoy them, they might not even give you money for elder care later on.”

Each of Jhiang Zhenghao’s sons-in-law came from wealthy families. Even if they wouldn’t support their father-in-law’s businesses, they would still provide for his retirement.

Shen Li felt that this wasn’t the time to offend the sons-in-law.

Jhiang Zhenghao, unable to accept this, demanded with the authority of a family head, “Stop talking nonsense. If I tell you to call, then call.”

Shen Li threw a wrung-out towel on Jhiang Zhenghao and stopped tending to him, “Jhiang Zhenghao, why are you taking your anger out on me? Do I owe you anything? I was so young when I became your mistress, bore you a son, and before I could enjoy any blessings, you squandered everything. If you have no way to make a comeback, don’t you yell at me.”

In the past, Shen Li would never dare to speak to Jhiang Zhenghao like that.

In the past, Jhiang Zhenghao would probably have acted out as the master of the house, but now, he was just a penniless old man, fixated on money.

“How much money do you have?”

Shen Li was also sensitive when it came to money and immediately became wary, “What are you getting at? You’re already counting my assets?”

There’s a saying: A husband and wife are birds of the same forest who fly separately when disaster strikes.

“As long as I have the funds, I will make a comeback for sure.”

No longer concerned with maintaining her image as a lady of status that she had built over many years, Shen Li rolled her eyes, “All the houses and cars have been auctioned off. Even my bank account is frozen. Where would I get any money?”

Jhiang Zhenghao practically threw the abacus beads in Shen Li’s face, “Don’t you have a lot of jewelry and gems?”

“Jhiang Zhenghao, are you still a man?” Shen Li did indeed have a collection of jewelry hidden away, “Minmin needs a lot of money for studying abroad. Stop eyeing my assets or we’re getting a divorce, and I’ll take Minmin and go overseas.”