Transmigrated Female Official

31. Emotional Debts

Upon arriving at the entrance of Yibin Pavilion, Chu Yilin gave Gongsun Yu a wink, signaling Chu Qingluo and Ji Qiran to get out of the car first.

Seeing that Chu Yilin was deliberately stopping him, Gongsun Yu asked, "Second Young Master, what's going on...?"

Chu Yilin put on a smile: "Let's not beat around the bush. The relationship between the Seventh Prince and my Third Sister... that was before you. Let's give them some time alone."

"..." Gongsun Yu lowered his eyes and remained silent, but he did not move either.

Even if Chu Yilin didn't say anything, just from Ji Qiran's actions of pulling Chu Qingluo away before him, he already had a guess...

Seeing that Chu Yilin and Gongsun Yu had been lingering in the car for a long time without getting off, Chu Qinglu called out, "Why aren't you getting off the car yet?"

Chu Yilin lifted the curtain and poked his head out: "Um... Third Sister, I suddenly remembered that I have something to do, and Gongsun happens to be able to help. You two can eat first!" After saying that, he shouted to Nine-Tailed Paulownia: "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and drive the carriage, I'm in a hurry."

Chu Yilin was going to run some errands, so why were the two of them following him?

Seeing that Nine-Tailed Fox and Kirito remained unmoved, Chu Yilin simply grabbed the riding whip and cracked it: "Hey—we're in a hurry! We're in a hurry!"

"Wait... what's going on?? Hey—!" Chu Qingluo and Ji Qiran were dumbfounded as they watched the carriage drive away.

Is Chu Yilin deliberately trying to leave her alone with Ji Qiran?

"Ah, damn it—"

But then those things happened last night... Now Chu Qingluo could no longer pretend to be calm.

Ji Qiran knew all too well what Chu Yilin was thinking. He smiled helplessly and said, "Let's go—" He then turned and went into Yibin Pavilion.

He always sat in the second-floor side room.

Ji Qiran ordered the dishes and was about to order wine when Chu Qingluo stopped him: "We're not drinking today!"

Ji Qiran raised an eyebrow: "What? You're willing to treat me to a meal, but not to a drink?"

"No, no, didn't we just have a hangover yesterday? Let's not drink today..." She didn't want to see him act crazy when he was drunk again.

Ji Qiran gave her a thoughtful look, "Don't worry, I rarely get drunk."

Finally, he ordered a jar of Qianlixiang wine. Seeing her disbelief, he added, "I drank too much yesterday, and Yilin's best-kept secret is really strong..." At this point, he suddenly changed the subject and asked, "You seemed fine yesterday. How come you can drink so much? How did you get home?"

"Ha, ha!" She chuckled dryly. He really had blacked out!

Forget it, she couldn't be bothered to bring it up again.

He won't get drunk even if he drinks this small jar of wine now, so let him be.

……

But Chu Qingluo forgot that once you start drinking, you can't stop. The two of them took turns drinking, and ended up having two more jars added.

In particular, the thought of having to clean up the mess left by the original host's infatuated behavior made her drink several more cups without saying a word!

Sometimes, people need a little alcohol to embolden them so they can blurt out everything they want to say.

"Seventh Prince, let me tell you..." Chu Qingluo took another breath before mustering her courage. "Although I don't remember, all the signs indicate... I was quite fond of you before."

Ji Qiran already found the term "Seventh Prince" offensive, but the fact that she specifically emphasized the word "before" only added to the problem.

“But—!” She paused, then continued, “That’s all in the past! I will absolutely not bother you now, you can rest assured.”

She had to explain things clearly to him, lest he think that Chu Yilin's arrangement of being alone with him was at her behest, which would only deepen the misunderstanding.

Ji Qiran was taken aback at first, stared at her, and then a cold smile appeared on his lips: "It's good to have amnesia, then you can just let bygones be bygones for what you've done."

All she did was take a few exams for him... it didn't bother him at all. "It was wrong of me to pester you before, I'm apologizing to you now."

"Apologize?" he scoffed, saying indifferently, "It should be compensation."

Is Ji Qiran going to ask for an exorbitant price? Chu Qingluo pouted: "Then what kind of compensation do you want?"

He chuckled coldly, slowly closing in on her, a wicked glint in his eyes, a slight upturn at the corners of his mouth, and whispered, "You climbed into my bed while I was drunk... tell me, how should you make it up to me?"

"Pfft—!!!!!" His words were like a bolt from the blue! She was completely at a loss for words...

Chu Qingluo, oh Chu Qingluo, possessing your body has really screwed me over!

She, a modern person, couldn't even do something like taking advantage of someone while drunk, so how could Chu Qingluo, a mere young girl, do it so easily?! Huh?! It turns out that the original host got all the good things like sleeping with a super handsome guy, and now the substitute is left to bear the responsibility?

...On another note, if you're going to sleep together, why make such a fuss?

"Can we just pretend this never happened?"

“No,” he refused.

"You... you've already done it, what do you want now?" She looked up, shamelessly asking.

Unexpectedly, she reacted this way. His face darkened, and he said coldly, "I'll treat you the same way, and then we'll be even."

"Huh? What—?!?"

Is he out of his mind?! Saying he wants to sleep with her in such a...serious tone?! Is he kidding me?! She swears that her inner monologue about how sleeping with a super handsome guy is a good thing was just a random thought!

"You wouldn't... be deliberately making up facts to deceive me because I have amnesia, would you?"

He glanced at her with extreme displeasure: "I don't have time for that!"

"Can we do it another way?" she conceded.

"No."

He refused again!

Seeing Ji Qiran make such a bizarre request without batting an eye, Chu Qingluo felt her life was beginning to darken...

Ji Qiran was in a great mood today, and the opportunity Chu Yilin created for him and Chu Qingluo to be alone gave him a strange sense of pleasure. However, this woman was a real mood killer, constantly trying to distance herself from him! It made him extremely unhappy!

What's even stranger is that the more she tries to escape, the more he wants to hold her tighter.

He wanted her to know very clearly that their relationship was definitely not as superficial as it appeared!

"You just wait and see—" Ji Qiran said, then turned and left.

A perfectly good meal has become tasteless! Whose fault is it?

……

After a nerve-wracking day, Chu Qingluo collapsed onto her bed, utterly exasperated! Especially since Ji Qiran was making her 'wait'?!

"Ahhhh!" She was starting to panic!

Damn it... I'll just treat it as a hookup! And the guy is a super handsome guy, so I'm not losing out... But I've never hooked up before! I've been so busy being single this past year that I haven't had time to do anything outrageous.

Sigh! Anyway, I'm not exactly a saint, so I might as well do it! Who's afraid of who?!

However, just thinking about Ji Qiran's face... made her inexplicably nervous to the point of biting her nails.

Chu Qingluo, oh Chu Qingluo... why should I, your sister, repay the debt of love you owe?!

She sighed again! Unable to sleep, she got up and rummaged through drawers and cupboards, hoping to glean some clues about how many other foolish things the original host had done. Hopefully, she wouldn't find any more IOUs or love letters!

……

There were some loose papers in a small drawer of the bookcase, which looked like short poems.

Fortunately, the original host was quite refined and had beautiful handwriting.

She closed the drawer and went to the dressing table. Besides the dressing case, there were sandalwood boxes of various sizes on the table, filled with all kinds of jewelry.

Chu Qinglu examined the exquisite ornaments one by one, secretly marveling that the Chu family still had some wealth.

Suddenly, a hard object wrapped in two layers of silk handkerchiefs caught her eye.

She placed the item flat in her palm and carefully unfolded the silk...

A beautiful white jade pendant came into view, its translucent and dazzling appearance captivating.

It wasn't surprising that the Chu family could afford mutton-fat jade, but what was strange was the pattern on the jade pendant... it was an identical Pixiu to Ji Qiran's pendant!!! And on the back of the pendant was a character engraved in a flamboyant style...

If she's not mistaken, it must be the character '然'!

"Aish—!"

No, no, no! Feeling her blood rushing to her head, Chu Qingluo quickly tilted her head back and raised her hand to support the back of her neck! She was so angry at the original host that she wished she could vomit a mouthful of black blood right now!

This is clearly the jade pendant that Ji Qiran claimed was missing. Could it be that the original host engaged in some underhanded dealings? Did he steal the jade pendant as a keepsake? Or was he simply returning lost property without being honest?

Regardless of the truth, returning it will only draw suspicion!

How many crimes will this scoundrel have to take the blame for?

She quickly rewrapped the jade pendant and put it back in the box.

Let's just pretend she knows nothing!

I flopped back onto the bed, suddenly feeling an unprecedented emptiness and helplessness. Everything here was so unfamiliar; there were no dear parents, no He Yun and Momo, nothing at all…

Alone and helpless, yet still forced to grit their teeth and deal with all sorts of things.

In the dead of night, when all is quiet, her vulnerability tends to flare up.

Chu Qingluo involuntarily curled up, letting tears stream down her face...

I miss home so much!!

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