Chapter 122: Let's Take a Bath Together

"Let's go."

Once Qin Jian finished registering, Zhuqing said nothing, grabbed his hand, and walked away.

This action once again shocked Dai Mubai on the stairs and Xiao Wu in the lobby; their two pairs of jealous eyes stared fixedly at the hands of Qin Jian and Zhuqing clasped together.

And so, Qin Jian was led away by Zhuqing, whose hand trembled slightly but held on firmly, walking upstairs step by step, passing by Dai Mubai without looking aside, and entering their own... romantic room.

"Snap!"

The door finally closed, leaving behind a chaotic lobby, a stiff-faced Dai Mubai, and a very annoyed Xiao Wu... plus a bewildered Tang San.

This was their bizarre first meeting...

Inside the room.

The living room alone was over fifty square meters, and all the furniture was silver, carved with exquisite patterns.

The bright red carpet was covered in embossed red rose patterns, and what surprised Qin Jian most was a giant red heart in the center of the hall, piled up from a large number of roses.

The entire heart covered an area of nearly two square meters, which must have taken at least a thousand roses to complete.

Hanging above it was a delicate silk ribbon with a line of text written on it: "One thousand and one, you are my only one."

"What a cheesy line..."

Qin Jian covered his face.

Besides these one thousand and one roses, elegant vases were placed all around the room, with bright red roses inserted inside.

The rich fragrance of roses permeated every corner of the room, the charming, seductive atmosphere dizzying and intoxicating.

Every single detail of the room's decor pointed toward that business between a man and a woman.

"This is the room he wanted?" Zhuqing said, her cat-like eyes cold and icy.

The two walked into the bedroom and were shocked once again.

As expected, there was only one bed in the bedroom, but this large bed, which occupied almost half the room's area, was heart-shaped.

Pale red gauze curtains hung down from the ceiling, shielding the space above the heart-shaped bed, giving it a dreamlike, ethereal beauty.

Red rose bedding, red rose-patterned pillows—everything carried a strong sense of ambiguity, making one's blood race.

"This hotel... really has no taste..."

Yet, Qin Jian stood in the center of the bedroom, arms crossed, his face full of disdain.

"The rose hints outside the bedroom were enough, but the room itself is still in a red color scheme; is this supposed to be ambiguous or a bridal chamber? Switching to purple or pink would clearly be better..."

"You seem to know quite a lot."

Zhuqing's eyes glanced at him, filled with coldness.

Qin Jian didn't change his expression or skip a beat: "This is basic aesthetic sense; I have never been to a place like this, rest assured."

"Rest assured of what? I couldn't be bothered to care about you stinky men!"

Zhuqing lifted her chin, swayed her slender waist, and walked into the bathroom.

"Knock, knock, knock..."

At this moment, there was suddenly a knock at the door.

The sound was very urgent at first, but it slowed down immediately, then became intermittent, as if reflecting the knocker's mood—both anxious and conflicted.

"Click..."

Qin Jian strolled over and opened the door.

What met his eyes was Dai Mubai's handsome, almost evil face; he maintained his knocking posture, his expression very... hard to describe...

"Is something the matter? Are you dissatisfied with your room and want to change it?" Qin Jian naturally pretended not to know his relationship with Zhuqing, asking with a gentle face.

Dai Mubai opened his mouth, seemingly not knowing how to start.

"No, it's not that I want to change rooms..."

After a long while, he finally said with difficulty: "I just wanted to ask, what is your relationship with that girl?"

Qin Jian blinked and said, "Which girl are you talking about?"

"The one who is in the room with you right now." Dai Mubai pointed inside.

"Oh..."

Qin Jian glanced back casually and said, "Her? She's my partner, I suppose."

"Partner?"

Dai Mubai's eyes brightened: "You aren't in that kind of relationship?"

Qin Jian clearly understood what he meant and said, "Not for the time being; we came here to study together."

The words "for the time being" were used very cleverly; Dai Mubai felt relieved at first, but then his heart tightened again.

He thought for a moment, looked at Qin Jian, and said: "There are some things I think it's necessary to tell you, so you don't do anything inappropriate because you don't know the situation."

Qin Jian frowned upon hearing this: "What do you mean?"

"I come from the Star Luo Empire and am the Third Prince of the empire..."

Dai Mubai glanced quietly into the room before saying: "And this girl with you comes from the Zhu Family of the Star Luo Empire and has been betrothed to me since childhood, so, you understand."

He stopped there, his evil eyes constantly gauging Qin Jian's expression, but he only saw Qin Jian smile faintly: "So Zhuqing is still bound by such a marriage contract; no wonder she hates that family so much, and hates all this destiny."

"She hates... these?"

Dai Mubai was stunned.

Qin Jian nodded and said: "No one wants to live in fear from a young age, having everything arranged for them, don't you think?"

Dai Mubai fell silent upon hearing this.

"Alright, I understand what you wanted to say."

Qin Jian smiled again and said: "I won't do anything to make things difficult for her."

Dai Mubai breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Qin Jian waved his hand, about to close the room door.

But at this moment, Zhuqing's voice suddenly rang out from inside the room: "Qin Jian, the water in the bathtub is already drawn, let's... take a bath together."

The expressions of Qin Jian and Dai Mubai stiffened at the same time.

Qin Jian turned his head and saw Zhuqing's perfect figure leaning softly against the bathroom door, her pair of large, Calanze-style eyes blinking and blinking.

Black lines slowly crawled up his forehead...

Even if Young Master Dai has angered you, there is no need to use such a lethal move, right?

Qin Jian turned his head back and, as expected, saw Dai Mubai's complexion slowly turning black, and it soon became as black as the bottom of a pot.

"Zhu! Zhu! Qing!"

He clenched his fists, his voice sounding as if it were squeezed from his throat, hoarse and unpleasant: "Don't forget, we have... a marriage contract!"

"So what?"

Zhuqing crossed her arms over her chest, walked over with small cat-like steps, and said coldly and aloofly: "Our two families have intermarried for generations; even without me, there are still Zhu Zhuyue, Zhu Zhufeng, and others to marry you, so whether it is me or not is unimportant, as long as someone marries you, that is enough."

Dai Mubai's expression turned ugly as he listened: "So you are going to break away from the family, is that it? Denying everything between us?"

"Yes, from now on, you and I have no relationship whatsoever."

Zhuqing said coldly, then reached out her hand, about to close the door, but it was pushed open by Dai Mubai.

Bang!

"Do you believe I will destroy this hotel!" he said with a fierce look in his eyes.

"Dai Mubai, besides being fierce to me, what else can you do?"

In the eyes with which Zhuqing looked at Dai Mubai, there seemed to be many flickers of light, and those unhappy memories unfolded before her eyes one by one.

Afterwards, she closed her eyes: "Dai Mubai, from the moment you abandoned me and left alone, from the moment you disregarded my safety, we... have no relationship anymore..."

(End of this chapter)