Chapter 1120: Why Do You Not Like Me?

"Believe it or not, it's up to you."

Qi Heng curled into the bedding, covered his head with the quilt, and his voice came out muffled from under the covers: "I'm going to sleep, don't disturb me."

"I, Liu Min, am not unable to get married. The number of people who come to my house to propose every day is more than those who go to worship. Qi Heng, what right do you have to not like me?" She felt very aggrieved and could not figure it out.

"Not liking you is just not liking you; there is no 'what right'."

"You will definitely like me. I know who you like; that's only because you've known each other for a long time and you're used to it. Give me some time, and you will also see my merits and fall in love with me." Liu Min was full of certainty, incredibly confident.

Qi Heng did not respond further.

After spending these few days together, he discovered that Liu Min was blindly confident in herself.

She did not understand love at all. Liking is mutual affection, not becoming sworn siblings or friends—it's not that if you are good to me, I must be good to you!

Love is mutual attraction, aligned auras, and similar worldviews.

It was not as if Qi Heng hadn't said these things to her, but she simply couldn't understand them, or didn't want to.

This girl was very stubborn; unless she figured it out herself, nothing anyone else said could change her in the slightest!

She was fuming and unwilling to give up: "Qi Heng, I must marry you. I believe that you will definitely like me in the future."

He didn't hear a word of her vow-like speech at all; his heart and eyes were currently filled only with how to escape, escape the mansion, and find Shi Ran!

He held the envelope to his chest and suddenly felt something strange. Was there something else inside?

Squeezing it out little by little from the end, it was a tiny, individually wrapped pill.

So, he stuffed it into his mouth without hesitation.

"It hurts so much, it hurts so much!"

Qi Heng was covered in sweat, rolling around on the bed.

After examining him, the doctor said to Furen: "Furen, I suggest sending him to the hospital. There are many reasons for the eldest young master's stomach pain, and I fear it will be delayed if we wait too long."

"Quickly, send him to the hospital!"

Lady Qi had already lost her composure, bustling about in a panic. The servants brought over a simple stretcher and carried Qi Heng into the car.

Liu Min appeared relatively calm. She didn't follow them out immediately, but instead checked around the room...

The car was halfway there.

Qi Heng suddenly stopped crying out in pain; he demanded to go to the restroom to relieve himself.

Such a reasonable request, Lady Qi would not refuse.

She very much hoped it was a false alarm, that her son only had a stomachache because he needed the restroom.

Lady Qi helped her son to the entrance of the restroom. Qi Heng's complexion had already returned to normal; he told his mother not to worry and then went inside.

But she was still worried, because ten minutes later, he still hadn't come out.

"A Heng, A Heng, are you done yet?"

There was no sound from inside. Lady Qi went in to look for him, but the restroom window was open, and the curtains were fluttering in the wind...

Qi Heng successfully ran out.

This place was not far from where Shi Ran lived.

He was very excited; he was about to see his beloved.

Qi Heng ran fast and arrived smoothly at the hotel entrance.

This was Wang Yong's territory; no matter how much power others had, they couldn't reach here.

The people at the entrance saw Qi Heng and immediately took him to Shi Ran's room.

The door opened, and the person inside hugged Qi Heng tightly: "A Heng, I missed you to death. Let me see if you're hurt or not?"

He checked him carefully from head to toe.

Tears were about to fall, and his voice trembled with heartache: "This is too much, how could he treat you like this? These marks must be from a whip; he's too heartless. Whip marks are easy to scar. Come over and sit down, I'll help you apply medicine..."

Qi Heng could bear it no longer and coldly pushed him away: "Yun Qitian, why are you in Ranran's room? Where is Ranran?"

Yun Qitian: "Do you have any conscience? I've been worried for so long, traveled thousands of miles to L Country to save you, and all you talk about is Ranran. Why don't you ask about me?"

"Ask about you?"

Qi Heng glanced at him sideways, his eyes full of disdain.

It hadn't been long since they last met, yet he had gained a whole circle of weight. One didn't need to think to know his recent diet had been good.

Eating, drinking, and sleeping mindlessly—it would be strange if he didn't put on weight!

"Where is Ranran?"

"I'm here."

Shi Ran was behind him, looking at him with a smile.

"Ranran, I missed you to death."

Qi Heng had just been disdaining Yun Qitian, disdaining him to the extreme, but in the blink of an eye, he was using Yun Qitian's lines, even mimicking his actions and expressions.

He pulled Shi Ran tightly into his arms, holding her especially close, as if letting go even slightly would mean losing such beauty forever.

Shi Ran was a little embarrassed and wanted to push him away: "Don't be like this, someone is watching."

"I won't!"

"I won't let go. Whoever wants to watch can watch; anyway, I want to hold you, just hold you like this, and never let go."

"Let go!"

A sharp shout came from not far away; Liu Min had arrived.

"You are Shi Ran?"

Liu Min raised her palm high and slapped down fiercely: "Slap!" A crisp sound rang out—she had hit the wrong person.

Just as the palm was about to strike Shi Ran's face, Qi Heng accurately pushed her aside and stepped in to take the blow himself!

His skin was slightly dark, and five clear finger marks were already swelling on his wheat-colored cheek.

"Oh my, I'm sorry, I hit the wrong person. Does it hurt?" Liu Min hurriedly checked his injury, wanting to pull him to go back with her to apply medicine.

"I'm not going."

Qi Heng shook off her hand and said sternly, "Liu Min, I have already told you many times, and now I am telling you for the last time: I do not like you. I didn't like you before, I don't like you now, and I will never like you in the future."

"From childhood until now, the only person I have liked is Shi Ran, and she is the only one I want to marry. If I cannot marry Shi Ran, I would rather remain a bachelor for the rest of my life than marry anyone else."

"I think you should be clear in your heart that my parents agreeing to let me marry you isn't because they like you, but because of the needs of a political marriage. Isn't it pathetic for a fine girl like you to become a sacrifice for a political marriage?"

Qi Heng's words were very thorough, but also very hurtful, leaving no room for face.

Under normal circumstances, any other girl would surely be overwhelmed with shame and run away covering her face!

But Liu Min was not any other girl; she retorted domineeringly, "I know all that, but what does it matter? It's enough that I like you; it doesn't matter if you don't like me."

"Come back with me. If you don't come with me now, are you waiting for the military to arrest you?"

Liu Min grabbed Qi Heng's hand tightly and tried to drag him out.

"Slap!"

There was no warning at all.

Shi Ran suddenly gave Liu Min a fierce slap across the face.

"You dare hit me?"

Her attention was diverted, and she let go of Qi Heng's hand, preparing to pounce on Shi Ran.

Just kidding; from childhood to now, she had only ever bullied others and slapped them—when had it ever been someone else's turn to hit her?

And since it was a love rival who hit her, she had to pay it back with interest.

Qi Heng prepared to intervene, but Yun Qitian was one step faster than him.

He didn't do as Qi Heng had, blocking in front of Shi Ran to take the blow with his own cheek; instead, his long, fair fingers directly grabbed Liu Min's wrist: "Beauty, calm down."

Liu Min's eyes widened in disbelief: "What did you call me?"