Chapter 284, It’s Not Like I’m Chasing a Wife (Second Update)

"Don’t go, if you do, Ajiu will definitely come after me for a reckoning."

Jiang Yisheng raised an eyebrow, looking at him with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, "Why don’t you do the cross-dressing yourself if it’s such a small favor?"

"I, I just don’t have the temperament like you." Ji Mingqian smiled ingratiatingly, clinging onto his arm without letting go.

"Besides, Anuo knows me too well, she would see through my disguise as a woman right away."

Jiang Yisheng looked away, rejecting the idea without a second thought, "No way."

He couldn’t help with this kind of small favor.

Heaven knows, when he was very young, he had been dressed up as a little girl by his mother, and the thought of cross-dressing was nothing short of a nightmare.

"Jiang Yisheng, please, just do me this favor, I’ll owe you one, okay?" His deep voice trailed off, carrying a hint of pleading.

Jiang Yisheng looked down at the hand that was holding onto his arm, his lips pursed slightly, "No."

"Jiang Yisheng, Jiang Yisheng, just give me a hand," Ji Mingqian said, rocking his arm, starting to entice him with sugar-coated bullets.

"How about this, I’ll teach you how to ride a motorcycle, and how to play video games?"

Jiang Yisheng was unmoved, taking out his phone to search for flight tickets back to the capital.

Seeing this, Ji Mingqian snatched his phone away, "Let’s discuss this slowly, don’t be so quick to refuse."

"You try cross-dressing," Jiang Yisheng said, turning his gaze to him, his voice cool.

Ji Mingqian was at a loss for words.

Jiang Yisheng hooked his lips into a smile, pried off his hand, and took back his phone, heading upstairs at an unhurried pace.

Watching his departing figure, Ji Mingqian scratched his head, a trace of conflict crossing his eyes.

Back in his room, Jiang Yisheng called Ye Jiuliang.

A tone of plaintiveness filled the room, "Jiuliang, you can’t do this to me, right?"

On the other end of the line, Ye Jiuliang chuckled, tapping his fingertip on the desk, "Asheng, don’t be mad, okay? Just do me this favor. It’s a good deed to help a couple in love."

Jiang Yisheng pinched the bridge of his nose, "But cross-dressing..."

"It’s awkward to cross-dress alone, how about I find someone to do it with you?" Ye Jiuliang’s shrewd eyes sparkled with mischief, "How about letting Aqian join you?"

Ji Mingqian?

Jiang Yisheng’s green eyes narrowed slightly, the corners of his lips curling up into an intriguing smile.

"If he agrees, then I agree." Considering Ji Mingqian’s expression of resistance just now, it would be a miracle if he agreed.

Ye Jiuliang was holding back a laugh, waiting for this response, "Okay."

The call ended, and Jiang Yisheng looked up at the window; the sky was clear and blue, without a trace of floating fluff.

Downstairs, Ji Mingqian sprang up from the sofa as soon as he received Ye Jiuliang’s call.

"No way, Ye Jiuliang, you can’t do this to me. I won’t do it; I won’t cross-dress."

"Aren’t you an actor? Just treat it as a role-play. What’s the big deal?" Ye Jiuliang had anticipated his reaction; thankfully, he held the phone a bit away from his ear, otherwise, the outburst might have burst his eardrums.

"Anyway, as long as you cheer up Asheng and make him willing to help."

"I won’t—I swear, Ajiu, you make it sound easy, but you’re not the one standing in my shoes!" Ji Mingqian lay back on the sofa, yelling into the phone.

"It’s not me who’s courting a wife."

That guy Jiang Yisheng was impervious to persuasion; how was he supposed to cheer him up?

"Aqian, think about it, if Chu Chen and Anuo keep going like this, nobody will handle K organization’s affairs but us two. My Li Mochan is waiting for me to come home; I can’t stay in K organization forever. If you’re willing to stay there all the time, then I won’t force you," Ye Jiuliang said leisurely.

"But if that’s the case, you’re not allowed to touch anything in my pharmacy from now on, especially those bottles of liquor. You dare to touch one, and I’ll have your hide."

"Hey, Ye Jiuliang, who threatens people like that?" Ji Mingqian sat up, his handsome face wrinkled in frustration.

Ye Jiuliang tugged at his lips, "It’s one or the other. If you don’t agree, then prepare to stay at the headquarters; I’m leaving all the paperwork to you."

With that, she ended the call crisply.

"Beep beep beep..."

Ji Mingqian suddenly stood up, "Damn it, Chu Chen, Gu Xinuo, you two dead bastards, I really owe you."

He put down his phone and walked heavily upstairs.

The door to Jiang Yisheng’s room was ajar and it opened with a gentle push.

"Jiang Yisheng, I..."

The magnetic voice came to an abrupt halt.

Four eyes met.

An eerie silence lingered.

Jiang Yisheng was the first to react; he reached into the wardrobe, took a thin woolen shirt, and calmly put it on.

He tugged at the hem of his shirt, covering the porcelain white skin around his waist.

"What is it?"

The temperature of his voice brought Ji Mingqian’s thoughts back, a rare hint of embarrassment flashing in his eyes.

"Well, your door was open." He honestly didn’t know he was changing his clothes.

Jiang Yisheng responded indifferently, "Anything else?" He didn’t expect him to barge in suddenly either.

"You’re really going back?" Ji Mingqian frowned slightly as he saw him get dressed.

"Isn’t my agreement to your condition enough? Don’t be in such a hurry to leave."

Jiang Yisheng’s eyes flickered slightly, "What did you say?"

He actually agreed?

Wasn’t he just putting on an air of refusing to agree no matter what? What kind of love potion had Jiuliang fed him?

The script he had imagined wasn’t like this at all. He was hoping for him to refuse so he could avoid the whole dressing up as a woman thing.

"You dress as a woman, I’ll do it too, that should be fair, right?" Ji Mingqian gave in, wearing a resigned expression.

Jiang Yisheng didn’t even care about putting on shoes as he walked over to him barefoot, looking at him in disbelief, "You said you agreed?"

Ji Mingqian nodded with a mournful face, "Agreed, so can you cooperate now?"

Chu Chen, I’ve sacrificed too much for you.

Jiang Yisheng’s expression froze, his heart wanting to cry but no tears would come.

Can the words spoken still be taken back?

Cousin, why aren’t you coming to save me? I’ve been sold out by my cousin-in-law.

Downstairs, the doorbell rang.

Ji Mingqian went downstairs to open the door, and when Jiang Yisheng came down, the living room was filled with clothes from various high-end women’s brands, along with cosmetics, and even wigs had been prepared.

"Did you order these?" Jiang Yisheng looked at Ji Mingqian, his mouth twitching involuntarily.

He said through gritted teeth, "Ye Jiuliang."

With the matter settled, Jiang Yisheng had no choice but to accept it.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught the gloomy face of Ji Mingqian across from him. He reached out to take a dress and handed it to him, "You go change first."

The purple dress made his eyes swirl, and Ji Mingqian stepped back, "Why should I?"

"You agreed," Jiang Yisheng spoke calmly, casually picking out a wig.

Ji Mingqian looked at the golden big wavy wig handed to him and wished he could hang himself with a noodle.

"No room for further discussion?" He asked in a last-ditch struggle.

Jiang Yisheng shook his head, brutally denying, "No."

Ji Mingqian took the dress and wig from his hand and headed straight for the guest room on the side.

As the door closed behind him, Jiang Yisheng couldn’t help but laugh, ripples of amusement shining in his eyes.