Chapter 129: Want a Word (1/2)

Shiqi didn’t undress and fell straight onto the bed, not wanting to move.

Today he didn’t go back to the barracks but stayed overnight in the City Lord’s residence. He had just rejected Zhao Wei, and it was not good to reject him a second time.

Because Shiqi could see that City Lord Zhao was somewhat dissatisfied with him, although he hid it very profoundly. Stationed in Qingfeng City, he really couldn’t afford to offend the city lord to death completely!

After lying in bed for about a quarter of an hour, he heard someone walk up to his door, and then there was a light knock. When he opened the door, it was none other than Zhao Ke’er who was crying with pearly tears.

“Why?” Zhao Ke’er wiped her tears and sobbed in a low voice, “Commander Chen, I don’t ask for much, even to be your concubine, why don’t you say yes to father?”

“We are not suitable!” Shiqi bowed his head and said.

Zhao Ke’er suddenly grabbed Shiqi’s big hand and said, “That’s not a reason, you’re perfuming me!”

“Please, Commander Chen, you have to take me!” Zhao Ke’er looked at Shiqi’s eyes, eyes full of expectation, “I will be very good and obedient …… father asked someone to teach me things, I have learned very well, I will serve you well, to ensure that you will be satisfied, OK!” Her voice here was full of a different kind of temptation.

Shiqi tilted his head, not daring to look at Ke’er squarely, he held his breath, not daring to smell her scent. He was afraid that he would go soft.

“You do like me, don’t you?”

“I don’t know!”

Shiqi had always been very confident in his concentration, but today, he felt that he was on the verge of losing control. This feeling was strange, and he was very resistant and very eager at the same time.

“Commander Chen, if you don’t promise me, I will hate you for the rest of my life, do you believe me?” There was a threat in Ke’er’s tone.

Shiqi could clearly feel her anger and unwillingness.

“You know what?” Zhao Ke’er lowered her voice and said, “If you don’t want me, father will definitely give me to someone else!”

“Mm!” Shiqi answered, but it was hard to feel in her heart. After Zhao Ke’er reminded him of this, he instantly understood that everything at the banquet just now was probably an act by Zhao Wei, the old fox.

It was not that he was too stupid, but Zhao Wei acted too well, too real! He didn’t react at once. After all, Zhao Wei was only using his adopted daughter as a tool to befriend the powerful. He, on the other hand, was the very person Zhao Wei wanted to befriend.

“My last sister was given to an old man whose granddaughter was older than her!” Zhao Ke’er choked and whispered, “I don’t want to be like her!”

An irresistible force tore Shiqi’s heart. Zhao Ke’er leaned her head against Shiqi’s chest, then held him in a deadly embrace as if she wanted to squeeze him into her body.

“I admit that I played a little careful, but I really like you, you’re the best man I’ve ever seen!” Zhao Ke’er cried, “Please, Commander Chen, keep me, it’s just a matter of your words.”

Playing it safe, Shiqi skipped it. He could understand. Helping her was, indeed, just a matter of a word. As long as he mentioned a word to Zhao Wei, perhaps he would offer Ke’er up.

But, Shiqi could not say this sentence. In his life, he had only made four promises to one person! Four promises, the last three, he had now fulfilled it. He didn’t cry anymore, he made a name for himself, he didn’t die, he lived a good life. But there was still one promise that was never fulfilled.

He wasn’t strong enough! This promise, at times, weighed him down a bit, and he now had no way to make a promise to another woman.