A dead silence prevailed in the air.
Both Lu Zitian and Zhang Yuqi were trying to guess each other's thoughts.
The man in front of her was the King of the business circle. He could practically get any girl he wanted. Didn't most business men marry someone who could benefit their business? But then, he probably didn't need to do that, as no other family could bring him benefit more than he already had. It would be them benefitting instead.
But, she was still curious. Why her? Was it because of the kiss and the fact that they did 'it'?
Considering Lu Zitian, a businessman and a golden bachelor, it shouldn't have been his first time, right? If it was really because of that, then it was quite unbelievable.
"Mr. Lu, why me? I'm sure, their are much better women out there than me."
Hearing that question, Lu Zitian thought for awhile, then said, "You are suitable and it's convenient."
'Suitable and convenient?'
What was that supposed to mean? Yuqi realized that the man in front of her was very difficult to read, especially because he spoke so sparsely.
Actually the reason why Lu Zitian had placed this request was simply because, he felt that Zhang Yuqi was different. She was definitely beautiful, but what attracted him was her personality and behaviour. Every time he thought of her or met her, he wound feel an unknown euphoric feeling from the depths of his heart, as if she was a priceless treasure to him.
She made him want to spend more time with her, and she was the only one who had ever made him react this way.
"What is that supposed to mean?", Yuqi asked.
"The literal meaning."
"...."
Yuqi felt as if she would lose half her life just in conversing with this icy devil.
But, before she accepted this marriage, she needed to know what she was getting into. She needed to be prepared for what was to come. Zhang Yuqi decided to make it clear. A businessman like Lu Zitian would not care about love. He simply needed a partner. She too was in the same situation and she didn't want to make the same mistake of falling in love again. She couldn't bear another betrayal.
"About this marriage...umm...we..."
Lu Zitian simply placed the marriage contract he drew up in front of her.
"Read this and make a decision."
Zhang Yuqi picked up the papers. It was a simple marriage contract of two pages. There were only three conditions.
Party A: Lu Zitian
Party B: Zhang Yuqi
1. This contract is valid until and unless both parties unanimously agree to dissolve it.
2. Both parties are required to maintain basic etiquettes of a marriage, i.e., maintaining a trusting and respectful relationship with each other and keeping rightful distance from the opposite gender.
3. This marriage is supposed to be a real and conjugal relationship with both parties' equal contribution.
Zhang Yuqi finished reading the papers and set it down. However she was not sure about what the third condition meant.
"Mr. Lu, the third condition, what does that mean?"
Lu Zitian sighed. He knew that she would ask that question. He knew that she had just come out of a heartbreak, but, he wanted her to his completely. And after much thinking, he had come up with this condition. This way, he could slowly open up a path into her heart.
"Miss Zhang, I don't believe in superficial relationships. I hope that we can become a real couple. I am not asking you to do that immediately, but, I hope you can consider me as your real life-partner. I want this to be a real relationship. This contract is only my way of giving you a promise that you can quit this relationship at any time, if you feel uncomfortable. Also the fact that during this relationship, I will be loyal to you and hope you to do the same."
Listening to all these words from Lu Zitian, Yuqi felt as if she was floating on the clouds. THE Lu Zitian had come to her house with the proposal of starting a relationship, that too, not a fake but a real one.
She really didn't know what to do anymore. Lu Zitian could definitely have forced her to be with him if he wanted. Yet, he chose such a polite way of asking, and along that bewitching face and body of his, as if it was calling her, to give herself up to him.
Shaking her head free from such thoughts, she took a deep breath and signed her name onto the papers, resolutely. She was taking a dangerous chance, one that could give her incomparable bliss or send her to the deepest hell.