Married to Ke Qing

Chapter 12

I woke up again closer to the day, from the confusion that flared up due to the connection that had formed between us with Ke Qing. And I must say, unlike the previous times, where the system made me suffer, receiving knowledge, now I was in an amazing state and, to be honest, I was a little amused by how Ke Qing, despite her emotions, was in no hurry to leave, but still lay with me in an embrace.

"You're not sleeping, are you?" the girl asked half-affirmatively.

"Not anymore," I answered, naturally not trying to get up.

- And I even have good news. - I said smiling and wanted to hug her with my free hand, but still stopped. Still, even though I feel her emotions, the last thing I want is for her to perceive my actions as harassment and ruin how much closer we have become. Here we need to act gradually.

What's funny, though, is that while I was thinking all this, her embarrassment seemed to flare up even more intensely.

- What news? - the girl whispered quietly, her embarrassment beginning to be diluted by curiosity, as well as slight discomfort from this very embarrassment.

- Well, core, I think you yourself feel it perfectly well and although this is a bit unexpected, it seems that we are now connected and in extreme cases we can always share energy with each other. Also, which I think will be even more important, I have acquired knowledge on how to add electro to the dendro core, so I will be counting on you.

"So you also feel…?" Ke Qing asked what excited her the most.

- Yes, I feel it, - I confirmed. - Now we are more connected than an ordinary marriage could ever be.

- You... haaah. - Ke Qing wanted to say something at first, tensed up for a moment and rose up from me, but in her emotions everything somehow too abruptly switched to acceptance and easy happiness, after which she, having already calmed down and sighed heavily, lay down on me again. - Maybe it's for the best.

- You were talking about electro. How did you even get this knowledge? - the girl asked.

- Well, you could say that I was just lucky that an incomprehensible entity decided to share its knowledge. - I said, not trying to lie. After all, feeling each other's emotions, it would be easy to spot a lie.

"It's true that I received not only knowledge about elec…" I was a little embarrassed.

- Hm? - It seemed that my reaction interested the girl so much that she even raised herself up to look at my face.

"God, she's so beautiful. I just want to lean closer to kiss her." While I was thinking about this, the girl's eyes seemed to light up with a small fire inside, which, however, could only be my imagination, and she pulled herself closer to my face. We were literally a couple of millimeters away from locking lips, when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Ke Qing immediately recoiled from me like a frightened rabbit, and I could only walk to the door in disappointment to see who the "bad person" was who had prevented our first kiss from happening.

"Young master, dinner is served." Yuan Li, who had come into the room in the morning, bowed. Naturally, I had no intention of taking it out on the girl, however, the disappointment with which I looked at her seemed to have alarmed the girl quite a bit, and she hurried to tell me another extremely important piece of information.

- The Will of Heaven Ning Guang is also waiting for you in the living room.

- What? How long has she been waiting for us? - I asked quickly.

- It's already one o'clock, sir.

"Why didn't anyone wake us up then?" I asked, involuntarily raising my voice.

- You asked not to wake you up until noon, and when we told this to the Will of Heaven, for some reason she became very interested in waiting for you and insisted that your rest should not be interrupted. - the maid explained nervously.

- I understand. Sorry for raising my voice. I hope you prepared dishes for our guest too?

- Yes sir.

- Okay, we'll be there soon.

Returning to the room, I saw a completely prepared Ke Qing. And I wonder where the rule about girls taking a long time to get ready went.

- Did something happen? - the girl asked me.

- Ning Guang has come to see us.

"Ning Guang? I see." Ke Qing grimaced slightly. Although she didn't really have anything against the Will of Heaven, she still didn't like this person who loved money too much.

- Give me a couple of minutes and I'll be ready to go, - I said and grabbed some clothes from the closet and went to the bathroom to at least wash and comb my hair before changing into clean clothes.

- Okay, I'll wait.

As I said, it all took me quite a bit of time. And soon we were already in the hallway.

"It seems like what people said was true, that once Jade Balance gets married, she will begin to better understand the needs of ordinary mortals," Ning Guang said with a sly smile when she saw us.

This woman, like many others in Taiwat, was truly gorgeous, however, having a wife like Ke Qing, do you really think that I would look at other women... Okay, usually you would be right, but you underestimate how obsessed people can be with someone specific, and fortunately, in Genshin there were only 2 characters that really made me love myself and they were, naturally, Ke Qing and Furina, who, fortunately, is now far away from me, and therefore Ke Qing, who senses my emotions, will have no doubts about my feelings for her.

"I just think that we, who have such a short life, unlike the gods, need to use every minute of this life to our advantage," Ke Qing answered calmly.

- Ahem-Ahem. - I cleared my throat slightly, intervening. - We are very pleased that you, Miss Ning Guang, decided to visit us, and I have no doubt that you were not brought here by idle curiosity, and therefore I propose that we discuss business over dinner.

"That's a great idea," the woman smiled, covering her mouth with a fan.

When we sat down at the table, she seemed in no hurry to get down to business right away.

- You already know me as the Will of Heaven Qixing. And unfortunately, I know almost nothing about you. - the girl was clearly lying, because I am more than sure that she knows almost all the ins and outs of this body.

- My name is Yun Che, and I am Ke Qing's husband.

- How laconic. Well, I see you're not in the mood for small talk, so I'll get down to business. - Ning Guang sighed.

- I was quite outraged by what happened at your wedding and I decided to use my connections to find the culprit, and, frankly speaking, it turned out to be not difficult, although it will also be quite difficult to bring to justice due to the lack of direct evidence.

"Who was it?" Ke Qing asked.

- And you haven't figured it out yet? Who has been trying to buy the right to marry you from your family for quite a long time?

- Tang Hao? Has he gone completely mad?

- With how he actively squanders his family's savings and apparently got involved with Fatui? I think he's more of a fool for throwing away his ancestors' connections and wealth for his own desires.

- If his family really has such connections, won't they harm Fatui through him? - I latched onto the information about Fatui, although I don't know what kind of family the Tang is, but the fact that the system warned that my enemy is one of the most influential people in Li Yue is already talking about the danger of such a figure's connection with Fatui.

"He can't," Ke Qing shook her head. "The moment he started actively doing business with these 'ambassadors', he lost trust. And now, as long as it's related to real estate, no one else in Li Yue will dare to do business with him."

"You know, I think we can agree that none of my people will have anything to do with him either," Ning Guang smiled slyly.

"What do you want?" Ke Qing asked directly.

- I heard a rumor about a planned expansion of the port and my intuition tells me that it will be very profitable...