There’re Always Paranoid Thoughts to Monopolize Me - Chapter 56.1

Qin Hanyi and Yin Chuanfang ultimately never appeared before Qin Ke again.

Qin Ke didn’t know how Huo Jun’s legal team had resolved this matter. Huo Jun also didn’t want her to worry, so he only told her the final result—the inheritance left by Qin Ke’s parents was fully returned, along with a notarized IOU signed by Qin Hanyi.

The IOU listed the detailed amounts of Qin Ke’s parents’ inheritance that the Qin family had used and embezzled over the years, with Qin Hanyi’s signature and fingerprint at the end.

“I don’t want to bother with them anymore,” Qin Ke said.

Upon seeing the IOU, Qin Ke folded the paper and casually tucked it into a book beside her.

She looked up at Huo Jun, who was half-sitting on the edge of the table. “It’s not that I sympathize with them or pity them. I just don’t want to have anything to do with them anymore. As long as they don’t appear in front of me again, I don’t even want to see them one more time.”

“You’re letting them off like this. Won’t you feel regret?” Huo Jun asked.

Qin Ke smiled gently.

“Wasting the most precious time on people like them is what would make me feel regret, isn’t it?” she said.

Huo Jun pondered for a moment, then nodded casually.

“If that’s what you want to do, then I’ll go along with it,” he said.

Qin Ke: “Actually… this isn’t really letting them off. It’s a more prolonged torment.”

“Hm?”

Huo Jun, who had already stood up, paused and turned to look at the girl behind the desk.

Qin Ke looked up, waving the book with the IOU tucked inside, and smiled faintly.

“Some threats are more devastating and frightening when held in hand rather than revealed,” she said.

Huo Jun was stunned for a moment, then narrowed his eyes slightly.

“You’re right,” he said.

As long as this IOU was in Qin Ke’s hands, it was enough to make Qin Hanyi and Yin Chuanfang live in fear and constantly run from debt for the rest of their lives.

This was the price they should pay…

Qin Ke lowered her eyes.

Both in her previous life and in this one.

Just as Qin Ke came back to her senses, she suddenly saw an enlarged handsome face in front of her.

She was startled and instinctively shrank back into her chair. Then she realized what was happening and asked helplessly, “Huo Jun, why are you getting so close?”

Huo Jun’s expression remained calm.

“I was just wondering when exactly, without me noticing, you developed so much cunning,” he said.

“…”

Qin Ke paused guiltily, averting her gaze.

Huo Jun didn’t pursue the matter. He straightened up and asked, “Have your competition results come out yet?”

“Yes,” Qin Ke replied, feeling relieved and composing herself.

Huo Jun: “Did you get the guaranteed admission spot?”

Qin Ke: “It shouldn’t be a problem.”

Huo Jun: “Then which school do you want to go to?”

“…” Qin Ke paused for a moment, then looked up at Huo Jun helplessly. “Stop probing me,” she said.

Huo Jun remained silent.

Qin Ke continued to look at him. “Did you prepare a second choice for me besides A University ?”

This time, Huo Jun was silent for two seconds before answering honestly:

“No.”

Qin Ke: “……”

Qin Ke looked at him exasperatedly. “Then why did you even ask me?”

Huo Jun: “Democracy.” He pointed at Qin Ke, then pointed back at himself. “Centralization.”

“……”

Qin Ke paused for two seconds, then burst out laughing despite her annoyance.

“You’re really democratic, aren’t you, Young Master Zhonglou?”

Although he knew the girl was deliberately teasing him, Huo Jun still couldn’t help but narrow his eyes slightly.

He was already sitting on the edge of the table. Now he leaned forward, easily bending down in front of the girl. He casually placed his hands on either side of the chair, trapping the girl between the chair and himself.

Qin Ke’s eyes immediately sharpened, instinctively sensing danger. Her shoulders tensed, but she maintained a calm expression on the surface, raising her eyelids slightly.

“Don’t get so close.”

“Is this close?”

The young man in front of her chuckled lazily, pressing even closer.

Qin Ke: “……”

Qin Ke endured for two seconds, then relented, “I was wrong. I won’t call you that anymore.”

“No, keep calling me that,” Huo Jun’s lips twitched slightly. “Call me that one more time, and I’ll let you go.”

“…?”

Qin Ke looked at him tentatively. “Really?”

“Mm. Really.”

“……” Faced with the young man’s serious gaze at such close proximity, Qin Ke felt her face burning hot enough to fry an egg, and her mind short-circuited a bit. She turned her face away, inwardly annoyed at herself for making that quick-witted joke earlier, which had now put her in such a difficult position.

Yet she had no other choice.

Qin Ke sighed inwardly. Outwardly, she could only avoid his gaze and repeat the earlier joking address in a voice as thin as a mosquito’s.

“Young Master Zhong…”

Unexpectedly, before she could finish, the young man in front of her suddenly pressed her deep into the chair, forcefully kissing her on the mouth.

— Or rather, it was more like biting.

Qin Ke was annoyed that he hadn’t kept his promise. She angrily tried to push him away, but Huo Jun, who seemed to have suddenly gone mad for some unknown reason, restrained both her wrists with one hand and pressed them against the armrest of the chair.

Then Huo Jun leaned in even closer, ravaging the girl’s soft lips more forcefully.

After what seemed like an eternity, Huo Jun slowly pulled back a little. His gaze still lingered on the girl’s lips, which he had bitten red. His voice was extremely hoarse.

“If not A University , where else do you want to go?”

“……”

So after all this fuss, the crux of the matter was still here.

Qin Ke was too angry to speak. However, seeing the dangerous, dark look in the young man’s eyes, which clearly threatened “If you dare not to answer, I’ll do it again,” Qin Ke could only suppress her temper and open her mouth to “coax” him.

“I’m not going to any other school — I’ve already submitted my preference form, and I filled in A University from the start.”

“… Really?”

The emotion in the young man’s eyes wavered for a moment, seeming a bit surprised.

“Mm.” Qin Ke nodded. “If all goes well, starting next semester, we’ll be schoolmates a year early.”

“……”

Seeing the young man still silent and lost in thought, Qin Ke smiled gently. “So, Senior Huo Jun, starting next semester, please take care of me?”

Huo Jun finally came back to his senses at the girl’s teasing.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, reached out to hook the girl’s chin, and kissed her lightly on the corner of her lips before looking up and asking.

“Alright. But…”

“How do you want to be ‘taken care of’?”

“………..!”

The girl’s cheeks suddenly flushed red.

A few seconds later, she tried to kick the young man in front of her out of embarrassed anger.

Just at that moment, there was a knock on the study door from a servant outside.

Huo Jun frowned, not turning his head.

“Who is it?”

The servant outside knew all too well about this young master’s unpredictable moods and spoke cautiously.

“Young Master Zhonglou, Butler Huo from the old mansion has arrived. He says he has business with Miss Qin.”

As soon as these words were spoken, before Huo Jun could respond, Qin Ke was already pleasantly surprised.

“Teacher Huo is here?”

“……”

Huo Jun gritted his teeth in frustration.

“You’re not allowed to go.”

“?” Qin Ke said, “Didn’t you hear them say he’s here to see me?”

Huo Jun: “That’s exactly why you’re not allowed to go.”

“… Why?”

“No reason.”

“……”

Qin Ke ignored him. Taking advantage of Huo Jun’s momentary lapse, she pushed him sideways into the chair, turned to the side, and easily slipped out.

Outside the study.

The servant only saw the door in front of them suddenly pushed open without warning, followed by Miss Qin Ke, who lived in the villa, walking out with a very teasing smile.

“Where is Teacher Huo?”

“Down… downstairs in the side hall.”

The servant was dazzled for a moment by the girl’s beautiful smile, stuttering before finishing the sentence.

“Okay, thank you.”

Qin Ke smiled gently, nodded to the servant, and then turned to walk towards the stairwell.

The servant was wondering why it wasn’t their Young Master Zhonglou who had answered earlier, and why he wasn’t visible now, when suddenly they heard an exasperated deep voice explode from the still-open study—

“Qin Ke!”

“…!”

The servant trembled in fright, instinctively looking up, only to hear the girl with her back to them laugh even more cheerfully before heading downstairs without looking back.