Xu Zhi was already stunned. Clearly, she had controlled the force of her blows, so how could this noble son from a prestigious family have such delicate skin? How could he be hurt by such a light touch?

“Don’t cry, if it hurts, just say so. I won’t tease you like this next time, stop crying.” The man cried softly, almost not daring to look at her, looking very pitiful.

“Don’t cry anymore, I know I was wrong.”

Zhang Qing was still crying, and even cried more intensely after she finished speaking. Gasping for breath, he tightly grasped the clothes at Xu Zhi’s shoulder, crying and shaking his head, his voice choked.

Xu Zhi was helpless, so she could only hug him and sit down, then gently pat his back with her hand, comforting him, hoping he could calm down and stop crying.

Zhang Qing had no strength left. He didn’t know why he was crying, perhaps he could feel the love from this person.

This was something he had longed for too much, dreaming of being genuinely loved by a woman.

But as the illegitimate son of a noble family, he was destined to be a sacrificial lamb for power. There was no such thing as love. Even his fiancée, chosen for him in an engagement, only valued his mother’s power and wanted to please his mother by marrying him. She had never shown him any love. Later, when the family fell, the cancellation of the engagement was sent to him while he was in prison.

He thought his life would be like this.

Perhaps he would die in a corner of the world, unable to bear any love, passing through the hands of various women. But he didn’t expect that one day he would be bought by a woman, and the love he had never received would be hidden in the words of this woman.

Zhang Qing quietly hugged Xu Zhi, tired from crying, and fell asleep in her arms.

He hadn’t had a good night’s sleep in all the places he had been to.

When Xu Zhi found that he had stopped crying, he was already asleep, sitting on her lap, leaning against her shoulder, and falling asleep deeply.

Xu Zhi smiled helplessly, carefully put her hand into the bend of his legs, and lifted him up to rest on the bed.

As she went out, Zhang Xi was sweeping the floor. When she saw Xu Zhi coming out, she stopped, standing there as if lost in thought. When Xu Zhi walked up to her, she blurted out, “Mistress.”

Xu Zhi had never been called that way before, and almost slipped under her feet. She was somewhat surprised and said, “Are you calling me ‘Mistress‘?”

“Mistress.” Zhang Xi repeated again, her eyebrows and eyes drooping, looking very obedient. However, where no one could see, her fingers were tightly clenched into fists, and her knuckles were white.

“Cough, cough.” Xu Zhi felt a little embarrassed. “You, you don’t need to call me like that. Your brother and I are husband and wife. You just need to call me Xu Zhi.”

This time it was Zhang Xi’s turn to be surprised.

“You want to marry Qing’er as your husband?!”

The men bought from there were usually acknowledged as small attendants, but she, she actually wanted to marry Qing’er?!

“Yes, that’s right. Since I bought him, naturally I have to marry him. We will be a family from now on, so you don’t need to be too restrained.”

After Xu Zhi said these words as the head of the household, Zhang Xi fell silent.

In theory, she should be happy about this, as her brother had found a good home. But on the other hand, she was worried that Xu Zhi hadn’t married anyone until now. Did she have some unbearable quirks?

“What about Qing’er? Why hasn’t he come out?”

“Oh, he’s tired. He just fell asleep in the room.”

Tired? Zhang Xi’s pupils widened slightly, and she became more convinced that if this person didn’t have some strange quirks, how could he have fallen to the point of buying a husband outside? As for Qing’er in the room, she didn’t know what had happened to him.

If, if she really wasn’t a good person, she would fight to take Qing’er away no matter what.