Chapter 56: Punishment
Chapter 56: Chapter 56: Punishment
Zhang Yan pulled his junior up and walked to the window. Outside was an empty lot, with another residential building standing not too far away.
Although it didn’t look like anyone could see inside from that distance, Zhang Yan still drew the curtains for her just in case.
"Hold onto the windowsill with both hands and stick your butt out."
Hearing these instructions and seeing his suspicious action of drawing the curtains, his junior’s face turned a faint shade of red. She offered a weak protest. "Senior, this isn’t a good idea, is it? My dad and my uncle are right outside. They could walk in at any time. Besides, I’m still a little sore down there..."
He thought, "Your dad is right outside, wouldn’t that make it even more..." He mentally slapped himself in disgust. "Ptui! What am I thinking?"
"What kind of nonsense is going through your head?" he scolded. "When you do something wrong, you get spanked. Isn’t that common sense? Didn’t your dad ever spank you when you were a kid?"
"No." His junior blinked her big eyes twice and answered honestly.
Zhang Yan was rendered speechless. He didn’t want to ask whether she had simply never done anything wrong, or if her father just couldn’t bear to lay a hand on her. Thinking of the rolling pin and the Septwolves leather belt his own parents used to use on him, he couldn’t help but feel a surge of unfair resentment.
"Hurry up and get into position! This is your first punishment!"
"Oh."
(Posture illustration)
SMACK!
His junior’s backside wasn’t huge. It wasn’t particularly meaty or overly soft, but it was incredibly bouncy to the touch.
"From now on, will you ever dare to pull a disappearing act on me without saying a single word again?"
"I left you a message on WeChat..." she argued weakly.
SMACK!
"You dare talk back?"
"N-No, I wouldn’t dare! I won’t ever do it again!"
SMACK!
"From now on, you are not allowed to hide anything from me, no matter how big or small! Do you hear me?"
"I hear you! I’ll tell you absolutely everything from now on!"
SMACK!
"From now on, whenever I buy you something, you are not allowed to refuse it. You will accept it and use it as a matter of course. Remember that!"
"I’ll remember!"
SMACK!
"From now on, spend whatever pocket money I give you to your heart’s content. When you run out, just ask me for more. Don’t be stingy and mistreat yourself or your family! Got it?"
"Got it! Senior, you’re so good to me..."
SMACK!
His junior turned her head to look at her boyfriend pitifully. "Senior, what was that one for?"
"Uh, I haven’t thought of a reason yet..." Zhang Yan had gotten a little addicted to the spanking and had just kept going out of sheer habit.
"Then please don’t hit me anymore. If you keep going, I’m going to start feeling weird..."
SMACK!
"I am punishing you right now, and you actually dare to have an opinion?"
"I wouldn’t dare! Hit me as much as you want..." She silently turned her head back around and covered her mouth with one hand.
SMACK! SMACK! SMACK!
After enjoying a few more satisfying swats, Zhang Yan really couldn’t think of any more excuses, so he finally asked the most important question he had prepared all along.
"From this moment on, every minute and every second, from head to toe, you belong to me for the rest of your life. Are you willing?"
His junior abruptly turned her head back around, staring at him in utter disbelief as tears began to fall down her face, DRIP DROP.
Zhang Yan was instantly dumbfounded. He hadn’t hit her that hard! How did he manage to make her cry?
He was just about to step forward and rub her backside for her when he heard her ask, her voice choked with intense emotion, "Can I really... for the rest of my life?"
"Of course it’s for the rest of your life. You’re my woman now, did you think you could still run away?"
She just shook her head. "I was always afraid that one day you would stop liking me, and then you wouldn’t want me anymore..."
Zhang Yan fell silent for a moment before asking gently, "Is it because I haven’t taken you to my home, nor have I promised to marry you?"
She shook her head, then nodded.
Zhang Yan pulled her into his arms. "This is your last chance. I’m going to ask you a question. If you can’t accept it, you still have time to leave me." After a brief thought, he added, "This question won’t affect my willingness to help treat your father’s illness."
His junior looked up at him in panic, like a little kitten about to be abandoned. "I won’t leave you no matter what! Unless you don’t want me anymore!"
Zhang Yan stroked the top of her head. "Even if you aren’t my only one? Even if you have to share me with many other people in the future, are you still willing to stay by my side forever?"
"I am! I’m willing!" Zhang Yan thought she would hesitate for at least a moment, but to his surprise, she answered him without a second thought.
"Don’t you feel wronged?"
She shook her head, still without any hesitation.
"You’ve already given me more than enough.
"Senior, you don’t know this, but before I met you, I had already made plans to sell myself.
"At that time, I just wanted to find a rich man and use everything I had as bargaining chips to sell myself for a good price, hoping it would be enough to save my father."
"So you mean to say you sold yourself to me?" Zhang Yan certainly didn’t want to spend so much time and effort only to end up with a transaction.
She shook her head once more.
"In the beginning, I did approach you with that purpose.
"But as we spent time together, I found that I had genuinely fallen in love with you. Like, really, really fallen in love with you.
"I became terrified of telling you everything. I was afraid that if you found out, you would look down on me, hate me, stop liking me, or even leave me.
"But on the other hand, my father’s life was on the line. I was so incredibly torn back then."
As she spoke, she stared intently into Zhang Yan’s eyes, doing everything in her power to convey her absolute sincerity.
Hearing this, Zhang Yan finally had all the answers he needed. He now understood the reason behind her constantly contradictory behavior over the past few days.
Sniffling, his junior continued, "I don’t want to sell myself to you. I just like you, and I want to be with you for the rest of my life!
"That’s why I gave you my everything first. I wanted you to believe me, to know that I’m with you... not for the money.
"I don’t care how many women you have, but I was terrified that you were just playing with me and would eventually leave me!
"But now you’re saying you want me for a lifetime. Is that really true? Can I really stay by your side for the rest of my life?"
"Of course it’s true. I want you to stay with me for a lifetime, and it’s too late for you to back out now!"
In all fairness, Chi Xinyue was a wonderful girl. She had an innocent personality, provided ample emotional value, was completely natural from head to toe, possessed outstanding looks, and boasted a proud figure. As a woman, she earned a score infinitely close to a ninety in Zhang Yan’s book. She was the type of girl he felt he could spend his whole life with without ever getting bored.
Therefore, Zhang Yan was entirely sincere in wanting to keep his junior by his side for a lifetime.
The only prerequisite was that she needed to be just a little bit more open-minded. She needed to be able to understand his "grand" ambition of bringing "happiness" to even more people.
Zhang Yan’s answer completely dispelled the worries in his junior’s heart, as if she had just broken through some sort of barrier.
DING!
However, before Zhang Yan could even check what the system had just "dinged" about, a pair of fiery, cherry-red lips sealed his mouth shut.