They all want to change my future.

Chapter 49 The Agreement

After hearing Li Zhi's account, Ji Baizhi gently shook her head, her eyes filled with complex emotions, which finally turned into a soft sigh:

"Young master, I really don't know what to say about you."

"The way you're saying that makes it sound like I've done something wrong."

Li Zhi shook his head, "I almost died tonight."

"This is all your own doing, young master." Ji Baizhi rolled her eyes at him, no longer taking Li Zhi's side.

"It seems I went too far today," Li Zhi asked casually.

"That's really going too far." Ji Baizhi nodded: "To coerce a young lady and make her play such a piece, even I, young master, would feel sorry for her."

Even if she is the Empress's person.

"That's right."

Li Zhi didn't speak again, but instead stroked his chin and began to scrutinize Ji Baizhi, as if he were seeing her for the first time.

He stared at it for a long time.

After a while, Ji Baizhi lowered her head somewhat embarrassed and whispered, "Young Master, what are you looking at?"

"To see the phoenix, to observe the sage."

Li Zhi smiled and took out the sheet music for "The Phoenix Seeks Its Mate" from his pocket, unfolding it: "For you now, I'm somewhat tempted to play this piece."

Ji Baizhi was slightly taken aback, then chuckled, "Young master, please stop teasing me."

"There should be a zither in the manor, right?"

Li Zhi didn't answer, but asked directly, openly and frankly, as if he were about to play the instrument at any moment.

Ji Baizhi was taken aback by these sudden words and lowered her head again.

There must be a zither in the manor. Should I say that there is one? But if I say that there is one, wouldn't that prove that I want the prince to play it for me?

But if I say I don't have it, what if the young master sees it and thinks I bought it on purpose?

Ji Baizhi was caught in a dilemma, unsure of what to do.

Finally, she raised her head and gently scolded, "Young master, you're teasing me again."

"Where's the fun in there?"

Li Zhi feigned innocence: "I still need to practice the piano, right? What if Qu Hongxiao checks it and I don't play well? Wouldn't that be the end of me?"

Ji Baizhi didn't want to talk to this man. He was doing it on purpose, definitely on purpose.

"So I'm sorry to trouble you," Li Zhi said. "Before I play it for Qu Hongxiao, I have to let you listen to me play 'The Phoenix Seeks Its Mate' for you many times."

Ji Baizhi paused for a moment, feeling the joy welling up inside her.

She shook her head and said softly, "Young master, you have a really good tongue. You've made this young lady completely lose her bearings."

"Actually, it's not my problem."

Li Zhi touched his face: "If another man had said this, I think you, Miss Ji, would have called him a lecher and burned him to the ground."

Ji Baizhi gave Li Zhi a deep look, then nodded: "That's true. If I didn't know about your future, I wouldn't have indulged you like this."

"Huh?"

Li Zhi was somewhat surprised: "What I was about to say was, shouldn't it be because of my face!"

Ji Baizhi smiled without saying a word, her beauty was breathtaking, and everything was understood without being spoken.

Are you as beautiful as my phoenix?

"You phoenix, just you wait."

Li Zhi pointed at Ji Baizhi: "Watch how I take you down with Qu Hongxiao's help."

Upon hearing this, Ji Baizhi instantly lost her composure, bursting into laughter with a soft chuckle, her shoulders trembling slightly as she displayed her bouncy, flowery mannerisms.

"Young master, you really are something else."

"I told you this was interesting," Li Zhi said, shrugging.

After a brief smile, Ji Baizhi composed herself and said seriously, "So, how does Young Master hope I will respond? By being aloof and distant, by firmly refusing, and by continuing to let Young Master make a name for himself?"

"What you did doesn't matter."

Li Zhi shook his head: "Anyway, you won't be meeting Qu Hongxiao, so of course it's all up to me."

"Young Master really..." Ji Baizhi didn't know how to comment again, so she could only say, "I hope you have fun."

After speaking, Ji Baizhi seemed to have thought of something and asked, "Young Master, I'd like to know just how far you're willing to go to watch the excitement?"

After thinking about it, Li Zhi understood Ji Baizhi's worries. After all, the future she saw was one where she destroyed the entire capital.

Li Zhi now has a guess: the future that Ji Baizhi sees is probably the ending CG scene.

I just don't know what kind of ending she saw.

"I have no idea."

"I don't know?" Ji Baizhi was very surprised. What kind of answer was that?

"That's right." Li Zhi nodded. "I just don't know. If you're worried, Miss Ji, please try to persuade me when you sense something is wrong."

Should we advise Li Zhi?

Ji Baizhi thought to herself that she might be able to persuade them then, but it seemed like she couldn't persuade them now.

However, that's a very nice thing to say.

"It's probably going to be difficult." Ji Baizhi's eyes showed even more worry. "I can't persuade the young master now."

"You're making it sound like I'm a stubborn person."

Li Zhi shook his head: "Let me give you a method."

"What method?"

Ji Baizhi's eyes lit up; she really wanted to know what methods could be used to persuade Li Zhi, given his personality.

"It's very simple," Li Zhi said naturally. "As long as you feel that what I'm going to do is dangerous, or doesn't align with what you want, you'll have something else more interesting to make me change my mind."

Ji Baizhi felt a wave of helplessness; what difference did these words make? It was as if she hadn't said anything at all. She sighed.

"Young master, you might as well make me a promise, which is to listen to me unconditionally this once."

"Wow, that's a really high demand of yours."

Li Zhi sighed, but then nodded in agreement: "Okay, I promise to work hard. I'll listen to you unconditionally this once."

what?

Ji Baizhi was completely stunned. She hadn't expected Li Zhi to agree to her casual remark.

Seeing his dazed expression, Li Zhi smiled and said, "Why the long face? Are you overjoyed, or can't believe it?"

"I just can't figure it out," Ji Baizhi replied softly.

"Can't figure it out? Looks like you need a plausible reason."

Li Zhi said directly, "Actually, it's very simple. I think it's very interesting to give Miss Ji this right. I'm very curious to know where you will use this request."

"Young master, you really are..."

Ji Baizhi looked up at the moon, somewhat speechless, but quickly composed herself, extended her hand to Li Zhi, and said seriously:

"Let me see Shikaku's visiting card."

Li Zhi noticed that this time Ji Baizhi didn't use a pleading tone, but instead made a direct request, which was both impolite and intimate.

Considering Ji Baizhi's royal lineage, her achievement is all the more commendable.

So, my favorability towards them has increased even further.

Li Zhi wasn't too concerned about this unexpected surprise; he casually took out the invitation from his pocket and handed it over.

Ji Baizhi took it, read the information, and paused slightly, "So it was him..."

"You know them?" Li Zhi asked curiously. "Are you two very close?"

"Not familiar with it." Ji Baizhi looked at the location above and said softly, "I have heard of this Deer Park. It used to belong to the Duke of He."

The Duke of Heguo, that was Lin Yueyin's original home.