Chapter 5
Jiang Bailu lowered her eyes obediently. “You’re pretty.”
Zhai You smiled. “You’re pretty too.”
After the two of them finished exchanging their “friendly” compliments, they went up to the staff member, paid the fee, and waited for a while.
Under the staff member’s sympathetic gaze toward Jiang Bailu, the two successfully received their little red marriage certificates and left together.
From this moment on, Jiang Bailu was officially hers.
This was Zhai You’s first time seeing a marriage certificate. So this was what one looked like. She wondered whether it was any different from the marriage certificates in her original world. She carefully put it away, cheerfully humming a little tune.
Today, we ordinary folks are sooo~ very, very happy~
She was someone with a wife now.
Zhai You didn’t feel that getting married so suddenly was strange. It was exactly what she wanted. Jiang Bailu, on the other hand, stared at the marriage certificate with a complicated expression.
She raised her head to look at Zhai You, unable to understand why the other woman was so happy. After thinking about it, she pretended nothing was wrong and put the marriage certificate away.
Once Zhai You got tired of her, this marriage certificate would lose its legal effect, and the two of them would no longer have anything to do with each other.
With that thought, Jiang Bailu regained her usual composure.
Until Zhai You suddenly turned around. “What are you doing later?”
Jiang Bailu lowered her eyelashes. “I need to go back to the hospital.”
Right. She still had to go back and take care of her mother, who had cancer. Zhai You’s eyes grew even more distressed. Her poor little wife had such a hard life.
“I think I forgot to sign the contract.”
“……?!”
Jiang Bailu’s face instantly turned pale, making her dark brows and eyes stand out even more. They had already registered their marriage without signing the contract. Then what about everything Zhai You had promised? Her mother’s medical expenses—were those promises still valid?
Zhai You glanced at her. “What are you afraid of? If we divorce now, I’d still have to give you half my assets.”
That was also why Zhai You hadn’t been in any hurry to remind her. Economically speaking, she was the one who stood to lose.
Of course, to put Jiang Bailu at ease—
“Come on. We should still have time to go sign the contract now.”
And even if they didn’t, just as Zhai You had said, if they divorced, Jiang Bailu could still take half her assets.
They immediately rushed to a law firm.
When they got out of the car, the assistant finally gathered the courage to speak. “Sister Zhai You, how about you drive from here? I still have things to do. Besides… being a third wheel isn’t exactly fun.”
He cursed inwardly: You two are the ones getting married. Why did you drag me along to run around doing everything for you?
Neither Zhai You nor Jiang Bailu had spoken much along the way.
It had made the assistant so nervous that he thought his presence as a third wheel was too glaring and was getting in their way.
Either way, he was uncomfortable, so he took the initiative to suggest leaving, assuming Zhai You wouldn’t refuse.
“No.” Zhai You rejected him immediately. She didn’t know how to drive. If Jiang Bailu found out, wouldn’t that be embarrassing? “You’re being paid as an assistant. This is your job!”
“……” Are you sick?! For the sake of his salary, the assistant swallowed his anger.
Jiang Bailu glanced at the assistant, who clearly wanted to get angry but didn’t dare, and thought he looked rather pitiful.
“How about I drive? Though I only just got my license…” Zhai You’s car obviously wasn’t cheap, so Jiang Bailu spoke without much confidence.
“……” Zhai You said, “For Bailu’s sake, you can go.”
Her wife would drive while she sat in the passenger seat. Great!
This was a well-known law firm in H City. Anyone who wanted to meet with a lawyer normally had to make an appointment in advance.
Just when Jiang Bailu thought they would be turned away and would have to come back another day, Zhai You acted as though she had been planning this all along—or rather, as though she had finally found a chance to show off.
She pulled out a bank card and said coldly,
“I’m very busy. Get me whichever lawyer you have available. I’ll pay double, triple, whatever. Just charge the card.”
Her completely matter-of-fact attitude of using money to get things done stunned the assistant so badly he almost didn’t know how to react. He wanted to mock her in return.
But reality was reality. No one had a grudge against money.
So after obtaining the agreement of an available lawyer, the receptionist arranged for the two of them to meet him. Only after Zhai You led Jiang Bailu away did the receptionist quietly mutter, “I’m so jealous…”
It was tacky, sure, but the way she whipped out that card was seriously cool.
The lawyer recognized Zhai You the moment he saw her.
“Please sit.” He looked at Jiang Bailu behind Zhai You. He didn’t recognize her. She looked pure and delicate, but she probably wasn’t important. “Miss Zhai, are you here to send a lawyer’s letter to some netizen?”
“Hm?” Zhai You had barely sat down when she heard this.
Why would she send a lawyer’s letter to a netizen?
The lawyer answered with an expression that said, I understand, I understand everything. “Several celebrities in the entertainment industry have come to me for this kind of thing before. I can send legal warning letters to the anti-fans attacking you online and restore some peace and quiet for you.”
Of course, the prerequisite was that the dirt being spread about Zhai You wasn’t actually true. Otherwise, sending out a lawyer’s letter would just be inviting people to produce evidence against her.
But that wasn’t the lawyer’s concern. He was merely making a suggestion and earning some money.
“Isn’t that what Miss Zhai came here for?”
“Of course not. Do I look that idle?” Zhai You gave him a genuinely baffled look.
If netizens wanted to curse at her, let them. Why should she have to spend money on top of that? What a loss.
“Then I misunderstood. May I ask what Miss Zhai came here to do?” the lawyer asked with a smile.
“It should be… confirming premarital assets?”
With excellent professional composure, the lawyer only froze for a few seconds before assuming Zhai You was planning a secret marriage or something along those lines. He nodded. “Don’t worry. Our law firm will not disclose our clients’ private information. Please feel free to speak.”
Zhai You glanced at Jiang Bailu.
Ever since entering the law firm, Jiang Bailu hadn’t said anything.
Her presence was almost nonexistent.
It was as though she would simply let Zhai You do whatever she wanted. But right now, Jiang Bailu’s entire face had turned bright red.
Why did she have to say something like confirming premarital assets? Jiang Bailu had finally managed to suppress the feeling that she was truly married, but hearing those words brought it surging back again.
Under the lawyer’s scrutinizing gaze, Jiang Bailu explained softly, “But we’re already married.”
Lawyer: “?!”
His excellent professional composure… also meant it took him quite a while to remember how to speak.
“Premarital assets can still be notarized after marriage. Leave that to me.” The lawyer nodded.
Privately, he thought Zhai You had really lost her head. As a famously wealthy second-generation heiress in the entertainment industry, she had married someone so hastily that she only remembered to notarize her premarital assets afterward.
If this got out, it would probably become another major piece of news.
He hadn’t expected this delicate-looking Omega, Jiang Bailu, to be quite so capable.
“I imagine Miss Zhai isn’t very familiar with the law, so let me specifically remind you of something. In order to protect Omegas, if an Alpha commits domestic violence, infidelity, or similar misconduct after marriage, then even if the premarital assets have been notarized, all assets still have to be awarded to the Omega as compensation.”
In today’s society, Omegas were a precious “resource.”
Their bodies were soft, they became pregnant easily, and at the same time, they were also extremely fragile.
As the people capable of influencing Omegas the most, Alphas were naturally subject to stricter restrictions.
The corner of Zhai You’s mouth twitched. She actually knew this.
In the original novel, the original owner liked Jiang Bailu so much, but why had she never married her and only kept her as a mistress?
Because… keeping someone as a mistress meant she didn’t have to take responsibility. Otherwise, under the law, the original owner wouldn’t even have needed to wait for the righteous love interest to deal with her—she would have been sent straight to prison.
And the reason Zhai You was doing this was precisely to give Jiang Bailu protection and help her feel secure.
The moment she decided she wanted to marry Jiang Bailu, Jiang Bailu became the most precious treasure in her heart.
But right now, she could only pretend to be impatient as she snapped at the lawyer, “I know. Hurry up.”
If he kept talking, he was going to scare her Bailu.
“Besides notarizing the premarital assets, there’s also this.” Zhai You took out the little notebook and handed it to the lawyer. With Jiang Bailu right there, she needed to eliminate every last concern the other woman might have.
After the lawyer saw the clauses about Party A and Party B written inside, he wanted to conscientiously say something.
Zhai You slapped the table. “Just print it and stamp it. I don’t have time to waste.”
Lawyer: “……”
So scary.
He simply assumed this was some sort of romantic game between the two women. After finishing the premarital asset notarization, he followed what was written in the notebook and printed two copies of the “contract.”
At Zhai You’s request, he even stamped them.
With a flourish, Zhai You signed her name in the space for Party A and pressed down a red fingerprint.
“Your turn.”
Her turn.
Jiang Bailu hadn’t said much, but she had listened to the entire conversation between Zhai You and the lawyer.
Even if she was slow, she could still tell that after marriage, Zhai You wouldn’t gain even the slightest advantage.
Her anxious heart actually began to settle.
No. Why am I relaxing? Zhai You isn’t that kind of person! Jiang Bailu recalled that scene—Zhai You standing above her, looking down as she tossed the key card onto the floor.
“Someone like you will definitely pick it up.” Back then, Zhai You had curled her lips into a mocking smile.
“People like you think you’re something special just because you’re a little good-looking, but the moment a tiny benefit is put in front of you, you’ll rush to take it.”
The humiliation and mockery from that moment—
It had made Jiang Bailu’s chest rise and fall violently, yet she had been unable to refute a single word.
She hated Zhai You.
What she hated most was that Zhai You was the only person who could help her.
Jiang Bailu had a very soft personality, like white bread. No matter how casually she was squeezed or kneaded, she would puff back into shape again, while the damage inside remained unseen by anyone.
She had picked up the key card, fully aware of what she was going to face.
Had she really known?
Jiang Bailu fell into confusion.
Why did Zhai You want to marry her? What benefit did Zhai You gain from doing this? Was she planning to humiliate her? But the lawyer had said that once they had a marriage certificate, any misconduct by an Alpha would bring ruin down upon them.
Even if the agreement was contractual, the marriage certificate was real.
Jiang Bailu felt as though the little red booklet in her pocket was burning hot.
By comparison, that agreement suddenly seemed less important.
Zhai You definitely had some ulterior motive behind all this. She couldn’t let her guard down!
Jiang Bailu thought.
“Bailu.” At Zhai You’s soft call, Jiang Bailu looked over with conflicted eyes.
“Sign it.”
“……Okay.”
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