Chapter 29 Forced Marriage! She was bought by the An family!

An Ning didn't have time to finish listening and hurriedly rode her electric bike home.

Less than two meters away from the door, An Ning heard lively chatting coming from inside the house.

Chen Yumei was also at her house and saw An Ning at the door at a glance.

She quickly waved to An Ning, "An Ning is back? Come on, come on, come on, we've been waiting for you!"

An Ning's head was buzzing.

When I walked into the main room, An Tianhua and Li Chunfang were both there. Besides them, there was also a strange man.

He was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts and a pair of plastic slippers.

He was neither tall nor thin, with slightly curly hair, wearing a pair of glasses, and a round, short face with a beard that was now stubbled.

He looked at An Ning, with satisfaction in his eyes.

"An Ning, this is my nephew, Chen Dajun. He's tall, handsome, and down-to-earth. He's currently a programmer at a tech company and earns seven or eight thousand a month."

Chen Yumei enthusiastically reported all the information about Chen Dajun in one breath, picking out the good parts to talk about.

She pulled An Ning next to Chen Dajun and said, "Dajun, this is An Ning. You two should get to know each other."

Chen Dajun couldn't take his eyes off An Ning. He stood up and acted like a savior. "I'm Chen Dajun. If we get married, you won't have to work. You just need to stay at home and take care of my parents and the children."

"Yes, An Ning, it's a good day."

Chen Yumei quickly facilitated this good thing, "How many women wish they could be full-time housewives at home, without having to go out in the wind and sun."

An Ning couldn't hear anything. She looked straight at Li Chunfang and An Tianhua who were silent beside her, "Dad, Mom, what does this mean?"

An Tianhua took a few deep puffs of his cigarette and looked at the ground. "You're not a child anymore. Your mother and I have arranged a marriage for you. Let's pick a date to get it done someday."

Li Chunfang continued, "An Ning, Dajun is an honest man, and he's your Aunt Chen's nephew. It wouldn't be a mistake to marry him. Don't worry, your parents are doing this for your own good."

An Ning looked at the two of them in disbelief, her mind going blank.

How come her marriage was arranged in the blink of an eye?

"But I'm only twenty-two..."

"Is twenty-two still young?"

An Tianhua glared at her. "Other people get married and have children at the age of seventeen or eighteen. Xiaorou from next door married a construction contractor at the age of nineteen, and now her family is building a house in the suburbs. What about you? You're in your twenties and you don't have a family or a job. If you don't get married while you're still young, do you expect to live off the land at home for the rest of your life?"

Chen Yumei knew An Tianhua's temper. Seeing that the father and daughter had a disagreement, she said goodbye and left with Chen Dajun.

Before leaving, she reminded him, "Um... Chunfang, if this marriage goes through, we will be in-laws, and An Ning will be my nephew's wife. Then, you don't have to pay back the wine money that Old An owes. Just consider it as my share of money as an aunt."

After Chen Yumei left, only three people were left in the small and cramped main room.

An Ning's eyes were red. "Is it for the 200,000 yuan betrothal gift?"

An Tianhua smoked a cigarette and didn't say anything.

Li Chunfang sighed, "An Ning, getting married is for your own good. The betrothal gift is the icing on the cake. It also happens to be enough to raise some money for your brother's surgery."

"Mom! If it's for Yucan's surgery money, I can work and earn money. I don't need to rely on getting married!"

When An Ning shouted this, she was crying and tears were welling up in her eyes.

She hoped that everything could still be turned around.

She can stay single for her entire life, but she cannot marry someone she doesn't love.

She didn't want to repeat her parents' loveless marriage, where they blamed and quarreled with each other for the rest of their lives, and every minute and every second suffocated her.

An Tianhua was also furious, and slammed the cigarette in his hand to the ground. "How long will it take you to earn 200,000 yuan from working? If you can give me 200,000 yuan now, I will cancel this marriage!"

His words were clear.

An Ning's heart finally sank into dead silence.

Ultimately, it's all about money.

The sky outside the window gradually darkened, and the floating dark clouds almost swallowed the sun.

With tears in her eyes, she looked at An Tianhua and Li Chunfang intently, and ran away without saying a word.

She rode the tram back to her rented apartment, and with trembling hands she took out all her bank cards, big and small.

Finally, all the change was put together.

She asked her boss for an advance on this month's salary, and then made several phone calls to borrow money from everyone she could.

She doesn't want to get married!

Not at all!

When I was in a panic, a card appeared in front of me.

She turned around and saw Song Xiaoyu.

Song Xiaoyu looked at her worriedly and pursed her lips. "I happened to be resting at home this morning... I just heard you calling to borrow money..."

"Ningning, I have over 30,000 yuan here. It's not much, so take it and use it first."

An Ning's eyes were blurred and she stared at Song Xiaoyu for a long time.

The tears that had been held back for a long time finally fell.

She pouted, and the corners of her mouth drooped little by little. She sobbed and couldn't even speak clearly.

"Xiao, Xiaoyu... I don't want to get married..."

......

The sky had become completely dark in the afternoon, with lightning and thunder.

The leaves on both sides of the street were rustling in the strong wind.

After a while, it began to rain heavily.

In the alley, the lights were still on in the low house.

An Ning came back in the rain, soaked all over.

She stood at the door with a white canvas bag in her arms. Just as she was about to push it open, she heard the conversation between An Tianhua and Li Chunfang from inside.

"Old An, I feel bad about marrying her off just for the gift. But Yucan is our biological son, and I can't just watch him die."

An Tianhua smoked a cigarette. "Seventeen years ago, we spent three thousand yuan to buy her back. It was like saving her life. If it weren't for us, she might have been sold to the mountains by human traffickers, and if not dead, she would have been disabled. Or maybe her hands and feet would have been broken and she would have been left begging on the streets, living a life worse than death."

Her steps suddenly felt like they were filled with lead and she couldn't move forward.

Li Chunfang sighed, "I feel really bad. I've raised her for seventeen years, and she's like my own daughter. She's obedient and sensible."

"Now we just want her to marry someone, as a way to repay our An family for raising her for 17 years." An Tianhua said, "Besides, the other party's financial conditions are not bad, and they know each other well. It won't be considered as pushing her into trouble."

Li Chunfang continued, "If we had known that we would have conceived Yucan the same year we bought her, we wouldn't have ended up like this—"

"You're not going to buy me back, are you?"

The door was pushed open, and An Ning stood outside the door, dripping with water. Her face was pale and wet, and it was hard to tell whether it was rain or tears.