Chapter 105 If I had known this would happen, why did I fall in love in the first place?

"You are the ones who arranged this marriage for me without my consent."

You are the ones who disagree with fulfilling the marriage agreement.

"Mother, what exactly are you trying to do?"

This was the first time Nie Ronghua, as an adult, had lost her temper with Old Madam Nie and interrogated her.

He was his mother's youngest son, and he always got whatever he wanted.

When you're with your parents, there's never a time when things don't go your way.

Madam Nie raised her eyebrows and held her cane high in the air.

Then he let out a heavy sigh, "I said no, and that's final."

"The Su family is not good enough for our Nie family."

They took advantage of our kindness to seek repayment, and we had no choice but to comply.

Given the current situation, everyone would avoid them like the plague, considering their status as capitalists.

If you keep clinging on, aren't you afraid of dragging your entire family down with you?

"Ronghua, the Nie family doesn't just belong to you alone. We can't let generations of hard work go to waste in our hands."

She looked at Nie Ronghua with disappointment and frustration, her tone heavy with helplessness, displaying the bittersweet expression of a matriarch forced to plan for the family.

Seeing Nie Ronghua lower her eyes, she continued to earnestly persuade her, "Her affair with Huo Zhenhua has caused quite a stir in the research institute."

Do you want people to talk behind your back?

Silly son, if you want to find a wife, you have plenty of choices.

"Wait, Mom will get back and help you arrange it."

Just as Nie Ronghua was about to speak, he keenly heard the noise outside the door and his gaze shot sharply in that direction.

The next second, the knocking on the door sounded like three drumbeats.

Su Mianzhi opened the door on his own.

He glanced angrily at the bewildered Nie family mother and son in the ward.

The contempt and anger in his eyes were palpable.

Grandma Su came in carrying a net bag full of apples.

He walked in, feeling a chill run through him.

His gaze met that of the slowly rising Madam Nie, and his voice was as cold as ice, “You’re right!”

My Su family considers our good intentions wasted and the engagement nullified.

Even if the daughters of my Su family can't get married, they will never cling to your Nie family.

Yes! Your Nie family is too high and mighty for us to reach.

"Then bring me the token of love from my Su family."

Grandma Su spoke frankly and stood there with neither arrogance nor servility. Although she was dressed in coarse cloth, her demeanor and bearing were in no way inferior to that of Old Madam Nie.

Even more so, when she has an angry expression, she still looks dignified and kind.

She looked more comfortable and had a more dignified air than Old Madam Nie, who had a calculating and mean expression on her face.

Upon hearing this, both members of the Nie family were stunned.

Nie Ronghua straightened up a bit and looked at Grandma Su with a puzzled expression. "Grandma, what kind of token of love is this? I've never heard of it before."

Grandma Su scoffed: "So that's how it is?"

Your father must have given you a bright green teardrop-shaped pendant, right?

Otherwise, he wouldn't have chosen you as his fiancée.

Upon hearing this, Nie Ronghua felt a pang of panic and instinctively looked at Old Madam Nie.

Madam Nie clearly remembered what a token of love was.

She gaped in shock, slapped her head hard, and exclaimed, "I knew it! Why would the old man give Ronghua such a small pendant? It turns out it's from your family!"

She stood up with an apologetic look and smiled ingratiatingly, "Grandma Su, look at such a small pendant, and so much time has passed, who would remember where it was lost?"

It's all my old man's fault; he didn't explain anything when he brought it back.

Look at the mess this has made.

"Oh dear! We've both come to terms with it. From now on, we're completely separate after marriage, and it doesn't matter whether we have a token of love or not. What do you say?"

Grandma Su's expression turned cold. With a flick of her arm, she broke free from the woman's outstretched hand and said with a sneer, "So, you're trying to steal my Su family's heirloom?"

"What heirloom? I think you...remembered wrong?" Old Madam Nie, who had survived a hail of bullets, was no saint either.

However, she reacted quickly and changed the "You're so poor you're crazy" that was on the tip of her tongue to "You've got the wrong idea."

Xie Mian was also in the Southeast Military Region, while Su Meng became a member of the Southeast Military Region's Firearms Research Department.

Living under the same roof, she didn't want to bring shame upon her two sons.

But Grandma Su was a shrewd woman, so she naturally understood the implication in her words. Just as she was about to start a fight, Su Mianzhi stopped her.

“Mother, we can’t become in-laws, but we also can’t become enemies.” He looked at the silent Nie Ronghua and said, “Why don’t you tell me?”

Where exactly is that pendant?

Or is it that you don't want to call off the engagement?

He didn't miss the panic on Nie Ronghua's face and deliberately provoked her.

Nie Ronghua's Adam's apple bobbed a few times before he spoke with difficulty, "That pendant..."

Madam Nie suddenly spoke up, interrupting sharply, "Ronghua, didn't you say you lost it after you came back from that mission?"

Nie Ronghua frowned and called out in dissatisfaction, "Mother~"

Then, he looked at the two Su family members with remorse, "Grandma, Uncle Su, I... I didn't know it was a token of love, so I gave the pendant to Su's stepdaughter."

“Zhong Wanrou?” Su Mianzhi coldly uttered the name, his gaze towards Nie Ronghua filled with murderous intent, and he said through gritted teeth, “You’re very good!”

Grandma Su pointed at Nie Ronghua incredulously and laughed angrily, "No wonder that bitch Zhong Wanrou boasted that you and she were a match made in heaven."

She's right, you two are a match made in heaven.

One forcibly seized Xiaomeng's life, while the other stabbed my Xiaomeng in the back, tearing out her heart.

You are all very good! Very good! Very good!

That was a good decision to leave!

You have three days to return the pendant to me, or don't blame me for causing trouble at the military base.

"Son, let's go back! Even if we throw our apples into the ditch, we won't let those heartless people eat them."

Su Mianzhi glared at Nie Ronghua, who had a gloomy face, then turned and left with his elderly relative.

Madam Nie stood there blankly, stunned for a long time before slowly coming back to her senses.

Now that he's gotten rid of the Su family and successfully annulled the engagement, why does he feel a strange emptiness in his heart?

She was unaware of the verbal agreement made between the old man and the woman.

But later, the old man announced in public that Nie Ronghua was the one who was engaged to the Su family's young lady, and she made a huge fuss and refused to agree.

But she couldn't withstand the old man's domineering attitude.

She really didn't know anything about this pendant.

"Ronghua, you really didn't know that it was a token of love?"

She cursed the old man inwardly for his carelessness; now he had to compensate for someone's ancestral pendant—what bad luck!

Nie Ronghua held his head in his hands in distress, his fingers digging into his short, thick hair, his mind completely blank.

When he first learned that the little girl he cherished was his childhood sweetheart, he was overjoyed, excited, and eager to tell the whole world.

Even during disaster relief efforts, the thought of Su Meng being in the Southeast Military Region filled him with passion and energy, and he worked tirelessly, eager to return and see Su Meng as soon as possible.

However, the more excited they were then, the more frustrated they are now.

Not only did he lose the token of their love, but he was also forcefully annulled by both sets of parents.

His relationship with Su Meng ended before it even began!

Just like when the two first met, they were clearly the closest of friends, yet they were the most complete strangers.

Like the beams of light from a searchlight, they may never intersect again.

"have no idea!"

He said in a muffled voice.

When the old man put it on him, I vaguely remember him saying, "Take good care of it, and cherish it like you would your wife."

He closed his eyes with a bitter smile, suppressing the stinging emotion within.

If I had known this would happen, why did I fall in love in the first place?

"Mother, Su Meng must be injured and hospitalized. Shall I go check on her?"

Old Madam Nie scolded irritably, "Can you even move? Besides, you two are no longer related. If you go over there, people will laugh at you."

Nie Ronghua let out a heavy sigh and pulled the blanket over her head.