Mingxi truly likes Zhang Rui. In his opinion, given his current feelings, no matter what happens, this liking will not change.

“I was married before and had a daughter.” Zhang Rui looked up. “My daughter is almost seven years old this year.”

"What?" Mingxi stared wide-eyed at her, incredulous. "How old are you this year?!" Her daughter was almost seven, and Zhang Rui looked only in her early twenties. Did that mean she had a child at fifteen or sixteen?

Or perhaps she just looks younger than her age.

"How old are you this year? Are you already thirty?" Thirty years old is ten years older than him, which is a bit of a difference, but it's still acceptable. "Zhang Rui, let me say something more realistic."

Mingxi sighed and grabbed Zhang Rui's shoulders, "What happened to you really scared me."

Zhang Rui lowered her head and remained silent, her heart growing increasingly bitter.

“My mom is quite traditional. She wants a grandson of her own. If you’re already thirty, we have to get married and have kids soon.”

"..." What is this guy talking about? Does being traditional mean he wants her to have a child?

"Of course, you should first have a physical examination to see how your body is and whether you are suitable to have a child, since you are an older mother."

This is getting more and more outrageous! How can 30 be considered an advanced maternal age?

"Also, if you don't want to have children, then you don't have to. I will treat your daughter as my own."

Didn't you say your mom wanted a child?

"Oh, that's her business. If you're willing, that would be great. If not, that's fine too. After all, marriage is a matter between the two of us. I trust my judgment. As long as my family gets to know you better, they'll definitely like you."

"..."

"Zhang Rui, do you have any other questions?" Mingxi asked with a smile.

"I—I'm not that old." After a long silence, Zhang Rui finally blurted out this sentence.

"That would be even better. You wouldn't find any more reasons to refuse me."

“But my daughter is real,” Zhang Rui said, turning her head away.

"So—tell me what you've been through? Tell me everything." So young, yet she has a seven-year-old daughter—

“I was once abducted and sold to a remote mountain village to be a child bride. At that time, I lost all my memories.”

"How can that guy not cherish you at all?" Mingxi said through gritted teeth.

"Their family bought me to save money on buying a wife." How could they possibly know how to cherish me?

Zhang Rui shook her head with a wry smile. "So you don't dislike me, and that's why you rejected me?"

"Isn't this enough?"

"Of course not. I don't care about anything else, as long as you like me and I like you, that's enough." Mingxi forcefully pulled the person into her arms.

"I'm finding you a bit domineering—"

"I'm only domineering towards you—"

This incident led to Zhang Rui and Mingxi getting together, while Mo Lan, who had attempted kidnapping, was arrested the day the matter was exposed.

The main problem was that these two people's act of robbing someone in the street was too heinous, especially since it happened on the main street, and Zhang Rui even remembered their license plate number. After the two were arrested, they implicated Mo Lan.

Because the kidnapping attempt failed, the Mo family donated a large sum of money. Ultimately, Mo Lan was sentenced to three years in prison.

Three years later, as soon as she was released from prison, the Mo family sent her abroad.

After graduating, Zhang Rui married Mingxi.

Although the Ming family didn't particularly like Zhang Rui, they didn't say much. Ming's parents had clearly seen her affection, so how could they dare to say anything more? They could only suppress all their dissatisfaction.

However, after marriage, Zhang Rui's intelligence and understanding gradually made their dissatisfaction disappear, and they suddenly understood why their son had chosen such a girl.

After she gave birth to two children for the Ming family, all her resentment disappeared completely, and she treated Zhang Rui like her own daughter.

As for Jiang Cha, in the end, she stayed by Ning Hongze's side.

She refused to go with him to the Ming family's house.

Zhang Rui initially thought that Jiang Cha didn't want her to remarry, and she considered it for a while. It was Jiang Cha who realized the truth and explained it to Zhang Rui.

She has absolutely no objection to Zhang Rui remarrying.

But she didn't want to go with them. "Mom, I already have Aze. It's fine if I'm with Aze. We'll be fine. You don't need to worry about me."

"But we can't keep troubling people. Hong also needs to date and get married."

Zhang Rui felt that Jiang Cha's words were strange, but she couldn't quite put her finger on why. She also knew that she had wronged Jiang Cha.

After all these years, it's been Hongze who's basically been taking care of her, so she's been quite irresponsible as a mother.

"Aze said he doesn't want to find a partner for the time being." She just can't let him find a partner; what would she do if he did?

After much persuasion and with Ning Hongze's encouragement, Jiang Cha was finally able to stay at the Ning family.

Of course, she would occasionally visit the Ming family.

Because she was beautiful, had good grades, and was sensible and generous, the Ming family liked her very much.

There's also Mingxi's nephew, whom Yu Jun likes very much.

When Yu Jun first met her, she was only eight years old. At that time, he didn't know how to like her and just bullied her. Of course, Jiang Cha only glanced at him twice and then ignored him.

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