Ruan Xianxian looked at people from bottom to top, her gaze finally landing on Jing Si's face, whose features were too sharp.

With his long legs draped over his shoulder and his head tilted to the side, he spoke with a nonchalant smile:

"You're the illegitimate son of the Jing family who was brought back under the guise of being adopted? Hello, I'm Chen Zhaodi's friend. I'd like to chat with you now."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jing Si's feigned gentleness, which was actually a sinister smile hiding a knife, vanished, leaving only a chilling and gloomy expression.

He laughed in anger: "The abandoned son of the Ruan family has certainly been born with a sharp tongue."

I spoke to you politely, hoping you would get that guy to go to the police station as soon as possible to pick up my sister and apologize. In return, the Jing family can let bygones be bygones.

"Oh dear," Ruan Xianxian exclaimed dramatically, her long legs crossed over each other on the square table, the corner of her lips curving into a highly sarcastic smile.

"Don't just talk, show me one."

She twisted her body like a pretzel, her hands forming delicate pinky fingers, and said in a strange, affected voice, "I can forgive and forget..."

Jing Si's face darkened. "Put your legs down. What kind of manners are you to sit like this? I'm giving an order, not asking for a discussion."

Women who go to the countryside don't know how to build a rural society, how to respect themselves, and how to have affairs with men that are known throughout the village. Let me tell you, break up with those other men as soon as possible.

"Our Jing family will not tolerate any scoundrels with questionable morals entering our home."

Ruan Xianxian blinked, bewildered. "Turn right after leaving the mental hospital, turn right again, then right again. I'm not a doctor."

Seeing that she didn't understand what he was saying at all, Jing Si put one hand in his pocket, bent down slightly, and whispered in Ruan Xianxian's ear, word by word.

"Don't you know? The Jing and Ruan families are getting married. I came here not only for Jing Xuan, but also to get our marriage certificate and take you back to the capital."

He straightened up, a smile playing on his lips, wanting to see the shyness of a young girl meeting her fiancé for the first time. "Now, can you do as I say?"

Ruan Xianxian's expression changed; her face showed surprise and uncertainty. "Who is Ruan Kangri engaged to? You?"

"So, are you satisfied with what you saw?"

Ruan Xianxian properly put her long legs down and sat in the chair, adopting the humble posture of a junior meeting an elder for the first time, and extended one hand.

"Grandma, I didn't know you had come from so far away. I apologize for my rudeness. If I may ask a question that is not on the topic, is your married life with my husband still happy?"

"Since you like using back doors so much, Grandma, you must be the one down there."

Realizing what she was saying, Jing Si frowned deeply. "Besides this face, you really have nothing."

Is it really worth it to play dumb and gain some verbal advantage?

He glanced at his watch impatiently. "Hurry up, I don't have time to waste on you. Come with me to pick up your sister and then we'll get the marriage certificate."

"I still have work in Beijing, so I'll leave no later than tomorrow morning. Oh, and..." He smirked, "You don't have to go back; you can stay in the countryside by yourself."

Is Old Man Ruan out of options? He can't beat her, so he picked up this thing to disgust her to death so he can inherit her black goose?

Upon hearing that the other party wasn't his male grandmother, he casually lay back down, saying, "I'm afraid it won't work today. Your brother is away on a business trip."

"We'll have to wait for him to come back if we want to get our marriage certificate."

"His brother?" Jing Si frowned. "I don't have a brother."

"Of course there is!" Ruan Xianxian asked in a doting tone.

"Brother Doctor, didn't the Jing family promise you to me? You're too late, there's already someone above you."

From now on, he'll be the head of the household, and you can be the concubine. The three of us will live a peaceful and stable life.

Having lived for twenty years and never heard such explosive remarks, Jing Si's hair stood on end, and he narrowed his eyes.

"What? Are you going to disobey your unfilial elders?"

"How could that be?" Ruan Xianxian looked up in surprise. "Didn't I accept you? How am I being unfilial?"

He then added, "The country advocates free love, but my grandfather advocates arranged marriages. I've always been determined to be both loyal to my country and filial to my parents since I was a child."

Is there a problem with the way this was handled?

“After all!” she said slowly and deliberately, “your mother is the other woman, you should have gotten used to that role by now.”

When faced with the woman's "Look, look how powerful I am, you have to obey me" look, Jing Si laughed in anger and threatened her.

"Don't worry about me telling Commander Ruan about your nonsense. Oh, by the way, don't worry about the fact that you've already been kicked out..."

And what about your father? Aren't you afraid he'll be implicated by you and also be kicked out of the house by Commander Ruan?"

"Is there such a good thing?" Ruan Xianxian sat up straight and picked up the phone, while not forgetting to reassure Jing Si, who seemed to be turning into a madman, with her eyes.

"Don't rush. My boyfriend's father was the commander-in-chief of Heilongjiang Province in his early years. We need to ask his opinion about you marrying into the family."

"Uncle Feng agrees, so you should wash yourself clean and get ready to go inside."

Ruan Xianxian's lover outside has such a powerful background? Jing Si's face changed, and he rushed forward to grab the microphone, while pulling out his trump card from his pocket with his other hand.

"Wait, I still have the engagement letter written by your grandfather and the tokens exchanged between the two families. If you call Chief Feng, I'm in the right, aren't I?"

"If you don't want to get married, we can call off the engagement. Just hang up now."

Who doesn't know that the so-called leaders who now occupy a province are the warlords who survived back then?

If the other party finds out that he and his son are fighting over a woman, will he still be able to leave Heilongjiang Province alive?

The thick darkness in Jing Si's eyes was gone, leaving only a bead of cold sweat on his forehead. That damned Ruan family was really going to kill him.

The investigation revealed that the woman herself was capable, and that working in a classified unit was the reason she was able to suppress Jing Xuan; no amount of pleading from her would help.

If I had known she was relying on a man, and a very powerful one at that, I would never have gotten myself involved in this mess just to gain power in the Jing family.

Ruan Xianxian held the microphone in one hand and unfolded the marriage certificate that Jing Si handed her with the other, looking closely at each word.

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