Chapter Forty-Eight: Meeting the Parents

Chapter Forty-Eight: Meeting the Parents

Chapter Forty-Eight: Meeting the Parents

"You're married?"

"You married him?"

"real?"

"No way!"

Sitting on the sofa, the Xia family members on the opposite sofa stared in astonishment, their mouths agape.

Su Yue found it hard to believe; she had always thought her son would remain single for life.

Or maybe one day you'll suddenly have a wild idea and take the job.

I never imagined that after being kidnapped, I would end up getting married, and the other person was Zhou Ran.

"Xiao Ran! If you're being threatened, just blink. Auntie will stand up for you."

Zhou Ran sat obediently on the sofa, and blinked in confusion when she suddenly heard Su Yue say that.

Then the people on the other side all breathed a sigh of relief.

"I knew it, how could they really be married?"

"They were lying to us after all."

"It must have been my older brother who forced me to do it."

"That's right, that's right."

Xia Chenggan was speechless; his family had overthought things.

He threw his marriage certificate over.

"Here you go, really, I took care of it today."

Su Yue picked up the marriage certificate and looked at it carefully before confirming that her son was indeed married, and it was a whirlwind marriage.

Su Yue reacted the fastest.

"Xiao Ran, are you really willing to marry him?"

"Yes, it was my own choice."

Although there were some unavoidable reasons, it was indeed his own choice.

He thought the Xia family would look down on his past behavior and not acknowledge him, but things went surprisingly smoothly.

"Oh my, this is a big deal! When are you planning to have the wedding?"

"Let me calculate how many people I need to invite."

Where should I go to handle this?

"How about we do it at home?"

Su Yue began, followed by Xia Cheng'an and Xia Chengping, while Xia Chengjie listened silently with a pale face.

Finally, Xiahou Nan made the final decision.

"That's what we'll do. I'll find someone to choose an auspicious date and then inform our relatives and friends."

"that!"

Zhou Ran wanted to say that he didn't need a wedding and wanted to keep it low-key.

Seeing the intense, excited gaze directed at her from the other side, Zhou Ran gave in.

"Whatever makes you happy, that's fine with you."

"This is your wedding, how can things be done however you want? You'll come with me to pick out your dress, and we need to find a reliable company to decorate the venue..."

Su Yue chattered excitedly.

Zhou Ran couldn't stand the enthusiasm and looked to Xia Chenggan for help.

Xia Chenggan shrugged, indicating he had no intention of helping.

As his wife, you have to get used to his family and integrate into their household.

Finally, it escaped from the enthusiastic onslaught of the summer people.

Zhou Ran pushed open the door and immediately plopped down on the bed, spreading her legs out in a starfish shape.

"Hmm!"

A muffled groan came from below, and Zhou Ran pounced on him, only to realize that the feeling was wrong.

You don't need to see their face to know who they are just by smelling them.

Zhou Ran had a headache.

"Is this your room?"

Xia Chenggan pulled the blanket off his head and nodded.

"Yes, but it will be your room from now on."

"I don't like living with other people!"

"Then you'll need to get used to it. Knowing my mother's personality, she won't let you leave before the wedding."

"grass!"

Zhou Ran pulled the blanket over her head.

The lower half of the blanket was on Xia Chenggan's body, and Zhou Ran was pressing down on Xia Chenggan's chest. Now she snatched the blanket and wrapped it around his head.

Xia Chenggan's upper body was uncovered, and he tried to move the blanket over to him, but Zhou Ran wouldn't let him go.

It seemed as if they wanted to bury themselves in the blankets.

"Hang in there. After we get married, I'll talk to my mom and we'll move out."

"I regret marrying you."

Xia Chenggan curled his lips into a smile. It was too late to regret it now; the marriage certificate was already issued and the money had been received.

They've already taken the bait, where else can they run to?

What are you plotting?

"What are you plotting that you haven't told me?"

"..."

Zhou Ran remained silent. Xia Chenggan was too shrewd; the more he said, the more mistakes he would make, and it would be easy for Xia Chenggan to deduce the truth from just a few words.

"Your silence won't help. You've been acting strangely ever since the base. The way you look at me is especially odd, like you're looking at some wayward youth."

"..."

Continue to be silent; silence is Cambridge tonight.

Xia Chenggan didn't mind and continued speaking.

"Your speech is also strange. You must have discovered something at the base to be acting that way. I heard Qian Kong mention that Gu Xiang spoke with you alone, and his attitude towards you was very strange."

"..." Qian Kong, that big mouth.

"He must have told you something to change your attitude."

His words made you feel a sense of crisis; you felt extremely dangerous.

So when we were at the base, you refused to talk to me and only said some trivial, irrelevant things.

You don't want to be exposed. What Gu Xiang said involves too many issues that you can't handle on your own.

"Otherwise, given your personality, you wouldn't have married me."

Xia Chenggan noticed the person on top of him stiffen, and knew he had guessed correctly.

"Gu Xiang was probably talking about their experiment, and that experiment involves you. I guess you and Gu Xiang know each other, and you have a close relationship."

He listens to you; you two share a secret, and it involves me and Gu Tingxiao.

He didn't believe it was such a coincidence that they would all end up at that base.

Zhou Ran wanted to sigh.

Xia Chenggan was too clever; he guessed most of the story from the slightest clues.

That's probably correct, just with some minor differences in the details.

"When do you plan to tell me the truth? I am now your ally, your strongest ally, the person you trust the most."

"laugh!"

Zhou Ran scoffed. The person you trust most?

Where in this world is there absolute trust?

Believe that this will expose your weaknesses, which will ultimately become weapons used against you.

He'd seen this kind of thing before; only a fool would trust someone wholeheartedly.

"Okay, I know you don't believe me, but can you tell me what you're going to do?"

"Use your family's influence to get Gu Xiang out."

Now that things have come to this point, we need to reveal a little something to stop Xia Chenggan from overthinking.

"Oh, I'm afraid that's difficult."

"Yes, there is a chance, but it's not impossible."

Zhou Ran wanted to get the person out through proper channels, not by attempting a prison break.

It might be simpler to break someone out of prison, but it's much more troublesome to do it openly and honestly.

He's only been here a short time; does the original owner have any usable resources or connections?

He needs the Xia family's influence to expedite the process of getting the person out.

"Okay, feel free to ask if you need any help. After all, we're a legally married couple now."

"Thank you for your understanding, young master."

The two exchanged a smile, cleverly avoiding the previous topic.

Xia Chenggan's smile didn't reach his eyes. Zhou Ran was too wary; just how big a secret was he hiding?

He wanted to see if he could find out through Gu Xiang.

Zhou Ran indifferently wrapped herself in the quilt again and fell asleep with Xia Chenggan as her pillow.

They didn't care whether Xia Chenggan would do something behind their back.

Guo Xiang is the same person as Gu Xiang mentioned by Xia Chenggan; they are one body.

Like him, but a different soul.

The only difference is that Guo Xiang inherited this from a young age, and he has all the memories and habits of this world.

Unlike him, there won't be any abrupt changes.

Although Guo Xiang is somewhat simple-minded and a bit stubborn, he is exceptionally obedient and sometimes quite intelligent.

Guo Xiang will not reveal his identity, and no matter how far Xia Chengan's influence extends, the authorities can't really get in too far.

Under the current circumstances, the authorities will not allow anyone to see Gu Xiang.

The secret he learned from Gu Xiang was his arrival.

This body was one of the base's test subjects.

That's right, his heartless adoptive father, Zhao Feng, sent little Zhou Ran to the base.

Then they made up a lie about sending him to the countryside.

Zhou Ran grew up in the base; she is timid, obsessive, and crazy.

He had attempted suicide multiple times, but was always saved.

Later, Zhao Feng was caught off guard by the attack and had no choice but to coordinate to bring the person back.

There happened to be an experiment at the time, and Zhou Ran was sent in.

The experiment failed, and Zhou Ran was sent to the Zhou family as waste for reuse.

Gu Xiang didn't pay much attention. After observing for a while, he found that Zhou Ran was still Zhou Ran, so he stopped bothering with her.

It was a failure.

He continued with the next step of the experiment, but then Zhou Ran suddenly changed the core.

Gu Xiang was also surprised when he received the news.

He hired someone to follow him, but they were blocked outside by the Xia and Gu families.

He tried everything to see Zhou Ran, but he couldn't get a chance to see her; they were protecting her too well.

Until someone in higher-ups wanted to get rid of Gu Tingxiao and Xia Chenggan, the Xia family ran into trouble one after another.

With reduced protection around Zhou Ran, he obtained some information.

Upon seeing the information, Gu Xiang felt a sense of familiarity.

Until I first met Zhou Ran, I noticed her familiar gestures, way of handling things, and speaking habits.

Gu Xiang was 100% certain that the soul inside had been replaced, and it was someone he knew – his boss had actually come.

It was a delightful surprise. He probed and, after confirming it was Zhou Ran, told her everything.

He was born as a second mother. That day, after eating barbecue skewers and drinking two small bottles of beer, he encountered a robber on his way home.

This is their territory; how can they allow others to rob them on their own turf?

Gu Xiang (Guo Xiang), still in a daze, rushed up and opened his eyes to find himself in this world.

Through fragments of memory, he knew that this was a world of domineering CEO romance.

Their world is a city of sin.

Every world has its own rules of operation.

Their sinful world is like Gotham City from an American TV series.

Crime is rampant, there is no morality, no law, everything is about the strong being supreme and force being king.

If you're good enough, you'll be the king.

Their world is completely different now; it's a world of female-centric CEO romance.

This world also has laws, but compared to love, the laws seem insignificant.

Love is the rule that governs this world.

The atmosphere here is filled with the bubbly glow of romance.

The domineering CEO is at the top of the food chain in this world.

Romance, melodrama, classic encounters, substitute literature, stepmother literature, and so on are the keynote of this world.

In this world, domineering CEOs have special privileges and stand outside the rules.

A domineering CEO paired with a naive and innocent girl, a domineering CEO paired with a poor but honest woman, a domineering CEO paired with a stand-in woman.

In short, you can find any kind of romance related to a domineering CEO in this world.

The world is functioning normally, with no interference between different parts of the world, yet some people are breaking down barriers.

They forcibly pulled some souls into this world, like them.

To this world, they are a virus that disrupts the rules of the world.

Therefore, they needed to be eliminated, and Gu Xiang was one of the chosen eliminaters.

The fastest way to destroy a ferocious beast is to use an even more powerful one. Author's Note: Thank you to my mentor 9492239 (9492239) for your support! For more exciting content, please leave a message for this book on Liancheng Reading.