Sheng Yan slightly raised his eyes and said, "Was it your suggestion to cancel the engagement banquet?"

He was never clear about the Shi family's operations.

They didn't understand Shi Xi's thoughts at all.

Shi Xi used to follow him around, doing everything she could to marry him.

But ever since Ning Yu, the true daughter of the Shi family, returned, Shi Xi seems to have become a different person. She avoids him like the plague and does many things that she would never have done before.

The Shi family proposed engagement first, and he acquiesced.

Then, the Shi family had to postpone the engagement.

Sheng Yan wanted to know what the Shi family was trying to do.

Also, what exactly is Shi Xi thinking?

Shi Xi hesitated, then hesitated again, and finally said, "Let's just say it's my opinion."

"What do you mean by 'take it as your opinion'?" Sheng Yan narrowed his eyes slightly. "You don't want to get engaged to me?"

"My parents were the ones who arranged our engagement. Now, postponing it is also their decision." Thinking about the Shi family's doting on her, Shi Xi began to consider the bigger picture. "Is it because the Sheng family is about to go bankrupt that my parents want to cancel the engagement?"

Sheng Yan: ...

You're really good with words, stop talking now.

“Shengshi Jewelry is expanding its business to Yanjing, how could it possibly go bankrupt?” Sheng Yan drank half a cup of tea to avoid being angered to death by Shi Xi.

"Huh? With the Sheng family so prosperous, my parents should be eager to marry me off." Shi Xi pondered, clearly not understanding why the Shi family was delaying the engagement banquet.

It was Shi Xu who called her to inform her that the engagement banquet would be postponed.

Shi Xi couldn't wait to get away from the male lead, and didn't even ask why.

"So, you don't want to get engaged to me?" Sheng Yan didn't care about the Shi family's considerations. He came to find Shi Xi just to ask her thoughts.

Shi Xi gave an awkward smile, "We're friends... and I'm still young, I don't want to get engaged so soon."

This answer can be considered a tactful refusal of the engagement.

"Since neither of us wants to get engaged, let's cancel it." Sheng Yan's eyes were indifferent as he skipped over the postponed engagement banquet and wanted to cancel the engagement between the two families directly.

He could tell that Shi Xi no longer looked at him with admiration.

In that case, we might as well cancel the engagement.

He was the one who was troubled by the engagement.

"I have no problem with that." Shi Xi picked up her teacup, her long eyelashes drooping slightly. "However, I am not my parents' biological daughter. The one you are engaged to should be Ning Yu."

Instead of Shi Xi.

Sheng Yan sneered, "Are you trying to say that this has nothing to do with you?"

Shi Xi tilted her head to look at him. "That's a bit strange."

"What's strange?" Sheng Yan frowned.

"Didn't you want to break off our engagement before? You even avoided me and didn't want to see me." Shi Xi's dark eyes shone as she stared at Sheng Yan. "Why are you suddenly concerned about my feelings?"

Sheng Yan's heart skipped a beat, and he said in a deep voice, "I just don't want to be tormented by your Shi family, and I want to resolve the engagement issue as soon as possible."

“I see,” Shi Xi tapped the rim of her cup with her index finger, looking troubled. “But I can’t make that decision! I’ll listen to my parents.”

Sheng Yan: "You really listen to your parents!"

Shi Xi added, "He also listens to my brother very well."

Sheng Yan: ...

"Then let's postpone the engagement banquet!" Shi Xi made the decision, saying, "Anyway, it's not a wedding, so you, as a man, won't be at a disadvantage."

Sheng Yan looked at Shi Xi, wanting to say something, but finally said in a low voice, "I will handle it."

Shi Xi clearly didn't want to get engaged to him.

That would be best.

He didn't want to marry Shi Xi in the first place.

snort!

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