"Brother Mingzhou, please sit down."
"oh."
Gu Mingzhou slightly avoided her hand. He was still engaged to Lin Qingyan, so he had to avoid suspicion when he was with Lin Sisi.
After he sat down, he couldn't help but glance at Lin Qingyan a few more times, but Lin Qingyan had already looked away and looked elsewhere.
"Brother Mingzhou, please tell us why you came here today," Lin Sisi urged.
Gu Mingzhou paused for a moment, then looked away from Lin Qingyan. He had come today specifically to talk to Lin Qingyan about announcing the engagement.
This marriage was arranged by their parents when he and Lin Qingyan were very young. As a child, he didn't understand anything and just followed the adults' arrangements. When he grew up, he realized that he didn't like a girl like Lin Qingyan.
Because Lin Qingyan's mother had been kind to his mother, after Lin Qingyan's mother died, his mother did not immediately propose to annul the engagement for the sake of face. He had not yet met a girl he liked, so the marriage remained unresolved. However, he swore that he had never thought of marrying Lin Qingyan, a sickly, timid, and introverted girl.
Even if he doesn't break off the engagement now, he will eventually break it off with Lin Qingyan when he meets a girl he likes.
Yesterday, he made a perfunctory visit to Lin Qingyan and unintentionally saw Lin Sisi changing clothes in her room in the living room. The girl's graceful figure came into his view without reservation.
He knew that Lin Sisi was doing this on purpose when she changed clothes without closing the door, but he didn't reject the attraction. So, he willingly agreed to take responsibility for Lin Sisi and to break off his engagement with Lin Qingyan in time, and then get engaged to Lin Sisi.
He looked at Lin Qingyan and slowly said, "Qingyan, you were there yesterday and know what happened. Nothing is more important than a woman's innocence. As a man, I must take responsibility for Comrade Lin Sisi. Therefore, I have decided to cancel our engagement. This is a helpless move, please understand."
He thought Lin Qingyan would be very sad and might cry and pester him, so he tried to speak to her in a gentle tone.
But he found that Lin Qingyan maintained her original expression after hearing this, remaining very calm, as if it were just a matter of eating and drinking, and not important at all.
Lin Qingyan spoke up, "Comrade Zhou, I don't object to canceling the engagement, and I have no problem with you getting engaged to someone else. However, it was your mother who first proposed the betrothal between the two families. If you unilaterally cancel the engagement again, shouldn't you, as the victim, give me some compensation?"
Gu Mingzhou was relieved to see that she wasn't acting like she was going to die.
He said calmly, "I know this has hurt you, and I will give you five hundred yuan as compensation."
When Lin Sisi heard that Gu Mingzhou wanted to compensate Lin Qingyan, she gritted her teeth in anger.
She's going to marry Gu Mingzhou in the future, so Gu Mingzhou's money is her money. Giving the money to Lin Qingyan would be her loss.
Lin Qingyan shook her head. "Five hundred? Comrade Gu, my mother saved Aunt Gu's life back then. Do you think five hundred yuan can buy Aunt Gu's life?"
"Qingyan".
"Please call me Comrade Lin."
Gu Mingzhou paused for a moment, then said, "Comrade Lin, this is all I can offer right now."
“Don’t you still have parents? My mother saved your mother’s life back then, and it was she who proposed the marriage between our children. Now that’s off, let your mother collect the money.”
"How many do you want?"
"How much do you think Aunt Gu's life is worth?"
Gu Mingzhou did not answer immediately; his mother's life was, of course, priceless in his eyes.
Lin Qingyan said, "I don't need much, just give me three thousand yuan. After I get the money, you, your family, and I will go our separate ways. We will owe each other nothing and have no further relationship."
Gu Mingzhou listened to her light, airy words, each one resounding and composed. Her cool and aloof demeanor, and her petite figure, no longer gave him the impression of timidity and inferiority, or being as light as a floating duckweed, but rather as deep as the sea and as steady as Mount Tai.
Then, he paused for a moment.
Seeing that the way he looked at Lin Qingyan was different from before, Lin Sisi urged him again, "Brother Mingzhou, what should we do? Does your family have that much money?"
The implication is that if you don't have that much money, don't give it. Even if you did have that much, you didn't give it. After all, there's no price tag for gratitude, so just find an excuse to appease Lin Qingyan.
The Gu family's money all belongs to her; she can't let that little bitch Lin Qingyan have it.
Gu Mingzhou seemed not to hear her instructions and said to Lin Qingyan, "Three thousand yuan is a bit too much. I need to go home and discuss it with my parents."
“I believe your family can definitely afford it. I need it by noon tomorrow at the latest. Otherwise, I will go to your house in person and talk to your uncle and aunt personally.” Lin Qingyan stood up: “Alright, we’ve finished talking. Now you can talk about your business.”
She turned and went back into her room, closed the door, and locked it from the inside.
I spent most of the day dealing with the Lin family. If only I could punch them hard.
Unfortunately, she is not only physically weak, but also doesn't know any kung fu or martial arts. Hopefully, one day she will be able to use her fighting skills to prove herself.
If you can solve a problem with your fists, you don't need to say so much.
Compared to outsmarting someone, solving a problem with fists is actually much more satisfying.
She clenched her fair and delicate fist and waved it in the air a few times. Once she recovered, she would definitely find an opportunity to practice her martial arts skills.
At the same time, having combat skills also increases one's ability to protect oneself.
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