Chapter 87 She's Different
Jin Changyu's head buzzed for a moment, a hint of panic flashing in his eyes, "How could you... Ningxi told you?"
Sang Qian shook her head. "I heard it with my own ears."
"When she asked you who you would choose between me and Zhou Yunshuang, I was standing behind the liquor cabinet."
Sang Qian looked at him and said, "I heard your answer perfectly clearly."
Jin Changyu seemed to understand what was going on. "So, you only heard the last sentence, right?"
Sang Qian frowned slightly as she looked at him. "Isn't this enough?"
"You say you don't like Zhou Yunshuang, and that your relationship with her is completely innocent. Then why did you abandon your wife to choose her?"
"No, I didn't abandon you to choose her."
Jin Changyu hurriedly sat down and tried to take her hand, but Sang Qian refused and sat back, signaling to him with her eyes: Don't come closer.
Jin Changyu could only sit still.
"Are you going to tell me now that I misheard you?"
Sang Qian's eyes held a mocking glint.
"No, you didn't mishear, but you didn't hear the whole thing, so you misunderstood."
Jin Changyu let out a long sigh.
He said he couldn't discuss this kind of topic with that brat Ningxi; she really ruined him.
"This is what happened..."
Jin Changyu explained the situation that day.
That day, Jin Ningxi said that one of her close classmates had just turned 20 when her family arranged for her to marry a man she didn't like.
"It's the 21st century, and everyone is pursuing free love. How can her parents arrange marriages for her with someone she doesn't like?"
Jin Ningxi spoke up for her classmate.
After she finished speaking, she turned to look at Jin Changyu, who was sitting quietly next to her reading a financial magazine, and said, "Brother, I'm talking to you, can you give me a response?"
What kind of response do you want?
Jin Changyu then looked up at her and said, "No matter the century, family marriage is an important business tactic."
"Marriage alliances are not romantic relationships. The foundation of business alliances is interests. The factors considered are whether they can bring resource integration to the company and whether they are beneficial to the future development of the family."
"The idea of finding love in a business marriage is a misconception."
Jin Ningxi looked at him, clicked her tongue and shook her head, "Brother, you really are a profit-driven businessman."
"Hmph, they have no humanity at all, they only care about profit."
"I am the group leader. I don't seek profit or development. With so many employees under the group, do you think I can support my family by showing them some human kindness and not paying them a salary?"
"childish."
He tapped Jin Ningxi on the head with the magazine in his hand. "Also, we're discussing the value and significance of a business marriage right now, so stop with the personal attacks."
“Alright, then let’s discuss this business marriage.” Jin Ningxi turned to face him. “So, let me ask you, was your marriage to your sister-in-law also based on business interests?”
Jin Changyu paused, his hand holding the magazine, then opened it and began to read it intently.
"She's different."
"How is it different?" Seeing that he seemed to be avoiding the question, Jin Ningxi was not going to let him off the hook.
"Or is it that when it comes to your own situation, you don't consider value and meaning anymore?"
"My sister-in-law's family, at least from a business perspective, doesn't offer any advantages to our Jin family, does it?"
Jin Ningxi nudged his arm. "You were so eloquent when you were lecturing me, but why don't you use your 'commercial marriage value' theory on your sister-in-law?"
This was the first time in his life that Jin Ningxi had managed to gain the upper hand in an argument with Jin Changyu. Feeling a smug sense of triumph, he snatched the magazine from Jin Changyu's hand, rolled it up like a microphone, and shoved it in front of him.
"Please, our esteemed Leader of the Jin Group, answer my question directly."
Jin Changyu's forehead twitched, and he snatched the magazine back. "When I married your sister-in-law... the circumstances at the time were a bit complicated, so we can't generalize."
Why can't we generalize?
Jin's mother interjected, speaking up for Jin Changyu, "Back then, it was because the Zhou family suddenly gave up on the marriage alliance that your grandmother pushed Sang Qian to your brother, and that's how they got married. It's really not your brother's fault."
"Okay, then I'll ask it another way."
Jin Ningxi threw the magazine out of Jin Changyu's hand again. "Brother, let me ask you, if Zhou Yunshuang hadn't gone abroad back then, would you have chosen her or your sister-in-law?"
"I refuse to answer such a ridiculous and meaningless hypothetical question."
Jin Changyu looked at her, his expression suddenly becoming much more serious. "Sang Qian is now your sister-in-law, that's an indisputable fact."
"I'm not talking about now, I'm talking about if, if you and your sister-in-law aren't married yet, then she and Zhou Yunshuang..."
"There are no ifs," Jin Changyu interrupted her.
After a moment of silence, he added, "When we were arranged to marry into the Zhou family, I didn't even know your sister-in-law yet."
"That's why I said 'if,' which means hypothetically, why are you so resistant to this question?"
Jin Ningxi squinted at him, probing, "Or is it that all those grand principles you just talked about about arranged marriages were just empty words, and in reality, you're just lusting after your sister-in-law's beauty, and have developed feelings for her at first sight..."
"No respect for elders."
Jin Changyu tapped her on the forehead hard.
Jin Ningxi cried out in pain, rubbing her sore forehead, and glared at him accusingly, "You have no sportsmanship!"
"You're talking nonsense."
"I'm talking nonsense? Fine, then prove it to me."
Jin Ningxi persisted, "Tell me, if we go back two years and you weren't married yet, from the perspective of a business marriage, with the Zhou family and the Sang family both in front of you, would you choose to marry Zhou Yunshuang or Sang Qian?"
Jin Changyu's brows furrowed, his displeasure evident. "Jin Ningxi, do you realize how disrespectful you are to your sister-in-law?"
Mrs. Jin didn't like hearing that. "It's just a hypothetical question. How is that disrespectful to her?"
"It's just a hypothetical situation."
Jin Ning said weakly, then cleared her throat and raised her voice, "Brother, just answer me."
"If your sister-in-law and Zhou Yunshuang were standing in front of you at the same time and you had to choose, who would you choose as your wife?"
"No lying, answer truthfully."
Jin Changyu replied, "Zhou Yunshuang."
"No way, bro, are you really that mercenary?"
Jin Changyu's next words were interrupted by a phone call. There was an urgent matter at the company, so he didn't continue the topic and left the Jin family.
But to his utter surprise, Sang Qian happened to overhear the last few sentences of that conversation.
Jin Changyu recounted the events of that day to Sang Qian in detail, watching her nervously. "When I said I would choose Zhou Yunshuang, it wasn't because I liked her."
"That was just a hypothetical scenario in Ningxi's case, based on the premise that I didn't know you yet and hadn't married you, and it was a choice made from the perspective of a business marriage."
The Jin family's choice of the Zhou family was originally a result of considering commercial value.
He is the heir of the Jin family, bearing heavy responsibilities. From a young age, he was instilled with the idea that the interests and honor of the family should be the top priority in everything.
Therefore, in his previous mindset, his marriage was a business deal, unrelated to feelings, and only measured by the benefits that the marriage would bring to the family business.
But Sang Qian was an exception for him.
She was the only choice he made according to his own heart in his 27 years of carrying heavy burdens, and it was arranged and approved by his grandmother.
He chose her, without any regard for personal gain.
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