Chapter 35 Chapter 35 I Like You
The scene was silent for about ten seconds. It is no exaggeration to say that when Xing Kui saw her uncles and aunts, their eyes were wide open like cow eyes and they did not blink for ten seconds.
Then, a surge of shock erupted—
"What?!!!!!!"
Xing Kui, the person involved, was very proud. She put her arm around Zhou Jing and timidly repeated, "Yes, he is my boyfriend. What's wrong?"
The person involved, Zhou Jing, was very calm, but his heart was beating fast. His thin, white and strong arms were flexed under his gray windbreaker.
His Adam's apple rolled and he hummed deeply.
"What?!!!!!"
The relatives were dumbfounded, too shocked to say anything else. They had been verbally harassing Xing Kui, telling her to be less picky and less greedy. But Xing Kui actually had a boyfriend who drove a multi-million dollar car! He was also tall, rich, and handsome!
Xing Kui silently looked at these relatives who were all embarrassed.
Humans are jealous animals, just like Gao Hongmei. It is true that she wanted to introduce someone to her, but she absolutely did not want her to marry someone better than her own daughter. So those five people seemed to work in the same company as her son-in-law, but in fact their overall conditions were lower than Zhao Peng's.
Gao Hongmei's eyes widened, probably thinking, I hope this is a dream, a dream, it's all a dream.
People will also try to curry favor with the rich and powerful. If relative A is doing well, relative B may not be happy; if relative A is doing particularly well, relative B will also smile, search the family tree to find connections, and call to congratulate even the smallest things during festivals.
Eldest uncle, eldest aunt, third uncle...each of them was probably thinking about how to get Zhou Jing's phone number.
"Oh, Kuikui already has a partner, but she didn't bring him back to show us." The eldest uncle laughed happily.
"Yes, yes." The fourth uncle took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed it to Zhou Jing.
"Hey! Use mine. Mine is softer and better than yours." The third uncle spoke first.
It's strange. When urging me to get married, the male elders couldn't say a word for a long time, like dead people. But now they come back to life one by one in a shocking way.
"He doesn't smoke. He said that people who are addicted to smoking are not good people." Xing Kui rejected Zhou Jing decisively without looking away, but the short man, whose nails had turned yellow from smoking before, always felt that he was scolding him.
He opened his mouth unhappily, revealing a mouthful of blackened teeth and receding gums: "Why are you going on a blind date when you already have a boyfriend? Are you treating us like monkeys?"
Zhou Jing is rich, which makes the short man admire him. However, some men always feel that the only difference between themselves and the rich is the word "rich". Even though they are not in the same level, they are mysteriously confident and dare to show off.
"I didn't agree to the blind date. You guys kept asking questions and I barely said a word."
Xing Kui almost pressed on Zhou Jing, wrapped around his warm arms, and absorbed the heat from standing.
"You're the ones asking questions, from my salary to whether I've ever been in a relationship. You're the ones asking. I haven't asked a single question. Isn't a blind date about seeing each other? If it's not about seeing each other, how can it be called a blind date?"
Her question left people speechless.
Isn't a blind date about seeing each other? If only the man saw her one-sidedly, what kind of blind date is that?
Beside Xing Kui, Zhou Jing observed calmly. Each person's appearance, expression, and position were reflected in his eyes through the lenses. Combining with the words, he quickly figured out the situation.
Wedding banquet, Hongmen Banquet, blind date banquet, they actually dared to use the wedding banquet to trick Xing Kui into a blind date, and with a few inferior people at that.
How dare he? Xing Kui is such a good person, he would have to compete with others to pursue her.
Xing Kui should have been angry, even losing control and cursing would not have been excessive, but she did not behave in that way.
Because her mother was there.
That's why she sent a message to Zhou Jing a few minutes ago.
Little Sunflower Fighting: [Lawyer Zhou, I have an urgent matter. Can you borrow a luxury car? I want one that's obviously expensive. Please drive to this address and rescue me (location)]
Simply venting emotions and cursing can only bring temporary relief. Xing Kui will not act on impulse, but she will never tolerate bullying. She thought of a better way: to find a boyfriend who is good enough.
This way, she can speak her mind without hurting her mother.
Xing Kui clung tightly to Zhou Jing. Before he came, she was alone under the bombardment, holding on tenaciously. After he arrived, she carefully released her bombardment, killing one person at a time.
Her face was pale and pretty, full of pity, and her almond-shaped eyes sparkled with light. She was afraid that saying something wrong would cause the relatives to vent their anger on Xing's mother, so she measured every word of rebuttal.
A warm palm rested on Xing Kui's wrist, which was covered with blue veins. She was stunned for a moment and looked up at Lawyer Zhou.
Zhou Jing's face was calm. She opened her lips, which she had kissed twenty-nine times and knew how comfortable it was to kiss, and said softly, "My boyfriend is here."
My boyfriend is here.
So be bold and say what you want to say.
So don't be afraid.
Xing Kui opened her almond-shaped eyes in shock, a tear rolled down her eye socket, and Zhou Jing stretched out his fingertips to wipe it away for her.
She raised the corners of her mouth, as if she was recharged with energy, smiled silently at Zhou Jing, turned her head and said, "My boyfriend is here, the farce can end now."
"Yes, of course." All the aunts and uncles came forward to try to get close to her, excluding the five sour-faced blind date guys who had an annual salary of around 100,000 yuan.
Next to the dark black Pagani, Xing Kui walked out of the hotel and looked behind him, tilting his head in confusion. It was strange that the talkative man in strange clothes suddenly disappeared.
"Kui Kui, what's wrong?" Zhou Jing lowered his head and asked softly.
"It's okay. Thank you for taking us to my sister's new house." The wedding banquet is divided into two meals, one at noon and another at night. In the afternoon, people usually go to the bride and groom's home to drink tea and chat.
Xing Kui hadn't planned to go, but so many people wanted to ride in a Pagani that she stood on tiptoe. Zhou Jing bent her head and asked her to cover her ears. "I asked you to borrow a luxury car. Why are you borrowing such an expensive one? It doesn't look like Li Chengchuan's car. Is it rented? How much is it? I'll transfer it to you."
Zhou Jing curled his lips slightly, and it was his turn to put Xing Kui's ear in his ear: "It's borrowed, no money required."
"Hey, look at them, what are they talking about over there? Did Xing Kui look at the car? It must be rented!"
In Zhao Peng's car, Xing Zhile sat in the passenger seat, and her parents Xing Yaozu and Gao Hongmei sat in the back seat. Seeing Xing Kui and Zhou Jing covering their ears by the car in the distance, Gao Hongmei patted Xing Yaozu.
"Mom." Xing Zhile turned around, "Don't be so suspicious."
"My dear child, I am doing this for your own good. The second daughter's family has always been superior to you since you were young. Now she is even superior to you when it comes to finding a boyfriend. I am afraid that you will not be able to hold your head up high in the future."
Xing Zhile turned her head away, a little annoyed by the comparison: "I don't think so, sister. Besides, aren't you the ones who always say I'm not as good as me? I have my strengths too."
"What are your strengths?"
"I, I know how to give a massage. Can I? I don't."
"Hey, don't make me laugh. Don't embarrass yourself by sharing what you learned from technical school." Gao Hongmei held out her rough hand. "Your sister got into a top 985 university and earned a double degree there. She speaks English and Spanish. If Chunxia hadn't forbidden her from pursuing graduate school, she would have been admitted long ago."
Xing Zhile listened and said, "You know how outstanding I am, why do you always belittle her in front of me?"
Gao Hongmei sneered, "No matter how outstanding she is, she's not my daughter. If I don't put some pressure on her, she'll just be so arrogant, Xing Yaozu, right?"
Xing Yaozu drank a few ounces of white wine at the table, his yellow-brown cheeks flushed red. "Yes, your mother is right. As for Xing Kui, don't be fooled by her tears when she is criticized. She is very smart. She said nothing and brought up a rich boyfriend, but it may not be true. Hongmei, go check on them when you get home."
Gao Hongmei immediately asked, "Why am I the one who's investigating?"
Xing Yaozu immediately replied: "How can I interfere in your women's affairs?"
"You're just pretending." Gao Hongmei rolled her eyes.
The large chandelier in the living room of the bridal chamber shone brightly. The entire bridal chamber was 110 square meters, with three bedrooms and a living room. Xing Kui didn't want to hang out with her relatives, but several aunts kept surrounding her and Zhou Jing, wanting to know about Zhou Jing's occupation.
"Well, it's also a civilian job."
"What is a civil servant? Kuikui, do you think the aunts are uneducated and can't understand?"
"How could that be, aunts?" Xing Kui laughed. "I'm just afraid you'll think his job means he can afford a luxury car worth tens of millions, and force his younger brothers and sisters to learn it too. In any field, there are always people who reach the top and a lot of people who are at the bottom. Can you understand that?"
The aunts frowned, they were all people who cared too much about face, so they said that although they had a low level of education, they could understand it. How could they say they didn't understand now? They couldn't afford to lose face.
A few people looked at each other. Not far away, the cousins who seemed not to have joined in the inquiry were smoking cigarettes, looking at this place with squinted eyes, and giving glances to their wives.
Everyone wanted to confirm whether the boyfriend who appeared without any warning was really rich or just pretending to be rich. Since they couldn't pry open Xing Kui's mouth, they asked her mother to do it.
Gao Hongmei took Xing's mother's arm, and said with a sisterly affection: "Kui Kui, look at what you said. How could we force the child? It's okay if you don't tell us. Zhou Jing's occupation, not even your mother is qualified to know?"
Mother Xing looked at Xing Kui expectantly.
The corners of Xing Kui's mouth twitched, and she grabbed her jeans. They were not done with it. They just knew how to use her mother as a gun!
A familiar hand covered the back of her hand. Zhou Jing stood beside her and said calmly, "Lawyer."
Over there, Xing Zhile and her husband Zhao Peng walked out of the bedroom: "What is my mother doing again? I told her not to ask."
Zhao Peng frowned with confusion: "Come to think of it, I always feel that Zhou Jing looks a little familiar."
"Lawyer?" Gao Hongmei's gloating mood suddenly surfaced when she heard Zhou Jing explain his profession. "Lawyers can't earn tens of millions, right? Kuikui, just tell us if the car is rented. We're all family, and we won't laugh at you."
Fourth Aunt covered her mouth and laughed: "Don't even think before you lie."
Xing Kui was joking around in her head, and the five fingers holding her hand gently tightened. She looked at Zhou Jing, who was calm and composed: "Who says lawyers can't make money? Kui Kui just said that every industry has people who reach the top, and I am one of them."
He said he was the one who reached the summit.
Xing Kui was stunned for a moment, then held Zhou Jing's hand tightly. She had seen the Audi Zhou Jing drove and the old neighborhood he lived in. Maybe he was lying to save face for her, but it didn't matter.
She cast her gaze at the group of monsters in front of her: her uncle and aunt were so excited about exposing other people's lies that they had completely forgotten how much filth was hidden in their respective families.
The eldest cousin Xing Guangzong who engaged in naked chatting, the third cousin Xing Yaozu who solicited prostitutes, and the fourth cousin Xing Guodong who kept a mistress.
Bring honor to the family and be a pillar of the country.
What the three of them did had to be followed by a slash before posting it online to prevent it from being blocked. Compared to them, her lying couldn't be considered a bad deed. Xing Kui laughed, echoing Zhou Jing's words, and boldly added details to him.
"Yeah, uncle and aunt, don't you know that lawyers get commissions? My boyfriend took on a case a while ago with a 100 million yuan fee, and he got 30% commission. He bought a car worth tens of millions and used it to sprinkle water."
Xing Kui made up stories without restraint, and the more he made them, the more eloquent his words became. "It's more than tens of millions. Sometimes he can get hundreds of millions for a single case. His father owns the law firm, which is a global chain. He can collect a lot of money every year even if he doesn't work."
Zhou Jing nodded in agreement, acquiescing to all of the allegations and denying only one of them: "The law firm has nothing to do with my family. I'm a partner."
Xing Kui looked at him in admiration. He was even better at making up stories than her: "Ah, that was my mistake. I thought he was a second-generation rich man, but it turns out he's a first-generation rich man."
"It's also rich..." Zhou Jing pondered for a moment, "Sorry, I haven't calculated how many generations of wealth I have."
Mom! He's so amazing, she almost believed him with his serious look!
Xing Kui raised the corner of her mouth and smiled the sweetest smile of the day. She was very happy to simply confront demons and monsters. Even if she was just talking nonsense, there would be a moment when she would be exposed. She would talk about it when that moment came.
"Kui Kui." The uncles and aunts' faces all turned black. Xing Kui's words were so brisk and illogical that they didn't believe them. "Is this how you treat your elders? Chunxia, Zhengjun, how do you teach your children?"
"I found out!" Zhao Peng, who was sitting by the sofa, suddenly shouted, holding his phone and pointing a finger at Zhou Jing, "He he he——"
Last year, the logistics company where Zhao Peng worked was involved in an international fraud case, and its reputation plummeted overnight. In order to save the company, the chairman spent hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees to hire a top lawyer.
On the day Zhou Jing came to the company, Zhao Peng was not even qualified to be arranged into the welcoming team. He could only glance at him from afar. He still remembers that the company's decisive chairman nodded and bowed to him.
Zhao Peng just searched for Zhou Jing's name and stuttered in fear after entering the encyclopedia page. Xing Yaozu couldn't bear it any longer and impatiently took his phone. Then he was also stunned: "He he he——"
"What's he he he? Let me see!" Gao Hongmei snatched the phone, took a look, and was struck by lightning, "He he he——"
He is at the top of the legal profession, his grandfather is a Supreme Court Justice, his mother is a figure who often appears in the news, and according to online speculation, his personal annual income exceeds 10 billion.
What were the expressions on the faces of these relatives? Xing Kui didn't understand what was going on, but her instinct was good. Just in case, she moved closer to Zhou Jing: "See that door over there? If something bad happens, just hold me and run."
Zhou Jing curled the corners of his mouth slightly and touched her head.
"Oh! Kui Kui! Why didn't you tell me earlier that your boyfriend is this kind of person?"
"Please take a seat."
"Oh my, this is a big misunderstanding. Please sit down."
"Chunxia, you are so lucky."
The relatives started to move, some were moving stools, some were pouring tea, all with fawning expressions on their faces. Xing Kui took the phone they had just passed to her in a daze...Ah?
At the windowsill, Zhou Jing, who had escaped the encirclement, glanced at Xing Kui who was still in the circle, and picked up the phone. A contemptuous voice, as if the speaker was a playboy in the gaming world, came from the speaker.
"How was it? Did I rescue Cinderella by borrowing your car?"
In Huide Hospital, Jiang Yuming put a red rose in the vase, and stroked the petals with his long white fingertips. His eyebrows were charming and affectionate. The room was filled with the smell of disinfectant, but he was like rose-scented perfume.
"Lawyer Zhou." Xing Kui came over and stopped Zhou Jing from answering Jiang Yuming.
Relatives were crowded in the living room. Xing Kui and Zhou Jing each found an excuse to leave, but Xing Kui's parents were still there. People surrounded them, flattering them, smoking, drinking tea, and laughing.
Xing Kui leaned against the window, was quiet for a few seconds, and then spoke, "My grandfather's generation had four brothers, and the four brothers each had children, and the children each got married, got married, and found a son-in-law...
My grandmother also had six brothers and sisters, and Li Zhengjun's mother also had four sisters... I don't know exactly how many relatives I have. The ones you met today are only a part of them. There are many more whose names I cannot even remember."
She spoke calmly, "I am 29 years old in lunar age, 28 in actual age. Since I graduated from university, every time I see my relatives it feels like I'm on the execution ground.
My mother, Xing Chunxia, undoubtedly loves me very much. She often taught me when I was a child that 'Girls are no worse than boys' and 'You can learn anything that boys can learn'. But after all, she lives in their circle, and people in that circle will be assimilated if they hear something a hundred times, a thousand times, or ten thousand times.
I could have been admitted to graduate school when I was in college, but she believed the nonsense of her relatives and thought it would be difficult for girls with too high an education to get married, so she made a fuss and forced me to give up.
Over the years, I have been tortured by the pressure to get married. Next year, I will be thirty in my age. I can imagine what I will experience when I sit at a banquet next year.
So, I came up with an idea that might sound absurd to you: I wanted to find someone to fake marry.”
Xing Kui tilted her head and looked at Zhou Jing, "I pursued you because I wanted to have a fake marriage with you, but you insisted on forcing me to see your heart. What you wanted was a real marriage."
She looked back at the living room. "I don't want to get married for real. Look at them. These men in the living room. One was defrauded of hundreds of thousands of yuan by chatting naked, one has been keeping a mistress for several years, and one always likes to take a bath in the town's bathhouse. Only when the police sealed it off did the women in the town realize it was a prostitution den."
And there is Li Zhengjun. I don’t call him dad because one afternoon many years ago, my mother asked me to look at a photo of an aunt and asked me who was prettier between her and her.
Lawyer Zhou, you are very good to me, but each of them has also vowed to love his wife forever. I can't have the urge to marry you just because you are so good now.
This is why I resist your pursuit."
She stood up straight. "Today I'm being pressured into getting married again. It's more disgusting than any other time. I was tricked into going on a blind date, a one-on-five pairing, and the choice was in the hands of 'One', but none of my family members thought I should have the right to choose.
They asked me about my salary and whether I was a virgin. None of my family members thought I could ask these questions. I was treated like a commodity and placed in a display cabinet made of one-way glass. Only they could see me, but I couldn't see them.
Maybe this sounds a bit cliché, but my world was truly dark at the time, and then I saw a glowing car parked downstairs, which made everyone stop judging me. I think, no matter who came down, my heart would be moved.
Xing Kui stared at Zhou Jing seriously. "Lawyer Zhou, I still don't want to get married, but I want to hold on to you in the present moment, maybe for a year, a month, or even just one day. I like you. Will you be my boyfriend?"
On the windowsill, Zhou Jing was stunned.
At Huide Hospital, Jiang Yuming crushed the roses.
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