When Jiang Jingchu entered, Qin Huan was looking at her phone in the living room.
Cheng Shuyun sent her a message, asking if she had arrived home safely.
Qin Huan was used to being alone, so she was a little uncomfortable with being remembered so much. She simply replied,
"I'm home now. Thank you, Mrs. Liu, for your concern."
Cheng Shuyun was probably really worried about her, and she immediately replied with a long paragraph, asking her in a very subtle way whether she had been deceived by Jiang Jingchu.
Qin Huan laughed and held the phone, not knowing how to reply for a moment.
In Jiang Jingchu's eyes, the way she smiled with her chin on her hand looked like she was flirting with someone of the opposite sex, and he instantly felt jealous.
"Who are you texting? You look so happy."
Qin Huan stared at the screen without raising her head or opening her eyes.
"None of your business."
Jiang Jingchu's Adam's apple rolled, and he sat down on the sofa next to Qin Huan. Taking advantage of his height advantage, he glanced at Qin Huan's phone.
"I asked you to come here to cook for me, not to play with your phone."
Qin Huan frowned and moved to the edge of the sofa.
"The porridge is simmering on the fire, there's no need to stay there."
"You can't do two things at once. If the porridge gets mushy it'll affect my meal time."
Upon hearing this, Qin Huan glanced at Jiang Jingchu with a speechless look, put her phone casually on the coffee table, and went to the kitchen to check on the porridge.
Jiang Jingchu looked at her back, slowly sat up straight, and was about to get up and go to the kitchen.
With a "ding" sound, Qin Huan's phone screen lit up.
He didn't want to peek, but after taking two steps, he couldn't help but step back.
The information shows that it comes from "Mrs. Liu".
It wasn't the person Jiang Jingchu thought he was, which made him feel a little relieved.
But what the hell is the content sent below?
"There are many good men. I'll take my nephew to me someday..."
Jiang Jingchu didn’t unlock the screen, so he couldn’t see what was said next.
But he didn't even need to read the whole thing, he could basically guess that it was nothing more than introducing his nephew to her or something like that.
Jiang Jingchu sneered, walked to the kitchen door, leaned against the door frame and asked Qin Huan,
"Hey, what did you say to Mrs. Liu?"
Qin Huan was standing on tiptoe to taste the porridge when she suddenly heard Jiang Jingchu's voice behind her. She was so frightened that the spoon in her hand fell down and was about to hit her foot.
Jiang Jingchu was quick-witted and pulled her away. The spoon fell to the ground and broke into pieces. The boiling hot porridge splashed out of it, emitting wisps of white steam.
"How's it going? Did you get burned?"
Jiang Jingchu bent down and pulled up the hem of her skirt, revealing Qin Huan's slender white calves and ankles.
Seeing that there were no signs of burns on it, I felt relieved.
"You're saying you're multitasking and you refuse to admit it. Look, you can't even hold a spoon."
Qin Huan's face had already flushed red when Jiang Jingchu lifted her skirt. Upon hearing this, she stepped back slightly, lifted the hem of her skirt and shook it calmly.
"Who told you to suddenly stand behind me without saying a word!"
Does this mean you blame him?
Jiang Jingchu sneered,
"Mrs. Liu sent you a message saying she wants to introduce you to a boyfriend. I'm in a hurry to come over and tell you."
When Qin Huan heard this, she was stunned for a few seconds.
"Why did she introduce me to a boyfriend?"
After reacting, he glared at Jiang Jingchu.
"You actually looked at my phone?"
Jiang Jingchu frowned unhappily.
"Who peeked at your phone? I look so free."
Seeing that Qin Huan was still glaring at him with puffed cheeks, Jiang Jingchu chuckled and shook his head, his smile looking both rogue and helpless.
"It lit up on its own, and I'm not blind, so I saw it with just a glance."
It would be strange if Qin Huan believed him. When they were together in the past, hadn't he secretly looked at her phone often enough?
Thinking of this, she walked straight around Jiang Jingchu and went to the living room, muttering softly,
"It's the same excuse every time."
Jiang Jingchu had sharp ears, so he naturally heard it, but he didn't get angry, just raised his eyebrows.
"You haven't answered me yet. What did you say to Mrs. Liu? Why did she introduce you to a boyfriend?"
Qin Huan said "Oh", picked up her phone and looked through the message sent by Cheng Shuyun, while answering Jiang Jingchu nonchalantly.
"I told her that I had just had a fight with her and that we had parted ways. She sympathized with me, so she comforted me and offered to help me find a boyfriend."
"What does it mean to go our separate ways?"
Jiang Jingchu frowned, a trace of displeasure flashed across his face.
Qin Huan pursed her lips, looking a little uncomfortable.
"To go our separate ways naturally means to break up."
"You've already reached an agreement on the cooperation with Xinda. We have to find a reason to properly end this fake relationship."
"Then why does she sympathize with you?"
I feel so sympathetic towards her that I can’t wait to introduce her to a boyfriend!
"Oh, I guess I told her that the reason she was a mistress was because you played with her feelings without her knowing."
"Me? Toying with you?"
Jiang Jingchu seemed to have heard a huge joke, and his thumb caressed his lips and scraped them slowly.
"Qin Huan, how can you have the nerve to say such things to others?"
Qin Huan knew she was in the wrong, and in fact she was just following Cheng Shuyun's wishes.
"Otherwise, what about me trying so hard to throw myself at you even though I knew you had a fiancée?"
Jiang Jingchu:...
"I mean, why don't you just say you're playing me?"
Qin Huan was speechless.
"I, a woman so ordinary that she couldn't be more ordinary, toyed with the feelings of the Jiang family's Crown Prince? Who would believe me if I told them that?"
Jiang Jingchu rolled his eyes at her silently.
"You talk like you didn't do it."
Qin Huan: ...
On the Ji family side.
Ji Jingya sat quietly on the sofa and had maintained this posture for a long time.
After Jiang Jingchu left the banquet in the middle of the night, he left Gao Fei behind to clean up the mess.
Gao Fei explained to her and Ji's father that Jiang Jingchu had to leave first because something urgent happened in the company.
In front of everyone, Ji's father said that he could understand it, and at the same time he did not forget to praise Jiang Jingchu for his young age and that there was a lot of young people to be looked after.
In fact, as soon as he got home, he put away the pleasant expression on his face and exploded into a rage.
"What does the Jiang family mean?"
"We agreed to come over to discuss the wedding date, but he called at the last minute and said he had something going on at the company and couldn't come."
"Jiang Chengwang is in trouble, and Jiang Jingchu is in trouble too? I just can't believe it. The Jiang Group is so huge, with tens of thousands of employees, and yet the chairman and general manager have to do everything themselves?"
Mother Ji didn't expect this to be the result. She glanced at her daughter and secretly winked at Father Ji.
"Stop talking. Jingya feels no worse than you do."
Father Ji snorted coldly, a breath of foul air stuck in his chest, he pointed the finger at Ji Jingya and continued,
"The banquet was only halfway through, and he left with an assistant without saying a word. Does he still regard me as his future father-in-law and our Ji family as anything?"
"I think it's because you've spoiled him too much all day long, that's why he's so fearless!"
Ji Jingya remained silent in the face of her father's accusations.
What came to her mind was the scene where Jiang Jingchu pushed her hand away without hesitation in front of everyone and chased after Qin Huan impatiently.
To be honest, she did have some selfish motives in bringing Qin Huan to the banquet hall today.
She didn't know whether there was any possibility for Qin Huan and Jiang Jingchu to rekindle their relationship.
She just wanted to let Qin Huan see with her own eyes the fact that she was engaged to Jiang Jingchu before that.
Let her clarify her identity in time.
Unfortunately, the final result made Ji Jingya suddenly realize that perhaps it was not Qin Huan who had not figured out her position, but she and Jiang Jingchu.
"Can you hear me talking to you?"
Father Ji said so much, but Ji Jingya's face did not show any change. Father Ji was very angry.
"There are some things that I, as a father, shouldn't tell you."
"But I really can't help it today. If you continue to be lukewarm and unhurried with Jiang Jingchu,
Don’t even think about getting married from now on. I think it’s not impossible for the Jiang family to break off the engagement!”
As the last sentence fell, a crack finally appeared on Ji Jingya's calm face.
break off an engagement…
Although Ji Jingya and Jiang Jingchu had agreed at the time that when the time came, they would find a way to cancel the engagement that would not cause much harm to either party.
At that time, Ji Jingya felt that that day would not come so soon, but now, with Qin Huan's return, she felt that day seemed to be really not far away.
Thinking of this, her heart suddenly surged with reluctance.
"Dad, what if one day I really break off my engagement with him?"
"Hey, what nonsense are you talking about, kid?"
Mother Ji couldn't bear to hurt her daughter so badly, so she glared at Father Ji.
"You too, can't you say a few less words?"
After saying that, he pulled the dazed Ji Jingya upstairs.
Finally, before leaving Ji Jingya's room, she thought about it and whispered to comfort her,
"Jingya, it's a man's nature for Jingchu to be young and playful, but I think he listens to his mother quite a bit. You might as well try a different approach and start with your future mother-in-law. Maybe you'll get twice the result with half the effort."
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