"My mom was just saying it casually, don't take it seriously." Chu Jiahe wasn't good at comforting girls, but he held her hand tightly. "Come on, I'll go home with you."
Forcing her to stay now would only make things more awkward.
Gan Tang shook her head. "You should go back and keep your aunt company. I was indeed in the wrong today. Don't argue with your aunt. I will work hard in the future to make her like me."
As she spoke, she tiptoed and whispered in Chu Jiahe's ear, "I didn't want to put you in a difficult position, but you're so kind!"
Once a man kisses a woman for the first time, it's like a river bursting its banks. Chu Jiahe followed suit and kissed the girl in front of him. Unfortunately, in public, he could only give her a brief, fleeting kiss.
"You're even better. Call me when you get home."
Gan Tang nodded.
Chu Jiahe opened the car door and gently helped her into the car.
The car door closed, and Gan Tang opened the window to say a few words to him, but the car suddenly sped away.
"What are you doing!" Gan Tang looked at Mo Huaixing with displeasure. "Drive the car to a good spot. I need to see if they're arguing."
The severity of the argument determines her chances of getting married.
Mo Huaixing parked the car on the steps behind the restaurant, not far away. From this spot, he could see the private rooms on the second floor. Gan Tang rolled down the car window and craned her neck to look.
A pair of binoculars was handed to her.
"Why are you carrying binoculars?" Gan Tang asked curiously as she took them. With the binoculars, the view inside the private room became much clearer.
Chu Jiahe was always composed, even when arguing, his expression remained gentle. Through the binoculars, it was impossible to tell what the two were arguing about, only that Mrs. Chu was quite angry, slamming her hand on the table from time to time, and later even lowering her head and crying.
Having angered her mother, Chu Jiahe knew she couldn't say anything more. She bowed deeply and turned to leave.
The telescope finally focused on Mrs. Chu's shocked expression. Perhaps she never expected that her most sensible son would talk back to her for a woman he had only known for a short time.
Although Gan Tang doesn't understand lip reading, she roughly understood what Chu Jiahe said when he left: "Whether you agree or not, I will marry her."
This made her feel both scared and somewhat touched.
However, Chu Jiahe has already left in anger, so what hope is there left?
"Let's go!" Gan Tang put down his binoculars.
In the rearview mirror, Mo Huaixing saw a deathly stillness on a pale, tired face as he drove through the bustling city center.
"Want to go get some barbecue?"
"I'm not going!"
"How's the concert? There's one in Dongcheng District today, by chance..."
"Why are you so noisy today?" Gan Tang interrupted, looking out the window with disdain.
But he only said two sentences to her.
Mo Huaixing drove the car to the small road under the bridge and parked it on the side of the road.
"I saw Cao Yunbo."
"I didn't see him. How could he dare to come to the restaurant to look for me!" Gan Tang suddenly sat up.
Mo Huaixing calmly exposed her lie, "I didn't say where I saw him."
"Mo Huaixing, it's just a coincidence, why are you so fixated on him?"
Gan Tang's voice was urgent and angry, and Mo Huaixing was also furious: "It's not that I'm clinging to him, it's very likely that Mr. Fu already knows."
"How would he know if you don't tell him?" Gan Tang blinked blankly, and after a long while, she said, "I'm sorry for causing you trouble. If Father really finds out, I will definitely protect you."
Mo Huaixing turned to look at Gan Tang, "Have you ever thought about how he knew you were here?"
"Are you going to say something like 'too many coincidences must mean it was premeditated' again?" Gan Tang was very disgusted: "What premeditated scheme could he have? He just wanted to see me kissing someone else and give up."
In a moment of panic, Gan Tang recounted the most embarrassing scene that had happened to her in the bathroom.
Only then did Mo Huaixing notice her swollen lips. He hurriedly turned around, wanting to start the engine, but the veins bulged the moment his hand touched the steering wheel.
He didn't want to upset her, but Cao Yunbo's departing figure was like a time bomb, disturbing his peace of mind.
"No matter how much you like Cao Yunbo, remember, never betray Mr. Fu." To make Gan Tang realize the seriousness of the problem, Mo Huaixing slowly uttered the question that had gone unanswered on the way.
"The importance of the Chu Group lies not in its wealth, but in the power behind it. In just twenty years, the Lu Group has accumulated a great deal of wealth, but it has no foundation. Without power to rely on, it is just a castle in the air, which can be destroyed in an instant. Therefore, Mr. Fu cannot let go of such a good opportunity."
"No wonder!" Gan Tang sneered, her voice low, but Mo Huaixing heard it.
“No wonder?” he asked.
"It's nothing!" How could Gan Tang possibly say something as embarrassing as sleeping with someone?
Gan Tang's silence made Mo Huaixing even more distressed. He couldn't help but wonder how much more grievance she had that he didn't know about.
“You don’t only have Cao Yunbo, you also have…” me.
Mo Huaixing didn't say the last word. He looked up at the woman in the rearview mirror and mustered up his courage to tell her his plan to help her.
"If you really don't want to marry Chu Jiahe, then you'll have to..."
Should Yunbo be killed?
Gan Tang interrupted Mo Huaixing in fright, "I'm willing, who said I'm not? Who wouldn't want to marry such an outstanding man as the heir to the Chu Group? You're overthinking it."
Worried that Mo Huaixing wouldn't believe her, Gan Tang added, "I was just forced by you all to please him, and I was a little disgusted. Now that I think about it carefully, if I'm going to marry, it has to be someone like him—considerate, gentle, and from a good family. Surely I wouldn't marry a desperado like you?"
"..."
Mo Huaixing swallowed back all the words he hadn't said.
...
Cao Yunbo was humming a song as he walked back to his apartment when suddenly a black cloth bag was put over his head and he was thrown into He Zhong's villa.
"Cao Yunbo, the money you owe now amounts to one million, including principal and interest!"
It was Yu Dayong's voice.
Cao Yunbo said tremblingly, "Brother Yu, are you sure you're not mistaken? I... I only borrowed 100,000."
He was lying on the ground with his limbs bound.
Through the black cloth bag, Yu Dayong accurately slapped him across the face, angrily saying, "I hired cars and people for you, acted with you for free, and I gathered information and greased the wheels for you without spending any money?"
"Brother Yu, I'll have money soon."
"When have you ever not said that?"
Yu Dayong's fist grazed Cao Yunbo's face, and Cao Yunbo screamed in fright.
“This time it’s for real. Lu Xintang is going to run away with me to a foreign country. How could she not take a lot of cash with her?”
"Would a rich young lady elope with you?"
"Really, really!" Cao Yunbo curled up and covered his head. "Brother Yu, it's all thanks to your good idea. She's terrified of poison, let alone marrying Chu Jiahe."
Sitting on the sofa, He Zhong waved his hand, signaling Yu Dayong to stop, and asked personally, "When are you going to escape?"
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