Chapter 381 Will You Marry Me?
The corridor was dimly lit and quiet; the only sound was each other's breathing.
Yu Xiangkui met Huo Huai'an's gaze, blinked, and said softly, "You can stay and sleep on the sofa."
Huo Huai'an raised an eyebrow, "Just sleeping on the sofa?"
Yu Xiangkui said seriously, "We can't go to bed together."
Huo Huai'an became interested. "Why?"
"My dad says all premarital sex is immoral."
"...You actually listen to your father quite a bit."
Yu Xiangkui: "My dad is very good."
Huo Huai'an asked, "What if I insist on staying?"
Yu Xiangkui held up the unopened bottle of mineral water in her hand and squeezed it hard in front of Huo Huai'an—
The bottle cap popped open with a "pop."
Huo Huai'an reacted quickly and dodged, thus avoiding being sprayed with water from the bottle.
Yu Xiangkui lowered his hand and said with a serious expression, "I will hit you."
Huo Huai'an: "..."
The little girl looked so delicate and frail, as if she could be blown away by a gust of wind, but I never expected her to have such a strong grip.
Judging from his posture, he seems to have practiced before.
"Alright. I'm not teasing you anymore." Huo Huai'an raised his chin. "Go inside. Get some rest."
Yu Xiangkui: "Good night."
"Good night." Huo Huai'an watched her go inside and close the door before turning to leave.
When Huo Huai'an arrived home, the lights were still on.
Huo Xiao sat on the sofa. Seeing his son return, he put down the documents in his hand, coughed lightly, and said, "I heard from Lao Yu that his daughter came back with you?"
Something didn't sound right. Huo Huai'an corrected his father: "He's not coming back with me, he's coming here to play."
Huo Xiao: "Didn't you come back with me?"
"You can interpret it that way if you want." After a long day of running around, Huo Huai'an didn't want to waste time discussing such matters with his father.
Huo Xiao then asked, "Where is the person now?"
Huo Huai'an: "Hotel."
Huo Xiao muttered, "How can you let someone stay in a hotel? It's not safe for a girl to stay in a hotel alone."
Huo Huai'an thought of the strength with which the little girl squeezed the mineral water bottle with her bare hands, and thought to himself that even if someone was unsafe, the girl wouldn't be.
As Huo Xiao watched his son go upstairs, remembering his ex-wife's instructions, he quickly said, "Bring some people over for a meal tomorrow."
Huo Huai'an replied without turning his head, "Understood."
As instructed by his father, Huo Huai'an brought the person back from the hotel early the next morning.
Yu Ran arrived even earlier and was already waiting in the living room.
As her son gets older, Yu Ran finds any woman who is unmarried and younger than her son pleasing to the eye, let alone a pretty young girl like Yu Xiangkui.
Yu Ran was very satisfied with the wife her ex-husband had chosen for their son.
After lunch, Yu Ran sent the two young people out and asked her son to take the little girl to play.
After getting in the car, Huo Huai'an asked, "Where do you want to go?"
Yu Xiangkui took out her phone. "I did my homework last night. Can you take me here first?"
Huo Huai'an looked down.
She did her "homework" quite thoroughly; there were some places he had never been to.
Huo Huai'an made a phone call to arrange his work, and then took two days off to take Yu Xiangkui out for fun.
In recent years, his life has consisted of nothing but work. When he goes out, it's either to meet this person or that person. Huo Huai'an can't remember the last time he went out to relax like this. The last time he went out to play like this was when he was in college.
The last person to be by his side was his ex-girlfriend.
Yu Xiangkui studied finance and had a lot to talk about with Huo Huai'an, and they had their own independent opinions on many things.
Huo Huai'an asked, "Do you plan to take over your father's business later?"
Besides the bank, the Yu family also owns many other businesses. Those businesses previously belonged to Yu Xiangkui's uncle, but five years ago, Yu Xiangkui's uncle and his family of four were killed in a car accident, and the remaining businesses naturally fell into the hands of Yu Xiangkui's father.
Yu Xiangkui shook her head, "I can't."
She paused, then said, "My father doesn't want me to end up like him. My father wants me to marry someone from mainland China."
Huo Huai'an: "Why?"
Yu Xiangkui: "My father and uncle have many enemies. My father is very worried about me and doesn't want me to stay there."
Besides her uncle, Yu Xiangkui originally had an aunt, but over the years, only Yu Xiangkui and Old Yu remain in the Yu family. Yu Xiangkui was almost kidnapped the day she returned to Hong Kong after graduating.
Old Yu is getting old and has a host of chronic ailments. He might fall asleep one night and never wake up the next day. His biggest worry is his daughter. Rather than marrying someone nearby, Old Yu hopes his precious daughter will marry safely and well.
Huo Huai'an: "What will happen to your father's businesses in the future?"
Yu Xiangkui: "My dad will sell them."
Old Yu's choice is to sell all the assets he and his brother have accumulated over the years and use the proceeds as dowry for his daughter. He will marry her and find a son-in-law who is of equal social standing, financial means, and trustworthy character.
There are many unmarried young men in Hong Kong Island whose families are as wealthy as the Yu family, but Old Yu doesn't like any of them. In addition, he hopes that his daughter can marry "safely." After searching for so many years, Old Yu finally decided to take a chance after he met Huo Xiao on his last business trip and learned that Huo Xiao has an unmarried son.
Old Yu had naturally investigated Huo Huai'an, and the results of the investigation satisfied him greatly.
If he wasn't satisfied, he wouldn't have let his daughter come with Huo Huai'an.
Huo Huai'an spent the day with Yu Xiangkui. When he took Yu Xiangkui back to her hotel, Yu Xiangkui suddenly asked him, "Mr. Huo, will you marry me?"
Huo Huai'an was taken aback, then asked with a mix of amusement and exasperation, "Your father instructed you to do this?"
Yu Xiangkui nodded.
Huo Huai'an was driving when he took a moment to glance at the little girl.
Seeing that the young girl looked serious and wasn't joking, he also straightened his expression and said, "I will only marry a woman who loves me and whom I love in return."
There are many marriages in the circle that are based on mutual interests, but the people closest to Huo Huai'an all entered into marriage because of mutual affection. There's no reason for him to be the exception.
He would rather remain single for life than marry just for the sake of marriage than meet the right person.
Yu Xiangkui thought for a moment and asked, "Do you have a woman you like right now?"
Huo Huai'an: "Not at the moment."
Yu Xiangkui smiled broadly, "We can try to like each other."
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