Chapter 14 Chapter 14 Marry me and you will be so resistant...
A few seconds after the message was sent, Shen Huaimeng called. Ruan Xiangyi didn't answer. After ringing for half a minute, the other party seemed to expect that she would not answer, so they kept sending messages.
Shen Huaimeng: I'm at the gate of your community, come down and let's talk.
Shen Huaimeng: I know you are here.
A minute passed.
Shen Huaimeng: If you don’t come down, I will wait here.
Ruan Xiangyi knew that he could do it. Seeing that it was not too late, she thought for a few minutes and decided to go.
As luck would have it, she ran into Zhao Qingshi just as she was leaving. He came over from the island counter with a glass of water. Seeing that she was dressed neatly, he asked, "Are you going out?"
Ruan Xiangyi paused and nodded: "I'm going out to do something."
Zhao Qingshi looked up at the time. It was almost ten o'clock. "It's so late. Do we have to do it now?"
Ruan Xiangyi didn't know how to tell him, and hesitantly said nothing for a long time. Seeing her like this, Zhao Qingshi had a rough idea in his mind: "Meet someone?"
Ruan Xiangyi tugged at the hem of her clothes and nodded slightly.
"Your senior brother?" he asked again.
Ruan Xiangyi nodded.
Zhao Qingshi's face suddenly darkened.
"He's waiting for me downstairs at my house." Ruan Xiangyi explained, "I've been gone for so many days, and I owe him an explanation."
"Then let him wait!" Zhao Qingshi said solemnly, "Doesn't he have his own things to do? Why are you explaining to him? Are you in a relationship?"
Zhao Qingshi stared at her intently. If she nodded, he didn't know what he would do. Fortunately, she didn't nod, but her answer was not very pleasant.
"He confessed his love to me a few days ago." She hesitated, "I..."
"Do you have to go?" He didn't want to listen further and just asked.
"I'll be back as soon as I'm done talking."
"Okay." Zhao Qingshi raised his head and drank the water in the cup in one gulp, then put it on the table and said generously, "I'll take you there."
How dare Ruan Xiangyi bother him? Zhao Qingshi seemed to know what she was going to say and interrupted her.
"If you want to go there by yourself, you don't have to leave this door again tonight."
A naked threat.
Zhao Qingshi's residence was only half an hour away from the TV station, and it would take less than 40 minutes to get to her home, but Zhao Qingshi drove very slowly and it took him a full hour to get there.
Before getting out of the car, Zhao Qingshi held her wrist. The warm yellow light from the car shone on their faces. He looked at the door behind her and said, "I'll give you fifteen minutes to say goodbye."
Farewell? Before Ruan Xiangyi could think about the meaning of his words, he let her go, looked at her understandingly and said, "You probably don't want me to appear in front of him either."
What these two sentences meant was that if she didn't come out after ten minutes, he would go in and bring her out himself, and then there would be a bunch of complicated things to deal with.
Ruan Xiangyi walked into the community and saw a person standing downstairs of her building from a distance.
She walked over with mixed feelings.
"Senior brother."
Hearing her voice, Shen Huaimeng turned his head excitedly.
"Xiangyi, you finally agreed to see me!"
His words made Ruan Xiangyi's body stiffen. With only fifteen minutes to spare, Ruan Xiangyi cut to the chase, "Brother, I've thought about it for a long time and I feel like we're still not a good match..."
A wave of sadness welled up in my heart: "From now on, let's continue to be friends."
"Xiangyi." Chen Huaimeng looked unconvinced. "Did your mother tell you something? It must be! She has never agreed to us being together!"
"Believe me! I will go and convince my aunt. I really like you, Xiangyi. Can you give me another chance?"
"Brother." A tear fell to the ground like a pearl breaking off a string. She shook her head, "It has nothing to do with my mother. It's my own problem."
"If you have any problems, tell us and we can solve them together, okay?"
"Senior Brother." Ruan Xiangyi wiped away her tears and raised her head. "I used to like you very much, but in those days when you didn't respond to me, this love was long ago erased by time. I admit that when I heard you say you liked me too, I was very touched. But when I thought about it, I realized that this feeling was just a remembrance of the days when I chased after you. I was moved for myself, and it had nothing to do with you."
"Brother, let's call it a day while we still have time. We can still meet and say hello happily in the future, right?" She smiled.
Shen Huaimeng only felt that her smile was dazzling, as if something invisible was quietly moving away from him.
"Xiangyi, there must be other reasons, right? I don't believe you really don't like me anymore!"
"Brother, I hope you'll get better and better in the future." She had finished what she needed to say. Ruan Xiangyi shook her head, holding back her tears, and turned to leave. However, Chen Huaimeng suddenly hugged her, not letting her go, tears streaming into her neck. "Xiangyi, don't be like this. Give me another chance."
Ruan Xiangyi heard the sound of her own heartbreaking. She looked up and saw a figure standing in the darkness. She could feel the cold aura from him from a few meters away. She didn't know where the strength came from, but Ruan Xiangyi broke free from Shen Huaimeng and pushed him back a few steps.
"Brother! I really don't like you anymore! Please don't embarrass me anymore!"
Her words made Shen Huaimeng stumble and stop, "Xiangyi..."
Ruan Xiangyi was afraid that Zhao Qingshi would really come over, so she walked forward without looking back, and ignored the people behind her no matter how they called her.
When she walked to the roadside, she found Zhao Qingshi waiting for her in the car in a proper manner. Ruan Xiangyi couldn't help but wonder if she had just seen it wrong.
After fastening his seat belt, Zhao Qingshi started the car. Half an hour later, the car stopped steadily in the underground parking lot.
Ruan Xiangyi was tired and wanted to go back to rest, but he stopped her again.
"Let's talk."
She was exhausted and didn't want to talk to anyone.
"Is tomorrow okay?"
"It's too late tomorrow."
This irrelevant sentence made Ruan Xiangyi confused: "What do you mean?"
"Tomorrow morning the media will announce the news of the marriage between the Zhao and Ruan families."
Ruan Xiangyi thought she had misheard and asked, "Who?"
"Zhao Qingshi and Ruan Xiangyi." Zhao Qingshi directly punctured her fantasy.
With a "bang", the phone fell on the car mat, and Ruan Xiangyi burst into tears: "Why?"
No wonder he just said goodbye, it turns out everything has a traceable path.
"Did you know this a long time ago?" she asked with trembling lips.
"Um."
"when."
"At the beginning."
"The day after the incident, Ruan Fu and your mother came to visit my parents and asked us to make a statement. The result of the discussion was a marriage between our two families."
"Your parents wouldn't approve, would they?"
“They agreed.”
"Why?"
"Ruan Fu contacted the media and leaked the news of our marriage. He said that if I didn't marry you, he would sue me for rape."
"I can go and explain it to him!
"Do you think your explanation is important?"
"You lied to me." Ruan Xiangyi was suspicious. "If you can stop the media from reporting about you and Li Wenyin, you can definitely stop Ruan Fu's actions."
"Ruan Xiangyi, I'm not omnipotent." Zhao Qingshi leaned forward and stared at her. "The Li family incident was caused by their support behind the scenes."
Tears flowed down her cheeks to her chin, and Zhao Qingshi gently wiped them away for her: "Ruan Xiangyi, are you so resistant to marrying me?"
"Your mother won't accept nothing but Shen Huaimeng. She will arrange countless He Wen, Li Wen, and Zhao Wen for you. Don't I, Zhao Qingshi, have any advantages over them?"
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Just as Zhao Qingshi said, the next morning, the news of the marriage between the Zhao and Ruan families shocked the media. Working at a TV station, Ruan Xiangyi naturally could not avoid grabbing the headlines.
Zhou Zilang went to find her, but Ruan Xiangyi made an excuse, saying that she was not feeling well. Zhou Zilang did not make things difficult for her and carried the machine himself.
Ruan Xiangyi saw Zhao Qingshi's response on her mobile phone. He was wearing a black suit and a red bow tie. Facing the camera, he looked handsome and energetic, and patiently answered every reporter's question.
Before she finished reading, she turned off her phone in frustration.
At night, she returned to the Ruan family's house. As soon as she stepped inside, Ruan Lingyu yelled at her: "You shameless bitch! How dare you enter my house!"
At this time, Lin Manshu stood up and said, "Lingyu, her last name is Ruan. Why can't she step into this house?"
This was the first time in so many years that Lin Manshu stood up to defend her. Ruan Xiangyi herself found it ridiculous. Lin Manshu took her hand and asked her caringly, "Are you used to being in Qingshi?"
Ruan Fu wasn't at home. Grandma Ruan came downstairs and saw Ruan Xiangyi coming back. She snorted, "You still remember to come back. People who didn't know would think you were already married."
The appearance of Zhao Qingshi brought about a qualitative change in her status in the Ruan family. Under normal circumstances, Grandma Ruan would have mocked her as an ungrateful person.
"Has the baby been bothering you these past few days?" Lin Manshu asked. "Last time, Qingshi said you were having morning sickness. Mommy will tell you a few tricks later. I guarantee they will work."
"Mom, I want to tell you something."
Lin Manshu is now extremely happy every day: "What do you want to say? Let's go to the room?"
Lin Manshu took Ruan Xiangyi to her and Ruan Fu's room. She asked Ruan Xiangyi to sit in front of the dressing mirror and picked out a few pieces of jewelry. She gestured in front of the mirror and said, "You are so beautiful, you will look good in anything you wear."
"Mom, why did you force Zhao Qingshi to marry me?"
"What do you mean by forcing? It's his child, shouldn't he be responsible for it?" Lin Manshu took two pearl earrings and put them on her earlobes.
"Have you ever asked me what I think? Are you not even a little bit concerned about my thoughts?"
He had heard it, and had come to question me. Lin Manshu asked unhappily, "Following a poor boy to suffer, do you think that's even an idea?"
"Ruan Xiangyi, don't be so ungrateful. There are so many women out there who want to marry Zhao Qingshi, but who has succeeded? There's still no news about the one from the Li family. Can you be smarter?"
"They like Zhao Qingshi, but I don't. I don't want to be with him, and he doesn't like me either! What makes you think I'll be happy with him?"
Lin Manshu disagreed: "It doesn't matter if you don't like it."
"Mom..." She was powerless.
"Ruan Xiangyi, liking someone is useless. Look at me and your dad. We went from high school to college and got married right after graduation. But what happened after marriage? We quarreled every day and even argued over the smallest amount of money. But it's different when you have money. Your Uncle Ruan and I never quarrel. As long as he gives me money, I turn a blind eye to everything he does."
Lin Manshu was almost tired of hearing these words of persuasion. Why did she give birth to such a stupid person? Her mother-in-law said earnestly: "You are still young and haven't experienced any great storms. It is natural that you will still have some naivety. As a mother, I understand this and have paved the way for you. You must learn to cherish it."
"To put it bluntly, you're pregnant now. Which young master would be willing to marry you in the future? Even if you don't marry these people, wouldn't ordinary people mind? Take Shen Huaimeng for example, are you sure he won't have any grudges?"
Ruan Xiangyi collapsed: "Why? There are so many men in the world who make mistakes. They all have the opportunity to reform. Why do you deny my future because of this accident and refuse to give me a chance to start over?"
"They need a chance to mend their ways, but you just have to seize the opportunity now. They can't compare to you."
Lin Manshu understood that she didn't want to get married, but there was nothing she could do.
"Go get the marriage certificate in the next two days. Once you get it, you'll be at peace. Xiangyi, you have to be a good girl. You know very well what life has been like for us mother and daughter at home these years." Lin Manshu looked at her in the mirror, his face expressionless. "You know, Ruan Fu knew I couldn't have children, so a few years ago he found a woman outside who gave birth to his son. He now plans to bring the child back. Xiangyi, you're the only one I have. From now on, you'll be my support."
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