Chapter 727 Lu Nanchu returns to China
Wen Qingyi?
Xu Chen was taken aback when she returned to China and asked him about his relationship with Wen Qingyi.
Unexpectedly, after seeing his silence, Lu Nanchu said with a half-smile, "What, is this question hard to answer? If you have nothing to hide, then tell me the truth: what is your relationship with her? How far have things progressed?"
Are they truly just friends? Or are they using friendship as a pretext to engage in complicated romantic relationships?
"So you came back to China just to ask this?" Xu Chen, regaining his senses, couldn't help but sneer, "Nan Chu, I'm asking you, who told you this? Was it my father?"
Not many people actually know about this. If her father didn't tell her, then it was very likely her cousin.
Lu Nanchu was very dissatisfied with his attempt to change the subject: "No one needs to tell me anything. Just answer my question honestly first. What is your relationship with her?"
She will absolutely not tell you who told her unless you tell her what the relationship is.
"We're just friends, it's that simple." Xu Chen described it simply and directly: "Nan Chu, you should know my character. I'm not the kind of man who would actively flirt after getting engaged."
Not only did his pride forbid it, but his upbringing also prevented him from doing so.
Lu Nanchu wanted to believe him, but she trusted her own eyes even more: "Ordinary friends? You would book a room for an ordinary friend? You two even went in and out of hotels together, and you call that ordinary friends? Who are you trying to fool?"
What ordinary friends would go in and out of a hotel together?
They're always together! They're inseparable!
This doesn't seem like the behavior of ordinary friends at all. Perhaps he has some misunderstanding about the definition of ordinary friends?
"She had nowhere to stay, so what's wrong with me booking her a room at the Bulgari Hotel?" Xu Chen was getting a little angry at her distrust: "Besides, it's right next to mine, not the same room. She's my childhood friend, what's wrong with me helping her out?"
He didn't think there was anything wrong with him simply helping out.
Moreover, they live separately in different rooms, just like when we were kids, everyone lived in the same area and were neighbors. What's wrong with that?
Upon hearing this, Lu Nanchu's eyes immediately turned red with anger: "You booked a hotel room for her? And she stayed in the room right next to yours?! And you still have the nerve to ask me what the problem is?!"
"Xu Chen, we're all adults. Men and women should avoid suspicion between each other! Especially between childhood sweethearts, you should be even more careful about boundaries! Can't you even handle such a basic sense of propriety?"
She never expected that the man she had always trusted would secretly book a room for her childhood sweetheart behind her back, and that he was already staying next door to her!
So what's next? If she doesn't come back soon, are they going to end up sleeping together?!
The thought of this made Lu Nanchu feel unbearable.
“I know that men and women should avoid suspicion, so I booked a room for her next to mine!” Xu Chen didn’t think there was anything wrong with that: “Nan Chu, what are you angry with me about? We’re already engaged, don’t you trust me at all?”
Doesn't she realize that he's the kind of man who would philander?
He's already been chaste enough; can't he even help out a little? Does that mean he has to be controlled by her?
Does she like him as a person, or does she like the feeling of controlling him?
At this moment, Xu Chen couldn't help but begin to have doubts.
Lu Nanchu felt only: "Absurd! Is this a question of whether I believe you or not? This is a question of your lack of discretion. You clearly crossed the line, yet you still claim that you didn't! You claim to be innocent! This has absolutely nothing to do with trust!"
"Is this your excuse for being tactless and making me misunderstand you? Essentially, it's you who's in the wrong. How can you act like you're completely innocent?"
They even made it sound like it was all her fault.
It was clearly his own behavior that was prone to causing misunderstandings, yet he showed no remorse or self-reflection, and instead kept criticizing her, as if she were the villain for pointing out the problem!
“Because I’m completely innocent!” Xu Chen felt he had done nothing wrong: “I was criticized by my dad for this, and now you’re criticizing me too. Aren’t I innocent? Nan Chu, when did you become so aggressive?”
She used to be a very well-behaved, sensible, and mature girl. Why did she become so aggressive after returning to China?
Does she also believe that Wen Qingyi and he are having an affair?
Lu Nanchu almost laughed out of anger: "I'm being aggressive? You're innocent? You got scolded by Dad because you brought it on yourself, you deserve it! What does it have to do with me? I'm just pointing out your problems, and that's being aggressive?"
"Xu Chen, tell me the truth, do you like Wen Qingyi? Otherwise, why would you always favor her?"
If he didn't love her, how could he bear to hurt his fiancée?
They clearly promised each other they would be together for life.
Is this happiness really going to be so short-lived?
"No, I don't like her." Xu Chen revealed his attitude towards Wen Qingyi for the first time: "I just pity her. I pity her for being dumped by her fiancé, getting pregnant, and being kicked out of her home. Doesn't Qingyi deserve sympathy?"
"So what's wrong with me helping her and giving her a place to stay in the capital? Why is everyone criticizing me?"
His cousin criticized him, his father criticized him, and now even Nan Chu is criticizing him in the same way.
He felt wronged too.
He was just showing compassion for someone; he couldn't bear to see his childhood sweetheart homeless, so he stepped in to help her, but it only brought him so much criticism.
Lu Nanchu precisely grasped the key point in his words: "Pregnant? Whose child is it? Is it yours?"
Otherwise, how could he be the first to know she was pregnant? Where is Wen Qingyi's fiancé?
Where is he?
"What nonsense are you spouting? How could this be my child?" Xu Chen was somewhat bewildered by her words, his eyes flashing with coldness: "Can you please stop making wild guesses about my relationship with her?"
The way he said that made it sound like there was something between him and Wen Qingyi.
Despite having no relationship whatsoever, these people's speculations have cast an ambiguous shadow over his innocent relationship with Wen Qingyi.
Lu Nanchu didn't believe those photos were baseless: "Am I making wild guesses? It's your own actions that make it hard to trust you. I don't want to doubt you either, but you said this child isn't yours, so why are you taking care of her?"
"You're just her childhood friend, not her husband. What responsibility or obligation do you have to take care of her?!"
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