Jiang Yuan had already fallen asleep when she received the call. She was startled by her husband's devastating tone on the other end of the phone and thought something terrible had happened.

Twenty minutes later.

She saw Mr. He at He's house, who was wearing a bathrobe and also had sleepy eyes. The old man, who had just celebrated his 74th birthday today, also could not escape the fate of being woken up from his bed.

The two looked at each other in the living room, and finally waited for the returning protagonists.

Gou Yu rushed in aggressively, holding Gou An in his hand.

Following behind He Jinxing, the man with bruises on his face was actually the most relaxed one. His pace could be described as a leisurely stroll. After entering the house, he changed his shoes and even remembered to close the door that Gou Yu had knocked open at the beginning.

The living room, which had been dark, became brightly lit again. Gou An, who had been dragged out of the bar and stuffed into the car, finally had the chance to see the man's face clearly. There was a large bruise on his chin and a cut on the corner of his lip...

There were several footprints on the white T-shirt inside.

She showed a shocked expression and happened to look at the man who closed the door and turned around. They looked at each other for a moment, and he silently mouthed to her: It hurts a little.

"Uncle, why are you..."

"I told you, call me by my name."

The man gave her a lazy glance.

Gou An didn't have time to react, his head was forced back.

"Don't talk to him!"

Gou Yu's tone was as if there was some ferocious beast following him.

Gou An was pressed down to sit on the sofa, and the man who had changed his shoes walked around the sofa and sat next to her naturally.

Gou Yu stretched his head to take a look, frowned fiercely, and pushed Gou An to another sofa.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan and Mr. He still had nothing to understand.

Jiang Yuan looked his daughter up and down in surprise, "An An..."

"I don't know what happened." Gou An was the most confused person present. He looked at He Jinxing's face and asked, "Did Dad and my uncle have a fight? Why did they call me to come when they were fighting?"

This naive and ruthless tone made the two men who were named tremble in their hearts, and both of them almost couldn't breathe.

Grandpa He looked at his youngest son’s bruised face and felt a little distressed, but also felt that he deserved it.

But he had guessed that this day would come. The old man sighed, thought for a long time, and finally followed He Jinxing's line: "Ayu, don't be so angry - when it comes to engagement, there's no hard and fast reason to say that Ajin can't do it."

He Jinxing is of standard height, good looks, and has many specialties. His assets are like a dragon occupying a treasure trove. His education is probably not enough to help Gou An with his homework, let alone tutoring his children...

It's not that Mr. He favors his youngest son. It's true that it's not an exaggeration to say that He Jinxing is the best living being in the He family who is still breathing.

How could Gou Yu not understand this principle? He just felt uncomfortable.

Amid the silence of the elders, Gou An blinked and asked, "What engagement?"

Gou Yu showed a world-weary expression as if he didn't want to say a word, but the man with the wound on the corner of his lips looked like he was the winner and the wound was his medal of victory.

Leaning back on the sofa, his tone could be described as nonchalant: “That’s what you think.”

"What?" Gou An almost forgot about Mr. He's existence, "I don't want it!"

The rejection was very straightforward.

Gou Yu and Jiang Yuan had long been accustomed to their daughter's willfulness, but seeing her being so unscrupulous in front of He Jinxing, they couldn't help but be stunned -

However, it turns out that men seem to be more accepting than them. Being rejected so harshly did not prevent him from changing his expression. He was used to it anyway. He turned to Mr. He calmly and said, "See, I told you she would refuse."

Mr. He: "Ah, Aah!"

Gou An's eyes widened: "You discussed this? When did you discuss this?"

Gou Yu: “…”

Jiang Yuan: "An An, be polite."

He Jinxing waved his hand: "It's okay——"

Gou Yu: "If you keep on using this tone of voice that makes you want to say something but then stop, and force yourself to swallow the word 'mother-in-law', I will beat you up again."

He Jinxing: "Really sensitive [gǎn]——"

Gou Yu: "Even if my fist is hard, I can't swallow the word 'father-in-law'."

Gou An: "Hello, does anyone want to pay attention to me?!"

Everyone looked at each other. He Jinxing stood up, walked to Gou An and patted her head: "Private chat."

Gou An was completely confused.

He Jinxing: "Let's go and leave time for the elders."

Gou Yu: “????”

Gou Yu: "Who is your elder?!"

Before Gou Yu was completely defeated and started to curse, He Jinxing took Gou An away and promised that they would just talk in the yard for a while and would not do anything else.

This promise was mainly made for Jiang Yuan to hear. After all, she was the only one who could hear what He Jinxing said now.

Gou An followed the man into the yard, staring at the broad shoulders of the man walking in front of her. The image of his bruised and broken lips flashed through her mind. She was in a trance for a moment, and turned to look in the direction of her home.

She sighed, "Good night, this is such a chaotic night." She wanted to get out of bed, but before she even reached the gate, the man grabbed her waist from behind.

"Stop, where are you going?"

Watching the gate of the yard getting farther and farther away from him, Gou An pried open the big hand that was across his waist and looked back at the man behind him helplessly.

Her eyes kept scanning him, finally settling on He Jinxing's gaudy face.

She had never seen He Jinxing with a bruise on his face, and was worried that he would bear a grudge against Gou Yu from then on, so she thought about making amends for her father. Without warning, she reached out her hand and touched the wound on the corner of his lip.

It was already December in Shujiang City, and the weather was getting colder. The man's lips were a little cold because he was outdoors, but the corners of his lips were unusually soft...

The moment their fingertips touched, he tilted his head but did not completely avoid it and held her wrist.

Gou An was stunned for a moment, and the next second, the hand holding her wrist gently exerted force and dragged her to his side.

At such a close distance, he bent down slightly and leaned close to her lips. When she closed her eyes in fear, he just sniffed slightly and asked, "Drank. How much did you drink?"

He was so close to her, so close that she could feel the white breath he exhaled at the tip of her nose when he spoke.

The curve of the jaw, which looked like the most perfect work of a knife carving artist, was so close at hand that Gou An's heart beat faster.

"Not much."

Her tone was unconsciously hurried. In order to hide this fact, she blinked nervously and backed away with her neck stiffened.

"Don't get so close. If you do that, my dad will get angry and beat you up."

"Hmm? Have some sense. You touched me first."

He Jinxing bent down, lowered his eyes, and stared at the little girl who was carefully keeping a distance but couldn't completely avoid her...

He paused, then sneered indifferently.

"As for your father, he has a bad temper - but it doesn't matter, in comparison, I am so precious."

"????"

He let her go without warning.

Gou An was a little uncomfortable with the sudden emptiness of her wrist. The slightly rough touch of the man's fingertips was still there, and she resisted the urge to touch the place that suddenly felt so strong...

"Do I have a bad temper?" Staring at the girl's panicked eyes, the man's lips curled up all the time. "Including the last two times on the boat, you rejected me three times in total."

Three times what? Of course it's an engagement.

Her eyes flickered more violently as she unconsciously avoided his gaze, causing her eyelashes to tremble more frequently.

I unconsciously used honorifics.

"I didn't refuse on purpose because of Joe or any other reason. The reason I refused was because the idea of ​​getting engaged to you was too——"

"Four times."

“…”

Gou An was speechless, staring at the man in front of him who was looking down at him. The two looked at each other for a long time, the curve of his lips widened, and then he sighed and reached out his hand to pull his hair -

His hair was probably not well-groomed today to match his outfit, so it became even more messy, with a few disobedient hairs sticking up on top of his head... For some reason, this made him look even more helpless.

"I've never been rejected four times by the same person on anything." He Jinxing chuckled and said in a speechless tone, "The amazing thing is that I really don't mean to be angry with you at all now."

"Isn't it worth praising you for having a good temper?"

“…”

"Or do you think anyone can beat me?"

This rhetorical question made Gou An's heart skip a beat.

As he spoke, he touched the wound at the corner of his lip. It stung a little, and he frowned silently, but quickly let go.

Seeing these subtle movements, the heart beat more and more lively and cheerfully. Gou An felt that if he continued to talk to him like this, he would have to give up sooner or later, and then he would fall into his trap.

Taking a small step back, she glanced at him quickly and asked in a tight voice, "How did my father find out?"

"How did you find out? Let me think about it." He Jinxing seemed to think seriously, "Maybe it's because--"

He said "Oh" and smiled, "Maybe it's because I didn't intend to hide it from anyone."

“…”

This person is so nasty.

The girl in front of him rubbed her shoes on the ground. As always, she put her hands behind her back, twisting her fingers into a knot at an angle that he couldn't see. She lowered her head and said, "Then don't blame him."

"oh."

What did he say? She had to look up at him.

He Jinxing bent down again and got closer to her, tilting his face to the side, "See? It hurts."

I know. After all, he couldn't wait to complain to her as soon as he entered the room.

"What should we do then?"

“…”

The hint was so obvious, and she was still asking him what to do. He Jinxing had the urge to sigh again, but the words "It won't hurt if you give it a kiss" sounded so vulgar and he couldn't say it.

I can only stare at the little girl in front of me and hope that she will come to her senses, but there is sincerity, clarity, and worry (I don’t know who she is worried about), but there is no word "come to her senses" in her eyes.

The two of them stared at each other for more than ten seconds.

She once again plucked up the courage to reach out and touch his cheek.

This time, the man was like his cool and clingy horse - or a large dog. He tilted his face slightly and took the initiative to rub her palm...

For a moment, no one immediately moved away.

"I won't force you. No one can force you without my approval. But think about it again, about the engagement, ok?"

The man's voice was gentle, "Have you considered your uncle's desire to become a regular employee?"

When he spoke, she could still feel the slight difference in touch caused by the slight movement of the muscles of his lips in the palm of her hand... She was a little absent-minded, and in the man's low and conciliatory voice, she rubbed his lips with a finger.

He lowered his eyes, and his eyes darkened.

But he still mercifully let her go home.

It is very ungrateful to refuse four marriage invitations in a row.

Although the friendship level did not drop, the value [Friendship Level: 45] above the other party's head always reminded Gou An that everything seemed a little unusual. When He Ran's friendship level was at this time, it was still swinging wildly between her and Lu Wan.

Even if [Friendship: 60] is reached, it won't stop him from committing suicide.

I have no idea what's going on with He Jinxing.

Perhaps it was because of his worries that Gou An fell asleep with difficulty and dreamed of the outrageous original work again.

It has been a year and a half since Gou An was imprisoned.

During this period, many people applied for prison visits, but except for her parents, she basically rejected everyone else, including Gou Xun.

On the one hand, I feel a little embarrassed; on the other hand, I really don't think these people are worth seeing.

For the past year and a half, she mechanically repeated the same daily routine. The word she said most often during visits to the prison was "I'm sorry", of course not to Lu Wan, but to her parents.

The fate of the vicious female supporting character ends here.

Prison life is her final destination.

As for how she was tormented and in pain, and how she got used to the life of luxury in prison where even a can of eight-treasure porridge seemed to have become a scarce commodity, what did it have to do with the heroine? She still had love-related matters to worry about.

The vicious female supporting role deserves it, and she really does deserve it.

Today, I sat in a restaurant, stuffing my lunch numbly into my mouth while watching the TV series playing the relevant local news.

The eldest son of He Jinxing, the head of the He family, has a congenital disease, probably due to heredity. He has problems with his kidneys and organs, and was rushed to the hospital overnight. The first lady of the He family made her first public appearance after giving birth, and her beautiful face could not hide her haggardness.

"God is so fair. It seems that rich people have their own troubles."

The person who was speaking was the woman who shared the same room with Gou An. Her name was Lin Xia. She was about 28 or 29 years old, 1.75 meters tall, and weighed more than 200 kilograms...

Because the scum who brutally killed □□'s sister was sentenced to excessive defense and imprisonment, this case caused a big stir on the Internet at that time, and more than one million netizens petitioned for him. So even though the person who was killed was rich, in the end they could not let Lin Xia be buried with their son who could not even be put together and entered the funeral home in a decent manner.

Lin Xia is young, but has a large body. Because of the earth-shattering reason of killing someone, she is the real big sister of this prison.

Don’t ask why she hasn’t lost weight when she has no meat to eat in prison. The answer is “Pigs are also vegetarians. Give me some scientific evidence (original words)”.

"Today's potatoes are a little raw." Gou An said expressionlessly, "The kitchen was reluctant to use oil."

She threw away the spoon and gently rubbed the thin calluses on her fingertips that had grown from the work assigned to her by the prison.

Hearing her speak, Lin Xia looked up at her——

The person sitting opposite her at this moment looked pale. The extremely poor food and exhausting regular life after being imprisoned made her look malnourished.

There seemed to be an inexplicable stubbornness in her numb eyes, which caused her to be bullied by many people when she first entered the prison. At the beginning, she also had a bad temper, which made the bullying even worse. She was injured almost every day. Her hair was washed very clean, but it had not been properly taken care of for a long time, let alone the so-called hairdressing. The hair that grew out was just slightly naturally curly, tied at the back of her hair, and it was black... She had her hair cut when she was bullied, but she didn't seem to care at all. She waited for her hair to grow out slowly and then tied it up like a dog. Now it is not very noticeable;

The bruises under her eyes showed that she hadn't had a good night's sleep for a long time.

——She is just a willful and arrogant young lady who has been in prison for more than a year but still cannot get rid of her inherent arrogance.

Lin Xia doesn't hate her.

She knew Gou An almost as soon as she was imprisoned. She was a 20-year-old girl who was not well-behaved and did not obey discipline. She suffered a lot...

Later, I was inexplicably transferred to Lin Xia's room. Because I was of the same age as her sister and was taken care of, my life became a little better.

Unlike those weird people who are always taciturn, in fact, after getting to know him, you will find that Gou An talks a lot.

Occasionally, he would ask about how Lin Xia's sister was doing outside. Knowing that she was still looking for a job after graduating from college, he helped to talk to her parents during a meeting and got her into his own company.

"But it won't be a very good position." Gou An smiled, a little mockingly, "After all, my father doesn't have the final say in Gou's company now."

The company and the people have the same surname, and just shoving an employee in doesn't give them complete say. Lin Xia doesn't understand the struggles among the wealthy families.

She only knew that when she saw her sister the next month, she was very happy and said she had found a great job...

Lin Xia knew that this was just the reward given to her by the little girl who always had a cold face, talked a lot but her words were not very pleasant to the ear.

Lunch time passed quickly. This afternoon was a break, and they could stay in the room for a while before attending the evening class.

Some prisoners' families choose to visit at this time.

Gou An's parents came last week. There are only a few visiting opportunities in a month, so they won't come again this week. Gou An lay peacefully on his bed, staring at the same ceiling in a daze, preparing to fall asleep.

Just as she was about to fall asleep, the prison guard knocked on the door, "Gou An, there is a visitor."

Gou An opened his eyes, a little scared——

Just as the late night calls always made her feel uneasy, the unusually regular visits also made her think something had happened at home.

Lu Wan had a series of accidents and stories because her grandmother had kidney disease and she had to raise money everywhere. It seems that this time the disease has been passed down to her son...

He Jinxing may be very worried and in a bad mood recently because of his son's affairs. When the King of Hell is angry, the little ghosts will suffer. The Gou family, as a useful target, will probably be the first to bear the brunt.

Gou An turned over and sat up, without even having time to tidy up his hair, and his steps became faster than usual.

When she arrived at the door of the private interview room panting, she was still a little confused as to why she was here this time -

Until the door opened and she saw the person sitting inside.

The man was dressed in a suit and tie, and he was tall and straight. His handsome face was like a graduation project of God. When he pursed his thin lips, the corners of his lips naturally rose, and he looked majestic without being angry.

After not seeing each other for a year and a half, the person in charge of the He family appeared in the prison cell out of nowhere at this moment, and he was still elegant and dignified.

(End of this chapter)