Chapter 16 Where exactly does Suan surpass him?
The parents at the table had already started exchanging pleasantries, and no one paid any attention to the two young people in the corner.
"Do I need anyone to come to me and tell me?" Jiang Xiliu said sarcastically. "You should ask me who else doesn't know about this."
Ye Qishan tugged at his collar, frowning in annoyance: "Don't believe them, they're just spreading rumors."
The V-neck, which already had one button undone, swayed wider, larger, and more empty with his movements.
Jiang Xiliu accidentally caught a glimpse of his chest, which had a curve.
It's no wonder she was upset. She just glanced at him casually and was about to roll her eyes at him when she saw the collar move on its own.
Jiang Xiliu calmly looked away, picked up her teacup to moisten her throat, and asked, "Then what is the truth?"
Ye Qishan hesitated for a long time but didn't tell her. Instead, he questioned her: "Tell me first, why did you refuse my offer to marry into your family?"
Reasons? There are too many to list.
Low IQ, low EQ, neither considerate nor perceptive...
Of course, most importantly: he listens to someone without question.
But the young lady wouldn't tell the truth. She deliberately curled her lips at him and said unpleasant things in a mean tone: "Because I think you're not as handsome as the one I'm raising now."
"You're comparing that pretty boy to me?" Ye Qishan's defenses crumbled. He disdainfully rolled up his already thin sleeves, bent his elbows, and began to show off his physique, asking stiffly, "Where am I inferior to him?"
The two were speaking softly, but Ye Qishan, that idiot, suddenly started showing off his muscles, making such big movements that the elders couldn't pretend they didn't see him.
There were moments of awkward silence at the dinner party.
Mr. and Mrs. Ye looked very regretful for organizing this gathering, and their smiles were about to crumble – whoever wanted their silly son should hurry up and take him away.
Xi Zhen quite likes this kind of innocent and naive boy, who is more suitable for marrying into the family.
She sincerely praised, "Qishan has such a great physique at such a young age, that's impressive."
Ye's mother felt ashamed: "...The child just practices randomly."
Xi Zhen: "That's even more amazing. To reach this level with just casual practice, wouldn't it be even more incredible with serious practice?"
Ye's mother thought to herself: No matter how skilled you are, you can't suddenly start showing off at the dinner table in front of so many people!
She could only give perfunctory "uh-huh" responses, trying to quickly get rid of the matter.
Ye Qishan looked at Jiang Xiliu with pride.
Jiang Xiliu covered her mouth with her hand in his direction and moved silently.
Ye Qishan, who had been scolded by Jiang Xiliu countless times, immediately realized: she was scolding him again!
"Didn't you say you liked dark-skinned athletes the most?" Ye Qishan looked like he had suffered a great injustice, but he knew that some things were not appropriate to say in this situation, so he deliberately lowered his voice, "Although I am naturally not tanned, my physique can barely be considered that of a fair-skinned athlete!"
Jiang Xiliu slowly frowned: "When did I ever say that I like dark-skinned athletes the most? Don't spread rumors about my aesthetic sense."
"You said it to me yourself on my birthday four years ago during summer vacation," Ye Qishan said matter-of-factly. "I even traded my birthday wish from that year for this intelligence."
He still remembers that his birthday wish that year was made specifically for Jiang Xiliu.
In order to make her wish come true, he made his birthday wishes for her for the next few years.
Unexpectedly, the person involved forgot about it as soon as she turned around. Ye Qishan looked at her innocent face and was so angry that he wanted to bite her.
Jiang Xiliu finally remembered some vague fragments, but even if she really said those words herself, so what?
The young lady glanced at him casually: "Oh, I forgot to tell you, I don't like dark-skinned athletes anymore, they're too big and dazzling."
Ye Qishan: "..." He was even angrier!
His face was flushed red, and he looked like he was about to be driven mad by her.
Jiang Xiliu finally realized: "Ah~ so you like me?"
It's normal for everyone to like her, but she felt a little awkward when someone's dog liked her: "Does he know?"
The two of them tacitly understood who this "he" was.
Ye Qishan turned his face away: "I don't care if he knows or not. Anyway, the emperor is far away and the world is high up. If I marry you, do you think he can make us divorce?"
It seems I don't know.
Jiang Xiliu suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction.
There's a sense of exhilaration in realizing that "the person your arch-enemy trusts most is actually one of your own."
but……
Jiang Xiliu asked him, "If you like me, why did you clarify this in the group chat?"
Ye Qishan snorted: "Didn't you refuse?"
As soon as he finished speaking, his voice dropped to a whisper, almost like a mosquito's buzz. If Jiang Xiliu hadn't been listening very carefully, she would have missed it: "I'm afraid... if you wake up and see a screen full of congratulatory messages, you'll think it was me who did it, and you'll get angry with me and ignore me again."
Jiang Xiliu looked up at Ye's father, then quickly glanced at Ye's mother, and the doubts in her heart instantly became clear.
Therefore, in order to help their son marry into the family, the Ye family deliberately spread false information without informing Ye Qishan.
And what happened? That idiot Ye Qishan actually went to the group chat to clarify things, all smiles?
This is a complete slap in the face to our own people! All that hard work has been for nothing!
No wonder Ye Qishan got beaten up.
If it were her, having such a clueless son, she probably wouldn't be able to resist wanting to beat him up too.
Jiang Xiliu then asked, "Then why did you add him to the group?"
“I thought that once he joined the group, the group admin would kick you out,” Ye Qishan stammered. “…Anyway, I was just afraid you’d be upset if you saw it.”
Haha! Ye Er isn't stupid after all~
That's overestimating the group owner's courage.
Her mood instantly improved, and she generously teased Ye Er: "Looking at you this way, you seem pretty handsome too."
Children from wealthy families are rarely ugly.
Their partners are already good-looking, so even if the children don't inherit their good looks and are just average-looking, they can use their money to improve their appearance.
Ye Qishan was delighted by the compliment, and his previously dim eyes brightened: "Of course, I'm not like that pretty boy, what else do I have besides a handsome face!"
What else? He's the male lead, the chosen one of this world.
Of course, even without Jin Zhao, Jiang Xiliu would not have looked down on Ye Qishan.
The dinner party was finally coming to an end.
Father Ye asked, "Qishan, have you properly apologized to Xiliu?"
Before Ye Qishan could speak, Jiang Xiliu raised her glass and spoke first. She smiled politely and distantly: "Uncle Ye, there's no need to apologize. There's no deep hatred between me and Qishan. It's just a small misunderstanding. It'll be over soon. Qishan is young and straightforward. I won't take it to heart."
Ye Qishan: "I..." Where is it small!?
We're all the same age!
Father Ye didn't give his foolish son a chance to speak: "Xi Liu is the most sensible. Qi Shan, listen to this. You'd better learn from Xi Liu's composure and stop being so reckless."
Ye Qishan: "!!!"
Who was more reckless?
Jiang Fuhuai smiled and said, "President Ye, in my opinion, Qishan has a better personality..."
"No, no, there isn't..."
For no apparent reason, both sets of parents started praising each other. Ye Qishan glanced at Jiang Xiliu and, seeing that she wasn't looking at him, felt inexplicably choked up.
Jiang Xiliu's phone was placed between the two of them, and it lit up just then.
Liao's assistant sent her a message reporting: "Miss, Jin Zhao just came to see me, saying it's about the house..."
The lock screen only displays this content; Ye Qishan's image is no longer visible.
Is she going to buy a house for her gigolo?
Ye Qishan and Jiang Xiliu had known each other for so many years, but apart from occasions where his family would prepare gifts for him at banquets, he had never received anything from Jiang Xiliu.
Why should this pretty boy be accepted?
Ye Qishan hadn't taken the other party seriously at first, thinking that Jiang Xiliu was just playing around, but now he realized that something was seriously wrong.
As the dinner party ended, the parents exchanged pleasantries and left first, leaving the two young people behind.
Ye Qishan didn't walk alongside Jiang Xiliu, but always lagged behind her by two or three steps, his eyes fixed on her back.
When they arrived at the door, Jiang Xiliu's driver was already waiting.
She was just about to bend down and get into the car.
Ye Qishan suddenly called out to her, "Hey, wait a minute! It's almost my birthday again. You haven't shown up for the past two years. This year... do you want to get together with everyone?"
Jiang Xiliu paused, turned to look at him, and replied casually, "Okay, tell me the time and place."
Hearing her straightforward answer, Ye Qishan breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a strange pang of jealousy. He deliberately raised his voice and said defiantly, "Bring your pretty boy along too!"
He wanted to see exactly where that pretty boy was better than him!
A note from the author:
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Lezhishi has a crush on someone who was the top scorer in the city's college entrance examination that year.
In order to catch up with her crush, she studied hard and successfully got into the same university as him.
However, despite spending all her three years of high school studying, she still couldn't get her crush to remember her name by graduation.
Undeterred, Rakuchi decided to wait until the start of the new semester to formally pursue his crush.
Heaven gave her a good start: her crush's soon-to-be college roommate was her best friend's twin brother.
My best friend was really helpful; after sharing the news with her, she got my brother to add Rakuchi-shi on WeChat.
After accepting the friend request, Rakuchi immediately sent a photo of the person he had a crush on to them.
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I like Xu Shu!
"Brother, I'd appreciate your help sometime!"
"Red envelope: a tip for your hard work."
The two started chatting enthusiastically. In the first week, the topic was still about "Xu Shu". By the end of July, it had become about "graduation trip" and in August it had become about "daily sharing".
With the start of the new school year approaching, my best friend asked, "Are you ready to start pursuing someone?"
After thinking about it for an afternoon, Lezhishi replied, "I think I'm starting to fall in love with our brother."
Rakuchi accepted her "change of heart" with equanimity. Her feelings for Xu Shu might just be admiration, but her feelings for her best friend's brother were true love.
She felt that he was her soulmate!
On the afternoon of the same day that she confessed to her best friend, Rakuchi asked her, "Brother, how about you consider dating me?"
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In the last week before school started, Xu Shu fell in love online.
But the next second, his online girlfriend, who called him by his name every day, asked him, "Bro, what's your name, Xu something?"
Xu Shu: ? ? ?
#Mistakenly admitted to a WeChat message but ended up in the right relationship#Crush turned into online romance#
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