Chapter 23 Call Me Brother-in-Law
The wedding is scheduled for late September.
Five days before the wedding, Lu Jinyuan returned from abroad one afternoon. On the day of his return, Jiang Qingying picked him up at the airport, and he looked at her with surprise.
"Do you have an hour?" she asked.
"Yes, what's wrong?" Lu Jinyuan was pushed into the car by Jiang Qingying after he finished answering, and then she replied succinctly: "Get the marriage certificate."
No wonder she wore a white shirt dress today.
After getting into the car, Lu Jinyuan couldn't help but joke, "Luckily I wore a white shirt today."
Jiang Qingying smiled and handed him the paper bag at her feet. "It's okay if it's not one, I prepared one for you."
Lu Jinyuan took it. "Shall I change into it?"
Jiang Qingying was taken aback. She looked around the car and then at him. Was he planning to switch places here? The driver and the assistant in the front passenger seat were there, so it wasn't a big problem. Once the partition was raised, nothing could be seen, and the windows could be turned on one side only.
But here she is! She was harassed in broad daylight!
Although it's only the upper body.
Even though she had already seen it.
But isn't that too exciting?
"The one I prepared is similar to the one you're wearing, there's no need to change." Jiang Qingying still refused the temptation of seeing the handsome man's body up close.
Lu Jinyuan put the clothes away, having only meant it as a joke, and asked, "How have you been lately?"
The fiancé's daily concern is reasonable, after all, they have hardly communicated during this period, let alone know each other's recent situation.
"It's fine, how about you?"
"That's fine too."
The brief conversation ended, and silence fell over the room.
Jiang Qingying brought up the topic again, "Can you spare a morning or afternoon tomorrow? My mom wants us to try on wedding dresses."
"In the morning, perhaps."
"OK."
Hmm... it's over again.
Neither of them were good conversationalists; they seemed to have nothing to talk about except for work.
Or perhaps in bed?
Yes, that was the night they talked the most.
The procedures for obtaining the marriage certificate were not complicated. Jiang Qingying only took an hour to get the certificate. She held the two small red booklets, looked at them carefully, and handed one of them to Lu Jinyuan, saying, "Yours."
Lu Jinyuan gently pushed her hand away. "You keep it."
“Okay.” Jiang Qingying walked out with him. “I have a meeting, so I need to go back to the company first.”
Lu Jinyuan expressed his understanding, "See you tonight."
It was not a question, but a statement, leaving Jiang Qingying no choice.
"Are you having dinner? And at your house again?" Jiang Qingying asked.
Lu Jinyuan looked up to meet her probing yet ambiguous gaze, and chuckled very softly, "At your house."
Jiang Qingying: "Huh?"
Lu Jinyuan didn't say anything, but just looked at her with a speechless expression.
Seeing this, Zhou Yu came to the rescue: "President Jiang, Madam said that the Lu family would come to our house tonight to propose marriage, so Madam has set up a banquet at the old house."
Jiang Qingying then remembered that Zhou Yu had reminded her once that morning. "Sorry, I just didn't realize it for a moment."
"I don't think you remembered." Lu Jinyuan didn't seem too upset. He turned and left, saying, "I'm leaving."
"Oh...see you tonight."
Jiang Qingying felt slightly apologetic. She did seem to have been less attentive, but she had a clear conscience. She thought Lu Jinyuan was also a second brother, let alone the eldest brother.
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Night fell.
When Jiang Qingying returned to the Jiang family home, the arrangements for the dinner party had already been made. There weren't many people attending tonight. The Lu family was represented by Lu Qicheng and his wife Su Xi, while Jiang Qingying's side consisted of her parents and younger brother.
Jiang Xu rushed back specifically because he had been filming deep in the mountains, almost completely isolated from the outside world. He was the last person to know that Jiang Qingying was getting married. He arrived overnight to find the house already packed with people, and he was in a daze, feeling like he was dreaming.
Is his sister really getting married?
Wasn't it only a few months ago that we last met?
She just abandoned him to get married?
We agreed to stay single together!
We promised to fight side-by-side against pressure to get married!
Jiang Qingying looked at him with amusement and patted his shoulder, "How rude of you! Don't you know how to greet your elders?"
Jiang Xu snapped out of her daze, greeted all the elders present, and was about to sit down when Jiang Qingying grabbed her arm. "What are you doing?"
Jiang Qingying pointed to the person next to her, "Call him brother-in-law."
Jiang Xu's eyes widened immediately, because he and Jiang Qingying were twins, the same age, and siblings didn't have many formalities; a glance was enough for them when they met. So naturally, he had completely ignored Lu Jinyuan, who was of the same generation, when he greeted him.
Looking at the elders who were full of expectations, and seeing that Jiang Qingying didn't seem to be joking, Jiang Xu had a bitter feeling in her heart but couldn't express it. She gritted her teeth and called Lu Jinyuan "brother-in-law".
Lu Jinyuan nodded politely and handed him a prepared red envelope, saying, "Just let me know if you need any help in the future."
Jiang Xu accepted the red envelope with a forced smile, under Jiang Qingying's expectant gaze. "Thank you, brother-in-law."
Jiang Qingying couldn't help but smile. She knew her younger brother very well. He had been pampered since childhood and had a very cold personality. He always looked like he didn't like anyone and didn't want to talk to anyone. It was rare for him to lower himself to such a level.
Jiang Xu gave her a cold look, using this method to force him to accept the facts, which can only be said to be very much in line with Jiang Qingying's character as a vicious businesswoman.
After the fun and games, let's get back to the main topic.
Lu Jinyuan stood up and toasted Jiang Chen and Qin Qing, then said seriously, "Father-in-law and mother-in-law, I promise you that I will treat Qingying well in the future. After marriage, I will strive to be a qualified husband, take care of her, and protect her."
Jiang Qingying looked up at him, listening to every word he said, lost in thought. Then, Jiang Xu, who was next to her, suddenly leaned over and whispered something to her.
"You're already moved?"
"It's alright, but don't you think he sounds a lot like a leader giving a speech?"
“I thought so too, but I didn’t dare say it. And don’t you think his tone and mannerisms are just like our high school homeroom teacher?”
"No wonder it looked so familiar."
The two siblings chuckled at the same time, and those present noticed them whispering to each other and all looked over at the same moment.
Jiang Qingying was extremely embarrassed and wished she could disappear into a hole.
Su Xi stepped in to defuse the situation, smiling kindly and saying, "You two siblings have such a good relationship."
Qin Qing chimed in, "That's only occasionally better. They've been fighting since they were kids, always arguing."
Su Xi said meaningfully, "It's so nice to have so many kids at home."
Everyone here is a smart person. Even if Jiang Qingying wanted to pretend to be deaf and dumb, she couldn't ignore the old lady's burning gaze. She smiled and kicked Lu Jinyuan's leg under the table.
Lu Jinyuan was also extremely helpless and sighed, "Grandma, it's too early to talk about having children now."
Su Xi: "Grandma wanted to remind you to make plans early."
Jiang Qingying glanced at Lu Jinyuan's expression... well, it wasn't good. His polite demeanor was tinged with anger. She said, "We understand. We have our own plans."
The two young people had made their stance clear, so Su Xi didn't say anything more. She hadn't really cared much about the matter; it was just that their marriage was rushed, and she was merely using it to test them.
In Su Xi's heart, Lu Jinyuan was a pitiful child. In the Lu family, she had always been the one who loved him the most and hoped that he could be happy the most. She thought that if the two of them only treated this marriage as a transaction, they would definitely not have children, but the answers they gave were ambiguous.
After dinner, Lu Qicheng handed over the prepared betrothal gifts to Jiang Chen, including a house, a car, and a cash gift.
Upon hearing the amount of the gift money, Jiang Qingying's eyes lit up. She looked at Lu Jinyuan and silently mouthed, "So much?"
Seeing her greedy nature erupt, Lu Jinyuan's cold eyes flashed with a hint of a smile. He leaned down and whispered in her ear, "Grandpa has always been generous, and you are the daughter of the Jiang family. He would never wrong you."
"The wedding gift is just money; the most important thing is the five percent of Lu's shares, which will be officially transferred to your name after our wedding."
"Five percent?" Jiang Qingying raised an eyebrow, mentally calculating how much dividend she could receive each year, then exclaimed with delight, "What if... what if I took this money and then didn't marry you?"
Lu Jinyuan lowered his eyes and asked with a half-smile, "Come to my place tonight?"
Jiang Qingying glanced at him sideways and asked, "Why did you suddenly change the subject?"
"Come to my place, and let me tell you properly what will happen if you break off the engagement."
"I...I was just joking. We've already registered our marriage, why would we call it off?"
So, are you coming to my place tonight?
"Go ahead, why not take advantage of free services?"
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