"Um!"
Ji Xia responded softly, but Chen Jing didn't understand and asked her again in a low voice.
Ji Xia chuckled to herself, then tugged at his collar and whispered, "Once the first batch of goods is delivered, we'll have our families arrange our engagement."
"Whatever other people have for their engagements, I have to have it too. Even if I've been jilted before, I'll still have a big celebration. I absolutely can't be worse than others, understand?"
Chen Jing grinned excitedly: "Of course, don't worry. We'll have the three turns and one sound, plus the betrothal gifts, and all the other formalities. Don't worry."
He couldn't wait to throw a big party, to let everyone know that Ji Xia was his, and could only ever be his.
Ji Xia smiled contentedly, grabbed his collar with both hands, and leaned down to kiss him.
I had no idea what was in the movie that night.
All she knew was that Chen Jing held her tightly on his lap, and he kissed her for half the night, making her little mouth red and swollen, her breath filled with his scent.
Even so, Ji Xia still felt very happy.
She misunderstood in her past life. No matter how her parents, brothers, and sisters-in-law tried to persuade her, she insisted on marrying the person she loved and suffered a lifetime of misery.
In this life, she married someone who loved her and enjoyed his tenderness and care, which felt much better than the life of compromise and humiliation she endured in her previous life.
As the movie theater closed and the bright lights inside came on, Ji Xia, blushing, pushed Chen Jing away and tried to stand up, only to find that her legs were weak and she couldn't stand steadily.
Chen Jing chuckled softly, reaching out to support her slender waist, feeling quite pleased.
The audience members got up and left one after another, and no one noticed her embarrassment. Ji Xia secretly breathed a sigh of relief and glared at him resentfully.
That one glance, her eyes sparkling with allure, made Chen Jing's heart melt.
No, they must get engaged as soon as possible. No, he wanted to get married as soon as possible. He wanted her to become his woman as soon as possible, to watch her bloom freely beneath him.
Ten minutes later, most of the audience slowly dispersed, and Ji Xia and Chen Jing also slowly left the passage hand in hand.
Suddenly, a disdainful snort came from behind: "Fickle and shameless."
Ji Xia was stunned for a moment before realizing that the customers leaving a row behind her were Lin Haodong and Liu Pianran.
Lin Haodong glared at her angrily, especially when he saw her rosy lips were red and swollen, and her eyes were charming. He was filled with jealousy and glared at her fiercely.
When we got engaged, every time he tried to be intimate with her, she would make excuses.
She and Chen Jing weren't even engaged yet, and the two of them were being intimate in public; they truly had no shame.
When Ji Xia saw that it was Lin Haodong and his wife, she couldn't help but roll her eyes. They're like ghosts that just won't leave her. Why do she always run into these two wherever she goes?
It seems he can't go to the small workshops before he leaves the brigade, lest he report him again.
Ji Xia was too lazy to argue, but Chen Jing wouldn't tolerate him. Hearing this, he sneered repeatedly: "Lin University students really know how to turn the tables. You were caught having an affair in the woods, and now you're blaming us, your engaged couple."
Lin Haodong was taken aback: "You two are engaged?"
"Yes, we've already prepared the betrothal gifts. If you're not in a hurry, Mr. Lin, you can witness our engagement ceremony."
He gave a smug smile, then pulled Ji Xia out of the movie theater.
After leaving the movie theater, Chen Jing went to the bicycle shed to get his bicycle. Ji Xia followed behind him, walked to a lamppost, and smiled at Chen Jing, who was a dozen meters away, with charming and gentle eyes.
Two hands reached out from behind her, one covering her mouth and the other gripping her shoulder like an iron clamp, dragging her into a dark alley not far away.
Ji Xia was startled. Only when her hands were pressed firmly against the wall did she realize that the man opposite her was Lin Haodong.
She glared at Lin Haodong, but relaxed her body, and when the large hand on her mouth was released, she said: "Lin Haodong, are you sick? Are you looking for death?"
"You shameless, promiscuous woman, you've been hooking up with him for a long time, haven't you?"
Ji Xia's face turned cold: "Heh, you were having an affair with someone before your marriage, and you're trying to smear me? Lin Haodong, you're despicable."
"Isn't that right? You're with me, pretending to be all innocent and pure. He's not even your fiancé yet, and you're already so shameless, practically begging him to humiliate you—ugh—"
Ji Xia thrust his knee upwards, and Lin Haodong's voice immediately changed. He was in so much pain that his whole body convulsed and he couldn't stand steadily. Then, Chen Jing, who had arrived, kicked him more than a meter away.
Ji Xia casually lowered her knees, only to be hugged tightly by Chen Jing, who seemed still in shock.
She reached out and patted his shoulder: "It's nothing, I was just startled. If it hadn't been so unexpected, he wouldn't have been able to hurt me."
Chen Jing held her tightly in his arms, wishing he could meld her into his body, and his fear slowly subsided.
In the blink of an eye, Chen Jing turned around and found that she had disappeared. He was filled with murderous intent.
Ji Xia comforted him with a kiss: "Let go, I want to say a few words to him."
"What's the point of talking to him? This bastard needs to be taught a lesson. You stand aside, I'll deal with him."
As Chen Jing spoke, he pushed her behind him and took a few steps forward, intending to teach Lin Haodong another lesson.
"When it comes to killing someone, the best approach is to destroy their spirit."
Ji Xia smiled faintly, pulled Chen Jing behind her, and looked down at Lin Haodong with a mocking expression: "I just want to know why, after being engaged to you for more than a year, you won't even hold my hand?"
"Why? We were engaged first. If you hadn't always rejected me, I wouldn't have been bewitched by Pianran."
Lin Haodong clutched his chest and slowly stood up, his eyes glaring resentfully at the two figures embracing tightly.
Ji Xia couldn't help but chuckle: "If you're going to blame someone, you should blame your mom. She's told me behind my back several times that you should focus on your college entrance exams and that indulging in beautiful women will only make you lose your fighting spirit."
“I didn’t dare to be intimate with you because I was worried that your mother would look down on me. Later I probably understood that your mother couldn’t stand the idea of you having a woman around you. She wanted to keep me around to earn money to support you and your son while she was mentally suppressing me.”
Upon hearing this, Lin Haodong's expression changed drastically, and he subconsciously shook his head: "Impossible, how could my mother be such a person?"
"Heh, she's your mother, of course you think she's good, but you've always turned a blind eye to the grievances I suffered at your mother's hands."
As Ji Xia spoke, she wrapped her arms around Chen Jing's slender waist and leaned into his embrace with a blissful expression.
"Someone once told me that a man's willingness to spend money on a woman doesn't necessarily mean he loves her; but if a man is unwilling to spend money on a woman, he definitely doesn't love her."
"You've never thought about spending money on me, but you keep coaxing me to spend money on you and your mother. Lin Haodong, do you dare say you've ever been sincere with me?"
“Ah Jing is the same; whenever she has something good, she thinks of giving it to me.”
Ji Xia thought of the box of nice things Chen Jing had gotten for her, things that even his mother didn't have, all just to make her happy.
"He's so good to me, why can't I choose him?"
She smiled slightly, exchanged a deep smile with Chen Jing, and turned back to say, "Why can't I get rid of a disgusting, rotten cucumber like you that's been played with and tainted?"
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