He took a deep, greedy breath, his eyes hardening, and nodded, saying, "Okay, I won't run away, don't worry. No matter what happens, I'll come to register myself."
"good."
Xu Manzhi nodded happily.
She believed his belief.
"Come on, I'll take you back to rest."
"Yes, I'm very obedient and listen to my man."
Yan Lin drove Xu Manzhi to the Ling family's house.
This night was extremely unsettling.
The situation changed in the blink of an eye.
Upon receiving the news, the Gu family rushed to the Jiang family and took Gu Meiyun, who had become a vegetable, and the mentally challenged Jiang Pengyue back with her.
Comrade Lao Gu also called Zhou Xiangqun.
He said, "Don't worry, even if something happens to the Jiang family, the Gu family will still be here. Yueyue is our family's niece, so we're all family."
Zhou Xiangqun thought it was Xu Manzhi, so he readily agreed.
The very next morning, he encountered Jiang Pengyue, who was wearing a white dress, downstairs at his workplace.
She's gained a little weight.
His face turned pale, but his eyes remained just as small, especially when he smiled, they looked even smaller.
He said impatiently, "Why are you here? What's wrong? I know the Jiang family is in trouble, and you're unhappy because they love you the most, but you're not the one I'm marrying—"
Jiang Pengyue held her head in her hands.
She seemed to be in great pain, and rushed over to Zhou Xiangqun, saying, "Xiangqun, you can't be so cruel to me, the child in my belly..."
"Wait, don't talk nonsense."
Zhou Xiangqun panicked and pulled her hand away, afraid of being misunderstood by her colleagues.
Jiang Pengyue didn't understand.
Where did things go wrong?
All she could think about were the vivid images of her and Zhou Xiangqun making love, each scene incredibly real. Last night, her grandfather told her everything, saying that she was carrying a child from the Zhou family…
This also includes the matchmaking arrangement that the Jiang family originally planned.
The Gu family was unaware of the truth.
They naturally assumed that Jiang Mingda was cunning and scheming, using Xu Manzhi to snag a wealthy husband and secretly facilitating Zhou Xiangqun's affair with Jiang Pengyue.
Jiang Pengyue firmly believed this.
She was eagerly waiting to get married.
When the Gu family went to the Jiang family to retrieve her dowry, she saw a room full of mahogany chests, a full-length dressing mirror, a television, and wooden cabinets... and she wanted to see her fiancé whom she had been thinking about day and night.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Xiangqun showed none of the gentleness she had at night; her eyes were filled with disdain and disgust.
She guessed that Zhou Xiangqun wanted to kill two birds with one stone, taking both her and Jiang's biological daughter, Xu Manzhi, into his fold.
Will Xu Manzhi agree?
She doesn't mind if her husband has a mistress, as long as he marries her.
"How about we both marry you?" she blurted out.
"You're crazy."
Zhou Xiangqun quickly pulled her to a dark corner.
Jiang Pengyue tried her best to explain: "No, I really don't mind. The child in my belly is your own. Once we get married, your parents will be able to hold their grandson. My grandfather had someone check, and it's a boy."
boy?!
Zhou Xiangqun was stunned.
In his dream, Jiang Xiaoyu gave birth to a daughter.
The Jiang family absorbed the Zhou family's resources rapidly, rising through the ranks until the entire family moved to Beijing to develop their careers.
But in reality, not a single member of the Jiang family remained.
Does that mean he really... can have two women on each side...?
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