Chapter 273: Crying after breaking up? Didn’t I break up with her a long time ago? ...
Li Shida is determined to win.
Although the Li family was also a wealthy one, they had many children and grandchildren. Even though his branch was quite powerful, he only got a small share.
There was no way. His brothers and sisters were too capable. Even his least learned brother managed to marry the daughter of a British businessman by just talking. With the endorsement of British capital, his brother's status in the family soared and he became a dazzling new star.
With his brothers striving so hard to get ahead, his life as a Cambridge graduate looked so ordinary that he had to improve himself through marriage.
The best choice at the moment is the Ni family. Firstly, the Ni family and the shipping tycoon Zheng family are old friends, and their children are in-laws. Secondly, although the other branches of the Ni family are very popular, they have long created their own interest circles through marriage, shareholding, etc. Even if he squeezes in by force, he can only be a marginal figure.
It would be better to stir up trouble for the first wife, at least he would have the legal advantage, and he was very confident in himself. As long as he and Ni Jiaxin worked hard and schemed carefully after marriage, he would be able to take back the interests that originally belonged to the first wife from the other wives.
In addition, he and Michelle Ni are classmates, so he must strike while the iron is hot and win this woman over in one go!
So for half a month, he spared no effort to please Ni Jiaxin, but Ni Jiaxin was lukewarm towards him, which made him unsure. Instead of dragging it out and ending up with nothing, he might as well propose to her directly.
Before going upstairs, he had already greeted the first wife, who just smiled politely and said nothing.
He took it as encouragement and acquiescence, went to the second floor, and knocked on the door: "Xinxin, I came to see you."
Ni Jiaxin didn't say anything. Li Shida waited for a moment and knocked on the door again: "Xinxin, your fever hasn't subsided yet? Let me take your temperature. If you don't object, I'll come in."
Ni Jiaxin secretly said that it was bad. She had not locked the door these days to make it easier for her mother to come up and feed her medicine.
When she lifted the blanket and wanted to get out of bed and lock the door, Li Shida had already pushed the door open and came in.
Their eyes met, and Ni Jiaxin grabbed the blanket, covered her face again, and fell asleep.
Unfortunately, this kind of passive resistance is useless. For a man who is determined to pursue her and marry her, as long as she doesn't slap him in the face, it is tantamount to acquiescence.
He threw away the lilies in the vase that had long withered. He didn't know which idiot had given it to him and kept it after so long.
He changed the bottle of water and put in the roses he brought. The fiery red flowers symbolized his passionate love for her. He thought she would like it.
He opened the drawer of the bedside table, took out the thermometer, lifted the blanket, and said softly, "Xinxin, let me take your temperature?"
Ni Jiaxin couldn't pretend anymore. When his hand touched her shoulder, she still jumped out of bed in disgust, ran to the window, and sat on the adult sofa: "John, where are your manners? Did I allow you to come in?"
Li Shida was helpless: "But Jenny, I knocked on the door. I thought you were asleep."
Ni Jiaxin's face turned pale, and her eyes swept over the red velvet jewelry box in his hand. She could only find an excuse to delay time: "John, I plan to go to Yale to study for a doctorate, and I don't want to get married now."
Li Shida was a little surprised: "But when you were studying for your master's degree, you said you didn't want to continue studying."
Ni Jiaxin was helpless: "Life is full of unexpected things. Can't I change my mind now?"
"Why did you change your mind?" Li Shida's body tensed, filled with a sense of crisis.
"After working, I realized that I still have a lot of shortcomings. I am willing to spend a few more years to improve my level. You don't have to wait for me. Marry the right person. I won't blame you." Ni Jiaxin didn't want to implicate Yao Weihua, so she could only find an excuse of studying to let Li Shida give up.
This was the only solution she could think of after having a fever for three days.
As a result, Li Shida blurted out: "Then I'll go with you."
Ni Jiaxin was in a state of great headache and could only speak more bluntly: "John, I think the relationship between you and me is just pure friendship. I can't treat you as my fiancé or even my partner. This is too sudden, and I am completely unprepared."
"Then I'll give you time to slowly adapt. I'm not in a hurry. I'll stay with you until you agree. But you should accept this ring first. I made it specially for you. Look, it's engraved with J&J, which are the initials of your and my English names." Li Shida opened the red velvet box, held it in both hands, knelt on one knee, and reverently presented it to Ni Jiaxin.
Since Ni Jiaxin refused to answer, he knelt down for a long time and no matter how she tried to persuade him to get up, it was useless.
This ability to persist and cling to others may be inherited from his mother who used her son to force him to abdicate.
Ni Jiaxin really didn't like this behavior, and her eyebrows were raised in anger: "Okay, since you won't get up, then I'll leave."
Li Shida was anxious. The moment she brushed past him, he grabbed her wrist and looked up at the woman humbly. "Xinxin, when I came up just now, I saw Auntie taking medicine. You don't want her old illness to flare up, do you?"
Ni Jiaxin lowered her head in shock and looked at the man. He actually used her mother to threaten her. Who gave him this bad idea?
who!
She was so angry that she was shaking all over. She wanted to say something but she didn't know how to start. Her throat was hoarse and astringent, which was the feeling of suffocation and the echo of pain.
But what could she do? Her mother worked so hard, trying to survive in the cracks. Even if she was angry with her mother, she couldn't bear to ignore her mother's life or death.
The mother-daughter relationship in this world always tends to go to two extremes. Either the mother repays the debt and constantly sacrifices for her daughter, or the daughter repays the debt and constantly sacrifices herself to fulfill her mother's ambitions.
For her mother, the most ambitious and far-reaching goal is to help her find a man of equal social status to marry.
No matter what happened, as long as it involved her mother, she almost lost the ability to resist.
When the cold diamond ring was put on her ring finger, her heart was trembling and her soul was sad. Why, why was it like this?
Why can’t lovers finally get married?
No one answered, only the shining diamond ring, shining in the sunlight outside the window, shone with a divine and cold light.
On the day when Ni Jiaxin's marriage news hit the headlines, Yao Weihua was as calm as if nothing had happened.
Lu Henian was worried, so he rushed back to accompany him and even bought some wine. He cautiously tried to test him, "If you want to cry, then cry. Come, I'll get drunk with you."
Yao Weihua looked at him calmly: "Crying? Didn't I break up with her a long time ago?"
What? Lu Henian suspected that his ears were distracted. Why couldn't he understand what Yao Weihua said?
Yao Weihua laughed and said, "That day at the dance, I was done with her."
"But she must have been forced at that time, and she hasn't agreed yet." Lu Henian originally wanted to help him fight for it, but who would have thought that Ni Jiaxin surrendered faster than France.
It's really weird.
Yao Weihua took the red wine from his hand, pulled the cork, and poured herself a glass: "Not rejecting completely is not rejecting at all. From the moment she walked into the ballroom with Li Shida on her arm, my relationship with her was over."
Lu Henian stared at him blankly, watched him take a sip and then put down the glass, watched him pick up the list of medicinal materials and busy himself with the accounting, watched him act as if nothing had happened, his life was no different from before.
It took a long time for Lu Henian to understand what that meant: not rejecting completely is not rejecting at all.
Just like a traitor who led the Japanese devils, no matter how many excuses he made, it could not change the fact that he was a traitor.
He silently poured himself a glass and sighed, "What a pity! I thought you two would drag on for three to five years, creating a heart-wrenching love epic."
"What are you thinking? I think we should not waste our feelings. We should wait until the country opens up and find a woman from the mainland. These daughters of rich families have completely different ideas from ours. Even if we force ourselves to get married, we will end up breaking up." Yao Weihua saw through it completely.
Hong Kong is a strange city; it is both advanced and backward.
And he is destined to dislike the backward things.
Lu Henian couldn't help but be curious: "What kind of person are you looking for?"
Yao Weihua thought for a moment and smiled, "Be like my second sister, a strong woman who never blames others even when her marriage is unhappy, and who gets up wherever she falls, never complaining to her parents. Or be like my youngest sister, who, even when she's stuck in a quagmire, pulls up other unlucky people, rushes out with her, and rewrites the chapter of her life. If that doesn't work, be like the female ghost I saved. She suffered so much that she didn't want to live anymore, and she wanted to die with the scumbag. No matter which one you are, you won't bow to fate."
And Ni Jiaxin surrendered too quickly, too quickly, too quickly.
She didn't even give him a chance to talk to her mother. He prepared so many arguments to try to convince the eldest wife of the Ni family that the mainland had unlimited potential in the future and that the eldest wife of the Ni family was not favored, so she could cooperate with him and enter the domestic market in two years. By then, there would naturally be another world for her.
He was even prepared to confess his father's identity to add some spice to this relationship that was not accepted by the world.
What a pity, it was like he was flirting with a blind man, what a waste of emotion.
But there is also a good thing about this. At least he has a clear understanding of what kind of woman he wants.
Maybe Yue Lao had already prepared a surprise for him, and it was not far away.
Life is short, and he has no time to be sad about people who are not worth it. He will greet all possible surprises in life with the most optimistic attitude.
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After the Chinese New Year, Yao Zhizhi helped Duan Cheng contact Xu Wei. Xu Wei found the Dean of Academic Affairs and quickly called Duan Cheng back.
Duan Cheng made a special call to Yao Zhizhi that night to express his gratitude. Thanks to Teacher Xu's recommendation, Yicheng University extended an olive branch to him.
In the past few days, the children's clothes for spring, summer and autumn have been sent one after another. Duan Cheng has completed the formalities, bought the train ticket, and is ready to go south.
After receiving the news, Yao Taotao made preparations in advance. There was a staff dormitory at the university, so Duan Cheng and his mother lived in the dormitory, and the child was sent to Liutiao Hutong, where Yao Ningning and Zhang Caini helped take care of him.
Yao Yingying happened to take on odd jobs at the garment factory and the embroidery station. When the two female comrades were too busy, she would stop what she was doing and take care of them for a while.
As for Yao Taotao, just pay the money, and don't force her to work hard.
But she is not busy at work, so she comes here to work every Sunday.
Four female comrades created the prototype of a women's mutual aid society in this small courtyard.
One time, when Yao Zhizhi was delivering food to her mother-in-law, she passed by and was quite moved by the peaceful life she saw there.
No one can decide his or her birth, but everyone can decide his or her future path.
Whether to compromise with the dregs, or surrender to the dregs, whether to resist the dregs, or completely abandon the dregs and live a different life, everything is up to oneself, not others.
In the spring when everything comes back to life, cats and dogs begin to get restless and start having short-lived romances.
Naturally, humans are not willing to lag behind.
Just now, Tang Fengyuan received a report that a homicide had occurred in San Tiao Hutong. According to the people who reported the case, it might be a murder of passion.
Tang Fengyuan was about to get off work, but he had to rush out to verify the matter before considering whether to report it to the Public Security Bureau.
When he arrived at the scene, Tang Fengyuan was stunned. The dead woman was a woman he had little contact with but had heard of many times.
The belly is so big, there might be two deaths.
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