"I promise I won't hide it from you anymore, Ranran, please don't be angry with me."
Song Mai blinked pitifully at Lin Ran. Lin Ran had no choice but to sigh silently, her eyes filled with helplessness as she looked at Song Mai.
"Okay, I'll forgive you this time. If you do it again, you really don't consider me a friend."
Song Mai made a gesture as if she were swearing an oath.
"Don't worry, I definitely won't do it again."
"So, are you still maintaining a contractual relationship, or...?"
Song Mai lowered her head shyly, her face flushed: "Maybe it counts as being in a relationship."
However, thinking about it, although it was a marriage of convenience with Chu Xing, the marriage certificate was real and the marital relationship was protected by law, so it doesn't seem like they were dating.
"I don't know either."
Lin Ran chuckled.
So, that means they've turned a fake relationship into a real one?
"I guess so."
"Is he really not good enough?"
She brought up the topic again, and Song Mai's expression was somewhat complicated.
Why are you always concerned about this?
Lin Ran spoke very casually, as if she were talking about something trivial, completely disregarding whether the people at the next table could hear her.
"How can you not care? It concerns your happiness for the rest of your life. If you don't care about anything, I, as your sister, will have to think about it for you. Anyway, no matter how you started, you are now a real couple. If there are no other conflicts or problems in the future, your marriage will continue."
Song Mai nodded. The second half of what she said was true. Anyway, Chu Xing and she were both interested in each other. If nothing unexpected happened, this marriage should be the last one in her life.
Her face was flushed, and her voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz.
"We haven't..."
Lin Ran immediately understood.
"It's good that he's not incapable, but he doesn't seem incapable to me. You're so lucky!"
Song Mai glared at her, her face turning bright red: "Stop talking! You have no sense of propriety, you're getting more and more outrageous."
She could even feel the strange looks being given to them by the people at the next table.
Lin Ran didn't care at all.
"Hey, eating, drinking, defecating, doing things, and having sex are all normal human behaviors. This isn't an era where sex is taboo anymore, so relax."
Song Mai shook her head speechlessly, put down her knife and fork, and went to the restroom first.
Just as she came out of the restroom, she inadvertently passed by the door of a private room. The door was not completely closed. Suddenly, she heard a somewhat familiar voice filled with anger, and she paused in her tracks.
"Stop talking, I won't accept any blind dates you arrange."
No sooner had those words been spoken than the woman's pitiful sobs began to follow.
“Fenghe, I’m doing this for your own good. You’re almost thirty and you’ve never been alone. I didn’t want you to be all alone, so I introduced you to your Uncle Yao’s daughter. Qianyu is a great girl, excellent in every way, and a good match for you. Your Uncle Yao and your father are also good friends. Why can’t you understand my good intentions?”
The woman's voice was soft and weak, sounding very pitiful, followed by a deep, angry middle-aged man's voice, accompanied by the sound of glassware being smashed.
"You're not a child anymore, how can you still be so immature! Your Aunt Meng is so considerate of you, and you still treat her like this? Don't you have any conscience?!"
The man gave a cold laugh, his voice chilling as if it penetrated to the bone.
"I have no conscience? Everyone in the entire Southern Capital knows what kind of person Yao Qianyu is. She introduced Yao Qianyu to me and kept saying it was for my own good. Does she think I'm stupid?"
After saying that, she turned to look at Meng Jing.
"You're clever, but I'm not stupid either. You've been too calculating. Aside from my father pretending to be asleep and ignoring everything I've heard, who else can you fool? Sometimes, don't be too goal-oriented. When even I, the one being schemed against, see through it, how can you possibly achieve your objective?"
The woman roared in anger, her voice extremely shrill.
"you!"
However, she softened her tone immediately after saying that.
"Xiangyang, listen to what he's saying. What ulterior motive do I have? What scheme am I plotting? His mother passed away early, and I just felt sorry for her and wanted to fulfill my responsibilities as a mother. I only arranged this blind date with Qianyu because he's not young anymore. If he really doesn't like me, he should just tell me. Why make such malicious assumptions about me?"
"Whether it's malicious speculation or not, you know better than anyone else."
The middle-aged man became completely enraged. He seemed to pick up an unknown object and throw it at him. Song Mai heard a "bang" as the object hit the ground. Immediately afterward, the door to the private room was pushed open forcefully without warning, and the man inside stormed out.
The door was then slammed shut, making a deafening noise as it hit the door frame.
Song Mai came face to face with the man, and upon closer inspection, she realized that he was Ji Fenghe.
She smiled somewhat awkwardly: "I didn't mean to eavesdrop; I just happened to be passing by on my way to the restroom."
Ji Fenghe was no longer the gentle and refined man he used to be; his eyes were so cold they seemed to hold countless layers of ice, sending chills down one's spine.
Song Mai paused for a moment, then realized what he meant and immediately changed his words.
"The soundproofing is so good, I couldn't hear anything."
Ji Feng glanced at her and then quickly left.
When Song Mai returned to her seat, Ji Feng's appearance was still lingering in her mind.
"Why did it take you so long?"
Lin Ran noticed that her expression was a little off and asked with concern.
“I ran into my boss. He was having dinner with his family at this restaurant. It seemed like he was having some kind of conflict with his family. I heard them arguing when I passed by just now.”
Lin Ran nodded and didn't say anything more.
Song Mai suddenly remembered what Ji Fenghe had said in the private room: "Who in the entire Southern Capital doesn't know who Yao Qianyu is?"
It seems she really hadn't heard of this person.
"Ranran, do you know Yao Qianyu?"
Lin Ran thought for a moment and then decisively shook her head.
"I don't know him, I've never heard of him. Why are you suddenly asking about him?"
Song Mai took a sip of tea and didn't take the matter to heart.
"It's nothing. I just heard that my boss's family is arranging a blind date for him. This Yao Qianyu is the blind date. He said that everyone in the entire Nandu City knows Yao Qianyu, but I don't think I've ever heard of this name before, so I'm asking you."
"Perhaps it was a bit of an exaggeration. Maybe everyone around him knew it, so he exaggerated a bit when he spoke."
"Maybe."
Lin Ran chatted with Song Mai for a while about how Song Mai resolved the issue of Alex fainting at the Yunxing new product launch.
She saw the video of the scene on the news and immediately thought that Song Mai was incredibly amazing.
In the afternoon, she sent many messages to praise her, but Song Mai was busy at the time and did not have time to reply. Now that she has met her in person, Lin Ran still felt it was not enough, so she praised her to the skies again.
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