Seeing Chen Fan stunned, Fang Ling repeated it seriously.

"I'm getting married."

Chen Fan: "Are you serious? Are you kidding?"

Fang Ling: "Do you think I'm joking with you now?"

Chen Fan put down his chopsticks, looked at Fang Ling and asked.

"You... haven't finished your study abroad yet? Why are you suddenly getting married?"

"Who said you can't get married while studying abroad?"

"Besides, getting married won't affect my continued study abroad."

Chen Fan coughed dryly and quickly said with a smile: "Congratulations. I wish you happiness."

"Is Yunhai getting married then? Remember to send me an invitation. If I have time, I will definitely go to the wedding to have a drink..."

Chen Fan suddenly couldn't continue because he noticed the way Fang Ling looked at him.

Complex, helpless, resentful, and even a little lost...

Fang Ling picked up the wine glass in front of her and drank it all again.

He put down the cup and looked up at Chen Fan.

"Do you really want me to get married soon?"

Chen Fan was suddenly embarrassed.

"this……"

"You said you wanted to get married. I can't tell you not to get married, can I?"

"Why not?"

Fang Ling stared at Chen Fan.

"Do you know who I like?"

"With just one word from you, I can give up everything and follow..."

"Well..." Chen Fan interrupted him quickly, "The meat is ready. Eat it while it's hot."

As he spoke, Chen Fan picked up the colander and helped Fang Ling scoop out a lot of meat.

"Eat it. If it's not enough, order more."

Fang Ling suddenly laughed.

"You seem afraid of me."

"Afraid?"

"Yes. You are afraid to see me."

Fang Ling looked at Chen Fan: "Did you get scared when I confessed my feelings to you last time we met? So you don't know how to face me?"

Chen Fan looked at the other person, took a deep breath, and slowly put down the colander.

"No."

"I just don't know how to get along with you. I'm afraid of hurting you..."

Fang Ling smiled.

"What a joke. You think you can hurt me?"

"Who am I? I can never defeat Fang Ling."

Chen Fan smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"I didn't expect that after all this time, you haven't changed..."

Fang Ling said seriously: "Why do you want to change?"

"I've said it before. Although I'm usually a bit careless, I'm not a casual woman."

"If I like someone, I will express it in a straightforward manner."

"I like you. I told you last time. And it won't change."

Chen Fan looked at the other party and said seriously: "Then I will also explain it to you seriously."

"I already have a girlfriend. No, I have a fiancée."

"I have a very good relationship with my fiancée. I will marry her as my wife in the future."

"Second, even if you don't have a fiancée, I still don't think we are suitable. We both have strong personalities, and even if we are together, we will probably often have conflicts in the future."

"No. 1: You're getting married soon, you shouldn't..."

"But I don't like him at all!"

Chen Fan suddenly stopped talking.

He looked at Fang Ling in confusion, "What's going on?"

"Why would you marry someone if you don't like him?"

Fang Ling lowered her head, but this time she couldn't hold back her tears and a tear flowed down the corner of her eye.

Chen Fan reached out and picked up the wine bottle in front of him and poured Fang Ling a glass.

"From the moment we met, I felt that you had a lot on your plate."

"At first I thought it was because your grandma passed away, but now it seems there are other reasons."

"Would you like to talk? If so, I can be your audience."

Fang Ling picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp again.

Bang!

The wine glass made a dull thud as it was placed on the table.

Fang Ling laughed at herself.

"What's there to say? It's just a matter of wealthy people. You can guess it."

"My family has been in trouble since we went there. A bunch of people in my family have used their connections to ask for help, but in the end, there was nothing they could do."

"Seeing that the company was about to collapse, my father and his friends planned to have me marry the son of a boss in Yunhai."

Fang Ling raised her head and glanced at Chen Fan: "Strong alliance, marriage... whatever you want to think. Anyway, it's not that matter."

"Isn't it funny? When parents don't care about their daughter's happiness at all, they only think about how to keep the family business."

"Everyone thinks that rich people are happy, but in my opinion, being rich is a cage. There is no freedom at all, and even the right to decide one's own ultimate happiness..."

Fang Ling shook her head as she spoke, picked up the bottle and started pouring wine.

Looking at the other person sitting opposite him, drinking one glass after another.

This moment.

Chen Fan suddenly felt sorry for Fang Ling.

She was like a commodity, randomly assigned to another family by her family.

Just to protect their own wishes.

During this period, no one cared what Fang Ling thought.

Chen Fan thought about it, picked up the second bottle of beer, opened it and filled it up for himself.

Fang Ling muttered, "Why are you trying to steal my wine? You only drink one bottle."

"These are all mine..."

Chen Fan knocked on the table.

"Don't just drink first, eat some food first."

"I'm very curious. Given your personality, would you agree if your family asked you to get married?"

"Won't you resist?"

"Resist?" Fang Ling gave a bitter smile.

“Is there any point in resisting?”

"The family company is going to fail. This concerns the interests of everyone in the Fang family."

"For the second generation of rich people like us, we enjoy the advantages brought by our family, so naturally we have to devote everything to the family at any time."

"In fact, I have refused and opposed it before..."

Fang Ling looked up at Chen Fan and said with a smile, "But when all the relatives in the family gather in front of you, and they are all threatening to put a set of shackles on you for the sake of the Fang family, what should I do?"

"My dad sighs all the time, and my mom just keeps wiping away tears in front of me... Can I still say no?"

"After all... I am also a member of the Fang family."

Chen Fan shook his head, somewhat disapproving of the Fang family's approach.

It's simply too much to do anything.

"By the way, what kind of trouble did your business encounter?"

Chen Fan asked casually, but the answer he got surprised him a little.

According to Fang Ling's explanation, in addition to those leaders, many business owners who had close ties with the Zhao family were also affected by the fall of the Zhao family.

Due to public pressure at the time, the investigation team did not dare to be careless at all and directly imposed heavy penalties on all the relevant personnel...

The Fang family was very pitiful, as they were among those affected.

Because the Fang family is also one of the families that has some dealings with the Zhao family, and some of them have close ties with the Zhao family...

As a result, the relevant personnel were arrested, and the Fang family's business was affected.

Business plummeted, and even previous partners cancelled their cooperation.

The Fang family's fortunes plummeted, and they managed to hold on for half a century, but in the end they couldn't hold on any longer...

This inevitably led to the last resort, marriage.

After figuring out the whole cause and effect, Chen Fan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

After all this time, the Fang family has fallen to this point, and it turns out that it has something to do with him.