Chapter 57
Why don't you agree with his girlfriend?
Xu's eyes narrowed with wariness: "Who are you?"
Wearing a white lab coat, Song Siman then looked at Xu Que and asked, "And who is this?"
Her gaze swept back and forth between the two of them, and the overly intimate physical contact between them made her raise an eyebrow, arousing her curiosity.
Countless guesses flashed through her mind. In her memory, the Jiang family's intended marriage partner was Zhao Rufei from the Zhao family. Who was this person in front of her?
"You two..."
Xu Que: "Yes, we are already married."
Song Siman: "..."
No, who asked?
Jiang Fengyi coughed lightly and introduced her to Xu Que, "This is Song Siman. We were classmates before."
Turning to Song Siman, he said, "This is Xu Que. We got our marriage certificate a while ago."
Getting married and registering a marriage certificate? She'd never heard anyone mention it before. Jiang Fengyi was one of the most talked-about young people in the industry, and her marriage was being watched by many.
She got married so quietly?
Jiang Fengyi noticed her white coat and asked, "Do you work here?"
“I’ve been working at this hospital for several years now,” she chatted with Jiang Fengyi. “Your personal doctor isn’t at work today? How come I see you at the hospital?”
"I just ate something bad outside, so I went to the nearest hospital."
"I thought you only ate the food cooked by the housekeeper at home and wouldn't eat food from outside."
Song Siman was really curious about Jiang Fengyi and Xu Que's relationship, so she steered the conversation toward them.
"Staying by your side so late, you two have such a good relationship." She casually asked the question she really wanted to know, "How did you two meet?"
Xu Que: "Uh..."
Jiang Fengyi: "Love at first sight!"
"We fell in love at first sight and quickly became a couple. We got our marriage certificate not long after."
She changed her story, abandoning the script she had prepared in the agreement, and chose to reveal her true feelings in a way that was half-truth and half-lies.
"Wow, how romantic!"
Song Siman blinked. In her memory, Jiang Fengyi didn't seem like the type to fall in love at first sight.
Always rational, always clear-headed, always impassive, as if born a ruthless ruler.
Such a person is prone to falling in love at first sight.
Song Siman's gaze lingered on Xu Que's face, trying to discern what it was that attracted Jiang Fengyi.
"Ahem..." Jiang Fengyi spoke up, drawing her attention back. "Long time no see. How have you been lately?"
Song Siman shrugged: "I'm still the same. Several years have passed and my family still doesn't approve of my girlfriend, so I haven't gone back."
She smiled apologetically: "So you didn't even know you were married."
Not far away, her interns called out to her.
"Teacher Song, this patient's medical orders..."
Jiang Fengyi: "Go ahead and do what you need to do."
Song Siman was practically going crazy: "Ahhhhh I'm going insane! I've taught you so many times how to write a medical order, but you still can't do it!"
*
After returning home, Zhao Rufei went straight to her room, locked the door, and ignored everyone.
She let her sister, Zhao Ruxuan, bang on the door from the outside.
In the bedroom,
Zhao Rufei covered her face and lay down on the 1.8-meter-wide bed, sinking into the soft mattress. The silk sheets clung to her face, cold and devoid of warmth.
He clenched his teeth, and a voice filled with hatred came from deep in his throat.
"Jiang Fengyi, I will make you regret this!"
the next day,
After adjusting herself, Zhao Rufei, with the assistance of Old Madam Zhao, thoroughly sorted out the Zhao family's network of relationships, using all available connections, determined not to allow the Zhao family to fall in her hands.
“Our Zhao family alone cannot shake Jiang Fengyi, but what if we join forces with other families?”
Her words carried a hidden meaning, and the calculation in her delicate features greatly diminished her good looks.
After Jiang Fengyi, whom she mentioned every day, was discharged from the hospital, she temporarily lost the freedom to eat barbecue outside.
However, he did not show favoritism and exercised his right to supervise.
"I'll make you whatever you want to eat. It's not that I don't want you to eat, but you can eat out once your stomach has recovered."
"Don't you like the food I cook?"
Jiang Fengyi: "I like it, but the barbecue last night was really delicious."
"So delicious that even if your stomach hurts, you'll still want to go back for more?"
Jiang Fengyi nodded.
"no!"
Xu locked the door from the inside.
"Today you can only eat the food I cook at home."
Xu returned to the kitchen to cook noodles. While waiting for the water to boil, she casually asked, "Why don't the family members of the classmate you ran into yesterday approve of her being with her girlfriend?"
Jiang Fengyi began to reminisce.
At that time, she had just entered university. Song Siman was in the same year as her and was studying in another city.
At the end-of-year family gathering, Song Siman, then a freshman in college, announced that she had found the love of her life.
At the time, no one took it seriously, simply assuming she was experiencing her first love. Young people are immature, their enthusiasm for everything fleeting, and their intense feelings are like a limited-time monsoon—passionate yet brief.
Everyone agreed that they would break up after a while.
Five years later,
After Song Siman graduated from university, the two were still deeply in love, and over the years, their relationship had become even stronger than at the beginning.
They interned together, rented an apartment together, and experienced many firsts in their lives together.
Their blissful cohabitation continued until the day Song Siman returned home to ask her family for her household registration book to get married.
Song Siman's mother was displeased: "I will never allow an ordinary person to enter our home."
“Okay,” Song Siman said readily. “Then I’ll go to her house.”
She didn't forget why she had come, and reached out to her mother: "Give me the family household registration book first."
"This is utterly ridiculous!"
Her mother turned around angrily, her face flushed red: "You are our only child in the Song family. We didn't mention the marriage to you before because you were young and didn't understand things."
"Since you want to get married, I'll arrange a blind date for you tomorrow."
"Mother, shouldn't you have the doctor check you up? Are you that forgetful? You've forgotten that I have a girlfriend?"
After Song Siman's mother was extremely angry, she calmed down.
"You can only find people within the circle."
"They're from the same circle, my classmates' circle."
Are you trying to drive me crazy?
"Please be reasonable. It's clearly you who have been refusing to give me my household registration book. If anyone should be angry, it's me."
"We shouldn't have let you study medicine in the first place. You insisted that you weren't afraid of hardship and wanted to be a white-clad angel saving lives. We had no choice but to let you be. What a mess you've turned a perfectly normal person into! You're all crazy!"
It's rare that Song Siman didn't refute this; she was too young back then and wasn't careful enough when choosing her major.
But then she thought, if she didn't apply for clinical medicine, she would never see her beloved, and that was absolutely unacceptable!
Her mother continued, "Campus romances are limited to the campus. After graduation, it's assumed that you've broken up. If you don't want to be the one to break up, then..."
She stepped forward, looking as if she were bravely going to her death.
"Then I'll be the bad guy and make her break up with you."
"Mom, you should watch less TV dramas!"
"I will absolutely not give you the household registration book. If you insist on marrying her, don't come back after you leave this house!"
"Where did you learn that line from, in some kind of family drama? It's so ingrained in your memory."
"My legs are my own body; I can come and go as I please."
"Housekeeper, change all the locks on the doors tomorrow!"
"You...you're ruthless! Experience really pays off!"
The two parted on bad terms.
Song Siman's mother held her household registration booklet in her hand, waiting for her daughter to go home with her head down, only to be met with the new policy that no household registration booklet was required for marriage registration.
The only way she could control her daughter was gone, and she was so angry that she complained to the nanny every day at home: "Who proposed this policy? They don't pay attention to so many issues that need to be addressed, but they are very concerned about these trivial matters."
She also complained that her daughter had forgotten her mother now that she had a boyfriend, and that she was really heartless to not come home.
On the other side,
After losing her family's support, Song Siman lived in dire poverty.
She moved from a large apartment in the city center to a small, old apartment without an elevator. Despite living in such a cramped space, Song Siman didn't feel cramped at all; instead, she felt that the small apartment had a warmer, more homey feel.
As long as I have my girlfriend by my side,
She enjoyed it.
In the kitchen, where the range hood was humming, Jiang Fengyi leaned against the door and continued speaking.
“The Song family wouldn’t allow her to be with an ordinary person. Song Siman left home in a huff, cutting off the family’s financial support. She had no savings, so she started selling her old belongings.”
"Bags, clothes, necklaces..."
"That's when I found out about her and her girlfriend."
"She's very brave!"
Jiang Fengyi's voice was very soft.
"Her girlfriend is too."
Jiang Fengyi thought to herself: She is not as brave as the two of them; she doesn't know how to express her love naturally.
Xu approached with a bowl of freshly cooked noodles, the rising steam blurring her face. Jiang Fengyi could only feel a heat source drawing closer.
"Come and eat some noodles!"
The plain noodles are garnished with a few pieces of bright green lettuce, and topped with a poached egg.
She handed the chopsticks to Jiang Fengyi.
"At least they had each other for company, and they could lean on each other to find courage."
"You have walked alone for a long time."
"You are the bravest one!"
Jiang Fengyi was taken aback and for a moment forgot to take the chopsticks.
The bowl of clear noodles on the table was steaming, and through the wisps of white mist rising from the rim, she could see Xu Que's smiling eyes.
My heart instantly calmed down.
"No matter what I do, you praise me unconditionally."
As she said those words, she couldn't help but smile.
"You are excellent in your own right; I was just telling the truth."
Xu sat down next to her and ate noodles with her.
Aren't you going to eat?
Xu propped his head up with his hand and tilted his head to look at her: "I'm not hungry yet, I'll eat later."
Jiang Fengyi thought she would feel very uncomfortable being stared at while eating noodles, but since the person was Xu Que, she felt it was acceptable and was not affected.
Perhaps, she could never help but make an exception for Xu.
A month has passed quietly, and in the blink of an eye, it's time to record the program "CP's Travel Guide".
Xu looked very nervous and kept asking Jiang Fengyi questions.
How's this outfit?
"It looks great."
"Would it be too formal for me to wear this when recording the show?" she asked. "This is my first show, so of course I have to treat it with great care."
Jiang Fengyi picked up the outfit next to her: "How about wearing this more casual one?"
Xu hesitated, wondering, "Wouldn't this be too casual and seem disrespectful to the production team?"
Jiang Fengyi waved her hand, summoning the styling team to prepare outfits for the two of them.
Xu wanted to say something more, but Jiang Fengyi, who had anticipated her move, covered her mouth.
"You are not allowed to refuse, just do as I say."
"Can……"
"Um?"
Upon meeting Jiang Fengyi's gaze, Xu immediately fell silent.
Okay~
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