Volume 1 Chapter 29 He is different from others
Once a family business ranks among the world's top 500, it is worthy of being called a "rich family".
However, even among the wealthy families, there are leaders and tails.
Except for a very small number of extremely powerful top families, most wealthy families often need to use strategies such as marriage to protect their family businesses.
Even the cases of marrying someone of high status or marrying someone of low status were rare, and marriages between people of equal social status and power were the norm.
If you are lucky, there happen to be children of similar age in the family, and perhaps you can give birth to an enviable pair of childhood sweethearts.
If they are unlucky, the children of wealthy families will have to sacrifice their love and shoulder the responsibility of the family.
It's difficult to have your cake and eat it too. If you are born into a wealthy family, from the moment you are born, you will have wealth and status that many people will never achieve in their lifetime. Naturally, what comes with it is the need to abide by the family's "rules".
The Ji family and the Wen family are both wealthy families in need of marriage alliances.
Ji Yunbai and Wen Fei are also among the lucky ones.
The two are the same age and have been in the same class since elementary school. After cultivating their relationship for more than ten years, it was natural for them to fall in love. Marriage is the icing on the cake for them.
Mr. and Mrs. Ji belong to the unlucky group.
The two people have a 5-year age difference. Before getting married, they had no overlapping life trajectories. They each had their own friends and classmates. When they reached the marriageable age, they were forced to marry each other.
It is not impossible to develop feelings after marriage, the prerequisite is whether the two people are true soul mates.
Sadly, they are not.
A marriage that is just for show is exhausting. After Ji Yunbai became an adult, his mother had a serious chat with him. She said that she was already halfway through her life. In the first half of her life, she had been wronging herself for her parents, her family, and him. In the second half of her life, she just wanted to live for herself. She hoped that he could understand his mother.
Ji Yunbai understood very well. He supported their divorce and said he would take on the burden of the family.
After her divorce, Mother Ji began to travel around the world, enjoying the sights and sounds of the mountains and rivers every day and living a very comfortable life.
Last year, Ji's father brought home an aunt and told Ji Yunbai that he wanted to marry her. This aunt was a former college classmate of Ji's father. She came from an ordinary family, was divorced, and had a daughter.
Ji Yunbai supports his father as much as he supports his mother.
Father Ji was not a foolish man. He promised to give them a life of worry-free food and clothing for the rest of their lives, but the Ji family's future inheritance would belong to Ji Yunbai alone, and he would not have another child with her.
The only thing he allowed was to let his stepdaughter change her surname to Ji, so that when she went out in the future, even if she was a member of the Ji family, others would be polite to her.
Ji Yunbai didn't care about these things. His parents had given him 18 years of happy life, which was enough. He now had his own life goals, loving Wenfei and building a career. He supported his parents in whatever kind of life they wanted to pursue as long as it didn't affect his own interests.
Therefore, even though he had long discovered that his step-sister was a person of bad character and greed, he had always turned a blind eye and saved her face, all for the sake of his father's face.
Before, Ji Qingmei just liked to hook up with some of his friends in the circle, regardless of gender, and those who could be successfully hooked up by her were naturally those who changed women more frequently than they changed clothes. It can only be said that the scumbag and the bitch harmed each other, and Ji Yunbai never asked about it. No matter what happened, everyone tacitly agreed not to mention it to the elders.
He didn't expect that Ji Qingmei would bring shame to the outside world. Not only did she bring shame to the Ji family, but she also indirectly almost hurt the person dear to his heart.
Ji Yunbai will not let it go so easily this time.
He confirmed that Wen Fei was safe and sound. The little girl was even very excited and described to him in vivid detail how Du Ruo had just behaved. Seeing the admiration in Wen Fei's eyes almost overflowing, he couldn't help but feel sad. His own wife was saved by someone else. If he had known this, he would have stayed here with them.
However, it's nice to be able to help. I didn't expect that this cold cool girl who I just met for two days is actually quite kind-hearted.
Ji Yunbai walked up to Du Ruo and said solemnly, "Sister, thank you for protecting Feifei and helping to maintain the reputation of our family. I will remember this favor. If there is anything I can help you with in the future, just ask. I will go back to take care of the housework first, and I will treat you to dinner tomorrow."
Du Ruo is now worried about his food. She cannot praise his taste and they cannot even eat together.
Du Ruo pursed her lips and declined politely, "Don't be so polite. Just consider it as a return gift for your lunch today."
Ji Yunbai said quickly, "How can that be? Let's put things in perspective. I'm just inviting you to dinner as a friend at noon, and there will be a thank-you dinner tomorrow night. Wait for my call! I'll find you when I'm done."
Du Ruo was about to decline again when Xu Jingmo suddenly interrupted, "Want to treat her to a meal? Wait in line. Do you think it's that easy to treat her to a meal? There are many people who want to treat her to a meal and are still lining up. Wait until she's free."
Du Ruo turned to look at him with a puzzled look.
When did it happen? Someone lined up to treat her to a meal? How come she didn’t know???
Xu Jingmo smiled at her and said nonchalantly, "I have booked your dates for tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. Do you mind?"
Du Ruo shook her head lightly. She had agreed to follow his arrangements when she came to Beicheng. As for who she would eat with, that didn't matter. Everything Xu Jingmo arranged was delicious anyway.
Ji Yunbai compromised without saying a word, "...Okay, then I'll be in the queue the day after tomorrow."
Xu Jingmo said arrogantly, "Besides, what if someone cuts in line?"
Ji Yunbai said angrily: "Do you know what you look like now?"
"What?" Xu Jingmo raised his eyebrows slightly and asked in cooperation.
"Like the eunuchs around Cixi, they are just taking advantage of their superiors!"
Unexpectedly, Xu Jingmo laughed instead of getting angry. He turned to Du Ruo and said jokingly, "Old Buddha, tell him quickly, am I your most beloved person?"
Ji Yunbai was speechless at his unscrupulous attitude, "Shame on you!"
Xu Jingmosi didn't mind Ji Yunbai's teasing at all. She stared straight into Du Ruo's eyes, waiting for her answer, feeling expectant but also a little nervous.
Du Ruo looked at him and nodded in acknowledgement: "Yes."
Xu Jingmo smiled with satisfaction.
He just wanted to prove that in her heart, he was different from others, and that was enough.
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