Xu Tingchuan sat in the back seat, resting one hand on the window, thoughtfully wiping his lips.
Apart from Gu Chen, the rest of them have all had bumpy love lives. It seems I should ask Gu Chen how he managed to do it sometime.
A short while later, Pei Yang also got into Xu Tingchuan's car, having already instructed the driver to take his car back.
Xu Tingchuan glanced at Pei Yang, a slight smile playing on his lips: "Did you come here to ask me to keep this a secret?"
Pei Yang abandoned his nonchalant demeanor and said seriously, "I have no plans to get married in this lifetime."
Growing up in such a complicated family environment, he had absolutely no expectations or trust in marriage; in fact, he loathed it and even hated women at one point. His family was always filled with women of all kinds. He had more half-siblings than he could count on one hand, and if you included cousins, the number would be even greater. And if you added the younger uncles and aunts his grandfather had arranged for him—some the same age as him, others even younger—there would be enough to form two rows.
"You're being too presumptuous. Even if you're planning to get married, do you think Jia Yue will necessarily like you?" Xu Tingchuan said coolly.
“That’s true. She’s always liked someone like Gu Chen. To her, I’m just a playmate, an older brother who’s only good for eating, drinking, and playing around with her.” After Xu Tingchuan exposed his feelings for Xu Jiayue, Pei Yang became more at ease. He found that it wasn’t as difficult as he had thought.
"When did this happen? Before or after she fell for Gu Chen?" Xu Tingchuan was very interested in this matter and wanted to know how well Pei Yang had hidden it.
Pei Yang smirked, "When did you become so gossipy?"
"As Jia Yue's brother, I have the right to care," Xu Tingchuan said, feeling that he had caught Ni Sitian's attention. Ni Sitian had been very concerned about Pei Yang and Xu Jia Yue's progress.
"I don't know either." Pei Yang couldn't say the exact time, but by the time he realized it, Jia Yue had already left a faint shadow in his heart. However, he deliberately suppressed it, hypnotizing himself to only treat Jia Yue as a younger sister. Over time, he really fooled himself and was even happy to see her with Han Shizhao. He even said that if she was dumped by Han Shizhao, he would introduce her to a better man.
"Are you planning to just keep going like this? Watch her get married and have children?" Xu Tingchuan didn't actually like Pei Yang's family background. If he were to choose a brother-in-law, Han Shizhao would be more suitable no matter how you looked at it. But after all, they were friends for many years, and he didn't want to see him suppressing himself like this.
"Otherwise what?" Pei Yang raised an eyebrow, resuming his elegant and charming demeanor, and chuckled, "You want me to be your brother-in-law?"
"I don't want to." Xu Tingchuan was very frank. The men in the Pei family were all very philandering. Although Pei Yang was considered one of the more virtuous men in the Pei family, as far as he knew, Pei Yang had been involved in the power struggles of this large family, and they had sent him many women, both openly and secretly. Over the years, Pei Yang had put on an act of playing the field, but he was definitely not clean and had accumulated a lot of romantic entanglements.
Jia Yue is quite naive when it comes to relationships. She liked Gu Chen for a long time, and then she got together with Han Shizhao. She is simply not suited for a complicated man like Pei Yang.
However, if Jia Yue herself likes him, he won't do anything to break them up. But if Pei Yang lets her down, then he won't be polite.
"So let Han Shizhao be your brother-in-law." Pei Yang, of course, understood what Xu Tingchuan was thinking.
He knew perfectly well that he couldn't give Jiayue happiness, so he wouldn't provoke her, lest he ruin their existing relationship.
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