Chapter 17 Love at First Sight Marry Me

In the study, the ticking sound of the clock's second hand can be heard clearly.

Shang Yanci was quietly waiting for her question.

Putting down the half-eaten Basque cake, Pei Yuning picked up the rose toasted milk, took a quick taste, and then picked up a tissue to wipe the corners of his mouth.

Pei Yuning raised her eyes and met his gaze: "This is our first meeting. Before I introduced myself, did you know my name?"

Shang Yanci: "I know."

Knowing her name also meant knowing her relationship with Shang Heng. Pei Yuning felt that her previous proactive words and actions were just like a clown in a comedy performance, while Shang Yanci was an indifferent spectator sitting in the audience, watching her flattering and flattering her, occasionally encouraging her to continue the performance with stingy applause and not to stop.

Pei Yuning: "Then why don't you tell me about your relationship with Shang Heng?"

Shang Yanci looked at her and softened his voice, as if to comfort her: "Because I have selfish motives."

Pei Yuning: "What selfish motive?"

Shang Yanci spoke frankly, "I fell in love with Miss Pei at first sight. I didn't want you to distance yourself from me after you knew about my relationship with Shang Heng, so I kept it a secret from you. This was out of selfishness. I'm very sorry."

As he finished speaking, Pei Yuning was like a salute soaked in rain, the sparks went out in an instant, and she was speechless.

Shang Yanci fell in love with her at first sight?

How is that possible?

He clearly acted like she hadn't taken the initiative yet.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Shang Yanci continued slowly, "Shang Heng won't come today. He said before that he wouldn't agree to cancel the engagement."

"Really? Then what does Mr. Shang think I should do?" Pei Yuning looked at him and asked casually.

Didn't he say he fell in love with her at first sight? Since he already knew that Shang Heng would not come to cancel the engagement today, Shang Yanci must have already thought of a plan to deal with it.

Shang Yanci thought for a moment, then stood up slowly, walked with his straight and slender legs, and sat down beside Pei Yuning.

He took the initiative to move closer, temporarily putting aside his so-called gentlemanly manners, and completely dissected his desires and presented them to Pei Yuning.

The distance between trousers and cheongsam is very close.

Outside the window, the spring afternoon sun shines into the study.

Those deep and beautiful amber eyes were made even more clear and bright. Shang Yanci's gaze rested on Pei Yuning's face, like the tender caress between lovers.

"Marry me." The low, mellow voice was gentle and seductive, like a slowly played cello, with each note falling in the exact fingering position.

While speaking, he took off the pinky ring on his left hand which symbolized his non-marriage.

Shang Yanci: "Shang Heng will not give up on you easily. As an elder, I should discipline the disobedient younger generation in the family to prevent him from causing unnecessary trouble to Miss Pei."

Shang Heng did say last night that he would kidnap Pei Yuning no matter who she married except him.

But if the groom is Shang Yanci, Pei Yuning is sure that Shang Heng would not dare to do so. It can be seen from the attitude of Shang Heng's parents towards Shang Yanci today that their first family hates Shang Yanci very much and treats him very politely.

"Are these the only two reasons?" Pei Yuning was not a love-minded person. She did not believe that love at first sight and just a few days of getting along could make Shang Yanci and the first wife openly tear off their peaceful appearance and reveal a black vortex of undercurrents.

"Shang Group's development to today is inseparable from my mother's great help back then." Shang Yanci said, "Shang Xuan is inflexible and can't keep up with the current innovation. He has a rigid mindset and is blindly conservative and arrogant. He has failed my mother's expectations, so I must take over Shang Group."

Pei Yuning felt a little jealous. She had heard before that Master Shang and his second wife were in a free love relationship and they were very sweet. But unfortunately, his wife died after giving birth to a child.

"To a certain extent, I was using Miss Pei to justify my stay in Beijing North. I think if we were just discussing cooperation as a business, the discussion would be very pleasant, but I greedily developed feelings for her." Shang Yan paused for a moment, his Adam's apple rolling slightly, and continued in a slightly harsh voice, "Even if it's my illusion, I don't think Miss Pei is completely indifferent to me."

As he said these words, Shang Yanci looked at her affectionately the whole time, as if all the suppressed emotions in the past burst out at this moment, and he no longer tried to hide them.

Pei Yuning's scattered concerns were dispelled. He only said that love would appear one-sided. It was the nature of a businessman that he would take the initiative unwaveringly only when there was a profit to be made.

Shang Yanci seems to think that having feelings of being exploited mixed into a collaboration is an embarrassing and unbearable thing.

But Pei Yuning doesn't think so.

It was originally just a serious business cooperation, but the other party developed uncontrollable emotions.

She likes the balance of control to tilt infinitely towards her, and in this process, an indescribable stimulating tension is generated.

What's more, the controller is Yan Ci, the flower merchant from Gaoling whom she has always liked.

She heard herself asking, "Is this a temporary or permanent partnership?"

Shang Yanci whispered, "It all depends on you."

Pei Yuning: "What do you think?"

Shang Yanci looked at her and said, "I hope this will be a permanent cooperation."

Pei Yuning's heart trembled slightly, and she lowered her eyelashes, and saw a matte pink foreign language tattoo on the spot that was originally covered by Shang Yanci's pinky ring.

Papillon "Butterfly"

Shang Yanci noticed where her eyes were looking and took the initiative to speak: "I like butterflies."

"Very beautiful." Pei Yuning looked at the butterfly brooch on the waist of his suit, and at the same time remembered that the lapel of her cheongsam was also in the shape of a butterfly.

Shang Yanci returned to the original topic: "Ms. Pei, please marry me."

The arrowhead of Cupid, the god of love, had already accurately targeted Pei Yuning's heart. At this moment, he slowly pulled the bowstring and shot her right in the heart.

Pei Yuning agreed: "Okay, I'll marry you."

People tend to think about the future which is disturbed by too many uncertainties, thus losing their deep perception of the present emotions.

Pei Yuning was unwilling to be that kind of person. She was only twenty years old, still very young, and had countless opportunities to make mistakes.

She had originally planned to pursue Shang Yanci after breaking off the engagement with Shang Heng, but now she skipped the process and married him directly. It was fine to get married first and then fall in love.

Shang Yanci looked at her and blinked very slowly.

The spring breeze gradually picked up, and the flower clusters on the neem tree outside the window trembled slightly among the dense green leaves and branches. The light purple petals danced lightly in the wind, and one of them fell on Pei Yuning's black curly hair. Shang Yanci reached out to take off the petal of the flower and gently twisted it with his fingertips.

"Kushi" is homophonic to "bitter love".

Flowers begin to bloom in late spring and end to fall in early summer.

The chinaberry tree outside the window is in bloom.

The moment Pei Yuning responded.

His bitter love finally blossomed.