"Brother Ji Chu, shall we order this wedding dress too?" Zhou Jin's pouty and coquettish expression softened Ji Chu's indifferent expression.
Ji Chu affectionately pinched Zhou Jin's cheek. The little girl had started to gain weight after recovering. "We'll decide whichever style you like, Xiao Jin. If you don't like any of these, I'll have Morton come back and design something for you."
Morton is the head of E-Zone Design Company under the Lu Group. He also has business dealings with the Ji family, and they became friends through their business dealings.
A blush instantly spread across Zhou Jin's face. She nodded shyly and reluctantly touched the wedding dress in Xiao Chen's hand.
Seeing that Zhou Jin really liked the wedding dress, Xiao Chen thought for a moment and said, "Miss, the owner of this wedding dress happens to be in the store too, and she just tried it on. If you don't mind, you can talk to the owner and see if this design suits you."
Zhou Jin immediately became interested upon hearing this. "Great! I'll wait here for a while."
Ji Chu stood to the side, looking at the excited little girl with gentle eyes, and couldn't help but smile.
Zhou Yun had just changed her clothes inside and tidied her makeup in front of the mirror before slowly walking out.
As soon as she looked up, she saw a familiar figure standing in the hall. Zhou Yun paused. Why was A Chu here?
Suppressing her unease and panic, she gently patted her cheeks and walked out, trying to appear calm.
As she approached the living room, another petite figure appeared beside the familiar one, and the intimate way the two of them looked at each other was an eyesore to her.
"Xiao Yun!" When Zhou Jin saw Zhou Yun come out, she waved excitedly to her and then hugged Ji Chu's arm tightly with her other hand.
When Zhou Yun saw that Zhou Jin had changed from holding hands with Ji Chu to tightly hugging his arm, she couldn't help but scoff.
The petty tricks Zhou Jin used to play in front of her were simply beneath her notice.
"Miss Zhou, this young lady wants to order a wedding dress just like yours. She'd like to ask if you could lend it to her to try on and see if it fits." Xiao Chen didn't know the relationship between the three of them. Seeing the two of them greet each other, she assumed they knew each other. Since they were acquaintances, it would be easier to talk to them.
"Oh? You want to try on my wedding dress?" Zhou Yun glanced at Zhou Jin's entire body with interest, a slight smile playing on her lips, her eyes filled with a hint of mockery. "Xiao Chen, are you sure this young lady wants to try it on?"
"Yes, Miss Zhou, this young lady saw your wedding dress as soon as she came in and was thinking of ordering the same style as you." Xiao Chen sensed that the atmosphere between the group was a bit off, and cautiously looked at Zhou Yun.
Before Zhou Yun could speak, Ji Chu glanced at Xiao Chen, then looked back at Zhou Yun and asked coldly, "Whose wedding dress is this?"
Xiao Chen never expected that the gentle and refined man in front of her would have such a cold and terrifying gaze. She quickly lowered her head and replied in a low voice, "This is Miss Zhou's wedding dress."
"Yes, it's my wedding dress. What's wrong with it? Did it bother you, Mr. Ji?" Zhou Yun raised an eyebrow, her tone equally cold and devoid of emotion.
"Brother Ji Chu, forget it, I don't want it anymore." Zhou Jin's eyes instantly welled up with tears, and she pulled Ji Chu away.
She was afraid of Zhou Yun, afraid that Ji Chu would be snatched away by Zhou Yun again, afraid that Zhou Yun's charming face would seduce Ji Chu away.
"Don't go, Zhou Jin. Didn't you want to try? But... are you sure you can handle it?" She finished speaking and glanced disdainfully at Zhou Jin, who was half a head shorter than her.
"You! Xiaoyun, what did I do to offend you?" Zhou Jin looked at Zhou Yun with a wronged expression.
"If my boyfriend were stolen by someone else, I really couldn't call that person my sister." Zhou Yun looked at Zhou Jin with a half-smile.
"Zhou Yun!" Ji Chu said in a low voice, his eyes cold as he looked at Zhou Yun.
Zhou Yun turned her head away, not wanting to talk to the two of them anymore. She turned to Xiao Chen and said, "My things are not something dirty that can be touched. Pack them up quickly, I'll take them with me in a bit."
Xiao Chen realized what was happening and quickly nodded, no longer lingering among the three. She just wanted to escape the battlefield, but she didn't expect that the aloof beauty would be so sharp-tongued when she started to argue.
"Zhou Yun, I'm asking you, whose wedding dress is it?" Ji Chu frowned, his gaze fixed on her.
"Mind your own business..." Zhou Yun was about to retort when her eyes swept over Ji Chu and she saw the ring on his hand.
Turning her gaze to Zhou Jin's hand, Zhou Yun's face drained of color. In that instant, she felt as if she had been doused with a bucket of ice water, and her heart turned completely cold.
It turns out that the pair of rings Ji Meng showed her were still on his hand, while the other one was on Zhou Jin's hand.
The walls that Zhou Yun had built over many years seemed to collapse in an instant. She had just promised Ji Meng and Shi Wan that she would never be sad for him again, but when the moment actually came, she was the first to break down.
She looked at him in disbelief, tears instantly welling up in her eyes, and choked out, "Ji Chu, what have I been to you all these years?"
Ji Chu looked at her with a deep, enigmatic gaze, "Zhou Yun, it wasn't Xiao Jin who stole someone else's boyfriend, it was you."
"Hehe... How exactly did I steal her boyfriend? I've always been there for you, I became your girlfriend first."
“You all say I stole everything from Zhou Jin and that I should give it back to her. But Ji Chu, everything the Zhou family has now is what I built up through hard work. Every project I went out to secure and every partnership I negotiated was earned through my own efforts. What were you doing back then? When the Zhou family was endlessly squeezing profits out of me, did you fulfill your responsibilities as a boyfriend?”
"We've been together for so many years, and you've never wanted to get married. Who's really wronged by whom?"
"You knew about my birthday a year ago, didn't you? You knew about Zhou Jin's existence, and you ordered a pair of wedding rings for the two of you, didn't you!" Zhou Yun almost screamed.
"Zhou Yun, but you've deceived me for so many years, and you've been impersonating Xiao Jin for so many years..."
"Shut up! I've been lying to you for so many years? And what about you? Haven't you ever lied to me? If you haven't lied to me, why didn't you make our relationship public? If you haven't lied to me, why did you make your relationship public as soon as she came back? Why are you wearing a ring that was custom-made a year ago?!"
Zhou Yun swayed as if she had lost her support. She clenched her fists tightly, forcing herself not to cry. "Ji Chu, I have never had anything to do with Zhou Jin. If you don't love me, don't make excuses for your infidelity!"
“Xiaoyun, no, I really didn’t interfere in your relationship with Brother Ji Chu…” Zhou Jin’s soft voice rang out.
"Enough, Zhou Jin, stop pretending in front of Ji Chu. Mengmeng and I were blocked from entering the Zhou family's house. Wasn't that your doing? Don't try to pull this trick on me."
"I...I didn't..." Zhou Jin tried to defend herself, but Zhou Yun gave her a look and she shrank back, gripping Ji Chu tightly.
“Xiao Yun…” Ji Chu had never seen Zhou Yun speak to him like this before. Looking at her helpless expression, a pang of pain rose deep in his heart.
Zhou Yun didn't want to get entangled with them anymore. She grabbed the wedding dress gift box and quickly walked towards the door. As she brushed past Ji Chu, she turned her head coldly to look at him, "I only realize now how disgusting you are to me."
She then composed herself, stubbornly straightened her back, and walked away. Once in the car, she casually tossed the gift box aside, placed her hands on the steering wheel, and let her tears flow freely.
"Knock knock knock..." A knocking sound came from outside the car window.
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