No sooner had they left than Zhong's father took Zhong Qingya and left as well. Needless to say, his face was as black as ink, his feelings written all over his face.
Li Guanyu sighed silently.
He rarely saw Li Jingchen like this, no, he should say he had never seen him so obedient to a woman, and even treat her with such indifference.
Li Guanyu didn't know if breaking them up was a good thing or not.
Seeing his worry, Jiang Jieting patted his hand and comforted him, "Don't think too much. Let the children handle their own affairs. Jingchen won't do anything reckless."
"Hadn't he acted recklessly enough today?"
Jiang Jieting pondered for a moment and said, "Maybe we should just forget about it."
Li Guanyu looked at her, his gentle gaze concealing a chilling coldness, but Jiang Jieting did not notice his unusual expression.
"You saw it too, Jing Chen not only missed your birthday party, but he also brought Song Nuan with him to the Zhong family today. Isn't his purpose in doing such an absurd thing to annul the engagement?"
"Moreover, he had conspired with Qingya beforehand to break off the engagement."
Li Guanyu knew why Jiang Jieting didn't support the marriage between the two families, but he didn't expose her.
He simply said, "Let's see what the Zhong family has to say."
...
There is a five-star hotel right next to the shopping mall.
The Zhong father and daughter returned to the hotel in low spirits. Seeing that Zhong Qingya had been silent the whole way, the father took the initiative to start a conversation: "Ya'er, what do you think about what happened today?"
To be honest, I wasn't really that angry.
They are all people at the top of the social class, and they can handle many things with ease. His outburst in the restaurant was to make the Li family acknowledge their guilt.
As for whether or not to annul the engagement, we'll discuss that later.
Zhong's father was known for spoiling his daughter. "If you want to break off the engagement, Dad will support you. If you don't want to break off the engagement, I will still make sure the Li family marries you in a grand and glorious way."
"The engagement cannot be called off."
Mr. Zhong understood. Although not annuling the engagement would cause trouble, since his daughter wanted it, it wasn't a matter of trouble or not. However, he needed to say some unpleasant things first.
"You like Li Jingchen?" Mr. Zhong asked. "I can tell that Li Jingchen really likes that woman. Can you accept his infidelity after marriage?"
Zhong Qingya felt a pang of pain in her heart at these words.
She was very unhappy. From childhood to adulthood, she had everything she wanted. Precisely because she could get whatever she wanted so easily, she readily agreed to break off the engagement after learning that Li Jingchen had a woman he liked.
After all, what kind of man couldn't Zhong Qingya have?
Moreover, for her, men were merely a spice in life; whether they were there or not was unimportant.
If Li Jingchen had been more polite today, she might have agreed to annul the engagement.
At the banquet hosted by both families, he not only brought other women, but also allowed his so-called girlfriend to spout nonsense and attack and ridicule her at will.
Who can stand this?
Is this still the attitude of asking for help?
Zhong Qingya denied it, saying, "I don't like him. I'm not breaking off the engagement just because I don't want him to achieve his goal too easily. Otherwise, what's the point of all the humiliation I've suffered today? Can anyone point their finger at me and yell at me?"
Upon hearing this, Mr. Zhong breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as Zhong Qingya doesn't like Li Jingchen, that's fine.
"Then what do you want to do? Dad will help you negotiate with the Li family."
Zhong Qingya said, "Aren't you going back to the capital in a couple of days? Don't worry, I'll stay in Liangcheng by myself. The Li family won't dare to do anything to me."
Seeing her insistence, Mr. Zhong said no more.
He turned around and made a call to Li Guanyu. The two talked about something, and Zhong's father looked very unhappy, his tone filled with anger. It took a while for him to calm down.
A moment later, he hung up the phone, sent Zhong Qingya his location, and said, "Ya'er, I'm going back to the capital the day after tomorrow. Don't stay in a hotel anymore, move here."
"good."
Meanwhile, at Wanhua Garden.
Li Jingchen took off his coat, shook it out in the doorway, then casually draped it over his arm and asked her, "Fried rice for dinner tonight, or what do you want to eat?"
"I'm not hungry."
He nodded in confusion, "Didn't you say you wanted fried rice at the restaurant?"
Because she said she didn't want to waste food, he actually asked the waiter to pack up two untouched dishes, which Song Nuan is currently carrying in her hands.
Her face was half buried in her scarf, so her expression couldn't be seen. Only her muffled voice could be heard, and she didn't seem very excited. "I don't want to eat. I have no appetite."
"You have no appetite, yet you packed all this up? Are you trying to feed it in a different trash can?"
Song Nuan was a little angry. After seeing Zhong Qingya, she was already holding back a lot of inexplicable anger, and he even started criticizing her.
"Can't I use it to feed the dogs and cats?"
Li Jingchen felt that she had become really short-tempered lately, always getting angry for no reason, and asked in a cold tone, "Where are there any cats or dogs around here for you to feed?"
He actually argued with her?
"Mind your own business?" she said, slamming the door shut as she left.
Li Jingchen rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on. Just as he was about to change his shoes and chase after Li Guanyu, his phone rang.
After hesitating for a few seconds, he answered the call.
After running angrily for a distance, Song Nuan turned around, but all she saw was a vast expanse of white, and she didn't see any familiar figure.
After a brief moment of disappointment, Song Nuan pouted, composed herself, and strolled around Wanhua Park, but didn't see any cats or dogs.
When she encountered a patrolling security guard, she asked, "Aren't there any stray cats in the park?"
"You're not a resident here, are you?" The security guard looked her up and down, wondering how she got in. "This is a high-end villa area, not an ordinary community. How could there be stray cats here?"
Song Nuan: "..."
Having lived in the garden for so long, she had forgotten that this was a villa area.
The weather has gradually transitioned to early spring. The daytime temperature has warmed up a bit, but there haven't been many noticeable changes. Not only is there snow, but the wind is also bone-chillingly cold.
Carrying the takeout box, Song Nuan walked home.
That's really pathetic.
As she passed the trash can, intending to throw her lunchbox in, she suddenly remembered something, her eyes lit up, and she walked in the opposite direction from her home—that was Ouyang Zhoujing's house.
The outermost fence of the villa was not difficult to enter. Song Nuan hesitated whether to climb over the wall, when she suddenly saw a black and white figure rushing towards her.
Ouyang Zhoujing's dog was in the yard.
It barked at Song Nuan, its tail wagging slightly. Song Nuan didn't know what it meant, so she opened the lunchbox and pushed it through the gap under the fence.
"Here, have some," she said.
The husky sniffed it closer and then flipped the lunchbox over with one paw.
The incident happened so suddenly that Song Nuan was caught off guard and stood there blankly, letting the soup from the takeout container splash onto her face and body.
Immediately afterwards, something wet and warm licked her face.
When she realized what it was, Song Nuan's blood seemed to freeze instantly, and she couldn't move her legs. She squatted there blankly, her mind a complete blank.
The husky was licking food scraps off her face?!
Song Nuan was somewhat distraught, yet dared not make any rash moves, since the dog's mouth was right next to her face, and who knew if she would anger the dog and it would bite her face.
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