Chapter 107
"But I can't just freeload the meal..."
After Jin Chuwan finished speaking, Li Xingen looked up at her. He had obviously thought of something, and the smile on his face suddenly darkened.
But to Li Xing'en's surprise, Jin Chuwan only asked Jiang Chen to be her driver.
Jiang Chen raised his eyelids slightly and chuckled casually.
"It seems Zhihua was right, you really know how to order people around now."
Upon hearing Jiang Chen mention Yin Zhihua, Jin Chuwan frowned and asked, "I thought you two had fallen out. So you're still in contact?"
“You know, he doesn’t get along with his family, so I sometimes pass on messages for his mother, who is also my aunt…”
As Jiang Chen spoke, he loosened his collar somewhat awkwardly.
"Besides, you know his personality. He's only at odds with me because he's willing to stand up for his friends, but ultimately, I don't have any real entanglement with him..."
Jin Chuwan listened, and suddenly became somewhat unhappy.
"So he talked badly about me to you?"
Jiang Chen, who was taking out his car keys, paused when he heard Jin Chuwan ask him that question.
Those dark eyes slowly swept over, subtly confirming Jin Chuwan's expression.
"It's not exactly a bad thing...it just means you've become much more cheerful..."
"Then what do you mean by 'I can boss people around'?"
Those light-colored eyes were slightly narrowed, and although she was smiling, Jiang Chen inexplicably felt a bit pressured.
But he also felt that he was innocent.
"That's what he said..."
Li Xingen listened quietly from beginning to end. At first, he found their conversation annoying because they seemed oblivious to everyone else, but when Jiang Chen let something slip, he found it amusing.
He doesn't know Yin Zhihua at all.
"Let's go, the service provided by the young master of the Jiang family is not something you can easily enjoy."
As Li Xing'en spoke, she opened the car door. Jin Chuwan smiled and glanced at Jiang Chen before getting in.
It doesn't matter. In the end, these preferential treatments are only available because they are willing to give them to her. If they weren't willing, she might not even have the chance to speak properly like this.
So there's really no need to pretend to be polite in front of them.
Jin Chuwan had just sat in the car when her phone rang. She glanced at the contact name, pressed the call button, and put it to her ear.
"What time is it? Why aren't you home yet?"
Yin Zhihua held the mop in one hand and Cheng Xiucheng's phone in the other.
Seriously, that's enough. Who knew Cheng Ya's brother would turn out like this after losing his memory? It's bad enough that she woke him up at 7 a.m., but then she went out to buy groceries, came back to do laundry, and then had to clean.
The key issue is that his own arm is still disabled.
Her virtuous and capable management of the household made him feel threatened.
Upon hearing Yin Zhihua's voice, Jin Chuwan glanced at her phone and replied indifferently, "I'm eating out today, you don't need to wait for me."
"Outside, with whom?"
Yin Zhihua scratched his head in annoyance. He had felt something was off when Jin Chu went out that night, but she wouldn't say anything when he asked her.
Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he asked again.
"Could it be Jiang Chen...you went to see him?" After saying that, he felt it must be so, and continued, "Where are you? I'm coming over now!"
Jin Chuwan sighed as she listened, "Just stay home and don't cause me any more trouble, okay?"
Yin Zhihua was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then pressed his temples in annoyance.
“Jin Chuwan, are you out of your mind? Have you forgotten how hard you went to escape from them before? Why are you stupidly going back to them now? The reason he and that guy surnamed Li teamed up against Cheng Ya was to get you…” Yin Zhihua said, sounding uneasy and anxious. “Tell me where you are, I’ll come pick you up and take you home. You don’t understand men at all… They’re perverts. If they do anything to you, you won’t be able to escape…”
The car was a relatively enclosed and quiet environment, but in comparison, her voice on the phone sounded eerily clear.
As Jin Chuwan listened, she glanced at the two 'perverts' in the car.
The car seemed quieter now.
Jin Chuwan suddenly spoke up when she heard the man on the other end of the phone about to continue speaking.
"And what about you?"
She shifted her posture and replied softly.
"Aren't you the same? You suddenly show up and then stay at my house, and I can't get rid of you no matter what I do?"
There seemed to be silence on the other end of the phone.
But soon came a voice that sounded like it was gritting its teeth: "You think I'm like them?"
"What's wrong? Is there something different? Aren't you a man?"
Jin Chuwan's indifferent voice made Yin Zhihua feel a lump in his throat, unable to swallow or spit it out.
His eyes were a little red, and he felt a tightness in his chest, as if he had been wronged.
"What about Cheng Xiucheng? Isn't he a man?"
Jin Chuwan smiled and replied, "No, he's a fool."
After hearing this, Yin Zhihua subconsciously glanced at the man who was putting on a bear apron, closed her eyes, and found herself unable to refute it.
"Anyway, I'm not like those two perverts. You'd better wake up and go home right away. Those two guys never show up earlier or later, but they just had to show up when Cheng Ya couldn't hold on anymore. Isn't that just to lure you in..."
Jin Chuwan smiled and simply hung up the phone.
After hanging up, she glanced at Li Xing'en beside her. He seemed relatively calm, but his eyes held a hint of mockery.
"Your friend is very interesting."
Jin Chuwan listened and nodded, then smiled. "It's very interesting."
The restaurant wasn't far away, and after Jiang Chen parked the car, he went to open the car door for Jin Chuwan first.
Jin Chuwan had already made a reservation by phone before arriving, so after entering, the hostess led them directly to the private room.
After Yin Zhihua hung up the phone, the three of them maintained a tacit silence.
After Jin Chu finished ordering, she piled the menu she was holding onto the opposite side.
Jiang Chen sat there pouring himself a drink, looking absent-minded. Li Xing'en stared at the menu, which had only four or five pages, for a long time before finally choosing two items.
Kim Cho-wan took the menu back and handed it to the waiter next to her.
After the young woman in charge of the private room left, Jin Chuwan poured herself a glass of water. She glanced at the two of them and casually mentioned it.
"You guys look a bit strange. Could it be that Yin Zhihua was right...?"
She smiled.
Sure enough, the two people opposite looked over almost simultaneously upon hearing this.
The two, usually calm and composed, were now in stark contrast: one raised his head and sneered, while the other frowned and snorted softly.
"That's all he can think of. But business is business, and feelings are feelings. I don't deny my feelings, but I can still distinguish between public and private matters..."
Jiang Chen's arrogance and disdain reminded Jin Chuwan of her student days.
She nodded.
To be honest, when I occasionally look back on the past, I realize that I was actually very naive back then. Although I always pretended to be an adult in my heart, I was not mature at all.
Her world used to be too simple.
It's unnecessary to worry and panic at the slightest sign of trouble, to dislike change and facing challenges, and to fear the ups and downs in life.
Even if we make it clear, what difference does it make?
"What if I take the bait?"
Jin Chuwan looked at Jiang Chen, smiling calmly, just like she would when facing a client in a case.
Jiang Chen was stunned for a moment, a fleeting look of confusion appearing on his usually indifferent and aloof face, but he quickly regained his composure.
Lee Sung-eun gripped the water glass in his hand, feeling vaguely uneasy. But he knew very well that Kim Cho-wan's question was just a test; only an idiot would bite the bait if she were fishing with a straight hook.
He glanced at Jiang Chen, whose expression remained unchanged, and who seemed to understand perfectly.
“I can withdraw my investment immediately,” Jiang Chen said.
He lowered his eyes slightly, looking a little reserved, but that didn't stop him from adding more conditions.
"As long as you marry me."
Almost immediately, Li Xing'en stood up abruptly and stared at the man beside him who always prided himself on being rational.
Those elegant and gentle eyes were as cold as frost.
"Jiang Chen, you seem a bit impulsive today."
Jiang Chen heard this but ignored it. He finally looked at Jin Chuwan with a serious expression in his eyes.
"I'm not acting impulsively, I'm serious. If you marry me, I'm willing to give up all my interests unconditionally..."
Kim Cho-wan remained motionless, continuing to drink water.
She did ask the question on purpose, but she didn't expect Jiang Chen to actually dare to set conditions.
The man in front of her seemed to be confessing his love, and the tips of his ears were even a little red. Although he looked relatively calm, his eyes revealed a hint of expectation.
"Jiang Chen, we haven't seen each other for six years. If I marry you the moment we meet, who do you think I'm being responsible to?"
“But isn’t that the kind of thing you like to watch the most…” Jiang Chen said, seriously recalling Jin Chuwan’s private hobbies, “the kind of marriage of convenience that turns into love, contract lovers and stuff like that…”
After saying that, he nodded seriously, "We can too."
Jin Chuwan's smile was a little stiff. If she were ten years younger, she probably would have splashed the water glass in his face.
At this moment, Li Xingen's face showed obvious panic. He frowned and glanced at the two people beside him, his fists clenching unconsciously.
"Are you kidding me?"
He was somewhat emotionally unstable.
"You've come here for a blind date right in front of me?"
Jin Chuwan glanced at Li Xingen, who looked somewhat tired.
"You think this is a blind date? This is clearly him trying to use Cheng Ya to threaten me. But now, even if it's a loss or the company goes bankrupt, that's the Cheng family's business. No matter how good my relationship with Cheng Ya is, it doesn't have to be this desperate, okay?"
After finishing speaking, Kim Cho-wan took a sip of water.
The moment Li Xingen heard this, he suppressed his anger, glanced at Jin Chuwan, and then slowly sat down.
At first glance, it even looked somewhat docile.
“Of course I think so too, but I’m still worried that you might act on your emotions…” He suddenly changed his expression and glanced at Jiang Chen with a cold smile, “After all, some people will stop at nothing to achieve their goals.”
Jiang Chen frowned slightly, though he didn't seem too disappointed.
I guess I didn't have much hope to begin with.
"What do you mean by 'ruthless'? It just means we both have our needs. If we can reach an agreement, I'm happy, of course. If not, so be it." He said, then smiled. "After all, there's plenty of time in the future..."
Jin Chuwan smiled but didn't reply.
She's starting to regret it a little now. After all, some things can only be pretended to be nonexistent if everyone just pretends not to know. Once it's exposed, it's hard to go back to the state of feigning ignorance.
But now we've tried it all, and we've asked all the questions.
The result is that they probably still like her... and don't seem to care about the past.
Jin Chuwan sighed again, seemingly without making a sound.
Although it seems unlikely, it shouldn't be that she implicated Cheng Ya...
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