Chapter 109 Fiancé [VIP]
This scene felt like a replay of what happened more than a month ago, except that back then it was sharp vines pressing against his throat, while now it was a man's warm hand.
How did he get discovered? Apart from two small clues related to his original form, he believed he hadn't revealed any flaws.
The coincidence of the timing doesn't prove anything, does it?
Qingran touched the man's hard finger bones on her neck.
Are you angry that I lied to you, or angry that it was Cen Tingye who married me?
"Finally, you're not going to act anymore?" Cen Guanzhou coldly curled the corners of his lips and tightened his grip.
The tightening around her neck forced Qingran to open her lips to breathe, revealing a rosy tongue peeking out from behind her pearly white teeth.
The corners of her lips and the outer corners of her eyes curved into a beautiful arc. Her eyes were clear and bright, with the pupils in the middle being particularly dark, like a snake's eyes, moist and bright.
The hand gripping his neck was enough to kill him, yet the man's eyes, lingering on him, were smiling.
“Ran, Yu.” Cen Guanzhou slowly uttered these two words.
Another nameless fire replaced the already sparse anger, burning in his heart and forcing him to lower his head and kiss those half-hidden, almost seductive lips.
He immediately received a warm response.
The other person seemed completely unconcerned about the restraints on her neck, her lips and tongue eagerly opening to welcome him, enveloping him, and even desperately offering her weaknesses to him.
[Ugh... I'm about to burst.]
“...You’re far from your limit,” the man said in a low voice between kisses.
The rapidly warming atmosphere and the rising temperature due to the car's air conditioning quickly made the two of them feel hot.
[hot. ]
She thought this to herself, but in reality, she clung to the man relentlessly.
After a long while, a passing car noticed the passionate kiss inside and honked its horn loudly. Only then did Cen Guanzhou release his grip and step back.
He sat calmly in his seat, and if it weren't for the wetness on his lips and the teeth marks on his lower lip where he had been lightly bitten, no one would have guessed that he had just been passionately kissing someone.
Qingran, now free, took a deep breath of fresh air, her chest heaving.
The man started the car and reversed into the street. He turned the rearview mirror and looked at his neck. To his surprise, there wasn't even a red mark left in that situation.
But he complained, "You almost strangled me to death."
Cen Guanzhou calmly replied, "He's not dead." Back then, he clearly loved him so much that he kept kissing and holding him tightly.
Qingran turned the rearview mirror back to its original position, took off her thick, warm down jacket and draped it over her legs, then looked at the man again.
"Cen Tingye".
The man's cold gaze met his through the rearview mirror: "Are you deliberately trying to make me angry?"
[But isn't the person I'm marrying named Cen Tingye?]
Qingran: "How did you find out?"
Looking at the road ahead and turning the steering wheel, Cen Guanzhou said, "Being able to hear other people's thoughts is never a good thing. Sometimes, thoughts can be more deceiving than a person's actions."
The one right next to us is the best example.
"Are you implying something?" Qingran's beautiful eyes, misty from the kiss, narrowed slightly.
Cen Guanzhou: "It is a clear indication."
After a while.
"Why Cen Tingye?"
Qingran: "Don't you also have a fiancé, Yu Qingran?"
Yu Qingran is him, Ran Yu is him, they are both him, isn't that unfair?
Cen Guanzhou didn't understand the hidden meaning behind those words and thought that Ran Yu meant that he had a fiancé in the past, so he deliberately made this move.
"That's in the past."
Then, as if he understood something, he turned the car around and drove to the nearest photo studio.
It's the same if we get divorced, just like he has already dissolved his engagement.
Although it was also a divorce, Cen Guanzhou's mindset at this time was completely different from when he was helping Cen Tingye clean up her mess.
Half an hour later, the couple got back into the car after taking their wedding photos.
The Civil Affairs Bureau was about to close, so the two of them didn't go back to queue up to register.
Cen Guanzhou drove Ran Yu to the apartment building near the primary school and unlocked the car door.
"I'll send you the answers to the wedding quiz when we get back. Take a look at them. I'll pick you up tomorrow."
Qingran: "Don't you want an answer?"
Cen Guanzhou: "You can silently recite it in your mind at that time."
[Then why should I put myself through this?]
Cen Guanzhou: "...Send it to me."
Qingran leaned down and kissed the corner of the man's lips.
[Fine, I won't bother you anymore.]
Then he grabbed his coat, opened the car door, and got out.
The boy wore a pristine white down jacket, and his clean silhouette stood out starkly against the backdrop of the old building's corridor.
Cen Guanzhou glanced at the power lines filled with sparrows, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes.
After driving back to the Cen family home, Cen Guanzhou, as was his habit, threw the unused notes in his bag into the toilet and flushed them away. Then he went to the bedside to prepare new notes.
This is a way of communicating that he and Cen Tingye figured out together.
They could use their phones, but that method easily leaves traces online, so neither of them wanted to use it.
There are also brief opportunities for communication during the moment of personality switching.
However, the duration is too short.
The personality shift is unpredictable; sometimes it may take days, sometimes minutes or hours. If it takes too long, it's difficult to quickly explain everything that happened during that time in just a few seconds.
The content to be written is simple: completed tasks and pending tasks.
The things I've already done are taking wedding photos, and the things I need to do tomorrow are going to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get my marriage certificate and register for divorce.
If it's Cen Tingye who appears tomorrow, he'll discover upon getting to know Ran Yu that she is...
The man knelt on one knee in front of the bedside table, the rounded tip of the ballpoint pen leaving a deep black dot on the paper.
Then, the pen strokes flowed smoothly, leaving behind the characters.
—After obtaining a replacement marriage certificate, proceed with divorce proceedings, with a one-month cooling-off period.
This note was not used.
The next day, Cen Guanzhou went out on his own to register his marriage with Ran Yu, under the identity of Cen Tingye.
Upon returning, Cen Guanzhou did not change the contents of the note. After thinking for a moment, he picked up his pen and added a new sentence below the original text.
—After obtaining a replacement marriage certificate, proceed with divorce proceedings, with a one-month cooling-off period.
—Find a way to separate.
When Cen Tingye woke up in the evening, he skillfully took out a note from his pocket and read the first message.
Documents? I almost forgot about that.
So we don't need to worry about Ran Yu for now; we can just get the divorce certificate next month.
Article Two...
A mocking look appeared on the man's face, which then turned into a thoughtful expression.
Now that neither he nor Cen Guanzhou can do anything to each other, separating might be a solution worth considering.
I went to the bedside to pick up a pen to write down the answer. I opened the drawer and the first thing I saw was a bright red certificate with three golden words written on it: Marriage Certificate.
The man looked away without interest, not even glancing at the contents, and closed the drawer after using the pen.
"Knock knock knock".
Recognizing that the person was the future daughter-in-law favored by Cen Guanzhou's mother, Cen Tingye put away the note and walked to the door.
If we hadn't met first...
The identity of the transmigrator is indeed very interesting, but at this moment Cen Tingye is more interested in the person whose thoughts he cannot hear.
Calmly opening the door, Cen Tingye asked, "What is it?"
[Is this Cen Tingye or Cen Guanzhou? My intuition tells me it's Cen Tingye, but the expression looks a lot like Cen Guanzhou.]
While Shen Zhou was thinking about all sorts of things, he said, "Dinner's ready. Your aunt asked me to come and call you."
Cen Tingye nodded and walked past him to the door.
Chen Zhou followed behind, his mind elsewhere, filled with confusion about the future.
Aunt Chen invited him to take care of Cen Guanzhou, but he came for the high salary and didn't really care about the so-called trial marriage agreement.
However, Cen Guanzhou woke up early, and the follow-up contents of the contract were already in front of him.
Is he going to marry Cen Guanzhou?
It's not that money is a bad thing, but Cen Guanzhou himself doesn't seem to have that intention? When she tried to probe about leaving the Cen family before, Aunt Chen always evaded the question...
Cen Tingye: "If you don't want to stay, I'll talk to Ms. Chen for you."
The sound of another person breathing just a wall away also affected his quality of rest.
Chen Zhou was startled when he heard the man's voice.
How did this person know what I was thinking?!
[Hello, Cen Guanzhou? Cen Tingye?]
Cen Tingye ignored him and went to the dining room to eat.
At the dinner table, Cen Guanzhou's parents and younger brother were all present. His father was thinking about the company's projects, his mother was thinking about how to match Cen Guanzhou and Shen Zhou together, and his younger brother was thinking about becoming an overnight sensation and a household name.
The ordinary yet heartwarming daily life was completely out of place for him.
So that's why Cen Guanzhou wanted to erase his existence?
The man's eyes darkened for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure when he spoke.
After quickly finishing his meal, he reminded Ms. Chen to seriously consider the fate of the sunken boat before leaving.
They didn't seem to care that everyone was at the table; wouldn't it be awkward to hear that?
Ms. Chen watched her son's indifferent departing figure and said, "Old Cen..." There was an unspeakable worry in her eyes.
Their son has been lucid for some time now, and his vital signs are far above normal. They should be happy about this.
However, Cen Guanzhou's demeanor made them anything but happy.
Chairman Cen patted his wife's hand reassuringly: "Let's take another look."
Cen Mu, being carefree and easygoing, didn't think too much about it. He assumed his parents were discussing Shen Zhou's future, and figured that since his brother wasn't interested in Shen Zhou, forcing it wouldn't make a difference.
That's exactly what Chen Zhou was thinking too.
He had been regretting missing out on a high salary in the future, but he quickly came to his senses. Wouldn't it be better for him to take five million and relax in the countryside? Wouldn't that be more comfortable than staying at the Cen family's place?
Then he tentatively brought it up again.
“Auntie, now that Cen Guanzhou is awake, what do you think of our contract…? Should we terminate it early?”
Ms. Chen suppressed her worries and smiled at Shen Zhouqiang: "Zhouzhou, don't worry, Auntie knows you're a good boy. Auntie will talk to Guanzhou first."
With something weighing on her mind, Ms. Chen lost her appetite. After drinking some water to cleanse her mouth, she told the people at the table and got up to head towards Cen Guanzhou's room.
Knocking on the door, Ms. Chen said, "Won't you invite your mother in for a seat?"
Cen Tingye stepped aside to let her into the room, leaving the door wide open, and then went inside and leaned against the wall with his arms crossed.
Sitting on the edge of the bed, Ms. Chen asked, "What are your thoughts on the sunken boat?"
Cen Tingye: "I don't have any thoughts."
Ms. Chen: "Mom knows you don't approve of what I did, but it's a fact that you woke up not long after the boat sank—"
Cen Tingye: "You think it was Chen Zhou who healed me?"
“Of course I’m not that naive,” Ms. Chen shook her head, “I think Shenzhou might be more suitable for you, even though the doctor couldn’t explain what an art student could do.”
"He comes from a respectable family, has good character, and is good-looking. You don't like him..."
Ms. Chen looked at Cen Guanzhou with a probing gaze: "Could it be that you haven't let go of Yu Qingran yet?"
What does this have to do with Yu Qingran?
Ms. Chen: "These past two days you've been leaving early and coming home late, and your mother hasn't asked you what you've been doing. Is it because you heard rumors that the Yu family has been getting close to the Fuxiang Zhou family lately, and that you went to see Yu Qingran?"
[It's obvious that Yu Qingran is only after the Cen family's wealth and status. Why can't Guan Zhou see that?]
Yu Qingran was driven by her family background, while Chen Zhou was driven by money. What are the differences between the two?
Cen Tingye had no interest in wasting time on these unimportant people, and frowned in annoyance.
"My going out has nothing to do with the Yu family or Yu Qingran."
Although it wasn't him who went out, he knew that Cen Guanzhou had gone out to get a divorce on his behalf.
"I'm not interested in either Yu Qingran or Chen Zhou. Do you think Mother understands what I mean by saying this?"
Ms. Chen, who could vaguely hear the impatience in her son's tone, felt a lump in her throat: "...Alright, I know you don't have those feelings for them. You've always been like this since you were little. You have no patience for anything you're not interested in."
"Just like when you were five or six years old, your dad bought you a pair of pets on a whim, but you didn't like them, so the next day he made us give them away."
It sounded like she couldn't quite remember.
What kind of pet was it again?
[Even Xiao Mu didn't know that Lao Cen bought geese, but Guan Zhou has a good memory, he definitely wouldn't forget.]
Cen Tingye looked at the woman opposite him, who was pretending to be calm and testing him, and found it all laughable.
His surname is Cen, but he is not a member of the Cen family.
He lowered his eyelashes to hide the gloom in his eyes, and tugged at the corner of his mouth: "Goose."
"Yes, yes, it really is a goose." Ms. Chen breathed a sigh of relief upon receiving the answer, while amused by her earlier probing.
Why did she start believing in those time-travel and reincarnation stories on TV?
She stood up: "I understand what you mean. I'll handle things with Chen Zhou."
After Ms. Chen left, Cen Tingye looked at the room he had lived in for some time and felt only disgust.
*
[Yu's mother: xxxxxxxxxxx, this is Jay Chou's private contact information. I got it from your father.]
[Yu's mother: Didn't you say before that you wanted to contact the other person yourself? It'll be easier for you two to talk without your parents interfering.]
[Yu's mother: I've got your number now. Be proactive and don't be so aloof. This is all I can do for you.]
After reading the message sent by Yu Qingran's mother on her account, Qingran extracted the key points, saved Jay Chou's phone number to her contacts, and pondered her next step.
According to the envisioned plot, the best-case scenario would be that Cen Tingye happens to stumble upon Cen Tingye's meeting with Jay Chou, thus playing the hero and rescuing the damsel in distress.
It's easy to determine when Cen Tingye will appear. If he doesn't reply to the messages sent to Cen Guanzhou, then it's undoubtedly Cen Tingye who controls the body.
However, it's difficult to control when the other person leaves the house.
Who cares? Let's just take it one step at a time. Things will work themselves out.
There has been no progress on Yu Qingran's identity for the time being, as Qingran usually focuses more on Ran Yu's identity.
He goes to the flower shop almost every day, staying for varying lengths of time. When business is good, he serves customers; when business is slow, he does other things and chats with Xiaochun.
It was a gloomy, drizzly day. The continuous freezing rain made pedestrians on the street quicken their pace to get home, and the flower shop was unusually quiet.
Qingran and Xiaochun tidied up the shelves and rearranged the potted plants in the store, while listening to each other complain about their troubles at home.
"Boss, my mom knows I've settled into a stable job and she's been pressuring me to find a boyfriend again. Do you think I should listen to her?"
Qingran: "How old are you this year?"
Xiao Chun: "After the New Year, it's the 21st."
She didn't do well in school when she was young and didn't like studying. Her family didn't realize the importance of education, so she started working as soon as she graduated from high school.
After listening, Qingran said, "Think about how to make money first. You can find a man when you have money."
Compared to listening to her mother, that rural auntie, it's obviously more reliable to listen to the words of a business owner who can run his own shop in the city.
Xiao Chun decided without hesitation to listen to her boss first.
Putting this worry aside, she became curious about her boss's love life: "With so much money, is your boss planning to find a partner?"
Then I remembered that blunder from before.
"Is the boss divorced?"
Qingran: "Not yet. A marriage certificate is required for divorce. We got our marriage certificate too late, so we haven't made an appointment to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register yet."
Xiao Chun: "I thought the guy from the other day was pretty good, boss, why don't you consider him?"
Qingran was speechless: "You haven't even seen what the other person looks like under their mask, yet you know it's good? Get your brains clean."
Xiao Chun asked doubtfully, "Isn't he handsome? His eyebrows and eyes are very good-looking even when they're showing through the mask."
Qingran: "...Handsome."
"If he's handsome, we can check him out," Xiao Chun said with a grin. Turning around with the potted plant in her arms, she saw the tall man they were talking about standing not far away, having listened for quite some time.
He wasn't wearing a mask this time, and his face is indeed handsome.
Xiao Chun was so shocked that she held onto the potted plant tightly and didn't dare to let go. This fall could cost her more than a hundred yuan!
She held the potted plant stiffly, too intimidated by the man's cold expression to move: "B-boss..."
Hearing the voice, Qingran took the potted plant from her and placed it on the shelf, asking without turning her head, "Why are you here?"
Cen Guanzhou withdrew his gaze.
"Come see if you've run away."
"Now you see," Qingran chuckled, hearing approaching footsteps. "No need for help, we've all moved. Find a place to sit yourself, I'm going to wash my hands."
The footsteps behind him led him to the cashier and where he sat down.
Xiao Chun followed Qing Ran into the back to wash her hands, looking as if she had escaped from a dangerous situation and been reborn.
"Is it that scary?" Qingran found it quite amusing.
Xiao Chun nodded, still feeling a bit scared.
"I don't know why, but it just feels kind of scary." She racked her brains for a word. "Intimidating aura."
Qingran chuckled: "Business is slow today because of the rain. You can go home after you wash your hands. I'll mind the shop this afternoon."
Xiao Chun was stunned for a moment: "What about the salary?"
Qingran: "I won't deduct your salary."
Xiao Chun was overjoyed: "Thank you, boss!"
After washing her hands, she immediately went out to pack her things and leave work, not even afraid that there was an intimidating man outside.
Qingran was still slowly rubbing the slippery hand sanitizer into her hands, listening to the system report on the latest developments in the storyline.
Ms. Chen has arranged for the male protagonist to see a psychologist the day after tomorrow.
The necessary conditions for going out are met; all that's missing is a bit of luck.
Did he ever say that he's always been lucky?
A note from the author:
Thanks for the lightning strike, thanks for the watering, chirp!
Mugencha threw a landmine.
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