Chapter 137 Belated love is cheaper than grass, I hope you understand this sentence
Li Zhinan was shocked by Ji Yichen's words. He couldn't believe it: "Love at first sight? Are you kidding?"
Li Zhinan never believed that there could be such inexplicable feelings in this world.
"Maybe you are attracted by her beauty." Li Zhinan said sarcastically.
Ji Yichen shook his head: "No, if I was attracted to her, I would have paid attention to her at the first party in your house."
Li Zhinan's cold eyes darkened: "Wasn't it that night?"
Ji Yichen smiled and said calmly, "Of course not. That night, she just went downstairs for a while. I don't even remember what she looked like."
Li Zhinan's heartbeat quickened. He leaned back on the sofa, unscrewed a bottle of water beside him, and took two sips. "Besides my house, where else have you seen her?"
Ji Yichen looked at the steel forest in the distance, and the sunlight reflected a sci-fi beauty.
"Do you remember the old three-story building I bought from you? It's now the Seed Research Institute. That's where my dad used to work. I actually lived here when I was a kid. I bought it because I had some feelings for it. One day, I was standing on the third-floor balcony, daydreaming, and a car parked in the parking lot below caught my eye."
"That day, the vacated old building was very quiet. The silver Mercedes-Benz was parked in the parking space in front of the door. I was very curious about what kind of person would come into this place."
"Cheng Qian showed up. She seemed very anxious, with red eyes. She was holding a DSLR camera. As soon as she got out of the car, she started taking pictures. After she finished, she looked down at the pictures, looking very serious."
"It wasn't until she walked downstairs that I saw her face clearly. I vaguely remembered that she was your wife."
"Zhi Nan, do you know? That day she seemed to be saying goodbye to an old object that had been with her for a long time. Her eyes were full of sadness and sorrow." Ji Yichen said this and turned his head to stare at Li Zhi Nan.
Li Zhinan was immersed in his words and lost in thought.
When Ji Yichen stared at him like this, Li Zhinan finally came to his senses.
"You knew clearly that it was something left by her parents, yet you sold it to me with just one word. Zhinan, do you dare to say that you really cared about her? If you did care about her, why could you ignore her feelings?" Ji Yichen questioned him aggressively.
Li Zhinan's handsome face froze. He vaguely remembered that time when Cheng Qian ran to him anxiously and asked him what to do with the house and whether he could give it to her.
But at that time he told her coldly that he had sold it to a friend.
Cheng Qian's tears rolled down instantly, but he felt nothing and just thought she was annoying.
Ji Yichen suddenly didn't want to talk about this matter anymore, because he felt it was meaningless.
"Since the building she cares about is already in my hands, I will take good care of it for her from now on." Ji Yichen said, and then calmed down: "Zhi Nan, I only told you this because I consider you a friend. Since you are divorced, you should each live your own lives."
Li Zhinan lowered his eyes and stared at the floor, his clenched fists making the veins on the back of his hands even more violent.
"You have a story, and so do I. Do you want to hear it?" Li Zhinan suddenly looked up at Ji Yichen: "Your story is beautiful, but mine is very sad."
Ji Yichen frowned and looked at him, as if waiting for his story.
Li Zhinan took a deep breath, leaned back on the sofa, and said self-deprecatingly: "Do you know how Cheng Qian and I got married?"
"I heard that you slept with each other one night and conceived a child, and your grandfather forced you to marry her." Ji Yichen said lightly.
"Yes, four years ago, I was only 25 years old and had just taken over the company. I was full of energy and wanted to achieve something in the business world. My plan was to consider marriage after I turned 35, but... when my mother brought Cheng Qian, who was five months pregnant, to see me, at that moment, my world seemed to split apart and my life was no longer complete. I couldn't accept that the person I met one night was pregnant with my child. It was obvious that she wanted to marry me for the Li family's money and to save her father's laboratory. She was full of calculations." When Li Zhinan said this, his emotions were no longer as excited and angry as before, and he was much calmer.
Ji Yichen frowned, and the next second, he snorted: "To be honest, I don't believe Cheng Qian is such a person. There must be a misunderstanding."
Li Zhinan's eyes froze for a moment, then he laughed at himself, "But I believed it, so I got married for no apparent reason and got a wife. This wife also tried to please me in every way. You know, men often don't like women who are particularly proactive..."
"Cheng Qian must also want to do what a wife should do. As for pleasing others... I don't think she is someone who knows how to please others." Ji Yichen felt uncomfortable. He couldn't even imagine the scene of Cheng Qian trying to please Li Zhinan.
Li Zhinan nodded. "Thinking carefully, her flattery wasn't flattery. She was just doing what a wife should do. But I misunderstood her, believing she was scheming and calculating. So, her flattery was magnified in my eyes, making me think she was remorseful and making amends. So, I ignored it all and even found every opportunity to mock her. She silently endured all this unfairness."
"Why are you telling me this? You should tell Cheng Qian." Ji Yichen didn't want to listen anymore. He felt like Li Zhinan was showing off.
"If only she was the scheming woman I thought she was. It wasn't until recently that my mother told me that she had arranged that night. She wanted the Cheng family's scientific research capabilities, so she used marriage to trap Cheng Qian in the Li family and let her work hard to treat my brother's illness. Yichen, you're my friend, so I told you the truth. You don't know how shocked I was when the truth was revealed. The wife I hated for four years was an innocent person." Li Zhinan's eyes reddened as he said this. He laughed at himself, "She's innocent. She just came here in panic to seek help because my mother is her mother's best friend. But that night... I got drunk and robbed her of her innocence."
When Ji Yichen heard this, he was so angry that his chest was shaking. He said angrily: "Look at what your Li family has done. You have ruined her life."
Li Zhinan nodded: "So, my only thought now is to make it up to her."
"Belated love is cheaper than grass. I hope you understand what this sentence means." Ji Yichen really didn't want to hit him, but he couldn't bear it.
"Maybe." Li Zhinan stood up. "Then let's compete fairly. If I do nothing, my conscience will hurt. If I do something and the result is not satisfactory, then at least I have tried hard to make up for my past mistakes."
Ji Yichen didn't expect that Li Zhinan would choose to compete with him fairly. This didn't seem like something a proud man would do.
"Zhi Nan, I think you are asking for trouble. Cheng Qian obviously doesn't want to bother with you." Ji Yichen also saw something fishy along the way. If there wasn't a little Ye between them, Cheng Qian might not even want to see him again.
Li Zhinan felt a surge of confidence from nowhere. He just smiled and said, "It's better if she ignores me. At least it proves that she still has me in her heart. If she ever pays attention to me and talks to me like a normal friend, then I will be anxious and lose sleep."
Ji Yichen: “…”
I really don't understand why some people can be so blindly confident.
Of course, Li Zhinan said this to fill in the gaps for Ji Yichen.
"Okay, now that we've said some things, I feel a lot more relaxed. From now on, let's each rely on our own abilities." Li Zhinan stood up and stopped when he reached the door. He didn't look back at Ji Yichen, whose face was ashen, but simply said, "Cheng Qian has more suitors than just the two of us."
After saying that, he opened the door and walked out.
Ji Yichen was so angry that his teeth were about to break. He really didn't know where Li Zhinan got the nerve to actually want to win back Cheng Qian. Was he just relying on the fact that Cheng Qian had loved him before?
Ji Yichen was a little confused. He heard that women would have special feelings for their first man.
It's like the white moonlight.
Ji Yichen pursed his lips tightly. If there is white moonlight, there must be a red rose. Next, he only needs to accompany her wholeheartedly and let her see her strengths. Maybe, his "red rose" will also have a chance to be served on the table.
Cheng Qian was taking care of her son over there, then she turned on the computer to look up some professional-related things, so that she would have better bargaining chips at the negotiating table later.
Her cell phone rang, and she took a look. It was Ji Yichen calling.
"Xiao Qian, get ready, we are about to leave."
"Okay, Brother Yichen, Xiaoye is here with me. I'll send him to his father and then come to see you." Cheng Qian said truthfully.
"Okay, I'll wait for you at the entrance of the lobby." Ji Yichen said and hung up the phone.
Cheng Qian immediately took her son's hand and told him that she had work in the afternoon and asked him to stay with his father first.
The little guy tilted his head back, obviously unhappy.
Cheng Qian knocked on Li Zhinan's door, and the man opened the door with a serious look on his face.
"Are we leaving?" Li Zhinan's voice was gentler than usual.
"Xiao Ye, I will come to pick you up when I finish work." Cheng Qian held her son's little head and kissed him.
The little guy immediately pouted his mouth.
Li Zhinan bent down and picked up his son, coaxing him, "Dad will take you to buy toys and eat delicious food later. Don't cry yet."
When Xiao Ye heard this, she stopped crying immediately and waved her hand happily: "Goodbye, Mom."
Li Zhinan saw Cheng Qian's stunned expression and smiled: "Don't worry, I will take good care of our son. You can focus on your work."
Cheng Qian felt that Li Zhinan in front of her seemed to be possessed by someone else. He had never been so gentle before.
Cheng Qian turned around and went downstairs.
Li Zhinan immediately took out his cell phone and made a call: "Keep a close eye on me the whole time."
When Li Zhinan set out for City B this time, almost all of his bodyguards and assistants followed him.
But Ji Yichen and Cheng Qian didn’t know.
Since Li Zhinan has seen through Ji Yichen's purpose, he will definitely not sit idly by.
Ji Yichen needs to be guarded against more than Chu Huaijing.
Because Ji Yichen's father is the elder that Cheng Qian admires the most, and Ji Nan treats Cheng Qian as half a daughter. I believe Ji Nan must be very supportive of her son marrying Cheng Qian.
This way, Ji Nan will have no regrets.
Li Zhinan frowned and looked down at his son. It seemed that he had no other bargaining chips except his son.
At around 2:00 p.m., Li Zhinan's phone rang. His mother, Jiang Meng, anxiously called him, "Zhinan, where are you? Your grandma has fainted and been taken to the hospital. Come back quickly."
When Li Zhinan heard this, his expression changed and he immediately took Xiao Ye back.
In the hospital corridor, Cheng Yan and Jiang Meng were anxiously waiting outside the operating room.
Seeing Li Zhinan coming, the two of them went to greet him.
"What happened to grandma?"
"They said he had heart congestion, so they came for a check-up and found that his myocardium was blocked. He is undergoing surgery now," said Jiang Meng.
Cheng Yan immediately came forward and gently held Li Zhinan's fingers: "Zhinan, don't worry, grandma will be fine."
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