After listening to Shen Qingyue's detailed explanation, Zhao Chen finally understood what had happened.
It turned out to be some clueless guys who visited Shen Qingyue's home during the New Year and talked about her.
Some of them had already started to have designs on Shen Qingyue.
There was a family that had been friends with the Shen family for generations. When talking about some past events, the lady of the house said that her son was already a freshman in college. After Shen Qingyue finished her college entrance examination this year, he would go to college in September.
You can apply to his son's university then, and his son can help you out.
It would be even better if the two families could arrange a marriage.
In university, the two can nurture their relationship and get married as soon as they graduate.
This gives Shen Qingyue more flexibility in whether she wants to pursue further studies or do something else in the future. They also said their family is very open-minded and can take good care of their daughter-in-law.
Shen Qingyue was furious when she heard this.
Because the lady of the house seemed to be certain that Shen Qingyue was their daughter-in-law.
She also said that although Shen Qingyue was a bit plump, she looked like she was fertile and could definitely give birth to several big, healthy boys for their family.
His son likes this type of girl, saying that the two of them will definitely get along.
Fortunately, Shen Qingyue's father, Shen Baichuan, was an enlightened man, and he never used his daughter as a bargaining chip in any power struggle.
Therefore, Shen Baichuan directly and clearly rejected the other party:
"I'll let my daughter make her own decisions; I won't force her to make any choices."
"Besides, our Shen family doesn't need to use our daughter to exchange for any benefits."
“The Shen family is the Shen family. They don’t rely on others or get involved.”
With a few simple and forceful words, he directly rejected the other party's attempt to persuade him.
At this point, Shen Qingyue also expressed her thoughts:
"I'm sorry, I already have someone I like, and he's very good to me."
"I don't need you to worry about my marriage, Auntie. You should focus on taking care of your own family."
As a result, the woman wanted to say something more, because in her eyes, a girl like Shen Qingyue would have a hard time getting married.
She believed that Shen Qingyue was simply trying to save face and save face for herself.
It's now a consensus among many in the upper class that daughters of the Shen family are finding it difficult to get married.
After all, the original Shen Qingyue was so fat that it was hard to compliment her.
Which rich young man would want to marry a fat wife?
These days, families at their level have a wide variety of beauties to choose from, and there are many beautiful and capable women among the prominent families.
Why would you choose a fat pig you don't like?
Even if there were exchanges of benefits, and even if the Shen family was powerful, those rich kids wouldn't have to humble themselves like this.
In fact, the family that had been close to them for generations, who were saying these things to them, also had ulterior motives.
It's true that the two families have been friends for generations, but people can change, let alone a family.
Over the years, this family has clearly declined and is no longer as powerful as the Shen family. That's why they wanted to use a marriage alliance to get the Shen family to help them out again.
In fact, the Shen family had already given them a lot of help before, but this family was disappointing and increasingly unable to be helped. The Shen family could help them for a while, but not forever.
However, this so-called family with a long history of friendship actually wanted to gain the Shen family's long-term support through Shen Qingyue.
Unfortunately, Shen Baichuan wasn't stupid and completely ignored them.
That's why the two families ended up parting on bad terms.
Shen Qingyue finally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing Shen Baichuan's straightforward refusal.
However, in the heat of the moment, Shen Qingyue inadvertently revealed some of her innermost thoughts.
Shen Baichuan is now looking at his precious daughter with a meaningful smile:
"Well done, Xiaoyue. You've really improved a lot since I last saw you."
“I was worried that you might not be used to life in Shanghai, or that you might not know how to fight back if you were bullied.”
"Now it seems that my worries were unnecessary."
"However, shouldn't you explain to me who the person you like is, and how good he is to you?"
At this moment, Shen Qingyue's younger brother, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but jump out:
"Dad, I know about this, I'm aware of it, I witnessed it with my own eyes, and I can tell you all about it!"
Shen Qingyue almost slapped her younger brother across the face.
This guy, instead of helping me cover up the truth at this crucial moment, jumped out to expose her. He's really untrustworthy.
Shen Baichuan raised an eyebrow. His son was nothing like him, so composed and lively, like a monkey. But it was normal for a young man to have such a temperament.
He has never been very strict with his children, but he provides them with the best resources and the most practical guidance.
They can learn whatever they want, but they must master certain business matters related to the family.
Therefore, they learned a lot of knowledge and skills that ordinary people could never access at a very young age.
This is also why Shen Qingyue's grades weren't very good before.
Because she had so much to learn beforehand, and her natural talent wasn't actually that outstanding.
She had only been able to barely grasp the knowledge her father forced upon her through sheer hard work.
After digesting all that information, she felt overwhelmed when it came to learning the knowledge taught in school.
However, since she started following Zhao Chen, she has found that her mind seems to have become much smarter; she has actually developed a brain.
Moreover, she became quick-witted, learned knowledge in all aspects very quickly, and understood it very thoroughly.
The key point is that Zhao Chen's explanations and analyses in all aspects were quite thorough, which made it easy for her to remember them all at once.
Therefore, her academic performance at school improved rapidly afterward.
Actually, she's not stupid; she just wasn't taught the right way before.
Shen Baichuan was eager for both children to succeed, and the amount of knowledge he forced upon them was indeed excessive.
This led to the situation we were in before.
At this moment, Shen Baichuan asked Shen Qingyue about her time on campus, and she didn't know where to begin.
But no matter what, she couldn't let her younger brother talk nonsense.
Therefore, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and tell Zhao Chen about the changes he had made and the help he had given her.
She felt there was nothing to hide from her father.
Shen Baichuan couldn't help but raise an eyebrow:
"Okay, I got it. I think this Zhao Chen you're talking about is pretty good."
"If what you say is true, and he was able to lose weight from nearly 300 pounds to his current state, then he is definitely a person with great willpower."
"With this kind of perseverance, what can't someone accomplish?"
"Moreover, his grades improved very quickly afterward, which proves that he has a great talent."
"It doesn't matter if the young man is poor. With the Shen family around, it doesn't matter what his original circumstances were, because he's never as well-off as our family!"
"But there's one thing I need to understand..."
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