"What? You are still engaged?" Xia Tian said in surprise.
Qiu Mengyun nodded. "Yes! My grandfather arranged for me to be the grandson of one of his old comrades-in-arms when I was a child. Our two families lived very close to each other when we were young. Later, my father chose to do business, and then our family moved from the imperial capital to Hangzhou."
"This...why didn't you tell me earlier? Aren't you trying to trick me?" Xia Tian said with a depressed look on his face.
Qiu Mengyun asked in confusion: "How did I trick you? I told you, we were just childhood sweethearts. Speaking of which, we haven't seen each other for several years. This isn't a big deal, right?"
Xia Tian curled her lips and said, "You're already engaged and have a fiancé, so this isn't a big deal? I don't know anything about this, and somehow I became the mistress in your relationship. You're trying to put me in an unfair position!"
"Get out! What's wrong with you? It's the modern era now, why are you still so old-fashioned? You can get divorced even if you're married now, let alone a childhood engagement. What you said makes it seem like I'm the kind of unfaithful woman." Qiu Mengyun said with a look of disgust.
Xia Tian also knew that what Qiu Mengyun said made sense.
Many of the child marriages arranged in that era are no longer valid today.
He asked curiously, "Since your family has arranged a marriage for you, why are your parents still urging you to go on a blind date?"
"If you're really anxious to have a grandchild, wouldn't you just let you marry your childhood sweetheart? Why bother arranging a blind date for you? It's so unnecessary."
Qiu Mengyun explained, "That engagement was arranged by my grandfather. In fact, my parents have always been against it."
"Because my grandfather retired and my father chose to go into business, ever since their grandfather passed away, their family has been looking down on my family. They feel that my family is now a merchant family and is not worthy of them."
"My parents are worried that I would suffer if I married into his family, so they thought of secretly finding a reliable partner for me to marry through blind dates."
Xia Tian: "Since both of you are not satisfied with this engagement now, why not just cancel it? Or, you two can just keep silent and just assume it's a joke between the two elders!"
Qiu Mengyun smiled bitterly and said, "If it were that simple, my parents wouldn't be so anxious to urge me to go on a blind date."
"Although most people in his family don't like me and don't want me to marry into his family, the boy I'm engaged to doesn't agree."
"You know, someone like me has to be in the spotlight a lot. That guy saw how beautiful I am now, and he refused to break off the engagement no matter what."
"Although his grandfather has passed away, his grandmother is still alive. His grandmother is the only one in his family who doesn't object to my marrying in, and she has quite a bit of say in the family. Plus, my grandfather doesn't agree to cancel the engagement, so the matter is at a stalemate!"
Xia Tian stared at Qiu Mengyun with a strange look, looking her up and down carefully.
Qiu Mengyun felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by Xia Tian and asked, "Why are you looking at me like that? I've told you everything, what else do you want to know?"
Xia Tian shook his head: "I don't have anything else to want to know. I just want to ask if what you just said is true. Could it be made up?"
Qiu Mengyun said angrily, "Do you think I'm bored? I have nothing better to do than to make up stories with you?"
"You know, we signed an agreement. You're obligated to accompany me back to meet my parents and deal with them."
"If I just wanted you to go home with me, would I have to spend so much time and energy making up such a ridiculous story to lie to you?"
Xia Tian nodded: "It's quite melodramatic, just like those brainless domineering CEO dramas."
"I finally understand why you like watching domineering CEO dramas. You yourself are living in a domineering CEO drama, and you are the heroine template."
"I just don't know what script you got. Is it 'After a Flash Marriage, the Overbearing President Dotes on His Wife Like His Life' or 'After a Flash Marriage, the Diva Wife Stuns the Audience'?"
Qiu Mengyun rolled her eyes. "How do you know I'll get a sweet romance script? What if I get a sadistic one? Wouldn't that be terrible?"
"If I come up with another script like 'Mr. Gu, Stop Being Abusive, My Wife Is Already Dead,' 'Mr. Gu's Sinful Wife Is Doomed,' or 'My Domineering Ex-Husband Will Cry Like a Dog After My Death,' then what's left for me to do?"
Xia Tian smiled and said, "It's not bad actually. At least your childhood sweetheart likes you. And from what you said, it seems like he doesn't have a white moonlight. He won't drag you to the hospital to donate blood for his white moonlight, or cut off your kidneys and dig out your eyes for his white moonlight."
"Oh my! I didn't expect that you are quite knowledgeable about these things! How come you, who claim that watching TV dramas can improve your brain, like to read this kind of even more brainless tragic love story when you have nothing to do?" Qiu Mengyun was not angry, but asked with interest.
Most boys rarely read sadomasochistic stories, but Xia Tian was a natural at reading them. She was so familiar with the mindless, melodramatic plots in sadomasochistic stories that she couldn't help but wonder if he often sneaked a peek at such books.
Xia Tian stiffened his neck and said defensively, "No, I didn't. How could a brilliant young man like me read such a rotten, brainless article with such distorted values?"
Qiu Mengyun deliberately pressed the issue, "Sad stories are very popular right now, aren't they? These tear-jerking sad love stories have far more readers than those sweet, domineering stories I read about a domineering CEO falling in love with me."
"Besides, don't those sadomasochistic romances always involve misunderstandings? Even though the male protagonist often does things that are unkind to the female protagonist, that's all because they're deceived or due to misunderstandings. Overall, it can't be considered a distorted view, right?"
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