It is Han Sixian.
“Aunt Chen, you are really here. Have you had dinner yet? Siqi didn’t answer the phone.” Han Sixian greets Chen Qiaolan with a smile.
“Young master…” Chen Qiaolan is stunned, looking uneasily at Han Siqi in the living room.
Han Sixian realizes that there is something wrong. When he sees Fu Zhengzheng standing in the living room with clothes in her hands, his face immediately sinks, looking at Han Siqi with an inquiring eye.
“Brother, you are here.” Han Siqi’s face has returned to normal. “Have you had dinner yet? If not, come and eat with us.”
Fu Zhengzheng also immediately greets him with a smile, “Good evening, President Han.”
Ignoring Fu Zhengzheng, Han Sixian snorts and says, “Come upstairs.”
Then he goes upstairs alone.
Fu Zhengzheng knows that he didn’t say that to her, and looks at Han Siqi awkwardly.
Han Siqi smiles and points at the dining room, saying, “You have dinner first.”
Then he goes upstairs too.
Daring not say anything, Chen Qiaolan stands aside and looks at the stairway with great concern.
“Who is this uncle, Mommy? He is not polite at all!” Fu Xing doesn’t seem to like Han Sixian.
“Don’t speak ill of people behind their backs.” Fu Zhengzheng leads Fu Xing to the dining room and says, “Mommy will serve you meal.”
In Han Siqi’s room upstairs.
As soon as Han Siqi enters the room, Han Sixian asks him with a dark face, “Siqi, didn’t I ask you to fire this woman? Why do you bring her home?”
“I just bring a woman home. Do you need to make such a fuss?” Han Siqi sits on the sofa unconcernedly and says, “When do you see there is no woman around me?”
“Siqi!” Han Sixian raises his voice, “I have never blamed you for playing around with other women. But you know well that Qiao Keren will be back in two days, and you are still hiding a woman at home. Are you deliberately annoying me? So you even don’t answer my phone?”
“You are wrong, brother. I took this woman home before I knew that Qiao Keren was coming back.” He didn’t answer the phone exactly because he knew that his elder brother was going to talk to him about Qiao Keren.”
“Siqi!” Han Sixian is a little annoyed, “Qiao Keren is your fiancée!”
Han Siqi immediately corrects him, “At least she is not yet.”
“Both of our families have already had dinner together, and you agreed at that time. You can’t regret it.”
“Ok, even if I did, do you think this woman can control my freedom? Don’t you know that the engagement wasn’t my intention?”
Han Sixian is a little guilty. He sits down beside Han Siqi and speaks with a much soft voice, “Siqi, there’s nothing wrong with Qiao Keren, isn’t there? She is beautiful and loves you very much. Marrying a woman who loves you is much happier than marrying a woman who you love. You just tolerate her before marriage, and after you get married, you can do whatever you what.”
“Brother, what do you think my sister-in-law will feel when she hears the advice that you give me?” Han Siqi asks, pretending to be surprised.
“Siqi! That’s a horse of another color. Don’t involve your sister-in-law.” Han Sixian is a little angry.
Han Siqi says softly, “You insist on marrying my elder sister-in-law in spite of my parents’ objection, saying that you are true love. Is there no true love in other people?”
Han Sixian and his wife Nie Wan were classmates from elementary school to university. They secretly loved each other when they were in high school, but their marriage was delayed for a long time because of the opposition of Han Sixian’s parents. However, his parents finally compromised amid their insistence.
After marriage, Han Sixian loves his wife very much. There has never been any gossip, and their story has been widely praised.
Han Sixian pauses for a while, but doesn’t get angry. Instead, he says sincerely, “Siqi, I know you are not satisfied. But you should agree even for the sake of Weihan. The location of Handa City has been chosen, and the founding ceremony will be held soon. It is the biggest investment of Weihan in recent years, and I hope to take the opportunity to push Weihan to a higher level.”
“Brother, opportunism is not Weihan’s style. I don’t believe that we can’t make Weihan better by our own strength.”
Han Siqi knows what his elder brother said about investing in Handa City.
At the beginning, Qiao Keren went after Han Siqi hard, saying that she would not marry anyone except Han Siqi. To fulfill his daughter’s wish, Mayor Qiao, who loves his daughter very much and knew that Weihan had the intention to invest in real estate, approached Han Sixian, telling him that B city was drafting subway construction, and that he was in charge of the big project.
Han Sixian immediately understood Mayor Qiao’s implication. Seeing the business opportunity and Qiao Keren’s love for his younger brother, he started to promote the marriage of Qiao Keren and his brother Han Siqi. Han Sixian began to use both hard and soft tactics, moving Han Siqi with emotion and enlightening him with reasons. In the end, Han Siqi had no choice but to nod.
Then Mayor Qiao secretly told Han Sixian about the specific location of the entrance of the Southern City Metro Station. Thereupon Han Sixian bought that land and began to invest in Handa City.
Han Sixian surely knows that Mayor Qiao is now a big shot of the municipal government and that the location of the subway entrance has not been officially announced. If his brother’s relationship with Qiao Keren isn’t properly handled, he will be likely to fail. He doesn’t worry about Qiao Keren, but only worries about his brother.
For Qiao Keren, she can expect and accept the fact that Han Siqi might scold or ignore her. But she can’t accept that he has other women around him.
That’s exactly what Han Sixian is worried about now. Expectedly, his brother has such a problem now. Since the investment of Handa City has begun, how can he not be worried?
“Siqi, now that the project of Handa City has begun, is it meaningful for us to talk about these again? You are not a kid, and you should learn to think about things in the big picture.”
“I see.” Han Siqi responds lazily.
“Now that you see, you should ask Fu Zhengzheng to move out of here immediately. If you don’t want to fire her, ok, I will save your face by transferring her to a branch office.” Han Sixian has always loved his younger brother who is eight years younger than him, and he usually hates to talk to him seriously. But today’s situation is different, which makes him have to show his stateliness as an elder brother.
“I can date Qiao Keren, but I won’t ask Fu Zhengzheng to move out. I’ll move back at most.”
This house is actually Han Siqi’s personal residence, which he lives in only when he takes a rest. Of course, Fu Zhengzheng doesn’t know about this, and she believes that this is Han Siqi’s home.
Han Sixian knows his brother is stubborn, but since Han Siqi has conceded, he doesn’t force him anymore. He warns Han Siqi again, “It is okay to let her live here, but you had better not come here these days so as not to let Qiao Keren find out. She may not know that you have this house.”
“I see.”
“Then I’ll go back first, and tomorrow I will tell you Qiao Keren’s flight schedule.” Han Sixian pats his brother on the shoulder and pokes his finger at Han Siqi’s head, just as he did when he was a child.
Han Siqi also smiles and sends his eldest brother downstairs.
But when they come out, they don’t notice Fu Zhengzheng who quickly flashes into the next room.
Han Siqi doesn’t come in until his brother’s car slowly leaves.
“Master, are you hungry? Miss Fu and Fu Xing have gone upstairs first.” Chen Qiaolan sends a bowl of rice to Han Siqi.
“Thank you, Aunt Chen. Have you all had dinner?” Han Siqi takes the bowl but looks upstairs.
Chen Qiaolan nods and looks worried. “Master, the eldest master doesn’t look well. Is he unhappy because you let Miss Fu and her son live here?”
“Aunt Chen, don’t ask about these things.”
“Is Miss Qiao coming back soon?” Chen Qiaolan still can’t help expressing her worries.
“Yes.” Han Siqi keeps eating.
Chen Qiaolan wants to say something more, but she doesn’t continue at last.
After the meal, Han Siqi goes upstairs too.
When he comes to the door of Fu Zhengzheng’s room, he raises his hand and wants to knock, but then puts his hand down and comes back to his room.
He has been very respectful to his eldest brother from childhood.
He knows that his brother is ambitious and always wants to make greater progress in developing Weihan, and he also knows that his brother loves him very much from childhood. In fact, he really wants to help his brother to make Weihan a better company, but he only wants to do that through their own strength, but never through such nepotism.
But he knows that his eldest brother has already started the project, and there is no way to go back. Therefore, he has to follow his eldest brother’s will in spite of his great reluctance.
Nevertheless, the reason why he promised at first was that he had never really trusted a woman, let alone loved a woman. His parents urged him to get married several times before, and he refused for the reason that his second elder brother hadn’t married yet.
He decided to just pick someone who was obedient to him now that he had to marry a woman sooner or later.
He always thought that way before, but now he seems to have changed his mind.
He suddenly feels that it will be painful to share a room and bed with a woman he does not love.
*
Fu Zhengzheng gets up early in the morning. After taking her son to kindergarten, she wanders around the company for a while before going to the office.
When she arrives at the office on time, she finds that Han Siqi is already sitting in his seat.
“Come here.” It’s a command!
Fu Zhengzheng hurries to trots over and says, “Is there anything I can do, Mr. Han?”
“Where have you been this morning?”
“I took Fu Xing to Kindergarten.”
“You took him to kindergarten at seven o’clock.”
“I, I thought it was still early so I went to the square for a walk. There were a lot of people exercising in the morning. Ha-ha.”
“Really?”
“Yes!” At this moment, Fu Zhengzheng’s phone rings. She takes it out and sees a call from a stranger. Seeing Han Siqi glancing at her phone, she quickly tilts her phone and pretends to be calm, saying “hello” while walking outside. Not until she gets to the office does she whisper into the phone.