Translator: Larbre Studio
Editor: Larbre Studio
“Although the Su family is a small family, you should know that both I and your father aren’t people who would judge people from their family backgrounds. Your father, especially, wishes for you both to be able to be peaceful and blissful for your entire life, and he doesn’t wish for more.” Chen Xiaoxiao talked about her husband and gentleness and love surfaced from the bottom of her eyes. She paused for a slight moment and said, “We haven’t always supported you dating Su Xu, and the problem is mainly with his being. We’re all worried, but you two have been dating for such a long time, and you’re not young anymore. Although we feel selfish and want to hold you back for another two years, if we really disrupt your bliss in life, both I and your father wouldn’t bear to do so! So find a chance to let us meet, and let us understand each other well.”
Chen Xiaoxiao and Yun Xiaotian hadn’t met Su Xu formally before, but they unintentionally met him once, and back then, their impression of Su Xu wasn’t good, so they didn’t like Yun Jianyue dating him.
They were liberal people and wouldn’t force them to break up, but their attitude has always been firm on not accepting Su Xu. They thought that as long as they dragged it out, Jianyue wouldn’t last long with that person, and they’d have to break up sooner or later. They hadn’t expected them to date for such a long time, and it surprised both her and Chu Xiaotian.
Yun Jianyue sobbed till she had no more tears in her heart. Why didn’t they accept it before or after this? Why did they have to try to understand him after she’d just broken up with Su Xu?
Chen Xiaoxiao lowered her head to look at her and asked, “What’s wrong? Did something happen between you and Su Xu?”
“Ah!” Yun Jianyue saw Chen Xiaoxiao’s probing gaze, and she became anxious. She was originally thinking to confess it all, but the moment she was stared at like that, she chose to be brave and said, “No! What could happen to the both of us? We’re all doing well; you don’t have to worry! He’s just busy with work right now!”
Chen Xiaoxiao had a touch of suspicion in the bottom of her eyes, but she didn’t probe further as she said, “Then we’ll decide on it like that.”
“But he’s busy with his work that day…”
She hadn’t finished speaking before she was cut off. “No matter how busy he is with work, he’ll have time to have a meal. After you drink your soup, go and rest early!”
She didn’t give Yun Jianyue a chance to speak, and she turned around swiftly to leave the room.
Yun Jianyue held the bowl. She was speechless as she stared at the ceiling; she’d just broken up with Su Xu. How was she going to call him over on Friday? Furthermore, she’d been avoiding Su Xu like the plague recently!
“Ay, ay, ay.”
Yun Jianyue sighed three times in succession. She looked at the nutritious soup in front of her, and it seemed like a bowl of poison, but the taste wasn’t bad. Even if she wanted to die, she had to finish it.
She didn’t use a spoon and drank it all in a breath before she lay down to sleep.
On Thursday morning, Gu Zhishen didn’t come over to pick her up. He didn’t even call. Yun Jianyue heaved a sigh of relief silently, and she also somewhat had a touch of disappointment that she was unable to explain.
It was a typical day at work, especially after her head of department found out about her relationship with Gu Zhishen and took care of her specially. The colleagues in the company joked and said she successfully managed to scale up to the top, but they hadn’t bullied her before, and they were just more polite to her.
After she was off work, Yun Jianyue didn’t go back home immediately. She asked Zhu Jingyi out to eat steak; her treat. Actually, the important point was for Zhu Jingyi to come up with a few solutions about how she should handle the situation!
Zhu Jingyi treated the medium-well steak in front of her like an enemy. She cut it up into multiple pieces. While she ate in satisfaction, she said, “Then what do you plan to do? Are you going to confess everything to your parents?”
“I don’t know if I should continue to hide it from them or just confess it. Or how I’m going to hide it from them. So I came over to look for you!” Yun Jianyue’s face was filled with frustration. She raised her head to look at Zhu Jingyi, who was stuffing her mouth with food nonstop. She’d been eating the entire time and hadn’t heard anything she’d said!
“Don’t eat first. Help me to think of a plan before you eat! Darling Zhu!” Yun Jianyue waved her hands and didn’t allow her to continue eating.
Zhu Jingyi didn’t forget to take a last bite. She put down the cutlery and took the napkin to wipe the sauce on the corners of her lips. She was calm and said, “What’s there to be thinking about? There are only two options. One is to tell your parents the truth and the second would be to look for Su Xu to help you out! Pretend that both of you haven’t broken up…Wait a minute!”
It was as if she had just realized what was happening, and she stared at Yun Jianyue as she said with suspicion, “You’re not worried about your parents finding out about your breakup, but you’re afraid of them suspecting that you got married to Gu Zhishen?”
Yun Jianyue nodded her head robotically. This was the part she was most worried about, and she didn’t dare let her parents find out about this no matter what happened!
Especially when her mother was so smart, and she didn’t believe her that much, just like her father did…
“Then you only have one option.”
“What option?”
“Go and look for Su Xu to help you out!”
“You’re better off not saying it, then!”
Zhu Jingyi shrugged her shoulders innocently. She took utensils to continue eating. Yun Jianyue didn’t have a good appetite; she was so worried right now. Zhu Jingyi finished an entire steak in one bite and ate two bowls of salad.
Zhu Jingyi noticed she wasn’t eating her steak and helped her to finish it, using the reason of not wasting food to do so.
After they finished dinner, before they each went back to their own homes and looked for their mothers, Zhu Jingyi gave Yun Jianyue an extra warm suggestion, “Baby, paper is unable to wrap fire! No amount of lies and pretenses can hide that you’re already a married couple with Gu Zhishen in the eyes of the law. Rather than living in fear on a daily basis, why don’t you just come clean quickly? After all, if you die early, you’d be reincarnated earlier. I’d remember to offer three joss sticks for you every day to raise you!”
Yun Jianyue thought, Darling Zhu, are you suggesting this or cursing me?
On the bus back home, Yun Jianyue carefully thought about what Darling Zhu had said. It wasn’t that she didn’t make sense, but…she didn’t have the courage to do so!
She didn’t dare imagine what kind of attitude her parents would have after they found out the truth, and she didn’t know how her older sister would react. Till now, she didn’t have the courage to face all of this, and it would be best if she was able to hide longer!
This thought made her take Su Xu’s off the blacklist, and she gave him a call.
If Su Xu didn’t agree, she’d think of another solution.
She didn’t ask directly on the phone but only asked Su Xu to chat after they met. Su Xu was silent for a long time, but he agreed in the end.
Yun Jianyue asked Su Xu out for a meal at a restaurant near her company during lunchtime on Friday. She arrived ten minutes early, but when she went over, Su Xu was already seated in the reserved seat.
Yun Jianyue looked at him from a distance; she couldn’t help but stop in her tracks. Su Xu was wearing a white shirt and casual beige pants. It made her think back to a while ago. When she was very busy with work and didn’t have time to date, Su Xu would take time to wait for her to eat here, never complained at all, and was still always worried about her being starved.
She didn’t expect that in a blink of an eye, they’d become like this, and there was a somewhat melancholic feeling.
And it was just at this moment that Su Xu looked over. Yun Jianyue regained her senses. She walked over, and Su Xu stood up to help her pull the chair back, gentlemanly.
“Thank you. Have you waited long?”
“No, I also just arrived.”
Yun Jianyue sat with her back facing the door, so she didn’t know that someone was walking inside. The tall figure was led over to a seat by the waiters, and the glow in the bottom of his eyes couldn’t help but scan a familiar figure.
His thin lips curled upward as he laughed.
He immediately took his phone out to call a number, and curled the corners of his lips up to say playfully, “Eldest Brother, have a guess at what I saw.”