Xiaoqian and the stubborn man were in a stand-off for quite some time.
Yu Minglang was like a rock that would not budge at all. He let her shout at him and let her hit him.
After Xiaoqian got tired from all the hitting, she looked around and realized that it was a large house.
There were stairs and not much renovation was done. They did up the floor and the walls which gave out an echo. There was no furniture in the house.
It was difficult to cover the fact that this was a rich man.
Xiaoqian grunted and said with displeasure,
“Didn’t you just transfer to a civilian job? How could you afford this with that salary? Corruption? This duplex looks expensive.”
“There are two floors and there’s a garden above the second floor…it’s empty now. The total area is two hundred and ten square meters, I bought it.”
Why did she use that tone on him? Xiaoqian remembered.
When he said he wanted to marry her in her previous life, he reported his personal finances. He may have said that he had a duplex.
“Big enough.”
“Mm, can’t be too small.”
After they finished, they remained silent. One looked at the ceiling and one looked down blushing.
Darn Yu Minglang! Xiaoqian was holding her middle finger in her heart. Double meaning?
This pure-hearted man dared say that to me!
Then a second later, Xiaoqian recovered her lady boss attitude. She raised her head and looked at the man who was blushing because he said something suggestive.
“Yes, can’t be small in any way.”
Xiaoqian was satisfied to see that he was blushing again. She thought, ‘I could make you blush as many times I want!’ Xiaoqian was being cocky at that moment.
Yu Minglang’s ears were burning. He thought he must have misheard it. The Zhou Zhiruo look-alike would not actually say something suggestive like this.
He could not distort what the lady said.
“I don’t care what’s big, you have to let me go!” Xiaoqian had her fun with him and was ready to cross over him. However, he pushed her back and she landed on the couch.
“Ouch!” What kind of couch was this? It was as hard as a block of wood! Xiaoqian protested.
“Was it too hard? It’s still new, it will become more comfortable after a while.” Yu Minglang loved this redwood couch set. He tried to explain when he saw that she was not enjoying it.
Then he realized what he said. Xiaoqian too understood the underlying meaning of it. They felt awkward at the same time.
Xiaoqian was annoyed.
Did he just dally with her?
Shameless…
She needed to put a stop to this dangerous topic. The sensitive Xiaoqian realized that the way Yu Minglang and her interacted was heading in a strange direction.
“I don’t know you. Are you sure you want to meddle in my affairs?”
Yu Minglang took a step back and kept a safe distance from this lady. Although he very much wanted to sit beside her on the couch, that would be going too far.
“I’m Yu Minglang. Twenty four years old. I’m currently working for my family. I basically told you my background, so now we’re familiar with each other.”
Xiaoqian cackled, but was stunned by the familiar feeling.
Oh no, why did her brain decide to rest in the presence of this silly man.
“This house is my personal property. Other than the salary and bonus, I have bonds. I started earning money when I was in school. There is no corruption involved.”
Oh! Showing off your money with a serious face? Xiaoqian thought, ‘If it was not born during a wrong timing or era, I could have earned that kind of money too.”
“Ya, I know you’re good with your finances. You must be very proud…It’s great. It’s so great that you locked the door. You have no right to meddle in my affairs!”
“I’m not trying to control you, I’m trying to convince you. I started investing in 1996, now I’ve accumulated…”
“Stop!” He got on Xiaoqian’s nerves.
“Nobody asked you for information like that. Why did you start reporting your personal assets to me!”
The behavior of a man reporting his assets to a woman was again heading in a strange direction!
An attractive manly voice like Zhao Zhongxiang[1] appeared in Xiaoqian’s mind.
Summer was here and it was the season for reproduction. The male wolf tried to win the heart of the female wolf by running back and forth. He showed off his shiny coat of fur and his ability to capture prey…
Shh!
What was that!
“Now we’re no longer strangers,” Yu Minglang said seriously to Xiaoqian.
He just returned from the army. He emitted righteousness from top to bottom. He did not like hiding things. Especially when he was being suspected for corruption. He needed to explain things clearly.
“I hope that you would give up using wrong ways to get your revenge against them.”
‘Can’t you speak properly? Why are you speaking in a sensual tone? I don’t want to prode Xiaowei with you. No, it’s little wolves!’ Xiaoqian’s usually sharp thinking was interrupted by his earnestness.
She needed to stay far away from this man. He stupefied radiation. The moment she got closer to him, her brain had a shot circuit and her mind went haywire.
“Yu Minglang.”
He truly enjoyed it when she called him by her full name. It was pleasant to hear. Yu Minglang’s heart was moved. Then, he restrained his heart and returned to being stern.
“Tell me.”
“If I didn’t discover that they tricked me, can you guess what my future would look like?”
Yu Minglang was not able to answer such a heavy question.
Xiaoqian avoided this man and narrated her story to the empty house without focusing her eyes on a particular spot.
“I would marry the gay man who didn’t fulfill the duty of a husband. His flaws were presented in his crooked personality. He would beat me and abuse me in many different ways. He would end all the hopes I have for a beautiful life. Then, when I want to get a divorce, he and his family would try many ways to stop me. It will be a living hell. I won’t be able to get out after going there.”
It was just like her previous life.
“I will be beaten everyday. I will be forced to live with a sissy under one roof. My parents won’t take me in. He would torment me without the slightest scruple. His family will indulge him. They believe that homosexuality was a dirty laundry that shouldn’t be aired in the public. But why do I have to bear this ‘dirty laundry’?”
“Doesn’t your family care about you?” he asked. His heart ached for her when he heard her.
He held his fist tight. He hated that he did not beat the two bastards enough today.
“Them? Haha, they only have eyes for their son. Nobody would care about water that is spilled[2]. They needed a son who could pass on the household registration booklet. I’m just a daughter. The only purpose of my existence is to exchange for a large sum of betrothal gifts. And they would save that for my brother when he marries someone.”
She did not accuse them. This was because they really have that thought and they did that.
“Am I not a human? Did I not work hard enough? Did I not give enough? But has anyone ever paid any attention to me? If parents have such different values of a son and a daughter. Then why didn’t they just strangle me when I was born?”
Xiaoqian kept these in her heart for a very long time. She never said that to anyone in her previous life.
People would laugh at her if she said that. Everyone was so busy. Who would have the time to listen to her? Furthermore, she would not want to expose her vulnerability.
However, she was willing to tell all these to Yu Minglang.
[1] A well-known Chinese anchor.
[2] An idiom describing women is like spilled water after being married.