Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Ling Rui’s eyes were filled with a desire to express himself but he forced himself to nod obediently and stop talking. However, not even a second had passed before he spoke again. “Can I say one last thing?”
Tong Yi looked at him with a gaze that clearly said, ‘Speak.’
“Where are we going to go now?”
Tong Yi was stunned by Ling Rui’s question. Did she not even have a place to rest in this game world? Where were Tong Yi’s parents in the game?
Tong Yi felt a wave of dizziness overcome her as countless, unfamiliar memories suddenly began flooding in.
Tong Yi’s father was the second oldest in the family. After they had gotten married, he and his wife were always occupied with their careers, they were constantly vying for the head position in the family business.
After Tong Yi was born, her mother felt that raising children would take up too much of her time. Hence, she decided to hold off having a second child for the time being and immediately sent Tong Yi to her mother’s hometown to be raised.
Tong Yi’s grandmother pitied Tong Yi as the little child who had to grow up without her parents by her side. She doted on Tong Yi like she was her precious baby, wanting to make up for the lack of fatherly and motherly love in Tong Yi’s life.
The excessive pampering caused Tong Yi to become a little unruly. She was arrogant and aggressive, unwilling to play with girls, constantly running around with the boys.
After her parents’ careers stabilized, they brought Tong Yi back from her grandmother’s hometown to Beijing. Due to her parents being older in age and had suffered many years of hard work, they could no longer bear children. Thus they placed all their hopes on Tong Yi.
How could Tong Yi, who was used to being so carefree, adopt the ways of those rich young ladies from the city?
Her father’s harshness didn’t help. In fact, it proved counterproductive. It made her even more rebellious. She refused to do anything that her father wanted her to do. If there was anything that he restricted her from doing, she insisted on doing them.
She smoked and drank. Every day, other than eating, drinking, and having fun, she did little else.
Her mother felt guilty for not being by her side since she was young. She wanted to make it up to her. Even though she hoped that Tong Yi would be as elegant as those socialites, she did little to reprimand her daughter.
She knew that they, as parents, were responsible for most of their daughter’s bad life choices. She would often advise her husband to calm down and go easy on their daughter.
As time passed, Tong Yi became more and more rebellious. After being ‘brainwashed’ by her mother’s constant advice, her father’s thoughts gradually changed as well. He no longer wished for his daughter to become a lady, he only wished for her to not stir up any trouble.
Tong Yi’s father was overjoyed when Tong Yi announced that she wanted to get engaged to the second young master of the Lu family. He felt that his daughter had finally grown up. Tong Yi said that she wanted a grand engagement party, so he went to discuss it with the Lu family without hesitation.
However, on the day of the engagement party, she suddenly disappeared. Tong Yi’s father was so angry that his blood pressure shot up and he passed out on the spot.
By now, he should have already returned home from the hospital.
Ling Rui saw that Tong Yi’s brows were tightly furrowed and asked worriedly, “Sister Yi, what’s wrong?”
Tong Yi’s slender fingers pinched her glabella. “I’m fine. I’m just a little tired. Send me home.”
“Okay.”
Tong Yi leaned back into the seat. After digesting the memories of this body, she recalled what Lu Zhanbei had said before he left.
‘A marriage can only happen when both parties are willing or do you like to force people into it?’
Maybe it was just her wishful thinking, but he did not seem to be willing to go along with her idea. Was that what he meant when he told her not to force it on him?
How was she ever going to complete the mission of getting engaged to Lu Zhanbei?
Was she supposed to win over Lu Zhanbei, make Lu Zhanbei fall in love with her, and then make him get engaged to her willingly?
She had some experience in rejecting men but she had zero experience in wooing them.
Tong Yi rubbed her temples, trying to ease her headache. After thinking for a long time, she still couldn’t figure out a good strategy to complete the mission.
“Sister Yi, we’re here.” Ling Rui’s voice called out beside her.