Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Tao Yaoyao searched the Internet to see if there had been any major incidents in the imperial city last night. Feng Zhuo was a model, so what happened would have definitely been reported immediately.
She found nothing, but she was still anxious.
“Hey, Feng Zhuo, why haven’t you returned home?” Tao Yaoyao sent a text message.
But after the text message had been sent, she still didn’t receive a response.
With a nervous expression, Tao Yaoyao waited for Feng Zhuo’s reply in vain.
Seeing that it was almost time for her to go to her family’s home, she grabbed her phone and sent a text message with the Tao family’s address to Feng Zhuo.
After that, she went to the Tao family’s home alone.
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During recent years, many large-scale chain stores had suddenly sprung up in the country. The Tao Department Store had suffered a sharp decline in business, and it seemed as if it was actually facing the possibility of bankruptcy.
Some time ago, Tao Yaoyao’s father, Tao Jiantong, had called her to tell her about the Tao Department Store’s situation. He had also told her that there was only one person who could help the Tao Department Store: Wan Jiabao, the second son of the Wanshen Corporation’s CEO. He was hoping that she could get along well with Wan Jiabao.
Tao Jiantong had told her all this very subtly, with hints and nods. Grandma Tao, however, had said it very bluntly. She’d said that Wan Jiabao was a good person and Tao Yaoyao had to marry him.
In reality, they both meant the same thing: they wanted to sell her to keep their wealth and glory.
Wan Jiabao was really not good. He was irritable, petty, bad-tempered, and loved to beat women. He was an irresponsible, self-centered, unambitious, and incapable womanizer who ate the bread of idleness every day. Yet he also narcissistically believed himself to be some high and mighty person.
Ha, ha, ha…
Just thinking about marrying Wan Jiabao made her want to throw up the dinner she had eaten the day before.
But she didn’t show it. She just smiled and said that she needed to go home and consider the situation.
The Tao family had agreed, but her grandma had explained to her that no matter what she thought about it, the marriage was going to happen.
After a week of consideration, Tao Yaoyao had returned home and told everyone that she was already married.
Except for the Tao brothers, everyone else in the family was there. All of them looked as if they had been struck by lightning, and there was no response for a long time.
Her stepmother suddenly shouted at Tao Yaoyao at the top of her lungs, “What are you talking about? You’re going to marry another man?”
Tao Yaoyao shrunk into herself and dodged to the side. Blinking her eyes pitifully, she looked at her stepmother as she said, “I had no other choice. He fell in love with me at first sight and said that I would be his one and only for the rest of his life or else he would have to become a monk. Ah, it’s my fault for being too breathtakingly beautiful.”
She spread her hands out helplessly. “Turns out that being too beautiful is also a sin, and being too popular is also a mistake.”
Her grandma glared at her. Her voice low and flat, she said with intimidation devoid of anger, “I’m telling you, if we don’t agree, don’t even think about marrying that person.”
“We’re not going to get married, we’re already married, already married, grandma… I didn’t want to, but he threatened to commit suicide… That’s a human life.” Tao Yaoyao had an innocent expression on her face and tried to weep, but failed to shed a tear.
Yao Keren sneered and said, “Tao Yaoyao, you’re lying. You don’t even have a boyfriend, so how could you have suddenly gotten married?”
Tao Yaoyao was puzzled and asked, “Who said that one must have a boyfriend to get married?”
Yao Keren snorted and mocked her, “You said he fell in love with you at first sight and that you were his one and only. With you…ha, ha, ha, we can tell what sort of man he is since you don’t even have the guts to bring him home. Is he someone embarrassing? Besides not having money or power, he’s probably also very ugly.”