“As for you, with a job like yours, there’s no room for future development. Our family doesn’t need you to earn money; after you marry me, you can just stay at home and take care of the children.”
“I still want to have my own job…” Guan Xiaoxiao wanted to express her views as an independent woman, but the man quickly interrupted her.
“Xiaoxiao, you should know where you belong. Where can’t you earn 5,000 yuan a month? Do you really think 5,000 yuan is more important than family, children, or even me?”
Guan Xiaoxiao was speechless; it seemed he wasn’t wrong.
But she didn’t want to be a woman who spent all day in the kitchen. Qu Zhaojia had said that if they married, he wouldn’t make her do housework.
“What are you thinking?” Yang Shaowei seemed to have guessed Guan Xiaoxiao’s concerns. “Do you think I’d make you do anything at home if you were my woman? We’d definitely hire a nanny. You’d just have to watch the children at home, and on weekends, you could meet up with your girlfriends, get beauty treatments and manicures.” The man painted a beautiful picture of the future with his eloquent words.
Guan Xiaoxiao’s eyes lit up, and she immediately cast aside the idea of being an independent woman. If someone was willing to support her, who would want to squeeze onto a bus every day for work?
This was the life she wanted.
Many things between adults no longer needed to be explicitly stated. Although they hadn’t formalized their relationship, both had intentions of taking things further. When Yang Shaowei went to pay the bill, Guan Xiaoxiao gracefully got up and walked over to Qu Zhaojia.
She felt that at this moment, Qu Zhaojia must be regretting it.
Watching her find a more excellent partner with his own eyes must make him feel worse than killing him.
“Qu Zhaojia, how do you feel now?” She looked smug, as if she had won a battle.
Qu Zhaojia: Chew, chew, chew.
“Look, after leaving you, I’m incredibly sought after. Any man I’m with can easily outshine you.”
“Now you know how wronged I was when I was with you, don’t you?”
Qu Zhaojia speared a piece of beef and continued to chew, chew, chew.
After saying so much without a response, Guan Xiaoxiao thought he was provoked but didn’t want to show weakness in front of her, so he deliberately acted indifferent.
Before leaving, she didn’t forget to cast a provocative glance at Lin Yichan.
Although talking about people behind their backs wasn’t very polite, since it was Guan Xiaoxiao, Lin Yichan felt it was fine.
She whispered, “Actually, I know this person.”
Hmm?
Qu Zhaojia instantly perked up. How could Lin Yichan know such a greasy man?
Lin Yichan said sheepishly, “Before, a relative wanted to set me up with someone, and he was one of them.”
“And then?”
“Then that relative got scolded by my dad,” she stuck out her tongue. “Because my dad looked into their family and found out they weren’t very reliable.”
“I’m not clear about the house, but that factory, it loses money every year. And they don’t have a nanny; the curtains and carpets in their big villa are all hand-washed by themselves, little by little.” In short, their reputation was very bad.
They were even reluctant to hire a nanny. In such a family, she didn’t believe Guan Xiaoxiao’s life would be so comfortable if she married into it.
She told Qu Zhaojia this story also to test his current attitude towards Guan Xiaoxiao.
“Is that so?”
Things were more interesting than he expected, but what did it have to do with him?
When Guan Xiaoxiao visits and goes to his house to help wash carpets, she’ll probably sober up. He wasn’t going to be the one to stick his neck out.
“Do you want to find an opportunity to tell her? After all, she…” Lin Yichan felt a bitter taste in her mouth and couldn’t continue.
“What’s there to say? It’s her own path. They didn’t lie to her; their family really does have a house, a car, and a factory. It just depends on whether she’s willing to marry in and wash curtains and carpets.”
His indifferent demeanor made it seem as if he had truly moved on.
“Are you testing me?”
“No!”
Lin Yichan sharply looked away. She didn’t want the person she liked to see these dark little thoughts.
…
Ever since she met Yang Shaowei, he had been pursuing her fiercely.
Every day at work, there would be a bouquet of flowers for her at the front desk.
The delicate flowers expressed a young man’s unrestrained affection, and for a time, she became a hot topic of discussion at the company.
Many female colleagues expressed envy and jealousy towards her, and this envy reached its peak when Yang Shaowei drove his BMW to pick her up.
Guan Xiaoxiao felt very pleased with herself; it was a feeling she had never experienced before.
Her company and Qu Zhaojia’s company were in the same building. As long as he wasn’t working overtime, he would come to her company to wait for her to get off work together. They would both squeeze onto the bus, and in the crowded carriage, there wasn’t even a seat. They were packed in like tiny silverfish in a can of anchovies, unable to breathe.
“Wow, your man is so good to you! Not only is he rich, but he’s also very thoughtful!” The exaggerated tone of the front desk girl greatly satisfied Guan Xiaoxiao’s vanity.
“These flowers aren’t cheap, are they? They look very expensive,” another colleague echoed.
Guan Xiaoxiao said coquettishly, “I told him not to send any more flowers; my office is almost full, but he keeps sending them. It’s really hopeless.”
“After all, it’s his thoughtfulness.”
They said with a laugh, “If your office is full, put them in mine! If someone sent me flowers like this every day, I’d definitely marry him!”
Guan Xiaoxiao’s face flushed and her heart pounded from their words. She returned to her office, where her desk was already surrounded by flowers.
Yang Shaowei was truly silly; he only knew to send flowers. Didn’t he know that girls liked bags?
Guan Xiaoxiao was a little disappointed, but soon, looking at the flowers, her mood was cured again.
She sat down and spun around in her office chair, then happily opened her Moments, took a picture of her flower-surrounded desk, edited the caption to ‘Another day full of vitality,’ and clicked send.
This Moment received countless likes as soon as it was posted.
Some people even joked in the comments, asking if she was going to open a flower shop.
Others commented below, sighing, saying how lucky she was not to have married ‘someone’ back then. If she had really married him, where would all these flowers come from? She would definitely have lived a life of hardship.
Guan Xiaoxiao deeply agreed, but thinking of Qu Zhaojia, she still felt a bit of guilt and nostalgia.
Her fingers unconsciously moved, opening her friends list.
After scrolling down a few times, she saw Qu Zhaojia’s profile picture.
After they broke up, Qu Zhaojia had changed his profile picture to a completely different style than before, and all traces of her in his Moments feed had been completely deleted.
This was good too; let him completely forget her.
