Chapter 9: Breaking Off the Engagement

Xia Yuting came to see Wei Zhiming again, her tail between her legs.

Xia Dajun and his wife had fought to a standstill, and she hadn’t dared to ask them for money.

“Do you think Su Anan has gone crazy?” Wei Zhiming said angrily. “She actually dared to hit me, and demanded money and coupons in front of all those families in the compound, saying I… I’m having an affair.”

“She’s full of crap!” Xia Yuting immediately became anxious. “She’s really gone crazy.”

Su Anan’s changes in the past two days were truly terrifying.

Before, she was so easy to manipulate, doing whatever she was told.

Now, she was still weak and helpless, yet her actions were erratic, leaving them completely defenseless.

“We can’t provoke her now,” Wei Zhiming said, his eyes tired from the constant judgment. “We have to appease her.”

Xia Yuting’s face was full of grievances: “Doesn’t she always listen to you?”

“She used to listen to you too,” Wei Zhiming said innocently. “Now, she’s just as crazy when she sees you. All that money and those coupons…”

She didn’t want to return them.

Of course, Xia Yuting didn’t want to return them either.

That was her little nest egg.

Actually, she didn’t want to stay in her current situation; she wanted to sell some things on the black market.

After all, she was living under someone else’s roof.

She had to have a backup plan.

“But she’s going to tell Liu Hong about the denouncement letter I wrote,” Xia Yuting said with resentment, her face twisted in distress. “Liu Hong will really tear me apart.”

She had written the denouncement letter to replace Liu Hong’s position.

But the results hadn’t come out yet.

Even if the results came out, she was still afraid of Liu Hong.

After all, Liu Hong was the workshop director’s wife.

“Why has she become like this!” Wei Zhiming was worried. “That incident the other day didn’t go as planned. My comrade was on a mission and wasn’t there. I really don’t know what happened.”

Two people went into a room, and only one came out.

Xia Yuting was also sold out to the ideological committee and received a good scolding.

At this time, Xia Yuting suddenly thought of something: “Could it be… that they’re in cahoots?”

“No way,” Wei Zhiming shook his head. “Lu Jingchen is a third-generation revolutionary cadre, with a solid revolutionary background. How could he do such a thing?”

“The person I saw that day must have been your comrade, Lu Jingchen. He was very protective of her,” Xia Yuting said indignantly. “There’s definitely something wrong here.”

Wei Zhiming pondered: “It’s fine. If Su Anan comes to ask for money again, I’ll just say I’m breaking off the engagement and not marrying her. She’s most afraid of me not marrying her. I didn’t want to marry her anyway. I only have eyes for you.”

His eyes were full of affection.

Xia Yuting’s heart fluttered, and she shyly lowered her head: “I only have eyes for you too, but…”

Su Anan was the one engaged to him.

“My aunt and uncle are usually good to me, but I’m not their biological daughter after all,” Xia Yuting mused, her face full of dissatisfaction. “If only I were their daughter.”

They were secretly meeting in the storeroom that Xia Yuting managed.

At this moment, Wei Zhiming was holding Xia Yuting’s hand, their eyes meeting.

They were lost in each other’s eyes.

“Bang!”

The door was pushed open, and Su Anan strode in with several people.

“Xia Yuting, the gloves you gave everyone are all broken. How are we supposed to use them?” Zhao Hong took the lead, saying unhappily.

“Yeah, yeah, what’s the meaning of this!” someone echoed.

Then everyone froze.

Su Anan was the most shocked: “Ah, cousin, Wei Zhiming, what are you doing?”

Her voice was weak, and she looked weak.

She couldn’t stand steadily, looking like she had suffered a great blow, and she swayed backward.

Several women who had come in with her quickly supported her: “Comrade Su, are you alright? Please sit down.”

She usually had little presence and was easy to talk to, never refusing requests for help.

Overall, she was well-liked.

Even Liu Hong was stunned.

Xia Yuting and Wei Zhiming, who had just kissed, separated as if electrocuted.

They instinctively stood up, pale and nervous.

Actually, this scene was described very beautifully in the original text, a throbbing girl, and a passionate officer!

In the original text, Lu Jingchen was directly demoted to the farm.

The position of regiment commander directly fell to Wei Zhiming.

Su Anan had also fallen from grace.

Therefore, the two were affectionate and successful.

Now, the plot has changed, but many of the directions remain the same.

Therefore, Su Anan intentionally damaged the gloves of Liu Hong and the others, and then came to the storeroom together. Sure enough, everything was proceeding according to her plan.

“Anan, you, how did you get here!” Xia Yuting’s face was flushed; she had forgotten to lock the door.

However, locking the door would make things even more difficult to explain.

It would probably end up at the ideological committee.

Su Anan sat in the chair, her face pale, her eyes misty and red, like a little rabbit: “Cousin, how could you do this? You know that Zhiming is my fiancé; we’re engaged…”

She cried as she spoke.

She pinched her slender waist hard.

It hurt, it really hurt!

There were gasps all around.

The scene just now wasn’t pretty.

In this era of strict crackdown, without being engaged, hiding here and hugging, kissing, would lead to public shaming.

It would also affect their future and work.

Xia Yuting was also panicked, looking at a loss: “Anan, we, we didn’t do anything, nothing at all!”

She looked terrified.

She was naturally afraid that the matter would get out.

If that happened, they would truly be disgraced.

“We’re not blind!” Liu Hong, who couldn’t stand it the most, gritted her teeth and said, “Shameless, she’s your cousin’s fiancée, and you do this? The Su family raised you, fed you, clothed you, sent you to school, and found you a job, and this is how you repay them? You’re a heartless thing!”

“Yes, shameless, they were… kissing just now, it’s disgusting.”

“They should be sent to the ideological committee for criticism and education.”

The crowd scolded her one after another.

Su Anan didn’t speak, she just cried.

She cried sadly and aggrievedly.

It was pitiful.

Everyone who saw it felt sorry for her.

Wei Zhiming also regretted it. He hadn’t even secured the position of regiment commander yet, and this happened.

It would definitely affect him.

He had been completely blinded by lust.

He quickly walked to Su Anan: “Anan, I’m sorry!”

He didn’t like Su Anan’s submissive and weak appearance.

He didn’t like Su Anan always lowering her head, wearing old work clothes.

He didn’t like Su Anan’s soft and low voice.

But in the end, Su Anan had parents, and both of her parents had jobs.

Xia Yuting was just an orphan living under someone else’s roof. No matter how much she acted cute, she couldn’t compare to Su Anan’s conditions.

Su Anan just cried, tears falling drop by drop.

She looked even more pitiful.

“Let’s break off the engagement,” Su Anan said in a broken voice. “Since you like my cousin so much, marry her. Since I was little, my parents always told me to give in to my cousin, help her, and protect her. Now, I’m giving you to her. My parents will definitely be happy.”

“Anan, why? They’re shameless, and you still want to help them,” Liu Hong was indignant. “Just wait, I’ll have the factory director fire Xia Yuting. This kind of person absolutely cannot stay in our factory.”

Xia Yuting, who had finally reacted, was unconvinced.

Since she was little, she had always liked to snatch things from Su Anan.

She subconsciously felt that everything Su Anan had should have been hers.

Including Wei Zhiming.

When she heard Su Anan’s words, she felt it was only natural.

However, Liu Hong’s words scared her.

She quickly said, “Director Liu, I, I won’t dare again. I was just blinded by lust.”

She rushed to Su Anan and grabbed her hand: “Anan, beat me, kill me, just don’t fire me, Anan, cousin, you’ve always been the best to me, you won’t ignore me, right?”

Then she lowered her voice, so only the two of them could hear: “If you dare let me get fired, my aunt and uncle will kill you.”

She now realized the seriousness of the situation.

She and Wei Zhiming weren’t a proper couple.

Therefore, if this matter spread, they would both be finished.

Su Anan forgot to cry and hiccuped.

She looked at Xia Yuting with red eyes: “Cousin, you, you…”

Her face was flushed with anger.

Tears continued to fall from her eyes.

“You said you wanted to break off the engagement,” Xia Yuting also went all out. There was no turning back now. She looked at Wei Zhiming, “Zhiming, say something!”

At this moment, she felt like she had won.