Chapter 29

Gu Zhenxi stared at Lu Zisheng in disbelief. For a moment she even wondered if there was something wrong with her ears.

The Gu family and the Lu family have always been old friends, and their engagement was also arranged since childhood.

Since she was a child, her parents told her that she had a fiancé. Although she was ignorant and did not understand love when she was a child, this fiancé was handsome and elegant, and Gu Zhenxi still liked him very much.

So when she grew up, she noticed that her fiancé would look at her cousin from time to time and even contact her cousin in private, which made Gu Zhenxi feel a strong sense of crisis.

Frankly speaking, Lu Zisheng’s conditions are indeed good. With a high school diploma, he is already a well-educated person, and he also has a stable job. Now he works as a clerk in a bank, which is a stable iron rice bowl.

He is good-looking and tall, about 1.8 meters, and he is fair-skinned and gentle. In the compound, many gossipy women are staring at him and want to propose marriage to him.

If not everyone in the compound knew that he already had a fiancée, they would probably have introduced him to several blind dates.

Although she knew that her fiancé seemed to care about Bai Ruanruan, Gu Zhenxi saw that he had never broken off the engagement, so she thought that he still loved her the most in his heart, and they would eventually get married and be together.

Now when she heard Lu Zisheng say that he wanted to cancel the engagement with her, Gu Zhenxi refused to believe it.

Fu Xiujun looked at Lu Zisheng in disbelief, “Zisheng, do you have a fever? Don’t say such things carelessly. Our family has made an engagement with you since childhood. This is something that everyone in the compound knows. Why do you want to cancel the engagement for no reason? How can we live with our family in the future after you let us live with it?”

“That’s right, this engagement cannot be canceled!” Gu Zhiguo also nodded.

Seeing that the couple actually focused on breaking off the engagement but did not refute the fact that Gu Zhenxi secretly signed up Bai Ruanruan to go to the countryside, Lu Zisheng was even more certain that what the neighbors said was true.

He was indeed cheated on!

He said with a dark face: “If I break off the engagement, she doesn’t know how to live. If I don’t break off the engagement, how can I live? I am a man, and my fiancée likes another man. For that man, I harm my cousin and send her to the countryside. Don’t I have any dignity?”

When Lu Zisheng said this, the three members of the Gu family were all shocked!

What is he talking about? ? ?

Why don’t they understand?

“Wait, Zisheng, what are you talking about? What do you mean I fell in love with another man and forced Bai Ruanruan to go to the countryside for that man! When did I fall in love with another man?”

Gu Zhenxi felt that this was a huge injustice. She hated Bai Ruanruan from the beginning just because Lu Zisheng would stare at Bai Ruanruan from time to time.

Since childhood, Bai Ruanruan has always been superior to me, and when she grew up, she even seduced her fiancé.

If she was just better than me in academics, I wouldn’t harm her. The reason I signed Bai Ruanruan up to go to the countryside was just for Lu Zisheng, wasn’t it?

Why did he say he liked another man?

Where did you hear this nonsense rumor?

Lu Zisheng’s face was dark and he said gloomily, “It’s already this time, and you still want to quibble! Do you still think I don’t know? Everyone in the compound knows it clearly. You like Bai Ruanruan’s boyfriend, and because you are jealous of Bai Ruanruan, you pretend to be her and secretly sign her up to go to the countryside, just to break them up after Bai Ruanruan goes to the countryside.”

“This way you can take advantage of the situation and be with Bai Ruanruan’s boyfriend, and then dump me, your fiancé. Thank you so much for giving me such a big green hat, Gu Zhenxi!”

Gu Zhenxi thought this was really inexplicable. “Where did you hear this? This is totally untrue. How could Bai Ruanruan have a boyfriend? The husband she is married to now was someone she found temporarily to avoid going to the countryside.”

“I did sign her up for the countryside, but not for other men. I signed her up for the countryside because I didn’t like you staring at her all the time. It was because of you. There was no other man at all.”

“Zisheng, I don’t know what the people in the compound are saying, but I have never liked anyone, and I can’t be that stupid. If Bai Ruanruan really had a boyfriend before, how could I sign her up to go to the countryside if I liked her boyfriend? I clearly know that she can stop going to the countryside as long as she gets married, so isn’t this forcing her to get married, to marry the man I like? This rumor is untenable.”

After hearing this, Lu Zisheng was confused for a moment, but then he felt that it made sense.

He was not like those gossipy women who made up lies and listened to gossip without paying attention to the logic. He was just too angry and listened to others without thinking. He thought he was cuckolded, so he came to Gu’s house in a rage to settle the score with the Gu family. Only now did he remember the loophole in the lie.

If Gu Zhenxi really liked Bai Ruanruan’s boyfriend, she shouldn’t have signed her up to go to the countryside.

According to national regulations, people will not go to the countryside if they are married or have a job. If Bai Ruanruan really doesn’t want to go to the countryside, she can avoid this by marrying her existing boyfriend.

Isn’t Gu Zhenxi’s action urging them to get married quickly? This goes against what Gu Zhenxi said about liking that man.

Lu Zisheng understood instantly, “What misunderstanding could there be?”

“Zisheng, where did you hear these messy rumors?” Fu Xiujun asked.

Lu Zisheng said, “It’s all over the compound. On my way here, people were pointing and talking about me. I vaguely heard them saying something about being cuckolded. Everyone has spread the word. What’s going on? Did you really register Bai Ruanruan to go to the countryside under someone else’s name?”

Gu Zhenxi’s face darkened. He had indeed done this thing, but how did others know about it?

She thought for a moment and found that there was only one explanation, that is, Bai Ruanruan or the Bai family had already discovered the truth about Bai Ruanruan’s registration to go to the countryside, so they used public opinion to spread rumors about her.

After all, the Bai family had no evidence to prove that she had signed up Bai Ruanruan to go to the countryside. She could easily refute it by saying that Bai Ruanruan did not want to go to the countryside and that was why they deliberately spread rumors. She could also accuse Bai Ruanruan of being a capitalist and say that she did not want to go to the countryside to build the country and the village.

Perhaps it was because of this that the Bai family could not do anything to her, so they spread rumors about her in private.

Gu Zhenxi said, “This is a matter of some conflict between Ruanruan and I. Zisheng, don’t worry about it. Go back first. This is just a misunderstanding.”

“I don’t care if it’s a misunderstanding or not. Now everyone is saying that I’m cuckolded, which makes me very embarrassed. You have to deal with this matter. I can’t marry a woman who will bring disgrace to my reputation.”

After Lu Zisheng left, Fu Xiujun said anxiously: “What should we do? These rumors are spreading in both courtyards. Even if they are not true, they will be said to be true. Zisheng may not necessarily accept the engagement. If Zhenxi is really rejected, how should we live in the future?”

They all knew very well that even if they could convince Lu Zisheng not to cancel the engagement today, if the problem was not resolved and the rumors were not stopped, and people in the compound continued to spread the rumors, then it would be impossible for Lu Zisheng to completely ignore the rumors and still marry Gu Zhenxi.

The final possibility is still to cancel the engagement, and after the cancellation, no matter what the truth is, outsiders will only think that their daughter was disliked by the Lu family, so the Lu family broke off the engagement, which further confirmed the existence of the rumor.

Gu Zhenxi thought for a moment and said, “Mom, let’s report it to the police. Only if we make a big fuss about this matter and show the people in the compound our attitude, can we prove that these rumors are false.”