“Zhu Yiyi, get up for your blind date!”

Ms. Zhu’s roar echoed through the house.

Early morning, the early autumn sun rose in the east, its light filtering through the floor-to-ceiling windows, falling on the edge of the bed.

The huddled blanket moved, turning over, continuing to sleep.

“Are you going to that blind date today?”

Accompanied by a series of excited knocks on the door, thud, thud, thud.

Zhu Yiyi curled up in the blanket, covering her head. Unable to bear it any longer, she bounced up: “I’m up, I’m up, Mom, if you keep knocking, the door will fall off.”

Ms. Zhu finally calmed down: “I’m telling you, this blind date is a high-quality man I found by begging and pleading, searching through the best resources in the blind date world. Don’t give me that half-dead look, put on makeup, get dressed, you hear me?”

Sitting on the bed, Zhu Yiyi was utterly dejected: “Is it necessary?”

“How is it not necessary? Don’t forget, this is your fifth blind date in the past half month,” Ms. Zhu said, her anger flaring. “The first four times, you either said you were not educated enough, or you said you were not getting married or having children, or you had a rich dating history and were promiscuous. You were just talking nonsense, you almost drove me crazy. What are you trying to do?”

Trying to do? Trying to avoid blind dates.

Ever since Zhu Yiyi broke up with her boyfriend, her mother, Ms. Zhu, had completely gone crazy, constantly arranging blind dates for her.

A high school math teacher;

A real estate salesperson;

A civil servant;

And the last one, a state-owned enterprise accountant.

They were either stiff-faced like they were discussing business, or they were grinning like they were running a scam.

They were all incredibly boring.

Zhu Yiyi didn’t like boring men.

She liked tall, handsome men with long legs, who wore glasses for a cultured look downstairs, and took them off upstairs to play with her, a suave villain.

She had only met one such suave villain in all these years.

Fortunately, she chased him down.

But unfortunately, they broke up last month.

Zhu Yiyi stared at the woman in the mirror, her features plain, her height average, the only thing she could boast about was her figure.

She inherited it from her mother, it was spicy and exciting.

She brushed her teeth with one hand, the other hand lit up the screen, several messages popped up on WeChat.

They were all from the company group.

That’s how it is in a new media company, even on weekends, they have to rush promotional copy. Zhu Yiyi, as a member of the promotional planning department, her daily work was to write copy, advertising, game characters, TV drama promotions, etc., almost every project had her fingerprints on it.

They were asking her to work overtime for free on the weekend again.

Zhu Yiyi hesitated for a few seconds and turned on Do Not Disturb.

After washing up, she changed into a long dress and a fall jacket, casually fixing her hair in front of the makeup mirror, and then applied lipstick and she could go out.

She casually picked up a gold tube lipstick, it gave off a faint rose scent when opened, a man-slaying color, with excellent aesthetics.

But her hand froze in mid-air when she saw it.

This was a gift her boyfriend gave her for her 25th birthday, during their last relationship, and also their only relationship.

CL’s Queen’s Scepter.

When she first received it, it was a complete set, worth tens of thousands of yuan, she was afraid to use it, he just smiled faintly: “You like it, that’s what matters.”

Zhu Yiyi silently turned the lipstick, in the end, she didn’t use it, she casually picked up a lip gloss and applied it.

Even though they had broken up, she didn’t want to wear the lipstick he bought to go on a blind date with someone else.

The guilt was too heavy.

Ms. Zhu was waiting impatiently outside the door: “Are you ready yet? Don’t try to slip away, I’m telling you, you have to get married by the end of this year.”

“Get married, get married.” She sighed helplessly.

Zhu Yiyi didn’t know if all parents would urge their children to get married when they reached a certain age, saying that women lose their appeal after thirty, that they are too old to have children, that they will be lonely and have no one to take care of them when they are old, this kind of rhetoric was everywhere.

She had heard it more and more in the past two years.

“Okay.” She opened the door and went out.

Ms. Zhu looked her up and down, she was quite satisfied, except for her expression: “Give me a smile, don’t look like someone owes you millions.”

Zhu Yiyi obediently stretched her lips.

“Yes, that’s it!” Ms. Zhu smiled and poked Zhu Yiyi’s left cheek dimple. “Even if my daughter is not a flower, she is a delicate beauty, look at this pear vortex, how beautiful it is when she smiles, the man on the blind date today will definitely like it.”

Zhu Yiyi was from a single-parent family, her mother raised her alone, and their family was not well-off.

Usually, no matter what she did, Ms. Zhu would stick to the principle of “save where you can.” Today, she broke the rules and took a taxi, not the green taxi, but the kind of high-end private car.

It seemed that the blind date today was indeed of high quality.

They arrived at the Dilun Club.

Located in the prime commercial district, among the densely packed skyscrapers, the luxurious decoration stood out, exuding an aura of “expensive” from head to toe.

Ms. Zhu was amazed by the grand and atmospheric decoration.

Zhu Yiyi remained calm.

In the year she had been dating her ex-boyfriend, she had followed him to various glamorous upper-class parties, breaking the “rich world view” she had built up over the years from reading novels about domineering CEOs.

The waiter led them to a private room.

They pushed open the door, and there was only one man inside.

He was indeed of “high quality.”

He had a handsome face and an extraordinary aura. He didn’t show any disdain when he saw Zhu Yiyi and her mother’s ordinary attire.

He stood up, extended his hand: “Ms. Zhu, hello, I’m Jia Haoren.”

A fake good person?

She was really twisted.

“Zhu Yiyi, near the Zhu is red, the Yi of the water of autumn.”

“Ms. Zhu’s name has a very good meaning.”

“Thank you.”

Ms. Zhu threw a look of approval at her daughter.

Finally, she had come to her senses.

Zhu Yiyi’s expression was indifferent.

If her mother knew where she learned her self-introduction, she probably wouldn’t be smiling.

Growing up, because she was from a single-parent family, and her mother was just a textile factory worker with no education, Zhu Yiyi was often the one who was bullied and ostracized.

“She was born with a mother but no father.”

“Her mother is a rural woman, a bumpkin.”

“Zhu Yiyi’s Zhu, is the Zhu of a stupid pig.”

Later, when she applied for jobs, she got lucky and stumbled into a big factory, which is now the top new media company. But her double-non undergraduate degree was simply not enough to impress anyone, there were few people in the office who looked down on this newcomer, and her self-introduction was reduced to three words – Zhu Yiyi, because no one cared.

Until he appeared.

The man called He Shen.

That was their first meeting.

The supervisor assigned her to deliver an urgent document, she was in a hurry and the floor was slippery, she fell flat on her face in front of everyone in the conference room.

Many people whispered and laughed at her.

Only a pair of handmade bespoke leather shoes walked up to her.

He bent down, extended his hand, gently helping her up.

“…Thank you.” Zhu Yiyi blushed, she wanted to crawl into a hole.

“It’s okay,” he pushed his gold-rimmed glasses, and said faintly, “Be careful next time.”

She handed him the document in a panic, the man politely accepted it.

After the meeting, the recorder registered the names of the participants, Zhu Yiyi had the weakest presence, the man asked: “Which yi?”

She was a little embarrassed.

The man raised his head in time, “The Yi of the water of autumn.”

He only glanced at her name and remembered it.

At that time, Zhu Yiyi sat in the corner, staring blankly at the person in the main seat.

He Shen, she chewed on these two words lightly.

Out of reach.

The little girl who had been reckless back then could not have imagined that she would actually chase him down and have a dreamlike relationship with him. When their feelings were at their peak, he had even taken off his glasses, his thick black eyelashes brushed against her sensitive abdominal skin, his low voice called her affectionately: “Yiyi.”

But it was all a mirage after all, and they parted ways.

“I don’t know where Ms. Zhu works?”

The man’s question brought Zhu Yiyi back to reality.

Work is work, what does “high-achieving” mean, Zhu Yiyi, a lowly worker, wanted to laugh: “Shi Shun Media.”

“I work in my family’s group, I’m the director.” He replied.

“Oh, okay.”

“Ms. Zhu is twenty-six years old this year, what are your thoughts on getting married, having children, and even family education for several children?”

Before Zhu Yiyi could blurt out “no marriage, no children”, Ms. Zhu replied for her with a beaming smile: “My Yiyi has a gentle personality, it mainly depends on you, what are your plans?”

“I’m thirty this year, my current plan is to get married by the end of this year, and start trying for a baby in the spring next year. All matters related to pregnancy and childbirth will be handled by a high-end confinement center. As for the children’s education after marriage, I hope my wife will take on more responsibility, I’m busy with my career.”

Ms. Zhu listened happily: “Good, good, good.”

Zhu Yiyi was hungry and her stomach growled on the side, “Mom, I want to eat…”

“Shut up.”

“…”

Jia Haoren smiled: “Yiyi is hungry, let’s chat while we eat.”

Ms. Zhu happily changed her mind: “Okay.”

Zhu Yiyi was disgusted by the man’s affectionate “Yiyi”, when the food finally came, she had no appetite, especially when she saw the cakes and desserts she usually loved, she suddenly felt nauseous.

She shifted her gaze to the Buddha Jumps Over the Wall nearby.

Another wave of nausea.

Her reaction was getting stronger recently.

Zhu Yiyi sighed, she was worried, she only drank a cup of warm water in a table full of delicacies.

Slurp, slurp.

Ms. Zhu frowned, she was about to remind her to watch her image, when the door to the private room was suddenly knocked on.

The waiter pushed open the door, holding a yellow sealed envelope containing confidential documents: “Excuse me, someone sent this to the front desk for room number 9.”

Jia Haoren stood up, “It’s mine.”

“What is this?”

“The dividend I discussed with your mother before the blind date, the equity under my name has annual profits, after marriage, Yiyi will also have a share of the dividend, this is the contract.”

Ms. Zhu smiled so hard she couldn’t close her mouth, “It’s too early to talk about this, isn’t it?”

Zhu Yiyi: “…”

Her mother was practically throwing money at her and writing it on her face.

But to be honest, the blind date today was indeed the most sincere, the most normal, and the highest quality in the past half month.

If it had been before, Zhu Yiyi might have really agreed.

But now, she was probably going to disappoint her mother again.

Ms. Zhu chatted with Jia Haoren, they even decided on the day to go try on wedding dresses.

Zhu Yiyi didn’t say a word the whole time.

She racked her brains for a reason to sabotage this blind date.

She had already used “no marriage, no children”, and “promiscuous”, could it be that… there was only one left?

But if she said it, this blind date would be over, and she, Zhu Yiyi, would be over too.

This was her mother’s taboo.

If she did, it would be a dead end.

The people in the private room each had their own thoughts, Ms. Zhu hinted to Jia Haoren to open it and take a look.

Although she was uneducated, she was not stupid, she had to check the goods first, what if he was just bragging and bluffing?

Jia Haoren didn’t mind, he took the initiative to say: “I’ll let Auntie and Yiyi take a look first.”

Ms. Zhu excitedly grabbed Zhu Yiyi’s hand under the table.

Zhu Yiyi was in pain, she was really anxious now: “That, Mr. Jia, I think…”

“Ms. Zhu.”

He suddenly interrupted her.

Jia Haoren’s face turned ugly, his brows furrowed so tightly that they could kill a fly, his voice dropped several degrees, “I think you need to explain what this is.”

He slammed the thin paper on the table.

Ms. Zhu couldn’t read, she looked at it like she was looking at a flower, “What is this?”

Zhu Yiyi leaned closer to take a look, her face turned white when she saw the words on the top line.

The secret she had been hiding for over a month was revealed in such a dramatic and comical way, completely unexpectedly.

Ms. Zhu gritted her teeth: “What’s going on?!”

Zhu Yiyi was weak, helpless and terrified: “A hen…”

Ms. Zhu turned her head to the other side.

Jia Haoren sarcastically picked up the paper, and said word by word: “This is your daughter, Ms. Zhu Yiyi’s…”

“Pregnancy test report.”