Chapter 86

Li Cheng remained silent, clearly tacitly agreeing with Huang Ying’s suggestion.

The food was quickly placed on the table, and Huang Ying and Zheng Lu chatted and laughed, occasionally bringing up Li Cheng in the conversation.

Li Cheng would say a few words, and the atmosphere between the three was very relaxed.

As they chatted, Zheng Lu’s gaze once again turned towards Ye Yao.

The seat he was sitting in, and the direction he was facing, made it so that he could glance at her with just a slight lift of his head.

“Li Cheng, why don’t you talk about your fiancée…”

As soon as he mentioned the word “fiancée,” Huang Ying shot him a look that could kill.

“Cough, cough, Ye Yao, right? Didn’t her family always have a bad situation? How could she be dining out on her own?”

Zheng Lu changed the subject and voiced his confusion.

In the past few days, he had asked around about Ye Yao and finally had a rough understanding of her.

However, the more he learned, the more he felt “sorry” for Li Cheng.

Their Li Da editor-in-chief, someone of such stature, was being forced to marry a girl who hadn’t even finished elementary school and was overweight, with physical traits beyond the norm. Was this what they meant by “when things go to extremes”?

“I know.”

Huang Ying’s tone was sarcastic.

Zheng Lu asked, “You know?”

Huang Ying gave him an appreciative glance. This time, he had really asked a good question.

“Yeah, I heard it from someone in the compound. Ye Yao’s family is indeed very poor, and she’s lazy, relying on her mother to do odd jobs just to get by.

A while ago, Cheng-ge’s family gave her family a dowry, and she started spending wildly, buying herself a lot of things. Now she’s out here dining, which is really no surprise.”

She said this specifically for Li Cheng’s benefit. Someone like that was completely unworthy of him.

Zheng Lu suddenly understood, fully agreeing with Huang Ying’s analysis.

There was really no other explanation for it.

“Li Cheng, your life is going to be hard. A wife like that… a fat, incompetent woman who can’t manage a household…”

He suddenly felt immense sympathy for Li Cheng.

But Huang Ying didn’t stop there. She continued, “And not only that, before she was engaged to Cheng ge, she had a very close relationship with a man from the village…”

“Let’s eat.”

Before she could finish, Li Cheng’s low voice interrupted.

After all, they were going to break off the engagement anyway, and he didn’t want to gossip about a girl’s personal affairs behind her back.

Whether these things were true or not, they had nothing to do with them.

Zheng Lu was really getting into the conversation, and being interrupted left him feeling unsatisfied.

But Huang Ying was done; she didn’t feel the need to continue. That was enough for now.

She relaxed and went back to eating.

Zheng Lu couldn’t help but sneer in Ye Yao’s direction, “Tsk, tsk, indeed, you can’t judge a book by its cover. She really has nothing redeeming about her.”

If he were Li Cheng, dealing with such a headache of a situation would really make him “explode.” There was no way, even in ten, twenty, or thirty years, that he would ever marry her.

Throughout the whole conversation, Li Cheng had only said one sentence, his gaze flicking towards Ye Yao.

Ye Yao hadn’t noticed their presence at all. Whether she had eaten her fill or was simply lost in thought, she kept looking out the window.

Li Cheng’s gaze followed her movement and looked out the window as well.

An elderly man, dressed in ragged clothes and leaning on a cane, was sitting shakily on the roadside.

Li Cheng seemed to have remembered something, and the tightness at the corner of his mouth relaxed unconsciously…