Chapter 2

“What’s the point of cancelling the engagement?! Can’t you just talk it out nicely?”

Yuan Qing’an’s mother Zhu Guiyun, who had just returned from shopping, happened to hear that her son wanted to cancel the engagement, and she immediately became anxious.

She glared at Yuan Qing’an, then turned around with a smile and pulled Xu Zhihuan’s arm, ready to go home. “Zhihuan, ignore him. I’ll teach him a lesson for you later!”

Xu Zhihuan stood still, pulled his arm out of Zhu Guiyun’s hand, looked at Yuan Qing’an, and said firmly, “I want to cancel the engagement!”

When the words “break off the engagement” came out of Xu Zhihuan’s mouth, Yuan Qing’an felt that she was playing hard to get and just wanted him to coax her. Women are trouble!

Xu Zhihuan and Yuan Qing’an were a “childhood engagement” arranged by their parents. Logically speaking, the Xu family’s conditions were not a good match for the Yuan family, and they should not have any intersection.

Her father and Yuan Qing’an’s father had a very good relationship when they were young. Her father took advantage of the good opportunity of social and economic development and opened a garment factory. Within two years of becoming the boss, they lived in a two-story villa and drove a car. This was in the 1980s.

Yuan’s father took his whole family back to the village because he had elderly people to take care of at home, and lived a life of working in the fields. Since then, the two families gradually lost contact. It was not until two years ago that Yuan Qing’an came to visit on behalf of his father. Xu Zhihuan, who was a face-control freak, fell in love with him at first sight.

In fact, their childhood engagement was not formal, and it was just a joke at the time. Xu’s father simply valued the fact that Yuan Qing’an was already a company commander in the military region at such a young age, and had a bright future, so he was willing to marry his precious daughter to him.

Otherwise, given the poor conditions of the Yuan family, even if Xu Zhihuan agreed, Xu’s father would not agree.

After all, she was blind and couldn’t judge people well.

Xu Zhihuan clenched his back teeth.

“Zhihuan, breaking off the engagement is no joke. Stop it.” Zhu Guiyun’s expression froze as she tried to persuade her, “So many people are watching us.”

This is the military district family compound, so there are naturally many people coming and going to watch the fun.

Xu Zhihuan glanced at Zhu Guiyun and sneered in his heart.

If it weren’t for the fact that her family was rich, her mother-in-law Zhu Guiyun wouldn’t be so kind to her.

After getting married in the previous life, Xu Zhihuan even used all of her dowry to support the Yuan family.

This was not enough. Zhu Guiyun used the fact that she did not leave any descendants for the Yuan family as an excuse to take a lot of money from the Xu family.

She just didn’t believe that Yuan Qing’an liked Li Rou and Zhu Guiyun didn’t know about it?!

She ate and drank from the Xu family, and in the end, she even plotted against her! She’s truly evil to the core!

“Xu Zhihuan, stop being unreasonable. I don’t have the time to argue with you.” Yuan Qing’an accused impatiently.

Xu Zhihuan scoffed softly, “Am I being unreasonable? Who of us is it that gave the heirloom to another woman without the other’s knowledge?”

Xu Zhihuan crossed his arms and continued, “Yuan Qing’an, didn’t you say that your family heirloom would only be given to the future daughter-in-law of the Yuan family? I just want to know what you meant by giving it to my cousin whose baby just turned one month old?”

Yuan Qing’an’s expression suddenly changed.

“What’s going on? How can Captain Yuan not tell the difference between near and far? Wouldn’t it be enough to just give the baby eggs when he’s one month old?”

“That’s right, it’s not Comrade Xu’s fault that he misunderstood me when I gave him a family heirloom.”

“…”

Everyone around them was discussing the matter. Zhu Guiyun naturally knew about the family heirloom jade Buddha. It was originally intended as a gift for her future daughter-in-law, so how come her son gave it to his cousin Zhihuan? Could it be that the person her son truly loved was…

Zhu Guiyun seemed to remember something, but she didn’t dare to think any further. She only knew that she had to coax Zhihuan first.

This marriage with the Xu family cannot be cancelled.

“Zhihuan, well, this isn’t Qing’an’s fault,” Zhu Guiyun tried to find a way to make amends. “Your cousin married well, so we can’t be stingy with the full-moon gift. You know my family’s financial situation, so that’s why I gave her the jade Buddha.”

Jian Shou was lying with her eyes open. This was how Zhu Guiyun had fooled her in her past life.

Xu Zhihuan believed it once and would never believe it a second time.

“Really?” Xu Zhihuan raised his eyebrows with interest and looked at Yuan Qing’an.

Yuan Qing’an said coldly, “Don’t talk nonsense here and ruin Li Rou’s reputation. Do you think everyone is as shameless as you?”

“Okay, then you wait.” Xu Zhihuan saw that he would not cry until he saw the coffin, and the mother and daughter were as stubborn as dead ducks!

After saying that, Xu Zhihuan ran quickly towards the family building.

Zhu Guiyun kept pushing Yuan Qing’an’s arm, signaling him to stop speaking so harshly and just coax her.

Yuan Qing’an was upset, his chest heaving violently. He nodded perfunctorily, “I understand.”

Soon, Xu Zhihuan came out holding a small wooden box. Yuan Qingan’s eyes were furious and veins on his forehead were bulging. “Xu Zhihuan, give it back to me!”

Seeing Yuan Qingan’s reaction, you can tell that Xu Zhihuan guessed right!

This wooden box contains his unknown ambiguous feelings.

No wonder Yuan Qing’an got angry whenever Xu Zhihuan touched this wooden box in his previous life!

Later he even locked himself up, and he would stay in the study late at night and not come out.

At first Xu Zhihuan thought it was an important document from the military district, but now it seems not.

The wooden box was still unlocked, so Xu Zhihuan opened it easily. It was full of envelopes, and the recipients of the envelopes were all “Roushou”.

“Yuan Qing’an, do you want me to open all these letters and read them?” Xu Zhihuan raised his voice so that everyone present could hear clearly.

“My cousin’s name is Li Rou. What do you mean by recipient?”

Xu Zhihuan immediately threw the wooden box on the ground. There were dozens of letters in it!

“If you already have someone you like, why did you marry Comrade Xu?”

“Comrade Xu’s cousin has already given birth, yet Captain Yuan still misses her so much.”

“So Captain Yuan has something going on with both cousins?”

“Tsk tsk”

“…” Yuan Qing’an hurriedly put the envelopes into the wooden box. It was not because he was afraid that his true love would be exposed, but because he was afraid that it would affect Li Rou.

“This, this must be the original writing.” Zhu Guiyun explained with his mind working very quickly.

“So? The date on this inscription is clearly June 30, 1987,” Xu Zhihuan kindly reminded, “it was the day before yesterday.”

“Bah! What a piece of shit! If Comrade Xu hadn’t found out, Yuan Qing’an would have ruined this good girl’s life!”

“Why don’t you like marrying someone?”

“What else could it be? Of course, they value the Xu family’s wealth!”

“No, no, my son is not that kind of person.” Zhu Guiyun denied hurriedly, but it was useless and no one listened to her.

People only believe what they see.

The fact is: Yuan Qing’an likes Comrade Xu’s cousin who is a married woman and wants to marry Comrade Xu.

“Xu Zhihuan!” Yuan Qing’an’s clenched fists made a crackling sound. He glared at Xu Zhihuan angrily, wishing he could rush up and tear him to pieces alive!

The next moment, Yuan Qingan rushed forward——

Xu Zhihuan thought to herself: Not good! She can’t withstand a punch from Yuan Qing’an.

He turned around and was about to run, but before he could move, someone pulled his arm and dragged him behind him.

There is a solid “mountain” blocking the way in front of me.

“Just try to touch her.”