After returning home, Pei Shanshan collapsed on the sofa tiredly: "It's so tiring after the New Year. When I go home from now on, I will never quarrel with my mother again."
Ruan Xingwan said: "It's too late for you to go back now, the Chinese New Year will be celebrated tomorrow."
Pei Shanshan refused without thinking: "Rather than feeling sorry for my mother, I still don't want to listen to her nagging. When I find her a handsome son-in-law, I will straighten my back and go back."
Ruan Xingwan smiled: "If you find a handsome boy, I can probably drive you out with a broom."
Pei Shanshan sighed: "It's really hard to take care of."
Not long after, the doorbell rang. Ruan Xingwan opened the door and found Cheng Wei standing outside.
Cheng Weidao: "I didn't know until I went to the studio that you guys had already taken leave early. I couldn't get through you and Shanshan when I called your cell phone, so I came by myself."
After a pause, he said again: "Xingwan, I want to discuss something with you."
When he called, Pei Shanshan and Ruan Xingwan might be in the elevator, and there was no signal.
Ruan Xingwan took a step back: "Come in and talk."
When Cheng Wei went in, Pei Shanshan was drinking water in the kitchen. She was afraid that as soon as her mouth stopped, she would not be able to help them.
Ruan Xingwan poured a glass of water for Cheng Wei, looked at Pei Shanshan's weird behavior, and asked strangely: "What are you doing?"
Pei Shanshan waved her hand: "Nothing, nothing, you don't have to worry about me."
Ruan Xingwan shrugged and returned to the living room with a glass of water.
She placed the water glass in front of Cheng Wei and sat on the single sofa beside her: "If you have anything to do, tell me."
Cheng Wei pursed his thin lips and hesitated before saying, "Xingwan, I want to ask you for a favor."
Ruan Xingwan said: "I will help you wherever I can. Don't be so polite. You have helped me a lot."
After a few seconds, Cheng Weicai said slowly: "Can you go home with me tomorrow night?"
Ruan Xingwan was slightly startled. Before he could react, Pei Shanshan, who was drinking water over there, was already choking and coughing several times.
Before she could refuse, Cheng Wei said again: "I know this request is very abrupt and presumptuous, so I hesitated for a long time before coming to you."
Ruan Xingwan asked tentatively: "Go back to your home?"
Cheng Wei nodded: "I'm not too young anymore. My parents have been urging me to get married for the past two years, and they also said that they would introduce me to a partner. I really had no choice some time ago, so I told them that I had a girlfriend. They asked me to make it clear.
We’ll take them back later.”
Pei Shanshan also heard what he said, and it was nothing more than asking Ruan Xingwan to pretend to be his girlfriend and spend the New Year with him.
Although it is said to be a disguise, once it is brought back, the meaning is different.
I have to say that this excuse is really good and has no flaws.
Cheng Wei saw that Ruan Xingwan was silent and said again: "Xingwan, I also know that you will definitely not agree. It's just because my parents are old and I don't want them to worry, so I told this lie. I understand the worst.
I told them later that I actually don’t have a girlfriend, and what I said before was all lies to them.”
Hearing what he said, Ruan Xingwan pursed her lips, unable to say any words of rejection.
She said just now that she would help anyone she could.
Plus, she does owe Cheng Wei a lot of favors.
Cheng Wei continued: "Xingwan, don't force it, it doesn't matter, I'm just asking for your opinion. If you feel embarrassed, just pretend that I haven't been here today, and I haven't said these words."
Ruan Xingwan said: "I either feel embarrassed, or..."
Forget it, it's just a favor. Thinking too much would be pretentious, not to mention it's just a show to make the old man feel at ease.
Ruan Xingwan nodded: "Okay, I'll go back with you tomorrow."
Hearing this, Cheng Wei breathed a sigh of relief, with a faint smile on his face: "Then I'll pick you up tomorrow afternoon."
Ruan Xingwan said: "Should I prepare any gifts?"
"No, I'll be ready."
After Cheng Wei left, Pei Shanshan finally put down the water glass and walked over from the kitchen: "Is this how you promised him?"
Ruan Xingwan said: "It's... hard to refuse."
"That's right. Cheng Wei has already taken out his parents. It's hard for me to refuse. After all, parents all over the world have broken hearts for their children. He wants his parents to feel at ease and is filial."
But if some people knew that Ruan Xing went to Cheng Wei's house to celebrate the New Year, they would probably explode on the spot.
Ruan Xingwan breathed a sigh of relief, looked at her phone, and changed the subject: "Why hasn't Xiaochen come back yet?"
As he said that, he called him while walking.
Pei Shanshan sat on the sofa, took a grape and ate it, sighing silently.
Ruan Xingwan stood on the balcony and waited for Ruan Chen to answer the phone before asking: "Xiao Chen, where are you?"
Ruan Chen said: "I have something to do. You don't have to wait for me to come back for dinner. You guys eat first."
Ruan Xingwan didn’t believe it due to the lessons from previous events, and frowned and asked: “What’s the matter?
You won’t fight with your classmates again, will you?”
Ruan Chen: "...Nothing."
"Okay, come back early."
"knew."
After Ruan Xingwan hung up the phone, he leaned on the railing and looked into the distance, wondering what he was thinking.
…
At the same time, Zhou Group.
Zhou Cishen's eyes fell on Ruan Chen's mobile phone: "Your sister?"
Ruan Chen hummed.
Zhou Cishen added: "What did she say?"
"Ask me when I will go back."
Ruan Chen seemed unwilling to talk to him any more about this, and just asked, "What did you just say I should do?"
"Help me keep an eye on Daniel and see what his purpose is in approaching the Lin family."
"Then what?"
Zhou Cishen said calmly: "What? Then, it's good that you can get useful information from him. Don't think too much."
Ruan Chen frowned, but it was undeniable that Zhou Cishen's words did make sense and he could not refute it.
He stood up and said, "If there's nothing else, I'll go back."
"etc."
Zhou Cishen stopped him and said unhurriedly, "What are your sister's arrangements for tomorrow night?"
Ruan Chen didn't need to guess what he was planning: "Eat at home, but my sister probably won't welcome you."
Zhou Cishen's thin lips curled up: "You are still too young. When you have a girlfriend in the future, you will know that the more a woman refuses on her lips, the more she expects in her heart."
Ruan Chen: "..."
Ruan Chen didn't bother to pay attention to him and left directly.
After he left, Zhou Cishen called Lin Nan in: "Get ready to go to Ruan Xingwan's house tomorrow night."
Lin Nan asked tentatively: "Isn't Mr. Zhou going back to Zhou's house this year?"
"Now we're just short of a real fight, why should we go back to pretending to be a snake?"
Lin Nan was silent: "Yes."
After a while, Lin Nan said again: "Mr. Zhou, the Zhong family has been uneasy recently. They have tried to trouble Madam several times, but we have stopped them every time."