At noon, Ruan Xingwan left the office and was about to get water when Pei Shanshan stopped her and glanced at Jiang Chuning: "What's wrong with her? She's been absent-minded all morning?"
In front of the checkout counter, Jiang Chuning hung his head and settled the bill very mechanically, without any enthusiasm for work in the past.
After a while, he sighed.
Ruan Xingwan shook her head: "I don't know, she has been like this since last night."
Pei Shanshan touched her chin and analyzed: "She is like this, a typical relationship has encountered setbacks..."
As he said that, his eyes widened suddenly: "Could it be that she knew about Xiao Chen and Xu Wan?"
Ruan Xingwan said: "That's not possible. She didn't even meet Xiaochen when she returned to Nancheng this time.
And she doesn't like Xiaochen either, but it's similar to the momentary affection she has for the opposite sex of the same age during adolescence?
It cannot reach this level.”
Pei Shanshan thinks what she said makes sense: "Yeah, who doesn't like a handsome guy?"
The doubts just now surfaced again.
Pei Shanshan added: "But if it's not because of Xiaochen, then who is it? After she arrived in Nancheng, she stayed with us at work every day, and we never saw her have contact with other boys."
After a pause, Pei Shanshan was shocked again: "Does she have any thoughts about Zhou Cishen again?"
Ruan Xingwan: "..."
She walked to the tea room, put down the cup, turned around and said to Pei Shanshan who was following her: "Now that she sees Zhou Cishen running faster than a rabbit, she wishes she could disappear from him."
Pei Shanshan was puzzled: "That's weird."
Ruan Xingwan turned back to get the water: "I'll find out later if I ask."
Sure enough, while eating, Jiang Chuning sat among them, feeling more and more guilty as she was baptized by two looks.
She tentatively spoke: "Sister, Sister Shanshan, you guys..."
Pei Shanshan was the first to speak: "Do you have a boyfriend?"
Jiang Chuning was surprised: "No."
"Then why have you been so gloomy all morning today?"
Jiang Chuning said: "This..."
There was a hint of sadness in her expression: "Jiang Yuan said that he will return to Jiangzhou in a few days and asked me to go back with him.
But I want to go back and see...my father and great-grandfather, but I'm afraid they won't let me come."
Ruan Xingwan was stunned: "Jiang Yuan is going back to Jiangzhou?
Did something happen over there in Jiangzhou?"
"Probably not. He said he would come back in a few days, maybe just to see his family."
Ruan Xingwan pursed his lips slightly and said nothing for a while.
Jiang Yuan had not been here long before he suddenly left again. Is it as simple as just visiting his family?
Or should I say, it’s the little guy…
Pei Shanshan continued to say to Jiang Chuning: "Then you can come with him after you go back. Your father and great-grandfather love you so much. If you act coquettishly with them more, it will definitely work."
When Jiang Chuning heard this, he blinked his eyes, still quite eager to give it a try.
Then, Pei Shanshan leaned over again and whispered: "Tell me quietly, do you have a boyfriend?"
Jiang Chuning blushed when she asked such a mysterious and ambiguous question: "No...no, really not."
Pei Shanshan observed her expression and vaguely got an answer: "So you have someone you like?"
Jiang Chuning's face turned even redder, his head hung down, and even the tips of his ears were red as if they were bleeding.
Pei Shanshan smacks her tongue, she is indeed a young girl who has just started to fall in love, she is so thin-skinned.
She further asked: "Who is it? Do we know each other?"
"Just... just..." Jiang Chuning organized his words, "Sister Shanshan, you don't know her, and you haven't seen him, but, but he..."
Seeing that she was so hesitant to speak, Ruan Xingwan retracted his thoughts and hesitantly said: "Could it be Jiang Shanghan?"
Jiang Chuning: "..."
Pei Shanshan: "?"
The room fell into an eerie silence for an instant.
After a while, Jiang Chuning nodded sheepishly.
Ruan Xingwan: "..."
What a twists and turns and bizarre development this is.
Pei Shanshan also found it incredible: "It's that...that..."
She originally wanted to say the rumored big devil with green face and fangs, but she felt it was inappropriate when she said it. She thought about it carefully and summed it up: "That one looks very similar to Zhou Cishen. You...you want to call him uncle."
Jiang Shanghan?"
Jiang Chuning corrected him sternly: "It's just that according to politeness and seniority, you should call me uncle. In fact, we have no blood relationship."
"Yes, yes, didn't your father and great-grandfather also ask you to marry him? I remember that you were very opposed to it, so you escaped from the marriage and came to Nancheng?"
Jiang Chuning: "..."
She lowered her head and clasped her fingers and began to criticize herself: "At that time, I was too willful and... very unreasonable. He must have hated me."
Ruan Xingwan said: "Then how did you... suddenly like him?"
Ruan Xingwan still remembered that when she was in Jiangzhou, Jiang Chuning still had a great prejudice against Jiang Shanghan, and she was emotionally inclined towards her second uncle.
It doesn't seem like it's been more than a few months.
Moreover, they should have broken off their engagement after that.
Pei Shanshan also started gossiping: "Yes, yes, yes, how did things develop? Tell me?"
In the days after the engagement was broken off, Jiang Chuning was really happy from the bottom of her heart. She felt that she no longer had to be constrained by these old family rules, and she no longer had a marriage arranged for her by others. She could bravely and freely find her own destiny.
My true love.
She and Jiang Shanghan will probably never meet again in the future.
But not long after, she went to a restaurant with her friends for dinner, and happened to meet him there.
Jiang Shanghan had never appeared in public, so his friends didn't know who he was. They just pulled Jiang Chuning and screamed excitedly that he was so handsome and charming, and tried to ask for his phone number.
Jiang Chuning had been focusing on fighting against this arranged marriage, so she had ignored this point. She didn't know whether she was infected by her friend's excitement, or whether she felt that he was really, for a sudden moment,
It fits her aesthetic very well.
When the friend went to ask for the phone, he was unexpectedly stopped by Jiang Shanghan's men.
He heard the voice and looked over. His eyes stayed on her for two seconds first, then looked at her friend, whispered instructions to the men beside him, and then stood up and left.
Then, when they went to pay the bill, they were informed that the order had already been purchased.
The friend screamed again: "Did you see that he and I looked at each other just now? He must be interested in me, otherwise he wouldn't pay for us!"
When Jiang Chuning heard this sentence, he felt strange in his heart.
I can't say exactly what is strange.
When she went back that night, she lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep, and her mind was filled with the look he looked at her in the restaurant.