Chapter 613: I’ll Attend the Engagement Banquet in Your Place

Rejected 99 Times, the Aloof Campus Belle Comes On Strong at Me, Jiang Muye

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To leave each other alone and not cause trouble for one another was already the biggest concession Xiang Shan could make.

"I don't mean any harm. It's just that anyone who saw a situation like that would get suspicious." Ye Shuhua put on an innocent look. "Big Sister Xiang Shan, I'm still very grateful that you could bring him back, but I also have one thing I'd like to discuss with you properly."

"What?" Xiang Shan asked.

Ye Shuhua blinked and said, "I heard Ruoli is getting engaged."

"Yeah, so?"

"I hope I can attend the engagement banquet in your place." Ye Shuhua's words instantly left Xiang Shan speechless.

Xiang Shan found it utterly absurd. "Are you joking? I'm her biological mother. I don't show up, and you go instead?"

"I'm going to marry Qihua, it's only a matter of time. I heard your relationship with your son-in-law isn't very good, and I'm a bit worried. Especially at an important occasion like an engagement banquet—a harmonious couple's relationship is what keeps things from going wrong, right? I'm afraid that when the time comes, if your son-in-law is dissatisfied with you, he might just…"

Ye Shuhua waved her hand rapidly. "I don't mean any harm, I'm really just considering the big picture! Besides, if I showed up together with you at the engagement banquet, what would outsiders think? Especially if Ruoli called me Mom, it'd put you in a really difficult spot."

This made Xiang Shan want to laugh. "So I should praise you for being so righteous and understanding, is that it?"

"No no no, you flatter me. I really do think you could consider this approach. That way you won't have to see the person you want to see, and no conflict will be stirred up. Isn't that killing two birds with one stone?" Ye Shuhua looked at Xiang Shan innocently.

Xiang Shan was furious.

What a green tea bitch!

She really played innocent to the hilt, as if everyone else was in the wrong and only she was right, as if her considerations were the best, and anyone who didn't go along with her was ungrateful.

"Ye Shuhua, we're both foxes who've lived a thousand years, so don't put on a show for me. It's not like I don't know what you're thinking. Rest assured, my daughter's engagement banquet—you can't go, and don't you even think about going~!" Xiang Shan ground her back teeth and angrily accused Ye Shuhua.

Ye Shuhua's expression turned very ugly.

She hadn't torn into Xiang Shan yet. Instead, tears began to fall one by one.

"Big Sister Xiang Shan, you've really misunderstood me! It's that I thought too little, and you thought too much. I'm clumsy with my words and don't know how to speak, but you have to believe me, I'm a very simple person. That's not at all what I meant."

"Leng Qihua is dead drunk right now, and you're still putting on a show for me?! I've seen plenty of little green tea bitches, but I've never seen a fox spirit as tea-soaked and nasty as you!"

Faced with Xiang Shan's accusation, Ye Shuhua's brow darkened. She bit her lower lip and said to Xiang Shan, "Big Sister Xiang Shan, I'm not a fox spirit. This shouldn't be mine to have. It was clearly you who were the third party."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Big Sister Xiang Shan, Qihua and I grew up together as childhood sweethearts. Our two families have always been good friends, and they'd already tacitly agreed that the two of us would be together. We weren't engaged, but I'd already accepted him as my husband by default. And then, right when the two families were about to discuss our lifelong matter, you came out of nowhere."

This was Ye Shuhua's bitter refusal to accept what was happening.

The one who should have been by Leng Qihua's side was her, and yet Leng Qihua had fallen in love with Xiang Shan.

Originally, Ye Shuhua had been certain of victory. She was fully confident that she and Leng Qihua could fly side by side in wedded bliss, and then Xiang Shan appeared and ruined everything.

Xiang Shan had snatched away her big brother from next door and destroyed her lifelong happiness.

"Now that things are returning to their rightful owner, isn't that perfectly normal? If you hadn't obstructed things, Qihua and I would have married long ago. There's no way I'd still be unmarried after more than twenty years! My best youth was destroyed by you!"

Ye Shuhua glared at Xiang Shan, her eyes red.

Xiang Shan was dumbstruck.

She had never imagined that Ye Shuhua was that very childhood sweetheart from back then.

There really had been a young girl who liked Leng Qihua back then, liked him to death.

But Leng Qihua had not a shred of feeling for her; it was just that the parents of both families liked to push them together.

Xiang Shan had never imagined that Ye Shuhua would shift all the blame onto her.

"Ye Shuhua, feelings can't be forced. Even if it hadn't been me, he couldn't have ended up with you back then." Xiang Shan spoke coldly.

"Then he couldn't be with you now either! What's mine is still mine. Look, after going around in circles, he's come back to my side. What you owe me, I'll collect back double. It's not that there's no retribution, it's just that the time hasn't come!"

Ye Shuhua looked at Xiang Shan with displeasure.

Wasn't everything she'd suffered all these years thanks to Xiang Shan?

If not for Xiang Shan's appearance, perhaps she'd have been living a happy life long ago, and wouldn't have gone through all the tragic experiences that followed.

Because the marriage alliance had fallen through, her family had hit a financial crisis and gone bankrupt.

Leng Qihua and Xiang Shan had gone abroad and lived happily together. She had sought help everywhere to no avail, and had no means of contacting Leng Qihua at all.

She had endured disdain from everyone, had spent her days flattering those filthy old men, had put up with her superiors' wandering hands, and had finally carved out a place for herself in the circle, rising to the position of a female executive.

It seemed even Heaven was helping her, allowing her to meet her White Moonlight, Leng Qihua, once again.

Especially since Leng Qihua had even divorced Xiang Shan. It was simply giving her hope once more.

However, Leng Qihua being with her wasn't out of affection. It was only out of guilt.

When he learned of what she'd been through, he made it up to her. To him, she was only a little sister.

Not once had he touched her. Not even a kiss.

They called it living together, but their relationship hadn't made a fraction of progress.

Ye Shuhua knew that there was still someone in Leng Qihua's heart.

That person was the Xiang Shan right in front of her.

Faced with Ye Shuhua's hostility, Xiang Shan said coldly, "Yes, you've gotten everything you wanted, so what's the point in taking revenge on me? I'll tell you this: if you really want revenge, then you've succeeded. You've gotten the thing I wanted most."

By the time she understood, Leng Qihua had already left.

Now she only hoped Ye Shuhua would treat Leng Qihua a little better.

"If I find out you're treating him badly, I won't let you off." Xiang Shan said coldly, then left.

Ye Shuhua watched Xiang Shan's receding figure and clenched her fists in defiance.

Heh heh.

Xiang Shan wanted to go to the engagement banquet?

As if.

With her around, she would absolutely not let Xiang Shan get her way.

——

The next day.

Jiang Muye and Leng Ruoli posted electronic wedding invitations to their social feeds.

They received no small number of blessings, and at one point the comments were so numerous that the phone froze.

Jiang Muye and Leng Ruoli, carrying a large amount of wedding candy, then headed to the school to hand them out.

After Jiang Muye and Leng Ruoli appeared together in the classroom, they began distributing the wedding candy, causing a sensation.

"Wow, Brother Ye is mighty~ Getting engaged to Sister-in-law so soon!"

"Congratulations on winning the beauty, may you have a child soon, two in three years!"

"Isn't this wedding candy the most expensive kind from abroad? Brother Jiang, you're too extravagant, using this as wedding candy!"

"Brother Jiang is a CEO. It's your Mindset that's too small. Wedding candy being a bit expensive is only natural!"

Everyone happily accepted the wedding candy and invitations.

Jiang Muye said cheerfully, "Heh heh, thanks!"

His heart was filled with happiness.

Actually, he hadn't told anyone that there was no need to wish them an early child—Leng Ruoli was already pregnant.