Chapter 2

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Her brother-in-law had also said this to her sister previously, but now, her brother-in-law probably wished that her sister and she could pay the rent for him… Even people who were in love and married had to be calculative in the end, let alone a marriage without a relationship foundation.

Forget it. Anyway, she did not have to pay the rent. She would use this money to help him take care of his family.

Bai Yi wanted to move out first before talking about anything else. At the very least, she could have some time to buffer and also ease the relationship between her sister and brother-in-law.

“I still have an agreement to sign with you later. When I’m ready, I’ll send you the document.” Lu Qi took out his phone and added Bai Yi’s WeChat. “Just contact me if you need anything. I’ll reply when I see it.”

Agreement?

It was probably something like notarizing property. Bai Yi did not mind. After all, the two of them had no emotional foundation. At most, they would just live together in the future.

“Alright,” Bai Yi said.

“Did you take the subway here?” Lu Qi asked.

“Yes.” Bai Yi nodded.

“It must be quite difficult to come all the way here today. I’m going to send Grandma off later and I still have work at the company. I’ll call a taxi for you. Where do you live now?”

Bai Yi shook her head and pushed away the phone Lu Qi handed her.

“I’ll take the subway. I’m used to it.”

Lu Qi did not push further. Instead, he nodded slightly and the two of them parted ways at the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

“Where’s Little Yi? Where’s the marriage certificate?” Seeing her grandson come out alone, Grandma Lu was a little anxious.

“Alright, I’ll send you back first.” Lu Qi started the car and prepared to leave.

“What’s going on? Why didn’t you send Little Yi home?”

Grandma Lu looked at him suspiciously. “Did you say something that scared my granddaughter-in-law?”

“I still have something to do at home. I’ll send you back first before going to deal with the company. I originally wanted to get her a taxi, but she rejected me.”

When Grandma Lu heard this, she was even more angry. “Why are you like this? I finally found a wife for you…”

“Grandma, I’ll take care of our matter. Go back to the old residence first…”

“No, I want to see my granddaughter-in-law!” Grandma Lu was a little angry. She stared at Lu Qi through her reading glasses.

“Grandma, marriage is not that simple. There are many things I have to deal with slowly, and feelings have to be nurtured slowly. If she does anything wrong, our marriage can’t continue.”

Lu Qi had his own worries. After all, his grandmother was so kind and easily deceived. If this woman had really lied to his grandmother, he would not let her off.

“No! I have to watch you two!”

A busy official call came in and interrupted his thoughts. “Grandma, I’ll go back to the company first. I’ll get Little Zhang to pick you up and take you back to the old residence. I have an urgent matter to deal with.”

The Passat stopped beside a Maybach by the side of the road, instantly looking cheap.

A man in a suit alighted from the Maybach and nodded at Lu Qi. “Little Zhang, the car that will pick up the Old Madam will be here soon. Send the Old Madam back. I’ll leave first.”

“What’s on the schedule today?”

Lu Qi got into the Maybach as his assistant handed him a cup of Americano.

“The director has a routine report. In the afternoon, there will be a quarterly performance report from the marketing department. At night, there are customers from Canada who want to talk to us about the branch company in Canada.”

Lu Qi rubbed his temples. Those foreigners in Canada liked to talk at night, and they would talk until the middle of the night. It seemed like it would be midnight again after work tonight.

Lu Qi was not a high-level worker of a listed company. He was the richest man in the Lu family and the Young Master of the Lu family who dominated Hai City.

Bai Yi did not know this and was still sitting on the swaying subway in a daze.

The phone vibrated twice, indicating that it was Grandma Lu.

“Little Yi, don’t be angry. He’s really busy with work. I’ll go back and educate him.”

“It’s okay, Grandma. I know that these executives worked very hard to reach this position. I can get home myself.”

Grandma Lu heard the sound of the subway intercom and was enraged.

“Little Yi, don’t stand on ceremony. Since you’re already our Lu family’s granddaughter-in-law, just accept the money he gave you to take a taxi. The subway is so crowded.”

“I quite like to take the subway. I’m fine, Grandma.” Bai Yi had already reached the station. She took out her phone and swiped her subway card to leave.

“You’ve already called me Grandma, so I’m treating you as my biological granddaughter. If Lu Qi bullies you, you must tell me. Don’t bear with it yourself.”

When Grandma Lu heard Bai Yi’s sensible answer, her heart ached even more for this child.

She had finally gotten such a good granddaughter-in-law back. She could not let that rascal Lu Qi anger her and scare her away.

“Alright, Grandma,” Bai Yi replied.

“Are you going to the store today? Go, go. Work hard. Come to Grandma’s for dinner on the weekend.”

Bai Yi agreed and hung up. She leaned on the armrest of the elevator and sighed tiredly.

How was it possible to uphold justice for her?

When Bai Yi returned home, her brother-in-law had already gone to work. Her two-year-old nephew sat obediently in front of the sofa and watched television.

His sister, Bai Ying, was packing the things that her brother-in-law had broken when he returned last night. Broken porcelain pieces were piled up by the sofa. The scraping sound was very ear-piercing, as if she was cutting her ear with a knife.

The soup Bai Yi had made for her sister was still under the gauze net and had not been touched at all.

“Sis, at least eat something.” Bai Yi took the broom from Bai Ying and told her to eat.

“I woke up at five to make it for you. You have to drink some to nourish your body.”

Bai Ying was shocked at first. “Isn’t the dance studio open? There’s no morning class today?”

Bai Yi shook her head. She looked at her sister’s still swollen eyes and felt her heart ache. “No, I had some things to do. Sis, did you cry again?”

“No, Little Yi. Don’t take your brother-in-law’s words to heart. He’s just under a lot of pressure. It hasn’t been easy for him to support our family either. Don’t worry and continue living here…”

Bai Yi looked at her sister’s humble explanation and felt even more sad.

Her sister and brother-in-law had both graduated from Hai City University. Her sister had studied marketing, and her brother-in-law had studied programming. The two of them had been a match made in heaven in university, making everyone envious.

After graduation, they went to a first-tier company in Hai City. Both of them would have originally become the core of that company, but her sister resigned for her family and became a housewife at home.

When he proposed, her brother-in-law’s words, “I’ll take care of you”, were so moving.

As a bystander, Bai Yi was also moved to tears.

But in the blink of an eye, two years had passed. Her sister had gone from a beautiful executive to a sloppy and fat housewife, and her brother-in-law had become the director of the company’s R&D department.

No matter how much they loved each other back then, only cold words and violence were left now.

A couple who loved each other would come to this point, let alone her and a stranger.