CH 29.3

Cheng Yuelin was silent, and he raised an eyebrow and looked at her with his peach blossom eyes. He had a satirical smile. “Ruan Yingying, don’t be so full of yourself. If I can get this question right by the time you return, will you agree to a condition?”

Ruan Zhiyin furrowed her brow and said, “By the time I return? How would I know if you went to find someone to solve it?”

“Okay, then how about you find another question and give it to me in a month? Then, if I am able to solve it, will you agree to my condition?” Cheng Yuelin’s voice was lazy, and it was rare that he would negotiate with her.

Ruan Zhiyin paused and did not respond.

Cheng Yuelin laughed lightly and his words contained a sneer. “Ruan Yingying, are you too scared to bet with me?”

Maybe the teenager’s words had provoked her, or maybe she was still a little angry. She was silent for a moment before Ruan Zhiyin looked at him and said, “What if you lose? Then what?”

Cheng Yuelin continued to support himself with his forearms while he rested his cheeks on his palms. He smiled as he looked at her.

After a pause, the teenager’s lazy voice slowly floated into Ruan Zhiyin’s ears. “Then, I guess I will have to run ten laps around the fields, so that young miss Ruan’s temper can be soothed.”

Eventually, Cheng Yuelin did manage to successfully solve the tough question that Ruan Zhiyin had picked out. So she did not have a choice but to agree to his condition and she would tutor him between classes and during the self-study hours on the weekend.

Speaking of which, he had truly worked hard during that time.

Cheng Yuelin improved extremely quickly in everything except civics. At that time, he had said that he could not stand looking at the extremely dry and convoluted laws explained in the textbook.

But now, he can read all those boring terms and conditions in these documents with ease.

As Ruan Zhiyin returned from her daydreams, she could not help but praise him, “Cheng Yuelin, the present you… seemed to have changed for the better.”

Cheng Yuelin’s eyes hid his emotions. He nodded nonchalantly, his tone was calm. “Oh, really?”

“Don’t worry, in the future… you will as well.”

Even though she was still not very willing to show weakness or even ask for help, he believed that one day, she will.

Ruan Zhiyin did not understand the meaning of his words. She thought her words of praise must have conjured up this small burst of arrogant flaunting, so she shook her head and hid her laughter.

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On Sunday, Ruan Zhiyin finally completed the work that had been dragging her to and fro and finally had some time to relax.

As she had not gone out with her friends for a long time, she had agreed to Ye Yanchu’s and Gu Linlang’s invitations and headed to the restaurant that they would often frequent.

They had a private room, which gave them a quiet environment. The table was covered with a clean and elegant tablecloth and it was covered with exquisite appetizers.

The topic for today was not just a regular catch-up between good friends, but was actually the drama that had happened the day before.

Ye Yanchu did not dare to drive, so she arrived last.

As soon as she pushed through the door, she directly flew to Gu Linlang’s side and excitedly asked, “Linlang, quickly tell me. That Miss Jiang, how did she leave with another man in front of all the guests?”

Yesterday, Gu Linlang had gone to the Hilton Hotel to attend Jiang Anzheng and Miss Jiang* engagement ceremony.

*The two ‘Jiang’ are written with different characters

Even though it had been just a day, but what occurred during the engagement ceremony had already spread throughout Lanqiao’s wealthy families.

After all, everyone loved to watch drama.

Gu Linlang had long been unable to hold back her inner excitement. She put down the coffee in her hand and passionately shared the events with her best friends.

“Qin Xiang and that Miss Jiang are university classmates and I had heard her say a few things.”

“That Miss Jiang, is the daughter of the master of the Jiang family and his previous wife. Family relationships are complicated in rich families. So you can imagine the relationship between Miss Jiang, her father, and her step-mother.”

“This time, it was Jiang Anzheng’s family that wanted to form a marriage alliance with Miss Jiang’s family. So when the Jiang husband and wife looked into Jiang Anzheng and found out that he was always helping Lin Jingfei without a thought, they were not willing to marry their own daughter to him. So they decided to put Miss Jiang into the engagement instead.”

After speaking to this point, Gu Linlang suddenly paused.

It was only when Ruan Zhiyin gave her a ‘go on’ look with her eyes, did she finally give a satisfied smile and continued.

“As for Miss Jiang, she already had someone that she liked, so she obviously did not agree. Miss Jiang had also liked this person since her university days, but she found that that person was too difficult to chase, so she gave up and leaving to study abroad.”

“They do say that distance makes the heart grow fonder and when Miss Jiang returned to the country this year, she reunited with her first love and once again fell head over heels for him again. But because she had already failed to start a relationship with him before, she did not believe she would succeed.”

“On one hand, she led her first love down an ambiguous relationship, while at the same time she had to dress up and act meek for her blind date with Jiang Anzheng, which caused the news of her engagement to spread quickly.”