Chapter 147 - Some More Happiness

Jing Yichen massaged his forehead. He had been very angry about Jing Yiran’s constant interference in everything.

If he hadn’t shown Shangguan Rouxue’s picture to Xie Zhuojun, Xie Zhuojun would only have a good impression of Shangguan Rouxue in his mind. There wouldn’t have been such a huge crack in their relationship. They would have even begun with wedding preparations by now.

Jing Yichen’s goal had never been tearing them apart. Instead, he had been planning to get them married and let them live the rest of their lives in pain! That was the best revenge.

If Shangguan Rouxue left Xie Zhuojun now, then his life would be much simpler. That is not what Jing Yichen had planned out for him. He hadn’t seen through the woman as yet. Jing Yichen was definitely not going to allow Xie Zhuojun to quit halfway.

Wasn’t he so deeply in love with that vicious woman? Then he deserved to have her stay by his side, for the rest of his life.

“Tiger, put a hold on the roadblocks that we had planned for Xie Zhuojun. Allow his enterprise to develop. Let it do better. If his company ends up going bankrupt right now, Shangguan Rouxue is definitely not going to marry him. I have erased all proofs of Shangguan Rouxue’s rendezvous with various other men. Make sure we have all the proofs in our hands, so that Xie Zhuojun is unable to find anything, even if he looks for it. This will be our wedding present to him, when he gets married.”

“Alright, Master.”

Tiger smiled. What he enjoyed most of all was to teach people a lesson after they had wronged someone, intentionally. Xie Zhuojun must have annoyed Master or The Lady, in some way for him to be meted out with this treatment. His Master did come up with a good plan. Xie Zhuojun would probably curse his luck, when he learnt of the truth.

“Give them a hand, so they can get married as soon as possible. Undue delay may make them think twice about wanting to be together.” Jing Yichen said calmly.

Many truths would come to light after they got married. When they were busy arguing with each other, they would definitely have no time to trouble Shangguan Ning.

Tiger answered positively. Then he asked hesitantly, “Master, when Ji Minyu stepped down from her position of the mayor, the Lady’s father has become the acting mayor, thanks to the name dropping that he has been doing. He has been using your name to climb the political ladder. Do you think that the Lady should be informed?”

Jing Yichen already knew about Shangguan Zheng’s tactics. He was trying hard to gather allies, using Jing Yichen’s name to get more people to back him. Yichen didn’t want to bother with Zheng now.

The new Mayor for the city had already been chosen and it was not Shangguan Zheng. Although Jing Yichen had the capability to reserve the position of A city’s mayor for Shangguan Zheng, he still refused to help him.

This man’s pursuit of power had already corrupted his heart and mind. He would be willing to do anything to go higher.

Helping Shangguan Zheng would eventually harm Shangguan Ning.

Jing Yichen wanted to allow Shangguan Zheng to climb a little higher before letting him fall. The worse the fall, the more it would help to clear Shangguan Zheng’s mind.

“No need to bother the Lady, I understand what is going on. Let him be the representing Mayor. The position is only active for one month. After one month, the new Mayor will be announced. During this period, don’t bother to stop him, no matter what he says to the others.”

If he stopped Shangguan Zheng from using his name to gather more aides, Zheng would soon realize that the Mayor’s position was out of reach. Yichen knew that Zheng would be willing to cross mountains for the Mayor’s position. He would definitely scheme and plot against Shangguan Ning once more.

Besides, the fact that Shangguan Zheng had become acting mayor, would act as a propellant to the marriage of Xie Zhuojun and Shangguan Rouxue.

The atmosphere was lively and vibrant at the Family Shangguan villa. Shangguan Zheng was in the midst of a conversation with Xie Dongfeng, over a drink. He kept talking about his magnificent plans for the future, as if he had already become the Mayor.

Xie Dongfeng congratulated him. He also felt that Shangguan Zheng would be the mayor.

Generally speaking, an acting Mayor was the obvious choice to become the Mayor. There was only one month to go before the Mayor took the oath to office and Shangguan Zheng was the popular choice. Everything was going exactly the way it was meant to.

He glanced at his son who had been absent-minded for too often recently and then glanced at Shangguan Rouxue who looked perfect, sitting next to him. He finally made up his mind.

“Brother, let’s give ourselves some more reasons to celebrate. Look at our children. They have grown up now and are already engaged. Let’s pick a nice day and get the two kids married.”

Hearing what Xie Dongfeng had to say, all chatter at the table stopped. Then Xie Zhuojun’s mother Wang Lu added cheerfully, “That’s right. I really like Xue and I wish she could become my daughter-in-law really soon. When she gives birth to a chubby baby boy, I will think that I have achieved all the joys in my life.”

Yang Wenshu, who was sitting next to Shangguan Zheng, had a few ugly looking red scars all over her face and neck. She had covered it up with some make up, but it didn’t help much. She was so conscious of the way she looked that she not only wore makeup when she was due to meet someone, she also wore it when she went to bed. Her face looked haggard from wearing the makeup from so many hours on end.

She had refused to meet with anyone after she got the burn scars. She would not have come out to meet the visitors even today, had they not been Family Xie.

She had hated Shangguan Ning to the core and kept thinking about ways of taking revenge from her. Shangguan Zheng, for some reason, didn’t allow her to go out and had even warned her to not cause Shangguan Ning any further trouble.

She was just waiting for the right time to get even with Shangguan Ning. Till then, she kept all the bitterness to herself.

This was not the time to think of unpleasant incidents. She was in a good mood now.

She was happy that Family Xie had proposed the marriage out of their accord. For one thing, her daughter would find a good husband in Xie Zhuojun and be married into a family that was so rich and influential. For another, when Xie Zhuojun got married, Shangguan Ning was definitely going to be heartbroken. This is what pleased Yang Wengshu most of all.

Yang Wenshu didn’t have the faintest idea that Shangguan Ning was already married.

Shangguan Rouxue put down her chopsticks, blushed and said, “I am done with dinner. I need to get back to my room!”

She said this and turned around to rush to her room. Her cheeks were flushed with colour.

Wang Lu couldn’t help but laugh with joy.Shangguan Zheng and Xie Dongfeng also smiled and started to discuss the wedding.

Shangguan Zheng didn’t think that Xie Dongfeng would be of much help anyway, considering that he himself was almost the mayor. Yet, one couldn’t ignore that Family Xie was also a wealthy family with excellent prospects. Their company had recently received several large scale orders and business had been going on very smoothly.

With cash in hand, everything would work itself out. When he became the Mayor eventually, he was going to need a great deal of money to socialize and entertain. For that Xie Dongfeng was definitely going to offer a helping hand.

Shangguan Rouxue was an obedient daughter and had many achievements under her belt. It was a good thing that she would be married into Family Xie.

Shangguan Zheng still had some love for his younger daughter. It was just a matter of time before they got married. Now that the couple were already engaged, it would be better if the wedding was held as soon as possible. When the families came together as one, Xie Dongfeng would do more than expected anyway.

The wedding date couldn’t be decided on, right then, so the families came up with a general period within which they would prefer the couple to get married. They left the specific date to be decided on by some Feng Shui Master.

Xie Zhuojun felt no happiness hearing their discussion about his impending wedding. Instead, he felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

He had already burnt the picture that Jing Yiran had given to him, but the image of Shangguan Rouxue smiling, in another man’s arms, was still ingrained in his heart and mind. He also couldn’t forget that particular evening at Ji Lili’s birthday party when Shangguan Rouxue had bumped against Shangguan Ning, intentionally.