Chapter 9

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Wen Xi had a sleepless night. She kept her eyes open until dawn. She wanted to rest, but as soon as she closed her eyes, the anxiety and depression that appeared in her heart for no reason would make her open her eyes again in pain. This mental and psychological exhaustion had made Wen Xi very uncomfortable.

In addition, she had been suffering from a low fever since yesterday morning, so she was a little out of energy. This was also the reason why she put on light makeup when she went out today. It was to cover the dark circles under her eyes and the haggardness on her face!

Therefore, Uncle Lin’s guess actually wasn’t wrong. Wen Xi was sick, but no one else cared about it except for her.

She had always been living like this in the Chen family. She was used to it.

As he listened to Head Nurse Yang’s report, Chen Ze quietly looked away from Wen Xi. He didn’t miss the argument between Wen Xi and Ding Min. Moreover, he was even the first to notice Wen Xi sneaking in from the door.

On Chen Ze’s unusually indifferent and cold face, it was impossible to see what he was thinking. Only those who understood him very well could see some of his doubts and puzzlement from the gloominess and darkness in his eyes.

He also noticed Wen Xi’s slight strangeness. He did not really care about the small things that happened at home just now, but when he thought about Wen Xi’s expression and posture when she was replying to Ding Min a few minutes ago, he felt that something was wrong with her.

He was a very smart person. After connecting what had happened this morning and the incident just now, he came to a conclusion he was confident was correct. He thought Wen Xi was angry at him again.

And the reason was probably because he didn’t agree to Wen Xi’s proposal a few days ago. It was last weekend when they returned to the Wen family to visit the Wen couple, who were Wen Xi’s parents.

It had already been almost a year since he married Wen Xi, but Chen Ze had never addressed Wen Liang and Xiao Ping as his parents. He only addressed them as Uncle and Auntie out of courtesy. Moreover, the number of times he had returned to the Wen family with Wen Xi was pitifully small!

In Chen Ze’s eyes, his marriage with her was just an absurd and laughable ‘rush of happiness’.

Chen Ze was an outstanding realist. He did not believe that such an old-fashioned and feudalistic method in arranging marriage could really save the old man’s family. The reason why he cooperated was only to satisfy his final wish! He felt that in this life, if he was destined not to be with Bai Lin, then whoever he married in the end didn’t seem to matter.

Even if it wasn’t Wen Xi, it could still be Zhang Xi or Li Xi. To Chen Ze, they were essentially no different, because they were not Bai Lin!

That was what he thought from the beginning.

He felt that this was the result of the old master’s insistence, the marriage his family could not resist. This was what bore fruit from the old master’s last wish on his deathbed, which was to see his only grandson start a family!

Chen Ze’s career was not something that he had to worry too much about. On the other hand, he had made many people in the Chen family worry so much about this ‘marriage’. The long-distance love between Chen Ze and Bai Lin was very romantic and beautiful, but in Chen Zhen’s eyes, it was just an anecdote of his grandson’s frivolousness when he was young.

He had met Bai Lin once before. However, it was also after that meeting that he told Chen Ze, “This woman is frivolous and heartless, she’s not the right woman for you!”

After that, Chen Zhen had directly stopped Bai Lin from marrying into the Chen family. However, he was now a deceased old man, so how could he interfere with the affairs of the living?

There was a stubbornness in Chen Ze’s heart, and he refused to believe the old man’s words. He did not love Wen Xi, and a melon that was forcefully twisted would not turn out sweet. Some things would not work no matter how hard a person tried. Moreover, Chen Zhen was a person who had passed away, and he really could not do anything about what Chen Ze, a living person, thought.

His marriage with Wen Xi was destined to not last long. No matter how much Old Master Chen wanted to turn the tides, he was gone now. He had no power to change anything.