CH 24.3

Ning Qingqing recognized the other party as Shen Zhiqian’s friend, and she had met him several times at the clubhouse before.

It seemed that the people in his circle didn’t know about her breaking up with Shen Zhiqian, but Ning Qingqing felt that she had no obligation to explain.

After all, it was unlikely that she would have any contact with these people in the future.

“Sorry, you may have recognized the wrong person, I’m not your sister-in-law.” Ning Qingqing smiled politely, “Excuse me.”

After finishing speaking, she walked to Gu Youchen’s side.

Chen Yue watched her turn around and couldn’t help muttering to himself, “I didn’t mistake!”

The more he looked, the more confused he became, but he saw Ning Qingqing talking to a man. When the man turned around, Chen Yue recognized that it was Shen Zhiqian’s rival, Gu Youchen.

“She really isn’t sister-in-law?” He murmured suspiciously, “After all if she was sister-in-law, it’s impossible that she’ll be with Gu Youchen…”

Still very puzzled, he picked up his phone and secretly took a picture of Ning Qingqing.

After sending the photo to Shen Zhiqian, Chen Yue asked, “Brother Qian, did I really recognize the wrong person? Doesn’t she look too much like sister-in-law?”

In Shen Group’s office, Shen Zhiqian had just finished a meeting.

After not sleeping all night, his head hurt a bit. He heard the notification sound from his phone, so he picked it up and looked at it casually.

The moment Shen Zhiqian saw the photo, his eyes froze. Even without zooming in on the picture, he recognized Ning Qingqing at a glance… and Gu Youchen was beside her.

The man was holding a box of beef in his hand and was talking to Ning Qingqing. Ning Qingqing looked up at him with a sweet smile on her lips.

He could recognize the environment at a glance, this was a supermarket.

Shen Zhiqian felt that the mental expectations he had just established this morning were in danger of collapsing at any time.

Although going to the supermarket didn’t prove anything, if they were just a plastic couple there would be no need to cook at home, and thus there would be no need to go shopping together.

Shen Zhiqian tried hard to convince himself——

It was Gu Youchen who deliberately confused Ning Qingqing, he just wanted to delay the time until the flash divorce.

And Gu Youchen, who was being imagined by Shen Zhiqian as delaying time, selected various ingredients and pushed the shopping cart to check out.

Ning Qingqing walked beside him, passing a shelf selling chocolates; she saw a kind of soft chocolate that she liked very much.

She had lost weight recently, so she could probably eat a little.

Also–

If the man next to her liked sweets, maybe he liked chocolate too?

Ning Qingqing stopped in front of the shelf and chose two flavors she liked, one was original milk chocolate and the other was hazelnut.

The hazelnut flavor was placed a bit high, and she was about to reach for it, but another hand helped her take it before she could.

Ning Qingqing looked up, saw the hazelnut flavor in Gu Youchen’s hand, and asked, “Do you like chocolate?”

Gu Youchen nodded, “I usually eat the original flavor.”

“Then let’s get another original flavor.” Ning Qingqing took another box from the shelf below, and said to Gu Youchen, “Try the hazelnut flavor too later, I think it’s quite delicious.”

“Do you want to try coconut and sweet orange?” Gu Youchen saw that there were these two kinds in the top row.

“Ah? I haven’t tried those before. They should be new varieties.” Ning Qingqing looked up.

Gu Youchen took a box of each, except for the dark chocolate, and put all of them into the shopping cart.

Ning Qingqing walked behind him and muttered, “I’m doomed, I’m going to get fat.”

“Getting fatter is perfect, you’re too thin right now.” Gu Youchen said in a natural tone, “If you’re still thin after marrying me, it’ll be my responsibility.”

Oh, why is this comment a bit…

The two went home together, Ning Qingqing arranged her clothes and things in the guest room, Gu Youchen put away the groceries, and washed and prepared what would be eaten tonight.

Seeing that Ning Qingqing had finished, he took out a stack of real estate information sheets from his briefcase and called Ning Qingqing over, “Qingqing, take a look and see which one you are interested in.”

Ning Qingqing sat next to him, took the information, and began to read it.

Her gaze was attracted to one of the villa communities. The whole community had a classical garden design, and the exterior of the villa also had a pavilion.

Seeing her gaze land on it, Gu Youchen explained, “This can be done after the land is purchased. The construction company will build the villa based on the size of the land we buy and our own design blueprints if we want, so the appearance of each villa will be different.”

Ning Qingqing nodded. The design examples here reminded her of her water-side hometown in Jiangnan and the years when she lived with her grandmother.

She looked at the address and found that the villa area was not far from Ning Venture Capital, and it only took about 20 minutes to drive.

There was already a preference in her heart, so Ning Qingqing was a little less enthusiastic as she looked at the other real estate pre-constructions.

Beside her, Gu Youchen accompanied her to read everything, and said, “Qingqing, which one do you like? Let’s share our opinions.”

Ning Qingqing raised her eyes, “Which one do you like?”

Gu Youchen flipped to the garden design, “I think this one is pretty good. It just so happens that I have a friend who specializes in architectural design. If we buy this one, we can ask him for help.”

Ning Qingqing didn’t expect that what she liked was also what Gu Youchen liked, so her eyes lit up, “I like this one too.”

“Then let’s decide on this one tentatively.” Gu Youchen said directly, “Shall we go to see it now?”

Seeing that he acted so swiftly and decisively, Ning Qingqing couldn’t help commenting, “In such a hurry?”

Gu Youchen smiled and said meaningfully, “If you like it, you have to fight for it, otherwise you will regret it if it’s snatched away.”

He recalled the scene when he met Ning Qingqing in that small town.

All because he was one step late in taking the initiative, he had lost her and couldn’t find her later. When they saw each other again, she was already Shen Zhiqian’s girlfriend.

Everyone said that she and Shen Zhiqian had a very good relationship. He had also seen them once when they were together. Seeing her smiling happily, he didn’t bother her anymore.

It wasn’t until two years after returning while he was driving past the financial street that day and saw her feeling sad all alone that he realized that she and Shen Zhiqian were not as happy together as he had heard.

Since that was the case then he had to actively fight for it.

She broke up and he married her.

No hesitation, and no regrets in the future.

The author has something to say:

…bought a house and lives together…

Shen Zhiqian [tries to be calm]: I’ll squat1. I’ll squat here until they flash divorce.

…they’re having a wedding…

Shen Zhiqian [pretending not to cry]: Keep squatting, a wedding doesn’t mean anything.

…having a baby…

Shen Zhiqian: Can’t squat anymore? ? ?

Passerby: Brother, your legs still aren’t numb from all that squatting?