CH 132

Shen Yi shook his head and changed the subject with ease: “I’m not looking at anything.”

He was looking at the jewelry store behind the glass window. There were two students still wearing school uniforms who had walked in, hand in hand.

The boy was brash and arrogant, there was the most ostentatious confidence of youth on his face. As he held the girl’s hand tightly, it was unsure what he said to her.

The girl blushed, and after some hesitation, she picked the ring that was the simplest.

Shen Yi did not see it, he only heard the teenager, in high spirits, pointing to a row of rings in the counter, and saying: “Choose one, in the future you’ll marry me.”

The journey between him and Lu Wanwan was not a complete success. Back then, when they got married, it was Lu Wanwan who had asked him if he wanted to get married, at a moment when she was drunk.

Shen Yi did not propose to her, and they never even had a wedding ceremony.

Thinking about it, he couldn’t say that he had no regrets.

Lu Wanwan also noticed the two students, she covered her mouth and smiled: “That boy is so overbearing oh, I really like him.”

The school uniforms they were wearing were exactly the same as theirs back then.

Lu Wanwan also remembered that it seemed like she had been the one to first propose marriage to Shen Yi in this lifetime. That day, she had dragged Shen Yi and her group of foxes and scoundrels like friends to drink together, they played a card game to decide who would drink.

However, it seemed that she had run out of luck and was always the one to drink.

Shen Yi fared well for himself, his cards were surprisingly good, for two or three games, he never had to drink a glass.

Lu Wanwan drank until her consciousness turned blurry, hanging on Shen Yi, the more she looked at him, the more she thought him good-looking. She was hugging him in front of those friends, as well as kissing him and nibbling him.

Shen Yi’s temper was also good, from the beginning to the end, he actually did not push her away, and let her act recklessly with him.

Lu Wanwan hiccupped, the smell of wine coming from her mouth was actually not very pleasant to smell. She looked at the man with drunken eyes, held his face with both her hands and lowered her voice to discuss with him, “You marry me, alright?”

Shen Yi remained silent.

She continued, “My family is very rich, I can support you.”

“You marry me, okay?”

Shen Yi took her drunken words seriously and said one word: “Alright.”

The next day, when Lu Wanwan woke up, she already did not remember what had happened the night before, much less the words she had said.

After learning from her best friend what she had done the night before, Lu Wanwan wanted to dig a hole and bury herself in it.

She wanted to tell Shen Yi that her drunken words should not be taken seriously, but Shen Yi placed his ID card and hukou on the table and looked at her calmly as he asked, “When do you plan on going? Today is Monday, the Civil Affairs Bureau is open.”

Back then, Lu Wanwan couldn’t find it in her heart to say the words anymore.

It would make it seem like she was deliberately playing with his feelings.

When they were getting their marriage certificate, she even made a joke.

When the person of the Civil Affairs Bureau asked if their marriage was consensual, Lu Wanwan replied mischievously, “Not consensual.”

At that time, Shen Yi’s eyes turned ice-cold.

Their marriage was a muddled mess.

Anyway, it was not the same as ordinary people.

For lunch, Shen Yi tasted a bite of bullfrog before decisively putting down his chopsticks, not eating anymore.

Shen Yi was not hungry. Besides, he was still thinking about some matters in his mind.

He remembered that there was a jewelry brand abroad, each ring was unique, the style was beautiful, and their diamonds were exquisitely polished.

This didn’t seem bad, Lu Wanwan would most likely like it as well.

***

The days were dull and boring.

Shen Yi had never mentioned the topic of moving out of the Lu family’s villa and Lu Wanwan also did not mention it. She had mixed feelings about the apartment where the two of them had lived for many years.

That place had imprisoned her freedom for many years.

Lu Wanwan’s mother completely treated Shen Yi as the son-in-law of the Lu family, she also had developed feelings for her grandson during these several months so if the young couple wanted to move back out, she would not be happy about it.

The couple could leave, but the child had to stay.

Lu Wanwan and Shen Yi’s son had a not very nice sounding name, he was called Shen Manli.

There was no special meaning, it was purely because the characters were pleasant to their eyes.

Shen Manli also had a nickname given by his grandmother, he was called Fanfan.

Whenever he saw the adults sitting in the dining room eating, his lazy personality would change, and he would start to babble.

Thinking that her grandson also wanted to eat, Lu Wanwan’s mother was so amused by his mischievous look that she laughed out loud.

Everyone in the Lu family was very fond of Fanfan. The more Lu Zhouzhi looked at his little nephew, the more he liked him.

Before, the children of their relatives cried so much that it seemed like they could overturn the roof of the house, their ears were almost deafened by their crying, but his little nephew was very behaved, he rarely cried and wasn’t extremely curious like other children.

He just laid in his own crib and, as long as he was given a toy, he could play on his own.

Every evening, it was enough to carry him for a walk for thirty minutes.

In the end, the task of taking the child outside to breathe fresh air, naturally, fell on Shen Yi’s head.

After spending some time with the child, Shen Yi found that he did not dislike the child that much and he also did not look at him as coldly as before.

TL’s note : we’re almost at the end of the main story, there’s an epilogue after but I’m not sure I will be translating it, I’ll have to re-read it to decide, but I’m getting bored of this novel and I want to start a new project