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The two of them remained in the car for a long time without speaking again.

"Mengmeng." He Mingxuan turned around and looked at Yu Meng, gently covering the back of her hand. "Find yourself a strong shield, I can't bear for you to face this alone."

"What do you mean?"

"Unfriendly?" Yu Meng frowned. "They're not engaged until next month, how could that be …"

He Mingxuan laughed: "You and I are also getting engaged next month, then are our relations with each other as the news reports say?"

Yu Meng didn't say anything. She didn't know what to say either.

"Mengmeng, the first thing you thought of today was me …" He Mingxuan asked carefully: "This proves that I still have a special meaning to you."

"Then do you want to try and accept me?"

Yu Meng looked at He Mingxuan, the complicated look in his eyes disappearing, all that was left was to be cautious in front of his beloved, to make people's hearts ache for him.

"I always felt that you shouldn't be like this." Yu Mengmeng took a long time before saying, "You are so outstanding in my heart, so outstanding that I feel that you are not worth it to be with me."

He Mingxuan opened his mouth, but Yu Meng quickly stopped him, "Don't say anything for now, listen to me."

"But then I thought, if I leave you, you won't be able to find anything else to be happy about."

He Mingxuan laughed out loud when he heard this.

"Whatever it is, it's the thing that makes you happiest when you're with me right now." Yu Meng said, "I'll just treat it as repaying you."

"Seriously..." He Mingxuan smacked his lips. "A good love story is being told by you like it's a trade, it makes me feel like forcing you to do it." He paused, and then a satisfied smile appeared on his face. "But I'm still very happy."

"As long as you agree to stay with me, I can take the rest slowly."

"You're even stupider than I am."

"Mengmeng, let's advance the engagement date, okay?" He Mingxuan said in anticipation, "I can't wait any longer."

"It's good that you're here."

As Yu Meng looked at the man in front of her, she didn't feel the awkwardness she expected.

The price of compromise with this world was not as serious as she had thought. Marriage and love, did they have a relationship with each other? In any case, her marriage with Tan Yubai all those years ago might just be a one-sided wish.

Now, even if he made the same mistake again, it didn't matter.

Yu Meng didn't care at first, she just wanted to protect herself and live happily.

He Mingxuan changed the engagement date to the 28th of the end of the month. When there were still about ten days until that date, He Mingxuan decided to pay a visit to Yu Clan.

Yu Meng's attitude was quite awkward.

"I don't want to go back."

"I'm already getting engaged to you. It's only right for me to fight for your father-in-law's opinion."

Yu Meng lowered her head and pursed her lips, "Then you go, I don't want to go."

"How come it's the first time I've seen my father-in-law without a fiancée?"

Yu Meng tilted her head. "But I don't know how to face them." The last night was still fresh in her mind, and she didn't want to face the family.

"I'm here." He Mingxuan said, "This time, it's not only a visit, there's also something else."

"What is it?"

"You'll know when you get there."

Helpless, He Mingxuan continued to keep her in suspense, but Yu Meng had no choice but to compromise. When she followed He Mingxuan to Jinxing Garden, she turned out to be the one with the weird expression on her face.

"This is your house."

"That was before."

The doorbell rang. When Uncle Chen opened the door, he was obviously overjoyed to see that it was Yu Meng.

"Eldest Miss, you're back!" Then he saw He Mingxuan: "This is …"

"Hello, I'm He Mingxuan, Mengmeng's fiance."

"Oh... You're the one and only heir to the He Group mentioned on TV, He Mingxuan … "

"It's me."

"Quick, please come in."

Yu Zheng was on the second floor reading in his study. After hearing the notice from Uncle Chen, he came down after a while.

Yu Meng sat on the sofa with He Mingxuan, while Shen Bijun followed his down the stairs.

"Why are you suddenly here? Why didn't you say anything?" Shen Bijun was still lying with a fake smile on her face, "We are not prepared either."

Standing in the living room, she looked like her eyes were about to fall out of their sockets when she saw He Mingxuan.

"Is this the He Clan's Young Master? "He really is a genius."

Shen Bijun looked back and forth at the two people on the sofa, trying to figure something out.

"Hello, Uncle Yu." He Mingxuan stood up politely and extended his hand towards Yu Zheng. He did not pay any attention to Shen Bijun at all: "I am He Mingxuan, Yu Meng's fiance."

Yu Zheng only looked at He Mingxuan seriously, and shook his hand without responding.

"Alright, sit down." he said.

"What brings you here today?"

He Mingxuan went straight to the point, "Mengmeng and I have decided to hold the engagement banquet on the 28th.

Yu Zheng replied without even raising his eyes, "I don't agree."

Yu Meng was startled, she did not expect Yu Zheng to reject her so straightforwardly.

"Is it convenient for Uncle Yu to explain it to me?"

"Sir He, this generation of Little Meng doesn't know a lot of things, but I've come from the past. It's hard for the He Clan to not make people wary when doing things from the past."

He Mingxuan immediately understood and laughed: "I know what Uncle Yu is referring to. Maybe my father used to have a bit of a dark history, but it was all because of young people's insensible mistakes. All these years, our family's business has pretty much stabilized, at least in this city, no one has been able to contend with our family."

"Mistakes can be covered up, but those who make mistakes are not always forgiven so easily." Yu Zheng heaved a long sigh: "Although my Yu Family has declined, in the end, we only have this kind of daughter. Putting everything aside, how can I be at ease with a man who had just come to visit his parents before the engagement ceremony?"

"It's my fault."

"So, you can leave. For the time being, I won't agree to your marriage."

With that, Yu Zheng stood up and prepared to go upstairs.

Yu Meng sat to the side, quietly listening. The more she listened, the more her heart ached. She was unable to see through her role in the Yu Family.

She gripped the hem of her dress, her fingertips turning white.

He Mingxuan gently shook her finger, indicating that she was fine.

He Mingxuan immediately followed and stood up with Yu Zheng, facing the back of the hunchbacked man, he opened his mouth:

"Uncle Yu, do you really think Yu Meng is your own daughter?"

Yu Zheng stopped.

"Do you really think that because she is your own daughter, she shouldn't object to our marriage?"

"What do you mean?" Shen Bijun stood out first, her thin brows slightly raised: "Child, why are you speaking so shamelessly!"

"Listen to what I have to say first. It's not too late to decide after that."

Yu Zheng hesitated for a bit, but in the end, he still returned to the sofa.

He Mingxuan said confidently, "That year, news of his bankruptcy spread and the outside world was denouncing Mengmeng. As a man, you did not step forward to protect your daughter …"

Before he could even finish her words, Shen Bijun had already stepped out and interrupted, "How can you say that? If you don't understand the situation, then don't presume to state it. How did the company fall because of Yu Meng marrying that hypocrite Tan Yubai? Of course she's responsible for her mistakes. "

He Mingxuan continued to speak neither hurriedly nor slowly, "It is precisely because I know the truth of the matter that I am willing to say this." His gaze was deep, and suddenly it was as sharp as an eagle's wolf's. "I believe that Auntie Shen definitely understands that Yu Meng should not have endured so much."

Shen Bijun's face turned white, her eyelashes trembled slightly, as though she was afraid of something.

In comparison, Yu Zheng was much calmer. "Continue."

"His own daughter was hurt in the marriage. The father didn't take care of her and instead chased her out of the house in a fit of rage." He Mingxuan's face was stern, with a smirk on his face, "Since that's the case, are you going to chop off Yu Fuyan's hand to show your fairness?"

Veins bulged on Yu Zheng's forehead, he gritted his teeth, and finally became angry: "He Mingxuan, enough is enough. There are some things that you should say, and some that you are not qualified to say. "

"Uncle Yu, don't be impatient. I'm not done yet." He Mingxuan maintained his calm smile. "I am only answering your question about me and my family."

"You only have five minutes."

"Enough." He Mingxuan continued: "Following what you said just now, you should have doted on and prepared your only daughter, right?"

He Mingxuan's words were sincere, but it was unknown if those who listened would understand it as sarcasm.

"So when she took on the responsibility of the company's decline, and worked hard to rebuild the company for herself, you must be heartbroken too, right?"

After saying that, Yu Zheng could not help but sigh.

In his eyes, there was finally a trace of helplessness, the softness of a father.

"Actually, I'm not too biased against the He family. I'm just worried that Xiao Meng will treat her marriage as a sacrifice in a business fight." The tone of Yu Zheng's words caused Yu Meng to vaguely realize that this man who was always like an unyielding stone, was really old: "I might support her searching for an ordinary man, but you are the only son of the She family, so you know what you will face in the future."

He Mingxuan thought for a while. "So I can give her even better ones."

Yu Zheng looked at He Mingxuan: "Do you know her?"

He Mingxuan replied with a question: "Do you understand?"

"Tell her what's better and what's better."

"She wants to do something with my help. I won't let her be bullied by anyone." He Mingxuan was saying that they should rebuild the business of the Yu's. Everyone knew that, and this was also what worried Yu Zheng the most. If they were to marry with this hope, this marriage would only harm Yu Meng.

He Mingxuan continued: "Not long after I return home, I also hope that the new project will be a collaboration with established enterprises, to increase my reputation." Even though Yu Zheng had said that earlier, he still did not shy away from cooperating. "The He and Yu Families combined, will only allow us to rise to the next level."

Yu Zheng's face was warm with anger, "You came today to talk about the engagement ceremony with Yu Meng, right?"

"Why is there a need to work together?"

"This is not a conflict." He Mingxuan said: "Perhaps you think this is a way to use marriage, but I want to tell you, the cleaner something is, the easier it is for it to be washed away and contaminated."

The current He Mingxuan had shocked Yu Zheng, and had even made Yu Meng see him in a new light.

This was another side of He Mingxuan that Yu Meng had never seen before. That was a He Mingxuan that completely lacked humanity.

"Do you think I can give you my daughter if you say so?"

"Only by saying so will you give me your daughter." He Mingxuan changed his smile to look at their situation better, "Why don't you change your perspective? If it wasn't for me, your daughter wouldn't have given up on buying shares in the Yu's. Moreover, if you take my advice and let the company grow stronger, you will have more ability to personally protect your daughter's happiness, and no one can control her anymore. "

"You agreed to let me marry Yu Meng. Right now, it's the best choice."