Chapter Twenty-Three: The Result of No Way Out
"What you need to do is to be my wife, go back to my father for a meal every ten days or half a month, be by my side when I need it, and play the role of a loving husband and wife with me. β
Hearing that she was going to play the role of a loving couple, Tian Xiaorui was a little unhappy: "No, no matter how good-looking you are, I can't be in love with you...... You're spending too much...... All day long, I either hugged this woman or hugged that woman......"
Li Wenchuan gritted his teeth, pushed away the chair and stood up: "Since we can't talk about it, I won't talk about it." β
He didn't look at her anymore, and had gone upstairs casually, as if he had just gotten with her about the weather today.
"Then can I go back?" Tian Xiaorui asked timidly as she lay on the staircase.
"Whatever. A lazy voice came from upstairs, as if he didn't even have to answer her.
Tian Xiaorui came out of Li Wenchuan's villa dejectedly, still wearing the same white overalls, but it was already dirty and messy.
Rubbing her hair, Tian Xiaorui kicked the stones on the ground in annoyance, everything from yesterday to today is like a dream, suddenly, she became the heroine of the city's grandest wedding, and suddenly, she wants to become a loving couple with a man who has seen him for no more than 24 hours, how do you think, what a dream.
When Cinderella wears glass slippers, she just meets the prince at the ball and dances, and the turn is not as big as her own.
Li Wenchuan stood on the terrace on the top floor, watching Tian Xiaorui carry her small bag and leave his house dejectedly.
This situation surprised him.
Holding on to the railing of the white marble carving, Li Wenchuan's knuckles suddenly opened violently, he didn't understand, where did this little woman who was humble to the dust have the courage to refuse his proposal.
"Chuan Shao, the master's phone ......" The maid took the phone and came over carefully.
"Say I haven't gotten up yet. Angrily abandoning these words, Li Wenchuan turned around and entered the house and dialed Ah Biao's phone: "Go, put some pressure on that woman and get that woman to my side." β
"Yes, Chuan Shao. "Ah Biao has always been a firm follow-up to orders, and never asks anything.
Li Wenchuan was irritable, just now he was arrogant and did not continue to negotiate with Tian Xiaorui, but now that Tian Xiaorui is gone, he feels that he has retreated into a dead end.
His bride-to-be ran away and found a substitute bride, and all the newspapers and magazines in the city published his wedding to this substitute bride.
Now, even the substitute bride ran away early in the morning, where did he put Li Wenchuan's face...... Perhaps, the entertainment gossip will be undisciplined, and it will be said that he used to indulge excessively, so that the bride left early in the morning......
Face, face, this is the thing that the so-called upper-class people value the most.
He is ambiguous with other women all day long, but this does not affect his face in the upper class, but it is just the affair of a rich and idle son, which man is not romantic.
However, the bride-to-be ran away and found a substitute bride, and even the substitute bride dumped him, which is the most fatal place.
What dignity, self-confidence, prestige, charisma...... All the things that a man should have were torn to pieces, which was unacceptable to Li Wenchuan.
Originally, getting married was a matter of covering people's ears, but he was just using this marriage to achieve his goal, so it was a good thing to be able to marry the ideal woman in his mind, but he didn't reject marrying the woman in his mind if he couldn't marry another woman.
His ideals and ambitions have not yet been realized, and he must not be beaten back to his original place because of such an incident, and there will never be a day to turn over.
Tian Xiaorui first went back to the cake shop where she was.
The cake shop is the oldest shop in the city, and it is said that it has a history of 50 years and is a well-known time-honored brand, which is also the qualification to make a wedding cake for Li Wenchuan this time.
But now, the 50-year-old brand has closed, and who let the pillar of the cake shop, her master, actually accept the high commission of others, become an internal ghost, and transfer the bride for others.
Tian Xiaorui stood in front of the store, so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth, the time-honored store was closed because of Li Wenchuan's words?
stood for a while, until the guy in the shop next door told her that the store would not be open for a while, Tian Xiaorui accepted this fact and went back to her rental cabin.
The people who shared the house together were very surprised when they saw her: "Tian Xiaorui, didn't you say that you have married a rich man?
"Nothing. Tian Xiaorui denied it.
"Nothing. The man had already taken the newspaper and pointed it out to her: "Look, all the newspapers are this news today, I can't see it, you are so lucky to marry such a rich man......"
Tian Xiaorui smiled wryly, didn't know how to explain, passed her, and entered the house.
To her surprise, her shop was withdrawn, and all her toiletries and clothes were gone.
"What's going on?" she looked at her roommate, surprised.
"I thought that if you married a rich man, you wouldn't come back, and I would throw away all those poor and things for you. β
Tian Xiaorui sat on the steps on the side of the road, not knowing where to go.
The store where she worked was closed, and the rented cottage was coaxed, and for a while, she became a homeless person.
The worst thing was that her stepfather actually called her, and on the phone, he was extraordinarily polite: "Xiaorui, come home." β
Although across the phone, Tian Xiaorui could still intuitively see her stepfather's smirk.
usually doesn't have a good face for her, and has always thought she was a drag oil bottle, but now, it is not good to call her so politely and ask her to go back.
"What's the matter? I'm very busy right now. Tian Xiaorui lied and didn't want to go home.
"That's the case, Xiaorui, the Li stonemason from the village over there came to propose, I want you to come back and give this family matter...... The male should get married, and the female should marry......" The stepfather coaxed her with a smirk on his face.
Tian Xiaorui had goosebumps inexplicably, Li Stonemason, the bachelor who was almost forty years old, was about to be her father.
"I won't come back, I won't marry ......" Tian Xiaorui resolutely objected.
"I can't help you, all these years, your mother took you to marry me, I have raised you all these years, do you dare not marry me?"
Tian Xiaorui didn't speak, and only said half-loudly: "I will work to earn money and pay you back slowly." β
You know, your brother is sick, waiting for the money to enter the hospital, I can wait, his illness can't wait, just like that, you come back and marry Li Mason, he agreed, he wants to give 100,000 yuan of savings as a bride price, I want this money to give your brother a doctor......
Tian Xiaorui wants to cry, for the bride price of 100,000 yuan, she needs to marry a forty-year-old bachelor who is enough to be her father?
However, my brother's heart disease needs to be treated, which is indeed an indisputable fact, and if he doesn't do it well, he may die at any time.
"That's it, you buy a ticket and come back immediately...... If you don't come back today, I'll come to the city tomorrow and escort you back in person......" The stepfather put down the words fiercely and put the phone aside.
Tian Xiaorui sat dumbfounded, her brain was blank, she really wanted to go back and marry that old bachelor, and then stay there for the rest of her life to open the mountain and quarry with him?
She seemed to see that her stepfather really chased him to the city, escorted him home viciously, and forced him to marry, but he smiled with the 100,000 bride price.
It's so scary, it's scary, Tian Xiaorui shook her head, refusing to accept this kind of thing.
She suddenly thought of the agreement that Li Wenchuan gave her in the morning, although they are all people she doesn't like, but the one-year period is still worth it compared to a lifetime, not to mention that he said that he will pay for his younger brother's medical treatment, and he will give himself another amount of money, do what he likes, open a store, or go abroad to continue his studies, it is up to her.
Tian Xiaorui clenched her fists, as if hope had been revealed to her ahead.
She almost ran to Li Wenchuan's villa, she was afraid that time would be too late, she was afraid that Li Wenchuan would change her decision, which was related to her future fate.
Li Wenchuan stood on the terrace, holding a telescope and looking ahead, when he saw Tian Xiaorui's running figure appear in sight, his hanging heart let go.
For the first time in this life, he used dishonorable means to force a woman to stay by his side.
But he didn't choose, he knew that his fate was tied to her at this moment, and he didn't realize that in the years to come, his fate and hers would be so closely linked and entangled.
Handing the binoculars to the people next to him, he turned around and went downstairs, with a condescending and arrogant look, he went down to greet Tian Xiaorui, he had to let her know that it was she who came back to beg him now, not that he had to ask her.
His legs were elegantly folded together, flipping through the newspaper at will, until the subordinate brought Tian Xiaorui in, he was still idle and casual.
Li Wenchuan...... No, Mr. Li, I want to ask, does the agreement you told me in the morning still count?" she asked him as she stood in front of him and felt a little inferior.
In my heart, I secretly blamed myself, which tendon I was so funny in the morning, and I didn't agree to such a big good thing immediately.
Li Wenchuan's gaze skimmed from the newspaper and moved to her: "I don't remember much about the agreement you said......
Unexpectedly, only four hours later, he forgot, is everything just playing on himself?
Tian Xiaorui's face suddenly turned red, and the hope she saw was just a mirage?
Li Wenchuan squinted slightly, staring at her expression, he had to be in a high position to suppress her as soon as he came, so that she would feel that she had to be her, and she would go to the sky in the future.
However, he did not really want to mess with her, so he saved himself as he had done in the morning, and went away againβfor these poor people, sometimes self-esteem was the most important thing they valued, fragile but precious.