Guo ngyao had just left when Chen Feng hurriedly washed up and exited the hotel room. Only after reaching the first floor lobby did he call Wu ngting.
The two won had shared a room last night and chatted unwittingly for quite a while. Only when it was about to dawn did they each go to sleep, which was why they were just waking up now.
Upon receiving Chen Feng’s call, they got up to wash and then went downstairs to et with him.
All three of them were a bit hungry, so they first went to a nearby food stall for a al.
On the way back, Wu ngting told Chen Feng that she was going to return ho tomorrow, which unexpectedly delighted Chen Feng.
Although he didn’t sulk at the idea of a beautiful woman like Wu ngting accompanying him every day, he was, after all, at his hotown, and she was staying with his parents; it made him feel sowhat awkward.
After all, she wasn’t his girlfriend. To say that she was his sworn sister was stretching it, but having her living in his house all the ti definitely wasn’t right.
Although that’s what he thought, Chen Feng didn’t feel it was appropriate to voice it out loud. After the New Year, when he would return to Xiu Zhou, he still wanted to be able to eat the ho-cooked als she made.
"That’s really too bad. I was actually hoping to spend a few more days with you," Chen Feng said with feigned regret.
Wu ngting thought Chen Feng was genuinely reluctant to part with her, which made her a little happy.
It was understandable. After all, she was a beautiful woman who had been accompanying him on excursions. Naturally, it delighted him—there was no reason for him not to be happy.
"I can’t help it, my parents have been urging to co back these past few days. I made the excuse of visiting my old classmate, Xu Shujing, and I was supposed to return after three days, but it’s been several days now."
"Your parents are just worried about you. Besides, the New Year is coming up—they naturally want you to be ho."
"They want to force back for a blind date. The day after I just got ho, they arranged a blind date for —it’s really too much."
Wu ngting complained while covertly observing Chen Feng’s expression.
"Ah, you went on a blind date?" Chen Feng looked at her in mild surprise. "Why didn’t you ntion it before?"
"Why should I tell you about it? I ran away from ho to co here because I was afraid my family would arrange another blind date for ."
Chen Feng’s initial surprise had sowhat satisfied Wu ngting, but there was still so resentnt in her heart.
They were supposed to be boyfriend and girlfriend, having agreed to et each other’s parents at the end of the year. But now, things had turned out this way.
"So that’s what happened. And here I was thinking you missed ?" Chen Feng teased with a smile.
"Of course I missed you too." Wu ngting’s face reddened, but she stated this calmly.
From the back seat of the car, Lin Yujiao silently wondered who Chen Feng’s "girlfriend" really was.
During their overnight room-sharing talk, Wu ngting had candidly admitted to Lin Yujiao that she liked Chen Feng and shared so of their stories in Xiu Zhou, including how Chen Feng had kept another mistress in Xiu Zhou and had been boyfriends and girlfriends with her for a while.
Wu ngting confessed to Lin Yujiao with the clear intent of dispelling any misguided thoughts she might hold.
However, Wu ngting’s ploys were destined to be futile. Initially, Lin Yujiao had approached Chen Feng because she found his prospects appealing, and then sohow, she ended up being kept by him.
Belonging to an ordinary rural family and being a divorcee, she was rather pragmatic.
Since Chen Feng was willing to spend so much money on her, she couldn’t reject him unless she t a man who was better in every aspect than Chen Feng and was also willing to marry her. Otherwise, she was quite willing to be Chen Feng’s mistress for a year or two.
As for worries about aging and the difficulties of remarrying later, she genuinely wasn’t very concerned.
Aside from the fact that she would have her own little fortune by then, just based on her looks and being childless, remarrying a rich man would still be easy, even past thirty.
She had that confidence and assurance.
The only concern and difficulty was the pressure from her parents to remarry. Although her relationship with her mother wasn’t very good, and they frequently quarreled, her bond with her father was still decent.
Her father had indeed always doted on her since she was a child, even though he was truly greedy for money. When she got engaged, her parents had demanded a dowry of 128,000 yuan from Xu Jun’s family, but at the ti of the wedding, the dowry at most was worth 50,000 or 60,000. In other words, her parents pocketed 60,000 or 70,000 yuan but did not give it to her.
This beca a frequent grievance expressed by Xu Jun’s mother later on.
In their local marriage customs, it was acceptable for the bride’s family to keep so money, but it should be given to the daughter to manage.
Yet familial ties couldn’t be easily cut. No matter how much resentnt she held against her parents, she couldn’t truly ignore them or break off relations.
Therefore, if she delayed remarrying, she would inevitably suffer nagging from her parents, especially pressure to remarry her ex-husband, Xu Jun. This was her biggest headache.
But since Chen Feng had promised to give her parents 200,000 yuan as a filial gift, if he could actually deliver, she would indeed be willing to be Chen Feng’s mistress for two years.
Having made this decision, as for what would happen after two years, whether she could be "upgraded" or not, she hadn’t thought too much about it.
As long as Chen Feng genuinely gave her the money, she wasn’t actually concerned about him keeping other won or having a girlfriend.
Wu ngting’s hope for her to break ties with Chen Feng quickly really wasn’t her decision to make—it depended on Chen Feng’s.
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