Chapter 167: Confession
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At two-thirty in the afternoon, Luo Ziling and Yang Qingyin arrived one after another at a tea house about a kiloter from the school called “Qingxiang.”
After getting a private room and sitting down opposite each other, Luo Ziling asked Yang Qingyin with a smile, “What tea would you like to drink? Anything you’d like to eat? Don’t be shy, just pick sothing expensive.”
After chatting with Yang Qingyin for a bit, he went to ask the instructor for leave and surprisingly, the instructor granted it without even asking for a reason.
This took him by surprise, and he thought that maybe the instructor assud he was going to help treat soone again, so he didn’t dare to ask further.
“Junior Brother, let treat you to tea today to calm your nerves,” Yang Qingyin playfully looked at Luo Ziling sitting in front of her, “You can treat to a big al in the evening.”
“That sounds good,” seeing Yang Qingyin’s radiant smile, Luo Ziling didn’t argue with her and readily agreed.
The two ordered a pot of West Lake Longjing, along with so fruits and pastries.
“I don’t know what happened with yesterday’s issue; we had to turn off our phones during the morning military training, and I saw several missed calls.” After the waiter left, Luo Ziling whispered to Yang Qingyin, “It might have been the police looking for , but I didn’t feel like returning the calls.”
“Ouyang Feifei personally got involved. If she couldn’t handle even this small matter, you’re really underestimating her.” As she spoke, Yang Qingyin pursed her lips and smiled, “It’s the first ti I’ve seen her so enthusiastic about a man. Looks like your relationship is not so simple!”
Luo Ziling knew Yang Qingyin was joking and after laughing embarrassedly, he took a deep gulp of tea as if bracing himself and then stared at Yang Qingyin very seriously, his voice low as he said, “I won’t hide it from you, we were once engaged!”
“What?!” Hearing the unexpected revelation from Luo Ziling, Yang Qingyin was taken aback, her smile disappearing instantly.
“But we’ve already called off the engagent,” Luo Ziling hurried to explain, “My coming to Yanjing was for school, but also to fulfill my grandfather’s order to break off the engagent with the Ouyang Family. Our engagent has been dissolved.”
Yang Qingyin didn’t say a word, just looked at Luo Ziling with a strange expression.
Luo Ziling felt even more embarrassed and quickly added, “My grandfather once saved Sir Ouyang’s life, and when Ouyang Feifei was little, she had a stubborn disease which he temporarily cured. The two old gentlen were old friends; for so reason, they arranged the marriage between and Ouyang Feifei. But before coming here to study, my grandfather instructed to call off the engagent after arriving in Yanjing, saying we were not suited for each other.”
“Why are you not suited?” Unable to help herself, Yang Qingyin blurted out a question.
“She’s two years older than , plus, we’re not familiar with each other. There are also so reasons I’m unaware of, so there’s no possibility of an engagent between us anymore. Now, we’re no longer engaged, but… we’re still friends, I guess.” Seeing Yang Qingyin’s still sowhat odd expression, Luo Ziling felt compelled to explain further, “Actually, both of us were against the engagent. Young people like to pursue the feelings they have for soone they like.”
“Do you not know that many people call her ‘Yanjing’s Number One Beauty,’ and the assets in her na could be described as ‘wealthy enough to rival nations?’ Such a beautiful and wealthy woman, and you’re willing to let her go? You may not know, but inside Yanjing City, there are countless wealthy and noble young n who want to pursue her!” Yang Qingyin looked at Luo Ziling with a teasing smile, “And yet you’re willing to break off the engagent? Are you crazy?”
Luo Ziling t Yang Qingyin’s gaze unflinchingly and said seriously, “If it were you, would you be willing to accept a marriage arranged by soone else?”
“Why are you turning the question on ?” Yang Qingyin shot Luo Ziling a sidelong glance, “It’s not who’s engaged to soone else; it’s none of my business.”
“How does the saying go, ‘Out of the abundance of waters, I only take one ladle’?”
“So where is your ladle?” Yang Qingyin followed up on Luo Ziling’s words, then realizing sothing wasn’t quite right, she couldn’t help but blush, yet ultimately didn’t avert her gaze and locked eyes with Luo Ziling, a slightly mischievous expression on her face.
Luo Ziling chuckled mischievously and said, “Definitely not with the Ouyang Family, I’ll tell you about it later.”
“It seems she’s not willing to break off the engagent with you; otherwise, she wouldn’t be so concerned about you. Ouyang Huihui wouldn’t keep seeking you out!” Yang Qingyin said this with her lips pursed in amusent.
“I’m just a country bumpkin from the Northwest,” Luo Ziling self-deprecated, “I’ve been to the Ouyang Family’s villa at Xiangshan, a house as exquisite as a garden in the South, worlds apart from my family’s humble ho in that small mountain village in the Northwest. I also know that the Ouyang sisters and I are from two different worlds, so there’s no possibility between us.”
“If the news that you took the initiative to cancel the engagent with Ouyang Feifei gets out, you might be drowned by the spittle of those Yanjing n,” Yang Qingyin leisurely sipped her tea and smiled happily, “Maybe Ouyang Feifei never dread that she, having turned down so many n’s advances, would end up being rejected by a little guy like you.”
“Can we not talk about this, please?” Luo Ziling felt a bit awkward.
“I believe that she won’t take it lying down, and if it were , I wouldn’t either,” after saying that, Yang Qingyin swiftly changed the subject, “You really don’t need to worry about last night’s incident. You won’t have any issues; it’s the others who will.”
Had it not been for what happened at noon today, Luo Ziling might have had doubts about what Yang Qingyin had just said, but now he had no doubts whatsoever.
His mother, whom he had never t, had personally intervened, and Ouyang Feifei also got involved. Since he hadn’t done anything wrong in the first place, the outco should be quite satisfactory.
Although Luo Ziling wasn’t very experienced in the ways of the world, he held a firm understanding of the situation. He felt he had acted impulsively yesterday, but he hadn’t done anything wrong. He shouldn’t be punished for it; those who should be punished are the others, not him.
He really wanted to know how his mother, Ling Ruonan, would resolve the situation after getting involved.
Thinking of Ling Ruonan, he suddenly felt a bit gloomy, regretting not asking for that woman’s contact information today.
He had neglected to ask for her contact details or even her na. The main reason he hadn’t asked was that he was sowhat dazed at the ti, his mind foggy, and he hadn’t considered these practical issues. What he thought most about was that the woman was sent by Ling Ruonan to check on him, she had personally taken care of the matter, aning she still cared and loved him.
“Junior Brother, what’s wrong?” Luo Ziling’s deep thought surprised Yang Qingyin, who couldn’t help but ask, before joking, “Are you regretting calling off the engagent?”
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