Chapter 292: Chapter 291: Her Husband Married Her While Waiting for Someone Else to Arrive (3)

“President Yu noticed I hadn’t eaten yet, so he gave me the soup,” Chen Zhu said quickly.

No matter what President Yu thought of this madam, he still chose to maintain President Yu’s dignity at this moment.

Ah Chen asked, “Really? Let me ask him.”

“You’re working for him, so today I won’t blame you for lying to protect him,” she added. “But don’t lie to me again in the future. It’s okay not to speak at all, understand?”

She was unwilling to play along with Yu Xiaoran’s charades.

These weren’t part of the commissioner’s wishes, so she followed her own heart and resolved things as soon as she could.

Ah Chen walked past Chen Zhu, directly pushed open the office door, and startled Yu Xiaoran inside.

Seeing her suddenly appear at the office door was indeed a surprise to him. He had completely forgotten about handing the thermos to Chen Zhu to deal with.

He offered a faint smile, “Is there something else?”

“I’m just asking, if you don’t like drinking the soup, why give it to someone else? You can tell me if you don’t like it or don’t want to eat what I make. There’s no need to secretly have someone else deal with it. If you don’t drink it, I’ll save the trouble,” Ah Chen said from the doorway, not overbearing or angry, just calmly stating the facts.

Yu Xiaoran’s actions weren’t enough to anger her.

It was just that she was dissatisfied with him due to the commissioner’s matters.

After all, the commissioner was her client, and she stood on the client’s side.

“Before we got married, you seemed very honest. Now you like to keep things hidden. Did you do something guilty?” Ah Chen asked.

For a moment, Yu Xiaoran felt his secrets were exposed.

Then he thought, how could that be?

He steadied himself and gave an apologetic smile, “Sorry to disappoint you. It might just be that it’s been too short a time, and I’m not used to it yet. Some behaviors I’m temporarily unable to accept.”

He meant it hadn’t been long enough for him to develop feelings. He was not comfortable with their relationship, so he didn’t particularly want to eat what she cooked. He was indirectly telling her that their marriage was just fulfilling the elders’ promise, and there was no obligation to foster feelings.

“Then just say so,” Ah Chen smiled, “Be honest, so both of us can be more at ease. Otherwise, I might think you’re hiding some guilty secret. Didn’t we make it clear before? If there’s someone you like, there’s no need to hide it. Resolve our relationship first; you can like whoever you want.”

“I’m here trying to cultivate feelings, but you feel uncomfortable and secretly hide it, pretending to accept my feelings. Isn’t that unfair to me? Making me think you’re willing to accept me, causing me to give more? Isn’t that deceit?”

“If you follow your own heart, I can hold back a bit. Understand where we are, and if we can’t progress, it’s not necessary for me to push forward. After all, we agreed from the start. Your way has me lost, while you remain clear, which isn’t good for either of us. After all, I’m not especially rational or calm.”

“If I find out you never had feelings and it was all an act, I might go crazy. I might trouble you the most, but it would greatly affect me. Then everyone would say, look, President Yu married such a madwoman. No wonder he doesn’t like her, he only married her to fulfill the elders’ marital agreement. If it weren’t for the Lu Family lacking a daughter, she’d never have the chance. Marrying President Yu is a blessing, and she dares make such a fuss. She’s just an adopted daughter of the Lu Family, a wild hen with no dignity to cause such a scene.”

Yu Xiaoran: …

Although he wanted to refute this, her reasoning seemed like it could happen.

What happened to Bai Chen?

He examined her with a deep gaze, scrutinizing her calm and serious face.

In actuality, his impression of Bai Chen wasn’t much—just remembering her as someone exaggerated, arrogant, fake, competitive, superficial, and a bit sinister when mad. The Bai Chen in front of him seemed different from the Bai Chen from before; was it because this time’s beginning was different?

In the previous life, he and Bai Chen got entangled and married, but it wasn’t by his choice. It was his cousin, Yu Xingfan, who set him up. That cousin always tried to make trouble for him. Upon learning about the pending marriage agreement between the Yu Family and the Lu Family, he schemed secretly.

The Lu Family had no daughters but had an adopted daughter, Bai Chen.

With his status, neither the Lu Family nor the Yu Family would proactively push for a verbal marriage agreement unless both sides were willing. Otherwise, it would create hostilities.

Under the cousin Yu Xingfan’s schemes, he and Bai Chen got tangled up, with things happening that shouldn’t have. He was even photographed forcing Bai Chen into a room. Even though the situation was consensual, things aren’t judged in such a simple way.

With the Yu Family at a critical point, and with Yu Xingfan waiting like a predator, he chose to fulfill the marriage agreement and married Bai Chen.

He later thoroughly investigated and found out that it was Yu Xingfan’s solo act, unrelated to Bai Chen. Although she was petty like many women in the circle, she lacked the guts and means to scheme against him.

Even so, he still didn’t like her, finding her foolish for falling victim to his cousin’s deception.

Her being deceived by his cousin suggested she aimed to latch onto him. This, he was certain of.

His original plan was to fulfill the marriage agreement first and divorce her once he fully controlled the Yu Family, providing her with a settlement.

Yet, Bai Chen lacked insight. She thought marrying him meant being Mrs. Yu forever.

After their marriage, she did many foolish things, becoming a laughing stock, which he found incredibly annoying.

Later, after Bai Ying inhabited this body, he subconsciously abhorred her, resulting in many actions harming Bai Ying, deeply wounding her.

At that time, he only assumed her character had changed, not considering that someone had possessed that body.

When the Yu Family stabilized, he heartlessly divorced Bai Ying, providing compensation as initially planned.

But she didn’t accept the settlement and left directly.

Upon her true departure, he learned what regret meant.

After realizing, he decided to restore things.

When he visited again, he found the Lu Family in chaos, with the Lu Family Brothers questioning where she’d gone.

Bai Chen laughed chaotically, refusing to tell them, enraging the Lu Family Brothers.

Lu Mingxue also found Bai Chen’s actions incomprehensible, scolding Bai Huimei, who stood silently by, on her poor upbringing and mentioned divorcing Bai Huimei.

Bai Huimei, having been a wealthy wife for years, had always been careful around the Lu Family father and sons. However, she showed rare strength, leaving the Lu Family with Bai Chen, later living an ordinary life—not as affluent as before, but not particularly bad either.

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