Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

After Li Yuhuan completed touching up her make-up, she returned to the chess room.

The room was crammed with smoke and the odor was very pungent. She scanned the room however she felt a bit disheartened when she didn’t see Lei Hanping.

Sitting not far-off from the door, she may see Lei Hanping’s buddy, Pei Rongyu, wanting defeated. His face was crimson from consuming and he was staggering as he received up from the consuming desk to play playing cards once more. Track Ran gave Li Yuhuan a glance, telling her to not fear and that she may deal with it. With that additional prompting,she walked out of the chess room to placed on her coat and headed in the direction of the elevator door, hoping to catch the person she had unintentionally offended.

Xiang Metropolis was very full of life on New Yr’s Eve. Regardless of the noise within the membership, she may nonetheless see the sound of fireworks someplace close by. There have been fastened areas the place fireworks might be set off, and this space was certainly one of them. Standing in Jin Zhao’s foyer space, by means of the glassy doorways, she may see the gorgeous fireworks lightening up the inky night time sky.

Li Yuhuan out of the blue started to overlook house once more. If she have been again house at the moment, she would have loved the fireworks within the yard together with her household.

Li Yuhuan out of the blue felt her cellphone vibrate in her coat pocket. She took out the machine and noticed a textual content message: “Pleased New Yr, Yuhuan.”

From Shen Ang.

She instinctively seemed out of the door and noticed a black Bentley parked throughout the street. She wouldn’t have paid an excessive amount of consideration to the car if it weren’t for the occupant within the automobile. The motive force’s seat window was rolled down, revealing Shen Ang who had noticed her from throughout the street.

Their eyes met. Li Yuhuan out of the blue remembered the time once they have been nonetheless in love a number of years in the past, when a thirty-year-old Shen Ang appeared by her household’s door, holding her favourite soup dumplings with a smile on his face, wishing her, “Pleased New Yr, Yuhuan.”

If it wasn’t for the accident 4 years in the past, she would in all probability be capable of eat the soup dumplings he introduced yearly.

Considering of this, Li Yuhuan’s lips curved right into a sarcastic smile. ‘No use hiding from him now’. She pushed the heavy doorways open and walked to fulfill her ex. Shen Ang opened the automobile door, with one thing in his hand. When he walked over to fulfill her on the membership’s entrance, she noticed that he was holding a container of soup dumplings.

“I purchased the restaurant that you just like and even reopened it proper throughout your residence. It’s open twenty-four-seven, so you’ll be able to eat them everytime you need,” Shen Ang opened the superbly wrapped lunch field and handed Li Yuhuan a pair of disposable gloves. His eyes have been crammed with anticipation, “Attempt it?”

Li Yuhuan didn’t refuse. She placed on the gloves, picked up a dumpling, and took a chunk. It nonetheless had the identical style as a few years in the past. “It’s scrumptious. I’ll be there to assist President Shen when it opens,”

“It has been open for every week,” Shen Ang stared at Li Yuhuan intently, not blinking even as soon as, “I haven’t seen you lately, did you return to the Lei household’s major residence?”

“President Shen, you actually know easy methods to joke. If I don’t return to their home, the place would I am going?” Li Yuhuan picked up a serviette and wiped the nook of her mouth, “Thanks for the soup dumplings, President Shen. I’ll head again inside, Track Ran remains to be ready for me,”

“Yuhuan,” Shen Ang grabbed her wrist, “I do know that your marriage is pretend,” He mentioned.

Li Yuhuan’s eyes remained calm, her coronary heart beating usually. His declaration doesn’t scare her. She knew Shen Ang would discover out about their pretend marriage in the end. She shook off Shen Ang’s hand, however his grip remained tightly on her. She sighed “President Shen, you appear to have misunderstood. Fourth Brother and I simply haven’t gone to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register but. We’ll go after the Spring Pageant,” She defined.

“Don’t mislead me anymore, Yuhuan. I’m not silly, I can see by means of your relationship with him with one look,” Shen Ang tightened his maintain on her wrist, not planning to her go anytime quickly. He pulled her nearer, crowding her menacingly, “You don’t love Lei Hanping. I’ve all the time been in your coronary heart,”

“You?” Li Yuhuan raised her eyebrows.

“You married him to punish me for my stupidity. Yuhuan, are you able to cease punishing me? Give me another probability, let me make it as much as you, okay?” Shen Ang begged.

“Why do I want you to make it as much as me?” Li Yuhuan’s eyes shone as if she was smiling by means of her gaze, “The person who raped me that night time wasn’t you. Why do you need to make it as much as me?”

The phrase “rape” was taboo for Li Yuhuan. However now, she had accepted all the pieces that had occurred up to now and moved on. She took benefit of Shen Ang’s daze and flabbergasted look to pried his hand away, “President Shen, please conduct your self with dignity,”

…

With no luck to find Lei Hanping, Li Yuhuan returned to the non-public room, solely to seek out the person had additionally returned.

Throughout the break within the chess room, everybody was chatting and consuming. Pei Rongyu sat on the couch, wanting much more defeated than earlier than. Track Ran was explaining why he had misplaced beside him, stating his errors like a senior scholar bestowing her life data to her junior.Jin Zhao’s princesses have been listening attentively round them as in the event that they needed to soak up each trick of the sport from Track Ran.

Li Yuhuan walked over to Lei Hanping and took the initiative to start out a dialog with him, “Fourth Brother, I’m hungry,”

Lei Hanping picked up his glass and took a sip, earlier than he wrapped his arm round her waist to tug her into his arms, “You’re not full from the soup dumplings?”

Li Yuhuan didn’t understand how Lei Hanping had identified about that, however she doesn’t see any benefit in hiding the data from him both, “I simply took a chunk,” she answered actually.

“What do you need to eat?” Lei Hanping requested, shortly dropping the topic.

“Noodles,” Li Yuhuan replied.