Chapter 23

Ruan Zhiyin frowned slightly, because she searched through all her memories from high school, but couldn't find one girl Cheng Yuelin was particularly close to.

With his bad temper, only Qian Fan stayed with him all day. However, Ruan Zhiyin didn't think there is anything 'ambiguous' between Qian Fan and him. And if Cheng Yuelin couldn't forget his first love, why did he choose to have this fake marriage with her?

Stunned for a while, she asked, "So your first love..."

"Also married."

Cheng Yuelin said calmly, then took the bracelet from Ruan Zhiyin's palm and put it back to its original position.

Seeing this, Ruan Zhiyin sighed, thinking about his depressed expression when he was in the living room, "Then you..."

Ruan Zhiyin couldn't tell if he cares. His dark eyes fixed on her, "Do I still have a chance from your point of view?"

Ruan Zhiyin bited her lower lip, feeling like she should dissuade him from being too stubborn and stepping in the relationship between a married couple. "Actually..." But when she saw the his gloomy face, she somehow said something totally different "I heard that the divorce rate is very high now, so don't be too discouraged."

He probably couldn't accept the truth at this moment, Ruan Zhiyin thought to herself. She should persuade him gradually.

"But I'm afraid my first love won’t get a divorce."

Cheng Yuelin deeply looked into her eyes. There appears to be some ambiguous emotions hidden in his eyes, and Ruan Zhiyin suddenly thought of his sad expression earlier, and then said—

"There is no absolute in everything. Tan Jun and Mei Sheng were known to be the model couple among the celebrities. They also get divorced later, and a few years later, they both remarried their first loves."

"However, because they are still married now, you should not do anything to break up their marriage. If one day she does get divorced and you are single again, then everything is possible."

Cheng Yuelin seemed persuaded , and chuckled lightly, "Sure....If she gets divorced someday... I will of course be single."

But he then said: "However, I still think she will never get a divorce."

Ruan Zhiyin thought Cheng Yuelin was trying to say that the love of between his first love and her husband was great, so she tried hard to think about good qualities of his and encourage him with some praises. "You also have some great qualities that other men rarely have, so don't give up.."

"Oh? What qualities?"

"Emm...You look good, and women do like handsome men. I used to look at you all day, and sometimes I do feel that you are better looking than many boys."

Even though his bad temper was well known, he used to receive a lot of anonymous love letters on Valentine's Day.

Some girls don't dare to send the letters by themselves, and often ask Ruan Zhiyin to send it over. He was in a good mood when he got it for the first time, but he somehow rejected the next few love letters.

After Ruan Zhiyin finished speaking, she apologized to his first love in her heart. She kinda supposed that his first love only judged people by appearance.

But it would be worse if she said that Cheng Yuelin had no chance at all. It might make him so annoyed that he had to do some crazy stuff.

Ruan Zhiyin said even more affirmatively then before , "Believe in yourself. You are excellent."

Cheng Yuelin raised his brows lightly. A faint smile crept across his face. "Well, I know."

At this moment, he seemed to be quite calm.

Ruan Zhiyin, "......."

She couldn't help but begin to suspect that the so-called first love might have been fabricated by Cheng Yuelin to deceive her.

After all, whose affection towards someone can be completely unknown to others?

/ / /

The next day, Cheng Yuelin's allergies were completely cured, and the two of them went to work in the company as usual.

Today was supposed to be the day to go to Linheng to sign the contract, but Ruan Zhiyin was a little surprised that Director Zhong delivered the contract in person without waiting for her to drop by in the afternoon.

Cheng Yuelin's name is also signed on the contract already.

Technically, this contract can also be signed at home, but Ruan Zhiyin hoped that her work and life can be separated, so she was ready to take Kang Yu to Linheng in person in the afternoon. They agreed on this, the why did Cheng Yuelin make the extra effort to send the contract over?

Qian Fan also wanted to know the answer for this question.

"Why did you ask Director Zhong to send the contract over?"

Since Cheng Yuelin got married, Qian Fab have not seen Ruan Zhiyin at all. He thought that he could finally see her today.

"It’s hot out there.” Cheng Yuelin glanced at him and explained lightly, "And I gave Zhong Yi some extra bonus to send the contract over, and he agreed very happily."

When Ruan Zhiyin actually came, she would definitely have to face Qian Fan.

Qian Fan: "..."

Cheng Yuelin has been frequently posting photos of breakfast and dinner on social media recently. Qian Fan clicked the like button for him under every post, but Cheng Yuelin never gave him any extra bonus..

Just as he was thinking about it, Bai Bo knocked on the door and walked in, and also brought in the lunch takeaway ordered by Qian Fan.

Qian Fan took the opportunity, took out the dishes one by one, put them on the table, and said to Bai Bo: "I ordered food for three people, let's eat together."

He used to come to Cheng Yuelin’s office to eat lunch every day. However, recently, Cheng Yuelin always eat the sandwiches he brought to the office every morning, so Qian Fan hadn't had lunch with him for a long time.

Bai Bo glanced at the boss, and Cheng Yuelin did not say no, so he nodded and sat down.

But he did not come only for lunch. "Boss, it seems that the private detective agency I contacted earlier also recently entrusted by someone else to investigate the case between Lin Zhe and Mrs.Cheng. And Lin Zhe has been fired."

"It must be Qin Jue."

Qian Fan frowned. "Don't worry. I'll keep an eye on him for you boss. Although Qin Jue's got better, he is stil in the hospital. You should still be careful though, in case he caught you off guard.."

Cheng Yuelin frowned, glanced at him, and then responded casually."Alright."

Qin Jue is such an indecisive person, and seing Ruan Zhiyin's attitude towards him recently, Cheng Yuelin doesn't think she will ever change her mind, but it doesn't prevent him from disliking Qin Jue.

Seeing that Cheng Yuelin was so calm about the whole situation, Qian Fan thought that his relationship with Ruan Zhiyin had is developing well, so he felt a lot more at ease. After the meal, he handed Cheng Yuelin and Bai Bo cigarettes respectively, but was pushed away by Cheng Yuelin.

"No, I quit now."

Qian Fan was stunned for a while, and then blurted out, "When did you quit smoking?"

Bai Bo was also surprised. As a special assistant, why didn't he know that the boss had quit smoking?

Cheng Yuelin put down his chopsticks slowly, and looked at Qian Fan with his lips hooked, "I quit yesterday. Can't I?",

Then he shook his head and said "I'm married, and my wife would like to take care of my everything. What can I do?"

Qian Fan, "..."

/ / /

Because there was no need to go to Linheng to sign the contract, Ruan Zhiyin went to the construction site in Beicheng in the afternoon with Kang Yu.

The two followed the engineer to walk around the site.. When they came back, it was almost time to get off work.

When they get back to the company and Kang Yu parked in underground parking lot. The two opened the door to get off.

When they walked towards the elevator in the parking lot, a familiar person suddenly rushed out from their side and stopped the two.

Wang Xiwei had been standing in the parking lot for more than an hour. Her fair face was now covered in light sweat, and her back was soaked.

The front desk person refused to let her in, so she decided to wait here until Ruan Zhiyin got off work, but suddenly she saw Ruan Zhiyin walking off a car.

"Ruan Zhiyin, I want to talk to you."

She would definitely not choose to ask Ruan Zhiyin for help if she had another choice. But the Wang family was desperate now, and her father couldn't manage to meet Cheng Yuelin, so he forced her to come for Ruan Zhiyin.

Ruan Zhiyin looked at Wang Xiwei, who was quite embarrassed at the moment.

"Wang Xiwei, if you're here to talk about the Wang family, please come back. When your father got involved in Cheng Yuelin's father's case, he should have expected one day like this."

On their way to work in the morning, Cheng Yuelin reminded her that someone from the Wang family may try to talk to her. And he mentioned if things get complicated, she can contact Bai Bo to deal with it

In fact, she had learned that Cheng Yuelin had been secretly dealing with the Wang family for a long time. It is really too late for Wang Xiwei's father to ask for help now.

The Wang family benefited from the Cheng's case. Although Ruan Zhiyin didn't know the what exactly happened, Wang Xiwei's father must have intervened.

Wang Xiwei thought that Ruan Zhiyin was still bearing the grudge from what happened before, so she frowned and apologized with a sincere tone.

"Are you still mad about the fact that I always help Lin Jingfei in the past? I'm sorry. I was also deceived by her. And I haven't really done anything too bad except from trying to constantly flatter her."

In fact, her relationship with Lin Jingfei was not that good. The reason why she compliments Lin Jingfei is because of Qin Jue's attitude towards Lin Jingfei.
But not long ago, Qin Jue's clarified everything. Only then did Wang Xiwei understand that Lin Jingfei was just using her and letting her be the one that offend Ruan Zhiyin.

Wang Xiwei knew that her father had an illegitimate child out there, and he did not treat her too well. She also knew that her father asked her to please Cheng Yuelin because he was afraid that Cheng Yuelin would take action against the Wang family one day. But she didn’t turn down his father because deep down, she also wanted to get more for herself through Cheng Yuelin. It's just that every time she found an opportunity to be with him, she didn’t even know what to say.

And after all, the Wang family had given her a good life for more than 20 years. Now that the knife hanging over her father's head fell, she could not let the Wang family overturn and ignore it.

"You and Cheng Yuelin are... husband and wife. My father just wants to meet Cheng Yuelin once. As long as you can talk to Cheng Yuelin about meeting my father, we can offer you some important information about Lin Cheng that will make him lose everything. And it doesn't matter whether my father can meet Cheng Yuelin or not in the end. "

Wang Xiwei's father do have connections with Lin Cheng. Now it is extrmely urgent, he wouldn't dare to lie to her with an empty promise.

Ruan Zhiyin did not say a word aftr hearing this. After a while, she still shook her head and refused, "I can't help you. This has nothing to do with Lin Jingfei and I don’t hate you at all. "

In the past, Wang Xiwei always speak up for Lin Jingfei, but she didn't really do anything that hurt Ruan Zhiyin.

"Then you......"

Wang Xiwei hesitated after seeing Ruan Zhiyin’s indifferent facial expression. In her impression, Ruan Zhiyin is easygoing, and she rarely made enemies. That's why she agreed to her father's words to come and have a try.

But Ruan Zhiyin seemed to be completely different from her previous impressions.

"Wang Xiwei, Cheng Yuelin is my husband now. How could I help someone who intervened in his father's case for my own benefits?"

And even if she can't get the information from her father, she has other ways to deal with Lin Cheng. It's just a matter of time.

Although she and Cheng Yuelin are contracted couple, they are still partners. Ruan Zhiyin would not help the Wang family.

But just as she finished speaking, a familiar male voice suddenly came from behind, mockingly—

"Yinyin, You better to call me “husband” at home."