Gou An was sure that He Ran had a mental disorder.

After the negotiation to dissolve their engagement agreement failed that night in the pouring rain, this gege¹ disappeared without a trace for the rest of the vacation days, as if he had completely vanished from this beautiful world.

When school finally started again, Gou An always went to the University Student Union Office, the gymnasium, and other places where He Ran usually went to find him but failed every time.

Those who didn’t know better would think he was dead.

However, this gege’s WeChat circle of friends was very active, was updated every day, and he seemed to pop up in various entertainment venues—

Someone who had a lot of time in their hands drew a map of Young Master He’s new habitat, and finally came to a conclusion: the center point of the map was the CW Commercial Center, where a particular milk tea shop where a certain female student named Lu worked part-time was located.

Rumors began spreading all of a sudden.

Regarding this, his fiancee, Miss Gou, seemed to be deaf or mute.

She was unwavering and persistent in her search for even a shadow of He Ran. She searched several times but failed to catch him and always just encountered his second-generation ancestor friends from the same circle… this group of people were all He Ran’s younger brothers. 

He Ran, Gou An, and Lu Wan—they didn’t know anything about the love and hatred between these three people. They just thought that Gou An was showing ‘the usual’ possessiveness and clinginess because of He Ran’s sudden infidelity. 

When they saw her, they couldn’t help but make noises, saying that Miss Gou was really good at listening to rumors. Was this why she couldn’t sit still? She was so strict and clingy. Ran ge wouldn’t like a girl who acted like this… 

This group of boys were all on the cruise ship last week, and they just watched as He Ran and Gou An had a big fight over Lu Wan. At this time, even if they didn’t know the real situation between the three, that they could still say these sarcastic words—it naturally meant that they didn’t have any good intentions.

Gou An didn’t bother to argue with them, but she could tell after a few rounds that He Ran was deliberately avoiding her. It was very confusing: acting this way, he made it seem like he was the one who did something wrong.

The Sword of Damocles²—her life of tears behind bars—hung above her head day and night. As long as she still hasn’t broken off this engagement, Gou An would have nightmares every night.

A few days later, Gou An—who now had heavy dark circles under her eyes—checked He Ran’s favorablity level on a whim and found that it had risen from [33] to [35] at some point…

How outrageous.

Sure enough, a man’s heart was like a needle in the sea.

… …

On Friday, after finishing her last class in the afternoon, Gou An was happily sitting in the Department’s Student Union Office, packing up her personal belongings and getting ready for the weekend. 

At this time, the Officer-in-Charge of External Relations opened the door and came in, thrust a letter into her hand and begged her to take it over to He Ran at the University Student Union Office.

Gou An took a look at the letter. What good thing could this External Relations Officer do? It turned out to be a request for the University Student Union—a special group of ancestors who had a say in university matters—to generously allocate some funds for their Department’s basketball game…

She raised her eyes and said, “You’re asking me to go? Do you really want the University Student Union to cough up the funds or not? I thought by now the whole world knows about the quarrel between me and He Ran on the cruise ship before May Day. He’s annoying me to death until now.”

Miss Gou spoke in an eccentric manner, and the Officer-in-Charge of External Relations laughed and said, “But even so, you are still President He’s fiancée, aren’t you?”

Oh.

Right.

How could she forget?

At least for the time being.

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Gou An took the letter, turned around, and went to the University Student Union Office. She originally thought that she would miss catching him again this time, so she was prepared to put the letter on his desk and leave. Unexpectedly, the person she was looking for was in the University Student Union Office this time.

A group of second-generation ancestors occupied the university’s Public Funds Office (*University Student Union Office), drinking tea and eating melon seeds under the guise of an official meeting.

“Ran ge, Gou An hasn’t come by to see you these days.”　　

She couldn’t see inside the office through the closed door, but Gou An recognized the voice. It was one of He Ran’s lackeys, Zhou Yanji.

Zhou Yanji was the youngest son of the Zhou family, a real estate tycoon family in Jiangcheng. He had two capable older brothers. This young master refused to obey the family to go abroad for further study and insisted on studying at a domestic university with He Ran… 

The Zhou family was accustomed to doting on this youngest son to the heavens, so they couldn’t do anything about his willfulness. They donated a teaching building and stuffed this young master who couldn’t even properly say ‘how old are you’ in English into Jiangcheng’s A University.

At this time, Gou An heard his careless voice say her name, so she stopped pushing the door open, paused for a moment, and just stood outside the door.

It was quiet behind the door for a few seconds, and then someone sneered and said calmly, “It would be better if she doesn’t come. It’s annoying to see her.”

Who else could it be but He Ran.

Gou An, who was outside the door, raised her eyebrows, feeling that He Ran’s words were quite irresponsible.

If he found her annoying, then fire her immediately! Why was he still delaying and not breaking off the engagement? What was he waiting for?

From The Day The Engagement Was Broken translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 5.2 — A Bottle of Mineral Water He Didn’t Want
Chapter 5.3 — A Bottle of Mineral Water He Didn’t Want
Chapter 6.1 — Blessing 99
Chapter 6.2 — Blessing 99
Chapter 7.1 — Apologize to Her
Chapter 7.2 — Apologize to Her
Chapter 7.3 — Apologize to Her
Chapter 8.1 — Reluctant
Chapter 8.2 — Reluctant
Chapter 9.1 — The Hero and Heroine Meet
Chapter 9.2 — The Hero and Heroine Meet
Chapter 9.3 — The Hero and Heroine Meet
Chapter 9.4 — The Hero and Heroine Meet
Chapter 10.1 — Don’t Use Honorifics
Chapter 10.2 — Don’t Use Honorifics
Chapter 10.3 — Don’t Use Honorifics
Chapter 11.1 — Young Uncle
Chapter 11.2 — Young Uncle
Chapter 11.3 — Young Uncle
Chapter 12.1 — Conflict During the Welcome Speech
Chapter 12.2 — Conflict During the Welcome Speech

FOOTNOTES:

1.  Gege or just ge means ‘older brother’, not necessarily blood-related. I’m keeping gege in pinyin because there’s a lot of that (and jiejie) in the text and it becomes unweildy to keep calling out ‘Older Brother This’ and ‘Older Brother That. ↩︎
2. This isn’t a Chinese idiom. It refers to a courtier, Damocles, who was flattering King Dionysius of Syracuse in Ancient Greece, saying how fortunate he was as king. In response, the king made Damocles sit on the throne, covered with riches, surrounded by beautiful attendants but hung a sword above his head suspended only by a hair. It illustrates the constant fear and threat that even those in power face.   ↩︎