Behind the door, He Ran’s words indeed caused a group of second-generation ancestors to burst into laughter. Zhou Yanji shifted in his seat. He toyed with the purple clay tea cup in his hand and tilted his head with its short hedgehog-like hair; the diamond earrings on his left ear shone brightly. ”Ran ge, are you really attracted to that Lu Wan?”

He was talking about what happened on the cruise ship that day.

At that time, Gou An emptied a glass full of red wine over Lu Wan’s head. He Ran became very angry, thinking that she was bullying her classmate, and personally helped Lu Wan, holding her by the shoulders, and directly took her off the cruise ship—

Not to mention that the two of them subsequently managed to recognize each other somehow and unlocked the ‘Young Savior CP’ achievement.

The others didn’t know the reason; they only saw Gou An being humiliated in public, and because of this matter, Gou An had become a hot topic in their circle. It was the first time that everyone had seen Miss Gou being humiliated in such a big way, and they all felt it was very fresh and quite interesting.

Sitting behind the desk at this time, He Ran gave Zhou Yanji a cold look, which meant: none of your business.

“Aren’t I being serious?” Zhou Yanji smiled casually and spoke as frivolously as ever. But his dark eyes flickered. No one could tell whether he was serious or not. “If you don’t want to live in peace with Gou An, break up with her as soon as possible and let me give it a try.” 

As soon as Zhou Yanji said these words, everyone around him was shocked—

No one knew where his thoughts came from. They didn’t know when he actually started thinking about Gou An.

Everyone looked at each other, and finally looked at He Ran—He Ran was the only person present who didn’t react much. He looked at Zhou Yanji expressionlessly, not saying ‘yes’, but not saying ‘no’.

However, Zhou Yanji didn’t seem to be frightened by his cold aura and shrugged nonchalantly. “My mother likes Gou An very much. She always said that it was a pity she was already promised to be your He family’s daughter-in-law. If she couldn’t be one, then she asked me to get her to be her daughter-in-law no matter what.”

This was said in a calm manner, as if the previous speech was entirely because he was a peerless filial son and had nothing to do with his own personal wishes.

He Ran slowly withdrew his gaze, “You think just because you say it, it will happen? Has Gou An ever looked at you?”

Zhou Yanji smiled so much that he showed his white teeth, “It’s not a big problem, you yourself haven’t looked at her properly.”

He Ran nodded, “Don’t you think she’s annoying? She goes into a big fight at the slightest provocation, like a firecracker. Who can stand this?”

Zhou Yanji smiled and shook his head. No one knew what he meant.

But Gou An, who was standing outside the door, didn’t see it, and she could only think that her image in the circle of second-generation ancestors turned out to be this: an annoying firecracker who got angry at the least provocation.

At that moment, she really wanted to open the door and go in and have a fight with He Ran! But when she thought about it—doing this, wouldn’t she really live up to her character as a firecracker? So she silently endured it and stood outside the door until her legs had gone sore, waiting for them to change to other unrelated topics before she pushed the door open and went in.

Seeing Gou An appear, the room suddenly became quiet.

He Ran, who was originally playing with his cell phone with a relaxed expression, who knew who he was chatting with in a lively manner, suddenly frowned and threw away his cell phone.

The legs that were resting on the table fell back to the ground.

Gou An put down the flyer and looked directly at He Ran calmly. With a very businesslike tone, she said, “Our Department hopes that the University Student Union can allocate some funds.”

“Oh,” said He Ran.

Then neither of them spoke, and the whole office suddenly felt awkward.

There was a few seconds of dead silence.

Finally, it was Zhou Yanji who broke the impasse. 

He stood up, all 1.8 meters tall. He reached for the letter and took a look at it. He bent down slightly and smiled at Gou An. “Ran ge is busy these days. You can leave this matter to the Secretariat. Well, it just so happens that I’m here today—I can take over this job.”

Someone stood up to save her from more nonsense. Gou An turned her head and looked at Zhou Yanji’s canine tooth. She nodded slowly.

She turned to leave but was stopped by He Ran.

Sitting behind his desk, in front of so many people, He Ran tilted his head and his eyes flickered, “I heard that you have been looking for me these days.”

Oh, what’s this? No more pretending to be a corpse?

Gou An said, “I want to talk about what I said on the May Day holiday.”

The atmosphere was suddenly not right.

He Ran stared at her for a while.

The pressure in the office was so low that it made people breathless…

For a moment, Gou An felt that He Ran was angry.

But the favorability level above Young Master He’s head only flickered and did not drop.

After a long time, He Ran looked away and pretended to refuse to talk.

Gou An had a feeling that his boots were suspended in the air, and his posture was so stiff that he almost looked like a red-crowned crane. What on earth does this guy want to do?

For most of her life, she had truly regarded He Ran as her boyfriend—even though he was not even willing to hold her hand.

However, since ancient times, childhood sweethearts could not withstand the coming of a new love, not to mention this new love was the true white moonlight¹ in his childhood memory.

She was willing to admit defeat.

If she quit this engagement on her own initiative, there would be no need for He Ran to fight with her over Lu Wan, and she wouldn’t need to hate Lu Wan because of her unrequited love.

It was obviously good for both of them to break off the engagement, but at the end of the day, she didn’t know what was wrong with him that he refused to let her go.

It shouldn’t be this way.

Didn’t it stand to reason that he wouldn’t want to be stuck with a liar like her who annoyed him to death?

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

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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

FOOTNOTE:

1. white moonlight or cinnabar mole, it’s the unforgettable first love entrenched in one’s heart—whether or not the memory lives up to reality is another matter. Also, the inspiration for this website ❤️ ↩︎