There was endless coldness in her eyes, and Gou An’s hands clenched into fists.

He Ran stared at her face. The young miss didn’t look cool and noble. She had been spoiled by her parents to lawlessness over the years, and there was still a bit of childishness on her face… She looked like an angry steamed bun. Her puffed up cheeks were round and white, with a dusting of the palest pink from irritation.

He Ran couldn’t help but look at her more. He froze, and after realizing what he was doing, he forced himself to look away. 

“What are you staring at? Are you angry about what I said in the group?” He Ran said.

“Do you think what you said was right? Is our relationship just that of strangers now?”

Gou An added with a cold face, “You can think so, but then, of course, I don’t need to report to you in advance where I am going.”

Seeing disdain in Gou An’s normally affectionate face, He Ran gradually frowned, and that fast-becoming familiar feeling of uneasiness appeared again—

Regarding this fiancée of his, in the past how many years, He Ran neither liked nor disliked her and probably ignored her in most cases.

But there was something not quite right about Gou An these days.

When she had nothing important to say to him, she seemed to look at him like this nowadays: as if she wanted to turn around and immediately leave when she saw him. This gave He Ran the illusion that he was a hornet’s nest, to be avoided at all cost…

At the same time, it also made him feel that something was getting out of his control.

He took two steps forward. He was already half a head taller than Gou An. He frowned and lowered his head to let his shadow cover her, “Today, Zhou Yanji also left the game early.”

“Oh, really? I don’t know about that.”

“What’s going on between you and Zhou Yanji?”

“?”

“He’s not good, he’s not suitable for you.”

Gou An tried to find the slightest trace of a joke on He Ran’s face, but unfortunately there was none.

On the other hand, He Ran waited for the person in front of him to respond for a long time. He bent over anxiously, accidentally got too close and suddenly inhaled the faint fragrance of the young girl in front of him—

The somewhat disordered breathing of the two became entangled into a vague mess.

Gou An frowned slightly, stretched out a finger and stabbed the still-approaching He Ran in the chest, “What’s going on with me and Zhou Yanji? It’s none of your business… Hey, don’t come too close.”

He Ran grabbed her finger reflexively—

The finger that was so soft it seemed boneless was held by his big, dry hands…

The vastly different textures made both of them freeze.

His Adam’s apple rolled up and down, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his voice was low, “Gou An, I advise you to be careful what you say. What do you mean by ‘none of my  business’? Never mind that I am still your fiancé now, but even if the engagement is really broken off one day, I am still your gege. And I’m damn well telling you that Zhou Yanji—”

He was almost shouting at the end.

He held her white finger in such a painful grip that it turned red.

Gou An frowned fiercely and tugged at her finger, but He Ran seemed to be screwing with her and pulled with force in the opposite direction—

“Let go! He Ran, you’re hurting me!”

“I can let you go. But first tell me where you went when you left the game early today! Just to escape the group chat? Isn’t it just a group chat? What can those people do to you!”

“They laughed at me!”

“Being laughed at won’t kill you, but does Lu Wan deserve to be accused for no reason? Don’t forget, you owe her a lot!”

“He Ran! Don’t make me laugh! Yes, I owe Lu Wan, but wasn’t it because you were so easy to deceive and so blind that you couldn’t even recognize your own savior? If you believe everything others say then you deserve to be deceived to death! And wasn’t Lu Wan accused not because of me but because you asked her to hand you that mineral water like a bitch?”

[Jiaojiao: If you don’t speak, no one will think you’re a mute. You are making the second male lead angry to death.]

Gou An: Ahhhhhhhhhh I can’t hold it in! Why should he blame me for everything! Let me go, I want to scold him!

“Go to hell! I hate you! I’ve wanted to beat you up ever since you started talking crap about ‘you only lost a cat, but a glass of red wine was poured over her’!”

“What did you say!” He Ran said.

[Jiaojiao: ………………………………]

Gou An didn’t stop. “If you’re going to die, can you exchange your dog life for my cat’s life! Bah! Give me back my cat! That’s the precious cat I picked up from the roadside and fed and raised with my own hands!”

[Jiaojiao: ☆A☆ Master! ! !]

“What nonsense are you talking about again!” He Ran asked.

“Go die!”

[Jiaojiao: “At this time, the heroine was in disbelief and fell back heartbroken.”]

Gou An: What the hell!

[Jiaojiao: I’m reciting passages from the original text.]

Gou An: I thought I was the vicious female supporting character?

[Jiaojiao: I can borrow the heroine’s lines and use them without paying her royalties! Do you understand my flexibility? It’s all about adaptability! I can do miracles!]

During the pushing and pulling between the two, Gou An lost her balance and stumbled backwards.

Seeing that the person was about to fall to the ground, He Ran was startled and wanted to reach out to pull her back!

At the same time, probably because the quarrel between them was too loud, the door to the study room opened, and a slender figure appeared behind the door just in time, his long arm stretched out and wrapped around the waist of the person who ‘plopped’ against the door—

Unexpectedly, her back bumped into a strong, warm chest.

The smell of the cologne on his body was very special—it’s as if a murderer went out into the streets and killed ten people, then smoothly jumped into a barrel of honey. The rich blood mixed with the sweet male scent entered her nose.

Extremely aggressive.

Very high presence.

“He Ran, did you take the wrong medicine tonight and decided to act wildly?”

The low, magnetic male voice penetrated into the depths of her five senses.

The voice was just above her head.

The sleeves of his white shirt were rolled up to his elbows, and his warm and generous hands, subtle and polite, were placed on her waist, firmly supporting her to stand.

Then they pulled away.

The tone of his voice was as light as clear water, but the command in it was flat and brooked no arguments.

“Apologize to her.”

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

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T/N: He Ran is 🙄

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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