At this time, the two of them fell into a strange silence. He Ran was a little worried to find that Gou An didn’t even bother to quarrel with him. It could be said that she didn’t even bother to talk to him. He still wanted to defend himself with a few words…

But his words failed to come out.

“You might as well wait until dawn comes.”¹

A man’s voice said blandly, and the two who had been silently confronting each other turned their heads. They saw the man walking in from behind the curtain with his suit jacket casually draped on his shoulders, and the cuffs of his white shirt rolled up to his elbows.

… When He Ran realized that He Jinxing was still wearing his shirt, his first reaction was to let out a sigh of relief.

He didn’t even have time to think about why—He Jinxing had already come up to where the two of them were and handed Gou An the paper cup in his hand.

He Ran thought Gou An would refuse.

After all, whenever she saw He Jinxing in the past, she would always want to stay three meters away.

Unexpectedly, the young miss didn’t hide this time. She leaned her neck forward, put her straight nose close to the paper cup, sniffed it, and after a moment showed a rebellious expression. “Hot chocolate? I don’t drink dark-colored things now.”

It was obvious that the bottle of Coke thrown at her had left a shadow on her heart.

He Jinxing glanced at her, put down the paper cup, and said one word, “Unreasonable.”

He Ran, who was next to him, seemed to have remembered something and reached out to grab Gou An’s wrist, “Where did that Coke hit you just now? Let me see—“

Gou An ducked back and avoided his hand.

He Jinxing stood aside and watched without expression as his future niece-in-law avoided his nephew like he was a snake or a scorpion. 

He Ran was a little bully.

As the direct eldest grandson of the family, although Old Mr. He yelled at him every day, he actually loved him very much and had spoiled him to his current young master’s temper.

So now that Gou An was avoiding him, he was not only feeling a little guilty but also panicking——

Frowning fiercely, he muttered, “Stop making trouble,” and stretched out his hand to grab Gou An’s arm forcefully.

With a bit of force, he dragged her arm under his nose, lifted up her loose sleeves, and took a look. Sure enough, there was a bruise and swelling on the delicate arm where it was hit.

His brows suddenly furrowed.

“Go to the hospital.”

“Let go.”

The two spoke at the same time.

Gou An forcibly shook He Ran’s grip away, lowered the cuffs he had pushed up, and said, “Leave me alone, go find your little girlfriend.”

He Ran staggered back a meter; He Jinxing kindly helped him. 

Faced with his nephew’s completely tense mood, the man raised his eyebrows, as if he really enjoyed watching this show.

“What little girlfriend?” He Ran was a little panicked, “Young Uncle is still here—“

“You dare to do it but won’t admit it? He— He— Young Uncle has already seen the school forum, who do you think you’re showing off to!”

Even when she was so angry that she was cursing someone, she didn’t forget to use the appropriate title and corrected herself.

He Jinxing found a chair and sat down, looking at the young lady’s flushed face, his own still expressionless. In fact, he was quite satisfied that her memory has finally improved.

He Ran, who had his back turned to him, didn’t see him at all. He didn’t even have time to ask Gou An where the term ‘young uncle’ came from. There were too many things he was anxious to clear up at the moment. “Don’t listen to those people’s nonsense. I never said that Lu Wan and I were dating! Why are you making random guesses here! I didn’t mean not to come over earlier. She was crying like that. What can I do? Besides, I’m here now!”

“Oh, yeah?”

“Yeah!”

“Die!”

“What??”

“What kind of man dares to do something but not admit it? Oh,” Gou An suddenly had a bad idea and stopped arguing suddenly, “Then do you want to prove something to me now?”

“What? What are you talking about?”

“He Ran, just declare me officially as your fiancée. After you declare it officially, I will believe whatever you say.”

“…?”

Gou An looked at the frozen face of the young man in front of her. This time, she didn’t feel heartbroken at all and scoffed loudly.

She was just readying her words to ridicule this fool and send him away, when she saw the favorability level above He Ran’s head flicker like crazy, and then somehow jump from [45] to [50] with a ‘pop’!

Gou An’s eyes widened in shock, and she still hadn’t fully understood what was going on in Young Master He’s brain circuit——

And he was pulling on her arm again.

She wanted to pull it back, but He Ran cursed with a dark face, “Don’t move.” Then he took out his cell phone and took a picture of her injured area.

After taking the photo, he lowered his head and typed a few words on his phone. After about half a minute, he threw the phone back to Gou An.

Gou An picked it up for no real reason and took a look at it, only to realize that what was on the screen of his phone was the WeChat Moments interface——

[He Ran: Alright, not getting any sleep tonight. She just wanted to give a good freshman speech and it ended up like this. Thank you to the melon seed-eating people who don’t know the truth for their “brave actions”. Accompanying the young wife to the hospital. ‘picture’]

The accompanying picture was Gou An’s bruised arm.

The circle of friends was public, and there was no group limit label at all.

When Gou An took the phone, less than a minute after it was posted in Moments, there were already countless replies like ‘…’, ‘?’, ‘Ahhhhhh’ and ‘OvO, my eyes are as wide as copper bells’.

Gou An: “…”

No……

Ah.

What is this?

She just said it casually, has this person lost his ever-loving mind?

Making a quick decision, she deleted the post from his circle of friends, her face dark.

He Ran looked at her deleting his post and became anxious. He stretched out his hand to grab the phone, “Why are you deleting? Didn’t you ask me to post it??”

He took his phone back, restored the deleted Moments and posted it again.

This time, it could be seen that the likes and comments increased rapidly in half a second. Even from a distance, one could see countless exclamation marks flooding the screen!

Gou An was so anxious that she had changed from sitting on a chair to standing on the chair (so that she was a head taller than He Ran). The two of them fought for the mobile phone, one wanted to break it, one was hiding it——

It was chaos.

Gou An suddenly stopped moving.

He Ran was stunned and looked at her strangely, “What are you up to now?”

Gou An pointed to the mobile phone he was holding high, “Three seconds ago, Lu Wan asked you a question on private chat.”

He Ran suddenly lost his voice.

Gou An’s hand that was originally trying to grab the phone hesitated for a moment, then dropped it down after a few seconds. She patted the stunned young man on the shoulder, “If nothing else, now that you’ve caused all this mess, if she hasn’t deleted you as friend at this moment, I will stand on my head.”

He Ran: “…”

Gou An jumped off the chair, ignored He Ran who was standing in the same place like an ice sculpture, and looked at He Jinxing——

The latter had finally had enough of the farce. At this time, he used his mobile phone to like his nephew’s fresh and warm official announcement in his Moments, raised his head, and said, “Hospital?”

He Ran was very annoying, and Gou An didn’t want to stay with He Jinxing either.

She shook her head and said obediently, “I want to go home…, Young Uncle.”

Reluctantly adding the title, she found that with these two words, the man seemed to become a little more affectionate.

Sure enough, He Jinxing didn’t insist on going to the hospital. He just nodded and called the driver to come over.

Gou An was about to reject him and emphasize that she needed some quiet time. At this time, her arm was grabbed from behind. She turned around and looked at He Ran who was gritting his teeth.

“Where are you going?!”

“Home.”

“What about me!”

“Go chase Lu Wan in tears?”

He Ran finally broke out.

“Gou An! You asked me to post it on Moments! I did it! I didn’t block anyone, not even Lu Wan!” He couldn’t help shouting, “Don’t you know what this means, do you really have no fucking idea? Or are you stupid illiterate?!”

His voice changed its tone at the end.

Gou An blinked at all the yelling and said innocently, “I was only joking, who told you to take it seriously?”

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

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1. I think he means to have a duel. ↩︎