Luo Yu spent some time digesting and accepting the fact that her brother-in-law was Jiang Shenghe.

She had a good impression of the Jiang family. Jiang Yueru has helped her cousin so much over the years—it turned out that everything had a reason.

Luo Qi changed her clothes and went downstairs. Judging from her cousin’s expression, it could be seen that Jiang Shenghe must have already told her.

Luo Yu happily followed her older sister and brother-in-law to lunch, completely forgetting about the man who was waiting for her to come so they could eat together some ten kilometers away.

… …

He Xu looked at his watch for the fifth time. What a liar. She said that she would arrive in half an hour at most, but now an hour has passed and not even her shadow could be seen.

The takeaway he ordered has been reheated twice, and the vegetables has now gotten all soggy.

… …

They bought five sets of wedding dresses all in all. Luo Qi thought three sets were enough. Jiang Shenghe insisted in buying them all because it was rare for Luo Qi to show she liked something.

The photoshoot for their wedding photos were put on the agenda; it was scheduled for the weekend after his birthday.

Since Luo Yu already knew that she and Jiang Shenghe had obtained their marriage certificate, Luo Qi no longer had to go back to the rental house.

Today was her twelfth day at Ruipu Medical, and she was still relaxed. But she would be busy starting next week: He Xu would take her to visit people who were in charge of big accounts in the south.

Luo Qi slept until 7:30 am every day, only making sure to arrive at the company before 9 am. Why would she go in any earlier when she had nothing to do?

Jiang Shenghe had a contract signing this morning and got up earlier than usual. He came out of the cloakroom wearing a suit, holding a tie in one hand.

“You’re awake?”

“Um.”

Luo Qi wrapped herself in a quilt and planned to lie down for a while longer.

Jiang Shenghe walked to the bedside and brought the tie to her, “Tie it for me. You don’t have to get up.”

He leaned over to let her help him fix his tie while lying down.

Luo Qi sat up and said, “This won’t do. This is my first time to fix a tie for you, so I can’t fool around like this.”

She got out of bed and stepped on the carpet with her bare feet.

Luo Qi still remembered how on the morning of the financial summit, he arranged her ID lanyard in the car for her. She did as he did then and was very careful not to touch his neck with her fingertips while she arranged the collar of his shirt to stand up.

But after a few moments of fiddling around with the strip of silk, it seemed that she has forgotten how to tie a tie, and her movements slowly came to a stop.

Jiang Shenghe lowered his eyes to look at her and patiently taught her how to tie it.

Things went much better this time, and Luo Qi was able to tie it for him.

“I have some free time recently, I will study some new tie tying methods for you.”

Jiang Shenghe kissed her cheek, “Thank you.”

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Luo Qi did not go back to sleep. She also started to get ready after Jiang Shenghe left.

She usually arrived at the company around 8:55 am, and there were only a handful of people who arrived later than her.

Shu Rui would probably have a heart attack had he seen her.

Today, she was a full twenty minutes early and met Chi Xin while waiting for the elevator downstairs.

“Ms. Luo, good morning.”

“Good morning.”

Chi Xin was vaguely aware that the new boss had some issues with Cui Peng from Lingjia Capital. After the boss left work yesterday, Cui Peng came to the company at around 5:20 p.m..

She just left last week and here she was again this week.

“Ms. Luo, Cui Peng is on a business trip to Beijing again and should come the company again today.”

“Okay, got it.”

Luo Qi was not afraid to see her; she just felt disgusted seeing her face.

However, she couldn’t very well avoid it since the other party insisted on coming to her door.

Luo Qi was reading the information sent to her by He Xu when Chi Xin knocked on the door saying that Cui Peng was here to see her.

“Tell her that I don’t have time. Let her go to wherever else she likes.”

“Cui Peng said she wanted to talk to you about the 9.2 million debt, and that the IOU is with her.”

Luo Qi paused while flipping through the information. Nine million two hundred thousand was the amount their family still owed to Eldest Uncle’s family. How did the IOU end up in Cui Peng’s hands?

At this point, it didn’t matter if Luo Qi didn’t want to see her.

Cui Peng walked in slowly her stiletto heels and closed the door behind her.

“We meet again.”

Without raising her eyes, Luo Qi sent a message to her father: [Dad, what did Eldest Aunt do with the IOU? Do you know?]

Eldest Aunt was a cautious person and would not easily give away a nine million IOU to just anyone. There was only one situation where Cui Peng could get her paws on the IOU—Eldest Aunt must have assigned the creditor’s rights to Cui Peng.

Luo Zhiqiu quickly replied to his daughter: [“You heard about it so quickly. Your eldest aunt just told me this morning that she bought a house for her parents in Shanghai. It is very close to the hospital and the shopping mall. She paid for it in full. She knew the seller, so part of it was paid in cash and the rest with the IOU.”]

He explained to his daughter so she would not worry: [From now on, the loan will be repaid monthly and will be paid off within three years. It’s better that I owe a stranger than your eldest uncle’s family. I can just pay it every month.]

It was just as Luo Qi thought: Cui Peng has become her family’s creditor.

Luo Qi: [Okay, I understand. Dad, you’re busy.]

Her father didn’t know who Cui Peng was; there was no need to let her father know only to be disgusted by her.

Cui Peng sat down on the chair across the desk, leaned back, and said rather provocatively, “I don’t need to say anything, you should already know about it.”

During this past week, she had been busy moving houses and had had no time to come to Ruipu. She also had other projects on hand, so it was common to work overtime all night.

The ownership of the house has finally been transferred yesterday, and she now had the IOU written by Luo Qi’s father in her hands.

It was she who took the initiative to find Luo Qi’s eldest aunt. She wanted to become Luo Qi’s creditor, but she didn’t have that much cash, so she asked Luo Qi’s eldest aunt if she wanted to buy her house.

She had long wanted to sell the house she had been living in. Cui Peng felt upset every time she went home, remembering how Luo Yu beat her up in front of her own house, so she sold it and exchanged it for a smaller one with better quality.

Coincidentally, Luo Qi’s aunt also wanted to buy a house in Shanghai. Doing it this way, their family would not only recover the loan in advance but she would also pay back the grievances she had suffered under Luo Qi’s hands.

So the cooperation between the two was fast and instant.

Cui Peng’s parents had bought the three-bedroom house for her when she was still in elementary school, and it had been quite cheap at the time.

After Cui Peng sold the house, she was able to buy a boutique apartment. She still had some money left in her hand, and she would even receive repayments from Luo Qi every month in the future.

Luo Qi’s eldest aunt did not face a loss either. The price Cui Peng wanted for the house was not high, and the furniture in it were all well maintained. All the furniture were sold along with the house, and the new owner could move in immediately.

Cui Peng took out a copy of the bank statement from her bag. The bottom half of the page was a photocopy of the IOU written by Luo Qi’s father, as well as Eldest Aunt’s handwritten waiver transferring the creditor’s rights to Cui Peng.

She pushed it across the desk towards Luo Qi, “This is my bank account. From now on, you can just transfer money to it on the 15th of every month.”

She smiled. “Of course, if you can pay it off in one go, that’s also fine.”

Seventh Year of My Secret Love for You translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 49.4 — I Am Your Brother-in-Law