Her cousin was looking at her, so Cui Peng could only try her best to save face. 

She knew Pei Shixiao would not ignore her feelings, and her eyes instantly turned red. “I said from the beginning that it was my fault. I shouldn’t have been attracted to you when things were unclear. I have nothing now. It’s not that I haven’t waited for you. I waited for you for a year, but you didn’t send me any messages or answer any of my phone calls. Your mother’s secretary also threatened me several times. 

“I had no choice. When I missed you desperately, I could only go to the places you often went to just to see if I could run into you by chance. In a year, I only ran into you once in a restaurant.

“I admit that I have no future with you but I couldn’t let you go. I tried every means to get a spot in the financial summit with Yu Bo, but you still ignored me. What else can I do?”

As she spoke, tears began to fall.

She really fell in love with Pei Shixiao, and she had had a hard time this past year.

“There’s no hope being with you. Is it wrong for me to let you go and want to start my own life?” She glanced in Shu Rui’s direction.

As long as Pei Shixiao doesn’t expose her, she can get through this hurdle with her cousin.

Pei Shixiao said, “It was my own fault that I cheated on Luo Qi. I never blamed you for any of this. But you shouldn’t say that I deceived you that I was single. I never once took off my engagement ring. There are many surveillance cameras in the company. You can see it clearly just by looking at any of the ones in the elevator. My engagement ring should also be seen in the video taken by Luo Yu.

“Also, all my vacation time these past few years, I spent it with Luo Qi. You can easily check this. How could I have a clone to accompany you on a non-business trip?”

“Ms. Cui,” he looked at Cui Ran, “I’ll let my lawyer contact you. The evidence you need will be provided in the form of surveillance video.

“I have a meeting, I will leave first.”

Before leaving, he looked at Luo Qi again.

Whenever he had an excuse, he would rush to come just to see her.

From now on, there would probably be no more excuses.

The farce was finally over.

… …

Cui Peng burst into tears in front of her cousin.

Cui Ran had a headache and pressed her fingers hard into temple.

As she was leaving, Cui Peng glared at Luo Qi angrily, “Do you think you are more noble than me? I’m just waiting to see what happens to you. I heard that he has already obtained a marriage certificate, and you still want to climb higher? Dream on!”

Who was this ‘he’?

Cui Ran and Shu Rui were both confused.

But now, the office has finally quieted down.

Cui Ran signed the contract with Ruipu without saying a word from beginning to end.

… …

After leaving Linghong, Luo Qi didn’t take Linghong’s car but instead took a taxi to the high-speed railway station.

Originally, the contract would not be formally signed until tomorrow morning, but Cui Ran signed it right there and then ahead of schedule.

Shu Rui asked his secretary to cancel the hotel reservations and to buy them tickets for an evening train back to Beijing.

“Mr. Shu, have you ever thought about getting more money?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Rent.”

“Where would the rent money come from?”

“Rent out our current office space.”

Shu Rui understood that she wanted to move to Yuanwei Building.

“Ruipu doesn’t need that little bit of rent money.”

Luo Qi didn’t argue with him. Anyway, he definitely didn’t want to move.

“I’m not discussing this with you.” There was nothing to discuss with this person. “We’ll move after the New Year. You yourself don’t have to move. But I’ll take the others with me.”

“…”

Luo Qi was not at all worried that the employees would not support her. After all, she had improved the canteen food, the office environment, and set the example of getting off work on time.

In Chi Xin’s words, she was quite popular with the populace.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

When they got on the high-speed train, Luo Qi reported to Jiang Shenghe: [Husband, I’m on my way back.]

Jiang Shenghe called directly. She said when she left that she would stay in Shanghai for one night.

“Are things not going well?”

“It went very smoothly.”

All thanks to Cui Peng.

This time—because of Ruipu’s plan to give up the high-end market—it would also bring a lot of trouble to Linghong as a consequence. Cui Ran would definitely want to lower the purchase price as compensation. However, because of Cui Peng’s behavior, Cui Ran knew that she was in the wrong and did not even dare to ask to lower the price. 

She signed the contract and had to swallow a lot anger.

Jiang Shenghe, “I’ll pick you up now.”

“Don’t worry, I just got on the train.”

“I’m not doing much at the company, I’ll wait for you at the station.”

Jiang Shenghe used WeChat on the web to send a message to the driver, asking him to go off work early and just leave the car to him.

… …

Later he drove to pick up Luo Qi himself.

On the way to the train station, he received a call from his mother.

Liang Zhen told her son that she had already chosen names for the two puppies after discussing it with her husband.

At the time, when her husband heard that she wanted to discuss naming the two puppies, he was so angry that he almost hung up the phone.

“You two think I have this much free time?!”

She had to explain to her husband that their youngest son actually wanted to ease the relationship between them and was trying to make them feel involved in his matters.

After her husband calmed down, he thought of two names: ‘Doudou’ and ‘Mimi’. These were the two musical notes he was most familiar with, so he named them based on how it sounded.

“Your father chose the names. If you think it’s not okay, then just keep thinking about it some more.”

Jiang Shenghe really wanted to say that the names were not very good—but he didn’t say it.

He said against his will, “They’re good.”

How should he tell Luo Qi about these strange-sounding names?

Liang Zhen smiled and said, “I think they’re good too.”

Jiang Shenghe: “…”

He could tell from his mother’s voice how satisfied she was and how happy she was for his father’s efforts to be recognized.

… …

By the time he arrived at the train station, Jiang Shenghe had said the names of the two little puppies out loud several times—they still sounded strange.

He wanted to tell to Luo Qi about it in a text message, but when he typed out the names he ended up deleting them all.

… …

At around ten o’clock, Luo Qi arrived at the station.

Shu Rui’s train seat was far away from hers. When they got off the train, he asked her, “Would you like to take my car?” His car was parked in the parking lot.

“No need. Someone will pick me up.”

Luo Qi waited until Shu Rui walked away before she called Jiang Shenghe.

It was cold, and she was breathing out mists of hot air as she talked.

Jiang Sheng hung up Luo Qi’s call. He had seen Shu Rui turning the corner and disappearing from view, so he slid down the window and called out, “Luo Qi, I’m here.”

Luo Qi walked over quickly with a smile and looked around before getting into the car. There was no one around that she knew.

Jiang Shenghe closed the car window and held her hand.

“Why did you come back early?” Signing a contract was an important matter, and they would not come back early if no special circumstances happened.

Luo Qi knew that she couldn’t hide it, “Anyway, it’s all solved.”

She changed the subject and said something to make him happy, “I’ll move to Yuanwei after the New Year. I will visit you often then.”

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

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T/N: Jiang Shenghe unexpectedly being fed dogfood by his parents hahaha. I think Father Jiang was sweet to think of musical notes; he was clearly thinking of his wife and her love for music 🥰

Only 5 chapters left on the Main story. Then we get 12 Extra chapters. Our couple on their way to a full HE 🥰☺️❤️

Chapter 58.1 — Carry Her Downstairs
Chapter 58.2 — Carry Her Downstairs
Chapter 58.3 — Carry Her Downstairs