He Ran was over 1.8 meters tall and was the captain of the basketball team. Even as he was playing in the university league, a club had already contacted him and asked him if he wanted to play professionally. He Ran didn’t look strong, but in fact he has already developed the muscles to be as strong as an ox on the court. 

At this moment, he was so enraged that he twisted his body forcefully. Originally, he only wanted to break free from the restraints, but he didn’t expect that his action would cause Gou An—who had been holding him back—to be thrown away!

Gou An was caught off guard, unable to withstand such a huge force. She lost her balance and her back slammed into the wall heavily. Her eyesight went dark, and she couldn’t straighten her back due to the pain!

“An’an!”

“Gou An?!”

Two screams rang out at the same time. 

Gou An sat on the ground in pain, holding her back, unable to utter a word. 

Her mind was stuffed full of thoughts: Alright, it’s my turn to be in this dog blood story of ‘two men fighting over one woman’. Even if the author didn’t put so many words into it, it’s still my highlight moment!

She leaned against the wall and distractedly watched as these two arrogant people who had been about to fight each other now run towards her—

He Ran was closer to her, and just as he bent down and was about to touch Gou An’s arm to pick her up from the ground, a third figure rushed out from the side and knocked He Ran directly to the other wall!

“Don’t touch her!”

The boy’s voice was in the process of changing, and its hoarseness carried a hint of magnetism of a person who had just recently matured.

Gou An, still holding her back, raised her head blankly and saw her good-for-nothing little brother who had ran away from home these past few days, wearing a waiter’s apron, pressing He Ran firmly to the ground—

“Why are you here— Let me go! Gou Xun! What do you want??”

“You cheated first!”

“??? What the fuck—???”

While He Ran was cursing and trying to get up, Zhou Yanji seized the opportunity. He rushed over and stomped hard on He Ran’s shoulder!

He Ran screamed and fell back to the ground. Gou Xun punched him!

Gou An: “…”

A three-way melee.

The final outcome was that the respective parents from the He, Zhou, and Gou families were dug out of their warm beds in the middle of the night and gathered around the campfire to chat in the mediation room of the police station.

……

While sitting at the police station, Gou Xun turned away with a firmly uncooperative look and refused to look at Gou An. He Ran was locked up like a monkey because of his excessive temper. Only Zhou Yanji, with his bruised nose, turned around and asked her, “Is your back okay?”

When he asked, Gou Xun turned his face slightly towards this side but quickly turned back again.

Gou An raised her hand and felt around her back. It hurt; it might have already turned blue.

She waved her hands tiredly, “No need to go to the hospital.”

This cryptic answer was the only one she could give.

After waiting for a while, the Gou parents arrived first. Jiang Yuan rushed in, ignoring her son with a bruised face, and pounced on her daughter. “Your brother said you hit your back. Let Mom take a look—“

Gou Xun’s ears turned suspiciously red, and he turned his head away in an instant, frowning and trying to save face, “I didn’t say that, where did you even hear it from?”

As soon as he finished speaking, Gou Yu grabbed his head with his big hand and said, “Shut your mouth.”

Zhou Yanji’s mother arrived later, and the last to come was He Jinxing.

No one expected that the person who would come from the He family was this King of Hell. When the figure in a suit and leather shoes appeared at the door of the police station, everyone inside was stunned.

The man’s lips still maintained that arc that didn’t really have much warmth at all, but he explained quite timely and very considerately, “Eldest ge hasn’t returned to the country yet, so I came on his behalf.”

He had just been called over from the company, too.

His facial features were like the most perfect work of an artist’s chisel, with upturned lip corners and a clearly defined jawline… 

The current head of the He family seemed too young compared to his peers present, but now that he has appeared, his calm aura was not inferior to anyone else.

It seemed that just standing there could make even the restless air become peaceful and obedient.

He walked in slowly and did not rush to rescue He Ran. Instead, he apologized to the parents of the other two families in a polite manner and promised that if any problems arose later, he would actively cooperate in resolving them.

These words calmed down Mrs. Zhou, who had already been showing her dissatisfaction. “No matter what, you can’t hit people. It was your He Ran who refused to be with An’an before. Now that the engagement is already broken off, can our Zhou Yanji still not chase her? He has such a bad temper and even caused poor An’an to hit her back—”

Zhou Yanji’s face was already bruised before and now had gone red all over. He tugged at his mother’s sleeve, signaling her to stop talking.

He Jinxing’s face remained expressionless; he just nodded with a smile.

His eyes lightly passed over the face of the young master of the Zhou family and then retracted.

Looking from the side, from Gou An’s perspective, although his expression didn’t seem to change from beginning to end, for a moment, she felt that he was actually unhappy.

Although… there was no basis for this that she could point to; it was pure conjecture on her part.

Gou An was still daydreaming when she suddenly heard a man’s voice, low and slow, asking, “Did you hit your back?”

She was stunned for a moment, then raised her head and met the man’s inky black eyes. At this moment, he was looking down at her as she sat on the chair with her hand on her back, unable to move. His attitude of an elder caring for someone from the younger generation was picture perfect.

Jiang Yuan lifted Gou An’s clothes slightly from behind and took a look. She saw a patch of blue on her daughter’s delicate white skin, a visible bruising. “It’s all bruised.”

She was so distressed that she almost forgot her manners and looked unhappy. “I’ll take her to the hospital later.”

He Jinxing was already calling to arrange for He’s private hospital to be ready to receive the patient. Even the old director of the orthopedics department was woken up from his sleep for no reason.

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At this time, Gou Yu had already completed the formalities for Gou Xun and came out from inside.

He was stunned when he saw He Jinxing.

Although He Ran was the most seriously injured among the three and was obviously beaten up by the other two, Gou Yu felt that it was a 50-50 match, and he didn’t feel embarrassed at all.

After checking the bar’s surveillance camera, it was clear that Gou An was injured by mistake while trying to stop a fight. He Ran definitely didn’t do it on purpose because he was obviously also frightened when it happened, and that might be the reason why—even though He Ran had gone crazy earlier—he didn’t touch Gou Xun at all. 

Instead, it was Gou Xun who held him down and punched him several times.

But it was a fact that Gou An was injured, and He Ran deserved it.

So the two families were even.

“Want to smoke?” Gou Yu asked.

He Jinxing’s eyes inadvertently swept over Gou An who was curled up in a chair, talking to her mother, nestled in her arms.

“Go out and smoke.” He turned around and walked out the door first.

It seemed that he was not in the least bit concerned about his nephew’s life or death.

… …

The two elders found an open space in front of the police station.

The tall figures stood shoulder to shoulder, politely lighting each other’s cigarettes. He Jinxing held the cigarette butt in his mouth and said in a vague voice, “If I had a daughter, I would have to have ten people follow her when she goes out for me to feel at ease.”

“…”

Gou Yu glanced at him and asked, “Are you teaching me how to raise my daughter?”

He Jinxing chuckled softly, thought for a moment and said, “You have to watch her carefully. If you can’t watch her even for a little bit, she’ll get hurt.”

The video surveillance of Gou An having things thrown at her during her freshmen opening speech had been shown to him by He Jinxing in the study room that day. It showed Gou An being bullied while He Ran was hugging another girl. It was outrageous.

He decided to cancel their engagement without hesitation. He Jinxing showed no objection at all and only insisted on keeping the engagement between the two families in place.

Gou Yu had been so annoyed that he wanted to ask if they wanted to marry Gou Xun, and he even hit him with a folder.

Gou Yu was silent for a moment. In fact, he felt that what He Jinxing said made sense. He only had this one precious daughter, and she seemed to be having bad luck recently…

She needed someone to watch over her. She hit her back this time—who knew where she might get injured next time.

Just as he was about say something in agreement, Gou Yu suddenly sensed something was wrong.

He paused sharply and said something quite shocking, “Why do you care about her so much?”

“…”

He Jinxing was silent for three seconds and bit the cigarette butt.

Then he spoke, using euphemisms, “Although the engagement partner has not been decided, one thing is certain.”

“?”

“She is also a junior of our He family.”

“…”

Gou Yu said, “Oh”.

Perhaps straight men’s thoughts were always too simple and straightforward.

Faced with He Jinxing’s bland answer, Gou Yu at this moment didn’t feel that there was anything wrong after all.

From the Day the Engagement was Broken translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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T/N:  I find hilarious that Gou Yu is about ready to throw Gou Xun into the marriage arrangement with the He family that only has sons 😂

‘Straight man’ here is not sexual orientation. It’s the mindset of a stereotypical man—women are prettier with long hair, girls always like pink, etc.. It’s hinting that Gou Yu’s mindset is not flexible enough to see the big, bad, pig uncle eyeing his precious cabbage just because he’s of the ‘older generation’ when technically there’s only 7 or so years difference between them.

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Chapter 27.1 — Use Lu Wan to Exchange for Gou An
Chapter 27.2 — Use Lu Wan to Exchange for Gou An
Chapter 27.3 — Use Lu Wan to Exchange for Gou An