Completely unaware that her every move was bathed in the loving gaze of a certain ‘elder’, at this moment, Miss Gou raised her pointed little chin like a proud peacock and was busy making things difficult for her bodyguard.

——It wasn’t that she was interested in the heroine of the original novel. Before she met Ye Lang, she wanted to avoid Lu Wan when she saw her and rarely took the initiative to provoke her.

This was until the truth came out—the hideous truth that had been hidden under the peaceful situation.

She could admit it: she was jealous.

As long as Ye Lang and Lu Wan appeared in the same geographical location, and their eyes exchanged glances for even a fraction of a second, Gou An would lose her mind and sincerely pray that the earth would explode on the spot.

She just couldn’t accept it.

In the original novel, the vicious female supporting character went crazy and drugged someone. This was something she was designed to do. She wouldn’t cover her mouth and say, ‘Oh my, how could this be possible? How scary’—

That would be so hypocritical.

This was who she was. Gou An, the immature and opposite-of-calm Miss Gou who got dominated by her emotions at every moment. If she went crazy, and if no one was there to warn her and give her the right advice, she knew that she would do something outrageous that it would seem like she had a brain stem defect.

Unfortunately, it was Ye Lang who was facing her, and her sanity was about to go up in flames.

There was a gleam of provocation in her cold eyes.

Fortunately, the bodyguard prided himself on his excellent psychological quality, and he showed no emotional fluctuations when confronted with her outrageous demands. He simply raised his eyelids and glanced at Lu Wan, who was not far away and had no idea that she was about to suffer a disaster.

Gou Xun bent down and whispered something in her ear. She tilted her head and smiled sweetly at the boy, making a ‘see you later’ gesture to him, her smile beautiful.

Gou Xun walked away, leaving Lu Wan alone, to go up to a group of second-generation rich kids who were eager for his approach and wanting to chat him up.

It was only after being harassed for the first time at the ice cream shop that Ye Lang finally thought of asking what was going on. He asked someone at random and learned that Gou An actually disliked his neighbor from the tube-shaped building…

The driver, Xiao Zhang, talked about the whole process. It seemed that the specific reason that he was disliked was because of the love-hate relationship between their young miss and the young master of the He family.

At this point, Ye Lang was actually a little confused. It was He Ran who committed the sin, so why am I the one who suffered so frequently?

Was it because Lu Wan and I were neighbors?

He frowned slightly.

“What does you frowning mean?” Gou An, obsessed with details, asked, “Are you unwilling?”

“I noticed when we came here just now,” Ye Lang said in a respectful and cautious tone, “that iced drinks are already being served in the banquet hall.”

——There was no sun in the banquet hall, so you won’t be exposed to the sun. There was also iced soda. Please go there to escape the heat.

This was his subtext.

It was obvious that Gou An understood his meaning.

Because in the next second, Ye Lang found that the almond-shaped, limpid eyes blurred and rippled, and then a raging flame ignited within.

…What happened this time?

Ye Lang was stunned and finally closed his mouth in confusion.

The corner of Gou An’s lips pulled up, and she said, “I just want to stand here and feel the sea breeze. I don’t want to go to the banquet hall.”

“The sun will set soon.”

“But I don’t want to bask in the sun for even a second longer.” Gou An frowned impatiently, “Why, is it so difficult for you to do something?”

“Hypothetical question.”

“What?”

“What happens if I refuse?”

“You’ll be unemployed, you don’t have to wait until tomorrow,” Gou An said firmly. “I’ll stand on the side of the ship until Dad signs your termination letter and slaps it on your face, otherwise I’ll jump off the side.”

Ye Lang looked down at the rich, young lady before him, trying to find even the slightest hint of a joke on this delicate, beautiful, yet headstrong, almost slappable face…

Unfortunately, her eyes were wide open and she couldn’t be more serious.

Ye Lang sighed silently. He had never had so many headaches in his life as he had in the last few days. He raised his hands and stuffed the young lady who kept saying ‘I would rather have the sea breeze than the sun’ into the shade under the eaves.

Then.

He turned and walked towards the girl in a white dress standing not far away.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Lu Wan was standing by the side of the boat feeding seagulls. The sea breeze blew up the corner of her skirt. She raised her hand to hold down her sun hat to prevent it from being blown away by the sea breeze. A corner of the hat was lifted up by the wind, revealing her fair face.

A flock of birds flew by, occasionally hovering to peck at the bread in her hand. She broke the bread crumbs and scattered them, and the rustling of the birds’ feathers drowned out the sound of the waters.

The heroine in the story always seemed to be like this. While chatting and laughing, she became the most beautiful painting in the eyes of others.

No one knew where Gou Xun had run off to. Lu Wan was just showing off her charm of being close to nature like a Disney princess, when suddenly she saw a tall and straight figure approaching from the corner of her eye.

She subconsciously turned her head, and the first second she saw Ye Lang’s face, she smiled in surprise and waved at him, “A’Lang, you are here too!”

Faced with this smiling face, Ye Lang was a little hesitant.

He turned around to look at Miss Gou who was standing under the eaves. She was looking at him expressionlessly with her arms folded.

“…”

As an innocent participant in this play, Ye Lang instantly felt a little more disgusted with He Ran. After hesitating for a long time, he finally gave up on making too many excuses or hypocritical greetings.

“Wanwan,” Ye Lang said abruptly, “lend me your hat.”

The smile on Lu Wan’s face paused, and then she showed a hesitant expression. “What?”

Ye Lang pointed at the sunhat on her head, his face expressionless. “This.”

Lu Wan also pointed at the hat, the confusion on her face becoming more vivid. “This? A straw hat? You want it?”

The straw hat on her head had a wide brim, woven in pale straw color. The shape was undoubtedly a women’s style. Even if you ignored the shape of the hat, the cute strawberries and little rabbits decorating it did not match the stern-faced man in a suit in front of her.

A huge question mark popped up on top of her head.

Lu Wan touched the brim of her hat with one finger in a daze and looked at the sky… Was the sun too strong today that it made A’Lang dizzy?

Just when she was extremely confused, as if hearing her inner doubts, the man in front of her said stiffly, “It’s not me, it’s Gou An. She said the sun’s too hot.”

Lu Wan subconsciously turned sideways, and from the side of the door-like figure in front of her, she saw a little miss standing in the shade about seven or eight meters behind him…

Not even a single eyelash on her body was in the sun.

Lu Wan was completely stunned. “Gou An? Does she want my sun hat?”

Ye Lang also thought this idea was so ridiculous that he didn’t want to argue about it any further. “Yes, give it to me. I’ll buy you another one later.”

His voice was hard.

He felt a little impatient, but he didn’t know who this impatience was directed at.

Lu Wan hesitated for a moment but in the end didn’t say much. She bent down and took off her sun hat. A gust of sea breeze blew her soft, long hair—which had now lost its protection—into a mess.

She handed the sun hat to Ye Lang with both hands. When the latter was about to take it, she finally couldn’t help but whisper, “Is being a bodyguard this difficult?”

“What?”

“You have to do whatever she tells you to do.”

“…”

“She seems to hate seeing me and anyone she knows in the same place at the same time. She always gets angry or something. Think about the last time in the ice cream shop—”

No.

That time at the ice cream shop wasn’t the first.

The first time was in the closet at my house. After seeing you, she seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit.

From then on, I never saw her in a good mood again.

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

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Chapter 38.2 — Uncle Perky Butt
Chapter 38.3 — Uncle Perky Butt
Chapter 39.1 — What Kind of Lousy Defense?
Chapter 39.2 — What Kind of Lousy Defense?
Chapter 39.3 — What Kind of Lousy Defense?
Chapter 40.1 — People in Jiangcheng are Just so Idle
Chapter 40.2 — People in Jiangcheng are Just so Idle
Chapter 40.3 — People in Jiangcheng are Just so Idle