Ye Lang added a lot of things in his mind, but remained silent.

“But we’re just talking normally, why would she be upset about this?”

“…”

Is Gou An unhappy because I’m talking to you?

Ye Lang was surprised by her perspective.

He immediately turned around and glanced at Miss Gou behind him. Sure enough, her face was full of impatience, and she was probably thinking, ‘Have you said enough?’

“…”

“But you’re still a little special.”

Ye Lang turned his gaze back to Lu Wan’s face, finding it hard to convince himself, pretending not to care.

Perhaps his strange gaze was too direct, so Lu Wan smiled. “Anyway, Gou An wasn’t that angry when she saw me with He Ran or Gou Xun… Most of the time, she would scold them, but she wouldn’t order them around to pick a fight and try to make me feel unhappy.”

“…”

Yeah?

Are you sure she just doesn’t think that the bodyguard is easy to bully?

Ye Lang denied it without even thinking, “She probably just simply hates you.”

Lu Wan: “…”

Lu Wan was a little helpless by the bluntness of the person in front of her. She clenched the hat in her hand, “So, I’ve warned you!”

“Hm?”

“I said, in most cases, Gou An ‘wouldn’t use them to cause trouble and try to make me unhappy.’” Lu Wan had to make it clear. “Isn’t that obvious enough? What I mean is, you knew I might be unhappy if you take the hat, but even so, you still want me to lend it to her?”

Ye Lang said without hesitation, “I will buy another one for you.”

What this meant was: right now, you have to let me have it.

“But I feel the sun, too!” Lu Wan muttered softly, but before Ye Lang could respond, she smiled and stuffed the sun hat in her hand into Ye Lang’s. “Okay! Keeping your job is more important. Here, here you go! Take it and report back!”

Ye Lang held the hat and took a while to react. Should he apologize politely?

After all, he asked for other people’s things for no reason.

But apart from the momentary loss just now, Lu Wan didn’t seem to be particularly unhappy.

So Ye Lang raised his hand and waved the hat in his hand to express his gratitude, then turned and went to the direction he came from. He didn’t even look back to see the emotion on the face of the person behind him. He turned his back and never looked back again.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

Ye Lang had only been away for less than five minutes but in that short time Miss Gou was forced into some unexpected encounter.

She was unexpectedly entangled with a second-generation rich guy, the eldest son of the Xu family. Gou An couldn’t remember his name, but she remembered that his family’s business conflicted with hers, and they were originally competitors…

That wasn’t all. The daughter of this family, Xu Ke, was very annoying, a cunning person, and she spoke ill of Gou An everywhere.

During the days when Gou An was unlucky the previous month, she was the one who was happily jumping around on various social media platforms, making indirect insinuations and outright false accusations.

“My sister wants to ask what your necklace is made of.”

The person in front of her thought that he was very charming and good at chatting, and he zeroed in on the eye-catching accessory that made Gou An the center of everyone’s discussion tonight. He probably thought that complimenting this necklace would make her very happy.

In fact, Gou An frowned, thinking ‘What’s it to you, go away’ in her mind, but out of politeness, she did not say it out loud and chase him away on the spot——

Until this person in front of her took out his phone and said, “Let’s add each other on WeChat. Maybe I’ll order the same necklace as a birthday present for my sister later…”

Gou An finally couldn’t stand it anymore and was about to tell him to get away.

“You can’t order this.”

Behind her, a tall figure spoke up, casting a shadow that enveloped her.

A slow, mature, male voice sounded from a close distance behind her.

“I spent some time getting the design from Chen Jinli, and I only made this one collaboration, so no matter how beautiful it is, there’s only this one in the world… Sorry.”

The man’s voice sounded as gentle as ever. Gou An turned around and saw that the man who was supposed to be playing golf with the other old men on the deck upstairs had run down for some reason.

Damn it, could it be that he ran down here because he saw Lu Wan?

Gou An frowned, and naturally had no intention of paying attention to the QR code scanning interface that was being shoved under her nose.

The young master of the Xu family, who had come to chat with her, was initially a little angry and embarrassed at being forcibly interrupted. He turned and was about to explode, but when he looked into the dark eyes of the person who had come up, he instantly felt like he had pushed open the door to the palace of Hades.

At this moment, He Jinxing was wearing a white and blue dark striped suit that gave a youthful air. It made him look not much different from He Ran and the other second-generation rich guys around him…

Apart from a watch, he had no other accessories on his body.

The man stood there with his brows relaxed, looking like he was in a good mood.

“An’an,” he affectionately called her by her nickname, like a normal elder, “Why are you looking at me with such bitterness and resentment? Are you disgusted with me for ruining your good fortune?”

“…”

She had no idea how long he had been standing there watching her. He could clearly see the reluctance and disgust on her face, but he was still pretending otherwise.

This person was simply outrageous.

Gou An smiled stiffly at He Jinxing but didn’t have the courage to expose his hypocrisy. She turned around and said ‘sorry’ to this Xu something (whose name she didn’t know at all), then immediately turned back to He Jinxing and asked, “Why did Young Uncle come down here?”

“He Yuan is here. Grandpa was worried that he wouldn’t be familiar with the place and might have forgotten all his Chinese, so he insisted I go pick him up.” He Jinxing said, “Do you want to come with me?”

“…”

You gave me a guy who can’t even speak Chinese and asked me to dance with him tonight?

So what should we do when dancing? Should we just smile awkwardly and look at each other in silence for the whole dance?

Gou An felt helpless, but she did not refuse He Jinxing’s intention to take her away from the scene. She said ‘Okay’ weakly and took a step closer to him.

The man surnamed Xu’s eyes moved back and forth between the two of them.

One looked like an eggplant hit by frost, but her attention wasn’t on him at all.

The other politely nodded to him and said, “Sorry, I’ll take her away first.” However, the tall figure’s momentum of leaving was too strong, and he didn’t even have the chance to say ‘no’.

The man surnamed Xu had no choice but to give way.

… …

Before Gou An left, she saw Ye Lang coming back out of the corner of her eye after successfully getting Lu Wan’s sun hat.

Holding the accessory that was totally inconsistent with his image, the bodyguard stood in the sunlight not far away, seeming a little hesitant, not knowing whether he should call her.

Gou An raised the corners of her lips tiredly and whispered to He Jinxing, asking him to wait for a minute.

When the man stopped walking cooperatively, she turned and walked towards her bodyguard.

“You really got it.”

There wasn’t much joy in her tone, nor did she show the kind of joy she would have shown after asking Ye Lang to choose between her and Lu Wan, and him finally choosing her.

“Just leave it with you,” Gou An said. “I have to go meet a guest now.”

Ye Lang lowered his head, not understanding why she always looked like she was being bullied even though she was clearly the one who had bullied others. He couldn’t put his finger on what he disliked about this, but he just felt a little frustrated.

He had already done what she asked, so why did she still look unhappy?

Ye Lang was not a soft persimmon that could be easily bullied. Upon hearing this, he calmly raised his eyelids, and then without saying anything, he raised his hand and knocked the hat, which still had someone else’s scent on it, on Gou An’s head!

The force was so great that she was caught off guard and her feet staggered.

“What are you doing—”

“You’ll get sunburned on the way to the reception room,” the bodyguard said sternly. “Wear it properly.”

“…”

Gou An ripped the sun hat, which didn’t match her outfit at all, off her head and threw it back at Ye Lang, saying angrily, “I don’t want Lu Wan’s things!”

This time she wasn’t even pretending anymore.

“What are you angry about?”

“None of your business!”

He has heard this sentence many times from her.

The sun hat was slammed back on his chest. Miss Gou angrily adjusted her hair with her fingers, turned around and took two steps towards Mr. He who was waiting there.

As if remembering something, she turned around abruptly and said to Ye Lang fiercely, “Just try to give it back to her!”

“Oh.”

“What ‘Oh’? Talk properly!”

“I won’t.”

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

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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