My Clingy Fiancée Is Forcing Me to Marry Her Again - Chapter 15

The Letter of Cancellation

“Sorry, I can’t go see the sunset today.”

There are always various setbacks on the path to cancelling an engagement.

Li Fangge couldn’t leave the house, so she sent this message to Guan Xiaoyu around five o’clock.

Half an hour passed, and there was no reply. Could that delicate flower already be weeping against the sea breeze?

Li Fangge shook her head. Impossible. Guan Xiaoyu was a direct type; she wouldn’t hide and cry alone. Crying and questioning others was her style.

As for the reason she couldn’t go, she really didn’t want to explain too much.

After all, if a car is out of gas, you can fill it up; failing that, there’s always public transport—

The problem was, the Scumbag Alpha’s card was completely empty. Borrowing money was too unfamiliar to Li Fangge; besides, her self-respect wouldn’t allow her to ask anyone.

In her mind, the Scumbag Alpha knew no less than a hundred ways to expertly con money.

Although notorious, if she just asked, she could certainly get money to go out.

Cheating money was beneath Li Fangge, and she couldn’t bring herself to beg for a loan.

Ultimately, she decided to skip the reason for missing the appointment. She had already messaged the delicate flower, after all.

As for the prepared letter of disengagement, Li Fangge planned to give it to Guan Xiaoyu when she came looking for her.

“Miss Heguo, you should be leaving.”

Chen Qiaoyi abruptly appeared before Li Fangge, who was pacing the living room, and reminded her with an expressionless face.

Li Fangge stopped, saying blankly, “I don’t want to go anymore.”

“Miss Heguo is playing with Miss Guan like this—”

“How am I playing with her?”

Li Fangge pulled out her phone and held up the message interface she had sent to Guan Xiaoyu, even though the other party still hadn’t replied.

Li Fangge stared coldly at Chen Qiaoyi, thinking that making her drive a tractor under the hot sun to mow the lawn still hadn’t enlightened her. The job of a housekeeper was still too easy for the efficient woman.

It was all because she’d talked too much during lunch, exposing her afternoon appointment with Guan Xiaoyu.

Yin Xiaoyu had happily taken a break upon hearing she didn’t need to cook dinner.

As for Chen Qiaoyi, she remained so unromantic. When offered a holiday, she said she couldn’t take time off outside her contracted vacation days.

“Miss Heguo breaking the appointment without cause is playing with her.”

“Whatever you say, then.”

Li Fangge couldn’t be bothered to argue. “I’ll have to trouble Sister Yi with dinner tonight.”

“Apologies, three meals a day are not within my duties.”

“If I starve, is that within your duties?”

“…” Chen Qiaoyi mumbled, her expression becoming unnatural.

“Just make anything; I’m not picky.”

“If Miss Heguo doesn’t mind, you can drive my car.”

“….No need.”

So, she knew everything!

Li Fangge suddenly couldn’t look directly at this woman who kept her shirt buttoned up to her neck, even when driving a tractor to mow the lawn.

“I’ll go cook,” Chen Qiaoyi said.

Watching her upright figure walk away, Li Fangge realized she wasn’t entirely unromantic.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang.

Chen Qiaoyi, heading toward the kitchen, instinctively veered towards the door.

A moment later, she returned: “Miss Heguo, it’s Miss Guan—”

Perfect timing. Li Fangge said, “I’ll get it.”

“Couldn’t they just be let in?”

Li Fangge didn’t commit, stepping past Chen Qiaoyi.

Walking across the yard to the main gate took five or six minutes; it wasn’t close.

But Li Fangge didn’t intend to let Guan Xiaoyu inside, to avoid further complications.

To keep it short and simple, she planned to settle the matter of the broken engagement at the gate.

Driven by the conscience that one person being unfortunate enough to jump into a pit of fire was enough, and for the sake of her own survival, Li Fangge had stayed up all night to write the letter of cancellation. She detailed her unspoken rejection of Guan Xiaoyu clearly and logically.

After writing it, she copied it out again; she was very satisfied with her bold and flowing handwriting.

Given her current terrible situation, no matter how much Guan Xiaoyu liked her, there was no reason for her to disagree with the cancellation.

Li Fangge, holding the prepared letter, calmly walked out the door.

It was the time of sunset; the air was warm and cozy.

Li Fangge wore a striking red and black sportswear top, paired with black and white wide-striped palazzo pants, and still had on her casual and cool flip-flops.

If her former fans saw her dressed so casually,

Li Fangge thought they would definitely not recognize her, as her former dressing labels were refined, dazzling, avant-garde, unique, and distinctive—

Now, she looked like an uninhibited, laid-back older sister.

She wouldn’t deny that this way of dressing was indeed comfortable, but it was still too relaxed.

Before opening the gate, Li Fangge had prepared herself for Guan Xiaoyu’s tearful onslaught.

Contrary to her expectation, she wasn’t crying today.

Guan Xiaoyu stood quietly in the sunset like a delicate, sweet white flower, looking obedient and lovely.

Upon seeing Li Fangge step out, she didn’t rush forward and call out “Sister” intimately as she usually did. In fact, there was no questioning look in her clear, bright eyes, and her luminous white face showed no obvious expression.

Li Fangge, gripping the envelope in her hand, approached Guan Xiaoyu.

She stopped and saw that Guan Xiaoyu still hadn’t opened her mouth.

“I’m sorry,” Li Fangge spoke first.

She was indeed obligated to apologize.

She was the one who had invited her to the beach but had flaked out due to a loss of face.

Now that Guan Xiaoyu had come to find her, she still had to tell her something she didn’t want to hear—

“Sister Li, why?” Guan Xiaoyu slightly raised her head, looking into Li Fangge’s eyes.

It was as if she already understood that her “sorry” meant more than just a temporary broken appointment.

Before the conversation even began, Li Fangge felt a strange sense of guilt.

The day before yesterday, and the night before, she had been caught up by some unknown force,

She had involuntarily acquiesced to Guan Xiaoyu’s closeness;

And yesterday morning, when Guan Xiaoyu said she was in her heart, she couldn’t deny it either—

Li Fangge extended the envelope in her right hand to Guan Xiaoyu, “Read this first, and then we’ll talk.”

Written over nearly a thousand words,

Li Fangge had thoroughly explained everything from the night before last and yesterday morning, as well as the necessity and the difficulties she faced in not being able to fulfill the marriage contract…

“Why couldn’t Sister Li go see the sunset today?”

Guan Xiaoyu didn’t take the letter. She kept looking into Li Fangge’s eyes, her gaze seeming to reproach, implying that she should have explained this to her even without being asked.

“Do you really want to know?”

Can’t you let me off the hook, little sister?

Although guilty, Li Fangge did not flinch from the direct stare.

“Does Sister Li want to tell me?”

“Sister’s car ran out of gas.”

It hadn’t felt like much when Chen Qiaoyi figured it out.

Li Fangge hadn’t expected the level of shame to spike upon saying those words while looking into Guan Xiaoyu’s eyes.

This was arguably the most embarrassing moment of her life so far; she wanted to vanish into a puff of smoke right there.

“If that’s all, why didn’t Sister call me to pick you up?”

Guan Xiaoyu pressed on, her tone conveying the implication that there are always excuses for things one doesn’t want to do, and is that really all?

“If it were you, would you?”

“Sister Li clearly knows I would.”

“Oh.”

Indeed, Guan Xiaoyu definitely would.

Li Fangge added, “We are a bit different.”

“In what way?”

“You’ll understand after reading this letter.”

Li Fangge again offered the letter to her.

Guan Xiaoyu still didn’t take it. “I’m standing in front of Sister now. Wouldn’t it be better to say whatever you have to say face-to-face?”

“There are some things Sister can’t say out loud.”

Li Fangge forgot the shame she had just felt,

And gently tapped Guan Xiaoyu’s forearm with the edge of the envelope, pleading with her to take it quickly.

“If you say that, it means it’s not good news.”

Li Fangge silently agreed.

The delicate flower finally took the envelope, but her eyes remained fixed on Li Fangge.

After a long moment, she lowered her head to open the envelope, and only then did Li Fangge realize that the distant sunset had already faded from their surroundings—