My Clingy Fiancée Is Forcing Me to Marry Her Again - Chapter 23

Guan Xiaoyu felt that, given her sister’s personality of hiding everything in her heart, it was already a miracle that she would come to talk about her own affairs.

She suppressed her own emotions, looked at her sister, and adopted an attentive posture.

“Don’t tell Dad about what happened at the bar tonight.”

“What happened at the bar? Are you referring to Sister Li and the others teaching those two hooligans a lesson, or are you referring to you taking that beautiful older sister away—”

Guan Xiaoyan’s face was expressionless.

Guan Xiaoyu had just had a conflict with her parents and hadn’t noticed that her sister had changed her clothes. When she went to Fu sheng Ruo meng, she was wearing a white suit, but she had now changed into a vertically striped shirt.

“There’s nothing between me and Bai Shao,” Guan Xiaoyan said.

“Sis, do you take me for a three-year-old?”

Guan Xiaoyu nearly laughed out of anger. She just said not to tell Dad, and then immediately said there was nothing between them. Isn’t that a contradiction!

“…”

“If there’s nothing between you and that sister, why did you specifically come to my room?”

Guan Xiaoyu hated this about her sister, who never dared to open her heart or trust anyone.

Furious, she added, “If there’s nothing between you two, what do you think I could possibly say?”

“That’s good then.”

Guan Xiaoyan’s face remained calm, but her heart was turbulent.

Judging by her father’s reaction just now, her sister should not have mentioned her and Bai Shao.

“If you’ve finished talking, please leave. I’m very unhappy right now.”

“Ayu, if you were Li Fangge, would you accept Dad’s check?”

“Why bring that up suddenly? Don’t think I’ll thank you.” Guan Xiaoyu remembered that it was her sister who came to her room to tell her about this yesterday.

“Li Fangge is constantly scamming people, I didn’t expect her to refuse Dad for your sake.”

“About that—do you think she refused Dad for my sake?”

Guan Xiaoyu was lying if she said she wasn’t surprised.

Although she desperately wanted to believe in Li Fangge’s character, everything she had done in recent years—even without deliberately checking—her stories would repeatedly reach her ears.

After all, Li Fangge was the person she was engaged to.

“I can’t think of any other reason.”

“I won’t give up on Sister Li.”

Not saying anything was fine, but saying it out loud revealed that she was also not entirely unwavering.

Guan Xiaoyu avoided her sister’s cold gaze and lowered her head.

“Sleep,” Guan Xiaoyan said, turning and leaving her sister’s room.

Guan Xiaoyu watched her sister’s retreating figure.

She thought, if her sister liked that woman, with her personality, she would probably suppress it for a lifetime.

Perhaps she would even follow her father’s arrangement, push that woman away, and marry someone she didn’t like.

The thought of this was suffocating.

She would never let this happen to her and Li Fangge.

Arranged marriages for profit among the wealthy and powerful are too common.

The engagement between Guan Xiaoyu and Li Fangge was originally just that.

If Li Fangge hadn’t had an unexpected differentiation, perhaps they would already be married.

Compared to clearly visible benefits, even the deepest feelings are hollow. The powerful and wealthy are always more afraid of losing power and profit than common people.

Guan Xiaoyu was very clear about how scarce true affection was in their world. Because of this, she wanted to firmly grasp the connection between her and Li Fangge.

There are many people like Chen Beizhe; they are nothing more than self-interested opportunists.

Li Fangge finished showering.

When she sat on the edge of the bed, she saw a missed call from Bai Shao.

It was from over ten minutes ago. She paused, then dialed her cousin’s number back.

“Hello.”

“Are you two—”

“I’m home.”

Bai Shao’s voice was soft and weak, conveying a sense of fatigue.

“It ended so quickly?” Li Fangge thought, judging by their stance, they seemed to have a lot of unresolved issues.

Both were in a bad mood and coincidentally went to Fu sheng Ruo meng. This already spoke volumes.

“Your tone—you’re quite capable!” Bai Shao chuckled lazily. “Do you think two hours is fast?”

“So, are you planning to tell me tonight?”

Unexpectedly, her cousin misinterpreted her, revealing something major.

Li Fangge followed her lead, amplifying the conversational atmosphere.

She kicked off her slippers, climbed onto the bed, crossed her long legs, and leaned back against the headboard.

“I’m tired.”

“Tired after only two hours?”

Li Fangge wanted to make the conversation a little lighter.

Judging by her cousin’s tone, they hadn’t managed to turn the situation around after they left.

“Can you imagine 10 years of an underground relationship?”

“Wow, that’s quite the secret!”

“We’re done.”

“So what just happened was—”

“A two-hour breakup-sex. It’s really short compared to ten years.”

Bai Shao’s laughter sounded particularly hollow, as if her entire body and spirit had drained away.

“Did she dump you?”

“On the contrary, this time I was the one who proposed the breakup.”

“It sounds like this isn’t the first time you’ve broken up.”

“Let me count, once after high school graduation, twice in college, once on my birthday last year, plus tonight—that makes exactly the fingers on one hand—”

Bai Shao’s speaking pace was particularly slow, giving Li Fangge the illusion that she was counting on her fingers.

All the alcohol poured into her at Fu sheng Ruo meng hadn’t managed to get her drunk. Trying to numb herself only resulted in a more agonizing clarity.

As for why their long-term underground relationship, with its numerous breakups and reconciliations, still couldn’t ultimately last, the reason wasn’t hard to guess:

One was an S-class Alpha, the future heir of the Baolu Group.

The other was a Beta marginalized by her family.

An A/B pairing is not unacceptable for ordinary families.

But for the Guan family, an S-class Omega should be the minimum requirement for their high-grade genetic eldest daughter’s partner.

“You love her very much,” Li Fangge asked.

“Used to—yes, I used to love her very much, but tonight I feel like it’s just okay. My affection for her has pretty much run out.”

Clearly,

Bai Shao was currently in the numbed stage of a broken heart; her nerves hadn’t yet reacted.

Heartbreak isn’t something whose pain lessens with the number of times you break up.

Emotions don’t have that much immunity; every injury still hurts again. Once her sensory nerves react, she won’t be able to speak so casually.

“You’ll get back together.”

“Li Fangge, shut up!”

Li Fangge burst into laughter.

She was right, as her cousin’s intense reaction indicated that their breakup wasn’t due to emotional breakdown but was forced by reality.

This kind of incomplete separation and back-and-forth pulling often causes deeper pain.

“Since you can’t let go, why not continue the underground relationship? You’ve made it through so many years, endure it a little longer and maybe—”

“I know Guan Xiaoyan too well—” Bai Shao interrupted Li Fangge. “She doesn’t dare to face it, doesn’t dare to admit it, doesn’t dare to take responsibility, doesn’t dare to open up, doesn’t dare—”

By the end, her voice was somewhat strained.

Li Fangge could imagine that her cousin was probably slumped on the floor.

“I’m coming over now,” she said.

Regardless of age, heartbreak always makes people feel this shattered.

“Don’t come over, I won’t die!” Bai Shao refused. “This time, I’m going to completely quit her. Guan Xiaoyan is poisonous, I need to quit her entirely!”

“If you can—”

Li Fangge felt a mix of emotions. Emotional matters are the hardest to console, especially since she wasn’t good at it. “If you’re not happy together, dragging it out will indeed only drain you.”

“Let’s leave it at that, I’m going to drink myself to sleep. Come see me tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

Li Fangge felt a pang of heartache.

Fortunately, no matter how sad her cousin was, she still valued herself.

The next morning, when Li Fangge left to see her cousin,

She happened to see Guan Xiaoyu’s car pull up outside the gate. The two cars parked on opposite sides of the road.

As she got out of the car, Li Fangge smiled inwardly.

The interval between this delicate flower coming to see her was getting shorter and shorter.

So, was she here to pressure her into marriage again today?