My Clingy Fiancée Is Forcing Me to Marry Her Again - Chapter 32.1

The expected Guan Xiaoyu, who would loudly and enthusiastically call out “Sister Li,”

was nowhere to be seen. Instead, the one who stood before Li Fangge was the delicate beauty, puffed up with anger like a blowfish.

What could have happened in such a short time?

“Sister Li, I’m super unhappy!” Guan Xiaoyu’s soft, tender face was already flushed red like a cooked shrimp with anger.

She stood about a meter away from Li Fangge, constantly scrutinizing her with the wounded gaze of a young deer.

Evidently, she noticed that Li Fangge’s style of dress was different from usual, but currently, in her anger, she couldn’t focus on that.

“Why?”

Looking at Guan Xiaoyu, who was completely different from the person who had passionately declared on the phone an hour ago that she would go crazy if she didn’t see her soon, the spring-like warmth that had bloomed on Li Fangge’s face due to longing quietly receded.

She was not used to a person’s emotions changing so dramatically in such a short period.

Her questioning tone instantly created a distance between her and Guan Xiaoyu.

It was only when Guan Xiaoyu saw the enthusiasm in Li Fangge’s eyes instantly fade after she uttered the three words “Why?” that she realized their reunion had started off on the wrong note, but it was too late.

She had forgotten that Li Fangge was not as open to her as she had hoped;

Spoiled by nature, she had unconsciously brought her pampered temper to Li Fangge.

“What else could it be?” She lowered her head, her voice full of grievance, as if she had suffered a basketful of hardship for Li Fangge. “The person who can make me angry, sad, happy, or joyful—Sister clearly knows it has only ever been you.”

Li Fangge was forced into a laugh by the anger; the skill of shifting the blame was as proficiently used by Guan Xiaoyu as it was by herself.

“An hour ago, you were saying on the phone—”

“Yes, an hour ago, I did say I couldn’t wait to see you, Sister, and that I’d go crazy if I waited one second longer. But I didn’t expect something so infuriating to happen on my way here—”

“I was unaware of what I could have done to make you so angry.”

“Sister Li really doesn’t understand my heart at all,”

Guan Xiaoyu looked up. She had reined in her temper considerably; although her face was still flushed, she no longer looked as prickly as a hedgehog. “Sister just now wouldn’t even proactively ask me what was wrong. Couldn’t you say that my eyes were screaming that I needed you to coax me?”

“You’re very good at acting cute.”

“I’m not acting cute! Sister Li, have you ever seen someone act cute with a red face?”

“You have!”

“No, I haven’t.”

“You know your face is red, yet you don’t know you’re acting cute?”

“Sister Hong Tao told me before I got out of the car—”

Guan Xiaoyu realized she had been easily led astray by Li Fangge and immediately switched the subject with indignation, “Sister Li still doesn’t care at all why I’m super unhappy!”

“Sister will ask you again now, what exactly did I do to make you angry and sad?”

“Super angry and super sad.”

Li Fangge began to feel helpless; she was not skilled at comforting or coaxing people.

Guan Xiaoyu blinked, and a faint tearfulness immediately welled up.

“…Can’t you tell how much effort Sister put in just to see you today?”

Li Fangge used all her strength just to utter this single sentence.

Dating was much harder than singing—this was something she had not anticipated.

She truly was not skilled at coaxing people.

“It’s not enough. Even if Sister deliberately wore a beautiful new dress and waited for me outside the gate, it’s far from enough compared to what you did to me.”

“What I did to you?—”

Li Fangge felt that the situation was getting increasingly absurd. “Little girl, do you have some kind of misunderstanding about me?”

Guan Xiaoyu didn’t speak. She lowered her head, pulled her phone out of her white clutch bag, quickly unlocked it, and tapped something rapidly on the screen. Before long, a beautiful piano piece and an intoxicating song flowed out of her phone.

Li Fangge was instantly petrified. Wasn’t this the song she had played and sung a few nights ago when she had insomnia?!

—Ah, she couldn’t believe it was Chen Qiaoyi again, this woman who had been thoroughly bought off by the delicate beauty.

The grass in the garden hasn’t even grown tall yet! What punishment should she impose on this woman?

“Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, Miss Heguo’s singing is the best in the world—no, the best in the entire Sirius Galaxy!”

“I held back for days, but I really couldn’t bear to enjoy it all by myself. Miss Guan, you won’t blame me for only sending it to you today, right?”

“Please, absolutely don’t tell Miss Heguo. Let this song be a secret between you and me, okay?”

“Ahhh, it’s so beautiful! Miss Guan, will you listen until you’re in tears?”

“I was moved to tears by Miss Heguo’s song that night, it was so embarrassing.”

“Even now, I cry every time I listen to it. Crying because it’s so beautiful.”

“Miss Guan, the live performance is a hundred times better than the recording!!”

Guan Xiaoyu’s phone was still playing the audio.

She held up the chat interface between herself and Chen Qiaoyi.

Li Fangge couldn’t reconcile the text messages in the chat box with the supposedly unromantic Chen Qiaoyi.

But there was truly only one outsider in the world who had heard her sing that song.

Judging by the time, it had happened just over half an hour ago.

Li Fangge gradually became dazed. She couldn’t figure out what her song and piano performance that night had done to that strict, serious woman, making her so frantic and unrestrained.

Guan Xiaoyu suddenly retracted her phone, cutting off the audio that was playing. “Sister Li, do you understand now why I’m unhappy?”

Li Fangge snapped back to attention. Her bright eyes involuntarily blinked. After a soft “tsk,” she said calmly, “Before you get angry, shouldn’t you first ask Chen Qiaoyi what this is about?”

“Sister Li, singing a song like that for Sister Yi—do you really think I’d still have the presence of mind or strength to ask her what happened? Before, when I begged you endlessly, Sister only sang one song a cappella for me, but you sang for Sister Yi—”

The delicate beauty’s long-suppressed tears instantly streamed down her rosy face.

Through her blurring tears, it was clear that her heart was completely shattered.

Li Fangge felt that even jumping into the Milky Way now wouldn’t be enough to clear her name.

“It’s not what you think—”

After a long pause, this was the only pale and powerless sentence she could manage.

At this moment, she finally understood why the main characters in novels and TV shows, when misunderstood by their lovers, would be so anxious and desperate.

Facing a woman controlled by jealousy and anger, you first feel guilty, then panicked, and then helpless.

After experiencing all that, you realize you simply don’t know how to explain it to her. Looking at her sadness, you only become more guilty and panicked, and then you feel sad and, no, self-reproachful along with her.

“Sister Yi even recorded it. If Sister Li wasn’t specifically singing for her, why would this happen? If Sister Yi hadn’t been unable to resist sharing it, I wouldn’t have known—hmmph, wouldn’t have known how much I hmmph… how much I didn’t know happened during the days I was gone—”

Guan Xiaoyu was too heartbroken to continue speaking. She was sobbing uncontrollably, her face bathed in tears.

“Let’s go find Sister Yi.”

She couldn’t explain it anyway. Li Fangge felt that the only solution now was to bring the delicate beauty to Chen Qiaoyi, that meddling woman, and make her carefully explain the whole story.

“My face is all tear-stained now, I don’t want to!”

Guan Xiaoyu tried to pull her hand away from Li Fangge.

In her haste, Li Fangge only gripped her tighter.

The two stumbled through the door, still pulling and tugging. Suddenly, the jarring sound of breaking glass was heard from somewhere, yet even that couldn’t shake them apart.

Li Fangge hadn’t expected things to turn out this way.

Chen Qiaoyi was currently weeping uncontrollably, in complete disarray, looking as if she had cried out gallons of tears.

Initially, only the delicate beauty was crying, but now it was the two of them looking at each other through tear-filled eyes. Forget explaining, Chen Qiaoyi couldn’t even utter a single word.

Li Fangge was about to suffocate. She had sung a song of longing, not some tragic ballad!

“Miss Guan… Miss Guan also found it especially moving, r-right?”

Guan Xiaoyu didn’t speak. She nodded, tears still flowing, and then cast a resentful look at Li Fangge. “But Sister Li—Sister wouldn’t agree to play for me live! Waaah, waaah… Why did I have to go to Lujing? Why did I have to miss all of this?!”

“…” Li Fangge stood up and, without giving any explanation, pulled Guan Xiaoyu toward the music room.

Playing and singing? That was too easy. It was a hundred, a thousand times simpler than trying to explain that her song had been secretly and silently recorded by Chen Qiaoyi.

Guan Xiaoyu was reluctant to enter the room, stopping at the doorway.

Li Fangge then let go of her, went in alone, and sat on the piano bench.

Just before her fingers landed on the keys, she turned sideways and silently glanced at Guan Xiaoyu, who was still standing at the door.

Guan Xiaoyu’s reddened eyes held a distinct dreaminess, characteristic of someone lost in distant memories.

Li Fangge knew exactly what she was thinking at that moment, almost without needing to guess.

The evening in May, which she remembered, was already very distant, yet the song “Spring and Her” was far from unfamiliar.

For the past few days, Li Fangge had repeatedly listened to this song, which the Scummy A had been playing when Guan Xiaoyu first met her.

Withdrawing her gaze from Guan Xiaoyu’s blurry, tearful eyes, she followed the distant memory, and soon, a melody as vibrant and colorful as March rang out.

The lyrics, which she knew by heart, were sung by her voice, which seemed capable of revitalizing and awakening autumn. The air in the music room instantly became transparent. The sleeping birds in the painting on the wall seemed to awaken, and the clouds in the breeze outside the window paused their journey. Everyone collectively fell into a state of irreversible, budding excitement because of her singing…

This classic love song, which could be called a worldwide masterpiece, posed no difficulty for Li Fangge.

Even though it was her first time playing it, she could still effortlessly master it. Compared to the melody, Li Fangge preferred the lyrics; the lyrics of “Spring and Her” could be considered a very beautiful prose poem.

After finishing the song, amidst the lingering resonance of the piano and her voice,

Li Fangge turned sideways again to look towards the door. She didn’t intentionally try to replicate the Scummy A’s gesture from their first meeting.

But for Guan Xiaoyu, that moment when Li Fangge turned to look was undeniably a replication of the scene from the day they first met.

From Guan Xiaoyu’s beautiful eyes, which seemed to hold a blooming peach tree, Li Fangge suddenly understood how Guan Xiaoyu had instantly fallen into an irreversible love that day. The so-called “love at first sight” was indeed a matter of a flash of lightning and flint.

Guan Xiaoyu stood blankly at the door, as if petrified.

It was as if she could stand there and turn into a “waiting-wife-stone” if Li Fangge didn’t speak.

“If you like it, Sister will sing it for you one more time.”

Li Fangge’s voice carried the aura of a miracle cure, clearly vibrating Guan Xiaoyu’s eardrums and rescuing her from her near-petrified state.

Seeing her noncommittal, Li Fangge withdrew her gaze, and her slender fingers continued to dance on the piano keys. She started playing from the chorus, and the poem-like song once again made the music room feel like a paradise blooming with a hundred flowers.

The third time Li Fangge turned sideways, Guan Xiaoyu had, at some point, walked up next to her.

It was as if she hadn’t walked over herself but had been naturally drawn in by Li Fangge’s singing.