My Clingy Fiancée Is Forcing Me to Marry Her Again - Chapter 8

“What are you looking at?”

Li Fangge raised her hand, dramatically covering her collarbone hollow.

The more she covered it, the more Guan Xiaoyu wanted to look. “Sister Li is very suited for the blue diamond.”

Li Fangge’s teasing words slipped out. “Do you only have blue diamonds in your eyes?”

“Sister’s—” Guan Xiaoyu held back. “Collarbone is also very beautiful.”

Under the pink twilight clouds, the two people stopped and looked into each other’s eyes.

Looking at Guan Xiaoyu’s still slightly red eyes, Li Fangge let her left hand, which was pressing the blue diamond necklace, drop. “Be clear, are you looking at my necklace or my collarbone?”

She wanted to help Guan Xiaoyu relax before they started talking.

“Sister Li, why ask the obvious? Of course, I’m looking at both.”

Guan Xiaoyu sniffed; her tears had completely receded.

Looking at both—

It seemed she was already a mature adult.

Li Fangge led her further inside. “Sister thought you were only interested in the necklace.”

The summer evening breeze carried a warm, gentle air, lightly lifting the strands of hair on their shoulders.

Compared to Li Fangge’s straight long hair, Guan Xiaoyu’s hair was much finer, and its color wasn’t as dark, showing a warm, chestnut luster.

“Not at all! If I absolutely had to compare, Sister is definitely millions of times more radiant than the diamond, without a doubt.”

As she walked and spoke, the little white rabbit’s breathing was a bit rapid.

So, Li Fangge slowed her pace even further.

The two walked side by side under the large palm trees. Lush greenery was everywhere in the courtyard, and a faint floral scent was intermittently carried on the evening breeze.

“Were you crying because you were so happy that I agreed to come out and pick you up?”

Li Fangge actually didn’t want to bring this up, and she knew Guan Xiaoyu had definitely cried before calling her, but she just couldn’t remain indifferent to her sadness.

“Of course, I was very happy that Sister Li came out to meet me. But—”

Guan Xiaoyu’s words broke off.

Li Fangge couldn’t help but turn her head, her gaze falling on Guan Xiaoyu’s right ear.

Her ear was very beautiful, appearing pure white and translucent next to her black hair. The lines of the auricle were as ornate as an elegant musical note, and the earlobe had a petal-like pink yet appeared softer. In the fine downy hair, her ear piercing was close to closing up; she must not have worn earrings for a long time—

Realizing she was being watched, Guan Xiaoyu also turned her head, slightly looking up, meeting Li Fangge’s eyes again.

Li Fangge could easily see her own reflection in the other person’s eyes.

“Sister Li, why are you looking at me like that?”

“—But what?”

“Sister Li, everyone says I’m a crybaby, do you think so too?”

“Then do you think you cry a lot?”

“It’s all because my dad insisted on provoking me, and my mom and sister were completely indifferent on the side, so I got very angry—”

“Getting angry means you have to cry?”

“That’s not it at all! It’s just that they were all too much. My dad’s tone, and my mom and sister’s expressions, they made me particularly sad.”

“How about elaborating?”

Li Fangge couldn’t explain why, but she had a feeling she had known this delicate flower for a long time. This was absolutely not due to the familiarity brought by the Scummy Alpha’s memory,

Nor was it because she looked like the fortune teller in Hong Kong.

Instead, it was a feeling similar to that between two people with mutual understanding: the conversation was natural, the rhythm was harmonious, and being together was comfortable. All of this made her involuntarily forget the distance between them.

“Sister Li, I just cried and now I’m so hungry. Can we talk while we eat? When I’m hungry, I feel so tired, so very tired, even just to say a word.”

“But Sister didn’t see you looking so tired, so very tired.”

Guan Xiaoyu giggled. Li Fangge’s imitation of her tone was spot on. “Sister is so annoying, always making fun of me!”

“Did I?”

“Yes, you did.”

See? She hadn’t said she wanted to eat with Guan Xiaoyu,

But the way she said it gave Li Fangge the illusion that she was the one who had invited her to dinner.

Furthermore, she didn’t find her initiative repulsive.

The scene of the two of them chatting and laughing while walking inside fell into Chen Qiaoyi’s eyes, who was standing behind a second-floor window.

It also fell into the eyes of the person who had been secretly watching them with binoculars from the villa diagonally to the front, outside the main gate, for a long time…

This was Guan Xiaoyu’s first time entering her home,

Yet Li Fangge felt she seemed more familiar with the place than she, the transmigration recipient, was.

She hadn’t even formally introduced Chen Qiaoyi and Yin Xiaoyou to her, but she somehow knew them.

Watching Guan Xiaoyu naturally exchange greetings with them, Li Fangge had the misconception that she was the guest.

Dinner was served quickly.

Although no prior notice was given, Li Fangge almost never finished the food on the table for any meal, so even with an impromptu extra person, it was just a matter of adding another pair of chopsticks.

“Sister Xiaoyou, your cooking is so good! Every dish is a feast for the eyes.”

“Miss Guan is too kind. If you like it, feel free to visit our Miss Li often, I’d be happy to cook for you.”

Yin Xiaoyou hadn’t stopped smiling since she saw Li Fangge and Guan Xiaoyu Walk into the dining room together.

“Sister Li, is that okay?” Guan Xiaoyu looked at Li Fangge at the head of the table.

Li Fangge didn’t commit but said, “Didn’t you say you were hungry just now?”

She picked up her chopsticks and put a shrimp into Guan Xiaoyu’s bowl.

Yin Xiaoyou looked at them, her smiling eyes sparkling with excitement and envy.

“Miss Li, Miss Guan, please enjoy your meal.” Yin Xiaoyou left the dining room, looking back at them with every step.

Li Fangge quietly ate a piece of steak, and when she looked up, she noticed Guan Xiaoyu was quietly watching her. The person who claimed to be so hungry that speaking felt tiring hadn’t even touched her chopsticks.

“Will looking at Sister fill you up?”

“Yes, it will.”

Guan Xiaoyu nodded vigorously.

“…” Li Fangge was momentarily speechless.

It seemed Guan Xiaoyu didn’t even bother to hide her intentions.

She had underestimated Guan Xiaoyu’s obsession with the Scummy Alpha.

Then again, she really liked her forthright and honest personality.

“Do you have the energy to talk now?”

“I haven’t looked enough yet.”

The knife and fork Li Fangge was using to cut her steak suddenly paused.

If she brought up the annulment now, would Guan Xiaoyu start crying immediately?

“When did you meet Yi jie and Xiaoyou?”

“Late June? I can’t quite remember, it hasn’t been long. Because Sister Li always avoided seeing me,” Guan Xiaoyu had no intention of hiding it. “I had to see Sister Yi and Sister Xiaoyou first.”

“And then?”

“Sister Li, when are we getting married?”

“…Cough, cough, cough!” Li Fangge, who was drinking wine, pretended to choke. “When did I say I wanted to get married?”

“A few days ago, Sister clearly said it was time to talk about our engagement—”

Li Fangge put down her wine glass and fixed her gaze on Guan Xiaoyu, who was staring at her unblinkingly.

Heh, woman!

She had clearly understood her meaning in their chat messages that day,

But she was now pretending to have amnesia and was actively launching an attack like this.

“You know we can’t—”

“Not listening, not listening, I’m not listening…” Guan Xiaoyu covered her ears, closed her eyes, and her pale little face twisted into a distressed expression. “Sister Li, regarding our engagement, there is only marriage to discuss, nothing else is negotiable.” She solemnly repeated the message Li Fangge had sent her that day.

As expected, she fully understood what Li Fangge wanted to say.

Li Fangge stared intently at Guan Xiaoyu. Her eyelashes were so long, and her small mouth was so red—

It was absurd; she didn’t know why she was still attracted to Guan Xiaoyu at a time like this.

She hadn’t smelled a hint of orange blossom scent today.

Snapping back to reality, she said to herself, “Even if you don’t want to listen, I have to say it—”

“Sister Li, I had a big fight with my dad before I left home. My dad—”

Guan Xiaoyu had already opened her eyes, and her tears flowed like broken pearls, dropping from her long eyelashes.

Was this woman made of water? How could tears come so easily?

Li Fangge now understood why everyone called her a crybaby.

“My dad said if I insisted on coming to see Sister Li today, he wouldn’t acknowledge me as his daughter. I, ugh, hum—I,” Guan Xiaoyu began to sob.

Looking at her heartbroken appearance, Li Fangge felt particularly uneasy.

The words she truly wanted to say rolled on her tongue several times, but were ultimately suppressed.

She always felt this inexplicable pity for her.

“If Sister doesn’t want me either, I think—Wuwuwu, wuwuwuwu…”

Seeing Li Fangge remain unmoved, Guan Xiaoyu suddenly burst into loud wails,

As if Li Fangge had already told her she wanted to annul the engagement.

Guan Xiaoyu cried so loudly that the entire dining room seemed to tremble.

She cried so much that it drew both the stern Chen Qiaoyi and the cheerful Yin Xiaoyou into the dining room.

Guan Xiaoyu quickly buried her head on the dining table, crying even louder.

Li Fangge waved her hand at the two women who rushed in, signaling with her eyes that everything was fine, and asked them to leave.

The usually poker-faced Chen Qiaoyi said nothing, but her eyes clearly broadcasted: “Miss Heguo must have made Miss Guan cry.”

And Yin Xiaoyou, whose face always wore a smile, was also clouded with worry.

“Miss Heguo—”

“Miss Li—”

They said in unison, “Please don’t treat Miss Guan like this.”

Li Fangge was speechless; she hadn’t said anything yet, and Guan Xiaoyu was already crying like this.

If she really said what she wanted to say, Guan Xiaoyu would definitely cry herself to death in her dining room tonight.

Forget it, annulment is out of the question tonight.

“You two, leave,” Li Fangge said irritably.

After Chen Qiaoyi and Yin Xiaoyou left,

Guan Xiaoyu cried for a long time.

Li Fangge didn’t try to comfort her.

She understood the gravity of what her father had said to her.

Years ago, when Li Fangge was 19 and decided to debut as a singer, her father also told her: “If you disobey me and insist on stepping into the chaotic entertainment industry, don’t be my daughter anymore!”

Father and daughter fell out and had a cold war for several years.

Although they reconciled later, Li Fangge still felt a pang of heartache every time she thought about it.

After a long time, Guan Xiaoyu’s crying subsided, and only then did Li Fangge softly say, “I didn’t say it, did I.”

Although I want to annul the engagement, I didn’t say I don’t want you.

Li Fangge’s voice was soft but clear.

She wasn’t good at comforting.

She could only lower her voice like this,

And subtly state the fact.