Chapter 148: Not a Couple, but Still Siblings

As soon as Guo Mengyao left, Chen Feng quickly washed up and also came out of the hotel room. After arriving at the lobby on the first floor, Chen Feng then called Wu Mengting.

The two women had slept in the same room last night, and they had chatted a lot without realizing it. They only fell asleep when it was almost dawn, so they had just woken up now.

When they received Chen Feng’s call, they had just gotten up to wash up, and then they went downstairs to meet Chen Feng.

The three of them were a little hungry, so they first went to a nearby food stall to eat.

On the way back, Wu Mengting told Chen Feng that she was going home tomorrow. Hearing this, Chen Feng couldn’t help but feel happy.

Although he didn’t particularly dislike having a great beauty like Wu Mengting by his side every day, he was in his hometown after all, and she was still living with his parents and family, which made him feel a little awkward.

After all, she was not his girlfriend. To insist that she was his god-sister, but now that she was living in his house all day, it was definitely not a good thing.

But he couldn’t say it out loud. When he went back to Xiuzhou after the New Year, he still wanted to often eat the hometown dishes she cooked.

“That’s really a pity. I was originally thinking of playing with you for a few more days,” Chen Feng said with feigned regret.

Wu Mengting thought that Chen Feng was really a little reluctant to part with her, and she couldn’t help but feel a little happy.

This was also understandable. No matter what, she was also a great beauty. She accompanied him to travel all day. Of course, he was happy in his heart. There was no reason to be unhappy.

“I can’t help it. My parents have been urging me to go back these past few days. I used the excuse of coming to play with my old classmate, Xu Shujing. I originally said I would go back in three days, but it’s been several days now.”

“Your parents are also worried about you. Besides, it’s almost the New Year. Of course they hope you’ll go back.”

“They want to force me to go on a blind date. The day after I just got home last time, they arranged a blind date for me. It’s really enough.”

Wu Mengting complained while turning her head to observe Chen Feng’s expression.

“Ah, you went on a blind date?” Chen Feng turned his head to look at her with some surprise. “Then why didn’t you say so before?”

“What’s the point of telling you this? I just ran over here from home because I was afraid that my family would arrange another blind date for me.”

Chen Feng’s surprised reaction just now barely satisfied Wu Mengting, but she still had some resentment in her heart.

Originally, the two of them were already a couple, and they had agreed to go home to meet their parents at the end of the year. As a result, it turned out like this.

“So that’s how it is. I thought you missed me,” Chen Feng teased with a smile.

“Of course it’s also because I miss you,” Wu Mengting’s face was slightly red, but she still said this with a very calm look.

Lin Yujiao in the back seat was speechless when she heard this. Who was Chen Feng’s “girlfriend” now?

When they were talking in the same room last night, Wu Mengting had generously admitted to her that she liked Chen Feng. She also told her some things about the two of them in Xiuzhou, including that Chen Feng had another mistress in Xiuzhou, and that they had been a couple for a while.

Wu Mengting’s confession to her was of course to dispel some of Lin Yujiao’s inappropriate thoughts.

It was just that Wu Mengting’s trick was destined to be useless. At the beginning, Lin Yujiao felt that Chen Feng’s conditions were good in all aspects, so she took the initiative to approach him, and then she was kept by him in a muddle-headed way.

She, a woman from an ordinary family in the countryside who had been divorced, was still relatively realistic.

Since Chen Feng was willing to spend so much money to keep her, she really couldn’t refuse. Unless she could meet a man with better conditions than Chen Feng in all aspects and was willing to marry her, otherwise she would really be willing to be Chen Feng’s mistress for a year or two.

As for being old in the future and not being easy to remarry, she was really not very worried.

Not to mention that she would have a small fortune by then, just based on her looks and no children to hold her back, it was still very easy to find a rich man to remarry, even if she was over thirty.

She had this confidence and bottom line.

The only thing to worry about was also her difficulty, which was her parents forcing her to get married. Although she didn’t have a good relationship with her mother and often quarreled, her relationship with her father was still okay.

Her father had indeed doted on her since she was a child, but it was also true that he was greedy for money. When she was engaged, her parents insisted on a betrothal gift of 128,000 from Xu Jun’s family. And when they got married, the dowry was at most worth fifty or sixty thousand. That is to say, her parents kept sixty or seventy thousand, but this money was not given to her.

This was also something that Xu Jun’s mother often nagged about later.

According to the rules of marriage here, the woman’s side could keep some money, but it had to be given to the married daughter for her to dispose of.

It was just that family affection could not be so easily cut off. No matter how much resentment she had towards her parents in her heart, she could not really ignore them and sever ties with them.

So, if she didn’t remarry for a long time, she would inevitably be nagged by her parents, especially being forced to remarry her ex-husband Xu Jun. This was her biggest headache.

But before, Chen Feng had promised to give her parents two hundred thousand as a filial piety gift. If Chen Feng could really do it, she would really be willing to be Chen Feng’s mistress for two years.

Anyway, she had already made this decision. As for what would happen in two years, whether she could be promoted to a regular, she didn’t think too much about it.

As long as Chen Feng gave her real money, she really didn’t care that Chen Feng had other women or that he had a girlfriend.

Wu Mengting wanted her to break up with Chen Feng as soon as possible. This was really not her decision, but Chen Feng’s decision.

And Wu Mengting suddenly talking about blind dates in the car and saying such intimate words was somewhat deliberately stimulating Lin Yujiao.

Chen Feng didn’t care. Anyway, Lin Yujiao was just his kept mistress, not his girlfriend. He smiled and said to Wu Mengting, “You have to remember that I’m your brother now, not your boyfriend. If you really miss me, it can only be family affection, you know?”

Hearing this, Wu Mengting glared at him fiercely. Chen Feng’s words were really a bit of a beating. He didn’t know her thoughts about him, but he deliberately said such words. Wasn’t he deliberately angering her?
“I know you’re my brother now, and I’m your sister. So, I, your sister, am in trouble now. Are you willing to help me?”

Hearing Wu Mengting’s words, Chen Feng immediately understood and quickly said, “If you want me to pretend to be your boyfriend or something, then forget it. I can’t help you with this.”

Hearing this, Wu Mengting was immediately angry and said, “You promised to go home with me to meet my parents at the end of the year. Are you going back on your word?”

Chen Feng was a little embarrassed and said awkwardly, “That was then, the situation is different now. You know.”

Wu Mengting said with a sullen face, “Although we are not a couple now, we are still brother and sister. You still have to fulfill some of the things you promised before. Otherwise, our brother-sister relationship will be over.”

Chen Feng frowned and said, “You’re forcing me. Is it that serious?”
Wu Mengting continued with a sullen face, “You know, I don’t want to go on a blind date. If you don’t even help me with this small favor, are you still my brother?”

Chen Feng said with a bitter smile, “The problem is, if I pretend to be your boyfriend, I’m not very presentable. I might even anger your parents to death.”

Wu Mengting frowned with dissatisfaction, “Why do you say that about yourself? How are you not presentable? Aren’t you just a few years older than me? What’s the big deal?”

Chen Feng continued with a bitter smile, “Even if there’s no age gap problem, I’m divorced and so fat…”

“Alright. You’ve lost a lot of weight. And didn’t you often boast that you’re Chen Yanzu? Although it’s a bit of an exaggeration, I can’t deny that your looks are still very good. You’re a handsome guy. As for your work problem, it’s even less of a problem. You have a villa in Xiuzhou and assets of tens of millions. My parents can’t say anything about you.”

“Mengting, you’d better not make things difficult for me. Even if I can pass your parents’ side now, what about in the future?”

Wu Mengting said generously, “Let’s talk about the future later. At worst, we’ll just say we broke up.”

“You see, that’s the problem. If you say we broke up in the future, your parents will definitely hate me to death. Your dad might even kill me with a knife.”

“How can you be so exaggerated? At most, I’ll say I dumped you then.”

“…I think it’s better to forget it. Since you don’t want to go on a blind date, you can just make it clear to your parents. After all, you’re not very old now. You don’t have to be in such a hurry.”

“I’ve said it countless times, but my parents insist on arranging blind dates for me. Besides, I’m not that young anymore. I’ll be twenty-three after the New Year. I have several female classmates from college who are engaged this year, and a few are even married. A woman who gets married after twenty-five is considered a late marriage.”

“It’s not that exaggerated. Twenty-five is still very young.”

“A man is still young at twenty-five, but a woman is not very young. You don’t know that, do you?”

That was true. Chen Feng couldn’t refute it, but Chen Feng really didn’t want to agree to this matter.

“This matter, let’s talk about it later. I think your idea is really not good. Even if you want to find someone to pretend, you can completely find someone else, such as your male classmates.”

Wu Mengting rolled her eyes at him and said, “It’s not that I’m boasting. If I ask those male classmates to help me pretend, they will definitely be a hundred percent willing, and then they will take the opportunity to pester me, pester me, and even want to make it real. How can I rest assured with them?”

That was not wrong. If he hadn’t had a terminal illness before, he would definitely have done the same if he met a female classmate he liked.

“This… let’s talk about it later,” Chen Feng could only use the delaying tactic.

“I’m going back tomorrow, and I’m 100% sure that my family has already arranged a blind date for me. If you don’t help, I really won’t recognize you as my brother.”

Chen Feng really wanted to say firmly, “Then don’t recognize me.”

But he thought of her various good points, especially the delicious hometown dishes, and the fact that he planned to let her hold the shares of the companies he invested in in the future. He really couldn’t make up his mind to sever this “brother-sister relationship.”

After being silent for a while, Chen Feng finally said, “How about this, I’ll talk to your parents clearly in the name of your god-brother. Just say that you are very disgusted with their blind date arrangements, you want to find one yourself, and you want to be in a free relationship. Is that okay?”

Wu Mengting’s eyes rolled. After a moment of thought, she said with feigned reluctance, “Alright then. You go home with me tomorrow and help me persuade my parents.”

Chen Feng originally didn’t want to go over. At most, he would just have a video call. But since she had said so, it was really not good to refuse again. So he said, “Alright then, I’ll go back with you tomorrow.”

At this time, Lin Yujiao in the back seat finally spoke, “Mengting, actually, there’s nothing wrong with blind dates. After all, both sides generally know each other’s roots and are more reliable. If it’s a free relationship, it’s not necessarily so. The chance of meeting a liar and a scumbag is very high.

Just like me, I was in a free relationship with my ex-husband at that time. I was too young at that time and was foolishly deceived by him. I didn’t know much about his family situation. By the time I confirmed the relationship and learned that he was a mama’s boy, it was already too late.”

Wu Mengting said with a smile, “That can only be said that you were really easy to deceive at that time. Free love and blind dates both have their pros and cons. Whether they can eventually become a good marriage has an element of luck. It can only be said that it is fate. Everything depends on fate. In my opinion, it is reasonable that fate is destined. No matter whether this fate is a good fate or a bad fate.”

“You’re too superstitious,” Lin Yujiao shook her head.

Wu Mengting also shook her head and said, “This is not superstition, but cause and effect. Don’t you believe it? Many things in the world are actually destined from the beginning. There are many such examples. This is something that science cannot explain.”

Lin Yujiao didn’t believe in any fate or cause and effect, but she was too lazy to argue with Wu Mengting anymore.

Chen Feng said very pertinently, “Fate definitely exists. But you can’t believe in fate too much. Just as you said, this may be a good fate, or it may be a bad fate. So, when you encounter a bad fate, you should brake in time to stop the loss. Otherwise, if you fall into it, you will be the one who gets hurt in the end.”

Wu Mengting smiled and said, “Some bad fates, if you fall into them, may turn into a good fate in the end. Who can say for sure? After all, everything is in motion and changing.”

Chen Feng was speechless.

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The car arrived at Qingpu Town. They first sent Lin Yujiao back, and then took Wu Mengting home.

His mother, Zhao Xiaolan, was chatting with a few aunts in the small shop. Seeing them come back, her expression was very calm. She just said, “You’re back,” and then asked if they had eaten.

Chen Feng and Wu Mengting both quickly said they had eaten. Then, Chen Feng went upstairs first.

Wu Mengting, on the other hand, couldn’t just leave. She had to stay and talk to her for a while to give her face in front of the few aunts.

Of course, Zhao Xiaolan was very satisfied that she stayed to talk to her. She had a smile on her face all the time, but the look in her eyes when she looked at her was a little scrutinizing and strange, which was a little different from before.

They had gone out last night, and Zhao Xiaolan had not called them. Wu Mengting had originally wanted to leave a message on WeChat last night to say that she would not be back to sleep, but she was afraid that it was too late and would wake her up. In addition, she was with Chen Feng, so she was embarrassed to say it, so she didn’t send it, and then she forgot.

When she was about to come back today, she was even more embarrassed to send a WeChat message or call Zhao Xiaolan. Although she wanted Zhao Xiaolan to accept her, she had been out with Chen Feng all night, which was a bit embarrassing.

Now seeing Zhao Xiaolan looking at her with this kind of look, Wu Mengting felt even more uncomfortable in her heart. But she was not an ordinary woman after all. She quickly calmed down and started chatting and laughing with Zhao Xiaolan and the few aunts.

This made Zhao Xiaolan even more satisfied with her. Not to mention other things, just this bearing and affinity were much better than other women.