Chapter 247: Qin Zhen is Forced into Marriage

Losing to Chen Feng in arm wrestling, Qin Zhen felt a little embarrassed, but what made him even more sad was that Wang Xuelin actually transferred the bet she lost to him.

He had just bought a house on mortgage not long ago. The location was very good, not far from his unit, and the area was relatively large, more than 150 square meters, so the price was also very high. He had invested all the money he had earned from the stock market before to pay the down payment. Now he had to pay the mortgage every month, relying on his pitiful monthly salary of more than 8,000. And it was not the end of the year now, so there was no year-end bonus. He really had no extra money.

Now Wang Xuelin asked him to pay for everyone to eat at Fumanlou three times, which was really killing him.

However, in front of Chen Feng and the others, he couldn’t argue with Wang Xuelin, so he could only accept it first.

Under Chen Feng’s guidance, Qin Zhen quickly recovered and continued to drink and eat with Chen Feng.

About an hour later, Qin Zhen and Wang Xuelin still had to go to work in the afternoon, so they didn’t stay long and left together.

Before leaving, the three of them, Chen Feng, Sun Xiaorui, and Wu Mengting, did not mention the matter of treating them to Fumanlou again. If they didn’t admit it, of course, Chen Feng’s side wouldn’t take it too seriously.

However, Qin Zhen and Wang Xuelin really had no intention of going back on their word. After the two of them left the No. 8 villa by car, Qin Zhen said to Wang Xuelin, “Xuelin, you also know that I don’t have much money now. I still have to pay the mortgage every month. I really can’t afford to treat everyone to a banquet at Fumanlou. You can pay for it for me first.”

Wang Xuelin smiled, “Of course I know about your situation. The reason why I said you should pay is that I don’t want you to look ungentlemanly in front of Chen Feng and the others. You are my boyfriend. If I really pay for this treat, where will you put your face? But you, you don’t appreciate my kindness and even shouted ‘why’ at me. Really. It’s just that I know you really don’t have money now. Otherwise, if it were another woman, she would have quarreled with you immediately.”

Hearing this, Qin Zhen finally understood a little. He immediately said with some emotion and guilt, “Alright, I was being petty. But I have to pay for the house now, and I have to be in a relationship with you, and I have to save money to decorate the house. The pressure is really great. I’m a little sensitive when it comes to money.”

“Silly, you really don’t have money. Will I stand by and do nothing? I can pay for the decoration of the house. But the premise is that it’s after our engagement. Otherwise, it’s not easy to explain to my family.”

Qin Zhen was suddenly speechless and couldn’t say anything. According to their local customs, engagement was basically equivalent to marriage. Many people would get their marriage certificate before or after the engagement, and even have children.

But he really didn’t want to get engaged to Wang Xuelin just like that, or rather, he was still hesitating in his heart.

He and Wang Xuelin had been in a long-distance relationship for several years before. He knew her personality very well, and he was a little resistant to her in his heart.

But after breaking up with her, he often thought of her in the past two years, and his feelings for her were also real. This was also the reason why the two of them got back together so quickly after they met again. They had a foundation of feelings.

This was very contradictory!

“What, you don’t plan to get engaged to me? We are not young anymore. You are already twenty-nine, and I am twenty-eight. How long do you want to drag it on?” Wang Xuelin asked unceremoniously.

This was the strong side of her personality. When facing Qin Zhen, she rarely expressed her meaning tactfully. She was always straightforward, very frank, and also domineering.

“Of course not. I just think we still need to seriously consider each other. We have only been back together for more than a month. Let us get to know each other more. Otherwise, I, a man, don’t care, but you, a woman, if you find out in the future that I don’t meet your requirements, won’t you be harming yourself?”

Wang Xuelin, who was driving, immediately turned the steering wheel, stopped the car on the side of the road, turned around and stared at Qin Zhen, and said with a sullen face, “I took the initiative to contact you before, found you and got back together with you. Isn’t the meaning obvious? That is, I have already decided on you. Even if we really don’t get along and break up in the future, I will never regret it, and I won’t blame you.

“This is all a risk I have to bear. I, a woman, am like this. What are you, a man, still hesitating and being indecisive about? Have you fallen for another woman? Or has that Ning Wei hooked up with you again?”

“How is that possible? Don’t talk nonsense!” Qin Zhen immediately denied, and then his tone also became a little tough. “We were in a long-distance relationship for several years before, and in the end, we didn’t make it to the end. At that time, you were the one who proposed to break up. This time, you were the one who took the initiative to contact me to get back together. You can’t just break up when you want to, and get back together when you want to. Do you respect my thoughts?

“If I listen to you this time and get engaged to you, or even get married, and then you are not satisfied with me in the future, will you just casually propose a divorce to me? After the divorce, if you regret it again, will you want to remarry me?”

Wang Xuelin was stunned for a moment, then immediately fought back, “When I proposed to break up, did you try to keep me? You didn’t try to keep me at all. If you had tried to keep me at all, I would have definitely continued to walk with you until now. This time I proposed to get back together with you, did you refuse? You didn’t refuse either. We all know that we have feelings for each other. Then why not get engaged? Are you planning to just play with me, drag me on for a few years, and then dump me when I’m old and ugly?”

“Do you think I’m that kind of person?” Qin Zhen asked back with some anger.

“Then why did you refuse to get engaged to me?”

“Didn’t I just say it very clearly? You can’t just say you want to get engaged, and I have to agree immediately. I need some time to think. I don’t have enough sense of security for you and our relationship now.”

“What sense of security? I, a woman, don’t care about your promiscuity, and I don’t care about the future. You, a man, are still so indecisive. It really makes me despise you.”

“Despise me if you want. Anyway, I can’t treat marriage as a child’s play. I have to think about it carefully for a period of time.”

“Then you can think about it carefully. Get out of the car!”

Qin Zhen was also very tough. He immediately opened the car door without saying a word, got out, and then slammed the car door shut. He strode onto the sidewalk.

“You…” Wang Xuelin was so angry that she didn’t stay. She stepped on the accelerator and the car drove away.

In the No. 8 villa, Chen Feng didn’t know about Qin Zhen and Wang Xuelin’s matter. At this time, he was very comfortably lying on the recliner on the third-floor terrace, leisurely shaking and chatting with Zhang Yuxi on WeChat.

Zhang Yuxi knew from Wu Mengting’s Moments that they had returned to the country. She had sent him a private message on WeChat yesterday, but Chen Feng didn’t respond much, just a few polite perfunctory words.

Today, he suddenly remembered that he had planned to set up a film and television production company before, so he asked her about it. Zhang Yuxi was very forthcoming and told him everything she knew.

According to her, if Chen Feng really planned to get into film and television production, he might as well acquire an existing film and television production company. This would save him the trouble of rebuilding a team and looking for talent.

As for the specific film and television production companies that could be acquired, there were not too many in the country now. Of course, many of them were shell companies. To find a reliable and real film and television production company, it was best to have produced specific film and television works before. It was necessary for insiders to identify them. Otherwise, the possibility of being deceived was very high.

In this regard, if Chen Feng was interested, she could ask Hua Jie to act as a go-between and help with the introduction.

Chen Feng was not polite and directly asked her to ask Hua Jie for help to find a suitable film and television production company to acquire, with a high cost-performance ratio.

Zhang Yuxi agreed happily.

If this big shot Chen Feng had his own film and television production company, then she, a female artist who had a close relationship with him, would of course benefit from it.

After contacting Zhang Yuxi, Chen Feng was not polite and directly contacted Yang Ziying’s manager, Hao Xiaolian. Her fame and status in the entertainment industry were much higher than Hua Jie’s, and her network was of course wider.

In that case, of course Chen Feng would not let it go. What’s more, this kind of business introduction was a win-win situation for both sides, and it was not a loss for Hao Xiaolian.

Chen Feng explained the matter directly in writing and sent it over. Not long after, Hao Xiaolian replied, saying that it was no problem and that she would reply to him after she had inquired clearly.

Chen Feng expressed his thanks, and Hao Xiaolian replied with a smiling emoji.

After that, the two of them tacitly did not continue to type and waste time.

After finishing the serious business, Chen Feng replied to Liu Ying, who had sent him a message in the morning.

She had been finding excuses to come to her aunt’s villa in Red Villa Bay during this period, and sometimes she even stayed overnight. So, when Chen Feng came back yesterday, she knew it that night because the lights were on in the No. 8 villa.

But she still waited until this morning to send a message to Chen Feng, asking him when he would return to the country, and then said that she missed him, making it seem like she was crazy about love now and was very infatuated with her old classmate Chen Feng.

During this period when he was in Europe, Liu Ying sent him messages every day like this, from time to time with a sentence of sad autumn and sad moon with a bit of literary style, as well as bitchy sentences of longing and love, creating a persona of a lonely wife in a deep boudoir for herself.

This made Chen Feng very speechless. He had even thought of directly exposing her, but in the end, he gave up the idea.

First, they were all old classmates, and now they had had skin-to-skin contact. He couldn’t be too cruel to her.

Secondly, although her WeChat harassment made him a little annoyed, and now she was putting on a persona of being infatuated with him, which made Chen Feng feel a little hypocritical, as a man, as a man who had pursued her in vain back then, he still enjoyed it a little in his heart.

The more infatuated he was with her back then, the more爽 he was now.

This might be human nature!

So, Chen Feng planned to continue to cooperate with her acting.

[I’m back. I’ll go see you when I have time.]

[That’s great! You don’t know how I’ve spent the past month. It’s really been too hard for me! Without you by my side, I feel like I don’t belong to myself. I really miss you, Chen Feng. Come see me now, okay?]

Seeing this text, Chen Feng’s teeth felt a little sore, but more than that, his vanity was satisfied.

[I’m not free now, maybe another day.]

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Seeing this, Chen Feng shook his head slightly and didn’t bother with her anymore. The cute and arrogant class beauty of his youth had now become his舔狗, the kind with green tea.

It could only be said that this life, this fate, was really magical.

Liu Ying sent a few more WeChat messages in succession, but Chen Feng was too lazy to open them and look. He put down his phone and lay on the recliner to take a nap.

About half an hour later, Chen Feng, who had taken a short nap, got up from the recliner and went to the practice room to meditate.

And so, an afternoon passed quickly.

By about five-thirty, Chen Feng came downstairs and heard Wu Mengting say that Wang Xuelin had just called them and invited them to Fumanlou for dinner tonight. She had already booked a table. The time was seven o’clock.

Hearing this news, Chen Feng was a little gratified and at the same time a little embarrassed. He was also very clear that Qin Zhen really didn’t have much money now, but since his girlfriend had already called, he couldn’t not go.

So, the three of them set off at six-thirty.

Fumanlou was not far from Red Villa Bay. When the three of them arrived, it was still a few minutes before seven o’clock.

When they entered the private room they had booked, they only saw Wang Xuelin alone. Qin Zhen was not there.

“Where’s Qin Zhen?” Chen Feng asked naturally.

Wang Xuelin said with a slightly sullen face, “He wants to break up with me.”

“Ah!”

The two women, Sun Xiaorui and Wu Mengting, exclaimed in unison. Chen Feng was also quite surprised.

“Why?” Chen Feng asked directly.

Wang Xuelin said with some grievance, “I want to get engaged to him, but he actually said he has to think about it carefully. Do you think he’s planning to dump me?”

Hearing this, the three of them, Chen Feng, Sun Xiaorui, and Wu Mengting, looked at each other for a while, and for a moment, they didn’t know how to answer.

Seeing this, Wang Xuelin directly called out, “Chen Feng, you are his best friend. You should know him very well. Tell me the truth, does he really like me?”

Seeing this, Chen Feng had to smile bitterly and say, “I really don’t know much about your matter with him. When he was a soldier before, you also know that I almost lost contact with him. At that time, you were in a long-distance relationship, which lasted for several years. I think he definitely has feelings for you, and he definitely likes you. Otherwise, how could he have persisted for several years?

“But, to put it bluntly, you proposed to break up with him at that time, which really hurt him. In my opinion, the reason why he is hesitating to get engaged to you now has a lot to do with you dumping him back then.”

Wang Xuelin stared at Chen Feng for a while, then said with some admiration, “You are indeed his best friend. You really know him very well. He himself has expressed this meaning, saying that he lacks a sense of security in our relationship. But I’m really wronged. You should all know that a long-distance relationship is really hard to last, and at that time he was still in a secret department, and many times he couldn’t be contacted.

“You can imagine our situation at that time. When I missed him, it was fine that he wasn’t by my side, but I couldn’t even contact him. Do you know how painful that was?

“So, in the end, I couldn’t stand it anymore. I wanted him to retire as soon as possible, but he didn’t agree, so I angrily proposed to break up. As a result, he directly agreed without any intention of keeping me. Was it really only my fault for that breakup?”

Hearing this, the three of them, Chen Feng, Sun Xiaorui, and Wu Mengting, were all a little emotional.

Chen Feng said, “He definitely has feelings for you. Otherwise, according to his consistent personality of not eating leftovers, he would not have agreed to get back together with you this time. But I think you can’t force him too much. After all, you have only been back together for more than a month, and you are in a hurry to get engaged. Of course, he is a little scared. He is afraid of being hurt again, or even more deeply. He didn’t rush to agree to you. He is responsible for himself and your relationship, and also for you. You should give him more time.”

Wu Mengting also echoed and persuaded, “Yes, marriage is a big deal. It’s normal for him to be a little cautious. And you really can’t force him on this matter, otherwise it will be counterproductive.”

Chen Feng picked up his phone and said, “Why don’t I call him over? You two can have a good talk, and everyone can be calm.”

This was what Wang Xuelin was waiting for. She nodded quickly with some reserve.

Chen Feng was speechless in his heart, but he still immediately picked up his phone and called Qin Zhen. After explaining the situation to him, although Qin Zhen was unwilling to come, he couldn’t refuse Chen Feng’s face. In the end, he came over with a sad face.

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(End of chapter)