Yan Xixi smiled faintly. "You two talk, I’ll head out first."
Li Xianzhen panicked and ran after her. "Yan, are you going tomorrow night?"
She was very straightforward. "Pick up tomorrow night."
Of course she was going! Why wouldn’t she!
When there’s a chance to learn, observe, and expand your network, you’d be a fool not to go.
After Liu the Empress Dowager’s exhortations, her mindset had already shifted: slowly, she needed to adapt to the Wan Family, not demand that the Wan Family adapt to her.
She drove ho, and as soon as she parked the car and walked to the bench by the lawn to sit down, Ms. Liu ca over with a young woman.
"Miss Yan, you have a visitor."
Li Mingyu’s girlfriend An’an said quietly, "Yan, I ca without an invitation. Please forgive ."
Yan Xixi was quite surprised. She invited her to sit, then asked, "An’an, is sothing wrong?"
An’an put down her coffee cup. Her eyes were red and swollen, she looked utterly haggard. "Yan, I need a favor."
"What’s going on?"
"Li Mingyu wants to break up with ..."
Yan Xixi froze, and asked carefully, "Why?"
"I’m not that young anymore. I want to get married, and I’m hoping we can buy an apartnt in South Country. Mingyu works for his advisor and also does several side jobs. Over the past two sumrs he’s made quite a bit of money; he has a decent amount of savings. I’ve saved up so too. I thought, if we pool it together, we could at least buy a place. But he just would not agree, no matter what..."
"..."
"He wouldn’t even agree when I pushed him to get married. I got so mad I went and bought a designer bag, a few outfits, and so costics—things I’d usually never bear to buy. I spent a little over five thousand in total... After he found out, he had a huge fight with . He said I was too extravagant, that I should wear a hat that fits my head, that he couldn’t afford a vain woman like , and if I despised him for being poor I should go find so rich, handso guy instead... I was furious and blurted out that we should break up..."
Couples quarrelling is nothing unusual, and a woman blurting out "let’s break up" in the heat of the mont is normal too.
"I didn’t expect him to agree right away and actually break up with ..."
Yan Xixi could only say, "Maybe he was just angry in the mont too?"
"No, he really wants to break up. He moved out the very next day. He won’t answer my calls, and when I go looking for him, he avoids ... Yan, what do you think I should do now?"
Yan Xixi’s scalp was tingling.
"I don’t want to break up. I’ve treated him so well. I buy T‑shirts for myself that only cost a few yuan, but I’ll buy him shirts costing hundreds as birthday presents..."
And the more practical problem was that after they broke up, covering the rent and everything on one inco would be even harder. Besides, he was about to graduate, about to have a bright future ahead of him; he could finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, yet he chose this mont to break up!
Maybe he’d just been waiting for this opening.
And she just had to be the one to bring it up, handing him the excuse.
"Li Mingyu and Li Zhen are best buddies. You and Li Zhen help talk to him, okay? He’ll definitely listen to you two... Yan, I’m begging you."
Yan Xixi didn’t know how to respond. She thought, the mont you only buy yourself clothes that cost a few yuan but buy him a hundred-plus-yuan shirt, you’ve already lost.
She watched An’an walk away. Ms. Liu ca out to clear the coffee cups from the table. "I made hotpot tonight. It’ll be ready soon..."
Yan Xixi could already sll the aroma of chilies drifting out from the induction cooker—the authentic scent of dried chilis, ground Sichuan pepper, and a rich Da Hong Pao hotpot base.
Ever since she ca to South Country, she’d been craving hotpot. Tonight, Ms. Liu had finally made it.
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