Rose Manor

Before Shen Jia Nian came to her senses, Fu Jichen thrust another book into her hands. She opened it and saw that it contained high-definition color pictures. Whichever page she opened, there were beautiful scenery or sacred and solemn images.

"This is..." Shen Jia Nian murmured subconsciously.

"The venue for the wedding." Fu Jichen answered her. Seeing her confused look, he smiled and said, "There are various styles. You can see which venue you like and we will book it in advance."

Shen Jianian remembered that the last time he went back to the Fu family's old house for dinner, Fu Jichen told the elders in the family that a wedding was expected to be held in late spring or early summer next year. It was only the end of September, so he had already started preparations?

Will the timeline be stretched too long?

The doubts in her eyes were obvious. Fu Jichen seemed to know what she was thinking, and patiently explained: "The wedding dress production period is relatively long. Now that I am starting to prepare, I am worried that the time is a little tight and I will not be able to achieve the perfect effect."

Shen Jianian opened his mouth, not knowing what to say and his mind was a little confused.

Fu Jichen: "Whether it's a wedding dress or a venue, if you can't make up your mind, you can first pick out a few of your favorites and I'll help you make reference."

Shen Jianian still didn't speak. His eyes moved from the book in his hand to the man's face. His thick eyelashes fluttered, and his whole person seemed to have lost his soul.

Fu Jichen found it funny, curled his lips and touched her head: "Are you stupid?"

Shen Jianian lost all ability to think and swallowed, her voice a little stiff: "...I'll listen to you." She had said a long time ago that she had no objection to the wedding.

"Is there nothing else you want to tell me besides this?"

"Thank you."

Fu Jichen's brows furrowed slightly, but the corners of his lips were raised, with a bit of a dumbfounding expression on his face. Who wanted to hear her say thank you? Between husband and wife, do you need to be grateful?

"I suggest changing the word 'thank you' to three words." Fu Jichen reminded her.

Shen Jia Nian held two booklets in his arms, but his thinking could not keep up with his rhythm. He spoke faster than his brain and asked: "What three words?"

"Shen Jianian, I think you are playing tricks on me." Fu Jichen didn't believe that she couldn't understand his hint, "Do you want me to say it directly?"

Shen Jia Nian calmed down, smoothed his thoughts, and immediately understood the three words he wanted to hear. A blush appeared on his cheeks, and after a long pause, he whispered: "I love you?"

Fu Jichen was not satisfied again: "Can you stop using questions?"

There were quite a lot of requests, so Shen Jia Nian murmured secretly, and then, under the gaze of Fu Jichen's deep eyes, he spoke again. As he wished, the question turned into an affirmation, with the same three words: "I love you."

Fu Jichen's originally calm brows and eyes suddenly burst into smiles, like ice and snow melting, like dead trees blooming in spring, like summer breeze, a full and light emotion filled his heart, making him inactive for a long time.

Shen Jianian stared at him for a long time, then responded with the two words he just said to her: "Are you stupid?" After saying that, she couldn't help but laugh.

Are these three words "I love you" so lethal? Fu Jichen looked like someone had tapped his acupuncture points. Except for his eyes, which were blinking, all other parts were frozen.

She thought that in this materialistic society, expressing love was as casual as eating. Who could tell the difference between true and false, and who would care.

Especially for a person like Fu Jichen, who has lived in a complex environment since childhood and has seen all kinds of human nature, he should have been immune to the proposition of "love" for a long time. Surprisingly, he has extraordinary persistence in this regard. Occasionally, Shen Jia Nian would feel that her love for him was not strong and deep enough and failed to live up to his deep affection for her.

After being stunned for an unknown amount of time, Fu Jichen finally reacted. His throat rolled slightly, he held her face up slightly, and placed a soft and pious kiss on her lips, without any charming color.

He gave her the most sincere response: "Shen Jianian, I love you too." He felt it was not enough, so he added the prefix, "I love you very, very much."

Shen Jianian said: "I believe it."

*

After the National Day holiday, Shen Jianian went to the band studio and heard the news from other members - Wen Ran submitted her resignation to the manager and planned to leave the band.

Wen Ran has been in the band for more than four years. She is an experienced cellist and can hold her own in some large-scale occasions without making any mistakes. Manager Xie cannot be surprised by her sudden request to resign.

Thinking that she was dissatisfied with her salary, Manager Xie revealed to her that starting from next month, there would be a collective salary increase, and since this performance was a complete success, the bonus would not be small.

Although Wen Ran was reluctant to give up, she still insisted on leaving. No matter how Manager Xie asked, she refused to explain the reason for her resignation.

Seeing that she had decided to leave, Manager Xie sighed, no longer forcing her to stay, and approved her resignation application with regret.

When Wen Ran came out of Manager Xie's office, her mood sank to the bottom. Just like Shen Jia Nian said that day, if her conscience could pass... In fact, her conscience couldn't pass. She couldn't pretend that nothing had happened. With Shen Jia Nian and Hua Hua, Sui stayed in the same band, looking down but not looking up.

In these days, she couldn't sleep well even a day.

She explained to herself over and over again that she didn't mean to kill anyone, she just wanted to keep Shen Jia Nian away from the stage. However, some things were wrong just because they were wrong. No matter how many reasonable excuses she made for herself, she could not erase what she had done. matter.

The only way she could think of to save herself was to leave.

She is a coward. She doesn't have the courage to admit it in front of Shen Jianian, nor does she have the courage to apologize to Huasui. She can only stay away from them as she is now, hoping that temporary escape can alleviate her uneasy conscience.

Wen Ran stared at her toes as she walked, thinking about these things in her mind, feeling uneasy.

Suddenly, a shadow blocked her eyes. She stopped hurriedly, raised her head, and met Shen Jianian's clear and calm eyes.

Wen Ran suddenly felt ashamed and did not dare to look at her for too long, so she took the lead to look away. She put both hands into her coat pockets, clenched her fingers slightly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Do you have anything to do with me?"

The moment he saw Wen Ran, Shen Jia Nian's calm eyes had a wave of excitement. She originally thought that Wen Ran was the kind of person with no conscience. She could poison a colleague, and there was nothing else she couldn't do. When she heard that Wen Ran was resigning, she suddenly felt that she had misunderstood her.

Wen Ran may not be as bottomless as she thought.

"Are you seeing my joke?" Wen Ran said harshly when she saw that she didn't speak.

She didn't wear makeup today, her face was frighteningly white, and her eyes were thick with dark circles. Shen Jia Nian looked at her state and it didn't look like she was enjoying herself after doing bad things. This proved that her guess was correct and she was not hopelessly bad. .

Just when Wen Ran thought Shen Jianian wouldn't speak, she let out a low sigh.

Wen Ran was confused. She was about to leave. Why was she sighing? Shouldn't she be happy? After all, in her heart, she has been labeled as a bad person who does all kinds of evil.

Shen Jianian said: "Since you have decided to do that, why can't you bear the psychological pressure?"

Wen Ran didn't want to cry in front of Shen Jianian, and she didn't know what was going on. Just such a simple sentence pierced her heart, her eye circles instantly turned red, and warm liquid overflowed her eyes.

She blinked desperately, trying to hold back the tears, but it was no use, tears still flowed down the corners of her eyes.

Wen Ran raised her hand to wipe the tears from her face, turned her head and looked at the wall to the side, no longer looking at Shen Jianian.

Shen Jia Nian really hated her and came to her just to verify her suspicions. Now that she knew the answer, she had nothing to say: "I'm leaving, so you can take care of yourself."

Shen Jia Nian was about to walk out of sight, and Wen Ran just woke up from a dream and stepped forward to chase her with eager steps: "Shen Jia Nian, wait!"

Shen Jianian stopped when she heard the voice behind her. Before she could turn around, Wen Ran pulled her to an empty music room nearby.

Then, the door slammed shut.

Wen Ran turned around and came face to face with Shen Jianian. Her tears had stopped and her eyes were still a little red.

Shen Jia Nian was frightened by her sudden move, and her heartbeat was disordered. After a few seconds, she looked at Wen Ran intently and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Whether you believe it or not, I didn't want to harm you at the beginning." Wen Ran originally planned to keep this matter in her stomach and not tell anyone. Maybe it was because she happened to meet Shen Jianian, or maybe it was to make her conscience clearer. Despite the much redemption, she still said it, "I put medicine in that glass of water."

Shen Jianian's eyes widened, not expecting Wen Ran to admit it like that.

"I know you guessed it, you are very smart." Wen Ran twitched her lips, smiled sadly, and said again, "I have no intention of harming you."

Shen Jianian's voice did not rise or fall: "But you did take the drug. If Huasui drinks a few more sips of water..."

"I didn't know it was poison!" Wen Ran interrupted her with a roar, her body was trembling, her stopped tears flowed again, her whole body was shaky and fragile, "It was that woman...that woman told me that it was just Ordinary gastrointestinal medicine, I just want you to have gastrointestinal discomfort and be unable to perform on stage, so that I can complete the solo smoothly and become the center of attention. I even considered that you are on your period and took a very small amount. I didn't I thought it would be like this, but I really didn’t know that drug… could kill people.”

She sniffed, covered her trembling lips, and revealed all the secrets buried in her heart. (End of chapter)