Love is like sugar and marriage is like water

Chapter 17
"Look, I knew you were joking. You and my sister have no plans to get married, right?"

When Li Heng mentioned the issue of marrying his sister, Zhao Ji seemed a little hesitant, so he immediately interrupted his unspeakable words and asked aggressive questions.

"I know, I know... As your friend, I have no right to ask you for an answer, and the question I asked is a bit abrupt... But as Li Shi's brother, I have the right to know this."

Zhao Ji didn't know how to answer for a moment...

This is because - he really has never thought about marrying her. As for having fun with Li Shi, in fact, he has no such idea.

He wanted to use words to comfort Li Heng, which could not only ease the embarrassing situation, but also provide a reason to convince Li Heng to understand, but he really couldn't find any appropriate words.

……

"Zhao Ji, you have offended my sister now. What should I do now?"

"I do not know either……"

Zhao Ji could only say this.

"You cannot play with fire. If you play with fire, you will burn yourself."

Li Heng was actually a little angry.

"You don't understand Li Shi very well. She will get sick, run away, scold you, date you, and of course hate you...she can do anything."

"Will she hate me?" Zhao Ji looked a little frightened.

"Of course, it's the most natural thing to turn from love to hate. If it were another girl, she would hide everything and wait...or maybe transfer her emotions..."

"She's going to fall in love with someone else, isn't she?"

"No, no, she won't. My sister is not this kind of woman. She is very dedicated to feelings. I know her character and temper very well."

"Um……"

"Besides, she fell in love with you. This is her first love - it's the first time I've seen her be so attracted to a man."

"Oh... I am her first love. I really never thought of it! Do you think she has ever loved another man?"

Zhao Ji asked back somewhat unnaturally.

"No, apart from her love for my brother, she has never loved any man... But the love between us is just brother and sister."

"I had some misunderstandings before..."

"Of course, this is serious! If you saw her throwing herself on me last night, crying and grief-stricken, you would understand how worried I, as a brother, am about her future marriage."

"Hey, what should I do?"

"If she saw me mentioning the issue of marriage today and you were so hesitant to agree, she would be even more sad and painful."

……

At this moment, Zhao Ji was sitting quietly on the chair opposite Li Heng, thinking, thinking... He was confused about the different paths of his future marriage, and he was also picking up memories of the past few days.

"How to answer?"

He didn't know how to answer this question
After all, he had just experienced a painful and failed marriage and had not yet completely escaped from the pain——

"Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of straw ropes for ten years."

He tried to figure out a way to get the best of both worlds, but he couldn't figure it out...

Just now, Li Heng said that Li Shi would scold him, hate him, date him, etc., which deeply hurt his heart - "Isn't this forcing me to agree to her?"

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji felt a little unhappy.

However, he also felt that, no matter what, if he did not repay Li Heng's sincere and frank question with a sincere and frank attitude, it would be a shameful act and unsustainable as a man.

"Yes!" Zhao Ji finally said, "Li Heng, you are right, your sister wants to date me, or maybe she wants to scold me in person - just an hour ago, I received an email from your sister Short message."

After that, he opened his phone and showed it to Li Heng.

"Look, it's this text message..."

Li Heng picked up his phone and browsed through it quickly.

After watching, his hands fell slumped onto his knees, his lips moved a few times, but nothing came out.

Li Heng sneered, and the unusually surprised expression on his face seemed to Zhao Ji to be a bit funny, not cute, and even a bit annoying.

However, Zhao Ji also wanted to laugh, but couldn't.

"You!... Let me tell you again, you are truly an upright man."

Li Heng was silent for a moment and spoke incoherently.

"In that case...but what should we do now? Zhao Ji...what should we do?" Li Heng shouted loudly.

"What do you think? Li Heng, don't be impulsive now, okay? Please give me an idea!"

Zhao Ji said in a pleading tone.

"It's really weird! My sister wants to leave, but she still sends you a text message to ask you out, and blames herself for not being cautious, for fear of being looked down upon by you..."

Li Heng stood up and paced back and forth in the room, looking worried.

"Yes, what an ambivalence this is!"

"Why did my sister send you a text message and ask you out? Does she have any requirements for you?"

"I don't know either... But don't worry... there is always a way... there must be a way to the mountain, right?"

Zhao Ji tried to comfort Li Heng, but he didn't expect it to have any effect.

"All right……"

Li Heng finally calmed down——

Then, the two began to discuss as quietly as possible what approach should be taken.

Let's discuss, let's discuss...

They finally decided——

In order to avoid accidents, Zhao Ji should meet with Li Shi and explain clearly to Li Shi face to face sincerely and openly.

Even if Zhao Ji no longer loves, or does love, and does not want to marry Li Shi, there must be a necessary end...

Li Heng promised Zhao Ji to stay at his residence and pretended not to know about Li Shi's text messages and Zhao Ji's date.

After Zhao Ji and Li Shi met, the two men met quietly again at night.

"I completely trust you!" Li Heng said, shaking Zhao Ji's hand tightly, "Please tolerate her, and please forgive me. And we'd better leave here tomorrow."

Li Heng added as he stood up.

"Because you will not marry Li Shi."

"Give me some time and we'll talk about it in the evening," Zhao Ji said, sending Li Heng out the door.

"Well, you will not marry my sister Li Shi."

Li Heng repeated it again.

After all, he left.

Zhao Ji suddenly felt a little relieved. He was too tired - he returned to the room, threw himself on the bed, and closed his eyes.

"How to do?"

As soon as this question popped up in his mind, he felt dizzy, his head buzzed... and there was a heartbreaking pain.

In the past few days, he had too many impressions of Li Shi, both good and bad - beautiful, changeable, radical, sensitive, willful... these all came to mind at once.

It was such a realistic and thorny problem before him now.

Zhao Ji didn't understand.

He complained about both Li Heng and Li Shi.

Li Shi's fiery love almost burned him up - although this kind of love made him overjoyed, it also made him agitated and uncomfortable.

Based on this idea, Zhao Ji's head suddenly became clear again——

"Actually, Li Shi is not suitable for marriage, but for falling in love. She is not a suitable marriage partner. What a wonderful thing it would be if you and Li Shi could only fall in love without getting married!"

Zhao Ji couldn't understand what made Li Shi tell her brother all her feelings about him - was it just because of trust?
No, no, definitely not just.

Zhao Ji thought again.

Almost in an instant, he quickly made a decision related to the future and fate of his marriage.Although this decision made him feel extremely painful...

"A girl with her personality is really intolerable... How is it possible to marry her?"

Zhao Ji said to himself as he got up from the bed.

　I hope you enjoy my new book.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)