Contractual Marriage: We’re Meant to Be Together

85. How Can She Say That?

Translator: Alanese Fantasy

After sleeping for about three hours, Yan Chuyang woke up because he was too thirsty. He turned on the lamp and sat up a little bit in a daze. Then he reached out to get the glass on the bedside table, but when he picked it up, he realized it was empty.

“Alas!” Yan Chuyang frustratingly put the glass back in place, rubbed his hair and mumbled, “I actually forgot to pour a glass of water before going to bed.”

He was always thirsty in the middle of the night, so there would definitely be a glass of water on the bedside table at night, but today he went straight to bed and forgot about it.

After sitting there blankly for a while, Yan Chuyang lay down and closed his eyes again, planning to make do with it.

However, after sleeping for a while, he couldn’t hold it anymore. His throat was so dry that he felt uncomfortable, so he sat up directly, lifted the quilt, put on his slippers and went downstairs.

He had to drink a glass of water before sleeping again.

The lights in the living room were already off, so Yan Chuyang held the handrails in the darkness and slowly fumbled his way downstairs.

But just as he walked to the living room’s tea table and was about to look for a cup, he suddenly smelled a strong odor of smoke.

“Cough, cough, cough!” Yan Chuyang coughed and followed the smoke. Then he suddenly saw a black figure at the sofa in the darkness.

Wei Qing held the cigarette in his hand and sadly stared at the ground. The faint fire of the cigarette tip reflected his deep-set and handsome features.

Looking at the man’s lonely face, Yan Chuyang felt his heart fiercely ached, so he asked softly, “Wei Qing?”

Wei Qing’s fingers trembled and he seemed to come back to his senses. Then he turned to look at the person beside him.

Yan Chuyang put down the cup, trotted to Wei Qing’s side, squatted down and said, “What’s wrong with you?”

Wei Qing lowered his eyes, rubbed the boy’s face and said hoarsely. “You were asleep, weren’t you? Why did you come down?”

Yan Chuyang frowned, took the cigarette in Wei Qing’s hand, turned around and put it in the ashtray. “You don’t smoke, right? Why are you smoking here in the middle of the night?”

Wei Qing pinched his brow and said softly, “I couldn’t fall asleep.”

Yan Chuyang lowered his head and looked at the cigarette butts on the ground. He was angry and also feel distressed for him, “You haven’t gone to bed, have you? Since I came upstairs, you’ve been sitting here smoking?”

Wei Qing replied, “I’m in a bad mood, and it just so happened that there was a pack of cigarette in the TV cabinet given by someone, so I sat here and smoked.”

Yan Chuyang glared at him angrily, “You can’t take your body lightly even if you’re in a bad mood, right? You usually don’t smoke, but now you suddenly stay up and smoke so much, you don’t want to live?”

Wei Qing lowered his head and kissed Yan Chuyang’s forehead. “It’s alright. I’m strong enough to endure it.”

Yan Chuyang snorted, lowered his eyes, pinched the sides of his trousers and whispered, “Are you still unwilling to tell me what’s eating you?”

Wei Qing’s eyes darkened and he didn’t say anything.

Yan Chuyang sighed and looked up at Wei Qing’s eyes. “Is it because of… Shen Shimin?”

Wei Qing’s eyelashes trembled.

Looking at Wei Qingn’s slightly changed expression, Yan Chuyang pursed his lips, “It’s really because of her.”

Wei Qing still didn’t say anything.

Yan Chuyang sighed and held Wei Qing’s knees. “Isn’t she back in the country? Since she is back, why do you still feel sad?”

“I don’t understand why she came back,” Wei Qing suddenly said.

Yan Chuyang suppressed the bitterness in his heart and snorted, “Because the destiny between the two of you has not been finished. God saw that you two were separated by ten thousand miles and he couldn’t bear to cut off your destiny, so…”

“Yan Chuyang.” Wei Qing suddenly interrupted Yan Chuyang’s nagging and said seriously, “Do you know when I feel depressed the most, most like a complete loser?”

Yan Chuyang’s heart trembled when he heard this. His eyes flashed, and then he asked, “How can there be that time?”

In his heart, Wei Qing was always the confident, decisive, and excellent man. No matter what happened, he was calm and confident.

How could such a Wei Qing have such a timid mentality?

He thought he was a complete loser?

This was too unbelievable.

Wei Qing smiled slightly and rubbed his eyebrows. “When I was in love with Shen Shimin, I was a poor boy. At that time, I thought highly of myself. I didn’t take a single cent of the money that Wei Dongsheng gave me. On my second year of university, I took out a loan to do business. Maybe I was born with business acumen, or I was naturally lucky, I earned the first bucket of gold in my life.”

“Shen Shimin was very happy. She thought I deserved to be invested, so she also encouraged me to continue doing it.”

“Then I made the best of my strengths and opened a very small design company. However, I didn’t have any funds, so I looked around for investors. Coincidentally, a foreigner liked my design and decided to invest in my company.”

“With money, I was able to run the company without any worries. Slowly, the company started to get on track and my income was getting higher and higher.”

“At that time, I really wanted to marry Shen Shimin.”

“So on the day of my graduation, I decided to propose to Shen Shimin when I confirmed that I was qualified to take on the responsibility of a family.”

“I remember that very clearly,” Wei Qing lowered his head and sneered, “On the day of the graduation ceremony, I went on stage as the representative of the outstanding students to speak and there were many people under the stage. At that time, I was young and confident, and after I finished speaking, I proposed to Shen Shimin at the instigation of a few friends.”

Yan Chuyang’s heart tightened. He only knew that Wei Qing had proposed to Shen Shimin when he graduated, but he didn’t know that he did that on such a big occasion as the graduation ceremony.

Yan Chuyang swallowed and whispered, “And then?”

“Then you know,” Wei Qing shrugged, “I told you before. She rejected me and even told me that she was sorry and couldn’t fall in love with a man whose father was gay.”

Yan Chuyang clenched his fists. “How can she say that in front of so many people!”

“She didn’t say anything wrong.” Wei Qing’s eyes flashed and he said, “My birth is a joke. A person who doesn’t even know who his mother is is supposed to be a laughingstock.”