Chapter 2274 — Wang Xinyan's Headache
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"Yanyan, I hear... you've found yourself a boyfriend at school?" After all the fussing and concern, Xiao Qinlin finally asked the question she cared about most.
"Ah? I..." Wang Xinyan's expression changed, and her face went instantly scarlet. She had not expected her mother to bring this up so suddenly.
Xiao Qinlin caught the shift in her daughter's expression, and her own face changed slightly. "So it's true, then?"
"I... well, he's not really my boyfriend... just a classmate I'm on good terms with..." Wang Xinyan said, a little embarrassed, as though she had been caught red-handed doing something wrong.
"Just a classmate you're on good terms with?" Xiao Qinlin clearly did not believe it. "Earlier, a girl classmate named Gu Mengyao came by—and she had plenty to say."
Wang Xinyan had not expected Gu Mengyao to be the one who let the cat out of the bag. Helpless, she pressed her lips together, not knowing how to explain.
"Yanyan, you're betrothed to someone... you're not like other people. When the time comes... if the Kang family finds out, we'll have no way to answer for it..." Xiao Qinlin said worriedly. Thinking back to the last time they had been put under house arrest by the Xiao brothers, who had used Wang Xuben's company to pressure them, she felt a chill of dread even now.
"That's enough—stop asking!" Wang Xuben frowned and cut Xiao Qinlin off. "That boy from the Kang family—I never thought much of him to begin with. If Yanyan has a choice of her own, then I'll give up the company. I've thought it through these past few days, and I've had my fill! This kidnapping especially—losing our daughter and getting her back has made one thing clearer to me than ever: nothing matters more than our daughter. The company can go. The ten million the kidnappers demanded—I'd bankrupt myself to raise it. So let's not push Yanyan too hard. Whatever she likes is fine with me!"
"But my family and the Kang family... I'm afraid they might do something out of line... after all, they're cultivators, and they have powerful backers behind them..." Xiao Qinlin truly saw no way out. What she feared most was that if they broke off the engagement, that side would do something excessive.
"That..." Wang Xuben was taken aback, and the crux of the matter occurred to him as well. He could not help falling silent, then heaved a despondent sigh.
"Dad, Mom, don't argue. I... I know what I'm doing..." Seeing her parents so distressed over this matter, Wang Xinyan sighed helplessly and said quietly.
The atmosphere in the lounge abruptly turned somewhat heavy and strange. Wang Xuben and Xiao Qinlin looked at their daughter and sighed, a flicker of guilt in their eyes.
Xiao Qinlin especially was deeply unhappy about the way her two brothers had behaved, yet there was nothing she could do.
But Wang Xinyan's heart was in turmoil... Her parents had found out about her and Wei Zhao after all. How was she to deal with it from now on? Should she let nature take its course and give herself free rein, or draw a clear line between herself and Wei Zhao?
Yet Wang Xinyan knew that although there was something ambiguous between her and Wei Zhao, their relationship had never gone any further. She did not want to change her way of living for the sake of a fiancé who was little more than a name, and besides, she did not like this fiancé at all.
For a moment, Wang Xinyan could not help feeling a headache coming on...
She had told her father and mother that she knew what she was doing—but did she really?