Pampered By All In Different Planes

Chapter 74: Chapter 74 After Fleeing, The Disabled Boss Stops Pretending 36

“Do you want to know why there’s this contract?”

Lu Peijin asked her, and when Su Zhiruan looked up, what she saw was his somewhat bewildered but firm gaze. She sighed deeply in her heart and finally nodded, “I want to know.”

It was with this look that Su Zhiruan clearly knew she was done for!

Her originally wonderful life might now have to include an additional man!

This Lu Peijin! Where is he some CEO, the mature and steady leader portrayed by the media? What Family Head of the Lu Family! He’s obviously love-struck!!

Afterward, she quietly listened to Lu Peijin tell his story.

To call it a story might not be exactly right, a single sentence could summarize it: a child who lacked love in his childhood ultimately wants to love, and a father who spent his youth flitting among the flowers eventually wants his child to be happy with just one person.

“Before I met you, I didn’t believe in feelings, didn’t believe in marriage. I always thought they were shackles, chains that don’t bring happiness. Even if it’s beautiful now, but in ten years, twenty years, or even decades later—people are creatures who love novelty and grow tired of the familiar, I’m afraid the promises I make now won’t be kept in the future, and I’m afraid to let you down,”

Su Zhiruan listened quietly, letting his hand take hold of hers.

Lu Peijin looked past the sheeting rain, beyond the distant mountains, forgetting Jinghua, with a unifying thought in his heart, at this moment his eyes and heart were filled only with this one person before him—his beloved.

“But I don’t want to regret, nor do I want to live with lifelong regrets because of my unfounded fears. Even if you don’t like me, I still want to earnestly ask you to give me a chance, so that I won’t have regrets, won’t regret doing this today.” As Lu Peijin spoke, he took out a small box from his pocket with solemnity and then handed it to her, “This is my heartfelt wish. I originally planned to give it to you earlier, but when I woke up this morning and reached out to find that the space beside me was cold, and your room was empty, in that moment, my heart died.”

Su Zhiruan knew without opening it what was inside—the ring, what else could it be?

Lu Peijin thought.

It wasn’t just his heart that died, but when he saw that scene, a big void opened in his heart. On the first day, he was still holding onto a sliver of hope, thinking he wouldn’t care about a contract, but who could have imagined that on the second day, the third day, the fourth day… Lu Peijin found that this contract was a complete joke from the start.

His contract initially stated that she would leave Jinghua after giving birth to the child, but when she truly left Jinghua without care or reluctance, he realized that he was the one who was shackled. He had wanted her to leave Jinghua, but when she really flew far away, crossing thousands of kilometers to leave for good, Lu Peijin’s heart flew away with her.

From the beginning, it wasn’t that she couldn’t leave him, but that he couldn’t leave her!

What’s the definition of family? Is it a house? A car? Assets? A marriage certificate?

Lu Peijin thought about it a lot, but in the end, his answer settled on one word—her.

The time without her he didn’t want to try again, for it was like living with a heart turned to ash, days of numbness and mechanical routine.

Watching the changes in Lu Peijin’s eyes, Su Zhiruan could tell that he had probably thought a lot in his heart, and even his gaze had become much dimmer due to her lack of response.

She sighed deeply, took the little box, and then spoke indifferently, “Mr. Lu, who taught you to propose in such a setting?”

“You… accept?” Lu Peijin initially didn’t catch on, but when he grasped her meaning, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, “Do you really accept? This place… I’m sorry, I was thinking—”

Su Zhiruan interrupted him, how could she disagree when Lu Peijin looked as if he was about to break any moment? She wasn’t heartless, and it was clear to everyone how Lu Peijin treated her. She cared too, and felt reluctant, but to be together directly, that certainly wouldn’t work.

“Previously it was a contract relationship, now it’s not,” Su Zhiruan said slowly, “Since there is no relationship now, Mr. Lu, why don’t we start over, begin with you pursuing me?”

“Would you agree then?” At this moment, Lu Peijin was like a child, stubbornly seeking an answer, as if he’d show a look of disappointment if he didn’t get one.

Su Zhiruan countered, asking, “How would you know if I’d agree or not if you don’t try?”

“So you mean you will agree,” Lu Peijin’s brain was flooded with immense surprise, and subconsciously, he thought to lift Su Zhiruan up right then and there.

Su Zhiruan, quick to react, leaped away, her heart untied and planning to follow her inner desires, she smiled, her eyes sparkling with mischief and charm, she bent over slightly, “Whether I will agree, and how I might agree, that depends on how Mr. Lu goes about it, good luck!”

“Alright, the future Madam Lu, I’ll work hard,” he promised.

For a moment, both of them couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Su Zhiruan remembered her grandmother was waiting and quickly stood up, “I have to go now; Grandma is waiting for me. You can start pursuing me from tomorrow.”

This time, she dashed off straight away, and Lu Peijin wanted to say something more, but she had already disappeared.

Well then… it starts from tomorrow.

When Su Zhiruan brought the umbrella, her grandmother was trimming the branches of the flowers; seeing the unconcealable smile on her face, she asked curiously, “You seem so happy today, is there something good happening?”

“Grandma, what do you think it would be like if I had a family?” Su Zhiruan asked, snuggling up to her grandmother like a little girl.

The grandmother thought for a moment, then said with affection, “Our Ruanruan would surely be the best girl, but Grandma still wants to tell you, even when you have a family and get married, you should still strive to improve yourself. Only in a relationship of equals can you avoid losing.”

“Okay, Grandma,” Su Zhiruan nodded. What Grandma probably meant was that they should be well-matched in social status.

Afterward, the granddaughter and grandmother chatted leisurely in the rain as they headed back home together.

*

From early the next morning, as soon as Su Zhiruan came downstairs, she heard people gossiping around her, discussing all kinds of significant news. With just half an ear, she caught lots of explosive stories.

“Hey, hey, did you hear? In our little place, some rich second generation bought out all the flowers in every flower shop, saying it’s to confess his love!”

“My gosh, a love confession happening here? I wonder which lucky girl gets to marry into wealth.”

“That, I don’t know. Everyone in the city knows it by now. When I first heard, I thought it was a joke!”

When they saw Su Zhiruan, they all greeted her and asked her to join in on the gossip.

Curiously, Su Zhiruan asked, “So who is he confessing to, exactly?”

“Who knows?! Hey—wait a second!! Is that the rich guy?!”

Su Zhiruan followed everyone’s gaze—

Then, to her horror, she discovered that this rich second generation was none other than Lu Peijin!!