“I’m telling you for the last time. Everything for the wedding is ready, and both families have been notified. Anyone who dares to be unruly and disrupt the wedding will not be spared.”
After speaking, he hung up the phone and ordered someone to take Chen Jiaojiao away.
Hu Jiasheng looked at the phone with a dead line, his heart in turmoil for a moment. He called Zhan Beijue.
Zhan Beijue was already awake and on his way to the company.
The call was picked up in a second.
“What is it?”
“Ajue, Chen Jiaojiao is getting married tomorrow, is that true?”
Zhan Beijue paused for two seconds, his tone flat.
“It’s true. Although I don’t have the standing to advise you on anything, as a member of the Zhan family, I feel it’s necessary to say a few words.”
“Your relationship with Chen Jiaojiao was wrong from the start. Now that both families have escalated the situation this far, you absolutely cannot make another mistake.”
“Otherwise, not only will they lose face, but our Zhan family will also be shamed.”
“A true man’s ambition lies in all directions and he should not be confined by romantic entanglements. I believe you understand this better than I do. I’ll say no more. The rest is up to you to consider.”
The call ended. Looking at the numbers in front of him, Hu Jiasheng suddenly felt as if his brain had been scooped out.
He couldn’t focus on anything, nor could he calculate anything.
He was lost.
Lu Mingzhe slept soundly and went downstairs. His parents were not there.
The nanny smiled and asked him if he was hungry and what he wanted to eat.
“Where’s Mom?”
“Madam and Sir have gone out. They said they were going to trick Grandma and the in-laws into coming over to help arrange the hotel.”
“Young master, what would you like to eat?”
Chen Jiaojiao and her father had come over?
That was good.
At this critical moment, she was still quite sensible.
“Did they say where they were going?”
“I think it was the Peninsula International Hotel.”
“Got it. I’m not hungry, you can go back to your work.”
He suddenly felt that the matter was resolved too smoothly and it was quite uninteresting.
Lu Mingzhe lay down on the sofa, took out his phone, and went to watch Xiang Wan’s live stream again.
After an unknown amount of time, the live stream was interrupted, and Chen Jiaojiao’s call came in.
Lu Mingzhe answered with a playful mood.
“What’s wrong, Miss Chen?”
“Where are you now?”
“At home. Why? Do you miss me?”
“I’ve been locked in my room by my father. Can you come and see me?”
“??”
“Peninsula International, room 8820. You’ll come, right?”
Lu Mingzhe didn’t understand why he should go.
“I will definitely come. But not now, but tomorrow morning. Are you eager to marry me?”
Chen Jiaojiao was annoyed.
“I can’t get through to Hu Jiasheng’s phone, and my WeChat has been blocked. Lu Mingzhe, I just want to know what you did when you secretly went to see him.”
From her words, it sounded as if her father had tied her up.
Lu Mingzhe became interested again.
“Oh, you’ve lost contact with him? He blocked you? What does that mean? Is your dad really breaking you up?”
Chen Jiaojiao: “How can you say that? Weren’t all your bad ideas?”
“Don’t blame me, Chen Jiaojiao. Look, have I ever forced you from beginning to end?”
“Isn’t it because your father took a fancy to our family’s influence and insisted on marrying you to me?”
“Fine, if you want to ask about this, I can’t help you. I don’t know anything.”
“As I said before. I won’t force you. Come to the wedding if you want to, or send your father if you don’t. I only want a result, nothing else matters.”
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Chen Jiaojiao was alone in the room, unable to get out and unable to find Hu Jiasheng.
It was like throwing a barrage of punches at cotton, making her heart ache with anger, but with nowhere to vent it.
With no other solution, she could only wait for her father to return.
She sat on the sofa, waiting from four in the afternoon until past ten at night. Her father finally returned.
He pushed the door open and was startled to see her staring intently at the door.
“You’re awake? Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere?”
Chen Jiaojiao sneered.
“Do you still care if I’m comfortable? As long as you’re happy, isn’t that enough? Don’t act like I owe you something!”
“You ungrateful girl, don’t speak so heartlessly! You’re marrying Lu Mingzhe, and you’ll be living the good life, not me. Don’t talk as if I owe you!”
Her father walked in, closed the door, and sat opposite her, speaking earnestly.
“Don’t blame me for not letting you say goodbye to Hu Jiasheng. In fact, this is a test for him.”
“Whether he’s firm with you or not, whether you can count on him at a critical moment, you can tell from this incident, can’t you?”
“Look, I brought you here this morning, and there’s still no news from him. Isn’t his attitude clear enough?”
“You, don’t be foolish.”
Her father handed her his phone.
“Look, this is the video that Xiao Wang recorded at his company. He’s fine, and he doesn’t take you seriously at all.”
Chen Jiaojiao, full of doubt, took the phone and opened the videos one by one.
In the videos, Hu Jiasheng was sometimes sitting in the conference room, expressionlessly attending meetings with everyone.
Sometimes he was sitting with designers, discussing issues intensely.
Sometimes he was frowning at the computer screen, working diligently.
There was no sign of his sadness or anxiety.
It was as if he had no idea that the girlfriend he had sworn eternal love to was about to marry someone else.
The expressionless faces pierced Chen Jiaojiao’s heart like a thousand needles.
The first thing she did after waking up was to find her phone and see if Hu Jiasheng had sent her any messages.
As a result, she discovered that she had been blocked.
When she called him, her number was also on the blacklist.
She had still held onto some hope.
She thought that when she lost consciousness, Hu Jiasheng had been coerced and had no choice but to do so.
But now it seemed…
Men were different from women.
At the crossroads of career and love, they always chose career.
No matter how sweet the vows were, they were unreliable at critical moments.
But she understood the logic.
Yet in her heart, she was still unwilling to accept the reality.
As long as she didn’t hear a definitive answer from Hu Jiasheng, she wouldn’t give up!
“I won’t give up until he tells me directly that we’re breaking up.”
“I want to use your phone to call him.”
Her father was so angry that he gritted his teeth, looking at her with the expression of hating that iron cannot become steel.
Chen Jiaojiao dialed the number she knew by heart.
After a long while, the call connected, and Hu Jiasheng’s familiar voice came through.
“Who is this?”
“A Sheng, it’s Chen Jiaojiao.”
The line went silent for a moment.
A few seconds later, his calm voice came again.
“What is it?”
What is it?
He actually asked her what it was with such a calm tone?
There was nothing more to ask. Chen Jiaojiao instantly understood everything.
“I’m getting married tomorrow. Do you have time to attend the wedding?”
Another silence.
Hu Jiasheng seemed to be thinking about how to answer appropriately.
Finally, he said.
“I’m sorry. I have project matters to handle and no time to go.”
“But I’ll have Ajue bring the gift money. I wish you a happy wedding and a lifelong union.”