On the way back.
Zhou Yu sat in the passenger seat, his gaze fixed on the night scenery outside, leaving only the back of his head for Zhao Ruyue, who was driving.
"Ask whatever you want to ask, while I have time to answer you."
Hearing this, Zhao Ruyue bit her lip, a hint of panic appearing on her pretty face.
This man clearly knew she was secretly looking at him.
But it was only now that Zhou Yu spoke.
"What happened between you and the Ice Snow Female War God?" Zhao Ruyue organized her thoughts and got straight to the point.
This was the question she cared about the most.
And all her doubts were related to this question.
Zhao Ruyue hadn't considered that Zhou Yu's relationship with Leng Xue might be similar to his relationship with her, also involving a marriage engagement.
But this guess was hard to believe, so she could only try to shake it off.
The idea that the female war god of Long Country had once been engaged to a stranger was something people would hardly believe if it got out.
"Are you that curious about my relationship with her?" Zhou Yu asked back.
What happened between him and Leng Xue seemed to have nothing to do with Zhao Ruyue.
Even if the engagement hadn't been broken, the two engagements were completely independent, and Zhou Yu had no reason to tell Zhao Ruyue about it.
Besides,
A fiancée was just a fiancée, not a real wife.
No matter how Zhou Yu looked at it, there was no reason for him to tell Doctor Zhao.
"Before the engagement is broken, I am still your fiancée. Given that, is it strange for me to be curious about your relationship with another woman?" Zhao Ruyue explained.
If she didn't get an answer today, she definitely wouldn't sleep well tonight.
Once a woman's curiosity is piqued, it's not easily extinguished.
"I asked you to break off the engagement, and you refused. As for the engagement, you basically held onto it forcefully. And, she's just a fiancée, just like you, I have several fiancées. If every fiancée acted like you, asking endless questions, I'd have nothing else to do all day," Zhou Yu spread his hands.
Zhao Ruyue fell silent.
He was indeed right.
"Hey! Big sister! Concentrate on driving!"
Zhou Yu, seeing Doctor Zhao's dejected expression, was startled and quickly said, "What are you thinking about! Why don't I drive instead? It'll be safer."
Distracted while driving, is she trying to die?
Even if this woman didn't care about her life, he did!
"What did you call me?"
Zhao Ruyue slowed down the car, her delicate eyebrows furrowed, and then she glared fiercely at Zhou Yu.
"Big sister," Zhou Yu said calmly.
That's what he had called her.
Was this woman deaf, to ask him to repeat it?
"Called me big sister? Am I that old?"
Zhao Ruyue immediately became agitated.
She was only in her twenties, a blossoming age for women in this era.
Although she might be a tiny bit older than Zhou Yu, she was definitely not a "big sister"!
Women are generally very sensitive about age, and being called that by the man next to her, combined with what happened today, Zhao Ruyue's sense of grievance erupted.
"I just called you that casually, why are you so bothered? Let's switch seats," Zhou Yu suggested.
Seeing that Zhao Ruyue's emotions were not quite right, he was really worried.
Unsafe driving leads to tears for loved ones...
"Hmph! In your heart, I must be older than the Female War God and Su Yuyan, right?"
Before Zhou Yu could reply, Zhao Ruyue continued, "You must be thinking this way. If you didn't have this subconscious thought, you wouldn't have said it so casually."
Zhou Yu was stunned.
What on earth was this?
Was this woman overthinking things?
"Can you stop making things up?" Zhou Yu was extremely depressed.
Heaven as witness, his words were indeed casual, with no ulterior meaning.
But Zhao Ruyue was fixated on it.
"I'm making things up? Dare you say you haven't thought that?"
"Ahem... I have thought about it, but..."
"See, I knew you were that kind of person."
"What kind of person?"
"A smelly man who thinks I'm old!"
"Zhao Da..."
"You're still calling me that!"
"I wanted to say Zhao beautiful sister, is that not okay?"
Due to their constant bickering, the car had slowed to a crawl along the roadside.
Zhou Yu finally understood the adage: when a woman becomes unreasonable, no man can do anything.
Zhao Ruyue at this moment was that unreasonable woman.
What was even more infuriating was that this woman had actually stopped the car and refused to move.
"You're not driving, are we going to spend the night here?" Zhou Yu asked.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Ruyue retorted, "So what if we spend the night? Are you scared?"
Scared?
I'm afraid you'll start yelling things then!
Thinking this, Zhou Yu said aloud, "Zhao beautiful sister, it's late at night, it's getting late, let's hurry up, so your family doesn't worry about you."
"They'll worry when I can't get married," Zhao Ruyue snorted.
What she said was true. The elders in the Zhao family were indeed urging her to get married and contribute to the family.
The Zhao family, by her generation, had very few descendants. If they didn't find a live-in son-in-law, they would soon dwindle away.
"You must be joking. With your looks and figure, no one would believe you can't get married?"
Zhou Yu thought this girl was telling a joke of international proportions.
Given Zhao Ruyue's family background and beauty, it was impossible for her not to get married.
Even looking at the wealthy young men they met today, she was extremely popular in their eyes.
She had many suitors.
"You don't understand, my dad wants me to find a live-in son-in-law," Zhao Ruyue sighed.
"Live-in son-in-law?"
Zhou Yu was taken aback.
If the Zhao family truly intended to recruit a live-in son-in-law, the requirements would be quite stringent.
The vast majority of family scions in Yunhai City would never become live-in sons-in-law.
And those scions who were abandoned by their families and specifically used for arranged marriages, the Zhao family naturally wouldn't consider.
However...
Zhao Ruyue's words had reminded him.
Zhou Yu tentatively suggested, "You're looking for a live-in son-in-law, and I don't want to be one. Since that's the case, why don't you just break off the engagement quickly? I will never be a live-in son-in-law in this lifetime."
"Do you look down on me so much?"
Suddenly, Zhao Ruyue's expression became incredibly calm, like still water.
Zhou Yu's heart skipped a beat.
"Zhou Yu, I am, after all, your fiancée. Although we haven't registered our marriage, doesn't this relationship mean we have a deep connection? Do you really feel nothing for me?"
Zhao Ruyue stared at Zhou Yu, tears welling up in her eyes.
Why was she crying?
Zhou Yu found it inexplicable.
This woman could cry at the drop of a hat, and he hadn't even reacted.
He didn't understand at all why Zhao Ruyue was crying.
Was it simply because his attitude towards her seemed a bit heartless?
"Doctor Zhao, feelings are complicated things, they need to be cultivated bit by bit. Although we have a marriage engagement, we've never met. If I were to suddenly say I have some feelings for you, would you believe me?"