【Wow, Brother H is so handsome!!!】
【Help, so domineering, I'm totally shipping them.】
The little fans were shipping them so hard they forgot everything else.
Zhou Che stared at the screen, biting his lower lip, his heart aching too much to dare speak in the public chat.
After all, they had agreed not to make their relationship public.
It could affect Yueyue's career.
And with Feng Xiaoman jumping around making a scene, anything he said would only make things messier.
He stayed silent, feeling wronged.
Thinking to himself: Forget it, as long as Yueyue is okay.
Then he's okay.
Suddenly, Jiang Liuyue waved and smiled brightly at the camera, curving her lips.
"Wives in the livestream, and all my little treasures, actually, there's one more piece of good news I want to share with everyone."
She paused, her tone firm and serious.
"I'm in a relationship."
As soon as the words left her mouth, she raised her hand towards the camera, waving the ring on her slender finger.
It was from Zhou Che.
"Come on out and say something, Young Master Ye."
"...my boyfriend."
!!!
She had openly announced it, just like that.
Zhou Che felt as if his heart had been struck, pounding uncontrollably.
Ahh!
Yueyue loves me so much.
She actually announced it just like that?!
Ahhh!
So happy.
In front of his screen, the smile that had just appeared on Huo Yaochuan's lips vanished within seconds,
his mood plummeting back to a low because of these words.
So... no matter how he tried, could he still not compare to Zhou Che?
System: "Congratulations, Host. Huo Yaochuan's favorability is at 98%."
...
Jiang Liuyue thought that after Feng Xiaoman's embarrassing failure in last night's livestream, she probably wouldn't cause any more trouble.
Reality proved she had been too optimistic.
Early in the morning, she received a call from Mother Jiang.
Scolding came from the other end:
"Liuyue, what is going on with you?"
"Xiaoman called me crying, saying you stole her boyfriend."
"Our Jiang family can't afford this shame, such a thing has never happened before. You need to come back immediately and explain this clearly."
Jiang Liuyue replied calmly:
"I didn't steal him."
"They broke up because of her own reasons."
Mother Jiang sighed deeply, also feeling somewhat helpless.
She could only advise:
"No matter what, you should still come back. Your grandmother found out about this."
"Last time Xiaoman came back with you, she contributed a lot of money for your grandmother's medical bills."
"I can't stop her..."
"You know how your grandmother is."
Jiang Liuyue nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."
After hanging up,
she sent a text to Zhou Che.
"Are you free tomorrow?"
Zhou Che replied after a while,
"Sorry, Yueyue, my old man urgently called me back, said there's something important."
"I have to fly back to City B in the morning."
Jiang Liuyue replied with an 'okay'.
Too lazy to type more, she directly forwarded the 'Are you free tomorrow' message to Huo Yaochuan.
Huo Yaochuan: "I'm free."
"What, your official boyfriend isn't available?"
The jealousy in his tone was impossible to hide.
Jiang Liuyue thought for a moment and replied:
"If Zhou Che were free, of course it wouldn't be your turn."
"Know your place."
"OK?"
Huo Yaochuan originally thought hearing these words would make him very angry.
But it didn't.
He even felt a bit secretly pleased.
This feeling was different from any past relationship. Even though he wasn't the official boyfriend at all, it was even more thrilling.
As for why Zhou Che wasn't free, of course, it was due to his own maneuvering.
Huo Yaochuan: "I'm free. Where to? Just say the word, I'm there anytime."
Jiang Liuyue: "Accompany me back to my hometown tomorrow."
Huo Yaochuan: "Okay."
...
Neither the original owner nor Jiang Liuyue actually liked the old hometown town.
It was rigid, conservative, and never changed.
The people in that town were the same.
So after graduating from university, she used every means possible to stay in the big city.
Huo Yaochuan drove steadily, taking over four hours from City S to reach the town.
He had even discreetly driven his cheapest car, but it still attracted the attention of the townsfolk.
"Hey, isn't that the Jiang family's girl?"
"Sure is. That car looks expensive, doesn't it?"
"This must be the Jiang family's son-in-law coming to visit. They're about to strike it rich now."
The car arrived at a three-story building with red tile exterior walls.
Huo Yaochuan had just gotten out and was about to open the passenger door when Jiang Liuyue shook her head slightly at him.
Following her gaze, Huo Yaochuan saw an elderly woman with white hair sitting on a rocking chair at the entrance of the building, and beside her was the young girl, Feng Xiaoman.
Feng Xiaoman watched their intimate posture, her eyes almost shooting flames.
Huo Yaochuan was puzzled: "What is she doing here?"
Jiang Liuyue curled her lips into a smile. "This is exactly why I had to come back."
As the two of them approached,
they heard Feng Xiaoman's voice, filled with anger and grievance.
"Grandma, the man standing next to Liuyue is my boyfriend."
If Huo Yaochuan had once felt indebted to Feng Xiaoman, now he felt none at all, having progressed from calmness and disgust to outright hatred.
This matter had already been made perfectly clear.
No one had wronged anyone.
And he hadn't even held onto the fact that Feng Xiaoman had deceived him first, so why couldn't she just let it go?
A flash of disgust passed through Grandma Jiang's cloudy eyes.
She raised her hand angrily.
"Is this how you bring shame to our Jiang family?"
"Xiaoman has been so good to you, and you actually dared to steal her boyfriend? Are you an animal!"
"When your mother gave birth to you, she should have just drowned you."
More vicious words poured from Grandma Jiang's mouth.
Huo Yaochuan was stunned.
Anyone unaware would think they weren't relatives, but enemies.
Jiang Liuyue didn't make a sound, waiting until Grandma Jiang finished her tirade.
Only then did she speak:
"You've always despised me for being a girl, disliked me, disliked my mother. We put up with all that."
"I got good grades, got into a good high school, and you wouldn't let me go."
"I got into a good university, and you said what's the use of a girl going to college, better to marry early."
"Last time you were sick in the hospital, it's true Feng Xiaoman paid the medical bills, but the one who sat by your sickbed taking care of you all night was me."
"Or is it that you think whoever has money is your real granddaughter?"
Her lips curled into a mocking smile.
Huo Yaochuan never expected things to be like this.
Previously, hearing Man Yue Wan Wan talk about going home to care for her seriously ill grandmother and how good their relationship was, he had thought she was filial.
Turns out the grandmother was fake—not Feng Xiaoman's grandmother.
It was Jiang Liuyue's grandmother.
And the good grandparent-grandchild relationship was also fake.
That time Xiao Yue answered the call probably wasn't voluntary either, but forced caregiving.
Grandma Jiang shook her head with a mean expression.
Not taking Jiang Liuyue's words to heart at all.
"You're my granddaughter, serving me like an ox or a horse is what you should do!"
Jiang Liuyue let out a cold laugh.
Feng Xiaoman chose this moment to play the good person, speaking with great magnanimity:
"Grandma, Liuyue didn't mean it."
"As long as she's willing to return my boyfriend to me..."
"We can still be good sisters."
