Feng Qing laughed, finding it absurd and unbelievable. What an unreasonable demand! "Uncle Jian, sorry, but let me be frank. You mean that if I don't marry Jian Linhan, no matter how much Fengxing needs your help right now, you won't offer it, right?"
Jian Chengzhang also knew this condition was excessive. If there were other possibilities, he certainly didn't want to delay Feng Qing. But before Feng Qing, Linhan was his son. His primary consideration could only be Linhan.
He looked a bit embarrassed and was a bit reluctant to look Feng Qing in the eye.
"I also know this is an excessive demand for you, but for Linhan's sake, I can only do it this way..."
Feng Qing could understand his starting point as a father, but it didn't mean she would accept it.
"Uncle, there are many ways to take care of him. Marriage is definitely not the only option." Feng Qing turned her face away and stared elsewhere. "I'm sorry, but I can't accept it."
Even if Jian Chengzhang really didn't help Fengxing because of this, she wouldn't marry Jian Linhan for this reason.
No matter what the reason was, she could never marry Jian Linhan.
"But I see you're not young anymore. Getting married earlier will only do you good. Why don't you consider it?" Jian Chengzhang still looked persuasive, but Feng Qing's expression got uglier and uglier.
"I've always regarded Jian Linhan as my younger brother. Even if you didn't say so, I wouldn't ignore him in the future. But if I'm going to get married, I must marry the person I love. Two people without feelings can't enter into a marriage."
Feng Qing spoke frankly and refused cleanly and neatly without any hesitation. Her attitude was very firm. No matter how much Jian Chengzhang persuaded her, she remained unmoved. Finally, she left the Jian residence early.
Jian Jiaojiao didn't know about Feng Qing's dinner at the Jian family until several days later. As soon as she heard the news, she immediately rushed to Fengxing and broke into Feng Qing's office.
"I called you, but no one answered. Did Jian Chengzhang really ask you to marry Jian Linhan?"
It was only after she said this that she saw Sheng Yan and Assistant Qi in the office. It wasn't working hours, and Jian Jiaojiao didn't expect both of them to be there. After looking at each other in surprise, they greeted each other awkwardly.
Before leaving, Assistant Qi even teased Feng Qing, "Is the general manager's happy event approaching?"
Before Feng Qing could say anything, Sheng Yan punched him directly. "Hurry up and get out!"
Although Sheng Yan didn't want to leave, Feng Qing didn't mean to keep him. He looked back three times at every step but didn't wait for a single word of retention from Feng Qing. He had to leave the office aggrievedly.
Only then did Jian Jiaojiao regain her previous manner. She threw the bag in her hand on the office desk and eagerly sought confirmation from Feng Qing.
"Did that old thing Jian Chengzhang really say that to you?"
As soon as Feng Qing nodded, Jian Jiaojiao pounded the table. "I'm so angry! He actually used that fool Jian Linhan as a condition. He's really an old fox. You didn't agree, did you? You shouldn't do such a stupid thing as picking up a stone from the latrine, right?"
Feng Qing forced a smile. "I really have no interest in being your sister - in - law. And don't call him an old thing all the time. Uncle Jian is still your uncle after all."
Jian Jiaojiao was completely unmoved and snorted. "I don't have such an uncle. He embezzled his younger brother's property. Does he deserve to be my uncle? I have nothing to do with the current Jian family!"
After she said that, she even spat. All her disgust was openly written on her face.
Since she moved out of the Jian residence, everything about the Jian family had nothing to do with her. She had no uncle, no cousin, and certainly no sister - in - law like Feng Qing.
"You have to be on guard against that old fox Jian Chengzhang. If you dare to refuse to marry Jian Linhan, he really might stand by and do nothing to help you."
Feng Qing sorted out the folders and put them away. She said casually, "That's even better. If he's such a person, even if he didn't ask me to marry Jian Linhan, as long as he helped, he might make other more excessive demands in the future."
"Just take it as seeing a person clearly from one thing. We won't be deceived by him again in the future."
"That's more like it." Jian Jiaojiao was finally satisfied. Seeing that Feng Qing was about to get off work, she wanted to drag Feng Qing to dinner again. "Are you off work? We haven't had dinner together for a long time. How about..."
Feng Qing didn't directly refuse her. "We can have dinner, but I have to go and see my father first."
Jian Jiaojiao happily hooked her arm around Feng Qing's. "I'll go with you."
***
Since Jian Jiaojiao mentioned the topic of Feng Qing's possible marriage to Jian Linhan in the office, Sheng Yan had entered Feng Qing's office thirty times a day.
Feng Qing had never restricted him much. Although she didn't know what was wrong with him, she simply pretended not to see and ignored him.
But after enduring and enduring until she couldn't bear it anymore, she finally spoke up when Sheng Yan pushed open the office door again. "This is the thirty - second time you've entered my office today. If you still have no serious business this time, I may need to issue a notice that you're not allowed to enter my office anymore."
Feng Qing was iron - faced and selfless, making Sheng Yan, who was hesitant and conflicted, seem even more "unreasonable".
"I just want to ask... Are you really getting married?" Although he was very reluctant to admit it, if this was really the case, he thought he might go crazy.
Feng Qing came back after disappearing for five years and was going to marry someone else right under his nose. He might go crazy with jealousy.
He absolutely couldn't accept the fact that Feng Qing was getting married.
But Feng Qing looked at him in confusion. "Who told you that?"
Was there any other man around her besides Assistant Qi and Sheng Yan? Didn't the rumors in the company have any basis in reality at all?
"Jian Jiaojiao said it last time."
Sheng Yan said it awkwardly, and Feng Qing laughed after hearing it. It had been at least a week since Jiaojiao came. No wonder Sheng Yan had been so abnormal this week.
"I'm completely focused on work and have no intention of getting married."
"But I heard that if you don't marry that person, the Jian family won't help you."
"You're quite well - informed." Feng Qing laughed. If Sheng Yan was willing to put more energy into the company, he might achieve great success again instead of wasting it on such trivial matters.
"However, even if Fengxing is going to go bankrupt tomorrow, I still won't get married. I can never marry a person I don't love. A deformed marriage relationship doesn't hold in my case."
That's good... That's good...
Although he was relieved, Sheng Yan soon thought of the intimate phone call Feng Qing answered in the car on the day they came back from the mountain villa.
She wasn't getting married, but it didn't mean she wasn't in a relationship. What if that "honey" was the object of the so - called non - deformed marriage relationship in Feng Qing's mouth? Then he would still end up with nothing.
"I..."
Sheng Yan still wanted to ask who that mysterious "honey" was. As soon as he opened his mouth, Feng Qing immediately put out her index finger to stop him.
"Don't ask me any more personal questions. From now on, I won't answer any personal questions."
After saying that, she looked at the computer again and resumed her cold voice. "You can go out now."