Mrs. Bai nodded in contentment. "It's good that it's him. I'm glad Lanlan truly likes Chu Hengyuan. When you and Ranran came to me about changing the arranged marriage partner, I thought you were just giving in to Ranran and wanted to marry Chu Hengyuan on her behalf. But now it seems that Lanlan really likes him, and marrying him is not a reluctant choice at all."
Rong Lan looked at the elegant woman with a beaming smile. "Don't worry, Mom. I'm willing to marry into the Chu family."
She was willing to marry into the Chu family to fulfill the ghost Bai Ronglan's wish and for that one - million yuan.
However, she still couldn't figure out why the ghost Bai Ronglan wanted all the Bai family members to be ruined. Her mother had truly been kind to her, and as a fox who had lived for five hundred years, she could easily tell that it wasn't just a pretense.
She couldn't find any evidence of how the Bai family had treated Bai Ronglan badly, and she didn't know how to proceed.
Although she was a spirit and not bound by human ethics, she would never repay kindness with enmity.
Just as Rong Lan was lost in thought, her phone rang. She was startled awake, quickly put on her shoes, and said, "Mom, I'll go upstairs to answer the phone."
With that, she trotted upstairs and into her room.
Even though she was running fast, she still heard Mrs. Bai's nagging, "If you're hungry at night, go to the kitchen for a snack. There's some in the thermos. Don't run so fast. What if you fall?"
Back in her room, she locked the door, took out her phone from her pocket, and swiped the screen.
The person on the other end of the phone got straight to the point about why they were calling.
Rong Lan strolled over to the desk and looked at the calendar on it. "I'll go for an on - site inspection tomorrow. Let's set a time. How about eleven o'clock in the morning?"
After setting the meeting time, Rong Lan hung up the phone without chatting more. She planned to take a shower and continue trying to cultivate using this human body.
If she could, her missing fox tail might come back.
She missed so much the feeling of curling up and covering herself with her fluffy tail to sleep. Without it, her fox life seemed meaningless.
However, this night was just like the previous ones. Under the pretext of cultivation, she fell asleep unconsciously.
If it weren't for the alarm going off on time, she could have wasted the whole day sleeping.
She reached out to turn off the alarm, snuggled into the quilt for a while, then sat up from the warm bed. She ruffled her messy hair, let out a deep sigh, and got out of bed.
"The human body is so troublesome. If I were still a fox, it wouldn't be a problem to sleep for ten days or half a month..."
Early in the morning, at the Chu family mansion—
Even the cold - hearted Zhen Rui couldn't help but take a second look at Chu Hengyuan when she saw him show up at the main Chu family residence so early.
Chu Hengyuan sat down across from his mother, greeted Zhen Rui with a "Good morning," but Zhen Rui only nodded slightly without responding verbally.
The maid in the Chu family was very observant and served Chu Hengyuan a breakfast, then left the dining room.
When Zhen Rui saw Chu Hengyuan start to eat, she took a tissue and slowly wiped the corners of her mouth. "I'm full. Enjoy your meal."
With that, she put down the tissue and was about to get up to leave when Chu Hengyuan called out to her. "Mother, let's talk about the marriage with the Bai family."
Hearing this, Zhen Rui didn't stand up immediately out of courtesy, but her words were not very polite. "The marriage between you and the eldest daughter of the Bai family has been discussed and decided by me and the elders of the Bai family. We'll hold the wedding in the next two months. Even if we have to tie you up, you'll be at the wedding."
Chu Hengyuan smiled helplessly. "I didn't mean to run away from the wedding. Don't worry, Mother. You don't need to send someone to tie me up. I'll show up at the wedding obediently. I'm here just to ask a question. Why did you so easily agree to the Bai family's decision to marry Bai Ronglan to our family?"
Zhen Rui frowned slightly. "Because I don't care who you marry. As long as the person you marry has the surname Bai, it doesn't matter whether it's the real eldest daughter of the Bai family or the fake one. It wasn't me who said 'only the real daughter of the Bai family is acceptable'. The one who said that, your father, has gone abroad and can't interfere in domestic affairs."
Chu Hengyuan lowered his eyes, deep in thought.
So it was his father who made that grand statement. No wonder it was so easy for the Bai family to change the arranged marriage partner to Bai Ronglan. Since his father had gone abroad recently, the person in charge of the Chu family now was his "mother".
"Don't try to probe me so deliberately. Although I may not like you very much, I hate that illegitimate son Chu Chuan extremely. I've said that I'll never side with Chu Chuan." Zhen Rui's gaze on Chu Hengyuan was cold.
Chu Hengyuan felt wronged. He just wanted to find out something about his little fiancée and had no intention of probing anyone.
But he understood Zhen Rui's misunderstanding. After all, when his father first married her into the Chu family and he couldn't sincerely call her mother, every word he said to her was a probe.
"Mother, you're overthinking. I don't want to probe anything. I came back to the old house today just to ask about the wedding. I want to help you prepare for it."
Hearing this, Zhen Rui was stunned. "Do you like the newly - arranged marriage partner very much?"
Although he wasn't her biological son, she had watched Chu Hengyuan grow up. In her opinion, the fact that he didn't run away from the wedding was already a relief. Now he was actually taking the initiative to care about the progress of the wedding?
"I don't like her that much, but I don't resist either." Chu Hengyuan told the truth.
He wasn't the kind of person who would fall in love easily, but he thought Rong Lan was very interesting and didn't mind spending more time on her.
Zhen Rui stood up. "After I discuss the auspicious date with the elders of the Bai family, you come back to the Chu family more often to help."
Chu Hengyuan replied, "Okay."
At eleven o'clock in the morning—
Rong Lan was holding a freshly - baked roast chicken in her left hand and her phone in her right hand as she went to find someone in the city center.
She wasn't directionally challenged, but since she wasn't very familiar with this society yet, even though she had left an hour early, she was still half an hour late.
The thin man who had been waiting at the storefront for half an hour saw Rong Lan walking from afar and said in disappointment, "My dear young lady, could you be any later?"
When Rong Lan walked up to the man and heard his complaint, she remained calm, lowered her head, and took a bite of the roast chicken in the paper bag. "I don't think this is my fault. Weren't you supposed to find me the most prominent storefront in the big shopping malls in the city center?"
"No! I did find a suitable one for the most prominent storefront. But! Considering the signboard you plan to use for the store, I think this one is more suitable for you." When it came to this matter, Wang Tong felt a throbbing pain in his head.