Chapter 63

“Why not? Maybe both of you are staying near each other! Oh yeah, Wei Dong, what is the name of the place you’re working in again?” After hearing Bao Er’s words, the bunch of relatives immediately turned around to ask Yu Wei Dong.

“Sheng Xing. Sheng Xing supermarket!” Yu Wei Dong had a clumsy mouth. He wanted to say something else but he didn’t know what to say, so when he heard his relatives questioning him, he quickly answered.

Meanwhile, after Bao Er heard his answer, she glanced at Yu Wei Dong a couple more times. It was not for other reasons, but only because of the supermarket he’d just said.

She knew Sheng Xing. Or to say, anyone who had stayed in T city should know what it was. It was the top supermarket of T city. The things they sold inside were much more expensive than other places, but it had a complete range of items and their quality was a lot more reliable.

“Aish, this child is also the same. Men should always pursue their career first before starting a family, but he forgets about starting a family after he starts building his career. He’s been single for a few years with some small achievements in his career, but he hasn’t started a family yet. Won’t this just make us worry?”

The relatives narrated at the side. Her father listened seriously and his knuckles even knocked on the table occasionally. His eyes went round Yu Wei Dong’s body again and again.

He was a traditional conversative-minded person, so he also thought that it was time to talk about marriage at her age. Moreover, marriage was something that would affect her lifetime, so he naturally shouldn’t be careless. They did agree to meet each other today but as a father, he still needed to make sure that his future son-in-law had a good personality and was self-motivated.

He wasn’t very close to Bao Er but it didn’t mean that he didn’t care about the biggest event in her life at all.

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Bao Er’s hometown always had a blind date culture. Although there were more and more examples of love marriages, blind dates were still the main occasion before marriage.

After they were introduced to each other, this blind date tradition of letting the man be alone with his partner was still retained.

The curtains in the room swayed up and down due to the gentle breeze, creating a beautiful curvature. The wind chimes at the top of the window rang “ding ding” while playing a melodious and touching song.

The first thing Yu Wei Dong noticed was the certificates that were hung on the walls, which included her scholarship, excellent student certificate, student of three best virtues certificate, but all those were only until her middle and high school. She had some from university too, but she didn’t dare to take it back home. Her family didn’t know that she was still studying.

“You really did well in your studies!” Yu Wei Dong gave Bao Er a big thumbs up, admiring such an awesome person like Bao Er. Those years when he was still a student, he would always sleep in class and never passed his exams. To him, studying was like a nightmare.

Bao Er didn’t know how to respond. If she said yes, she had failed in high school exams and she was just a normal worker in other people’s eyes right now. If she said no, this wall was full of certificates so it didn’t seem right.

In the end, she just brushed it off with a smile.

“Usually what do you like to do when you are free? Do you have anything that you particularly enjoy? I like the feeling when I hold the butcher knife and cut the pig’s throat. Fresh blood comes spattering out. I really felt at ease at that time, all the stress in my heart had disappeared!” Yu Wei Dong thought that he’d picked a good topic and began to talk about his interests and hobbies happily.

Bao Er shrunk her neck as she felt waves of goosebumps running along her arm. Especially when Yu Wei Dong talked about the “fresh blood spattering”, it felt like she was watching a horror movie. It was creepy and it gave chills to her bones.

Actually she didn’t have such a dark taste, okay?

This guy, was he looking for a way to relieve pressure because he was too stressed out? She didn’t even want to think about common topics with such a person, his violent and bloody job that already made her want to retreat, not to mention marriage.

It was really frightening to hear him say how the blood spattered out every day. If his temper was not as good as what he was showing on the surface, what if he took his wife as a pig and butchered her when he became more stressed out? There were really some similar cases in real life.

Bao Er felt chills all over her body as she thought about that. At this moment, she felt that it wasn’t safe at all to be in the same room as him.

“Huh, I am quite busy so I read books when I have the time. Oh yeah, it’s getting pretty late, I think my mother will need help in the kitchen. Let me go have a look.” She quickly escaped after saying that. Nothing was more important than her own life.

Later, Bao Er was forced to give Yu Wei Dong her own phone number. As for his number, she naturally didn’t ask for it. The two days of prayers passed just like that. Bai family really thought that both of them had something going on. They didn’t pester them to get married immediately and let him develop their feelings for each other first.

Now it was more popular to date freely, wasn’t it? They were also quite open-minded. If they really developed a liking for each other, both of them could hang out for some time to get to know each other first.

On Sunday, Bao Er rushed back to T city overnight because the next day onwards, she would become very busy and she wouldn’t be able to take leave. When she saw Tan Jingmo who was already in the “golden nest” waiting for her, she was stunned.

Tan Jingmo sat on the sofa of the living room. His hand was holding a crystal wine glass with red wine inside. At this moment, Tan Jingmo was leaning slightly to the side on the sofa. He was wearing a pair of white silk pyjamas, looking lazy but noble.

The moon looked fuzzy outside the house. The crescent moon was hung upside down at the other side of the sky, in comparison to the bustling city and numerous lit houses, it looked kind of lonely in contrast. 

Bao Er looked at Tan Jingmo silently and found that he gave her a similar feeling. He was deep in thoughts while sitting on the sofa, like the moon that was positioned high up but was lonely and deserted.

“Bao Bao, you’re really busy these days!”  Tan Jingmo spoke lazily, peeking at Bao Er who was wearing “simple” clothes.

His words smashed Bao Er’s wild imagination into pieces. Bao Er quickly came back to her senses.

“Huh, I’ve been quite busy recently!” Bao Er plastered a pacifying smile on her face, but she still quickly ran towards the bathroom to take a shower.

Tan Jingmo snorted when he saw this. This woman was actually busier than him. He hadn’t seen her in half a month and he missed her. These two weeks, Bao Er finally knew to take initiative to call him, but she was only calling him to ask for leave, so Tan Jingmo was displeased in his heart.

After Bao Er came out, Tan Jingmo waved his hand at her, “Come here!”

Bao Er naturally listened to him obediently and went to sit down beside him.

“What are you busy with? I don’t even see your shadow anymore?” Tan Jingmo’s deep voice asked. It was still okay at first but when he couldn’t find her after coming here one to two times, he felt pretty unhappy in his heart. If you pamper a woman too much, she would change – that was why it wasn’t easy to pamper women.

Bao Er could hear the iciness in his voice and knew that he wasn’t happy. So she didn’t hide anything at all and told him everything. According to her observation, Tan Jingmo had a quick temper sometimes. If he became unhappy, she was the one at the receiving end.

“I went back home. My mother wanted me to go on a blind date, she said I’m not young anymore and she wants me to get married earlier.” Bao Er told him the summary of everything that happened these two days obediently.

As expected, Tan Jingmo’s face immediately changed after he heard Bao Er’s words. Huh, very well, she actually went back home to go on a blind date. Why did he feel so unhappy after he heard that? This woman was still his woman right now, wasn’t it? She actually went back home to go on a blind date without his approval?

“I didn’t agree to it, it’s the truth! I don’t have any common topics with that person, I don’t like him.” Bao Er saw that Tan Jingmo’s expression turned unpleasant so it was rare for her to explain and clarify it herself.

It wasn’t that she only cared about Tan Jingmo’s feelings and solely revolved around him, but she didn’t like to be misunderstood by other people too. Misunderstandings happened because of each other’s mistrust, so why not she just tell him her real thoughts so that Tan Jingmo wouldn’t get unhappy, and she wouldn’t become unhappy as well.

“What’s wrong with your people there? You’re just twenty-one, right? In my eyes, you still look underaged, and they actually want you to get married? What is your mum thinking?” It was rare for Tan Jingmo to look so angry yet he couldn’t direct it towards Bao Er. Looking at the slight agony on her small face, he felt reluctant. Yes, he was reluctant.

Bao Er shook her head. Actually her hometown was pretty much like this and was very different from the city. Recalling how Tan Jingmo said she looked like an underaged in his eyes, she silently muttered in her heart, you even dared to keep an underaged as your mistress, weren’t you just slapping your own mouth?

But Bao Er didn’t dare to speak such “treacherous” words, so she could only say that this was her hometown’s tradition. When girls in her village reached her age, their family would start to arrange their marriage.

Tan Jingmo looked at Bao Er like he was looking at a monster. Bao Er was only twenty years old and she hadn’t even reached the legal age of marriage, yet her family already started to worry about her marital status!

“You haven’t reached the legal age of marriage yet, right? How will you apply for the marriage certificate? Will the Home Affairs Department approve it?” Tan Jingmo asked in a deep tone.

Bao Er looked at Tan Jingmo for half a second and told him the hidden truth. “They haven’t reached that age yet but my hometown does not need to get the marriage certificate that early. Usually they’ll be married for a few years before they apply for the cert, the marriage is just a ceremony and it counts as a marriage after they hold a feast. Many people only go and apply for the cert after their children reach a certain age and need to go for schooling.”

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