Flash Marriage Chapter 3 and Chapter 4

 Chapter 3

The Wei family and the Xue family can be considered prominent families, albeit in different domains. One was a scholarly and politically influential family, while the other amassed wealth through mining, becoming nouveau riche. Although their relationship was good, the disparity between the two was substantial. After the untimely death of Xue Heng’s mother and the rise of the head of the Wei family, the relationship between the Wei and Xue families gradually grew distant.

Especially since Wei Zongjin was fifteen years older than Xue Heng, they usually interacted as an elder and a younger relative. One always carried an air of authority, while the other hesitated to approach due to the former’s strictness and rigidity. As a result, their relationship wasn’t very close even on the day before their marriage registration.

Wei Zongjin took a step forward, gazing at Xue Heng, whose aura was heavy. He sighed silently and then reached out to pat his shoulder. “You don’t need to apologize.”

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Xue Heng took out a suitcase, packed some clean clothes into it, and added a few documents before carrying the box and leaving.

On the way back, Wei Zongjin drove the car. When they were waiting at a traffic light, Wei Zongjin glanced at Xue Heng, who was sitting in the passenger seat. “My father-in-law just called me.”

At first, Xue Heng, who was engrossed in watching videos on his phone, didn’t react. “What did you talk about?”

Wei Zongjin parked the car on the side of the road and said, “Wait for me in the car.”

Xue Heng rubbed his face with his hand, forcing himself to wake up. He looked at the sign of Pei Feng Xuan outside the car and dialed a number. He said, “You betrayed me, threatened the Wei family, and made Wei Zongjin marry you. Xue Guozhi, you’re truly resourceful.”

Xue Guozhi was Xue Heng’s biological father, but his actions were even worse than those of a stepfather in other families.

Xue Guozhi laughed like a rogue, maintaining the same tone, pretending not to hear the sarcasm in Xue Heng’s words. “Dinner will be ready soon. Come back early. After getting married, you won’t even know how to return to your maternal home. It’ll become a joke.”

Xue Heng hung up the phone, his face dark. Temporarily concealing the fangs of a leopard doesn’t mean it has lost its aggressiveness.

Wei Zongjin bought a big bag of pastries and casually placed it on Xue Heng’s leg. Without changing his expression, he continued driving, except that the direction was not towards the military compound where he currently lived, but a high-end villa area.

This was the way to Xue’s house.

Xue Heng calmly looked outside the car window and casually said, “If you don’t want to go, then don’t.”

“We’re married, so we can’t just not go back once,” Wei Zongjin said lightly, then asked, “Don’t you want to go back?”

Xue Heng scoffed disdainfully, lazily placing his hands behind his head, and said, “My young and beautiful stepmother gave birth to a chubby little brother earlier this year. What’s the point of going back?”

Wei Zongjin’s eyes flickered.

Being well-educated, Wei Zongjin refrained from commenting on other people’s family matters. After all, Xue’s family was a mess that couldn’t be untangled. It was better to pretend not to hear and give Xue Heng some face.

Xue Heng narrowed his eyes.

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Chapter 4

Just as the car was about to enter the villa area, Xue Heng had a change of heart. He leaned forward, placed one hand on the steering wheel, and dared not look into Wei Zongjin’s eyes. He said, “If you’re unwilling, let’s just go back.”

Wei Zongjin glanced at Xue Heng, reached out, firmly and forcefully removed Xue Heng’s hand from the steering wheel, and said calmly, without changing his expression, “I heard you haven’t been home for a year. You’re already an adult, yet you’re still so stubborn.”

Xue Heng understood Wei Zongjin’s attitude. He pursed his lips, shifted his gaze outside the car window, watched the scenery become increasingly familiar, and lightly tugged at the corner of his mouth. He simply made a noncommittal sound and remained silent.

The previously harmonious atmosphere suddenly turned icy.

Xue Heng lowered his gaze, absentmindedly playing with his fingers. Ever since his old man decided to bring back the woman he kept outside and bestowed upon her the title of a virtuous wife, Xue Heng no longer considered this place his home.

Moreover, if he hadn’t married Wei Zongjin, Xue Guozhi and his new wife probably wouldn’t want him to return to this place either.

The car stopped in front of a villa, and the bodyguard who had been waiting at the entrance came over and opened the car door.

Wei Zongjin and Xue Heng walked side by side into the villa area.

Xue Guozhi, holding a cup of tea, sat on the sofa. When he heard the sound from the entrance, he stood up but didn’t proactively greet them. Instead, he sat on the sofa, paying no attention and not even glancing in their direction.

Presumably, this person was self-proclaimed as the “father-in-law” and wanted to assert his dominance over Wei Zongjin.

“Dad, I’m back,” Xue Heng said with an insincere smile on his face. Xue Guozhi became impatient at the sight of his eldest son’s indifferent expression and muttered a few words in his heart, completely ignoring Xue Heng. He turned to Wei Zongjin and said, “Zongjin, since you’re here, there’s no need to bring any gifts. We don’t lack anything at home.”

Wei Zongjin greeted Xue Guozhi appropriately.

Xue Heng sat on the sofa, paying no attention to his father’s glaring eyes that seemed to want to kill him. He waved towards Wei Zongjin and said, “Have a seat. Treat this place like your own home.”

Wei Zongjin ignored him and exchanged pleasantries with Xue Guozhi, saying, “Father-in-law, I came in a hurry and didn’t prepare any gifts. I only brought some pastries from Pei Feng Xuan.”

“That’s good, that’s good,” Xue Guozhi casually placed the pastries on the coffee table, glanced at Xue Heng sideways, and said, “Xue Heng, go to the study and bring down the porcelain vase I bought last year. I want to have a good chat with Zongjin.”

Due to their fortune being made from coal mining, the upper-class society in Huacheng didn’t fully recognize the Xue family as nouveau riche. However, they couldn’t deny that the Xue family was wealthy. In order to gain recognition from these upper-class individuals, Xue Guozhi frequently went to auction houses to buy antiques.

Who knew if this nouveau riche, who grew up in a coal mine, could distinguish between the Song Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.

Xue Heng clicked his tongue, touched his newly cropped short hair, and felt annoyed with the old man. However, he had no choice but to tolerate him, so he obediently went upstairs.

Once he reached the upper floor, Xue Heng’s smiling face from a moment ago instantly turned gloomy.

Pushing open the study door, Xue Heng saw a room that was completely decorated in an imitation European style, with several antique calligraphy and paintings displayed. When he saw the vase, his mouth twitched. 

With such a mishmash of interior design, it was no wonder the Xue family had always been referred to as nouveau riche in Huacheng.

Having been away for a year, Xue Heng had no idea what porcelain Xue Guozhi had purchased the previous year. However, as he thought about Xue Guozhi’s proud and peac*ck-like appearance, he reached out and picked up an expensive-looking blue and white porcelain placed on the desk.

He had never seen this blue and white porcelain before, so it must be it.

Holding the blue and white porcelain, Xue Heng left the study. However, just a few steps away, he saw a chubby toddler crawling on the floor, wearing only a diaper and a gold bracelet around his ankle.

Xue Heng’s steps halted, and his gaze immediately became complex. He had never seen what the child born to his stepmother looked like, but from the opulent aura that permeated the baby’s entire being, he could guess who this person was.

The chubby toddler lay on the floor, tilting his head and grinning at Xue Heng.

“Tsk.”

Xue Heng didn’t like Xue Guozhi, nor did he like his stepmother. However, he wasn’t about to harm a little child. So he pretended not to see and bypassed the toddler, calmly and confidently descending the stairs.

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