Chapter 62: Cold Arrows Are Hard to Defend Against

  "My parents and I were high school classmates."

  "You and my parents were high school classmates."

  Cheng Zhiyi and Xu Mingxin said in unison, after finishing, they couldn't help but look at each other and smile.

  Xu Ming's heart was filled with emotion, and indeed, this beautiful girl who resembled Lin Yu was really the daughter of Cheng Jianguo and Lin Yu! He couldn't believe that their daughter had grown up so big; he couldn't believe that after all these years, the girl he had been intentionally avoiding would appear before him in such a way; and even more unbelievable, his son had fallen in love with the daughter of the woman he secretly loved, and was loudly declaring that he wanted to marry her!

  Is all this really destined by heaven?

  These days, Xu Shaoyan has repeatedly expressed to him that he wants to cancel the marriage with the Bai family and marry a woman he truly likes. Originally, he did not agree with Xu Shaoyan. After all, the Xu and Bai families have been friends for generations, and they are also very satisfied with Bai Jie. Moreover, both families are among the top ten enterprises in F Province, and if they can unite strongly, Tiancheng Group will surely rise to new heights!

  And if they break off the engagement with the Bai family, then the relationship between the two families will deteriorate. Although the Tiancheng Group is more powerful and does not need to rely on the financial resources of the Shui Zhi Group, from now on, the Bai family will become their enemy. In business, as in war, having one more enemy is never a good thing!

  However, when he saw the girl in front of him who looked like Lin Yu, Xu Ming's heart suddenly softened! After all, he had also been young before and had also loved before!

  Back then, wasn't it because he didn't know how to seize the opportunity that he was overtaken by Cheng Jianguo and thus narrowly missed Lin Yu, leading him to think about it for a lifetime, yearn for it for a lifetime, and regret it for a lifetime? How could he not understand the true love in his son's words? How could he not understand the pain and sorrow of loving in vain?

  Is such a tragedy going to happen again to his son? Can he bear to let his own son suffer the same torture and regret for life? Perhaps, letting Shao Yan marry Lin Yu's daughter is not necessarily a bad thing! This is a destined fate in the dark, it is God's compensation to the Xu family. His dream when he was young, thirty years later, it came true on his son, this may also be the continuation of love.

  This guy is quite discerning! The girl in front of me, who looks like Lin 'Yu', is obviously a good girl...

  Xu Mingxin looked at Cheng Zhiyi, with a hint of satisfaction in his eyes, and said with a smile: "You look just like your mother, but your mother was even more beautiful than you back then!"

  "Thank you, Uncle Xu, you're overpraising me." Cheng Zhiyi smiled and replied, with a hint of delight in her heart - it seemed that Xu Shaoyan's father didn't dislike her, which was also a good thing.

  "How are your parents doing... are they all right? What have they been up to lately?" In fact, he was more concerned about the situation with Cheng Yixi's mother.

  "My father is a Chinese teacher at No. 1 Middle School, and my mother used to work at the Municipal Library, but now she's retired and stays at home. I also just heard from my father a few days ago that you were high school classmates with them."

  "Oh? They mentioned me?" Xu Ming was quite surprised in his heart - I wonder, what did they say? Did they mention the things that happened when they were young to the next generation?

  "Hmm!" Jing said with a smile, "Dad said that you guys used to get along 'pretty' well back then..."

  "What's so good about it?" A sharp and slightly cold voice cut in abruptly.

  As they looked over, all they saw was a woman in her fifties, elegant and refined, smiling lightly at Cheng Zhiyi and Xu Mingxin. Although the noblewoman was smiling, the smile only symbolically hung on the tip of her brow, while her eyes were icy cold, with a hint of faint displeasure at the corner of her mouth.

  "Auntie——" Guo Zhenzhen hastily greeted that noblewoman.

  "Auntie——" Xu Chen and Zhang Ziyeh also rushed to greet her.

  This solemn and cold noblewoman... is Xu Shaoyan's mother?

  Taking a closer look, there was a resemblance between her eyebrows and Xu Shaoyan. Hmm, that wouldn't be wrong, she really is Xu Shaoyan's mother! Cheng Zhiyi couldn't help but feel flustered again in her heart. She suddenly regretted not leaving decisively earlier, which led to her getting stuck in this awkward situation. The key was, now that Xu Shaoyan wasn't by her side, what identity should she use to greet the elders?

  "Are you the 'girl' my son brought back? What's your name? What do you do?" The noble woman asked her in a stern and intimidating tone, then narrowed her eyes and scrutinized Cheng Zhiyi from head to toe with a critical gaze, her voice icy cold, her face filled with obvious discontent.

  "Zhang Wei——" Seeing his wife in this state in front of the children, Xu Ming's heart also became slightly displeased. He said sternly, "You go over there and help me entertain Chen Zong and the others for a bit, we'll be right over!"

  The noble woman glanced at Xu Mingxin with a slight slant of her eyes, and coldly said: "No need for me to worry! Your precious daughter is already entertaining them! It's just that Mr. Chen's son seems to be very interested in your precious daughter - why don't you hurry over and take a look? Be careful that your precious daughter isn't seduced by that spendthrift!"

  "Oh, is my cousin here too?" Guo Zhenzhen asked excitedly, then couldn't help but tiptoe and search around in the crowd for a while, trying to find Xunuo's figure.

  "What's with the cousin? Who is your cousin?" The noblewoman scolded Guo Zhengzheng angrily, Guo Zhengzheng quickly shut her mouth and stood obediently on one side, not daring to make a sound - it's better not to provoke this famous cold Bodhisattva!

  Xu Mingxin's face was stern, not wanting to bother with Zhang Mei anymore. He turned around and left in a huff - he'd better go take a look at his precious 'daughter'! That naive and kind-hearted child mustn't be deceived by that Chen family good-for-nothing!

  For some reason, after Xu Mingxin left, Cheng Zhiyi suddenly felt even more tense - where did Shao Yan go? Why hasn't he come back yet? Or should I go outside for a breath of fresh air? This place is suffocating, and it's not somewhere I should be in the first place...

  "Is the evening gown you're wearing a gift from Shao Yan? And is the necklace and earrings also gifts from him? Tsk, tsk, tsk... even the shoes are his gift, this is EL's limited edition, I'm afraid you can't afford it..."

  Since she was young, Cheng Zhiyi had never suffered such humiliation. Although she had long expected that being with Xu Shaoyan would lead to cold words and disdain from the wealthy and noble families, when it actually happened, she was caught off guard!

  And it was Xǔ Shǎoyàn's mother who insulted her!

  Jing Yiyi's face turned bright red with shame and anger, her eyes welling up with tears. She bit back the anger in her heart and the tears in her eyes, forcing herself to keep listening silently to Zhang Mei's cold words without speaking out of turn - she couldn't talk back to an elder! She couldn't cry! She couldn't lose face for Xu Shaoyuan!

  Then flee! Flee from this world that never belonged to you, flee from the prosperous and bustling era of mistaken 'encounters', flee from this illusory dream!

  Cheng Zhiyi smiled with tears in her eyes and said to Xu Chen and Guo Zhizhizhi, "Trouble you two to tell Shao Yan, I'll leave first!"

  She turned around, just about to leave, but saw a proud and beautiful 'woman' staring at her with cold eyes like sharp arrows, walking towards her with a fierce momentum.