Chapter 165 - I will take the fall (1/2)

Days passed yet, there was no improvement in Changyu and Jianjun's relationship as she had imagined. She had been thinking after their little hospital trip, he would become nicer and speak with her more often. But everything went back to normal.

Cixi had even helped her a couple of times to be left alone with him after work hours. Yet, he never appeared.

'It must be because of that Helene'. Why did Helene have to take away all of his attention?

She thought Helene was pretty also. She didn't look down on her even though Helene didn't have a family. She did see her as a worthy opponent.

No matter what, Jianjun was the love of her life and she was never going to let another woman have him!

She didn't even want to think about the crazy plan her parents were making to marry her off to someone else.

It was nothing new that her parents didn't care about her. Just three years after he betrothed died, and she could not count the number of times her parents had sent her on a blind date and later changed their mind when they saw someone from a better family. They kept pushing her back and forth every single time like she was some irrelevant doll. Times like this, she envied her younger sister who didn't have to live like her.. Well, yet!

Her parents were all about money, power, business etc. They also liked to show off unnecessarily. The Songs were not number one in the Socialite echelon then but they were known to be ruthless and powerful.

So, she had specifically hidden that information from the Wangs and everyone at the restaurant. If they knew she was their daughter, they might begin to treat her with fear and maybe, unnecessary respect and she didn't want any of that.

No matter what, she still decided to take matters into her own hands and follow her heart instead of her family's greed. If Jianjun refused to love her, she was never going to get married to anyone!

But her parents were still one big obstacle for her. Especially now that they were trying to marry her off to the contesting governor's son.

They kept monitoring her every second and kept reminding her every half a second not to make any mistakes or do any funny thing because she was going to be officially meeting her prospective groom's family once her father-in-law to-be won the election as the governor of their region.

There was no doubt he was going to win the election since her family and a lot others also supported him.

After her high school, the plan was to prepare her to 'become a perfect wife' for a year before sending her off to college. Since her mother was always busy, she didn't know how to do any chores. Well, why did she have to? It's not like her mother did any either. They were all left to the maids.