Chapter 23: Cold War_1

A bowl of fragrant pork rib congee had already been brought to Shen Chu'an's lips, but the hand holding the spoon stiffened.

"What did you say?" Fu Huaichen's voice suddenly turned cold.

She knew it would be like this.

Shen Chu'an smiled inwardly, her face showing an indifferent calmness, "You heard correctly and understood correctly—Jiang Yuanrui was my ex-boyfriend. We were in love for seven years, yet for his future, he abandoned me to be with your niece. I was so angry that I wanted to marry you."

"To make that scumbag call me 'Auntie,' I actually got myself involved. Isn't that just childish?"

Fu Huaichen stared at her intensely, remaining silent for a long time. The heavy air around him seemed to be brewing a storm, causing an inexplicable feeling of suffocation and oppression.

"So that's how it is."

After a while, Fu Huaichen finally uttered these four words, a strange smile playing across his sharp features, "Indeed very childish, laughably so."