That would truly be the end of the world for her. So she could only resignedly sign her name.
After Hu Anyi left, Ji En looked at Ji Aier, who looked dejected, with a victorious smile.
"I'm going back," Ji Aier said as she tidied up the lunch box. She was really frustrated. Just by bringing a meal, her status had changed. She had gone from being an adopted daughter of the Ji family to the young mistress of the Ji family. However, she guessed that no one would recognize this status. So she found it even harder to accept that Ji En had played a trick on her regarding such an important matter as marriage.
"Wait for me at home tonight! We're going to Tang Jun's place," Ji En said as he sat back in his seat.
"Tang Jun?" The name seemed a bit distant. "Our middle school classmate!"
"Your memory is still good!" Ji En said. Today was the birthday of Tang Jun's wife, Cheng Ling'er, who was also Cheng Zongyi's younger sister.
"Okay!" She hadn't seen her former classmates for a long time, so she was really looking forward to it.
In the evening,
Ji Aier wore a black evening dress that fit her figure perfectly, making her fair skin look even more translucent.
"Is this outfit okay?" Ji Aier asked as she walked out of the dressing room.
Ji En looked her up and down and just nodded.
Seeing Ji En's expression, Ji Aier decided to change. In the end, she went in and changed into a more ladylike and less exaggerated dress. Later, she found that this decision was really wise. Because when she arrived at the Tang family's place, Cheng Ling'er was wearing maternity clothes, Su Yuncao was wearing a cake dress, and Lian Yu was dressed more casually.
It was at this banquet that she learned that Su Yuncao was actually Cheng Zongyi's girlfriend, and the baby in Su Yuncao's belly was also Cheng Zongyi's. It wasn't what she had misunderstood before, thinking it was Ji En's. However, at that time, only she knew the secret that Su Yuncao was pregnant, and she had promised Su Yuncao to keep it a secret. So there was no way for her to tell Cheng Zongyi anything. Perhaps it was more appropriate for the parties involved to handle such matters directly.
She saw Cheng Zongyi at the piano, playing the piano gracefully. He gave her a slightly different feeling compared to the Cheng Zongyi seven years ago. In their student days, he had seemed like an angel. Although he was still as elegant and gentlemanly as ever, he now had a bit more mature charm and a sense of authority.
When she withdrew her gaze, she found that Ji En was glaring at her.
She looked at him in confusion, wondering if Ji En was jealous. He had once lost his temper when she chatted with Cheng Zongyi in a bar for a while. She still remembered that he had told her not to dream of something beyond her reach.
Ji Aier stopped looking at other places. She still sat beside Ji En, spoke little, and just listened with a smile as the people around her chatted.
Most of the topics they were discussing at the moment were about Cheng Zongyi and Su Yuncao. Ji Aier understood that no matter how superior Cheng Zongyi's living environment was or how perfect a person he was, he still couldn't escape the law of one thing subduing another. There were still times when he wasn't satisfied. For example, Su Yuncao wasn't interested in him at all!
And yet fate had still brought them together, which was why Su Yuncao was carrying Cheng Zongyi's child. And she herself was also unable to escape the arrangement of fate.