Chapter 13: Moving Her Personal Belongings to His Villa...

Min Qing went downstairs and immediately saw Wen Ruan, who was completely exhausted, and then noticed the jewelry gift boxes that took up a lot of space.

"What on earth have you been doing? It's like you've been moving house. And you're so tired," Min Qing said.

Min Qing walked closer and took a look. It was a top-notch jewelry brand.

"Did Yanci buy these for you?" she asked.

"Yeah." After being tense for several hours in the jewelry store and then going out for a meal together, Wen Ruan was so tired that she didn't even want to lift her eyelids.

"You're such a naive child. When he bought so many things, you didn't know how to stop him, and you even brought them all back," Min Qing said. She took a rough look and it was hard to estimate the exact value, but it was at least in the seven or eight-digit range.

Wen Ruan's father came out of the study. Beneath his stern voice was his affection for her. "What's wrong with bringing them back? The two of them haven't had a proper relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend yet. It's only right that Yanci buys a few gifts for Ruanruan."

Min Qing still thought it wasn't appropriate. Just because young people didn't care didn't mean that their generation didn't respect etiquette. "I'll call Song Yanhua later. We don't want others to say that we don't understand etiquette." Whether they were lacking these things or needed them was another matter. They didn't want to give others a chance to gossip, and Song Yanhua was someone who paid great attention to etiquette and rules.

"Yanci is financially independent. What's the point of calling?" Wen Ruan's father didn't see anything wrong with it. "What Ruanruan has now, we won't subtract a single cent when she gets married." In fact, there would only be more, not less.

Wen Ruan didn't interrupt. In fact, she wanted to say that this was just the tip of the iceberg. There were still a lot more, and the people in the store didn't have time to arrange the delivery. They would be sent over in a couple of days.

Wen Ruan's father and mother had a big disagreement about etiquette. Wen Ruan wasn't interested in topics like the etiquette before marriage, betrothal gifts, and 聘礼. She was really tired.

She yawned and asked the servant to help move these things to her small treasury.

Wen Ruan went upstairs and took a quiet afternoon nap.

She slept until dinnertime and felt extremely refreshed.

After dinner, she went upstairs to be her happy writer.

But she couldn't come up with more than a few words after several hours. Damn it, she was stuck with her writing, and it was driving her crazy.

Wen Ruan even felt like smashing her computer.

At the most frustrating moment for Wen Ruan, He Yanci's call came in.

She composed herself and answered the phone.

"I thought you were asleep." It wasn't early at this time, and he called on the off chance. He Yanci smiled faintly and spoke first.

".....Actually, I was asleep....and then I woke up—" Wen Ruan smiled awkwardly. She heard the sound of something like flipping through documents on He Yanci's end. "Haven't you gotten off work yet?"

"I just got home and I'm looking at a document." He Yanci closed the document and put it aside as he replied to her.

"Oh. The things you gave me today are too precious. Is it not good for me to accept them?" After waking up, Wen Ruan went to her small treasury and took stock. The things He Yanci gave her today were indeed too precious. Plus, the things that were reserved but hadn't been delivered yet, it was a really big gift.

Their relationship was very different from that of a couple who were truly deeply in love and had gotten together naturally. These precious things made Wen Ruan feel a bit uncomfortable.

He Yanci walked towards the wine rack and took out a bottle of red wine. "Did Aunt Min scold you? The older generation thinks more carefully and pays attention to etiquette. Don't take their thoughts too much to heart. We can respect their arrangements, but just do things according to our own way."

At this moment, Wen Ruan found that He Yanci was a very insightful person. His words were very comforting, and his temper seemed to be quite good.

However, He Yanci was a very difficult man to understand. She had seen him in a pleasant mood one second and then in a stormy state the next.

He was hard to figure out and even harder to provoke.

He Yanci opened the red wine and poured it into an automatic wine decanter. Looking at the dazzling light refracted by the red wine in the decanter under the dim light, he said, "It's actually quite nice to have both sets of parents discussing the matters of marriage together. It has a great sense of ceremony." Recently, several times when he got home, he could hear his grandfather and parents sitting together discussing things about his marriage to Wen Ruan. It was quite interesting and also very festive.

Did He Yanci really think this feeling was nice?

Wen Ruan didn't quite believe it.

He Yanci took a wine glass and held it between his well-defined fingers. "I'll give you a card next time we meet. Then when we go shopping again, you can use the card I give you, and it won't be so complicated."

"Isn't that not very appropriate?" Wen Ruan replied euphemistically. It wasn't that it wasn't complicated; it was even more complicated. Their relationship wasn't suitable for using He Yanci's money. Even for a married couple with feelings, she still preferred financial independence. Financial disputes were the most troublesome things.

He Yanci nodded without refuting. "It's not very appropriate. Just buy more things and it'll be fine."

"......"

Huh? Just buy more things and it'll be fine?

What kind of logic was that?

Was it a case of getting used to it making it seem normal?

Wen Ruan seriously suspected that He Yanci, as a boss, was losing money.

Wen Ruan couldn't help but laugh.

Leaning against the bar counter, He Yanci smiled with a good mood. His deep voice was particularly gentle. "When we get married and live together, it will save a lot of trouble."

Wen Ruan agreed with He Yanci's statement. At least they wouldn't have to deal with all these cumbersome pre-marriage formalities.

It would indeed be nice for the two of them to get along peacefully and each have their own small space.

He Yanci opened the wine decanter and poured a small glass of red wine. He took a sip and said, "This morning, I heard from Aunt Min that my grandfather and Grandpa Wen have been studying the old almanac for a while. It's not suitable to move things a few days before and after the wedding. Many things will be sent to our new house on the day of the betrothal gift presentation."

He paused and continued, "Ruanruan, why don't you move your personal belongings to our new house in advance?"

Ruanruan...

He Yanci actually called her by her childhood nickname?

That was really rare.

He had never called her like that when they were children. He had only called her a little crybaby.

Regarding moving things, Wen Ruan didn't want to move them in a hurry. Moving to a strange place all at once would make it inconvenient for her to use her things. "I don't actually have a lot of things. I can move them later."

He Yanci wasn't surprised by Wen Ruan's excuse. He gently rubbed the edge of the glass with his fingertips for a while. His dark eyes were distant. "I haven't lived in our new house much, and I'm not very clear about the overall layout of the house. You can take a look at the layout of the house and give some suggestions. Since there's still some time left, we can make changes to the places you don't like."

He Yanci had mostly lived in the He family's residence in recent years. He didn't often stay in the several villas he had purchased. After considering various options, he finally decided to use a villa that was relatively close to the Wen family's residence as the marital home.

The environment of that villa was quite nice. In his spare time, he mostly lived there, and the environment was very suitable for Wen Ruan.

As for the layout, he had personally selected the materials and supervised the decoration, so it was impossible for him not to know about it.

Since He Yanci had said so, if Wen Ruan refused again, she would seem particularly insincere in this wedding.

She thought for a while. "I'll sort out my things in the next couple of days. I'll tell you when I'm ready to move."

"Okay. Let me know in advance, and I'll help you move." He Yanci smiled, tilted his head back, and his Adam's apple rolled slightly as he drank half a glass of wine.

*

On Saturday, Wen Ruan packed some of her personal belongings that she didn't use often and her winter clothes and moved them to He Yanci's villa.

Wen Ruan took out her phone, found He Yanci's number, and was about to call to tell him. But at the moment she was about to dial, she put down her phone.

She remembered correctly that He Yanci's company had a new technology release during this period.

She had been following the official updates of He Yanci's company. The highly anticipated 5D medical technology that was about to be released was a leading-edge technology of the era. As the main person in charge of the 5D medical leading-edge technology, He Yanci was very busy and had a lot of pressure and responsibility.

Wen Ruan knew the location of He Yanci's villa and asked the driver to take her there.

When she arrived at He Yanci's villa, there were a lot of people busy both inside and outside. There were decorative lights and small lanterns hanging on the trees, giving a very festive atmosphere.

The people leading the work were several elders from the He family. They were all sharp-eyed and recognized Wen Ruan at a glance.