Chapter 98: Chapter 98: You’re Negotiating Terms with Me?
Lu Wanwan bit her lip, realizing that what he had said earlier was the truth, not made-up on the spot.
“Fine.” She quickly recovered her composure, “In that case, our engagement will be a matter of mutual benefit.”
Gu Annan remained silent, his fingers tightly gripping the steering wheel.
“I need to marry you, and you need to marry me, so it’s fair,” she emphasized again.
Gu Annan, that cunning businessman, had spoken as if he were reluctantly agreeing to her demands, even though it was arranged by their parents.
She couldn’t give him the chance to draw up any more unfair and unequal agreements.
“When necessary, I will cooperate with you. But when I am in need, you must also cooperate with me. Besides that, we won’t interfere with each other’s lives. If either party reneges, the marriage contract can be cancelled at any time.”
As she spoke, she wasn’t paying attention to whether the person next to her was listening.
But his silence, perhaps, was an acknowledgement.
“Alternatively, we could set a time limit, after which the marriage contract automatically dissolves, so as not to delay either party’s chance to marry normally.”
Lu Wanwan spoke and felt a drop in air pressure—was the air conditioning too strong?
Looking sideways, she saw Gu Annan’s handsome face darken alarmingly.
“Cough, I mean…” she ventured, “this way, when you find the person you truly want to marry in the future, you’ll be getting married for the first time, not a second. Isn’t that better? Your parents don’t require you to get married immediately soon, do they?”
“Lu Wanwan, I can back out at any time.” His words seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, as he turned his handsome face toward her, “Do you want to cancel the engagement right now?”
His face was filled with coldness, especially when he heard the conditions she looked forward to—the rushed attempts to clarify their relationship in this marriage alliance.
Just engaged, and she’s already preparing to ensure her next relationship could be a first marriage.
How very thoughtful of her!
The car halted abruptly by the roadside.
“If there’s any term you disagree with, we can discuss it…”
“Negotiate terms with me? Talk about fairness?” Gu Annan sneered, “Forgot how you shamelessly climbed into my bed yesterday to get these?”
“My parents never demanded that I must marry a daughter of the Lu Family, only that if I were to fulfil the marriage alliance, it had to be with Ye Jing’s daughter. I don’t ‘need’ to marry you that much!”
“What are you trying to say, then?”
The coldness on his handsome face deepened as the corners of his lips lost their curve.
“Whenever I tire of you, that’s when the marriage agreement will end,” he said with a mocking gaze, “Thinking of negotiating terms with me? Lu Wanwan, this time, unless I don’t want you, you don’t even have the right to speak of leaving.”
What did he mean by “this time”?
Lu Wanwan was still confused when she heard the cold words next to her, “Get out.”
Her heart felt as if it was being twisted by a knife.
She had barely gotten out of the car when it sped off, as if unwilling to stay a second longer.
She took a deep breath. Although the situation was not ideal, it was the best option she had.
At least the status of Gu Annan’s fiancée could block many things. For example, in the hospital, she believed that Lu Kexin wouldn’t dare to go there anymore.
Life became busier after school started; she moved back to her dormitory from Gu’s residence.
The internship continued, and she attended the few classes at the school on time, only finding gaps in her schedule to visit her grandmother in the hospital.
Having failed to secure the headline photos of the Gu family’s engagement, the editor-in-chief was unsurprisingly infuriated. Colleagues who had been annoyed by her previous spotlight took the opportunity to kick her while she was down.
They attributed the loss of the Gu family headline to trusting her tall tales.