Gu Lingling, however, didn’t know any of this. On the night of New Year’s Eve, as she lay alone on the heated brick bed, she thought about the fact that she would be getting engaged come spring, an idea she still found hard to believe.
A new year had begun, one that would bring earth-shattering changes and alter many people’s destinies.
Because soon, the announcement of the reinstatement of the college entrance examination would be made public.
Fortunately, they had already prepared in advance.
After the New Year, the day agreed upon by the two families for the engagement quickly arrived.
This time, Wang Fangyi and his wife from faraway Capital City did not sneak into Qin City as they had the previous year. Instead, they would be arriving in grand style with a large family entourage.
The elderly couple, who had anxiously feared their grandchild might remain single their whole life, were finally at ease as their beloved grandson had found someone special.
Moreover, the girl from the bride’s side was exactly the kind of girl they liked, which excited Wang Fangyi and Zheng Xiangjun at the thought of soon having a granddaughter-in-law so much that they found it hard to sleep.
With the granddaughter-in-law in the picture, though a great-grandchild might still be far off, at least there was something to look forward to.
The engagement presents were lavish and grandly prepared. Zheng Xiangjun even transferred ownership of a siheyuan in Capital City to Gu Lingling’s name.
It had only recently been returned to her.
Since the day he had suffered a setback, Wang Qingfeng had never recovered.
Xu Qin was even more terrified. Furious that day, she went home to find her sister, and it was only from her that she realized the foolishness of her actions.
Kyoto Yang Family!
This was the family her sister had always wanted to curry favor with. She never imagined that the Gu Family would be related to them by marriage, and even more so, she never thought that the village girl Gu Lingling, whom she had always looked down upon, had climbed such a high branch.
Xu Qin was filled with regret.
Had she known, she wouldn’t have been so arrogant at the Gu Family’s place back then.
To make matters worse, Gu Chunmei ridiculed her when she returned, and she couldn’t even get angry.
Goodness, now everyone at the transformer factory knew about her situation.
Xu Qin felt as if, no matter where she went, people were pointing and talking about her.
Wang Meili felt the same.
Ever since she was forced by that man, Wang Meili was seething but dared not speak up. The man had also threatened that if she didn’t comply, he would ruin her reputation at the transformer factory.
Wang Meili believed him.
She lived every day in fear, worried he would come for her again, her mind so distracted that she had no time to pay attention to Gu Juan’s affairs.
After looking for Zheng Peng that day and being mocked and ridiculed by him, Gu Juan was left stunned.
She was not even twenty yet, had already had one child, and was now pregnant again? And the other party denied that this child was his.
Though mother and daughter saw each other regularly, neither paid attention to the other’s peculiarities.
This day, Wang Meili received another note from the man, asking her to meet him at the usual place.
She wanted to curse.
It used to be at night, but now it was in broad daylight after just a few days!
Yet she had no choice.
The man had leverage over her, including her personal belongings.
But this time, when Wang Meili arrived at the designated place, she found two people in the room.
"Yo, Brother Tao really has a way of getting her here," Wang Chuang’s eyes glued to Wang Meili as she arrived.
The time he had pinched her at the factory gate, the sensation still vivid in his memory.
"What... what do you want?" Wang Meili, seeing him looking at her lecherously, suddenly had a bad feeling.
"What do we want?" Wang Chuang chuckled, "Of course, to do you together."