Rekindled Hearts: The Tycoon's Reluctant Love-Chapter 241 - 240 The Engagement Party is Canceled
Chapter 241: Chapter 240: The Engagement Party is Canceled
Chapter 241: Chapter 240: The Engagement Party is Canceled
Fu Ziyuan looked at the Wen Yuci in front of him.
He had fallen for her during their school days.
She was pure, refined, gentle, and dignified, like a little fairy from the heavens.
He still remembered the first time he saw her.
She had jet black, smooth hair that came down to her waist, meticulously cared for, wearing the school’s uniform red plaid blazer with a skirt of the same color scheme.
Knee-length socks and impeccably clean black leather shoes.
Her figure was slender with ideal proportions, a delicate waist, and long legs.
She stepped out of a black luxury car, obediently carrying her backpack, facing the sunlight, inconceivably beautiful.
However, at that time, he was just an ordinary student from an average family.
By her side was Fu Yunshen, whose family was just as outstanding as hers.
Walking together, people said they looked like a match made in heaven.
After all these years, he finally got the engagement he wished for, making her his fiancée.
Even though she had already been with Fu Yunshen.
“Yuci, rest assured, I will treat you well in the future,” he said.
Fu Ziyuan picked up the ring offered by the officiant, took Wen Yuci’s hand, and moved to slip it onto her slender, delicate fingertips.
Wen Yuci’s long eyelashes drooped like fan leaves, her red lips slightly pursed.
Just as the ring was about to slide onto her fingertip, she suddenly bent it slightly.
The ring slipped from her fingertip.
It fell to the ground and rolled towards the edge of the platform.
Everyone was anticipating the moment of the engagement ceremony’s success.
Faced with such an unexpected turn, the guests in the banquet hall were stunned.
As was the prospective bridegroom, Fu Ziyuan.
Looking at Wen Yuci in disbelief, he had not expected her to refuse.
“Yuci, what’s wrong?” he asked.
Upon seeing Wen Yuci refuse Fu Ziyuan’s ring, both Father Wen and Mother Wen gave her meaningful glances.
Wen Yuci’s past relationship with Fu Yunshen was no secret in the Upper Circle.
Apart from Fu Ziyuan, it would be hard for any other scion of a prominent family to take her as his lawful wife.
Wen Yuci seemed not to have heard Fu Ziyuan’s words, nor did she look at her parents signaling to her.
She took the microphone from the officiant and said in a cool voice, “I’m sorry, I cannot get engaged to Fu Ziyuan. Today’s engagement ceremony is canceled!”
The crowd snapped back to reality, abuzz with shock.
What happened?
Why cancel the engagement so suddenly?
The parents of the Fu and Wen families all had very unpleasant expressions.
Wen Yuci glanced at Fu Ziyuan, who remained frozen in place, took a deep breath, and said, “Ziyuan, I told you a long time ago that I can’t come to like you. I’m sorry I can’t reciprocate the affection you’ve given me over these years.”
Without waiting for Fu Ziyuan to say anything, Wen Yuci quickly walked down from the platform.
Mother Wen tried to grab Wen Yuci but she dodged away.
Wen Yuci lifted her dress and ran towards the outside of the villa.
Ming Yao, embraced by Gu Siting, flashed a look of surprise in her eyes.
Tyrant Gu was right!
The engagement ceremony didn’t take place!
Ming Yao saw Wen Yuci’s expression, worried something might happen. She pulled away Gu Siting’s hand from her shoulder, “Husband, I’m going to check on Yuci.”
Gu Siting hummed softly.
Ming Yao caught up with Wen Yuci outside the villa.
Wen Yuci did not stop; she got into a car, and Ming Yao hurriedly opened the passenger door and sat down.
Wen Yuci changed into a pair of flat shoes, stepped on the gas, and the car sped away.
Ming Yao did not ask her the reason, simply sitting with her in silence.
After driving a considerable distance, Wen Yuci parked the car by the seaside.
Her body weakly leaned back in her seat, and the tears she had been holding back uncontrollably fell.
Ming Yao handed a few tissues to Wen Yuci.
Wen Yuci cried quietly, without making a sound.
Pear blossoms drenched in rain are poignant to behold.
“Yuci, what’s wrong? Would you like to tell me about it?”
Wen Yuci supported her forehead with her small hand holding a tissue, her voice hoarse from crying, “He’s back.”
Ming Yao frowned, “The man you once loved to the bone?”
Wen Yuci nodded.
“Did you call off the engagement ceremony because of him?”
She could not possibly have called off the engagement for him, because she knew in her heart that she would never marry Fu Yunshen again in this lifetime!
Wen Yuci didn’t want to think about those sad things anymore, so she changed the subject, “Yaoyao, will you drink with me?”
Ming Yao nodded, “I can.”
Wen Yuci drove the car to the apartment building where she lived.
She hadn’t lived with Father Wen and Mother Wen for several years and had moved out on her own.
She just occasionally went back on weekends.
Once in the apartment, Wen Yuci glanced at her constantly vibrating phone. Calls from Fu Ziyuan, her parents, and friends.
Wen Yuci turned off her phone.
Ming Yao took out ingredients from the fridge and made a simple meal of three dishes and a soup.
Wen Yuci opened a bottle of red wine.
Ming Yao didn’t ask any more questions, every person has their privacy, and as a good friend, she could only offer her respect!
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What she could do was accompany her.
Ming Yao drank quite a bit with Wen Yuci, and feeling the effects later, she got somewhat drunk.
The phone rang, and she glanced at the caller ID.
It was from Tyrant Gu.
“Husband, I’m staying with Yuci tonight and won’t be coming back.”
The man’s breathing grew heavier on the other end of the line, “No.”
“I’m worried about Yuci…”
“There will naturally be people who worry about her. Where are you? I’ll come get you.”
“No need, I’ll stay with Yuci a little longer and come back later!”
Without waiting for the man to say anything, she hung up the phone.
After drinking herself into a stupor, Wen Yuci ended up asleep on the sofa, while Ming Yao, unable to sleep, sat beside the sofa, watching over her.
When Wen Yuci woke up, the sky had already grown dark.
After a bout of drunkenness, Wen Yuci seemed a bit more emotionally recovered.
“Yaoyao, you can go back. I need to visit my parents’ house in a bit.”
Ming Yao looked at Wen Yuci’s red and swollen eyes, “Shall I take you there?”
“It’s fine, I can drive myself.”
After Ming Yao left, Wen Yuci took a shower in the bathroom and then drove back to the Wen family home.
Upon arriving, Mother Wen flew into a rage, raising her hand as if to slap her.
But as her hand almost touched Wen Yuci’s face, she forcibly retracted it.
She had invested effort and care to raise her, hoping to make her the first lady of Chengdu.
She did not disappoint her, excelling in every aspect.
But ever since she met Fu Yunshen, she changed.
Although Mother Wen was frustrated that her daughter hadn’t turned out as she had hoped, at least the Fu family was well off.
If the two were together, then so be it.
But how could she know that Fu Yunshen was not the legitimate heir of the Fu family?
She absolutely could not tolerate her daughter, whom she had meticulously groomed, marrying someone of average background.
The fact that she and Fu Yunshen had slept together when they were young had tarnished her reputation, but luckily, Fu Ziyuan didn’t mind and had been pursuing her for years, gentle and considerate. What was she unsatisfied with?
Why would she want to humiliate Fu Ziyuan so much at the engagement party?
“Ci Ci, it’s not that Mom is forcing you, but you know the state of the company right now. We’re still short a few billion in the account, and if the Fu family doesn’t invest, your grandfather’s and your father’s life work will be ruined!”
Wen Yuci closed her eyes for a moment, “I will find a way to handle the company’s investment. As for the engagement with the Fu family, it’s impossible now!”
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Don’t worry, the secondary couple will only take a few chapters, and soon we’ll turn to the main characters~
