Chapter 183: Marry No One But Him

As soon as these words left his mouth, Xu Hu sobered up.

Jiang Zhi's eyes were slightly red, and the way her tears were on the verge of falling made him feel a pang of heartache.

Xu Hu felt some regret for the words he had just spoken.

He was just about to apologize to Jiang Zhi when, in the next second, his collar was grabbed with great force; before he could even see who had come, he was tossed out of the private room door like trash.

Xu Hu slumped on the ground, and only then did he manage to see the person in front of him clearly.

It was the uncle that Jiang Zhi always had on her lips.

"Who gave you the nerve to talk about her like that?"

Jiang Cheng threw a punch straight at his mouth.

The force was so great that Xu Hu felt his front teeth loosen, but he had absolutely no power to resist.

He could only be dragged back and forth and beaten violently by Jiang Cheng like a piece of torn rag.

Finally, he saw Jiang Zhi's gentle aunt appear.

Just when Xu Hu thought his savior had arrived, he heard Si Rong look at him with cold eyes and say to Jiang Cheng, "Don't hit him in the teeth, be careful not to hurt your hand."

Xu Hu:...

So, does this mean it's fine to hit him anywhere else?

He only said one wrong thing; was it necessary to beat him to death?

Just as Xu Hu felt he might be beaten to death in this strange little city, Jiang Cheng stopped.

And he passed out.

Jiang Zhi had never imagined she would hear such words from Xu Hu's mouth.

For a long time, with her mother not by her side and not knowing who her father was, the words "Mom" and "Dad" were a forbidden zone for her that she didn't even dare to touch easily.

Perhaps she didn't like Xu Hu as much as she imagined, which was why she had never thought about revealing her inner heart to him.

That day, many voices flooded into her ears.

But she remembered one sentence very clearly.

Jiang Zhi, stop denying yourself, value your own feelings, and take good care of your emotions.

I can feel that there are many people who care about you.

It was that boy named Chen Yun, who had a shallow dimple on his cheek when he smiled.

It is said that people with dimples on their faces are favored by the heavens.

Now she knew two such wonderful people.

One was her aunt, and the other was Chen Yun.

Jiang Zhi decided to break up with Xu Hu.

She prepared to wait until Xu Hu was sober the next day to have a good talk with him, to part on good terms.

Si Rong was naturally happy to see this change in Jiang Zhi, but before she could heave a sigh of relief, Jiang Qi returned.

This mother who had been absent for many important moments in Jiang Zhi's life.

After she failed to persuade Jiang Zhi to study abroad last time, she had gone back to M Guo.

Her return this time was likely for the sake of Jiang Zhi's relationship.

Xu Yan also came; she first held the cat, Orange, and teased it for a while, and while Jiang Qi went to Jiang Zhi's room, she took the rare opportunity to have a private talk with Si Rong about sister-in-law matters.

"Sister-in-law, you are a kind person, which is why you treat Xiao Zhi so well, but it is precisely because I know your and Brother's personalities that I wanted to advise you today."

"It's fine for us to be close to Xiao Zhi and to cherish her, but as for discipline, let's forget it; you might end up being resented later."

Her words carried an implied meaning, but Si Rong understood.

Hu Qian was not the type of person to talk behind others' backs; previously, if she saw something wrong with how she was taking care of the child, she would tell her directly to her face.

The person dissatisfied with her was likely Jiang Qi; since Xu Yan did not mention Jiang Qi's name, it was because her original intention was only to advise Si Rong to manage less of Jiang Zhi's affairs, not to stir up trouble.

"Yanyan, I understand your words; thank you for telling me this."

However, Si Rong did not take Jiang Qi's dissatisfaction to heart.

She was merely a sister-in-law who was rarely at home.

If she didn't look after the child, and then complained when others did, and if she and Jiang Cheng treated Jiang Zhi only with affection and pampering as Xu Yan suggested without any discipline, she feared Jiang Zhi would never treat this place as her own home.

Si Rong did not want that.

She always felt a very intimate connection between herself and Jiang Zhi.

Last year, when she went to Jing Shi, Jiang Zhi said she had once answered a Future Phone call for her, and the person on the other end warned her not to go abroad.

At the time, Si Rong guessed that it was highly likely the future Jiang Zhi.

So, twenty years later, when she was seriously ill in the hospital, was it actually Jiang Zhi who stayed by her side?

In any case, she did not want Jiang Zhi to be hurt because of a man.

Chen Yun was quite good.

Some time ago, her second sister-in-law went on a business trip to Shanghai and brought her back some silk stockings.

She used to scoff at such things, thinking them vulgar.

But the look in Jiang Cheng's eyes after she put them on made her feel that, sometimes, one should appreciate both the refined and the popular.

"So beautiful!" Xu Yan's eyes lit up the moment she saw the crystal luster of the stockings, as if she had thought of something, "Small things from Shanghai are indeed more fashionable than those in our Huaiyang."

"Sister-in-law, you gave me so many; do you still have any for yourself?"

Xu Yan said, looking at the several pairs of stockings stuffed into her hands.

It's so good to have a sister-in-law who thinks of her for every good thing.

"Don't worry, I kept some for myself; these are for you—wear them back and let County Magistrate Jiang see."

It was more than just keeping some; she had black, white, skin-toned—everything one could possibly want.

Xu Yan pursed her lips, feeling a bit embarrassed, "He's like a wild boar unable to appreciate fine bran; it's a waste to even show him."

Before, when she wanted to buy stockings and asked Jiang Yu if they looked good on a woman on the street, the man had acted so incredibly pretentious, refusing to even take a single glance, as if he were so upright.

But anyway, she didn't dress up beautifully for men to see; she liked it for herself.

The two sisters-in-law were chatting animatedly when they suddenly heard the sound of an argument.

Thinking of Jiang Qi, the two of them immediately stood up and walked toward Jiang Zhi's room.

They saw the door wide open, and Jiang Qi looked furious, "My stance is very clear anyway; I will absolutely not agree to you being with that little yellow-haired brat!"

Jiang Zhi's attitude was also very firm, "Your stance has nothing to do with me."

At this moment, Xu Hu came out of his room as if he had timed it perfectly.

Just as he was rubbing his sleepy eyes, he saw Jiang Zhi walk toward him, then she hooked her arm through his and announced high-profile, "I just like him! I just want to be with him, and in this life, I will marry no one but him!"

At this moment, it was as if Jiang Zhi's brain had only one nerve, and that was to fiercely refute everything Jiang Qi had said.

Whatever she opposed, she would go and do.

It had nothing to do with Xu Hu; if Jiang Qi had opposed her being with a pig, she would have firmly dragged that pig toward the halls of marriage as well.

Jiang Zhi didn't know what was wrong with her either; as soon as she saw Jiang Qi, she seemed to instantly transform into a hedgehog, desperately wanting to bristle all the quills on her body.

Xu Hu felt that happiness had come a bit too suddenly; he had originally thought that after saying those things yesterday, Jiang Zhi would break up with him.

He thought she would drive him away today, but he hadn't expected that in the blink of an eye, she would be determined to marry no one but him.

Just as his mother had said, there wasn't a girl who didn't like him.