Chapter 232: The Couple's Secret 3

Shi Youxuan felt very conflicted.

Jian Yining was good to her and would also be good to Shi Ran; he would be a good husband and also a good father.

Marrying Jian Yining would certainly be happier than her current situation, and she and Xiaozhu would also have a normal family... these were all things Shi Youxuan longed for.

However, it would be unfair to Jian Yining!

She said earnestly: "A Ning, I won't say much else, but there is one thing I must say upfront: I may never love you in my entire life. Can you accept that?"

This sentence was very cruel.

It was like a knife stabbing into Jian Yining's heart.

But this was Shi Youxuan—her heart and mouth were one!

Love is love, and not loving is not loving.

Jian Yining was very important in her heart, very, very important; if he encountered difficulties, she would use everything she had to help him, and it would not be an exaggeration to go through fire and water for him.

But this was the best interpretation of friendship, and it had nothing to do with romantic love.

She felt very relaxed and happy when she was with Jian Yining, but she would not have that feeling of a heart fluttering.

If the two of them were to be good friends for a lifetime, that would be a very good thing, but Jian Yining did not want that.

He wanted to marry her, to label each other as their own, to walk into marriage with her, and to have children.

At times like this, some problems would arise.

They had to be faced; they could not be avoided.

Although there were still layers of obstacles ahead and the possibility of her successfully divorcing Zhu Yiwen was very small, if Jian Yining could accept it, she would also solve those problems with him.

A bitter smile squeezed onto Jian Yining's face: "I know. Are ten years of being good friends fake? I know you have no romantic love for me, only friendship, but if we get married, you will be good to me, and everything a wife can do for her husband, you will do, right?"

How does that saying go?

A scholar dies for his confidant.

Shi Youxuan nodded; Jian Yining was quite right. That was exactly how she thought, and she would do exactly that.

The smile on his face suddenly became radiant, as if he had been relieved.

"It doesn't matter if you don't have romantic love for me; I have it for you. I will use my love to move you, so that sooner or later you will fall in love with me."

"If that day never comes, it doesn't matter either. I only ask one thing of you: don't say words like this a second time. If you don't say them, I will think you love me, just as I love you—that much."

"What does it matter if I deceive myself? If I am willing to deceive myself for a lifetime, wouldn't I be happy for a lifetime? But I am not happy now; in the days without you by my side, I miss you, and I miss you day and night, every single moment."

"Yingzi, you can keep a place in your heart for someone; I just want to love you, take care of you, and cherish you for a lifetime..."

She covered his mouth with her hand: "Stop talking, having this is enough."

"I have a second question."

"Go ahead."

Shi Youxuan really did not want to mention those two people, but at a time like this, she had to; they would definitely encounter them in reality later, and she would have to face them sooner or later.

She swallowed her saliva and said: "After we get married, I will be a relative of Jian Yixin and Sheng Hanyu. I don't want to see them, and I want to be with them even less. Let that couple live their own lives..."

Jian Yining widened his eyes and stared at her in shock.

That wasn't right; there seemed to be a misunderstanding here, a huge misunderstanding!

He knew that if he said it, the things Shi Youxuan had just promised him might change, but he still had to say it.

Jian Yining tried hard to calm himself down before saying: "Don't you know about Sheng Hanyu going to Prison?"

"What?"

Shi Youxuan looked blank: "He went to Prison? Because of what?"

Seeing her like this, Jian Yining understood everything; she didn't know.

Since she didn't even know about this, it was normal that she didn't know about other things.

He continued: "Five years ago, Sheng Hanyu thought you were dead and took crazy revenge on your foster mother and Shi Yuke. He was sentenced to five years for assault and just got out."

Shi Youxuan only now realized why everything had been calm and quiet for these five years, and why Sheng Hanyu had stirred up so many things after five years; it turned out he had spent these five years in Prison!

Since Sheng Hanyu had spent his time in Prison, then he and Jian Yixin...

Jian Yining felt it was necessary to educate Shi Youxuan on what had happened in Jiangzhou over these five years.

"Yingzi, let's go over there and talk."

There was a pavilion not far away, and there were places to sit inside the pavilion.

Her feet were numb from standing for too long, and what he was prepared to say would take a long time.

The two walked toward the pavilion, and Sheng Hanyu, standing by the window, dug his fingernails into his palms.

Damn it, it was almost dark and she still wasn't coming home?

Did she not know that men and women should not touch when handing things over?

At this moment, a sound came from behind: "Auntie, what are you standing there looking at? Let me see too."

Shi Ran had brought the servant to deliver his meal, and after finishing, they ate together in his room. The child was sleepy after eating, so she didn't go back to her own room and fell asleep on his bed instead.

Now that Shi Ran was awake, Sheng Hanyu could only go over to accompany the child.

He used gestures to tell her that Auntie was looking at many little flying insects outside and told her not to go out to play.

Shi Ran believed it to be true: "Okay, I won't go out to play. Auntie, will you accompany me to build blocks?"

After speaking, she ran out and quickly ran back, holding the blocks Jian Yining had given her in her arms.

Her little mouth kept babbling: "This is the Lego my godfather gave me; there are so many, many pieces. Mommy said I can't sit still and would definitely run out to play after building a few pieces, but I will definitely build it well, build a mansion exactly like the one at home to make Mommy happy..."

"Godfather also gave me something on the computer and said it's very, very fun. After we finish building the blocks, we'll go play with that. Godfather is so good; he praised me for being a good child."

"Auntie, it's a pity you were sick and didn't get to see my godfather. Godfather looks so good; he is the best-looking man I have ever seen..."

The godfather was Jian Yining, and when the biological father heard his daughter praising her godfather incessantly, he felt sour again.

However, he was very happy about the gift Jian Yining gave Shi Ran; his thoughts coincided with his.

The reason the little girl is naughty and causes trouble every day is simply because her intelligence and talent are not being used in the right place; as long as they are used correctly, she will stand out among the other children!

He also wanted to give a gift like this, but before he had the chance, Jian Yining beat him to it, and he was unhappy.

Unhappy as he was, he still had to play along with his daughter.

Opening the packaging box, thousands of plastic pieces of various shapes and sizes were all poured out by the little girl with a "Clatter—!"

The big one and the small one started putting them together.

……

In the pavilion outside the mansion.

Jian Yining finally finished speaking, and Shi Youxuan did not say a word for a long time.

In recent years, although she had already extended her reach into Jiangzhou and was opposing Dingsheng everywhere, she only instructed others to do it and did not intervene personally, so she did not know about Sheng Hanyu going to Prison.

She avoided everything that happened in Jiangzhou, and she had not even been in contact with her maiden family.

She only asked Zhu Yiwen to send people to inquire from time to time, listening only to news about Shi Yucheng.

Her adoptive father had shown her kindness and had truly been good to her since she was small, so Shi Youxuan only cared about Shi Yucheng alone; the life or death of others had nothing to do with her.

Because of this, she also did not know that Jiang Yadan had died, and that Shi Yuke had been crippled and had also gone insane.

It was only a few months ago when Shi Yucheng had a stroke and had no one to look after him that she had people send her father to the best nursing home; she had originally planned to return to the country to visit, but before she could return, she was found here by Sheng Hanyu.

Furthermore, Sheng Hanyu had not married Jian Yixin, which was also beyond her expectations!

She had originally thought that the two of them should have been married long ago, and perhaps they even had two or three children, but they did not marry five years ago, and they still had not five years later.