Chapter 699

Gu Qiuyi was very puzzled.

She felt that her father had been looking for Ye Chen for so long, and had been restless because he couldn't find Ye Chen, and also felt guilty because of it.

Now that she accidentally met Ye Chen, she should naturally tell her father this good news, which could be considered fulfilling a wish he had for many years.

Thus, she hurriedly asked: "Brother Ye Chen, why can't I tell others about meeting you?"

Ye Chen sighed lightly and said: "Hey, regardless of what hidden feelings there were about what happened more than ten years ago, I am living very happily in Jin Ling right now, so I don't want to have too much to do with Yanjing."

Gu Qiuyi said with some excitement: "Brother Ye Chen, you are the young master of the Ye family. Why do you choose to stay in a place like Jin Ling? If you choose to return to Yanjing, you should have at least 20% or 30% of the Ye family's trillions of assets, right?"

Ye Chen waved his hand: "I don't lack money now, and I'm not very interested in the Ye family's assets. I just want to live a stable life in Jin Ling with my wife."

"Wife?" Gu Qiuyi exclaimed: "Brother Ye Chen, you... you are married??"

"Yes." Ye Chen said casually: "It's been more than three years since I got married..."

Gu Qiuyi was stunned. She blurted out: "Brother Ye Chen! Did you forget that you have a marriage contract?"

"Marriage contract?" Ye Chen was a bit embarrassed and laughed: "The marriage contract is just a joke between our parents when we were young. And at that time, we were both ignorant children. How can such a thing count?"

Gu Qiuyi asked indignantly: "How can such a thing not count? Do you know that in the many years you were missing, my father basically reminded me every day, telling me that I am a girl with a marriage contract, telling me that I must never fall in love with other boys outside, and even I have been telling myself this all along!"

Ye Chen was stunned.

When he left Yanjing, he was only eight years old, and Gu Qiuyi was only six or seven years old. He had long forgotten about this, but he didn't expect that she and her family would still remember it.

This made him feel a bit embarrassed. After all, something that others valued so much, he had long thrown to the back of his mind, which really made him feel a bit guilty.

Thus, he could only apologize: "Nannan, to be honest, I have lived very miserably for so many years. I lived in the orphanage for the first 10 years, and then I worked in various construction sites for the next few years, drifting from place to place until I met my wife."

Gu Qiuyi asked with red eyes, both angry and distressed: "When you married her, did you ever think about our marriage contract?"

"Sorry." Ye Chen said honestly: "I really didn't think about this. It was mainly because I was trapped in a predicament at the time, and many things were beyond my control."

Gu Qiuyi asked again: "Then what does your wife do now? Is she the daughter of a large family?"

"Not a large family." Ye Chen laughed and said: "She can be considered a girl from an ordinary family."

"Ordinary family?!" Gu Qiuyi was stunned, and then her pretty face was full of anger, and she blurted out: "You are the dignified young master of the Ye family, my fiancé, Gu Qiuyi. My father and I have been looking for you for so many years. How can you marry another woman?!"

Speaking of this, Gu Qiuyi shed tears again.

Ye Chen hurriedly handed her a tissue and persuaded her softly: "Nannan, don't cry. Many things are not as simple as playing house when we were young. Of course, I also admit that I did ignore this matter. I thought you were like me, and would definitely laugh off such things from childhood, but I didn't expect that you and Uncle Gu would have been looking for me for so many years."

Gu Qiuyi said angrily: "Playing house? Laugh off? My father made a vow to Uncle Ye and Aunt Ye back then!"

"Also, you lived in Yanjing for eight years, so you should know that the large families in Yanjing dislike letting their children enter the entertainment industry the most. Even the descendants of large families are not allowed to marry female stars in the entertainment industry, because in their eyes, no matter how famous the stars in the entertainment industry are, they are just actors, just the lower class!"

"But do you know why I entered the entertainment industry?"

Ye Chen shook his head and asked subconsciously: "Why?"

"It was to find you! I wanted to become a star, to be paid attention to by the people of the whole country or even Chinese people all over the world. In this way, you might see me, recognize me, and find me..."

Ye Chen said embarrassedly: "You have changed quite a bit since you were young. If you hadn't said your nickname, I might not have been able to recognize you at all..."

Gu Qiuyi asked back: "Have you never watched any of my exclusive interviews? Every time I accept an interview, I tell the media reporters that my nickname is Gu Nannan, and I have even deliberately said that I don't have a boyfriend because I am still looking for my true love from my youth. This matter has been on the Weibo hot search several times. Have you never seen it once?"

Ye Chen smiled helplessly: "I rarely pay attention to entertainment news, and I don't chase stars, so I didn't pay attention."

Gu Qiuyi pouted and asked: "Then why did you ask me to endorse Jiuxuan Stomach Powder?!"

Ye Chen shrugged: "This matter wasn't decided by me, it was decided by Wei Liang. He told me that you are one of the most famous stars now, so he recommended finding you to endorse Jiuxuan Stomach Powder."

Gu Qiuyi's self-esteem was hit hard, and she cried: "Then haven't all my efforts for so many years been in vain? I said it so many times in front of the people of the whole country, but you didn't see it even once!"

As she spoke, she wiped her tears and choked up: "On the plane to Jin Ling, I was still thinking that I could wait for you until I was 35, or even until I was 40. Anyway, people who enter the entertainment industry get married very late, and I don't have to be urged to marry by people who don't know the inside story. I didn't expect you, this bad guy, to be so heartless! Not only did you not recognize me, but you also broke the marriage contract and married another woman!"

For so many years, in Gu Qiuyi's heart, she had always remembered the marriage contract between her and Ye Chen.

This is not only because she had a natural good impression of Ye Chen when she was a child and always liked to follow behind him.

It is also because for so many years, her father had always been looking for Ye Chen, so she had never forgotten Ye Chen.

Moreover, for so many years, she had always been looking forward to being able to find Ye Chen.

Besides, for so many years, her father had often reminded her in her ear not to forget that she had a marriage contract.

And after she was 20, her father often said that as long as she found Ye Chen, she must marry Ye Chen, because this was the promise her father made to his good friend, benefactor, and brother many years ago.

Gu Qiuyi accepted this arrangement imperceptibly. She had always felt for so many years that she would definitely be able to find him, but she didn't expect that he was already married!