Grandpa's Outburst
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CHAPTER 346
"WHAT!" Yin Lifen could not believe the extent to which her friend could go just for….
Well if in her shoes, she could not say she may not have done the same. At least with a contract marriage, she still had the freedom to live her life and not spend it with someone she did not like.
"I know. It sounds crazy."
"Yes, and you were not one to do the crazy things. What has gramps done to you in my absence?"
"Nothing actually, Yin Lifen."
"How can you say nothing when you are clearly in this situation?" Yin Lifen snapped at her friend.
Li Jing took in a deep breath. She wished her friend would understand already.
"I… You need to understand from his own perspective. He feels that he is doing the right thing and securing a better future for me."
"Yes I understand but we are not in the stone age anymore and that is not how to secure a better future for your own grandchild. Can't he learn?"
"Gramps is as stubborn as a mule. That was why when Ye Cheng proposed it, I agreed to it."
"But how is he by the way? Does he still look in love with you?"
"I do not know as most things we did was just for show to the public to act that we are happily married."
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"Damn it, Li Jing. Just kill me. Ye Cheng doesn't love you?"
"This is not a love marriage," Li Jing corrected.
"But you entered it because…"
'It would save me what I do not want," Li Jing cut in quickly.
"Who are you trying to deceive, Li Jing, yourself or me?"
She sighed again before speaking. "Yin Lifen look…"
"No, answer the question. You think I do not know you agreed to this because you are in love with him?"
"Fine. I would rather have a fake marriage with the man I love than enter a real marriage with someone I have no feelings for," Li Jing confessed.
"What are you doing to yourself? Hoping he would fall in love again? Li Jing!"
A few people in the restaurant turned in their direction due to Yin Lifen yelling her name.
"Sorry," she mouthed to the customers and leaned in close on the table to talk quietly this time. "Li Jing, don't get me wrong, I am just afraid you would get hurt by your own ploy."
"If that is the case then let it be. At least I have control of my life in the process."
Yin Lifen was utterly speechless at her friend's words. What was it that Li Jing was doing to herself? She could not fathom what was running through the mind of her friend at that moment.
"For your sake Li Jing, I hope nothing goes wrong."
"Trust me on this, it won't, okay?" Li Jing assured Yin Lifen. She wore her beautiful smile again as though nothing was happening but on a closer look at things, something really was happening to her on the inside.
How quickly had her once a bit peaceful life just gone down the drain?
"By the way, have you told your grandfather?" Yin Lifen suddenly asked out of the blue.
The look in her friend's eyes gave her away that she had not yet spoken to her grandfather.
"Not yet."
"Li Jing."
"What do you want me to say to him? He would be devastated yet again. He would think I am leaving and abandoning him just like what my mother did."