"Don't talk nonsense, how is that possible? My son is so handsome, and he's even been on the news broadcast. How could he not like her?" Ning Xuesheng said, looking at Shi Qing, "Right?"
"Exactly, exactly. Da Bao's conditions are so good, Ling Ling won't have misjudged," Shi Yiling's mother chimed in at this moment.
The people at this table, one after another, chatting, they all fell silent. Several people looked at each other, and then almost at the same time, everyone stood up, preparing to see what would happen between these two.
On the other side, the two walked into the courtyard outside. Ming Yi glanced back at the room inside, then lowered his voice, "Do you think these elders always like to worry unnecessarily?"
"What era is this? Arranged marriages still? Shouldn't we advocate for free love? You've had such good conditions these past two years of school, there must be boys who like you and pursue you. If you have someone you like in your heart, they would break you up? Isn't that unfair?"
He continued, from the bottom of his heart, he really disliked the idea of arranged marriages.
Although, Shi Yiling's conditions, at least outwardly, he found quite pleasing.
"You don't like me?"
Suddenly, Shi Yiling blurted out this sentence, leaving Ming Yi speechless for a moment. He pondered for a long time, then said, "It's not that I don't like you..."
"Then you have someone you like?" Shi Yiling, at this moment, changed from her shy and introverted demeanor. She stared at Ming Yi, questioning him.
"Not exactly..."
"Then you feel your life shouldn't be controlled by your parents, so you want to break off our engagement?" Shi Yiling pressed on.
"Of course not... I just said it's unfair to you..."
Ming Yi blinked. The gap between the two statements seemed quite large? What was going on? From her appearance, she didn't seem to object to this engagement?
"Then since you're not breaking off the engagement, my birthday is tomorrow, and we're getting engaged. Is that okay?" When Shi Yiling said this, she stood right in front of Ming Yi, her face showing no hint of joking.
It was clear that she genuinely seemed to want to get engaged to Ming Yi directly.
"Ah?"
This time, Ming Yi was truly confused. "But, aren't we meeting for the first time?"
Getting engaged on the very first meeting? That seemed a bit too absurd.
Initially, his biggest worry was that this woman would come, demand to break off the engagement, and then cause trouble with her family. But... it seemed a bit different from what he had imagined?
"So what? Let me tell you, for the past six years, I've known I was engaged. I've never had any unnecessary contact with any man. In college, many boys from other schools pursued me, but I always told them I have a fiancé," Shi Yiling said, word by word.
These words left Ming Yi bewildered.
"You... why?"
He didn't quite understand why Shi Yiling made such a choice.
"Because, this isn't our first meeting, you've just forgotten."
Shi Yiling said, staring at Ming Yi for a long time, waiting for his response.
The most crucial part was that Ming Yi truly didn't remember.