After Fu Yehan finished cooking the dumplings, Su Peiyun went to the kitchen to stir-fry two dishes.

The three of them sat around the dining table and ate quietly.

Su Peiyun poured a glass of white wine for Fu Yehan, ignored Ye Qingluo, and poured herself another glass. After taking a sip, she broke the silence: "Logically speaking, I shouldn't interfere in the affairs of you young people, but as a mother, I still want to express my opinion."

Ye Qingluo didn't say anything, but slowed down his eating speed and listened quietly.

Fu Yehan sat next to Ye Qingluo, respectfully and upright but not stiffly. Even though he restrained his usual dignity, the man still had the calm temperament of a man in a high position.

"Mom, just say whatever you want to say." Fu Yehan said in a serious and natural tone.

Hearing his name, Ye Qingluo's eyes suddenly widened and he turned his head to look at Fu Yehan in disbelief.

Su Peiyun didn't react much. She said to Ye Qingluo, "This afternoon, I chatted with Mr. Fu for the whole afternoon. He told me everything about your relationship. To be honest, I was really surprised. But then I thought, this is such a strange fate, it might be God's will."

Ye Qingluo withdrew his gaze from Fu Yehan, held the chopsticks, and poked the vinegar in the dish in front of him lightly.

Su Peiyun chuckled, looked at Fu Yehan again, and continued what she had just said: "It is God's will that things will change. Six years ago, when Chairman Fu refused to marry the Ye family, he would never have dreamed that he would ask me to mediate."

six years ago?

Marriage?

What do you mean?

Ye Qingluo suddenly raised his eyes, staring at his mother's ambiguous smile, and said in shock: "Mom, what are you talking about? What about marriage with the Ye family? Did you remember it wrong? The one who has the marriage contract with our family has always been the Chu family. What does it have to do with the Fu family? And six years ago, I was only eighteen? I was not even old enough to get married, so what kind of marriage is that?"

"Mom is right."

During Su Peiyun's silence, Fu Yehan took over and said, "Six years ago, when I had just come up with the idea for the 'Return to the Garden and the Countryside' project and was still doing market research, Ye did visit Fu's door, and Chairman Ye sincerely proposed the idea of ​​forming an alliance with Fu, but I rejected it without hesitation."

Ye Qingluo frowned. She had never known that such a thing happened six years ago.

Based on her understanding of her father, he would never use her happiness as a bargaining chip to gamble on the future of the Ye family unless it was absolutely necessary.

"The reason why I refused was very simple," Fu Yehan said. "At that time, anyone with a discerning eye could see that, looking at the entire capital business circle, only the Fu family could save the Ye family, but the Ye family was not the only choice for the Fu family. I am a businessman, and business is business, and pursuing maximum profit is my consistent purpose, so I can't choose a partner in advance when a project is not yet in its infancy, especially in the form of a marriage that is meaningless to me, which binds myself to this matter. This is not in line with my principles of doing things."

After Fu Yehan finished speaking, he raised his head and took a big sip of wine. As if he was brewing something, he pursed his lips and remained silent for a while.

It was not until Ye Qingluo turned his head and looked at him with a pale face that Fu Yehan spoke again: "Of course, the most direct reason why I rejected this matter without even thinking about it is that I have no interest in a good girl named Canary who has no personality, no wildness, and only knows how to study."

Under great shock, Ye Qingluo was still a little confused and at a loss.

After Fu Yehan finished saying this "most direct reason", Ye Qingluo finally seemed to have regained his consciousness. The color on his face slowly gathered, and even began to turn red. He looked at Fu Yehan with a gaze that was real.

Ye Qingluo remembered that Fu Yehan had asked her before if she had done anything she regretted.

She said no.

And Fu Yehan said that he did.

He said that he regretted making a wrong choice six years ago, and only now did he realize how long a detour he had taken.

It turns out that this is what Fu Yehan regretted.

It turned out that when her father foresaw the crisis of the Ye family, he put aside his dignity and went to the Fu family to ask for a marriage alliance.

This type of commercial contract in the form of marriage is not uncommon.

Just like twenty years ago, in order to develop the Chu family, Chu Lingxuan's grandfather asked her grandfather for a marriage contract that represented a commitment.

"Because this matter didn't come to fruition, Mom and Dad never told you about it. But since God has given you the fate to be together, I think there are some things that shouldn't be hidden from you."

Su Peiyun drank the wine in the glass and poured herself another one.

"Mom knows that you haven't had a good time in the Chu Corporation in the past few years since you married Chu Lingxuan. You have been forbearing all this time. In addition to your feelings for Chu Lingxuan, another reason is that you hope that the Chu Corporation can help the Ye Corporation out of old friendship."

"You have never been in the business world, so you don't understand. Chu's can't save Ye's. Although Chu's and Ye's have different development focuses, they are essentially in the same industry."

"Fu's only need to rely on cooperation to save Ye's. Although Ye's is not as strong as before, it has always had a good reputation in the industry, so if the cooperation is good, it will be a win-win situation for both parties."

"But Chu's rescue of Ye's requires sacrifice, sacrificing the resources they have obtained to provide for Ye's. This kind of self-sacrificing help will never be a long-term solution."

"Not everyone has the generosity and broad-mindedness to support others like your grandfather. In other words, your grandfather doesn't have any great love for this world, but he has no other choice. Because we in the Ye family don't have anyone, we are destined not to go far on this road. In this case, why not help those who can go further and make it easier for them to go forward?"

"With this mentality, your grandfather also had a little selfish motive, which was that he wanted to pick out one of the colleagues he had helped who had a boy at home and give him special support. That was the road he paved for you."

"Your grandfather's plan was good, but there was one mistake. He chose the wrong person."

"Your father and I have been aware of this problem since six years ago. Chu Tiansheng is a narrow-minded and profit-seeking person. He even schemes against his own family, not to mention other people who are not related by blood."

"So we discussed it again and again and decided to try to get closer to the Fu family."

"We are not afraid that Ye's will go bankrupt. If Chu Tiansheng can have the same integrity as his father, then Ye's will go bankrupt. As long as they treat you well, we can accept anything."

"But it's obvious that their family is not a wise and reasonable person, including Chu Lingxuan. Your father and I actually didn't think highly of Chu Lingxuan. We didn't think he was a responsible man who was worthy of entrusting our lives to, so we went to Fu's without your knowledge."

"At that time, we thought that if Chairman Fu agreed to this marriage, then your father and I would be the bad guys and cancel the engagement, forcing you to prioritize Ye's business and agree to the marriage with Fu. Because in this way, Ye's can be completely revitalized. Even if you and Chairman Fu have no feelings for each other because of the ten-year age difference, at least you still have Ye's as a backing, and you won't be ignored in your husband's family like you did when you married into the Chu family, and you have to swallow your anger, and your father and I can't give you enough confidence to support you."

After Su Peiyun finished speaking, she glanced in the direction of Fu Yehan, and at the same time Fu Yehan also cast a glance her way.

Their eyes met, stayed for a second, and then separated naturally, as if they had tacitly understood each other's unspoken reservation in that brief instant.

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