Refusing to marry into a wealthy family, the richest man's uncle coaxed me into marriage

Si Tong and Ji Niannian shopped until after five in the afternoon. Si Tong spent more than a thousand yuan to buy a small gold lock, and Ji Niannian bought a pair of small gold bracelets.

It was a very perfunctory gift. Ji Niannian bought a bunch of clothes, bags, jewelry and cosmetics. It was obvious that the purpose of shopping was not to buy gifts for the baby.

The two were about to go directly to the old house, but Si Tong received a call from Yu Hanshen first.

"Are you done shopping?" The man's voice was low and gentle.

"Yeah." Si Tong responded softly, "Nian Nian and I will go to the old house first, you can go directly there when you are done."

"I'll be there in twenty minutes, wait for me." Yu Hanshen gave the order directly.

Si Tong was silent for a moment, "Actually, you don't need to answer it..."

"Don't you want to see me earlier?" Yu Hanshen's tone was very relaxed, and he sounded like he was in a good mood. "But I want to see Miss Si earlier. I miss you so much after not seeing you for a day."

The flirting that a mature man can do effortlessly is always more attractive.

Si Tong blushed at what he said, hung up the phone, and told Ji Niannian that Yu Hanshen would pick her up later. Ji Niannian had no objection and took Si Tong into a cafe outside the mall.

In the coffee shop, Si Tong was stunned when he saw Lu Jiaojiao standing next to an older man.

Lu Jiaojiao also saw her, a hint of embarrassment flashed across her face. She said something to the man next to her, then walked towards Si Tong.

"Tongtong, what a coincidence." Lu Jiaojiao greeted with a smile.

"Ms. Lu." Si Tong smiled.

Lu Jiaojiao glanced at Ji Niannian who was standing beside Si Tong, "Do you mind if I take a step back and talk?"

Si Tong didn't mind.

The two stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass wall outside the cafe. Lu Jiaojiao looked at Si Tong and said, "Congratulations on your successful appeal."

"Thank you." Si Tong replied.

After a moment of silence, Lu Jiaojiao took a deep breath and said, "My mother was sentenced to life imprisonment. Did you know that?"

"Originally, she was reported for using her position to commit illegal acts, but someone took the blame and she was only expelled from the party and removed from office. More than two months ago, the person who took the blame for her changed his statement and produced more evidence to prove that my mother colluded with judicial brokers."

"She will have to wait for death in prison for the rest of her life, and all her hard-earned property will be confiscated. Do you think this is retribution for her bullying you?"

Si Tong was a little surprised. She really didn't know that so many things had happened to Jiao Lianfang later.

"Why are you telling me this?"

Lu Jiaojiao didn't reply, but continued: "It's not just my mother. All the people who handled your case back then were reported and brought down."

"Also, the prison where you were imprisoned, No. 4, everyone from the warden to the prisoner who led the bullying of you, was bullied."

"You should remember Huang Mei, right? She was my mom's classmate. After being bullied, she came to my house to ask my mom for help. When she learned that my mom was arrested, she was so angry that she started swearing at me. She said that because she helped my mom, the leadership of the entire Fourth Prison was reshuffled, and everyone related to you was in trouble."

"Now Huang Mei's family has no jobs and no income, and they are living a miserable life."

Si Tong remembered Huang Mei, who was the warden of the women's ward in the Fourth Prison. The last short segment of the video that was exposed during the live broadcast of the establishment ceremony of Zhimo Institute was shot by Huang Mei.

During those four years, the person Si Tong feared the most was Huang Mei.

Every time Huang Mei appeared, it meant that she would be put in solitary confinement.

"I tell you this because I hope you'll be more careful." Lu Jiaojiao said, "I don't know who is helping you vent your anger behind your back, but since so many people were involved at once, they must not be good people."

The more resourceful a person is, the more ruthless he will be when he turns against others.

Helping Si Tong vent his anger now may be out of good intentions, but there is no guarantee that the person behind it will always maintain this good intention.

Si Tong understood what Lu Jiaojiao meant and smiled: "I will, thank you."

Turning around, she saw the man who had stood with Lu Jiaojiao in the coffee shop before. He was not tall and not good-looking, but he was well-dressed and looked somewhat wealthy.

"He is..." Si Tong doesn't like to meddle in other people's affairs, but Lu Jiaojiao is the girl his brother likes.

Lu Jiaojiao wiped away her tears and looked at the man sitting in the cafe quietly waiting for her, her eyes a little empty: "He is a good man. After my mother's property was confiscated, I couldn't afford my father's medical expenses. He can help me."

Si Tong could tell that she was trying to make compromises for her father, so he thought for a moment and said, "I have some money that I can lend to you..."

Lu Jiaojiao raised her right hand, with a ring on her ring finger: "No, I'm getting married to him."

"Ms. Lu..." Si Tong frowned slightly.

"It doesn't matter. Without Brother Chengxi, it doesn't matter who I marry. Besides, not all marriages need love as the basis. It's also good to be respectful to each other. He will be a good husband, and I will work hard to be a good wife."

Yu Hanshen said it would take twenty minutes to arrive, and it was exactly twenty minutes. Si Tong got on the car, still immersed in the shock of Lu Jiaojiao's words.

She sat in the passenger seat, tilted her head, and looked directly at Yu Hanshen's deep eyebrows, which showed no emotion.

Yu Hanshen quickly noticed the girl's passionate gaze, stretched out his long arm to hold her hand, and curled his thin lips slightly, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Si Tong smiled: "I want to see it, isn't it okay?"

Yu Hanshen squeezed her hand and said lovingly, "Okay."

Ji Niannian rolled her eyes silently in the back seat and looked down at her phone.

After a while, he sighed and said, "I have found teammates, one from the computer department and one from the liberal arts department. They are both freshmen, and I don't know if they can do it."

"Those seniors who have experience in competitions are really hard to hook up with, especially the talented Chen. I applied to add him as a friend, but he ignored me."

Freshmen want to take advantage of the seniors’ experience, but the seniors don’t want to waste their experience and choose to team up with experienced masters of the same level.

When Si Tong heard the words 'Chen the Great Talent', she suddenly remembered that she had not yet accepted Chen Jingxian's friend request.

"Tongtong, have you found teammates?" Ji Niannian asked, "Almost everyone in the group has formed a team, except for Chen Dacai's team, which is still missing one person."

"Why don't you add him on WeChat and recommend yourself? If you can team up with him, you can at least get into the top five. Small shrimps like us can just run for the show, but it's also good to get some competition experience. At worst, we can fight again next year."

As they were talking, the car drove into the private road of the Yu family's old house. Si Tong took out his mobile phone and accepted Chen Jingxian's friend request.

The three of them entered the living room. Qin Sihan was walking in the living room in loose home clothes. Old Madam Yu was holding Chenchen with a smile on her face, as if she wanted to take her heart out.

"Tongtong, Nian Nian, you are here, come and see the baby, isn't he cute?"

Ji Niannian leaned closer. The baby was only a dozen days old. He had a little wrinkles on his face and small eyes. It was really hard to see how cute he was.

She smiled awkwardly and said against her will, "It's cute."

She handed over the gift and red envelope together with Si Tong, then pulled Si Tong to sit aside and chat, while Yu Hanshen went upstairs to the study.

After sitting down for a while, Ji Niannian went to the bathroom, holding her stomach.

Chenchen soiled his diaper, and Mrs. Yu carried him to the baby room to clean it up, coaxing and laughing.

Si Tong lowered his head and asked Chen Jingxian on WeChat: Why did you choose me as your teammate? I have no experience.

Due to past experiences, Si Tong was happy to be chosen as a teammate by a talented man, but he still had a basic sense of vigilance.

She knew that when many people formed a team, they would prefer to work with experienced people. Although she was the top student in the School of Mathematics, she had no experience in participating in competitions.

Soon, the reply came: The more experience you have in participating in competitions, the more fixed your thinking patterns become. I need some new ideas.

This reason is very sufficient.

"Tongtong." Qin Sihan's voice brought Si Tong back to his senses.

I looked up and saw Qin Sihan’s smiling face.

Qin Sihan stood in front of Si Tong. Although she had just given birth to a child a dozen days ago, she had a special nutritionist and postpartum care worker following her. She looked in good mental and physical condition.

She looked down at Si Tong, her eyes full of pride and ridicule.

"We liked the same man before, and now we've become a family. Do you feel that we are really destined to be together?"

"But this fate is all thanks to your brother who died early. If he hadn't died, you wouldn't have taken your anger out on Zhiheng and broken up with him."