Quick Transmigration: The main focus is on speed.
Chapter 56 Liu Ruyan's Fiancé (Qi Yuan)
The original owner's family was one of the wealthiest in Y province. Her parents' marriage was an arranged marriage, and after giving birth to the original owner, they both had their tubes tied and went their separate ways.
Because the original owner's parents thought this marriage was good, they arranged a similar fiancée for him from a similar family, named Liu Ruyan.
Liu Ruyan was a delicate and fragile little flower, usually dressed in white. She appeared weak and easily manipulated, seemingly without any opinions of her own. After their meeting, Liu Ruyan had no objections to the original owner's fiancé, and the original owner didn't care either. What difference did it make who she married? Marrying an only child meant her future children would have an extra inheritance, so it wasn't a loss.
The original owner owned two companies, and her wish was to merge them into one before she died. She had no designs on Liu Ruyan's family's businesses. However, since she had what she had, her children should also have it; otherwise, she wouldn't have agreed to the marriage alliance.
Everything went smoothly after the engagement, and the wedding was just around the corner. Then, the original owner saw intimate photos of Liu Ruyan and Wang Batian. Pre-wedding infidelity was out of the question, and the original owner had no feelings for Liu Ruyan. She immediately took the photos and videos to Liu's family and broke off the engagement.
The Liu family didn't want to let go of such a capable and wealthy son-in-law as the original owner, but the evidence was conclusive, and the Liu family couldn't let the original owner wear such a green hat. In order not to affect the cooperative relationship between the two families, the Liu family also compensated the original owner for some losses.
Originally, she thought the matter was over, but Liu Ruyan felt that she had lost face by being jilted and cried in front of Wang Batian, which made Wang Batian feel sorry for her. He then used his useless cheat codes to cause the original owner to go bankrupt.
After the original owner went bankrupt, she sent out resumes everywhere and even ran into the friendly Liu Ruyan and Wang Batian. The two looked down on her and belittled her. The job she had just secured was also lost because of a single frown from Liu Ruyan.
Unable to find a decent job, the original owner couldn't stay idle, so he turned to looking for some manual labor. However, after only a few days, he ran into Wang Batian and Liu Ruyan again, and with another frown, the original owner lost his job once more.
Ultimately, the original owner died on his way to find a job, when he was run over by a truck.
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Sunlight streamed through the gap in the curtains. Qi Yuan opened her eyes and saw the curtains with a hole in them. Coincidentally, the sunlight shone through the hole onto Qi Yuan's eyelids.
"Does even the CEO's curtains have holes? Rich people are always so stingy," Qi Yuan muttered, then turned over and went back to sleep.
It's impossible to get up early, even if the curtain rod has a hole in it.
"Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong..." The phone rang, and Qi Yuan impatiently touched it. Coincidentally, the phone was answered instantly.
"Brother Qi, you've been cheated on!" A voice came from the other end of the phone, filled with anxiety and a hint of schadenfreude.
"Okay, I understand." Qi Yuan's calm response silenced the person on the other end of the phone, who remained silent for a long time.
"Is there anything else?" Qi Yuan's voice was indifferent, as if he wasn't the one being cuckolded.
"Brother Qi? I just said you've been cheated on, your head is so green you could run a horse on it, the green hat kind of green." The man didn't believe it and added a few more words.
"Hmm, you can ride a horse if you like." What a joke. She's just a fiancée from an arranged marriage. The original owner didn't have any feelings for her, let alone Qi Yuan, who just transmigrated here. If you want him to react, the Earth would have to be destroyed.
Huh? Earth destroyed? My thoughts of lamentation drifted away again.
"Brother Qi, don't joke around. Well, if there's nothing else, I'll hang up now." The call ended without waiting for Qi Yuan to speak. Qi Yuan didn't care; he was still wondering if combining the harem man's cheat abilities would directly cause this small world to disappear. Watching the world be destroyed wouldn't be bad, would it?
Heavenly Dao sensed Qi Yuan's thoughts and kept calling the system, promising a bunch of benefits before the system reluctantly agreed to dissuade Qi Yuan.
[If the world is destroyed, may you awaken a thousand years earlier.] A mechanical voice echoed in Qi Yuan's mind, emotionless and cold, merely a reminder.
Qi Yuan rolled her eyes and cleared the thought from her mind. Tsk, it's not good that Qi Yuan woke up so early. It's better to sleep a little longer.
As soon as the call ended, a group of people surrounded the man and looked at him.
"Ninth Brother, what did Brother Qi say? Did he get angry?"
"Yeah, Lao Jiu, what's with that expression? Did Brother Qi scold you? That's rare, Brother Qi can swear, how did he swear?"
The man called Lao Jiu was not old, looking to be in his early twenties. He had a head of blond hair and was staring blankly at his phone. He still didn't understand what Qi Yuan meant by those words. Was he suggesting that he go and sleep with Liu Ruyan too?
Thinking this way, Lao Jiu said it out loud.
"Brother Qi told me to go and try my luck with Liu Ruyan too..."
"Wow!" Instantly, a chorus of frogs could be heard.
"Splash~" Some clueless people knocked over the wine on the table, spilling it all over Lao Jiu. The coolness finally brought Lao Jiu back to his senses.
"Ninth Brother, I'm sorry, I, I am..."
"Alright, it's nothing, I'm leaving now." Old Nine waved his hand, not bothering with the red-haired guy, and got up to leave the private room, still thinking about Qi Yuan's words.
As soon as he got on the bus, Lao Jiu took out his phone and called his dad.
"Dad, you saw the news about Liu Ruyan from the Liu family, right? I just pretended to be drunk and told Qi Yuan the news, and guess what Qi Yuan said?"
"Qi Yuan actually wants me to try it too, Dad. What do you think Qi Yuan means by this? Is she planning to wear this green hat, or is she going to break off the engagement?"
Old Jiu's little mouth kept chattering away when suddenly a furious voice came from the other end of the phone, echoing throughout the car.
"Ninth Brother! Stop thinking such petty thoughts! I will never have a son down there! Don't even think about it!" The Ninth Brother's originally excited ahoge (cowlick) shrunk down, just like his current... mood.
"What if Uncle Qi doesn't mind?" Old Nine asked, unwilling to give up.
"I mind!" Old Nine wanted to say more, but the phone had already been hung up.
Qi Yuan was so engrossed in the idea of destroying the small world that he couldn't sleep. So he got up, tidied up, and headed straight for the Liu family.
It's quite a coincidence that today, Mr. Liu didn't go to the company, and Mrs. Liu didn't go out to find wealthy women for spa treatments; they were both at home.
"Xiao Qi is here? What a coincidence, Ru Yan isn't home..." Upon hearing that Qi Yuan had arrived, Liu's mother came out to greet the guest. Liu's father, feeling that he was Qi Yuan's future father-in-law, didn't come down and remained in his study, pretending to be attentive.
“Aunt Liu, I’m not here to see Miss Liu. Do you know anything about Miss Liu’s situation outside?” Qi Yuan said as she took out a stack of photos and handed them to Aunt Liu.
When Liu's mother heard Qi Yuan say this, her face immediately changed. When she flipped to the first photo, her face turned white and then red, then white again, and finally turned black.
"Well, Xiao Qi, don't be angry. We don't know what happened. Maybe these are all photoshopped? Yes, all photoshopped..." If there were a crack in the ground, Liu's mother would want to crawl into it. What kind of situation is this? If it were after marriage and having children, it would be one thing if they each did their own thing, but this was before marriage, and Liu Ruyan couldn't stand it anymore?
Also, look at the man hugging and kissing Liu Ruyan in the photos. He doesn't look like anyone better than Xiao Qi. Could it really be photoshopped? The more Liu's mother thought about it, the more convinced she was that the photos were photoshopped, and she unconsciously straightened her back a bit.
Seeing that Qi Yuan hadn't come upstairs to find him yet, Liu's father thought for a while, then dressed neatly and went downstairs.
"Little Qi is here." Father Liu looked down at Qi Yuan, as if expressing his dissatisfaction.
Qi Yuan smiled back and pointed to the photo in Liu's mother's hand, saying, "Uncle Liu, now that you're home, I'm sure you can make the decision regarding Miss Liu's marriage..."
Looking at Qi Yuan's smile, Liu's father felt a chill run down his spine. He looked at Liu's mother, who instinctively hid the photo behind her back.
"Oh, you're such a grown man, still joking around. Your marriage to Ruyan was arranged by both our families. If there are any problems, both families should sit down and discuss them, right?" Mr. Liu quickened his pace, walked to Mrs. Liu's side, took out a photo, and with just one glance, his heart sank.
“Xiao Qi, Ru Yan just made a mistake that all women in the world would make, you…” Liu’s mother still didn’t want to miss out on such a good son-in-law. Remembering what her mother-in-law had said not long after they got married, she blurted it out without thinking.
Before he could finish speaking, Mr. Liu's expression changed, and he tugged at Mrs. Liu, stopping her from saying anything more.
"My wife doesn't know how to speak properly, Xiao Qi, please don't take it to heart." After saying this to Qi Yuan with a smile on his face, he turned to look at Liu's mother, glared at her, and gestured for Liu's mother to go back to the house.
After Liu's mother left, Liu's father wanted to talk to Qi Yuan, but Qi Yuan stopped him, saying only one thing.
"Uncle, I'm really afraid that Miss Liu's baby won't be a child from the Qi family..." Just that one sentence was enough to shut Liu's father up.
After exchanging tokens, Qi Yuan did not ask for compensation from the Liu family, which threw Liu's father into a panic.
"Even if a deal falls through, we can still be on good terms. Xiao Qi, our two families still have a cooperative relationship. It wouldn't be worth it for such a small matter to cause a rift between us..."
"Well, too many people know, Uncle. I didn't want this either, but you said men are most afraid of... well..." He left the rest unsaid, leaving it to Liu's father's interpretation.
Qi Yuan left the Liu family with the token. No sooner had she stepped out of the Liu family's gate than Liu Ruyan returned. The two met at the gate. Liu Ruyan, who had been all smiles, turned pale and frowned the moment she saw Qi Yuan.
“You…” Liu Ruyan stepped forward, about to speak to Qi Yuan, but Qi Yuan acted as if he hadn’t seen Liu Ruyan, sidestepped her, and got into the car.
"How rude! He's nowhere near as good as Brother Batian!" Liu Ruyan stomped her foot, then thought of Wang Batian again, and a sweet feeling welled up in her heart.
"Dad, why did you call me back so urgently? I have things to do today..." Liu Ruyan pouted as she walked into the villa. She didn't see her mother, but instead saw her father with an angry face. Thinking of Qi Yuan she had just seen, Liu Ruyan subconsciously attributed her father's anger to Qi Yuan.
"Dad, did Qi Yuan upset you? I told you Qi Yuan isn't worth marrying. What if he..." Liu Ruyan was thinking about how to bring up the matter of annulling the engagement. Now that such a good opportunity was right in front of her, how could she not seize it? She took a few steps forward to soothe her father.
"Slap!" Father Liu slapped Liu Ruyan across the face, leaving a handprint on her fair skin.
Liu Ruyan covered her face, tears welling in her eyes, and looked at her father. Having never been beaten before, Liu Ruyan didn't know why her father was hitting her.
Liu's mother had been watching the commotion downstairs from upstairs. When she heard Liu Ruyan's voice, she rushed downstairs, but still couldn't stop Liu Ruyan from being beaten.
"Honey, maybe that photo is photoshopped?"
"P-ed? Do you think Qi Yuan would use a photoshopped picture to annul the engagement? Are you questioning my judgment of character, or the Qi family's power? If the Qi family wanted to annul the engagement, they wouldn't need to pull all this stunt!"
Since Liu Ruyan was born, the Liu family has been declining year by year. Fortunately, they had some connection with the Qi family before, and a few years ago they tried every means to get engaged to the Qi family, which prevented the Liu family from continuing to decline.
Father Liu saw all this clearly. The Qi family didn't really care whether the Liu family was just an empty shell or not. Even if it was an empty shell, it still had a lot of substance.
Only Liu's mother and Liu Ruyan thought highly of themselves, believing that the Qi family was clinging to the Liu family in an attempt to exploit them for their own benefit.
While the Liu family was still arguing, Qi Yuan had already returned to the company and notified all departments to terminate all cooperation related to the Liu family. Ongoing projects were also halted, and as for the losses, he would seek compensation from the Liu family.
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