Chapter 15 The Gilded Invitation
Not long after, a gilded wedding invitation reached Zhou Linchen's hands.
His fingers tightened on the card.
The groom's name wasn't Xu Zhendong at all.
It was Xu Yanbai.
The media had already exploded.
Reports of the marriage flooded everywhere.
Everyone was shocked that Xu Zhendong had a son.
Zhou Linchen looked stunned.
I could tell he had convinced himself I was only bluffing with the idea of marrying into the Xu family to scare him.
He never imagined I would actually marry someone.
And the person I was marrying had never been the old man he pictured.
Soon, Xu Yanbai's background was dug up completely.
He was Xu Zhendong's son with his first wife, and his only child.
After the divorce, he had followed his mother back to the countryside.
No one knew that when I was seven, with my dad busy at the company, I had been sent to my grandmother's place in the countryside.
There, Xu Yanbai and I spent three full years of our childhood together.
Later in high school, I met him again.
He was two grades above me.
We promised to attend the same university.
But in my senior year, my family fell apart.
My dad died saving Zhou Linchen.
The company went bankrupt and fell into debt.
Xu Yanbai was recommended by the school for overseas study.
The school abroad was world-famous, and medicine had always been his dream.
I didn't want to hold him back, so I broke up with him.
I met him again when he returned from abroad.
For those five years, I worked desperately.
I developed severe stomach problems.
When I went to the hospital, he turned out to be my attending doctor.
I learned he had stayed single all those years, waiting for me.
Just as Zhou Linchen changed the Marriage Lot for the sixth time.
I could finally cancel the engagement.
I was determined to end things with him.
So I accepted Xu Yanbai's proposal.
I never expected the kind, sunny Xu Yanbai to be Xu Zhendong's son.
So we put on this act.
We let it spread that I was marrying into the Xu family, but never said who.
It fooled Zhou Linchen completely.
My phone rang. It was Zhou Linchen.
His voice was full of barely suppressed panic.
"Li Xia, who exactly are you marrying?"
I held the phone, tone calm.
"Who I marry has nothing to do with you."
I hung up.
His voice was cut off completely.
The day before the wedding, I was trying on my veil in the bedroom.
Suddenly, commotion erupted downstairs.
Soon the maid knocked frantically.
"Miss, Mr. Zhou broke in!"