Sweet Wife Arrives: Mr. CEO, Please Pamper Me-Chapter 867 - V704: Love Crosses Mountains and Rivers, Love Is a Lifelong Obsession [51]
Wait until daylight.
Qiu Mingyan started continuing the tasks and arrangements before he left, and Mai Manxiang followed closely, not leaving his side.
This... Mai Manxiang likes Qiu Mingyan, sticking so close, what’s she aiming for? Feng Chengyue could see clearly.
But Mai Manxiang kept bringing her tea and water, and kept calling her sister. What’s the meaning of this?
Qiu Mingyan paid no attention.
Another batch of medicines arrived, and Qiu Mingyan was checking the accounts, letting Feng Chengyue verify the medicines.
This was originally a very ordinary task, especially since they’re both medical professionals. In the past at the hospital, tasks like proofreading surgical reports were always done better by Feng Chengyue than Qiu Mingyan.
Feng Chengyue didn’t mind much.
She began checking with the supplier: "A box of aspirin, ten boxes of azithromycin, ten boxes of cefixime... Hey hey, sir, isn’t your brand of compound acetaminophen incorrect?"
Yet as she checked the medicines, she found Mai Manxiang’s eyes trembling more and more, eventually welling up with tears.
What’s going on?
Hey, hey, clearly she was provoked last time, she didn’t even confront Mai Manxiang about it, why is Mai Manxiang crying now? Did she bully her?
Feng Chengyue was utterly confused.
Given her relationship with Mai Manxiang, she honestly couldn’t be a saint to comfort her, it was too awkward.
Feng Chengyue slightly furrowed her brows, quietly looked at Mai Manxiang for a few moments, then turned her head as if she hadn’t seen anything, continuing on with her tasks.
This lack of recognition made Mai Manxiang’s tears truly fall.
By the time afternoon arrived, Feng Chengyue was completely bewildered.
Qiu Mingyan went to move the goods with the workers, climbing high and low to finish the last bit of painting work for the clinic before leaving.
In the end, he soiled a thin shirt jacket, which he tossed onto the chair back.
Feng Chengyue saw it and took it out to wash.
However, before she could find a basin and soap, Mai Manxiang rushed out, grabbing it repeatedly saying, "Sister Cheng Yue, let me, let me wash it."
This made Feng Chengyue open her hands, lightly cross her slender waist, completely bewildered.
She didn’t really stop her, since she didn’t know how to use the washboard-like stone trough on the clinic’s sink, so she stood aside watching Mai Manxiang wash it.
And yet somehow this seemed to lead to trouble...
Mai Manxiang seemed eager to show something in front of her, saying repeatedly, "Sister Cheng Yue, I can do it, I can wash it well."
While reddening her eyes, scrubbing furiously.
This left Feng Chengyue speechless, looking at Qiu Mingyan’s shirt, a thin linen style, more of a decorative outerwear that she had bought for him back in Rong City, he started wearing it these days, but it couldn’t withstand such rough washing, right?
And exactly as she thought—before she could speak, a forceful rub from Mai Manxiang was followed by the sound of a heavy "rip..."
In an instant, the two looked at each other.
Feng Chengyue uttered a speechless, "You..."
Mai Manxiang looked at the torn shirt, blinked her eyelashes, and tears "plopped" down...
...
Things reached this point, Feng Chengyue’s curiosity couldn’t be suppressed.
Back upstairs, before the afternoon meal.
She tugged the lapel of Qiu Mingyan’s shirt, pulling him into the bedroom, asking, "What’s really happening with her, what’s going on? Now, immediately, I need to know the reason!"
Seeing Feng Chengyue’s bewildered yet determined gaze, Qiu Mingyan knew he had to explain.
Plus, after a night of anger, he had adjusted his emotions adequately, paused for a moment, then candidly explained, "She wants to be my concubine, knelt last night asking me to marry all of you..."
Last night:
Faced with Mai Manxiang kneeling like that, Qiu Mingyan was genuinely speechless with shock.
Embarrassed, with a lowered voice, Qiu Mingyan exclaimed, "Ah Xiang! What are you doing!"
Tears streaming like raindrops, Mai Manxiang disregarded everything, "I just beg you to marry me, that’s enough, Brother Ming Yan, I beg you. I’ve lived for twenty-five years, haven’t stuck to anything except liking you, if you don’t marry me, I honestly don’t know how I’ll live..."
Mai Manxiang’s sobbing echoed even louder.
A rush of complex emotions swept over Qiu Mingyan, yes, everyone has the right to pursue love, and he’s not entirely against respecting others.
But kneeling to plead for love, such a self-degrading love, what’s the point? 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
Having studied away from home for years, Qiu Mingyan had cultivated character integrity worth safeguarding, so facing Feng Family’s Feng Jingguo’s disdain, his humble self-respect simply conveyed: "Just don’t trouble Yu Yu, all of this was my one-sided wish, but I haven’t wronged the Feng Family in any way." Then turned proudly to leave.
Everyone should have dignity and self-respect, their own backbone, right? This is Qiu Mingyan, born of humble origins, the principle he adhered to throughout life, and also the reason he liked Yu Yu, enchanted at the first sight of the goddess-like Yu Yu.
She was so chivalrous, upfront in asking a doctor who prescribed more medicine to troubled folks in the hospital: "Doctor Qin, why prescribe three boxes if one resolves the issue? Though excess consumption has no major side effects, can they afford it? Didn’t you see the old man paying medical bills with small change? This medicine is expensive, 265 per box, if this continues, I’ll notify the hospital leadership!"
A very subtle matter, privately spoken by Feng Chengyue to Doctor Qin on a deserted path, yet was the second time Qiu Mingyan passed by, captivated, the source of affection...
Yet Mai Manxiang’s behavior like this...
Qiu Mingyan felt at a loss, stood up, relit a cigarette, paced around the room.
Finally, he sat back down in frustration, said, "Ah Xiang, regardless of how you interpret this, how you beg me, impossible is impossible. Love belongs to two people, from legal requirements to emotional desires, we won’t tolerate a third party. I won’t agree, and Yu Yu won’t agree either..."
Momentarily, Mai Manxiang seemed to cling to something hopeful, said, "What if Sister Cheng Yue agrees? Moreover, why can’t I marry them all, ancestors always had multiple wives, besides, ten years ago, when the village was poor, several brothers sharing one wife was acceptable, since multiple men and one woman is acceptable, why not one man and multiple women? Having more people to serve you is beneficial, isn’t it? Besides, what’s the point of legal formalities? As long as we agree, hold a wedding, gain everyone’s acceptance, that should suffice, right?"
Qiu Mingyan deemed Mai Manxiang insane, especially with her sobbing, increasingly agitated tears, yet resolute, staring at him without yielding.
Qiu Mingyan: "You just persist on this? What if I disagree?"
"I’ll keep kneeling here, until you agree."
Suddenly, Qiu Mingyan was provoked, shouted, "Then if you refuse to give up, go experiment, see if Yu Yu would agree with you! Whether we can live together! Anyway, don’t blame me for harsh words today, if she doesn’t agree, you could kneel here until death, I won’t blink!" He flicked the cigarette, turned to leave upstairs.
At this moment, understanding the whole situation after Qiu Mingyan’s recount, Feng Chengyue was shocked, urgently cried, "That won’t do! I definitely won’t agree! If you had told me earlier she wanted to be your concubine, I would’ve immediately asked her to leave this morning!"
