Sweet Wife Arrives: Mr. CEO, Please Pamper Me-Chapter 875 - 708: Love Is a Thousand Mountains and Rivers; Love Is a Lifelong Obsession [55]_2
Accompanied by the honk of the driver beside her, the woman bid farewell.
Qiu Mingyan thanked her, smiling, and said: "Thank you, Sister-in-law Qiao."
Sister-in-law Qiao just smiled and got into the car.
The car drove away, leaving a trail of dust behind.
Only after it was out of sight did Qiu Mingyan get back on his motorcycle and ride towards the Chen Family Village...
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Living back in the Chen Family Village, this feeling was truly unsettling.
After all, departure was just within reach, but now he couldn’t leave. Due to Mai Manxiang’s response, Qiu Mingyan had to stay at the Mai Family.
But staying, Qiu Mingyan was not one to let Mai Manxiang dictate where he stayed.
He did not enter the Mai Family’s door.
Instead, he stayed at Mai Shihong’s house next door.
Thus, he neither went back to live with Feng Chengyue nor stayed at Mai Shilong’s place, as if he had compromised on this marriage. It was only for the convenience of checking on Mai Manxiang’s injuries that, even if temporarily, this matter was suppressed for two days.
Mai Manxiang’s actions were really self-destructive.
A suicide attempt, losing too much blood, and stubbornly refusing to go to the town for blood transfusion treatment, resulted in periodic anemic shock.
But Mai Manxiang was very pleased with Qiu Mingyan’s return.
Every time Qiu Mingyan came to treat her, when she looked at Qiu Mingyan’s face that hadn’t left, it was as if she saw all her hope and courage to survive.
"Brother Mingyan..."
She called out like this.
Qiu Mingyan’s heart, after waves of tearing pain, turned away and left without responding.
The once harmonious relationship between the two families had come to this.
It’s hard to say who’s right or wrong.
To say Qiu Mingyan was wrong, he indeed was; if he couldn’t marry her, he shouldn’t have agreed to those words years ago. He agreed, then backed out, and after receiving the Mai Family’s kindness, it seemed rather ungrateful.
However, to say Qiu Mingyan was right, he surely was; he was engaged in middle school. What did he know back then? In modern times, who would take a middle school pledge seriously? Moreover, before Mai Manxiang grew up, he had already realized the problem and backed out of the engagement, having fulfilled his responsibility. He had done everything he could, and indeed never gave Mai Manxiang hope; on the contrary, he had taken special care of the Mai Family all these years. Mai Manxiang’s one-sided love was fueled by her mother’s constant instigation. What’s he supposed to take responsibility for?
So, people in both families with a bit of social intelligence had already understood that this matter was too complicated to clarify, especially after Feng Chengjin stirred up trouble, now the whole village knew that what Qiu Mingyan had given over the years far exceeded what the village had once done for him.
Moreover, given how the Mai Family bullied Feng Chengyue, before Qiu Mingyan left, he even left them a health clinic, which really impacted the entire Mai Family. So, who owes whom a favor now? Sometimes things just cancel each other out, and it’s hard to say.
Qiu Mingyan also knew very well that at the heart of the matter was the engagement troubles, so he had nothing to haggle over; he just smoked and avoided discussing it.
However, while he had enough emotional intelligence and smarts to avoid discussions,
it didn’t mean others had enough emotional intelligence and smarts.
Especially women like Yang Hua, led by Mai Shihong’s wife, who noticed Qiu Mingyan’s capability, furtively softened their eyes with greedy intentions, trying to get close to Qiu Mingyan, saying, "I say, Qiu Mingyan, now look at this matter, what should you do?"
"What should I do?" Sitting in Mai Shihong’s yard, Qiu Mingyan didn’t want to go to the neighboring yard.
Yang Hua simply smiled and said, "You always owed the Mai Family a debt of gratitude, and now you owe Manxiang a life. Don’t say you saved her; this matter is also your fault, right? So, since she isn’t willing to marry anyone else except you, you should..."
For a moment, Qiu Mingyan genuinely felt a mix of helplessness and anger, "Auntie, if I took a fancy to someone in your village and insisted on marrying him, would you have to give him to me as well?"
Yang Hua was dumbfounded; completely molded by traditional education, she quickly frowned and shook her head, "Oh, my ears! What are you saying? Traditionally, men are the masters, the heads of the family, how could two men get married?"
Naturally, Qiu Mingyan knew the backwardness and conservatism of his hometown, which is why he used this example deliberately.
After hearing Yang Hua’s response, he replied grumpily, "So, not all feelings are about one person being willing and the other having to agree, right?"
Quickly realizing she had fallen into the trap, Yang Hua turned her eyes and said, "But our situation is different, you have a smaller debt of gratitude with my family, but you owe a lot to Shilong’s family! Shilong sold blood for you and fainted from anemia; are you really going to see his daughter bleed dry for another woman? What does their family owe you, after all? And, what are feelings? Are they more important than gratitude? Marriage is about partnership and living daily life; wouldn’t marrying a strong woman who can have children and do housework be good enough? Look at our village, every household’s marriages were arranged by matchmakers; who here married for love? Didn’t they all live through their whole lives? My marriage with your uncle was arranged by a matchmaker, and we lived quite well. Where does it say that love is needed for marriage? Don’t be absurd, okay?"
For a moment, Qiu Mingyan was dumbfounded and speechless, with four words lingering in his mind — chicken talking to a duck.
As if feeling that she hadn’t explained clearly enough, Yang Hua, paused for a moment, and said, "Moreover, even if you talk about feelings, Manxiang’s feelings for you can be considered true love, right? Where else in the world can you find a woman who loves you so devotedly and wholeheartedly? Qiu Mingyan, logically and emotionally, Ah Xiang is your best wife. I couldn’t stand that Feng Chengyue’s brother when he was here; what kind of person was he? Doesn’t he care about family matters? His family, from another province, still wants to meddle in our family village’s affairs? Don’t you think he, as the brother from the bride’s family, has been too provoking to your face? Aren’t you a person from our Chen Family Village? Her brother really meddled too much, and she doesn’t look like much either. You should just break up with that Feng Chengyue!"
