Actually, women are the most sensitive creatures. Any man who truly treats her well will find a place in her heart, prompting her to treat him well, rely on him, and stay with him for life, giving birth to his children and committing all she has.

Yang Mi is no different, because she genuinely feels Yi Anguo's kindness towards her, his genuine care, and his responsible attitude.

That's why Yang Mi increasingly fell in love with Yi Anguo, unable to leave him.

However, in the past, Yang Mi dared not think much and feared thinking about the future because she had no confidence in her future with Yi Anguo.

She believed that there was no future between her and Yi Anguo, nor could there ever be one.

But now, Yi Anguo's words made her believe they do have a future, a very beautiful future.

How could she possibly be unwilling? She was absolutely willing.

With Yi Anguo's promise, Yang Mi's excitement and enthusiasm caught fire, and she proactively challenged Yi Anguo, transforming into a warrior, making Yi Anguo find it hard to lift his head.

The potential power of a woman is indeed terrifying, so never trigger a woman's potential power, and don't make her too happy and excited. Otherwise, the man might suffer later as the woman might give him more than he could handle.

Yang Mi spent a few days with Yi Anguo before leaving reluctantly, and Yi Anguo thought he shouldn't favor one over the others, striving to treat everyone fairly.

So he also called Liu Yifei to inform her about his plan, asking her to consider whether she wanted to implement it.

However, Liu Yifei pondered and said, "I certainly want to implement this plan, but if I were to get married and hold a wedding, it would be hard to keep it low-key; your identity would be exposed for sure."

"But it's possible to go abroad to register the marriage and hold the wedding, which shouldn't be a problem, as long as it's not a collective wedding; if my family knew, it wouldn't be good."

Yi Anguo pondered, agreeing that Liu Yifei's concerns were indeed valid, as her family was quite special, not a common family, and it would be hard to explain if exposed.

Before ending his trip to Beijing, Yi Anguo checked on several courtyard houses under his name, planning to have a few renovated for Yang Mi, Liu Yifei, and Zhao Liying each to reside in.

After all, they spend more time in Beijing, and since he plans to have a fake marriage with them and hold the banquet at their houses, not having a fixed residence in Beijing would be inconvenient and unreasonable.

Moreover, no matter how confidential the trip may be, a hotel is a public place, and meeting with them there is very inconvenient. If news leaks, those paparazzi would easily latch on.

Thus, staying in a hotel is certainly not as secure as staying at home, where it's safer. In private places, the appearance of strangers is easily noticeable.

Public places are always busy; how do you know which one is a paparazzo? Who might be secretly photographing you?

Since Yi Anguo plans to buy houses across the country, he wouldn't overlook Beijing's courtyard houses, so he had already bought many courtyard houses in Beijing.

Previously, there weren't plans to stay in courtyard houses in Beijing; it was purely for investment, waiting to appreciate in value for profit, hence no need for renovation earlier.

Now that Liu Yifei, Zhao Liying, and Yang Mi are to move in, they certainly cannot just move in as they are; renovations are necessary.

In the past, courtyard houses had no private bathrooms; residents used nearby public toilets and public baths for showering.

In the morning, everyone wanted to use the toilet, and it was common to see long queues at public toilets.

Plus, everyone emptied their chamber pots in the morning, causing quite a hassle.

Also, in winter, there was no centralized heating in courtyard houses. To use heating, one needed to heat their own bed, which was quite troublesome. For southerners, it was an unfamiliar lifestyle.

Before Yi Anguo reincarnated, he had been to the northeast and worked there for a while. Although rents were cheap, the houses were beautiful, with single gates and courtyards, having a plot of land over an acre for planting vegetables, better than south villas, and cooler in summer.

However, in winter, though the landlord had boilers and radiators installed, heating through burning was convenient, needing only to buy some coal for use.

But living alone, Yi Anguo was reluctant to use the heaters, finding it troublesome.

As a result, indoors, the faucets froze and couldn't flow, needing fire to defrost.

The water in the vat topped with a thick layer of ice needed breaking to collect water for brushing teeth in the morning, relying on an electric blanket for warmth during bedtime at night, leading to discomfort.

In winter, if needing to use the large toilet at night, it wasn't far to walk. There was a latrine in the courtyard, but after using it and wearing pants again, you'd find your backside frozen.

Yi Anguo frequently went to the bath centers downtown to soak and stay overnight before returning to work the next day.

Luckily, the bathhouses in the Northeast are still pretty cheap, overnight is just about 30 yuan, the rest hall is very warm, but a bit noisy, Northeast men love to snore while sleeping.

It was precisely because of this experience that Yi Anguo didn't want to live in a siheyuan in Beijing, winter is too inconvenient, too uncomfortable, too much suffering.

However, now it is possible to give it a big transformation, install heating at home, and build a bathroom, so in winter you can take a shower at home, and don't have to go out to use the toilet in the middle of the night, it's quite comfortable.

In short, as long as you have money, any problem can be solved, what used to be inconvenient can also be transformed to be very convenient.

In Singapore, Tan Xiaoxiao, Guo Sian often finds time to come to her, under the pretext of learning from her, and tells Tan Xiaoxiao's colleagues that she is his mentor.

The old colleagues who stayed with Tan Xiaoxiao have long been familiar with Guo Sian, after all, they used to work together in China, and everyone already knows that Guo Sian is the chairman's son.

And Guo Sian's attitude towards Tan Xiaoxiao makes everyone feel that the two are in a romantic relationship.

Though they have always clarified and explained to everyone that they are not in a romantic relationship, just a mentor-student relationship, nobody believes their explanation.

This makes Tan Xiaoxiao very embarrassed, she often vents her frustration on Guo Sian, telling him not to come to her in the future, but Guo Sian doesn't listen to her, leaving her with no way to handle him.

"Guo Sian, why have you come running over again? I've told you not to come looking for me, you're really annoying me."

Tan Xiaoxiao, facing Guo Sian who came looking for her yet again with a cheeky smile, said very irritatedly.

"You've seriously affected my work with this. If you continue to cling to me, are you not afraid that I'll report you to the chairman?"

Tan Xiaoxiao really has no choice, colleagues tease her for going after minors, joke that she is an old cow eating young grass, some even call her the future wife of the chairman, making Tan Xiaoxiao really embarrassed and flushed.

Actually, those people teasing Tan Xiaoxiao are just envious of her.

If any one of them had the opportunity, they'd be too happy, how could they possibly feel embarrassed?

"Xiaoxiao, why should you care about what others say or think about you? Do you really dislike me that much? Do you really not want to see me?" Guo Sian retorted.

"I don't want to! I really don't want to see you now; I really hate you. Can you just disappear from my sight, don't show up in front of me again, and don't come looking for me anymore?" Tan Xiaoxiao stated without hesitation.

"Why? Weren't we happy and doing well together in the past? How could you possibly hate me?" Guo Sian said, a bit unable to accept it.

He could see that Tan Xiaoxiao was really angry, not joking.

"In the past, I just viewed you as a colleague. The reason I was nice to you was because you were a new colleague, and I had the obligation to teach you, to be nice to you. At most, I treated you like a little brother." Tan Xiaoxiao said seriously.

"I've already said, I am much older than you. I don't like little brothers; I like mature men. Do you understand? Do you really get it?"

"Moreover, you are the chairman's son, it's fundamentally impossible between us, we're incompatible socially and economically. Even if you like me, it's useless; even if I agree, it's useless, the chairman won't agree, your mother definitely won't agree either."

"I don't want to end up completely devastated, so please don't bother me anymore. If you continue, then I can only resign to the chairman."

"Xiaoxiao, my dad isn't that kind of person; he certainly doesn't favor the rich and despise the poor, and my mom even more so." Guo Sian tried hard to explain.

"Haven't I told you about how my dad and mom met in the country?"

"Back then, my dad had nothing, he was an apprentice worker from a rural area, while my mom was a young lady from a wealthy family, but weren't they still in love?"

"If it weren't for that, how would I be here today?"

"Since they could do it back then, what era are we in now? We can certainly be together." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

"They absolutely would not oppose us being together; it's impossible to oppose us being together."

"If my dad were to oppose us being together, how could he keep you, let you oversee the Southeast Asian branch in Singapore."

"That's because my dad saw that I like you, and saw that you are nice to me, he wants to create chances for us, that's why he has arranged for you to stay, stay in Singapore."

"Although your work capability is a very important reason for choosing you to stay in Singapore and lead the Southeast Asian branch."

"But if my dad were to oppose us being together, he wouldn't have chosen to keep you in Singapore."