C27 Dream-disillusion

I stood up and responded with the brightest and warmest smile I could muster.

"I will." "Even for him."

Ou Jia Rui nodded in satisfaction. "I still have some documents to deal with. Don't be in such a hurry to sleep. I'll get my aunt to take an ice pack and help you put ice on your face later."

I went upstairs obediently. I had been influenced by what Ocari had said tonight. At this moment, my heart was filled with gratitude towards him.

After the servant had carefully and gently covered my face with ice, he even kindly turned off the bedside lamp and closed the door. Although I had just been slapped by Ou Jingyi, my mood immediately improved due to a single word from her. With this feeling and warmth, I quickly fell asleep.

Because of the lump on my face and the photos taken by the media at the wedding shop, I could only rest at home the next day. I didn't know if it was because I was really busy preparing for the wedding or because I was afraid of Ou Jia Rui after the argument.

In my boredom, I was in a great hurry to make the progress, so I had to contact the flowers, gifts, and hotels at home. Since it was to prepare for the wedding, I used the Ou family's landline to make all the calls and left my cell phone at the head of my bed in my room.

The theme of the wedding was to use perfume and lilies as the main flowers. Other flowers could be decorated with lavender and star-filled flowers. I found it hard to imagine that the flamboyant Ou Jingyi would like this low-key style.

However, it was personally arranged by Ou Jia Rui after all. Even if she wasn't satisfied, it probably wouldn't be my fault. Surprisingly, Ou Jingyi didn't have any objections regarding this arrangement.

The supplier of the flowers was the largest chain in the country. Many of the customers they managed used their flowers, so they were very assured that the flowers they provided would always be as fresh as if they had just been picked.

To my surprise, I soon became a customer who enjoyed their services.

After a busy day of searching and contacting, O'Jia Rui had been working on the company's affairs until I had eaten dinner by myself and still hadn't come back. I walked wearily back to my room.

Casually picking up the bedside phone to look at the time, he was surprised by a message and a dozen missed calls.

After breaking up with Lin Qian, the boss also allowed me to do the business of doing not have to go to the company, almost no one would contact me.

Opening the message, he found that it was from Ouyang Jingyi:

"Zhou Xinyao, it's me, Ou Jingyi. The matter between us should have come to an end. Let's find a coffee shop tomorrow and have a nice chat."

Maybe it was because I hadn't replied for a long time, but Ou Jingyi couldn't help but call me a few more times. It was because she didn't hear me since my phone was left in my room.

Just as I was hesitating whether to reply to her message, a call came in from Ou Jingyi.

"Hello, Miss Ou." I greeted him politely.

"Zhou Xinyao, why didn't you pick up my phone? Were you planning on something else?" I felt very comfortable with her arrogant tone, but it didn't reach the point of flaring up.

I tried to explain patiently. "I'm sorry, it's like this, Miss Ou. I've been contacting the suppliers of your and Mr. Lin's wedding items today. I haven't checked my phone."

"Hmph, are you trying to show me that you can live on our phone in the Ou family? When I was living with Jia Rui, you were probably living in poverty with a bastard like Lin Qian. " Ou Jingyi was very sensitive, even though I didn't have any intention of showing off.

"I …" I really didn't know how to explain it, so I was stunned for a moment. Fortunately, Ou Jingyi didn't intend to listen to my explanation, so she directly hung up the phone, "Let's meet tomorrow at 3 PM, I'll send you the address. If you don't come, I'll come and find you at home."

I was a little hesitant, not sure if I should let Ou Jia Rui handle this matter, because when facing the willful little girl Ou Jingyi, there were many times when I was helpless. I guessed that this was just another show of warning or a demonstration, and I really didn't want to accompany her.

I had to deal with a lot of things at the place I was going to. By the time I saw Ou Jia Rui, I had already completely forgotten about Ou Jingyi's appointment with me.

When I received the message from Ou Jingyi, I had signed a contract with the flower supplier's boss. After paying the deposit, I was ready to take a taxi back to Ou Family.

It seemed like it was too late to contact Ochira, and it seemed like I loved to snitch on her.

I gritted my teeth and gave the address to the driver of the taxi. After all, I had to go through the difficult problem of Ou Jingyi. Because of the wedding preparations, I had plenty of opportunities to see her in the future.

Ou Jingyi set the location at a café in the shopping mall where Ou Jia Rui took me shopping. At first, I didn't understand why both Ou Jia Rui and Ou Jia Yi were so keen to come here.

Then, after a long time, O'Jia Rui casually told me that the entire department store belonged to him. Only at that time, I never realized that the man standing silently by my side was an outstanding and wealthy person.

When I arrived, Ou Jingyi was still not there. Fortunately, I was not in a hurry, so I ordered a cup of hot milk and waited slowly.

After nearly an hour, Ou Jingyi who carried a lot of shopping bags walked into the coffee shop at a leisurely pace.

When the warm and considerate waiter saw her, he was even more warm and considerate than when he was treating me. Ou Jingyi should be a regular customer here, so the waiter asked, "Miss Ou, what do you want to drink today? Is it still the same as before?"

No matter how mischievous a person was, they would not go against their own bodies. After a moment of slowing down, Ou Jingyi rejected the alcohol content of the drink, "No, just give me a cup of hot milk."

"Oh, you're quite punctual." Ou Jingyi sat down and took off her oversized sunglasses. Although her makeup skills were superb, the place where I slapped her the day before yesterday still had an unnatural flush.

Two pregnant women with scarred faces, each with a glass of hot milk, sitting across from each other in the café, made me want to laugh, but I tried to control myself.

"Miss Ou, is there anything you need from me today?" I tried to be humble. After all, it was a shame to argue with this young lady in public.

Ou Jingyi seemed like she wanted to continue a long conversation, "I wonder if Jia Rui told you about our relationship? Most people think we're siblings? " There was an easily discernible trace of flaunting in her tone.

I shook my head. "This is your family matter. Mr Ou has no obligation to explain it to me."

"I call Mrs. Ou my grandmother." Ou Jingyi seemed to be reminding me of something.

For a moment, I didn't realize what I had said. "Mr. Ou is your uncle, or a relative of your distant relative?"

In the next second, Ou Jingyi sent me an explosive piece of news: "In a legal sense, Jia Rui is my father."

"What?" "I should be about the same age as Miss Ou. You mean Mr. Ou became your father when he was a teenager?"

It was rare for Ou Jingyi to have such a warm tone towards me. She was even a bit pleased with herself after selling her secrets: "I'm not related to Jia Rui by blood, my so-called mother is Jia Rui's first love."

I knew that it would be morally untenable for me to pry into other people's secrets, but my curiosity drove me to continue listening to what Ou Jingyi had to say.

"Actually, to be exact, my mother wasn't Jia Rui's first love. After all, the two of them didn't have any relationship. He just had a secret crush on my mother, who was older than her by a few years. "At the time, the Ou Family wasn't as powerful as they are now, so that blind woman didn't like Jia Rui." I was surprised that Ou Jingyi called her mother that.

"And you are?"

Everyone had their own secrets, and the secrets of Ou Jingyi were as difficult to reveal as most people's secrets. She slowly said, "I don't even know who my father is, that woman gave birth to me not long after she married an old man, maybe I've stopped her, she didn't really want to raise me."

Even though I don't know who my father is, I believe that my mother must have loved me. Otherwise, she wouldn't have insisted on bringing me into this world under the same circumstances as my grandfather.

Ou Jingyi drank a mouthful of milk and continued, "So Jia Rui adopted me when I was two or three years old. Legally, he is my foster father, and now that I'm an adult, our relationship can be broken at any time."

I don't understand why she asked me to tell her these things.

"Aren't you curious why Jia Rui is so good to you?" Ou Jingyi's words made me, who had been staring at the ground with lowered eyes, look up.

"My mother was pregnant before marriage, and when she gave birth to me, she was at your age. There were even times when I felt that the two of you were very similar in appearance." What Ou Jingyi said, when I happened to meet a man who was willing to unconditionally treat me well and even repeatedly showed good feelings towards me, was the same as sentencing me to death.

At that time, I was too preoccupied with the sadness of being used as a substitute by Ou Jia Rui for my first love that I forgot a point that was easily overlooked: how Ou Jingyi, who wasn't even two years old yet, could remember her mother's looks.

Seeing how I was beaten up and feeling wronged, Ou Jingyi seemed to have received a great reward as she added, "The perfume I used at my wedding was my mother's favorite flower when I was young. This was what Jia Rui told me."

Even though my heart was about to break, I pretended to be calm. "Alright, I won't listen anymore. I don't know what meaning is there for Miss Ou to say these words to me. I still have things to do, so I won't accompany you any longer."

Looking at my retreating back, Ou Jingyi knew that she had achieved her goal, so she didn't pester me anymore.