Meng Jixue felt that she needed to find an opportunity to spend some time alone with Zhou Hanzhang.
But after thinking it over, she realized that although she had plenty of skill with words, actually taking action to seduce a man was surprisingly difficult for Meng Jixue.
In her previous life, although Zhou Zhishu had cheated on and betrayed her, she had never lowered herself or fawned over him during those twenty years. She had always been cold and aloof, treating everyone indifferently. Naturally, after they married, it was her husband who adored and catered to her.
Before marriage, given her family background, appearance, and talent, it had always been men pursuing her. She had never needed to rack her brains over any man.
Now that she suddenly had to do something like this, Meng Jixue was genuinely troubled. Especially after learning more about Zhou Hanzhang, she felt that his pride seemed even more extreme than her own.
While Meng Jixue was thinking about this…
Zhou Zhishu came sneaking over. “Jixue, let’s go watch a movie tonight.”
Seeing that Meng Jixue had been ignoring everyone else, Zhou Zhishu was overjoyed. The moment he found an opportunity, he shamelessly came over to invite her.
Meng Jixue had no interest in his shamelessness and said indifferently, “I don’t want to go. You can go by yourself.”
Zhou Zhishu didn’t mind. After all, Meng Jixue had always been this cold toward him, and he was already used to it.
Beautiful women were bound to have their own personalities.
Zhou Zhishu said excitedly, “Didn’t you always want to watch Waves of the Danube again? They’re showing it today. I just asked Uncle about it, and he can even get us two tickets.”
Uncle?
Meng Jixue frowned slightly.
How was Zhou Zhishu always finding ways to cause trouble?
She said coldly, “Zhou Zhishu, stop wasting your effort on me. Since it’s just the two of us, I don’t mind making things clear. Stay away from me. I won’t choose you.”
Meng Jixue truly couldn’t bring herself to be nice to Zhou Zhishu. She wanted nothing more than to tear his hypocritical face apart.
This time, the choice of whom to marry was in her own hands. She didn’t want to have too much contact with Zhou Zhishu. If he thought he still had a chance and kept pestering her, it might interfere with her own plans.
And he had even gone to ask Zhou Hanzhang for movie tickets. Wasn’t that just inviting misunderstandings? Anyone who didn’t know the situation might think she was interested in Zhou Zhishu.
Meng Jixue was determined to keep her distance from him and absolutely would not give him even the slightest encouragement.
Hearing Meng Jixue’s words, Zhou Zhishu was extremely surprised, and even somewhat hurt. “Jixue, did I do something wrong? Why don’t you want to choose me anymore? Can’t you tell how I feel about you? Before something happened to your family, none of my other brothers had a relationship with you as good as mine. Why do you hate me so much now?”
Zhou Zhishu couldn’t understand.
He had always liked Meng Jixue. In the past, he had thought he wasn’t good enough for her. But now that something had happened to the Meng family, who else could Meng Jixue choose if not him?
Could it be that she thought his other brothers were all better than him?
Thinking of this, Zhou Zhishu became anxious.
“Jixue, let me put it this way. Mingyuan doesn’t like you at all. If it weren’t for grandfather ordering him to, he would never even consider marrying you. As for Mingda and Qirui, there’s even less to say. Neither of them would make a good husband. And as for the others, none of them are as sincere toward you as I am. How could you have a good life after marrying one of them?”
Meng Jixue found it amusing. “That’s my own business. You came here to badmouth your brothers to me. Aren’t you afraid I’ll tell them?”
Zhou Zhishu immediately fell silent.
He felt that Meng Jixue wouldn’t actually tell them.
Feeling somewhat embarrassed, Zhou Zhishu could only say after a while, “Jixue, anyway, my feelings for you are genuine. No matter how you treat me, I’ll always feel the same way. Even if you hate me now, you still have to watch the movie, don’t you? It’s a movie you like, and these tickets are impossible to get now. If you miss this opportunity, there won’t be another one.”
Before Meng Jixue could reply, a commotion came from outside.
Before the person even appeared, a loud voice rang out, brisk and commanding. “Where’s Hanzhang? The moment I wasn’t here with Dad, you came home. You deliberately avoided me, didn’t you?”
Hearing that voice, Meng Jixue immediately knew that her eldest aunt had arrived.
She looked over and saw Zhong Youyi already striding toward Zhou Hanzhang.
“Didn’t we agree that you’d come with me today to meet someone? I even gave you the movie tickets. You can’t just stand someone up.”
Movie tickets?
Meng Jixue was puzzled.
Could they be the two tickets Zhou Zhishu had mentioned?
The thought had barely crossed her mind when Zhou Hanzhang calmly said, “I’m afraid I won’t be able to watch it today, Sister-in-law. Zhishu just asked me for the movie tickets. He said Jixue really likes this movie and wanted to take her to see it. I figured my matter wasn’t important, while Jixue’s marriage is an urgent matter, so I couldn’t bear to refuse him. Please tell the young woman that we’ll meet in the military district conference room next time.”
Seeing everyone turn their eyes toward him, Zhou Zhishu immediately became embarrassed.
He stammered, “I… I didn’t realize those were for Uncle’s blind date. I…”
Faced with Zhou Zhishu’s explanation, Zhou Hanzhang was surprisingly understanding. “It’s fine. You were only thinking of Jixue.”
That made it difficult for Zhong Youyi to say anything more.
She also liked Meng Jixue. The girl had always been lovable since childhood, and now that something had happened to her family, it was indeed important to take her feelings into consideration.
As an elder, Zhou Hanzhang giving up his movie tickets was perfectly reasonable. There was nothing she could criticize.
Zhong Youyi was also worried that Meng Jixue might be particularly sensitive right now. If she said anything else and caused a misunderstanding, that would be even worse.
Thinking this, Zhong Youyi could only say, “You should have told me, though. The young woman is waiting there right now. If you don’t tell me, how am I supposed to explain this to her?”
She sighed. “Forget it, forget it. I’ll go turn her down for you. Then…”
Before she could finish, Meng Jixue stood up and looked at Zhong Youyi. “Eldest Aunt, can you only get two movie tickets? If my affairs cause Uncle to miss an important marriage opportunity, I’d really feel terrible about it.”
After saying that, she turned to Zhou Hanzhang and gave him a faint smile. “Uncle, my matter isn’t that urgent either. Apart from Brother Zhishu, I still need to meet several other people before I can make a decision. Since you’ve already arranged to meet someone, if you break your promise because of me and damage your reputation, I’d feel terribly guilty.”
She wasn’t going to let Zhou Hanzhang use her as an excuse to refuse his blind date.
But this was also a good opportunity. Perhaps she could even find a chance to spend some time alone with him.
With that thought, before anyone could respond, Meng Jixue continued slowly, “How about this? If you can get two more movie tickets, we can all go together. At least we’ll have some company.”