“You lack money?” Ren asked in a puzzled voice.
“Nope. I don’t lack money, but my mother just threatened to freeze or cut off the joint accounts that I’ve been using, so I was reminded that I also need more money, as they’ll probably stop sending some for a while if we continue to delay our marriage, even if they don’t freeze the joint accounts that I had been using. As for asking for money from you, I just remembered it. Even if I don’t lack money, having more money is always good; you certainly have more money than me anyway.”
He knew that Ren certainly had more money than him because even when they were still in high school, he had already seen Ren using trading accounts and investment accounts that his parents had certainly authorized for him.
As for him, he didn’t care about it and only started putting some money into trading a few months ago.
“It’s already been a year since your 18th birthday, and you haven’t even made your own accounts yet? You can do it all online in a few minutes. How lazy can you be?” Ren said, flabbergasted.
“I wasn’t being lazy. It just wasn’t necessary since my parents weren’t even using those joint cards; they’re just putting some money on those cards, and we were using other cards,” Eli said in defense.
“I know. As for their shopping money, you can just send the total amount to me. If they need it again to stop Aunt Leia from coming, just tell me and I’ll reimburse the full amount.”
“Wow, you’re generous! Your future partner is certainly lucky! I’ll send it to you later, as I still need to open my new account.”
“If we can’t dissuade our parents, then you’ll probably be my future partner, so it seems that you’re somewhat lucky.”
“What the hell are you spouting? If we really end up marrying, then it just means that we’re that unlucky, as we even have to end up marrying each other.”
“By the way, have you thought of any way to dissuade them? I have been trying to tell them that we have no feelings for each other, but they won’t budge at all. They firmly believe the words of that darn fortuneteller from before.” Find the original chapter at g.com.
“We can’t do anything about that, as they had indeed tried a lot of ways because of our frequent accidents when we were younger, and the words of the fortuneteller seemed to be the one that worked because we didn’t have death-threatening accidents afterwards.”
“Tsk. It’s just a coincidence, and that fortuneteller was lucky.”
“Yes, it’s certainly just a coincidence, but our parents don’t believe it to be so. They’re still very afraid that something might happen to us.”
“I can’t even deal with my mom when she starts being sentimental, so I don’t want to meet her at all because I might not be able to refuse if she keeps pleading.”
“It’s hard to deal with them, so I don’t plan to go home either. Once I go, mom would certainly start acting up, and I can’t say no, as they really had it hard when we were younger,” Ren said and sighed.
He would always have disagreements with Ren because their personalities didn’t seem to match, and he did have a lot of complaints about Ren, but he and Ren were actually the same when it came to treating their families, especially their mothers.
Because of their sudden unluckiness when they were younger, he and Ren had seen their mothers nearly breaking down from watching them nearly die many times in just a short span of time.
They also knew that their parents actually had more nightmares than them because of their accidents, so they couldn’t refuse them and were very cooperative in letting them try a lot of bizarre things to solve their so-called severe misfortunes at those times, even getting engaged to each other when they didn’t even get along well. Get faster updates on novelping dot com.
So, both of them certainly won’t be able to refuse their mothers again if they had to face their worries and tears when they meet, so they could only keep avoiding them.
“So, are we just going to keep delaying our supposed marriage for more years so that they could realize that the words of that fortuneteller are false?”
“Yeah, for the time being, we can only keep delaying it. I can’t think of other ways to persuade them.”
“Hey! Why don’t you just look for someone and marry him or her immediately? Then our parents won’t be able to say anything,” Eli casually suggested.
“Are you seriously suggesting that? We’re still engaged, and even if we don’t have feelings for each other, I won’t cheat. If I really have to fall in love with someone else, I’ll only look for someone when we can dissolve our engagement. It wouldn’t be fair to the person that I’ll be with, and for you as well, even if you don’t care. I won’t impose my standards on you, so why don’t you try? Our parents really won’t be able to do anything if you act up, as they have been spoiling you since childhood.”
“What the heck! I also don’t want to be scum! Besides, I’m still young, and I don’t want to get married early.”
Just as Ren said, even though they didn’t have feelings for each other, they were still engaged, so he didn’t consider cheating at all.
Besides, he really thought that he was still too young to get married.
That’s also why he hadn’t suggested to just get a marriage certificate and divorce later, as he didn’t want to have any record of marriage.
Besides, their parents would certainly be watching and won’t allow them to just get married then divorce later, especially if some coincidence happened again and they had even less misfortune, as it might just further strengthen their trust and belief in the words of the fortuneteller.