Anyway, it's not like it's his first time running his mouth. Tang Rao had just about offended the guy already, he didn't mind offending him properly one more time.
"Shut the hell up!" The man really wanted to use the knife in his hand to stab Tang Rao's mouth into a bloody mess—let's see how he keeps talking when he doesn't even have a mouth left.
"Jing Yi, the attitude of this place is way too awful. Come on, let's go eat somewhere else. No need to stay here getting pissed off!"
The man tried to find himself a step down, thinking that once he found that step, he and Chen Jingyi could just walk down it and leave. But now, things clearly weren't going the way he'd imagined.
Because he accidentally noticed that Chen Jingyi hadn't cared at all about what was happening over on his side.
"Jing Yi, are you really going to stop caring about our relationship over some stranger?"
The man once again brought up the relationship between them.
Whether they were married yet or not, their relationship was very real. It was a match made by their parents and the matchmaker. The betrothal gifts had already been sent over. Other than the wedding ceremony itself, every step of the process had already been completed. Chen Jingyi couldn't deny that, could she?
His meaning was obvious: no matter how badly he and Chen Jingyi got along, their status as an engaged couple was solid. After all, they were supposed to spend a lifetime together in the future. If Chen Jingyi completely pissed off her fiancé over some stranger, the one who'd suffer in the end would be her.
"Gu Yi, the reason I agreed to come out to eat with you today is actually because there are some things I wanted to tell you face to face."
Chen Jingyi stopped tapping her chopsticks against the bottom of the bowl. She put them down, and looked at him with a seriousness he'd never seen before. The words coming out of her mouth were no longer soft cotton, but firm and resounding: "There's no feelings between us. You've known that for a long time. We're a match set up by our parents, but in my family everything depends on my choice. And my choice is that we're not suitable. All the betrothal gifts your family sent over are still here, untouched. Take them back. From now on we owe each other nothing, and there will be no relationship between us. We'll each live our own lives well, and not bother each other. That's it."
Wow, she was literally the perfect lover in Tang Rao's heart. "We'll each live our own lives well, and not bother each other"—what a badass line, straight to the soul!
If he'd learned this line earlier, he could've flexibly used it on Rao Linger. How classy would that have been, how reasonable?
Too bad Rao Linger was already gone. Even if Tang Rao learned it now, he could only save it for the next woman who liked him.
"The betrothal gifts are already given. You yourself said we were matched by our parents. The marriage was set by our families. You don't have the right to refuse, and I'm not going to agree to it. You'd better give up on that idea!"
Since Chen Jingyi was willing to say it so bluntly, Gu Yi didn't need to hold back anymore. He turned on her directly.
All that deliberate pretending from before was stripped away. Now that his true face was exposed in broad daylight, it was ugly to the extreme.
"So this is the real you, Gu Yi. Didn't think you'd only show your true face at a time like this. Hiding it for so long on purpose—aren't you tired?"
When Chen Jingyi smiled, the corners of her lips only lifted slightly. And he had to admit, the moment her lips curved up, Tang Rao suddenly had that feeling of a heart skipping at the start of a new romance.
"Hahahahaha, my true face? What true face? If I've become like this, it's all you people who forced me."
Gu Yi glanced at Tang Rao, then shifted his gaze back to Chen Jingyi.
"What's so bad about being a stupid woman and pretending not to know anything? Why did you have to turn into this, spell our relationship out so bluntly? Is this the result you wanted?"
Now that things had torn open this far, Gu Yi just said whatever came to mind, venting all the resentment in his heart.
"I just don't want to continue this relationship between us. I'm giving your things back, you can keep them. As for my parents, you don't need to worry. I'll give them an explanation."
It was precisely because she knew Chen Jingtian's temperament that Chen Jingyi dared to tell Gu Yi this so righteously.
Right now Chen Jingtian still didn't know that she'd already broken things off with Gu Yi. But if one day she told him honestly that they were going to split, Chen Jingyi believed her old man would be the first one to raise his hand in favor.
"No need to explain. I already asked your dad when I came. Your dad agreed to you not being with him. Your dad also said he doesn't care who you like, as long as you're happy. He'd rather give you a bit more time to choose properly. Since this one isn't suitable, then break it off quickly, in case you drag it out so long you really forget who you are."
Tang Rao was saying all this to Chen Jingyi straight from the heart. After all, living with someone whose values didn't match yours and who wasn't suitable—that kind of life scene was something you didn't even dare imagine. But living with Tang Rao would be different.
Tang Rao could tell her dozens, even hundreds of cold jokes a day, keep Chen Jingyi laughing for three days and nights without stopping.
Unlike living with Gu Yi—if there was one phrase that described their pairing perfectly, it would be "the beauty and the psycho."
And Tang Rao was the Savior, the great good guy who swooped in to rescue the beauty from the psycho's hands.
If Chen Jingyi's brain heated up one day and she suddenly wanted to marry Tang Rao, that fantasy would be sweet as honey.
Too bad Tang Rao hadn't even come out of his fantasy yet, when what greeted him was a bright, flying knife.
"You talk way too damn much!"
Gu Yi planned to take care of Tang Rao first, then properly deal with this little bitch Chen Jingyi.
He wanted this man and woman to see clearly what happened to people who dared offend Gu Yi.
The cold light reflecting off the knife yanked Tang Rao out of his daydream. With a chop of his hand, he smacked the flying knife straight down onto the floor.
The knife hit the ground with a crisp clang.
"Can't win in the open, so now you're trying something underhanded? You really are brain-dead."
Since Gu Yi had already made a move, someone like Tang Rao—who never let himself suffer a loss—wouldn't be himself if he didn't strike back.
"Gu Yi, you're even more scummy than I imagined!"
Chen Jingyi's words were sharp as a blade, stabbing into Gu Yi and teaming up with Tang Rao's counterattack.
One hit him in the flesh, the other in the soul. The double whammy left Gu Yi bleeding both inside and out.
"I'm scummy? Take a look at you pair of dogs in heat. This guy is someone you found, right? You're just breaking off the engagement with me, and you even found someone to put on an act with. Is this your old flame? The old flame you specifically brought here to piss me off?"
What the hell kind of talk was that, getting more and more disgusting. Old flame? Chen Jingyi didn't even know this guy; Gu Yi really had some imagination.
"Think whatever you want. Your stuff's been returned to you. If you keep pestering me, I won't be polite!"
Oh wow, does he think Tang Rao scares easy? "Won't be polite," huh. Go ahead then, show him exactly how impolite you can be.
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