or high when she was preparing for the midterm exams and was under so much pressure that she came to a realization.
A classmate convinced her into reading a novel— it was a danmei novel.
Before that, she didn’t even know what a danmei novel was.

It just so happened that she came home that weekend, entered the code and entered the house, probably because the door was relatively quiet, the two people standing together intimately on the balcony didn’t notice her.
She was about to say hello, but happened to see Chen Yao put his arm around her father’s waist and smooch him on the cheek.
Jiang Yingying stood in the hallway, dumbfounded.

Then a conversation from the balcony faintly spread into the hallway.

“Mr Jiang, do you remember Su Fu from our bureau? He resigned a year ago but I heard that he went abroad to get a marriage license with that You Ning.”

“What are you trying to say?”

“Tsk, Mr.
Jiang, let’s be frank.
Do you want it or not? I can quit my job for you and work as a security guard or bodyguard or whatever at your company.
I can find another job if you don’t want me to be too close to you or feel you have no personal space.”

“……”

“I can tell what you’re thinking when I see you frown, Yingying, right? Yingying is so sensible, she’ll understand.
We’ve been apart for thirteen years, do you want to wait another thirteen years? She’s so smart, she’s seen you smile more and more in the past two years, and she’ll slowly guess.
We can’t hide it from her for the rest of her life…”

Jiang Yingying covered her frantic heart and went to her room without making any sound.
Chen Yao on the balcony glanced at Jiang Chi, who was seriously thinking, and from the corner of his eyes, glanced at the corner of the sky-blue dress when Jiang Yingying entered the room, and hooked a conspiratorial smile.

He might have reached the diamond stage when it came to scheming against a child.

As expected, Jiang Yingying, who had been set up, returned to her bedroom and began to think back to her father’s mood ever since Chen Yao moved in.
Then combined with Chen Yao’s words about being separated for thirteen years, she analyzed that the two of them might have been a couple at one time, and it was most likely because of her mother’s intervention that the two had to be separated.

Jiang Yingying was still young and ignorant about love, she wouldn’t want to see two people who are clearly in love being torn apart and forced to marry someone they don’t like.
Whenever she saw such a drama or novel, she would complain about it with her best friend for half a day.
Unexpectedly, the situation had actually happened in her family.

She remembered what her father had said, that he and her mother had no feelings for each other and that the divorce was because her mother had done something unforgivable.
She was almost out of junior high school, and she was not an ignorant little girl anymore.
She was not the fruit of her parents’ love, and her father had married her mother because of her.

There was also a classmate in their grade whose parents didn’t love each other and got married because they had him, only that his parents didn’t love him and beat him up.
His parents were later scolded by the police, and although he was not abused anymore, his parents still did not pay any attention to him and only gave him living expenses and paid tuition fees as stipulated by the law.

Compared to him, Jiang Yingying felt much luckier.
Her mother didn’t love her, but her father did.
Her father had already given up his happiness for her for over ten years, would he continue to live out his life in silence and loneliness for her? She didn’t want that.
Her father looked good when he smiled, and she loved to see him smile.

After figuring it out, Jiang Yingying planned to talk to her father the next day, she didn’t want the two adults to remain in hiding because of her.

Over dinner, the observant Jiang Chi saw the problem at a glance.
Early the next morning, Jiang Yingying saw Chen Yao kneeling on a keyboard in front of the cooking table as her father made breakfast.

Chen Yao kept begging for mercy, but Jiang Chi was unmoved, his face remained stern and indifferent.

Jiang Yingying laughed out loud at this scene.
Chen Yao noticed her presence and he hurriedly changed the target of his plea, saying, “Yingying, your Uncle Chen was wrong, I shouldn’t have set you up yesterday, but for the sake of Uncle, who has been on his knees all night and all morning, please help me beg for mercy.
Uncle promises that there will never be a next time!”

“A set-up?!” Jiang Yingying’s eyes widened with disbelief.
She had only just accepted her father’s relationship with Chen Yao, and it turned out that all the worry and agitation of the night was because Chen Yao had set her up?!

Jiang Yingying wanted to roll her eyes at Chen Yao just like Chen Xiaoxing.
This shameless bastard! All he knew was to lie to children! He even stole her father from her!

When Jiang Yingying was twenty years old, Jiang Chi met You Ning.

It was an encounter, he didn’t look for You Ning and the other party was not waiting for him.

It was Jiang Yingying’s twentieth birthday, and Jiang Chi was on holiday with his daughter and Chen Yao on an island, and it so happened that You Ning and Su Fu were also on the island.

You Ning’s reason for coming here was simple, the lobsters in the waters around here were very good and it just so happened that the island had been developed as a tourist island.
Since there was a place to rest and relax, You Ning would of course come to the island with Su Fu and have some fun.
If not, he would have taken a boat out and dove for lobsters, stopping for a short night’s rest on a deserted island before nightfall, or if he thought it would be fun, stay on the deserted island for a few days and let Su Fu accompany him for survival experience.

No matter what he did, Su Fu always indulged him and never said a word against it.
He would not say that it was dangerous, that he was not allowed to do this or that for safety reasons.
It doesn’t matter if there was danger, he’d stay with him and protect him.

He tolerated all of You Ning’s capriciousness.
Just as he had said to You Ning, he did everything to make him happy.

The sun on the island was so warm that no matter how fair a person was, they would get a tan after a day there.
But Jiang Chi looked at You Ning and saw that the years had not left any traces on his face, he still looked eighteen years old, and his glowing white skin and overly beautiful face caused the people around him to keep glancing at him.

Su Fu hugged You Ning’s waist calmly, blocking most of the admiring eyes and dissuading those with extra thoughts, “Is it hot? Why don’t we go and have some rest.”

Jiang Chi looked at them and said, “There’s an ice cream shop over there, would you like to join us?”

“Sure.” You Ning didn’t refuse.
He broke away from Su Fu’s arm, went behind him and patted him on the shoulder.
The other party bent his knees as he was usual, and You Ning jumped onto his back, putting all his weight on Su Fu.

Jiang Chi looked at the two of them and said to You Ning, “You seem to be enjoying yourself.”

You Ning gave him a look that said “of course”.

Jiang Yingying and Chen Yao were getting ice cream when they saw You Ning and Su Fu behind Jiang Chi, and both paused at the same time.

Jiang Yingying, who had successfully evolved into a combination of a goddess and a femme fatale, put away her image of a femme fatale and turned into a goddess in seconds, calling You Ning sweetly, “Brother Ning, it’s been a long time.”

“Hello there, little princess.” You Ning leaned on Su Fu’s back and smiled at her.

Jiang Yingying blushed with shyness and swooned, what kind of god was this brother Ning, and why were his looks still so good.

Compared to Jiang Yingying’s excitement at seeing You Ning again, Chen Yao was the exact opposite.
He felt that You Ning was just too strange, seven years had passed and he hadn’t changed at all.
Jiang Chi had confessed everything to him, but didn’t say anything about this person.

The ice cream shop was decorated as a wooden house, in addition to a bar, there were also seats inside.
You Ning and Jiang Chi sat alone, and Chen Yao hooked his arm over Su Fu’s shoulders, asking where they had their wedding and what wedding anniversary gift he gave You Ning every year, very much in the manner of an open-minded man seeking advice, without any semblance of the gloom and doom from disliking his boss back then.

When Chen Yao had finished blathering, Su Fu glanced at him lightly and said, “So have you received your marriage license yet? Or are you about to?”

Chen Yao covered his heart with a pained expression of being pierced through.

It sounded like his former boss was asking: Why are making anniversary gift strategies if you’re not yet married?

If it was any other time, Jiang Yingying would have laughed at Chen Yao’s expression, but she glanced at her father who was talking to You Ning inside and wondered, ‘Why?’ She already knew about his relationship with Chen Yao for a long time, and Chen Yao had been living in their house for years, she could see that they were in love, so why haven’t they gotten married yet?

“Are you not getting married because you’re afraid it’ll leave a record after I erase their memories?” You Ning scooped up the ice cream, glanced at Jiang Chi’s expression and laughed, “I wouldn’t leave such a flaw if I were to erase their memories.”

Jiang Chi was silent, as if he didn’t know how to answer.
Perhaps marriage was more than a ceremony in his eyes, it was a promise, a promise to stay together for this life and never betray each other.

“What? Are you ready to be eaten?” You Ning ate his spoonful of ice cream in one bite, but his eyes were on Jiang Chi.

Jiang Chi wasn’t afraid, but he was really not ready to let go.
Once you have had it, once you have enjoyed it, you will never let go of it, and you will even become greedy and want more.

Jiang Chi closed his eyes and clenched his hand under the table into a fist, “I’m ready.”

You Ning withdrew his gaze on Jiang Chi and did not speak, but ate all the ice cream.

He put down his spoon and said, “I promised to give you a gift.
What do you think about giving you sixty years? Is that enough of a surprise?”

Jiang Chi’s eyes snapped open and his hand under the table trembled slightly.

“What, don’t you believe me?” You Ning sighed hopelessly, “I said I’m different from the impression you humans have of the old demons, I don’t like tricking humans for a little pleasure.”

“You ……” Jiang Chi said one word, then he couldn’t continue, he didn’t know what to say.

You Ning stopped him, “Saying thank you is unnecessary, and I naturally have my reasons as to why I did it.
But you don’t have to worry, I won’t take payment from you or from those around you.
After all, the new version of the deal with the devil’s is completely open and transparent, and petty tricks aren’t allowed.
Remember to give a good review when the time comes!”

“People often say that you only live once.
It is also true that human memories can only be preserved for one life.
Most of those who are reborn have paid the same price as you.
But for us, a human lifetime is a pitifully short time, just a few decades.…”

You Ning’s last sentence was in a whisper, as if he was saying it to Jiang Chi, and also to himself.

Over there, Su Fu seemed to feel something and looked towards You Ning, just in time to collide eyes with him.
You Ning glanced away in irritation, thinking to himself, ‘I just haven’t had enough of this human’s cooking yet, who made him a Level 10 cook no matter what the dish is?’

The two sides separated after eating the ice cream.

You Ning, who was following Su Fu to catch a big lobster, heard Jiang Chi’s voice as he walked away.

“Let’s get married when we go back.”

“Yeah, okay, I’m all …… what did you just say?”

“That’s enough, my dad wants to get married! How could my dad like someone like this …… ah, whatever, I’ll go first, you guys take your time.”

“Mr.
Jiang, can you say it again? It was too windy just now and I didn’t hear you.”

“Okay, I’ll say it again.
Are you willing to marry me?”

“Yeah, okay, I’ll do whatever you want.
Hahaha— damn, finally! I’ve been waiting! Mr Jiang, let’s have a son when we get back tonight, and try to get pregnant with twins.”

“…… What kind of nonsense have you been reading again?”

“Amateur novels as a pastime, I’m quitting today! I swear!”

……

The sea breeze was slightly salty, bringing a summer romance with a belated promise of companionship.

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