Girl, There's Something Wrong With You - Chapter 40

Xie Qiudu, from his appearance, aside from a slightly pale and weak complexion, still looked like a pretty young man.

However, after Wang Xinzhi invited him to sit down and waited for just a moment, his eyes started darting around restlessly, clearly showing he had a frivolous nature.

“Brother Jinghe,” he said with a sly smile, “I sneaked out here without my father knowing because I wanted to see Wanrou. Could you introduce us? I just want to take one look, just one.”

Wang Xinzhi felt displeased upon hearing this. Asking for an introduction is one thing, but just to look at her? Is he asking me to help him peek at my sister? Is he out of his mind?

“Qiudu,” he replied, forcing a smile, “this is quite inappropriate.”

Xie Qiudu hurriedly pretended to apologize, showing he was about to leave.

Wang Xinzhi, inwardly sneering, acted as if he didn’t understand, and also got up, pretending to see him off.

Upstairs, in her room, Wang Wanrou, having changed her clothes, handed a handwritten script to Cheng Jinyang:

“Read this through once, remember the key points, and when we go out to meet Xie Qiudu, improvise based on this script. Once he gets angry and starts a conflict with you, teach him a lesson and let him go back crying to his father. That way, this marriage proposal will fall through.”

“This…” Cheng Jinyang quickly scanned through the script, feeling troubled, “Isn’t this a bit too much?”

The lines Wang Wanrou wrote were those of an extremely arrogant villain. If he read them out loud word for word, it would probably provoke Xie Qiudu to declare something like, “Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, don’t bully the young and poor.”

Wait, hold on!

He comes from a fourth-grade family, does he need to play a three-year bet with me? I hope he doesn’t get so angry that he directly mobilizes his family to crush me!

Let me tell you, my kilometer-tall Iron Giant isn’t just a model!

“What’s wrong with it?” Wang Wanrou replied impatiently, “You have the Steel God Soldier, why are you afraid of a minor Xie family member?”

“I just think it’s unnecessary,” Cheng Jinyang patiently reasoned, “You see, before coming to propose, he didn’t know you already had someone in mind, right? If we can communicate properly and make him give up, why make enemies?”

“I have someone in mind?” Wang Wanrou raised her eyebrows, “How come I don’t know? Who is it? A living person?”

“Wait, isn’t it me?” Cheng Jinyang was shocked.

“Go to hell!” Wang Wanrou sneered, getting up and pushing open the door.

Cheng Jinyang had no choice but to follow her out of the bedroom, seeing Xie Lingjiang waiting by the door. The three of them walked down the stairs, with Wang Wanrou stopping midway, looking down at the two men still engaged in polite conversation in the living room.

Hearing the noise, Xie Qiudu looked up, his eyes immediately filled with infatuation and amazement, captivated entirely by her beauty. But then he noticed a man walking out behind her.

A man?

Why is there a man?!!

“Go ahead,” Wang Wanrou said quietly to Cheng Jinyang, tilting her head slightly.

“Ahem,” Cheng Jinyang coughed as he ran down the stairs.

It’s better to resolve grudges than to make them. Blind provocation isn’t wise. Let me try my way first.

“Hello,” he greeted with a smile, bowing, “I am Cheng Jinyang of the Shendu Cheng family.”

“Cheng Jinyang?” Xie Qiudu’s face turned extremely sour. After all, finding a strange man coming out of his fiancée’s room, who wouldn’t be upset?

Recalling that the Shendu Cheng family was a fifth-grade family, he disdainfully flicked his sleeve, not even bothering to introduce himself, and sneered:

“The Shendu Cheng family, a lowly and insignificant family, how did you manage to get into the Wang family’s estate?”

Cheng Jinyang: ?

“Ahem,” Wang Xinzhi quickly coughed to ease the tension, “Jinyang is my sister’s friend.”

“Friend?” Xie Qiudu’s sneer seemed to imply, “Your sister has poor taste in friends.”

Feeling angry, Cheng Jinyang thought, I wanted to talk nicely, but since you look down on me, I’ll switch to plan B.

Recalling Wang Wanrou’s script, he gradually got into character, putting on an arrogant and disdainful expression, and coldly said:

“I’m her boyfriend.”

“You and Wang Wanrou are dating?” Xie Qiudu reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, instantly jumping up.

“That’s right,” Cheng Jinyang replied with the same scornful sneer, “You claim to be her fiancé, but why don’t I know about it? Where’s the engagement? Show it to me!”

On the stairs, Wang Wanrou silently grasped the stair railing, her knuckles turning pale from the force.

According to the original script, Cheng Jinyang was supposed to refer to himself as her “fiancé” here. However, he had taken it upon himself to change it to “boyfriend” at the last minute.

But that’s fine. I had anticipated he would change the script, so I had already built in redundancy.

The so-called redundancy is like pretending to threaten to tear down the roof when you actually just want to open a window.

If the script originally said “boyfriend,” he would have changed it to “friend” here. Therefore, to make him say “boyfriend,” the script had to state an even deeper commitment, “fiancé.”

Just Cheng Jinyang, and he thinks he can escape my prediction? She sneered inwardly.

“Brother Jinghe, is this the family upbringing of your Taiyuan Wang clan?” Xie Qiudu turned around, anger almost bursting from his eyes. “A woman engaging with a strange man before marriage, what kind of family style is this?”

“Qiudu, mind your words!” Wang Xinzhi was also infuriated. “Accusing my sister of engaging with someone, what evidence do you have?”

“Ha, do you think I’m blind?” Xie Qiudu retorted angrily, pointing upstairs. “They just came out of the same room together!”

“Being in the same room counts as engaging?” Cheng Jinyang couldn’t help but interject.

“Then what else?” Xie Qiudu asked back, but suddenly froze.

In today’s society, it’s far from the time when a woman had to cut off her arm to prove her innocence just for having her arm touched. A man and woman alone in a room together wasn’t considered scandalous—it might raise some gossip in aristocratic circles, but it was merely about “damaged reputation.”

The main issue here wasn’t being in the same room!

Realizing this, Xie Qiudu forcibly suppressed his anger and sneered:

“Fine! Let me ask you, you claim to be Wanrou’s boyfriend, but have you received the approval of the Taiyuan Wang clan?”

“Did your parents need the approval of the Fufeng Xie clan to go to bed together?” Cheng Jinyang retorted.

“You!” Xie Qiudu’s face turned red with rage, and he shouted with a pointed finger, “Insulting my family, I am irreconcilable with you!”

“What do you want to do?” Cheng Jinyang stepped forward half a step, and saw the other party already blazing with anger, throwing a punch straight at his face.

However, after learning so many combat techniques from Teacher Li, he was no longer the inexperienced fighter he once was.

Without even using his powers, he sidestepped the punch, grabbed Xie Qiudu’s right wrist, turned his body, and locked his shoulder.

Over-the-shoulder throw!