Surprise! Love-brained Mr. Li has made his ex-girlfriend his girlfriend

Chapter 357: Talking about marriage, problems arise

Like Li Zhen, Lu Xingchen let others make a fuss and waited until they finished talking before they started chatting. A few minutes later, Li Wen and Li Shu said that they had started. Li Zhen turned the camera of his mobile phone over and let Lu Xingchen watch strings of fireworks rushing into the sky and exploding into flowers that brightened the night.

Li Zhen filmed the fireworks for a while, then turned the camera elsewhere and saw firecrackers being set off in other courtyards or on rooftops. The sky was full of colorful flowers, like colorful fountains falling from the sky.

Guangyue Zuncheng is in a no-burning zone. Lu Xingchen watched through the screen the grand spectacle of firecrackers bidding farewell to the old year and fireworks welcoming the new year.

Seven or eight minutes later, the sound of firecrackers and fireworks faded, and the video call screen turned back to Li Zhen's face. He had already entered the house from outside, and as he walked upstairs he said to her, "We'll just watch for a while, it's too noisy."

"Where's Auntie? Isn't she with you?"

"She was making dumplings while watching the Spring Festival Gala."

"Oh, wait a minute... Mom, your phone is ringing." Lu Xingchen called out to Xu Fanghua who was going to the kitchen to get some fruit. He glanced at her caller ID and deliberately said, "It's Teacher Xu!"

Xu Fanghua walked out quickly with the fruit in her hand, glared at the smiling Lu Xingchen, put the fruit plate on the coffee table, wiped her hands with a piece of paper, picked up the phone on the sofa, answered the call and walked towards her room.

"Xu Lai, Happy New Year."

Lu Xingchen watched her enter the room, close the door, and lean back on the sofa with a smile.

What Li Zhen saw just now was that she placed the phone casually, and the video captured her face from the bottom up. It is said that girls care more about their appearance in the camera, but Lu Xingchen really has no awareness in this regard.

This person is naturally beautiful. She looks beautiful no matter which angle she is photographed from. Of course, he also thinks that she is beautiful no matter from which angle he looks at her.

Lu Xingchen picked up the phone again and talked to Li Zhen in the video.

Li Zhen asked, "Auntie went to talk to Teacher Xu?"

"Yes, he hid in the room and wouldn't let me hear it."

Li Zhen smiled, "How are they doing?"

At this point, Lu Xingchen sighed: "Teacher Xu is interested, but my mother still doesn't think so. Teacher Xu doesn't want to give up, and my mother doesn't want to delay him. It's probably like this."

"How about...let my mother give me some advice? Sometimes analysis from people of the same age can be more effective."

Lu Xingchen thought for a moment, "If she was willing to tell your mother, your mother would have already persuaded her. She might really not want to, not want to fall in love, let alone get married."

Hearing this, Li Zhen leaned towards the head of the bed, looked at her in the camera and asked, "What do you think?"

"Me?" Lu Xingchen said as a matter of course, "I respect any choice she makes, and I think she's in a pretty good state now. She's picking up things she wanted to do that she didn't have the chance to do before, and has achieved good results. To be honest, I'm really happy for her. So if her career can make her happy, I don't think there's any need to persuade her to fall in love or get married. She's experienced all that, and she should know what she wants better than anyone else."

Li Zhen hummed in agreement, but then looked at her and said, "I mean you, what do you think?"

Lu Xingchen was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and understood what he wanted to ask.

Li Zhen smiled slightly, and finally asked what Li Shu and Li Wen had asked her just now: "Next year, can you legitimately bring your aunt to spend the New Year at my house?"

Lu Xingchen's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and then it kept beating rapidly. She was in a good relationship with Li Zhen now. As for getting married, if the families of both sides hadn't reminded her from time to time, she would not have thought about it carefully, because she had more important things to accomplish.

But what if Li Zhen asked her if she was willing to marry him?

Her answer...

Lu Xingchen couldn't help but puffed up his lips and exhaled, "You are proposing."

Li Zhen smiled when he heard this, then shook his head slightly, "It's just that I suddenly want to know, if I want to marry you, when will you agree to me?"

Because he knew in his heart that Lu Xingchen had always wanted to make a career to prove himself, and that he could still become strong even if he left the Lu family. He also wanted to give Lu Dingsheng a complete explanation for the Lu family's cultivation over the past twenty years.

She may not care about the Lu family's property, but how persistent she is in proving herself can be seen from her efforts in the past few years.

Therefore, he was sure that Lu Xingchen liked him, but he could not be sure that she would resolutely choose him between him and her career.

Lu Xingchen didn't know how to answer. Her eyes flickered slightly. She tried to ask in a joking tone: "What would you think if I said... I don't want to get married?"

How much Lu Dingsheng loved Xu Fanghua in the past, and how much Xu Fanghua loved Lu Wenli before that. Then, Xu Fanghua fell in love with Lu Dingsheng, and they lived a life as a family of three, which Lu Xingchen thought was a happy and perfect life. But in fact, Xu Fanghua lived with shackles for decades.

Then, before the shackles were removed, she entered the cage of the wedding banquet with Lu Wenli again, and all this was because of her, Lu Xingchen, because of the child she had always wanted but never had.

She used to think that Lu Dingsheng treated Xu Fanghua as a princess and the apple of his eye, and that their family would be happy like the ending of a fairy tale.

However, Lu Dingsheng’s current wife is Yang Wenqi, his daughter is Lu Xinyue, and of course there is another one… Lu Yisen…

He might still love her and always treat her as his daughter, but the fairy tale between him, Xu Fanghua and her had long been shattered.

Lu Xingchen never said anything and was even unwilling to admit it. However, when Li Zhen asked her about the deadline for marriage and she thought about this question seriously, she easily saw how happy Lu Xingchen was in the past, and how big a shadow that happiness left on her now.

At this moment, she suddenly understood why Xu Fanghua rejected love and marriage, because her shadow might be much bigger than her.

So, her question to Li Zhen about whether she wanted to get married was actually a reflection of her inner problems.

Li Zhen didn't say anything for a long time after listening to this. He felt that he shouldn't talk about this on New Year's Eve, because he more or less knew her hesitation.

But he asked and got this answer from Lu Xingchen. It would be a lie to say that he didn't feel uncomfortable. It was just that seeing that she didn't speak to him for a long time and seemed to not know how to respond, he couldn't help but smile and say it.

"Did I do something wrong?"

"No, you did a great job. It's me. I just... want Zhixing to grow up. Besides, I think I told you at the beginning that I want to establish my career first before considering other things."

Yes, she said.

So, is he in a hurry? After all, they have been together for less than a year. "I don't mean to rush you, it's just... I just want to live with you too much."

"Aren't we often together? We even work so close to each other."

"That's true, but... for example, tonight, I want to have a reunion dinner with you and spend the New Year's Eve together, but now we can only talk over the phone."

After he said this, Lu Xingchen's expression looked a little apologetic and she didn't know how to respond. Li Zhen felt a little regretful. In fact, this topic was brought up by Li Shu and the others, and he became greedy and wanted to get her answer.

When I asked, I didn't think about going into details, but as the conversation went on, it ended up like this.