I'm Secretly Married To A Big Shot

Chapter 41-42

Chapter 41: Mianmian Was Eating Here Too?

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Qiao Anxin exited the washroom just as Qiao Mianmian and Mo Yesi took their leave.

She caught a brief glance of their back views as Qiao Mianmian and Mo Yesi turned a corner.

Although it was only a fleeting glance, she could be sure that the man with his arm around Qiao Mianmian was definitely not some fat, short, old fogey.

He was a tall man with a good physique, and his dressing was presentable too.

She didn’t manage to see how he looked, but his back view was enough to get Qiao Anxin’s heart racing.

She was so shocked she stood rooted to the ground.

Then she heard someone beside her. “Anxin, are you alright?”

Qiao Anxin snapped back to her senses and blinked the shock away. She focused on Su Ze’s handsome face. “Brother Ah Ze, I saw… Sister.”

“Mianmian?”

Su Ze’s expression changed. “You mean, Mianmian was eating here too?”

Su Ze knew very well what sort of costs one would incur when dining here.

He also knew that Qiao Mianmian was financially tight and wouldn’t be able to afford a meal at such a place.

The fact that she appeared here meant only one possibility.

Someone brought her here.

Qiao Anxin took in every slight change in Su Ze’s reaction. Her eyes glinted eerily before she furrowed her brows and continued, “Mm, I saw Sister with a man. They looked… really intimate.”

“Brother Ah Ze, Sister has only just broken up with you a while ago, she’s found another person so soon?”

Qiao Anxin’s words obviously had an underlying subtext.

As she guessed, Su Ze’s expression went awful upon hearing that.

He clenched his fists. “Are you sure you saw her?”

“I’m sure,” Qiao Anxin said with conviction. “I bumped into Sister in the washroom and even said hi to her. She’s still blamed me for all of it and refused to forgive me. Her hatred for me runs deep, and she even threatened me.”

At this point, Qiao Anxin bit her lip, as if feeling hurt.

“Threatened you? What did she threaten you with?”

Qiao Anxin feigned a pitiful look. “I wanted to offer her some job openings to ease her financial burden, but she rejected them. She wants us to stay out of her business. She even said that I love collecting rubbish and that I picked up the man she discarded.”

Su Ze was evidently upset. “She really said that?”

“Brother Ah Ze, why would I lie to you? Given Sister’s tone, it seems like she’s been planning to break up with you for a while now.”

“Brother Ah Ze…”

Qiao Anxin grabbed Su Ze’s arm. With an apprehensive look, she gently asked, “Could Sister have found someone powerful and outstanding? What if she’s using that man’s power to take revenge on us because she feels that we’ve betrayed her?”

Su Ze’s expression darkened even more as a cloud of fog veiled his face.

His eyes were burning with fury as if Qiao Mianmian had made him a cuckold.

Although he and Qiao Mianmian had already renounced their engagement, he still felt that she was his woman.

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Chapter 42: We Can Introduce Sister to Him

At the very least, he couldn’t accept that she’d found someone so soon after they broke up.

They’d spent so many years together, he surely had a place in her heart.

“Anxin, could you tell what the man beside Mianmian looked like?” Su Ze wanted to get to the bottom of this. He even considered going to look for Mianmian for clarification.

“No.” Qiao Anxin shook her head as she recalled the outstanding-looking man and lied. “But from his back view, I could see that he’s an older man. He was dressed pretty extravagantly, it was obvious he’s rich.”

Su Ze’s face stiffened.

“She’d rather be with an old man than come to me for help? Does she hate me this much?”

“Brother Ah Ze, you know what Sister is like.” Qiao Anxin happily painted her own narrative. “She’s always been full of pride, it’s practically impossible to get her to ask someone for help. Moreover, she hates us to the core, she wouldn’t come to us.”

“Even if you’ve the thought, she wouldn’t accept it.”

With that, Qiao Anxin let out a soft sigh as if she was full of concern. “I can’t bear to watch Sister underline herself this way. We need to think of how to stop her from sinking deeper.”

Su Ze frowned. “You just said she’d be unwilling to accept our help. What other ideas could we have?”

Qiao Anxin thought for a bit before lightly hooking her arm around Su Ze. “Brother Ah Ze, I remember there’s a high-post employee in the Su Firm who’s not married yet? We can introduce Sister to him.”

“You mean Manager Yang?” Su Ze furrowed his brows. “I don’t think he’s suitable. He’s already 40-odd years old, a full 20 years older than Mianmian.”

“He is indeed a little old for her, but older men are better at doting on women.” Qiao Anxin appeared to have Qiao Mianmian’s interests at heart. “If he’s older than her by 20-odd years, he’ll be able to love her the way he loves a daughter.

“Moreover, we’re closer to the people in your company. It’ll be better than some random strangers we can’t trust.

“Also, besides Manager Yang’s age, he’s good in all other aspects. His annual income is in the millions of yuan. With this amount, Sister can live a good life. No matter what, he’ll be a better choice than the man Sister is with now.”

Actually, Qiao Anxin had met that Manager Yang once.

Not only was he a little old, but he was also plump and balding, and only about 1.65m in height.

Besides his income, everything else about him was only average at best.

Su Ze recalled how Manager Yang looked and frowned even more. His lips were pursed tight.

“Brother Ah Ze…” Qiao Anxin tenderly said, “In terms of appearances, Manager Yang obviously isn’t good enough for Sister. But appearances are secondary, what matters is his personality. I think we should have them meet each other first.”

Su Ze kept quiet for a long while.

He also felt that Manager Yang was inferior to Qiao Mianmian.

But seeing that Qiao Anxin was doing this out of good intentions, he couldn’t bear to turn her down.

He eventually nodded. “Alright, I’ll speak to Manager Yang tomorrow.”

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It was indeed different to dine at a place where the cost per pax went up to five figures.

The dinner was extremely delightful.

Not wanting to let anything go to waste, Qiao Mianmian finished practically all the food they ordered.