Chapter 1361: Too Beautiful
Lin Chen didn’t want such a lively and innocent young lady to be trapped in a marriage by name only…
He would rather choose to marry a lady like Gao Jingjie than hold Lu Yunfan up. She was too beautiful to be confined in a loveless marriage.
“I already have a girlfriend…” Lin Chen finally said.
Lu Yunfan, who was about to continue promoting herself, was stunned. She then smiled and said, “I don’t believe you!”
“The daughter of the Gao family, Gao Jingjie,” Lin Chen said.
It had been a while since Lin Chen had eaten with Gao Jingjie. Liang Mulan and Gao Jingjie’s parents thought that they had broken up.
Even Gao Jingjie thought so.
After all, their relations.h.i.+p was just a pretend one, so it wasn’t appropriate for Gao Jingjie to ask Lin Chen out. She was afraid of disturbing Lin Chen’s work.
Just like that, they didn’t contact each other for a long time. After all, there weren’t many people who could accept a marriage in name.
Gao Jingjie’s parents also felt guilty. They didn’t dare to call Liang Mulan to ask about the situation because they thought the reason Lin Chen hadn’t interacted with their daughter was that he had found out the truth about their daughter’s s.e.xual orientation.
Lu Yunfan’s smile froze on her face. She pursed her lips and said, “Then I can wait until both of you break up. I don’t think anyone else is suitable for you other than me.”
Lin Chen glanced at his wrist.w.a.tch. “I still have a meeting later, so I’ll get my secretary to send you back?”
“Brother Lin Chen, I’m telling the truth.”
Lin Chen smiled. “I’ll get going first!”
If he didn’t reject this young lady now, he didn’t know how long she would be held up.
Then, at the opening ceremony of her gallery, he would see if Gao Jingjie could free some time so he could bring Gao Jingjie along.
In the dining room, Lu Yunfan sat still.
Miss Gao…
It wasn’t as if Lu Yunfan hadn’t heard of the rumor about Lin Chen dating Miss Gao. How could she not know when she was always so concerned about Lin Chen’s matters.
Although Lu Yunfan felt a little upset, she wasn’t discouraged.
Her love for Lin Chen wasn’t so superficial. As she had claimed before… if Lin Chen had a girlfriend, she would wait for them to break up. If he got married, she would wait for them to divorce. She would wait for him, but… she would never be a third party!
Since Lin Chen had a girlfriend now, she decided not to pursue him anymore. She would disappear from Lin Chen’s life, quietly watching Lin Chen being happy from afar!
However, as soon as he broke up with his girlfriend, she would appear immediately!
Lu Yunfan was resolute, but she first had to confirm what the Gao family’s daughter was like. If she were insincere toward Lin Chen, just like Jian Qiqi, Lu Yunfan would have to remind Lin Chen to be careful.
At the thought of this, Lu Yunfan heaved a sigh of relief. She then ate the rest of the delicacies on her plate, wiped her mouth with a napkin, and went to the front desk to pay the bill.
The front desk said that Lin Chen had already settled the bill, so Lu Yunfan went home and called her friends in her circle, asking them if they knew about the Gao family’s daughter in Haicheng.
Lu Yunfan really ended up learning something.
Lu Yunfan’s friend’s sister used to study in the same school abroad as Gao Jingjie. Since they were both from Haicheng, they had naturally added each other on WeChat. They would meet once in a while to have a gathering together when they were still overseas.
Although Lu Yunfan’s friend’s sister couldn’t be considered Gao Jingjie’s close friend, she was still the only person in Lu Yunfan’s circle who was familiar with Gao Jingjie.
Lu Yunfan’s friend’s sister told her that Gao Jingjie was a lesbian. She had two girlfriends in university, and she treated her girlfriends especially well.
Later, she heard that Gao Jingjie had returned to China with her second girlfriend. The two of them had been together for many years, and it seemed like they truly loved each other.
Lu Yunfan was furious.
A lesbian actually lied to her Brother Lin Chen to get into a relations.h.i.+p. Wasn’t she trying to cheat others of their feelings?
Although Lu Yunfan didn’t hate lesbians and wasn’t irked by them, to the point of finding them especially attractive when seeing a lovely couple on the streets, she couldn’t tolerate having such a s.l.u.tty lesbian play with Lin Chen’s feelings!
Lu Yunfan restrained her anger and asked her friend, “Can you ask if your sister has photos of Miss Gao and her girlfriend?”
“I don’t think so!” Lu Yunfan’s friend said. “The Gao family’s daughter is very cautious. She never took an affectionate picture with her girlfriend. I heard from my sister that she’s afraid her parents would find out! Even if you put Miss Gao and her girlfriend in the same frame, you wouldn’t be able to tell they were a couple.”
Lu Yunfan didn’t give up. She hung up the phone and decided… she would investigate this Miss Gao.
She asked her older brother Lu Yunhang to find a reliable detective company and pay them a lot of money because she certainly didn’t have the capability to do so. She only had one goal—to confirm if Gao Jingjie really had a girlfriend. If she did, she would like to have a photo of them together to use as evidence.
She wasn’t doing this to inflict harm on Gao Jingjie. She only wanted to warn Lin Chen in case Gao Jingjie was just using him as a ploy to hide her real s.e.xual orientation.
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At night, Lin Ran and Liang Mulan received the invitation that Lu Yunfan had extended to them.
At the dining table, Lin Ran took the invitation card and said to Lin Chen, “Brother… help me apologize to her. I b.u.mped into her at the company this afternoon. Seeing that she was about to greet me, I hurriedly left with my colleagues. It wasn’t because I didn’t want to say h.e.l.lo to her, but I was together with my colleagues. I was afraid she would blow my cover. Moreover, she was with your secretary. I was worried I would expose myself.”
Lin Chen took a sip of his soup. “Why didn’t you tell her yourself…”
“I don’t have her contact details!” Lin Ran answered quickly.
“You can tell her when you meet her at the opening of her gallery…”
“No way!” Lin Ran frowned. “That day is also Shaoting’s mother’s birthday. I already agreed to go to the Guanshan ranch with his family early that morning, so I can’t go to her gallery’s opening. I’ll have to trouble you again to apologize on my behalf! If it were any other matter, I would definitely go, but I can’t reject Shaoting’s mother’s birthday.”
Lin Chen nodded in understanding.
“Today… that young lady went to your company again?” Liang Mulan smiled and asked Lin Chen, unable to conceal the happiness in her eyes. “You guys meet quite frequently!”
Lin Chen nodded perfunctorily. “Mm…”
“It was at noon. Was she there to accompany you for lunch?” Liang Mulan asked again.
“She came over to bring the invitation. Since it was lunchtime, we had lunch together,” Lin Chen looked up at his mother, satisfying his mother’s desire to know the inside story.
“Look, what a nice young lady. Knowing that you’re busy… she went to your company to bring you the invitation personally, and she even supervised your lunch!” Liang Mulan said. “You often skip lunch when you’re busy. This young lady chose to send you the invitation during lunchtime. She must have wanted to have lunch with you. What a thoughtful young lady!”
“Mom, you’re overthinking!” Lin Chen sighed.