Chapter 569 Huo Zha Zha didn't hurt her too badly.

Chapter 569 Huo Zha Zha didn't hurt her too badly.

"Did you hear that? I'm important!" Ye Yanzhi suddenly became assertive, showing off in front of Su Zhu.

Su Zhu chuckled.

Ye Yanzhi was immediately provoked: "What kind of expression is that?"

"I just wanted to save face and I gave you a couple of compliments, and you're getting all worked up about it." Su Zhu and Ye Yanzhi always teased each other, and most of the time Ye Yanzhi was even a little afraid of her. "If I were you, I wouldn't even feel comfortable eating here."

Ye Yanzhi ground down his back molars.

Su Zhu met his gaze calmly.

A moment later.

Ye Yanzhi gave up, but still saved face for himself: "Fine, I won't fight you for Xiao Jiangjiang's sake, it's pointless."

"How can you two still be so childish?" Jiang Ruan commented succinctly.

"It's because he's so smug, I couldn't stand it," Su Zhu said.

Jiang Ruan consciously avoided getting involved in their dispute, and gave Mo Mo a look to signal him not to interrupt for no reason, otherwise there would be another round of conflict later.

"Was that Huo Zhizhou's mother who was looking for you downstairs just now?" Su Zhu changed the subject.

Jiang Ruan hummed in agreement.

Su Zhu asked, "What does she want with you?"

Jiang Ruan replied, "Let me help her contact Huo Zhizhou."

"Why should I ask you to contact him for her?" Su Zhu asked, her eyes filled with confusion. "Doesn't she have that scumbag's number?"

"It seems Huo Zhizhou has severed ties with his parents and given Huo Sinian his position and shares in the Huo Group," Jiang Ruan said calmly, without much emotional fluctuation. "He probably didn't answer her call."

Su Zhu sighed, "Tsk tsk tsk, they really know how to spend money."

Jiang Ruan didn't respond.

They really are willing to spend that much.

Regardless of how many shares Huo Zhizhou holds in other companies, the Huo Group is still a pinnacle, and he can just give it up like that. It seems he really cares about Shan Mu'an's matter and his own affair.

"Why did he refuse it?" Su Zhu asked curiously.

Jiang Ruan looked at her.

Su Zhu: "Can't I say?"

Jiang Ruan didn't hide anything from her: "That's his private matter, it's not appropriate to talk about it."

Su Zhu nodded and did not ask any further questions.

Ye Yanzhi was a little curious, but he didn't ask.

The group chatted for a while longer before leaving the restaurant. Since they hadn't seen each other for a long time, Su Zhu invited Jiang Ruan to stay at her place for the night. Jiang Ruan told Sui Sui that she wouldn't be going back that night and then agreed.

That evening.

After washing up, the two lay in bed in their pajamas.

The two chatted about everyday things, and as they talked, Su Zhu asked her about her recent situation: "How is your relationship with your biological father?"

"So-so," Jiang Ruan said. "I rarely interact with him, and we seldom chat."

Su Zhu: "You don't like him?"

“Hmm.” Jiang Ruan nodded. “I always feel that he doesn’t care about Mom as much as he says he does.”

After what happened with Huo Zhizhou and Li Zhishen.

She felt that men were always good at making excuses for themselves, and all those excuses were labeled as expressions of love for the other person.

I'm doing this for your own good.

I love you.

I really care about you.

There are many, many more examples like this.

However, in reality, he did not take the other party's feelings into account, and everything was based on his own purpose and thoughts, just as Huo Zhizhou said he was willing to pay any price to make amends.

They can't even maintain a basic distance.

"I can tell." Su Zhu still remembered the last banquet.

"And you?" Jiang Ruan asked her, "Has Su Anran had any impact on your family?"

“That little impact is negligible,” Su Zhu said. “My dad has a lot of ulterior motives. Apart from the time Huo Zhizhou came to visit, he never acknowledged her, and you could even say he didn’t take her seriously.”

Jiang Ruan was slightly relieved: "That's good."

"Don't worry," Su Zhu reassured her, "My dad is good at stalling."

"Where is your mother?" Jiang Ruan asked.

“She doesn’t care about this. She won’t interfere as long as it doesn’t threaten my inheritance rights,” Su Zhu said gently. “After all, they said that when they got married.”

Jiang Ruan knew that Su Zhu's parents' marriage was a business arrangement.

They also knew that after Su Zhu came along, they each went their own way and didn't interfere with each other.

Fortunately, even so, their love for Su Zhu never diminished.

“But now there’s a problem—” Su Zhu said.

Jiang Ruan asked with concern, "What?"

Su Zhu: "They still pressured us to get married."

Jiang remained silent.

This kind of thing is indeed difficult to handle.

"I originally planned to use their failed marriage as an excuse to say that I'm afraid of marriage and having children, but my parents didn't buy it," Su Zhu sighed. "It's tough."

“I myself have had a failed marriage,” Jiang Ruan said, her emotions a jumbled mess. “So I can’t give you any advice.”

She believes that true, sweet love exists in the world.

But how many people can you actually meet?

“I even used you as an example back then,” Su Zhu said to her in private, “Guess what they said.”

Jiang Ruan looked at her.

Su Zhu asked, "They say, how many Huo Zhizhous are there in the world?"

“That being said, there’s just too much room for manipulation in marriage.” Jiang Ruan only realized this after she learned her lesson the hard way. “If you ever decide to get married, I suggest you get your property notarized.”

Su Zhu's parents each own a company, and the future belongs to Su Zhu.

It would be fine if she were with a normal man, but what if she encountered someone who was pretending?

“Ruan Ruan.” Su Zhu looked at her.

Jiang Ruan raised her eyes.

Su Zhu put her hand on her and hugged her.

Jiang Ruan: "?"

What's wrong?

"It's nothing, I just wanted to hug you." Su Zhu saw how much she had changed from before and knew it was the shadow cast by Huo Zhizhou.

Ruan Ruan used to never care about these things. She thought that meeting someone she loved was the most important thing, and she never mentioned interests. Now... she's been terrified by Huo Zhizhou.

"Hmm?" Jiang Ruan was even more puzzled.

Weren't we talking about her?

Su Zhu rested her head on one hand and turned to look at her: "I feel sorry for you."

Jiang Ruan was completely bewildered.

"Are you very afraid of marriage now?" Su Zhu asked.

Jiang Ruan paused, thought for a moment, and then gave her answer: "It should be called resistance, or rather, it's unnecessary."

Su Zhu waited for her to continue.

“I used to want to marry Huo Zhizhou because I thought he was a good person and we were happy together,” Jiang Ruan said. “Now I think he’s just so-so.”

During the five years of their marriage, Huo Zhizhou treated her very, very well.

So good that his mother was at ease, Su Zhu thought he was an exceptionally good man.

But the result was just so-so.

Love has been removed from her life.

"However, I am just an isolated case, for reference only." Jiang Ruan didn't want Su Zhu to completely give up the idea of ​​marriage because of her. After all, there are good and bad things. What if Su Zhu met a normal person, the kind that is very good?

"Don't worry." Su Zhu smiled. "I don't want to get married simply because I want to have fun and be free. It has nothing to do with you or my parents."

That night.

The two then chatted about other things.

When good friends meet, they have so much to talk about that it's already late at night by the time they finish.

The next morning.

After having breakfast together, Jiang Ruan returned to Haicheng.

She had barely left when Ye Yanzhi arrived.

He stood next to Su Zhu and asked with some curiosity, "How did the chat go?"

“Huo Zha Zha didn’t hurt her too badly,” Su Zhu said.

She was actually a little worried.

But her worries seemed rather unnecessary.

After all, now that Ruan Ruan is successful at work and has a harmonious family, whether she believes in love or not doesn't seem to matter that much.