Beloved Bride: Captured by the Top Playboy

"Actually, Ziqian is the real landlord of this house," Mingfei's voice suddenly dropped again, then returned to his previous playful demeanor, "I, just help Ziqian look after the house."

Mingfei looked at Suxin, with an embarrassed expression on his face.

"So, you mean he is the real landlord?" Suxin pointed towards Chen Ziqian, staring at Wang Mingfei with a disbelief expression.

"Yes," Wang Mingfei nodded very seriously.

Suxin's eyes suddenly became round, she looked at Chen Ziqian with a curious expression.

"Auntie, now that you know, you can move out from here! I do not want to see you here when I come back later!" Chen Ziqian said and then pulled Wang Mingfei to leave.

"Hold on!" Suxin called them from behind, "I do not care who among you is the landlord, I have signed a contract, clear and in black on white!"

As she spoke, Suxin quickly took out the contract from the room and spread it out in front of Chen Ziqian.

Chen Ziqian looked at the large Wang Mingfei signature on it, his face turned unpleasant.

"This contract is invalid, I am the real owner."

"You may deny it, the contract might be invalid, but in turn, your friend becomes a fraudster, scamming my money!" Suxin said boldly, she was determined not to move out.

"This... Ziqian..." Wang Mingfei looked at Chen Ziqian, his face full of pity.

"I do not care, today you have to sort her out for me." Chen Ziqian raised his head, unwilling to compromise.

"Miss Cheng, when I initially rented this house to you at a low price, it was also because I liked you. Of course, it was my negligence to not clarify that I am not the landlord. How about this? I will compensate you double the remaining rent if you move out, does that work?"

Wang Mingfei discussed this tentatively with Suxin, still maintaining his signature smile on his face.

"Double?" As the saying goes, one does not slap a smiling face, and besides, returning her double the rent, Suxin wavered. Just as she was about to agree, she turned her head and caught Chen Ziqian's disdainful gaze, the words got stuck in her throat, "No, I am not one to take advantage of cheap deals. Either I stick to the contract and move out at the end of the year, or I move out now and you wait for the court's notice." Suxin glanced back at Ziqian and then at Mingfei, that disdainful look made her very uncomfortable, thinking they wanted to toss her out with money as if she was trash! Did they really find her so detestable?

A sour sensation sprung up, stinging the membranes of her eyes, she struggled to hold back, trying to keep her voice steady.

Seeing Suxin's serious and earnest face worriedly, Mingfei became very anxious, he quickly pulled Chen Ziqian aside.

"Buddy, when I rented the house out to you, wasn't it so that someone could look after you at all times? Little did I expect you to come back so unexpectedly. Look, Miss Cheng is gentle, kind, virtuous, and capable, renting to such a beauty won't do you any harm, how about letting her stay till the end of the year? Huh?" Wang Mingfei pleaded with hopeful eyes looking at Chen Ziqian.

"Her, gentle, kind, virtuous, and capable? Afei, do you compliment people without thinking?"

"Then, just do me a favor, have pity on your brother, okay? You wouldn't want me to be taken to court for fraud, would you? How embarrassing would that be for me?" Wang Mingfei pleaded, his face pulling a pitiful look.

"No..."

"I'll treat you to a month of 'Baidu'?"

"No way!"

"A month's free spending at Beihao Club?"

"Not interested!"

"Introduce you to two pure and smart beauties from the Film Academy?"

"Do you think I'm desperate for sex or something!"

"Dude, what will it take for you to agree?" Wang Mingfei asked with a doleful face as he looked at Chen Ziqian.

Chen Ziqian's eyes briefly swept towards Suxin, who stood there with her head held high, stubbornly defiant. He turned his head, intending to refuse again, but the sight of faintly shimmering, crystal-like moistness rolling in her eyes, never falling, caught his peripheral vision.

For some reason, those barely held-back tears unexpectedly softened Chen Ziqian's heart.

"My sports car is busted and hasn't been fixed. I start work officially tomorrow, and you are in charge of picking me up and dropping me off!" Chen Ziqian threw out this demand.

"Can I lend you my sports car, would that work?"

"No, you need to pick me up and drop me off in person, or else forget it!" Saying this, Chen Ziqian walked past Suxin and out the door, with Wang Mingfei following closely behind, making an "OK" gesture to Suxin as they left.

Feeling a small surge of triumph, Suxin's excitement was suddenly interrupted by the abrupt ring of her phone. She quickly picked it up, and it was a call from Bai Xiaoyan.

"Crap, I forgot about this."

She hurriedly answered the call, and Bai Xiaoyan's loud voice bellowed through from the other end.

"Susu, what time is it? Why haven't you arrived yet? Just now Xu's colleague even called asking about you."

Looking at the time, 8:15 PM, "Maybe I should just skip it, Xiaoyan, I'm still at home."

"Susu, why are you still at home? I have been going to so much trouble arranging this, and you don't seem to care at all? No way, you must go today. You don't understand, I've been singing your praises to the skies; they said they will definitely wait for you to show up."

"Xiaoyan, if you praise me like that, how can I dare to show up? I know what I look like better than anyone."

"I know very well what you look like too. Now, you go and get yourself dressed up nicely. I've already made an excuse for you, saying you had to work overtime at the company and would be late."

"But I've already..."

"Stop talking, and hurry up and get ready, get there as soon as possible!" Suxin was about to tell Bai Xiaoyan that she was unemployed, but she was cut off.

When Suxin arrived at Jazz Island Cafe, it was already 9:30 PM. She looked around and finally spotted the man Xiaoyan described, with a flat-top haircut, blue shirt, and suit pants.

"Excuse me, are you Mr. Lin Jun?"

When Lin Jun looked up to see Suxin, she distinctly saw his smile vanish instantly.

In that moment, Suxin felt incredibly awkward, not knowing whether to sit, stand, or leave.

Lin Jun's gaze shifted away from Suxin's face, and he took a big sip from his teacup.

"You must be Xu Heping's colleague. His wife is a good friend of mine." With no other option, Suxin muttered to herself and took a seat across from him, having stood up for a while and noticed a few people starting to stare.

"Hmm." Lin Jun nodded lightly.

"I'm sorry for being late, there was a bit of an issue." Suxin looked at Lin Jun, a man quite handsome and sunny, the type who usually made a good impression on her. However, his clearly displeased expression made her feel awkward, especially since she had changed into that green DIOR dress before leaving.

Suddenly, Suxin felt slighted, a sour feeling welling up inside her.