Beloved Bride: Captured by the Top Playboy

As soon as Chen Ziqian entered, he tossed the wedding dress onto the sofa, giving Suxin a clearer view.

It was a silk brocade wedding dress, adorned with pearls. Was this not the very wedding dress she had thrown from the top floor? Could the world really be that small?

"This wedding dress?" Suxin's heart pounded as she looked at Chen Ziqian with a puzzled face. Could it be that he had just happened to pick it up?

"Who knows from where this wedding dress floated down, but it just so happened to land on my head, causing me to have a car accident. I've been contemplating finding the culprit and giving them a sound lashing to relieve the hatred in my heart!"

Watching Chen Ziqian grab the wedding dress and yank it fiercely, with a gritted-teeth expression, Suxin could feel her heart skipping beats.

"It's been so long, where would you find that person?" Suxin cautiously observed his tone and spoke, feigning indifference.

"I bet it was some old maid who couldn't get married, someone who was dumped by a man and took it out on the wedding dress! With such a foul temper, I'm sure she must be both old and ugly! Being ditched by a man, she got what she deserved!" Chen Ziqian cursed more and more fervently, feeling quite vindicated.

"Hey, don't you think that's a bit harsh?" Suxin jumped up from the sofa, outraged by his cursing, and yelled loudly.

Her loud voice startled Chen Ziqian. What's gotten into this woman, getting so worked up?

"Hey, don't tell me you're that old maid?" Chen Ziqian asked curiously, gazing at Suxin with a puzzled face.

"I... How could I possibly be..." Suxin turned her face away, her voice lowered, and she sat back down on the sofa.

"Then why are you getting so worked up?"

"Ever heard of solidarity? I can't stand you talking about us women like that!" Suxin glared back at Chen Ziqian with a defiant look, resolved not to admit that she was the "old maid" Xiaobai had mentioned!

"Heh, seems like you're automatically categorizing yourself with the old maids, huh?" Chen Ziqian looked at Suxin with a teasing smile. This woman was quite amusing, jumping to align herself with a group he hadn't even mentioned!

"Who are you calling an old maid?" Suxin stood up again in anger. This Xiaobai might have a face that could bewitch a city, but his words were venomous!

"I said no such thing; you said it yourself!" Chen Ziqian quickly turned away and ran to the kitchen. This woman was not easily intimidated when she got fierce.

"It was clearly you who said it, yet you won't admit it!"

"Ah, I'm hungry. Is there anything to eat?" Chen Ziqian said while searching the kitchen.

"Nothing!"

"Wow, really nothing at all! Huh? There's still half a watermelon left. I guess I'll just make do with that!" Chen Ziqian said, taking out the half-wrapped watermelon from the fridge.

"Hey, that half a watermelon is mine!" Suxin hurriedly lunged to grab it.

However, Chen Ziqian being tall, raised his hand holding the watermelon out of her reach no matter how she stretched her arms.

"Hey, the watermelon's mine!" Suxin tugged at Chen Ziqian's arm, jumping up to snatch it, but couldn't reach.

"What's yours is mine!"

"What's mine is mine, and I didn't agree to share it with you!" Suxin was on the verge of going mad.

"We're living together; don't be so stingy. Just let me fill my stomach with this half a watermelon!" Chen Ziqian said with a smile, picking up a spoon and quickly sitting on the living room sofa to eat.

Looking at the half-eaten watermelon, Suxin was speechless with anger. Could anyone be more shameless than this Xiaobai?

Under someone's roof, isn't it necessary to bow one's head? Fine! She'll endure it! After all, she finally went to work today, and that was a happy event. She wouldn't let Xiaobai ruin her good mood.

Suxin grabbed her half of the watermelon and continued to eat on the sofa.

"I say, you're not planning to have that half a watermelon for dinner, are you?" Chen Ziqian asked while eating.

"Glad you know!"

"So, you've been trying to lose weight?"

Seeing Chen Ziqian staring at her, Suxin quickly lowered her head and checked out her body, "What are you looking at? I'm not fat, just a bit fleshier than those stick-thin people, that's all."

"Perfectly plump." Chen Ziqian gave Suxin a once-over and let out this comment.

"What?" Suxin's eyes widened. Had this pretty boy just called her "plump"? Was she being creeped on? Whoosh, she quickly tightened her clothes.

Watching Suxin's reaction, Chen Ziqian suddenly found it extremely amusing. Usually, wasn't it the beautiful women who eagerly showed off their figures, dying to get close to him, unlike this auntie?

Just then, the ringtone of a cellphone broke the silence. Suxin picked it up to see, it was a call from her mom. She hurriedly answered.

"Mom."

"Susu, your dad and I have been so worried. Just wanted to ask how you're doing?" There was a palpable concern in Mrs. Cheng's voice.

A weight settled in Suxin's heart. Was her mom asking if she still hadn't found a boyfriend?

Casting a glance at Chen Ziqian, Suxin slipped on her slippers and walked to the balcony with the phone.

"Mom, how can this be rushed?"

"I know, dear, but we can't help but be rushed. You're twenty-nine now, and after the new year, you'll be thirty."

"Mom, I know, I'll take it to heart."

"Taking it to heart isn't enough; You have to take real action. Don't forget you promised to bring a boyfriend home for the holidays," her mother insisted.

"Okay, Mom, I won't forget."

After hanging up, Suxin's previously cheerful mood plummeted to rock bottom.

"What's the matter? Your mom pushing you to get married?" Chen Ziqian asked nonchalantly as Suxin came back from the balcony looking downcast.

"You? Eavesdropping on my conversation?" Suxin glared, already in a foul mood.

"I did not, anyone could've guessed it. At your age, plus getting dumped by your boyfriend, what else could your mom's call be about?"

"You? What a man! So cruelly sarcastic!" Suxin was furious.

"You, just dress up nicely," Chen Ziqian pointed at Suxin from top to bottom and said, "maybe there's still some blind man willing to marry you!"

Whoosh, a slipper flew towards Chen Ziqian's face!

Luckily, Chen Ziqian's quick reflexes helped him dodge. "Hey, are you even a woman? So rude?" Chen Ziqian said indignantly, pointing at Suxin.

"No need for civility against a venomous-tongued man like you!"

Bang, Suxin slammed her room door shut.

The computer screen flickered with images from a college graduation album, shifting from one picture to the next until it paused at a group shot of the entire class.

Her hand gently traced the sun-kissed, handsome face in the back row.

Chaoyang, it's been five years. Are you still the same as you were five years ago?

But I no longer have the courage to approach you...

So brilliant were you, and I'm just too ordinary, too much of a failure to be by your side...