<h4>Chapter 1184: I Want to Make You Stay (62)</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>As Studios <strong>Editor: </strong>As Studios


    “When he fully recovers. It won’t be toote to tell you guys before I take him to our mentor’s grave.”


    “Alright, I’ll go inside to look for him now.”


    Xiao Chenyang gestured for her to leave and stood up straight before walking toward the swing slowly.


    He ced both hands on the wooden swing and pushed it gently a few times. Nan Chuang used to love sitting on a simr swing in the yard of the Xiao family home.


    <i>Back in those blissful days, she would sit on the swing with a huge grin on her face and with her hands tightly wrapped around the metal chains while I pushed her from behind. Whenever the swing was propelled high up in the air, she would scream in shock and stare at me begrudgingly whenever the swing came down.</i>


    Her actions had never failed to put a smile on his face and lift his mood.


    It felt as if everything had happened only yesterday.


    Their happiness ended way too soon.


    Xiao Chenyang hung his head low and appeared a lot more gaunt.


    ——


    “Xiao Chenyang was really true to you.”


    An Xiaoning’s words ran through Fang En’s mind again and again.


    She sat on the chair with her mobile phone, feeling empty and troubled.


    Xiao Yue had to call her name a few times before she would respond.


    “What’s the matter?”


    “Sis En, Yan Ge’s calling you,” said Xiao Yue, who was pointing at a faraway spot.


    Fang En looked over and stood up immediately. She then walked toward Yan Ge.


    He asked, “What were you thinking about? You were so preupied.”


    “Nothing much. What’s the matter?” Fang En asked.


    “I’ll take you somewhere after work today. There’s a nice spot near our filming location. You’ll love it,” Yan Ge said with a smile, seemingly in high spirits.


    “Where’s that ce?”


    “You’ll know it once we’re there.”


    Fang En nodded and said, “Alright. From what you said, it must be a brilliant ce.”


    “Actually, you haven’t told me the result of your visit to A City today. Have you returned the wedding gown and the diamond ring to him?” Yan Ge asked, staring at her.


    “I went to Wei Ni Estate but he wasn’t there. I have no idea where he had gone to. He’s already left.”


    “Did you bring the things back home again? Why can’t you just get someone to hand them to him?” Yan Ge asked with a frown.


    Fang En said truthfully, “Sis Xiaoning said that the diamond ring and wedding gown were both tailored to my measurements and that he can’t give them to someone else even if I return them to him. She told me to just keep them. I couldn’t contact him anyway, so I had no choice but to keep them at home.”


    Staring at her solemnly, Yan Ge said, “Isn’t it good to throw them away? No matter how expensive they may be, you shouldn’t be keeping them.”


    “But they’re worth an exorbitant amount,” said Fang En, who thought it’d be inappropriate to discard such expensive gifts.


    Yan Ge insisted, “How exorbitant and valuable can they be? I’ll buy a new set for you. Where did he get the gown custom-made? I’ll buy you a bespoke one that you prefer. Where did he buy the diamond ring? I’ll get one custom-made from the same store. I don’t like the idea of you keeping the things he had given you.”


    “The wedding gown was bought from an established store. The elderly tailor makes only two gowns a year, and each gown is handmade from scratch. I’m not clear about the exact price, but the gown is embellished with lots of diamonds. It looks really opulent.”


    Yan Ge asked in astonishment, “Was it made in Y Nation?”


    “How did you know?”


    “I know of a renowned wedding gown designer from Y Nation. He’s in histe seventies and he makes only two gowns a year. One of my friends from the entertainment industry had gotten her wedding gown custom-made by that designer. She had to book an appointment with him a long time prior to her wedding. His services indeede at an exorbitant price. That friend of mine paid 20 million dors for her wedding gown. I remember seeing diamonds on the gown when I attended her wedding back then. Where did he get all that money from?” asked Yan Ge, who was now even more curious about Xiao Chenyang’s identity.


    “I don’t know.”


    “You don’t know?”


    “Yes, I don’t know.”


    Instead of probing further, Yan Ge said, “So what if the gown costs 20 million dors? I’ll buy the exact same one for you. Do you know how much the diamond ring cost?”


    “Thirty million...”


    “I’ll buy another one for you.”


    “It’s 30 million dors in the Y Nation currency. That equates to more than 90 million dors in our currency.”


    “Almost a hundred million?” Yan Ge asked with shock written all over his face.


    Fang En answered, “Yes. That’s why it’d be inappropriate to just throw them away. But will you buy me a hundred-million-dor ring?”


    She did not expect such an expensive gift from him and was just casually asking.


    However, he took her question seriously and said, “A thirty-million-dor ring is more than good enough. There’s no need to spend so much money on a ring, is there?”


    Before she could even respond, Mrs. Yan interjected, “You’re so greedy!”


    Shocked out of her wits, Fang En turned around and made eye contact with Mrs. Yan, who was equally astonished.


    She did not expect Mrs. Yan to show up all of a sudden.


    Thinking to herself that Mrs. Yan must have heard her question, Fang En turned red with embarrassment and fear. <i>I didn’t mean it that way at all, but it now looks like I’m asking Yan Ge for a diamond ring...</i>


    “Auntie...”


    Not allowing her to exin herself, Mrs. Yan interrupted, “I really couldn’t tell that you’re such a greedy person. A hundred-million-dor ring? Do you think my son’s money falls from trees? Why don’t you take a look in the mirror and ask yourself if you’re worth that much money?”


    “Mother...”


    “Auntie, you must be mistaken. I was just cracking a joke with Yan Ge, I wasn’t really going to ask him to buy me such an expensive ring,” said Fang En, who decided to exin herself anyway, despite knowing that Mrs. Yan wouldn’t believe it at all.


    “Enough, you don’t have to exin yourself any further. I thought you would be thrifty and sensible since youe from a poor family, yet you’re far from what I had expected. I knew it all along,patible family backgrounds are mandatory when ites to marriage.” Seething with anger, Mrs. Yan hollered at her son, “Why do you want a woman like her? She’ll be getting a lion’s share of your assets once you get married.”


    “Mother, that’s not what En meant. Why are you reading so much into things?” said Yan Ge, who tried to cate her.


    “Auntie, I have a career of my own and I’m earning my own ie too. What you just said is really awful,” said Fang En, who felt insulted and humiliated by Mrs. Yan.


    “You had the guts to harbor such thoughts and yet you won’t allow me to criticize you? You’re so young and you’re already so greedy and scheming,” Mrs. Yan said, pointing a finger at her.


    Fang En turned around and stormed off in a huff.


    Mrs. Yan felt like Fang En had ignored her. Thus, she said to Yan Ge, “Did you see that? You’re not married to her yet and she’s already giving me such an attitude. You can’t marry her.”


    “That’s enough, Mother. Everything was going well until you kicked up such a big fuss,” said Yan Ge, who also thought that Fang En was just joking about the diamond ring. He felt that his mother had read too much into things.


    “Is it my fault, then?”


    Yan Ge put an arm around her shoulder and walked toward the nanny van. “No... En and I were talking about a hundred-million-dor ring and she was just asking me jokingly if I would buy it for her. Didn’t I say that there’s no need for such an expensive ring and that a thirty-million-dor one would do?”