Zhuang Long felt that this arrangement was pretty good, but something was wrong. He asked Ji Yinbing, “Would you mind letting a divorced man like me be the best man?”
Hearing Zhuang Long’s question, Ji Yinbing’s expression turned serious. Seeing her expression, Zhuang Long also became serious.
Ji Yinbing was wearing flats. She had to raise her head to look into Zhuang Long’s eyes to speak. She said, “You will always be our good friend. We don’t mind this.”
Zhuang Long refused to admit that he was a little touched.
He pretended to rub his arms and said, “So mushy.”
Knowing that his awkward reaction was to hide his true feelings, Ji Yinbing did not expose his pretense. She asked, “Then are you coming?”
“I’ll go. Ask Boss Yan to invite me over with an eight-seater palanquin.” Zhuang Long’s tone was especially arrogant.
Ji Yinbing snorted and retorted, “Aren’t you the best man? Or do you want to be his bride? You even want to be carried in a palanquin eight! Why don’t I let you take the position?” Even Ji Yinbing was shocked by Zhuang Long’s shamelessness.
She, who usually didn’t speak much, spoke a lot in one breath.
When Zhuang Long heard this, he couldn’t help but imagine getting into the bridal sedan chair and marrying Yan Nuo. He felt a chill run down his spine. He shivered, chasing away the discordant images in his mind.
“Forget it, forget it. I’ll drive myself there, okay?”
Ji Yinbing didn’t say yes, nor did she say no. She walked away. Zhuang Long hurriedly chased after her, nagging non-stop—
“Who will be your bridesmaid?”
This was a serious question. Ji Yinbing thought for a while and told him.
“Suzanne, Ah Sheng, and a cousin of the Ji family in Junyang City. Her name is Ji Yu.” When she was drawing up the list of bridesmaids, Ji Yinbing had wanted to invite Xiao Li. However, Xiao Li’s wedding was scheduled for June 27th. Their wedding dates were close to each other, and Xiao Li would definitely not be free.
After some consideration, Ji Yinbing decided not to invite Xiao Li. Left with no choice, she could only look for her cousin, Ji Yu.
He realized that two of the three bridesmaids had been married before. Zhuang Long raised his dark eyebrows and said, “You guys don’t mind at all.” Most people had many taboos when it came to marriage. When choosing their bridesmaids, they were even more demanding. They didn’t want those who had a bad relationship, been married, or divorced before. They didn’t want those who were ugly or better-looking than them…
The two of them had chosen their bridesmaids and groomsmen at will.
Ji Yinbing said, “It’s best ignoring those taboos.” With that, she thought of the hardships she had gone through with Yan Nuo. She couldn’t help but sigh. “The most valiant thing Yan Nuo has done was to marry me.”
Yan Nuo even dared to marry her. Why would he mind anything else?
Zhuang Long had watched as the two of them fell in love and then left each other. In the end, they met again and stayed by each other’s side. He knew how much effort they had put in to get to where they were today. It was especially difficult. Zhuang Long could not help but feel a wave of respect for them.
“You have to be happy.” He blessed Ji Yinbing.
Ji Yinbing looked up at him. The man’s expression was very serious. With just a turn of his body, one could tell that he was smiling.
Her heart warmed and she said, “You too.”
Zhuang Long did not reply this time.
Xiao Li was about to marry another man, and his own son was about to call another man his father. How could he be happy!
However, Zhuang Long naturally wouldn’t tell a bride-to-be about these troublesome matters.
After Ji Yinbing left the Zhuang family, Zhuang Long personally drove to the mall for most of the day and finally chose a suitable gift. When he returned home, it was almost dark. He had already had dinner outside and returned to his room immediately.
After taking a shower, Zhuang Long sat on the balcony in a short-sleeved shirt and shorts.
With nothing better to do, he recalled the blog he had written previously. He wondered if he had read it. He entered his blog’s homepage and found that the blog had gone viral. He stared at the more than two thousand comments and could not help but be stunned.
He didn’t know that he had the potential to become a novelist.
Zhuang Long picked out some questions and replied casually to a few, then exit the blog. He opened the document, planning to write another interesting story.
This time, the mouse flickered on the blank page for a long time, but not a single word was typed.
He might as well give up.
The next morning, Zhuang Long deliberately started his morning jog half an hour early.
He ran two laps around the road outside the door. On the third lap, he met Jimmy. Jimmy was wearing a white tank top and black trousers. He, who was in his fifties, ran with a spring in his step.
He didn’t know how long he had been running, but Uncle Jimmy was breathing heavily.
Zhuang Long shouted after Jimmy, “Uncle Jimmy, good morning!”
Jimmy turned around at the sound. He stared at Zhuang Long for a while before saying, “Good morning, Ah Long.”
Zhuang Long lengthened his stride and ran to Jimmy’s side.
The two of them were like father and son, talking and running.
Jimmy asked him, “I haven’t seen you in a long time. What are you busy with?”
“Doing a study.”
“Not bad.” Jimmy respected people enough not to ask too many questions about their work.
“Uncle Jimmy, you must have never expected that after I wrote the story of the case you told me and posted it online, it actually gained hundreds of thousands of views. There were also more than 2,000 comments!” Zhuang Long smiled especially smugly, like a child who had been praised by a kindergarten teacher.
“Uncle Jimmy, the case you told me about is really captivating! Do you want to tell another one so that I can rope in another batch of fans?”
Jimmy stared at Zhuang Long’s smiling face.
Zhuang Long was as innocent and kind as a child.
Uncle Jimmy’s eyes were tinged with laughter, making him seem less serious. His entire body was filled with a sense of justice. He said, “Sure!”
“Why don’t you come to my house for breakfast this morning? Rachel has been studying the Chinese hamburger, Roujiamo. To be honest, the food she makes tastes awful. I suggest you try it too, so that you can feel the pain with me.” Although Jimmy said that, he was smiling.
It was obvious that he was in love.
When Zhuang Long heard that there would be Roujiamo, he agreed to have breakfast.
He thought to himself that if Rachel’s biscuits tasted good, then her Roujiamo shouldn’t be too bad.
With anticipation, he took a big bite.
He chewed on the food in his mouth. Before tasting this Roujiamo, his expectations had been 100, but now, they were all zero.
This was truly… unpalatable.
Zhuang Long looked at Jimmy and saw that Jimmy hadn’t even raised an eyebrow. In a few bites, he had finished a Roujiamo. Seeing that Zhuang Long was in a daze, he took the opportunity when Rachel turned around to make an exaggerated expression of discomfort.
But Zhuang Long smiled.
After breakfast, before Jimmy told his story, Zhuang said, “Although I feel honored, we have to admit the truth. Rachel’s Roujiamo is actually very bad.”
