Way back to Our Past

27. I Want You to Be My Girlfriend

Translator: Snowball

“Qu Wan, what’s so good about that geezer? Why are you entangled with him?”

“I don’t understand what you’re talking about!” Qu Wan said furiously.

“Drop the act!” With that, Wang Zicheng took out his cell phone and clicked open the video. “I’ve recorded it. As long as I upload the video to the internet, Jiang Zhendong is screwed!”

He had been looking for a chance to teach Ling Mubai a lesson recently, and now he had gotten the goods on the latter’s future father-in-law, he felt much relieved. “I won’t show mercy! Jiang Zhendong has only himself to blame for his indecent behavior!”

Playing the video in Qu Wan’s face, Wang Zicheng said smugly, “Are you trying to deny it?”

“Wang Zicheng, I can’t believe you’re so…despicable!” Qu Wan was so angry that she was seized with an impulse to smash his phone.

Everyone said that this foppish childe was a good-for-nothing, but as far as Qu Wan was concerned, Wang Zicheng was smarter than anyone else. When it came to setting people up, he was both resolute and accurate!

“Despicable? Qu Wan, how could you defend that old guy?” Wang Zicheng’s face twisted with jealousy. “Jiang Zhendong is married and he is even older than your dad! What do you like about him?”

“You must have misunderstood me. The relationship between him and me is not what you imagined.”

“Then what’s your relationship?” Wang Zicheng immediately asked.

“It’s not that simple as you thought. Delete the video, and I’ll explain it to you later.”

“No way! If you don’t tell me, I’m going to send the video to the disciplinary inspection department right away!” Seeing that Qu Wan was speaking for Jiang Zhendong, Wang Zicheng couldn’t hold back his anger anymore.

“People will never forgive a man who killed his father or took his wife! As he’s daring enough to covet my girl, I won’t go easy on him!”

“Who’s your girl? Wang Zicheng, can you stop being such a baby!” Qu Wan shot him a glare.

“Qu Wan, whatever you think! I won’t allow anyone to take away the woman I like!”

Wang Zicheng’s way of thinking was different from that of others, so it wouldn’t work to communicate with him in a normal way.

“Wang Zicheng, calm down! Jiang Zhendong is… my dad!” she answered, gritting her teeth.

“What?” Wang Zicheng was caught dumbfounded and he thought he must have heard it wrong. “Wanwan, are you sure you’re in your right mind? If Jiang Zhendong is your dad, why is your surname Qu?”

“I take my mother’s surname!”

“Really?” Wang Zicheng looked at Qu Wan up and down before he continued, “So you’re Mayor Jiang’s…illegitimate daughter?”

As if he had just found a new continent, Wang Zicheng was super pumped. “Wanwan, am I right? No worries! I won’t laugh at you! Hahaha…”

“Bullshit!” Qu Wan was so annoyed that she had a spur to scratch his face.

“If you’re not Jiang Zhendong’s illegitimate daughter, why don’t you live with his family? Does anyone else know about your relationship?” Wang Zicheng asked back.

“It’s none of your business! I don’t wanna talk about it anymore.” Qu Wan was unwilling to waste her time explaining such a thing.

Wang Zicheng suddenly recalled something. “Wanwan, you had me revise a lot of things in the bidding documents. Is it because Jiang Zhendong gave you some inside information about the bidding requirements?”

“Yes!” Qu Wan nodded. “Wang Zicheng, I’ve helped you win the project of the old town renovation. I hope you won’t spill the beans.”

“No way!” Propping his chin with his hand, Wang Zicheng laughed mischievously.

“Why?” Qu Wan looked at him in surprise.

“I won’t keep the secret on one condition!”

Qu Wan felt like her head was about to explode! It was so annoying that Wang Zicheng always did something crazy. It seemed he was about to blackmail her with the video!

“Wang Zicheng, don’t push your luck! How can you bite the hand that fed you?”

“Wanwan, I won’t spill the beans as long as you agree to be my girlfriend.”

“Are you insane?”

“I’m not insane, but I’m lovesick! Wanwan, you’re the only one who can save me. If you don’t agree, I’ll die!”

With a smile, Wang Zicheng suddenly changed his way of persuasion. “You should know I have a loose tongue, so I might spill the beans at any time by accident. But if you become my girlfriend, once your family’s scandal gets out, I’ll be ashamed as well! So I’ll definitely keep my mouth shut and never say a word to anyone else!”

Qu Wan was getting more upset. This dandy was a person of three-minute passion, but when it came to courting women, he was so persistent that he wouldn’t give up until he achieved his goal.

“Wang Zicheng, you want me to be your girlfriend because you know I’m Jiang Zhendong’s daughter, right?”

“Nonsense!” Wang Zicheng immediately denied it. “Wanwan, it’s you who fascinated me, not your dad! You should know I have no resistance to pretty women.”

It almost drove Qu Wan crazy. She was clear that it wasn’t easy to get rid of him.

“If he knows that I’m a divorced woman with a two-year-old child, he’ll definitely lose interest in me!” she thought.

“Wang Zicheng, do you mind if I’m a divorced woman?”

“Huh?” Wang Zicheng froze on the spot again. Casting a glance at Qu Wan in disbelief, he roared, “Impossible! You must be lying!”

“I’m not! I divorced and was kicked out by my ex. Would you like to marry a woman like me?”

“No!” Wang Zicheng answered without hesitation. Deflated like a punctured balloon, he put on a gloomy look.

Qu Wan finally took a sigh of relief. She knew it was going to turn out like this. How could a man with prominent family background like Wang Zicheng marry a divorced woman? Even if he didn’t mind her past, his family wouldn’t allow this to happen.

As if he had suddenly thought of something, Wang Zicheng continued, “Wanwan, it must be a made-up story. I don’t believe you’ve ever been divorced unless you can show me your divorce certificate.”

Seeing that Wang Zicheng had changed his mind when he heard that she was a divorced woman, Qu Wan decided to add the fuel to the oil so as to refrain him from the idea of harassing her. “Not only am I divorced, but I have a son. Do you remember the boy you saw in Xiao Yu’s office? He’s my son, Tangtang.”

Wang Zicheng couldn’t help but widen his eyes. When he had seen Tangtang in Xiao Yu’s office, he wondered how come a bachelor like him had a son.

Xiao Yu told him that he was taking care of the boy for a friend and it had never occurred to Wang Zicheng that the friend Xiao Yu was talking about was Qu Wan!

“Qu Wan, why did you divorce your ex?”

“He cheated on me,” Qu Wan answered calmly.

“What was wrong with him? How could he have an affair with other women when he already had such a beautiful wife? He was either blind or too greedy!”

Qu Wan didn’t know what Ling Mubai was thinking when he betrayed her, but those things were in the past and she didn’t want to talk about them again.

“Wang Zicheng, it’s my privacy that I’ve never mentioned to anyone. I hope you can keep it under your hat.”

“Sure!” Lowering his head, Wang Zicheng answered feebly.

He had won the bid, but how come he didn’t feel the joy of victory at all? He would rather win Qu Wan’s heart than the project. How lucky it would be to marry such a woman! “I can’t believe her husband would have been willing to divorce her!”

Watching Qu Wan’s slim figure leave, Wang Zicheng suddenly had a spur to rush over and hold her in his arms.